11 RANDOM facts you may or may not know about me meme.
Once you’ve been tagged, you have to write a blog with 11 random facts or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 11 people to be tagged.
1. My family hosted a Japanese exchange student when I was in second or third grade (before I had ever heard of anime). He taught me to make origami cranes. To this day, if I’m bored and have a vaguely squareish piece of paper around, you’ll end up with a crane.
2. My Internet innocence was broken by Thundercats porn. I was frightened, and yet strangely intrigued.
3. I still play Destruct-o-Match when stressed. It’s one of the only things I do on Neopets any more. One of the others is collecting interest on my bank account (4,102 NP daily, and counting).
4. I was a Girl Scout for a couple of years. Beyond giving me an excuse to hang out with my friends, I don’t think it did much for me.
5. I learned to read when I was three. Possibly earlier – I would turn pages and recite words even younger, but that might have just been because I had heard those books out loud so many times. I was three when I first undoubtedly identified new words. (I read The Hobbit at five, and it was my favorite book for years.)
6. I proofread my high school newspaper. I was in a class that required us to write letters to the (quarterly) paper, so I filled mine by pointing out typos. Exasperated editors said “If you’re so upset about this, why don’t you come in and help?” I don’t know if they were serious, but if they weren’t, I called their bluff.
7. I spent four summers at CTY, plus two at “baby CTY” before that. Best summers of my life. I’ve never been to a dance that compares to CTY dances.
8. I turn 21 this Sunday. Having an early birthday means I’m always older than most of the people in my class, as well as some of the people in the grade above.
9. A whole wall in my bedroom at home is taken up with shelves which my dad built. All of them are full. There are places where I have books stacked three rows deep.
10. I’m an extreme packrat. I have entire boxes of papers and trinkets that I never look at, except when every couple of years I pull them out, flip through them to see if they contain anything I can bear to part with, and put them back again.
11. I’m also a compulsive sorter. When my parents went shopping, they could drop me off in the toy aisle and I would happily arrange Barbies so that each model was grouped together. This skill served me well when, later, I spent a couple of months working in retail.
I tag . . . stellar_dust, because I know she’ll do it, and anyone else reading this, so you have an excuse to do it if you want to. (If not, you won’t meme this no matter what I say.)
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