One and a half months ago or so Greg Laden had the audacity to tag me for a meme. Man, how dare he! (I would be remiss not to point out that discovering that tag may have had something to do with me taking up blogging again.) Anyway, since being tagged is a binding contract on pain of eternal damnation, I better get it done, so here we go.

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random arbitrary things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Six random arbitrary things … that’s idiotic. Any six things I come up with will quite obviously be anything but random - they will be stuff about myself that I personally consider interesting or quaint, or think that other people may find interesting or quaint. But here goes.

• I don’t read the news. Or watch the news, or listen to the news. I find “the news” obnoxious and annoying - it’s all other people’s opinions on what I ought to find interesting. And if I’m gonna have other people filter my news, it might as well be people who know what I’m interested in, or have the same interests. Which is why I get my news pretty much exclusively from friends and blogs.
• I like having my picture taken and sometimes worry that I’m overly narcissistic, even as I struggle with the same insecurities and self-image problems most people seem to suffer from.
• My boyfriend and I first met in Star Wars Galaxies, an mmorpg. (This was back in the days before WoW, when SWG was still a game worth playing.)
• Despite being a complete and utter slob, I love sorting things - everything from alphabetising books to pouring a tube of Smarties on a table and arranging them according to colour. I think my aversion to tidying my apartment is due to the fact that there is no intuitive, obvious way of sorting all the stuff I have, which makes me feel like no matter how clean the place is, it’s still basically a mess. This might just be a rationalisation though.
• I played the violin for about 13 years. Quitting was idiotic, but the musical education was still definitely worth it, as I now have pretty much perfect pitch.
• I suffer from a phobia of maths. I got reasonable grades despite (sometimes literally) sleeping through maths in high school, which means I can’t be hopeless at it, but pose a maths problem to me that’s more than basic arithmetics and watch me blanch and tremble.

Since I’ve been gone from the blogosphere for a while, I don’t really know who’s already done this meme and who hasn’t, so I might end up tagging some people who have. If you’re one of them, my apologies.

Anyway, here’s my list of tagees: Aardvarchaeology (already been tagged by Greg! how did I miss that?), Yttranden, KafirGirl, Anna Does Life, Paddy K and … YOU!

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