Summerset identified me, so, here goes:
If you are tagged, you1) post 5 things about yourself that you have never posted2) identify 5 people whom you’d like to know a lot more about
I have no idea what I’ve posted or not posted … feel complimentary to Google and call foul on me in the comments.
1) I was the first, last, and only (as far as I know) national Junior classical league Ambassador. This was way back in the late ’80s. My “job” was to encourage the study of Latin (and Greek, too, I guess), but there was some kind of power-play between the outgoing student JCL president, who had thought up the position, and the main adult sponsor, who didn’t think it was such a good idea, so I didn’t end up doing much of anything. I did get a snazzy pin, though, and it looked great on my college applications.
2) speaking of college, I ran a coffee shop when I was in school. This indicates that every person who was at the university of Chicago when I was there thinks they know me — I look so familiar! That’s because I served them coffee every day. My favorite part was running the express line, with the ritual call of “Express Line: No soup, no pizza, no twenties, no waiting!”
3) speaking of coffee, I don’t actually drink it. I mean, I like coffee-flavor, and I love coffee candy (especially Pearson’s Coffee Nips, which will break your teeth as sure as shooting), coffee ice cream, the smell of coffee (if people at the coffee shop asked me if the coffee was good, I would say “it smells great!”) … and I will drink the occasional mocha frappuccino (aka the coffee milkshake) but I don’t actually like the taste of hot regular liquid coffee. I always assumed that one day I’d be grown up and would drink coffee, but I guess I never grew up enough.
4) another thing my childish self figured I would do when I was grown-up “enough” was smoke. My folks both smoked; that was just what grown-ups did, right? I even figured I’d smoke gold Benson & Hedges, just like my mom. Needless to say, if I never managed to grow up enough to drink coffee, I also never managed to grow up enough to smoke cigarettes. By the time I figured out that I wasn’t smoking, there I was, a non-smoker. and thankfully, both my parents have also been non-smokers now for a lot more than ten years!
5) and speaking of my forebears (well, the ones going back a-ways), I am supposedly a collateral descendant of a signer of the declaration of Independence, Thomas McKean. (Collateral here indicates “descended from the same stock but by a different line”, that is, I’m descended from the signer’s brother, not the signer. What I really like about ol’ Tom, though, is that he managed to hold multiple public offices at the same time. “One can scarcely believe the number of concurrent offices and tasks this man done during the course of his long career.” So whenever I think I can’t do everything I’ve signed up to do, I remember my illustrious forebear, who did so much — in several different states, simultaneously, and without indoor plumbing!
Now for the tagging part. I want to know a lot more about all of you! I know a lot of you don’t have blogs, so why don’t each of you (who want to, of course, this is not compulsory) post something about yourself in the comments? If you do have a blog and want to do your five there, post a link in the comments. I pledge to visit them all!
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