Thursday, January 25. 2007
With a bit of delay, I'm responding to Richard's Five Things Meme tag. It's actually hard for me to find five amusing things that you may not know about me because I usually share my quirks. - When I was 4 years old, my Kindergarten teacher came to my parents house to persuade them to keep me from enrolling in school. He felt that I was too young. My parents stayed with their decision to start me in kindergarten, and for the next three years, the school kept me in the slower kid class. Things didn't change for me until we moved and my new school district actually had their pyschologist give me an IQ test. This is when they bumped me into "gifted" classes based on my actual performance instead of my age.
- When I went to college, they stated facts about the entering class. We were about 80% male, a quarter of us were National Merit Scholars, and so forth. One factoid was that our class had one cheerleader and my classmates were obsessed with finding out who was the cheerleader. I don't know why, but everyone thought I was the cheerleader. I'm putting this down for the record...I was never a cheerleader. I just dressed well.
 I played in the band, competed on the math team, performed on our TV show, was in ASB, lead a volunteer group at the local convalesant home, class Salutatorian and the captain of the tennis team. Pretty nerdy, huh? - I love biking up hill and on the flats, but I'm deathly afraid of biking downhill. Sometimes I whimper as I "fly" down. The fastest I've ever gone was a little more than 30 mph and I think I was silently praying until I reached the bottom. I even had to get off my bike at Danskin (my only Tri) as we rode down the fireroad from I-90 because I was afraid that I would cause an accident as I rode my brakes.
- I am double-jointed. I can clap my fingers while my palms are still touching.
- The one material gift I want more than anything is the talking Barbie that came out in the early 90's. There are not very many of them since they were pulled off the shelf. She said the phrase, "Math class is tough." I love math and it's so stereotypical to have Barbie say that...I am laughing right now thinking about it.
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