Hipchickmamma tagged me so I have to come up with eight random facts. Hmmm…this is difficult, I’m really pretty boring.
1. I play the hammered dulcimer – used to teach, too. I even made a recording back in 1995. Cassettes (what are those?) are still available. One of my first students eventually went on to take first place in the Southern Regional Hammered Dulcimer competition. She came in second at Nationals. She actually has a professionally produced CD - maybe more since I last saw her.
2. I’m very Archie Bunker about my favorite chair at home.
3. I’m addicted to NPR.
4. Everybody knows I knit – a lot. I think more people at seminary know me as “the woman who knits” than by my name.
5. I used to work for a blind nun. It was NOT a spiritual experience.
6. I quit Girl Scouts in eighth grade because one of the leaders said something about my dad that she knew nothing about (and it had to do with religion!)
7. I used to work at a place called American Bottoms in a city best-known for its strip clubs. American Bottoms is a wastewater treatment plant, not a strip club. I once got into a little trouble for giving directions to the plant using the strip clubs and all-night bar as landmarks. What did I know? They were well-known landmarks.
8. I’ve written a couple of songs, but the muse only seems to visit during times of great stress or really bad bosses, and I just haven’t gotten there in recent years.
Now I’m supposed to tag eight other bloggers. I don’t know if I know eight other bloggers that hipchick hasn’t already tagged. I tag Jeff, Mark, Tim, Vivette, Kathy, Suzy and…I’ll get back to you. It's not like any of these will play, though because most are as bad as me about keeping up posting, and the rest don't read my blog.
So there!
2 comments:
you're supposed to paste a comment on their blog to let them know they've been tagged--that way it doesn't matter if they read yours regularly or not.
you dull or boring? I THINK NOT! in fact i find you quite fascinating! your random facts just lead me to ask yet again...is there anything you can't do? hammered dulicmer! wow!
i'm very curious about the strip club town--is that topeka? i couldn't come up with one town known for such stuff around here. it is a very funny story though!
you are an amazing woman!
The Village of Sauget, Illinois, named for the mayor whose last name was Sauget (pronounced so-jhay'). Just across the river from St. Louis, south of East St. Louis. It's known for its industries and its strip clubs (owned by the mayor's nephew - another Sauget). It used to be called the village of Monsanto. Guess what the biggest industrial group there is? (Although I think they have been sold a few times since I was there...Who knows what they are now.) A place of environmental and moral nightmares. I credit my former boss here, who I worked with there, with saving my life when he recruited me to come to Kansas.
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