Me, Randomly
Liz Losh has tagged me to share eight random facts about myself (I guess turnabout is fair play). I love her idea of using songs from her iPod shuffle to guide the information choices, so I'll be a copycat and do the same.
1. "
" - Coldplay
Douglas Adams is one of my very favorite authors. I first read Hitchhiker's Guide in high school and then consumed each subsequent book, plus radio scripts and his Infocom computer games. I've seen him read at bookstores on a couple of occasions and have a collection of all his signed books. All except The Salmon of Doubt. Sniff.
2. "
" - Dave Matthews Band
I have a horrible sense of direction. Count on me to go the wrong way every time. My husband, who always knows exactly where he is, still hasn't learned not to follow me as I confidently stride in the wrong direction down the street.
3. "
" - Juliana Hatfield
I have one sister, who is exactly 2-1/2 years younger than me. She's lived in Israel since she graduated from college and now speaks English with an Israeli accent. She also makes a mean shakshuka.
4. "
" - Beck
Though I wasn't in LA in '94 for the Northridge earthquake, I was in the Bay Area in 1989 for the Loma Prieta earthquake. I was in a meeting at work in Berkeley that included a couple of visiting East Coasters. When the shaking started, we all jumped under the table. After it was over, the native Californians sat back in our seats to finish the meeting, but the others were too shaken up to continue. It's about time for another big one - yikes.
5. "
" - Neil Young
A few years ago, my friend Leora turned me on to African Folklore Embroidery, which uses brightly colored thread to sew designs against a black background. Leora, who is from South Africa, quit her market research job to bring this beautiful art form to the US. I bought a kit and got about halfway through, but just never got motivated to finish it. Maybe I'll give it another go.
6. "
" - Simon and Garfunkel
I lived in Washington DC for a few years and loved it there. I would have stayed, but I am a huge weather wimp and could not handle the snow and cold. It just seemed silly to me to have to deal with the attendant difficulties when there was a perfectly wonderful other place to live where the temperature never dropped much below 60 degrees. So here I am.
7. "
" - B-52s
I keep kosher, which means I don't eat things like lobster (rock or otherwise), crab, shrimp, other shellfish, pork, nonkosher meat, dairy and meat mixed together, or any form of bugs (you'd be surprised how they make the food coloring in some juices!). It can get complicated, but it makes you think about everything you put in your mouth -- not a bad thing.
8. "Beds are Burning" -
My favorite time to get work done is after midnight, when the house is quiet and everyone else is asleep. Unfortunately, that's when my brain really kicks into gear. But my very favorite time of day is dusk, when the sky turns purple and the clouds reflect electric pink, the moment after the sun has ducked behind the hills. I wish I could capture the feeling of that color.
If this just wasn't enough random information about me for you, you can go back and read the five things you didn't know about me post from a previous meme. And then you'll really be ready for me to get back to writing about social marketing.
I tag the following eight bloggers to share their own eight random facts: Lisa Mighton, CK, Ashley Cecil, Richard Kearns, Chris Forbes, Sandra Beckwith, Guanaco and Kelli Matthews.
Photo Credit: Leo Reynolds