Author: Polgara

10. I’m slightly obsessive-compulsive. This means I get really into TV shows and hobbies.
11. I’m a bit flaky, which means I can drop a hobby I was previously obsessed about, and never look back.
12. One TV show I was obsessed with was MacGyver. It was pre-internet, so the only way to truly show my devotion was to watch it twice a day (7 and 11 on USA!), and make it my mission in life to see every episode ever featured in the opening credits montage.
13. I was a finalist for a spontaneous essay contest in high school. I think I blew it when I had to write an essay that wasn’t spontaneous, i.e. I had more time to work on it than an hour, and they saw that there wasn’t really a difference.
14. I’m a master procrastinator (which kinda helps explain #13).
15. I received a perfect score on an essay I wrote in junior high for a state test. It was apparently very rare to get a perfect score on that test, so, yay me! The topic was, Where Would You Rather Be Right Now? I wrote about Narnia.
16. I was the first person in my generation of my family to receive my Bachelor’s degree, and the third person ever (two uncles beat me to it).
17. I’m a big fan of practical jokes, and was (in)famous for them at my last job.
18. I used to write humorous poems and songs, mostly\ for my (previous) company’s annual Secret Santa ritual. Cleverness was highly regarded, both for the gift itself and for the note that accompanied it. One year, I ghost-wrote poems for five other people’s gifts.

I removed the commenting option. The only “people” using it were the spam engines, so there was no real need to keep them. Someday, I’ll get around to upgrading myself to a WordPress blog, which has better spam and comment control. Until then, I’ll just be talking to myself, wondering if anyone’s really hearing me out there. And you know what happens when a person talks to herself for too long, right? All kinds of crazy stuff starts to come out!

In not so crazy stuff (or maybe it is?) I have lost motivation yet again to clean my apartment. There was a chance I’d have a houseguest later this month, which is always the *perfect* motivation for all kinds of things, but now the houseguest is not so much, so my tolerance for untidiness has returned to its usual very high levels. Very sad. Also sad that I won’t get to see said houseguest, for that matter.

But! That leaves more time for knitting for Christmas. 😀 See? Bright side to everything!

And in other news, I owe about a gazillion “things about me”, so let me go get started on that.

Someone’s been trying to break into my system. There have been numerous failed login attempts in the past couple of days, usually overnight, but one just 30 minutes ago. Oh joy. The spam attacks on the comments I expect, but trying to hack your way in? That’s just malicious. Their mothers must be so proud.

An old Japanese man is removed from a train for taking pictures of pretty scenery

Why have we let our country reach this point?

Check this baby out! My friend Allyson’s book was featured in Unshelved‘s Sunday edition yesterday! Squeeeeeee!