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[which_chick]

I'm not a big meme-er, but I got tagged by sara_merry99 on this one.



1. I hold a degree from a historically black university (Morgan State in Baltimore) despite being white.
2. I started smoking when I was thirteen and quit when I was thirty-two. (I'm thirty-five now.)
3. I'm excessively fond of the works of Terry Pratchett.
4. I can't sing worth a damn.
5. I don't own a television set.
6. I was a virgin until I was eighteen. That wasn't out of morals or anything, more like the fact that nobody'd ever asked.
7. I'm a damn fine cook.
8. Back when the GRE had an analytical section (it does not now), I scored a perfect score (800) on that part.
9. I'm easily frustrated by inefficiency, incompetence, and blind stupidity. It also bothers me when people don't *get it* fast enough.
10. I'm a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Go me! That (plus four dollars and three cents) will get me a venti vanilla latte.
11. I don't find things well. With a map or written directions, I do all right, but without those, I will be lost. This is the case even if I've been to your house ten times before this time.
12. I will not eat instant mashed potatoes ever, for any reason, including 'to be polite'. Do not try to feed me instant and claim they are real.
13. The less well I know you, the more likely you are to get a thank-you note from me.
14. I really like the sound of my own prose and I reread particularly good sections on occasion. This has not, as yet, made me blind but it probably should.
15. I've seen Iron Maiden in concert, though not recently.
16. I'm right-handed.
17. I made no-bake cookies this evening.
18. I like currants better than raisins.
19. I voted for W. I am not sure, at this point, that Kerry would have been worse. It was what I thought at the time, though.
20. I hold public office.

Comments

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

What office?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I are a borough council member for my local municipality.

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

oo! oo! Is it a twp? I like twps.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

It are a borough. The Borough of Valley-Hi.

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

That's keen. Do you guys argue and make restrictive small irritating laws like "no fireworks, no, not a one, only sparklers, bang snaps, and carbide cannons. Hey, you! Kid! With the charcoal snake's egg! That's a $1000 fine, you know!"

And stuff like that? Our twp does.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

We hold meetings, which I attend. The minutes say I attend, so I must of done. We vote to pay the light bill for our, er, borough street lights. We occasionally vote to pay the borough council members and the borough secretary. Sometimes (very rarely) we vote to raise the millage. We do not enact other ordinances because then we'd have to fucking well enforce them and the numero-uno ordinance we are not enacting is one about the length of your lawn.

[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize you hold public office.

When I was in Georgia for my first wedding, my aunt was going to make a meatball dish for the rehearsal pot-luck dinner. And called all in a flutter because she'd put in too much salt. I suggested that she should put in a sliced potato to soak up the salt and then remove the potato. She called back about half an hour later and asked how she was supposed to get the potato out. It turned out that all she had in the house was instant potatoes and she'd used those. And, of course, wrecked the dish. She blamed me for it for a while.

I didn't realize that they'd done away with the analytical portion of the GRE, that's kind of unfortunate, as I think that being a good analytical thinker is sort of a pre-requisite for thriving in most graduate programs.