Struggling Writer passed this meme on to me several days ago, but I’ve been too busy wallowing in dental and financial self-pity to do anything productive (or blog), but here we finally go.

The rules:

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 the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to your blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

I feel like I alluded to nearly everything remotely interesting or weird about myself in the life roadmap I did a while back, but I’ll have a go.

1. My parents are both psychiatric nurses. When I was in elementary school, my dad was working as a counselor in a detox centre and my mom as a nurse at the local jail. I took great pleasure in telling anyone who would listen that my mom was in jail and my dad was in detox.
2. When I was in my late teens, I wanted to give stand-up comedy a try. I even started to write a set. I had about a minute and a half of some of the worst observational comedy you’ve likely heard. I can’t remember any of the jokes, and I know I wrote them down somewhere, but I have no idea where.

   I lost my nerve and never did pursue that ambition, and I’d rather never see the jokes again, but I’d like to find and dispose of them as soon as possible. Once I become a famous crime-fighting novelist, I’d rather not have those popping up in the tabloids.

3. I played soccer for about fourteen years of my life, quitting when I started university. The last few years I’ve been telling myself I’ll get back in, but I never end up doing it. I’m a little worried to find out how bad I am now.
4. Other people’s interests rub off on me very easily. I’m either open-minded or a sheep, I’m not sure which, but if someone is enthusiastic about a topic or an activity, I want to become involved as well. I had to stop watching the Discovery channel in order to follow-through with my chosen degree.
5. One of my arms is longer than the other. Or my shoulders are lopsided. Or my tailer isn’t very good.
6. When I was growing up, nearly all of my friends had some strange physical party-trick they could do. One had two double-jointed elbows, another could flip his eyelids inside out, another could roll his stomach in waves. I desperately wanted a similar skill, but I couldn’t manage anything. My body just worked as intended.

   That all changed one day when I was stretching out my fingers. Someone commented that it was gross how they went back so far. I thought everyone’s fingers did that and was thrilled that I suddenly had something with which to disgust the girls on the playground. Unfortunately, I was nearly twenty when this was pointed out to me and would probably have been arrested if I had entered a playground and told the kids I had something interesting for them to see.

7. It’s 1:00am, and I just remembered that nearly my entire wardrobe is sitting wet in a washer downstairs in the closed laundry room, and I work in the morning. That’s unfortunate.

I’m not sure who has done this already, or who wants to do this, so I’m just going to list seven weblogs I enjoy. Feel free to do this if you want.

1. An Unreliable Witness
2. Schizogeny
3. Attack! of the Killer Weblog
4. Kyklops
5. Absolute Vanilla
6. The Ill Man
7. The Scottish Lemon