5 things you'll hate about me
tagged! not too much interesting to reveal because i kind of am a rambler and tell everyone anything anyways, but nevertheless.
1. i have been, to varying degrees, a serious, serious hypochondriac. some periods it's worse than others. basically everything boils me down to having some sort of terrible terrible tragic thing wrong with me. even if i have, like, an itch on my pinky toe, depending on what phase i'm in, that can signify dire things.
2. i have a not-so-secret weakness for chick flicks. all those notting hill-type movies do it for me; i loved under the tuscan sun; i even found things to like in the holiday, which was truly wretched. this is embarrassing. help me.
3. actually everybody knows this because i go around telling everybody because i think it's kind of cool, but i am 1/8 chinese. my great-grandfather, who moved to cheyenne, wyoming, and opened the town's first drugstore (which still is in business today) was otis hoy; his father had come to san francisco from china, and i was always told as a child he was killed by a runaway horse-cart.
4. i used to hate children. i hated them SOOOOOO much. seriously, it was kind of a problem. then, interestingly enough, i decided to go be a teacher in italy (how they let me in without discovering my children hatred, i don't know. they were dense). now i love kiddies.
5. ummm. blanking. i have 7 piercings. does that count? (all in the ear region!)
bonus #6: i was an IRC chat freak in high school, and i've been "blogging" (though from when i was 16-21 or so, it was merely known as "writing text in an html file and uploading it") for about 10 years.
bonus #7 (none of the bonuses are so interesting that i must reveal them, but i remembered them anyway): i was captain of my high school tennis team but loathed all the members of the squad.
I just want to acknowledge that I saw your tag as I might need a day to mull it over to respond.
Posted by: Becks | December 19, 2006 at 06:41 PM
Why would someone hate that you're part chinese?
Posted by: ben wolfson | December 19, 2006 at 08:07 PM
I mean, you're not a Red, right?
Posted by: ben wolfson | December 19, 2006 at 08:08 PM
Ben obviously hasn't seen enough cheesy high school movies. We should tie him to a chair when he comes to visit and force him to sit through the entire John Hughes oeuvre.
Posted by: Becks | December 19, 2006 at 08:57 PM
becks: exactly! and, of course, no problem on the mulling.
ben: it's a reference to this movie, called 10 things i hate about you. of course, as with most of my random titles, it had nothing to do with the content of the post. the tag, which i neglected to link, was to merely tell people five things they may not know about you already. so the chinese thing is not something i'm worried about people hating me for.
Posted by: catherine | December 19, 2006 at 10:54 PM
of course, the four other things ARE detestable.
Posted by: catherine | December 19, 2006 at 10:58 PM
oh, i was gonna do a piercing one. well, i'm gonna do it anyway!
Posted by: Heather | December 20, 2006 at 12:38 AM
Sigh. I was an IRC chat freak in high school too, about the same age as you but I don't know if it was the same time. When I was 16-20 was the worst of it, about 1995-98. It was so bad the system administrator of my school disabled my dial in account for a while because they only had a few modems and I tended to always be on one of them, which really pissed me off at the time, but now I'm just embarrassed about the whole thing.
Posted by: Stacy | December 20, 2006 at 01:42 PM
Catherine -
Have you seen The Notebook? That's perhaps my favorite movie of all time.
Posted by: Alec | December 20, 2006 at 04:48 PM