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Well, I obviously suck royally at keeping a blog.

I did not just recently figure this out. This fact dawned on me about a month ago when I was struck with spasms of guilt for not having posted in a terribly long time. While I briefly contemplated posting a "My goodness, it has been so long" post, I then felt like after such a prolonged absence I must have something Very Important to say, but of course I didn't have anything Very Important to say because rarely does anything Very Important happen to me... This is doubly weird because as far as I know hardly anyone even knows that my blog exists, much less would critique me for my untimeliness. Nonetheless, my blog sat untouched and unread for another month.

My blog was destined to sit untouched forever as the longer it went unposted, the more dramatic I felt a post should be, but then Orata came along and forced me to arise from my blogging doldrums. She tagged me in her blog for 7 random things.

The rules are:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.

3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Seven random/weird things about me:

1. I was born at home. Yep, in my parents' bed. Not just that, but I was born just feet from the ocean (well, technically the Long Island Sound, but close enough). 

Ironically, I hate seafood. Go figure.

2. I have an extra tooth. I just found this one out a few years ago. Apparently 32 teeth are not enough for me. I’ve got an extra one shoved up there ready to come out should I need it. It’s called a “maxillary fourth molar,” but I prefer to think of it as my shark’s tooth… 

Nope, I won’t post a picture of my x-ray.

3. I own two rats. Most people freak out about the tails, but I just love rats ever since my sister brought one home from her high school psychology class. They are just so friendly and sweet and they love to hang out inside my hoodie and stick their noses out to see what I am doing. 

Here is Trudy when she was five weeks old:

4. I can’t stand to have things read out loud to me. I don’t know why, but my auditory processing is just horrible. When they do those learning style tests to see if you are an auditory, visual, or kinesthetic learner, most people are a healthy balance of all three, but I am completely and utterly visual. I can’t even handle hearing and remembering a phone number long enough to dial. My husband is a musician too. He tries to see the positive side of this situation – he can practice all he wants and I never get annoyed, because it never sounds repetitious to me!

5. Related to number 4, I am really good at organizing complex things visually. I constantly see the patterns in objects. Right now I create the schedules each week for everyone at my work, which involves 14 students and 16 staff and a hundred or so appointments. It is like a giant friggin’ Rubik’s cube, but I am good at it. It has also made me good at weaving, and hopefully good at knitting, although it is too early to tell.

6. And now for something completely random. When I was 13 I used to have the Tim the Enchanter speech memorized and would give a performance for anyone that would let me. Yes, I was a Monty Python geek. For death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.

7. And finally, the last random thing about me is that I have no online friends. That’s right, I have no one to tag this onto. I am a disgrace to my generation. I was such a nerdy outcast in junior high and now all those feelings of inadequacy are returning. The people from Ravelry are the only ones I really know who really know their way around the internet. It’s not that I don’t have any “real-world” friends, its just that I can’t think of any which have entered the blogosphere. I don’t know if that makes my friends lame for not being online, or if that makes me lame for not having any technically-savvy friends? 

So, I’ll tag Nicole from the knitting group, since she’s on my friend list on Ravelry and Huan Hua didn’t tag her for this particular blog list…