The geekosphere has discovered these cute little memes, and Husband tagged me to come up with five things you don’t know about me. (This chain started here.) Now, I’ve been blogging my ass off for over a year; I’m not sure there’s much I haven’t revealed. But here goes:

  1. In high school I was a feature twirler in the marching band. Sequined outfit, high-heeled boots, flaming batons, the whole nine yards. Not only that, but baton twirling was my talent in the Junior Miss pageant.
  2. In high school I fell in love with a boy who had a steady girlfriend, and I dated him behind her back. Eventually we both stopped seeing the guy, she and I became friends, and we were the maids of honor at each other’s weddings.
  3. During my senior year in college I spent several months interviewing with the CIA for a position as an operative, but I didn’t get it because I failed the polygraph. Twice.
  4. I have really, really poor eyesight: 20/1100, which means that what I see at 20 feet looks like what a normally-sighted person sees at 1100 feet. I can only see clearly for about 4 inches without my contacts. But my close vision has also deteriorated lately, so now I have to wear reading glasses over the contacts.
  5. My favorite novel of all time is not by one of the nineteenth-century writers I adore, but The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. I just found out that Ford was as old when he published it as I will be on my next birthday.

I am far too intimidated to tag someone else. It feels like sending one of the cool kids a carnation on Carnation Day. So if you read this blog and have a blog of your own, consider yourself tagged.