Can you believe it? Craver has succumbed to the dark side - tagging people in the blogosphere willy nilly when he claims he's not a tagger (I can prove he is - ask him about the painted walls in his old hood sometime). But when cravings call, I feel I must somehow answer. So here is my list of eight random facts about me - hopefully there will be one or two some of you don't know.
1. I spent the first 3 summers of my college years sleeping in tents in the wilds of Montana, white water rafting in Glacier National Park, and wrapping boa constrictors around my neck (all in a days work as a director of an outdoor camp).
2. I have never downhill skied even though I grew up in the Rocky Mountains.
3. My teaching career started in the amazing red mesas of Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. Although I started teaching Vacation Bible School at the age of 13 when I was motivated towards reservation work on short term missions to an Indian reserve in Saskatchewan.
4. My one trip off of this continent was to Northern Ireland. It was historically and geographically breathtaking along with being entirely unsettling seeing what hatred and long term unrest can look like.
5. I was a speech and debate coach for 5 years.
6. Some of my more precocious middle school students called me "Captain, My Captain" when they really wanted to make me smile or get me to say yes to something (you win the prize if you can name the movie the quote comes from - I showed parts of it at the beginning of every year for awhile).
7. I'm a total geeky sci-fi girl and Captain Picard is really the sexiest man who never lived.
8. I'm a rebel at heart. So I won't be following the meme and posting the rules of the game (they're on Craver's site if you want to see them). Nor will I be tagging my obligatory eight. However, if my PDX sisters (you know who you are), Becky, either Hsu, or Evanie wanted to play along, I sure would have fun reading what you had to say.
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Ooooh, Ooooh, I know! Dead Poet's Society. I loved that movie!
... man who never lived. Oh, quite funny.
Speech and debate! (Do you do stand-ins for authors?)
Those should be fun tags. Personally, I especially feel like I need to know more about the She-Hsu (you're welcome*), since I'm all chummy with her husband.
*Chinese joke
Llama momma - your prize is to be inducted into the "we're the deepest, coolest people ever" club. Congratulations :)
LL - stand-ins? Hmmmm, I'm not sure how that would work. Besides you have the needed gifting. Hang in there. Soon you'll get a copy of the book to make you proud.
Craver, ok...I officially tag the She Hsu (your welcome too).
Well *I* knew it was DPS, too--I just didn't get here quickly enough. Now you should offer a prize if anyone can name the author of the poem from which that line originally comes. And maybe another one for whoever knows who the "Captain" in the poem was.
You are sooooo brave!
Downhill skiing. Pheh! You should go uphill skiing with me some time. It pretty radical. (Yes, that was a bold-faced lie.)
Did "Captain" in the poem refer to Abraham Lincoln?
She-Hsu answered the blog. I'm off now to see if Becky did.
Ohh man. I didn't see this tag until right now. And Dave tagged me too. It's a double-tagging! That's tantamount to a double dare! I will be posting my 8 weird things tonight for any who care to see. . . I know you've all been waiting with baited breath.
:)
Oh, and I knew it was DPS too. . .
Besides having the coolest name ever, you're pretty funny to boot! You sound like a pretty adventurous type...but you live it. I'm adventerous for one-time-only events, but I don't make a habit of it like you do. :)
Now I need to go watch Dead Poet's Society again. Aren't middle schoolers great? My crew sat and counted how many times I said "and things of that nature" once in class. I don't think I've ever said it again.
fun stuff.
Besides having the coolest name ever, you're pretty funny to boot! You sound like a pretty adventurous type...but you live it. I'm adventerous for one-time-only events, but I don't make a habit of it like you do. :)
Now I need to go watch Dead Poet's Society again. Aren't middle schoolers great? My crew sat and counted how many times I said "and things of that nature" once in class. I don't think I've ever said it again.
fun stuff.
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