Tagged
The lovely Sage has tagged me for a meme, so here goes: 5 things you may not know about me:
- Any project that requires a trip to a hardware store makes me very happy. I daydream about owning a home someday and building an add-on studio where I have places for writing, drawing, painting, collaging and recording music (!). I would love a woodshop. Perusing and learning about other people’s tools energizes me.
- My first and most sustained career plan was to become a concert pianist. I think I gave the plan up when high school started.
- My closest brush with death (to my knowledge) was a cross-country ski trip I took with my sister and dad on my 13th birthday. The trail we thought we were following never looped back to the parking lot, and by the time we realized this, it was getting dark, and in our t-shirts and sopping gloves and pants, we were freezing. Literally. We retraced our entire treck, the whole while begging my dad to let us lay down and sleep. Luckily he didn’t (thanks Dad!).
- At age 15 I spent a summer in Kenya, building a small dormatory for a little school on the edge of Lake Nakuru. I went with an organization called Teen Missions, which I do not recommend. Kenya, however, I do.
- I am drawn to weather pages like moths to light. Especially the ones in real live newspapers. Like with colors showing all the different regions of temperature. I like anything that gives me a big-scheme picture, come to think of it. Maps. Theories that cover huges swaths of history or geography. Anything that makes the lived terrain feel less random or confusing. Which is funny, given Sage’s #5. :)
Okay, I’d love to know what unknown things Gail and Heather and Fran and Gypsy Girl might divulge. And anyone else, too! If you’re not those four and you feel like it, leave a comment here that says something about you that many don’t know.