Month: December 2006

Ok.
Happy Holiday of your choice to all!
We’re out for Pittsburgh (Greensburg, really) for X-mas with the Kuntz family. Also, seeing the groovy PA friends. We will be collecting Tiernen’s motorcycle and bringing it back, so I think with that I am caught up on all the wife promises for now.
Our friends Ian and Lauren had a solstice baby, Nell Aurora Trindle (gotta love those hippy kids) is doing well after a home birth in PA. We will (hopefully) be meeing Ian (Lemonjello Cannedcorn etc.) Shively this weekend. Babies all around, hooray!

Next week, we’ll be cleaning up the house, no, really as the ‘rents are coming for New Years.

Wish us luck. And love and seasonal festive greetings to all.

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

Had my first briefing with actual doctor (well, in this case, dentist) students today. It went pretty well, although we had some equipment issues and they had to leave about an hour earlier than we had originally planned on. I am coming to realize that even smart and well educated people can’t know everything and a lot of people are very intimidated by online searching. This is a surprise to me because it seems so natural, but I have to go back and remember that I have been learning about and doing this pretty much consistently for the last ten years or so. Some people, even people in school, have been learning about other things. I hope to have more opportunities to do this in the future. There’s so much good information out there and it’s becoming increasingly easier to find.

RULES: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.

1) I’m really getting bothered by the recent trend to make every moderately popular children’s fantasy novel and/or series into a film, although I’m probably also going to go out and see most of them, so I guess I’m a hypocrite.
2) When I was 12 I wanted to marry Optimus Prime.
3) I have a six inch plate in my ankle from a bowling accident.
4) I once played Brad (Brenda) Majors in a Girl Scout camp production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
5) I sincerely want to reduce the things I own by 1/2, I just don’t know which half to get rid of.
6) My great grandparents and great grand-aunts and uncles on my dad’s side were a pair of brothers and a pair of sisters.  They met because my great grandfather and his brother delivered beer to the resturant of my great grandmother and her sister’s father.
7) I’m better at getting things done if I have a deadline promised to someone else.  Therefore, if I don’t want to do something, I leave the terms purposely vague.  
8) I like to debate people about politics, philosophy and social issues. 
9) I won’t eat fat on my meat, or raw tomatoes, bananas or peaches (happy now?).
10)  I think library fines are stupid, but I favor court action against people who are negligent with library materials (damaging, stealing, refusing to replace).

Tagging:
Whoever wants to carry this on, I’m not very good at tagging