I spoke too soon, didn't I? But it's Elaine, and she's hard to resist. The game is, "Tell five things about you that no one knows."
And like I said, I have a hard time thinking of anything that I want folks to know that they don't already. So I'd have to modify the premise to something like "five things about you that you're pretty sure most of your blog readers don't know and that you wouldn't mind them learning." Anyway, here goes:
1) I used to play piano, flute and guitar. My paternal grandmother was a concert-level pianist, and my dad's cousin-once-removed still plays professionally in Europe, as far as I know. My own skill level? Not so good.
2) However, I do still occasionally hum to myself the melodies of songs I wrote in college. And I think I sing and harmonize pretty well. Alto, in case anyone's wondering. As I call it, "the Arty part (as in Art Garfunkel, not anything particularly artsy)"...
3) When I was younger I used to pretend there was always a camera on me, like in The Truman Show. I still do sometimes. The above-mentioned college-written songs are part of the soundtrack.
4) I have a few OCD-type habits, one of which is that, when climbing or descending stairs, I prefer to end on my left (dominant) foot. If I've miscounted and end on my right, it doesn't feel correct to me.
5) I get disproportionately frustrated when I forget a word I want to use, or when someone jokes with me and I don't pick up on it.
I am not, repeat NOT, going to "tag" anyone else with this game. I don't like tag, and it was hard enough for me to "play" as it was.
And like I said, I have a hard time thinking of anything that I want folks to know that they don't already. So I'd have to modify the premise to something like "five things about you that you're pretty sure most of your blog readers don't know and that you wouldn't mind them learning." Anyway, here goes:
1) I used to play piano, flute and guitar. My paternal grandmother was a concert-level pianist, and my dad's cousin-once-removed still plays professionally in Europe, as far as I know. My own skill level? Not so good.
2) However, I do still occasionally hum to myself the melodies of songs I wrote in college. And I think I sing and harmonize pretty well. Alto, in case anyone's wondering. As I call it, "the Arty part (as in Art Garfunkel, not anything particularly artsy)"...
3) When I was younger I used to pretend there was always a camera on me, like in The Truman Show. I still do sometimes. The above-mentioned college-written songs are part of the soundtrack.
4) I have a few OCD-type habits, one of which is that, when climbing or descending stairs, I prefer to end on my left (dominant) foot. If I've miscounted and end on my right, it doesn't feel correct to me.
5) I get disproportionately frustrated when I forget a word I want to use, or when someone jokes with me and I don't pick up on it.
I am not, repeat NOT, going to "tag" anyone else with this game. I don't like tag, and it was hard enough for me to "play" as it was.
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