Phil of the wonderful Brandywine Books has tagged me with the “8 Things About Me” meme. I love memes, so here goes.
Rules: the rules of the meme are posted at the beginning of the blog entry. The blogger then posts 8 facts about himself/herself and finishes by tagging eight other bloggers (and then notifying them that they’ve been tagged).
Here are my 8 things:
1. I’m an information junkie and cheerfully sit in a library or browse the Internet for hours at a time. Encyclopedias are fun.
2. I’ve been told I have a distinctive voice (a “CBC voice”). Note for non-Canadian readers: the CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national radio public radio stations (AM and FM). There’s also CBC television.
3. I like to plan ahead and do things as far in advance as possible. I don’t always manage, but I try.
4. I’ve never cared for clowns. I’m not afraid of them, as some people are, but I just don’t get it. Ditto for mimes or any form of practical jokes (which often seem to have a streak of cruelty).
5. On the other hand, I love good stand-up comics—I enjoy watching Just For Laughs.
6. I’ve recently discovered Facebook and am hooked.
7. I like to play Scrabble but exasperate my sister to no end because I’m not in the least competitive about it; I just like to make words (“Look! I can make ‘egg’!”).
8. Two subjects with a multiplicity of meanings that I enjoy reading about: integrity and irony.
8.5. I love the name Brandywine Books and wish it were the name for this blog.
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I always feel bad about tagging people because that means excluding others. So this is an open tag to anyone who wants to do this—just make sure you let me know you’ve done it!
Posted by Amy as Memes at 1:22 AM EDT