So, I have this friend, although I've never met her, so whatever. I think that doesn't preclude us from being friends.
Her name is Chuck Baudelaire. She has a real name, but as I've never met her, I know her as Chuck, or Esther Blodgett, but really, that's not important.
She writes a blog, and it's pretty funny, so check it out.
Anyhoo, today she posted a Twenty Random Facts blog, an idea she borrowed from another blogger pal. And I love to plagiarize, so here goes.
1. I believe that the key to good plagiarism is knowing whether it's good enough to steal.
2. I borrowed the phrase, "What's in the cats is in the kittens" from a book I read called Among School Children, by Tracy Kidder. I read it in High School - it's a non-fiction book that follows a year in the life of Mrs. Zajac, a 5th grade teacher in Massachusetts. It's a great book. Her husband uses that expression, and so do I. Relentlessly.
3. I have been to 34 states. One I haven't been to is Massachusetts, and it's one of the ones I'd like to see most.
4. I have no desire to see all 50 States, per se, but I would like to cross them all off the list.
5. I sometimes start out training sessions with my customers by asking them what their state bird is. I'm currently in Alaska - where it's the Willow Ptarmigan.
6. I recently found out my nephew and I have the same favorite color; red.
7. I send my nephew postcards when I travel for work, because I hope that one day when I'm gone, he'll find them and remember, "Man, she really loved me."
8. I have sent postcards to PostSecret, but none have made the website. One was about finding a job, one was complaining about the job I found.
9. I am very picky about perfumes, and there are really about one or two that don't make me angry when I smell them. I'm seriously - funky smelling perfumes literally make me angry. And it's the funky ones that women marinate in.
10. I'm an aisle seat lover when I travel.
11. Yesterday, on the 3.5 hour flight from Seattle to Anchorage, I got on the plane to find a guy in my seat. He offered to let me take his, one row ahead of mine, in the middle. I said, "Not happening, and nice try." My tone had to suffice for the implied, "asshole" at the end of the sentence.
12. Occasionally, I want to punch people in the face. See #11.
13. I once sent a recruiter at Turner Broadcasting a box of plastic insects with my resume saying, "I don't want to bug you, but...".
14. I sent the same recruiter a box of fortune cookies with fortunes in them related to hiring me.
15. I was offered an interview for an Administrative Assistant gig at Turner several months after the bug and cookie mailings, but by then had a great job with a start-up, and I turned it down.
16. I made 4 Cs in college - Weather and Climate, Statistics, Econ, and... Creative Writing. I didn't disclose that last one to my parents for many, many years. It was my last term of my Senior year, and I slept in most days with my boyfriend, who also took the class. I was a dumbass. The rest of my grades were As and Bs.
17. I really want some botox to remove the "Eleven Lines" between my eyebrows.
18. I would love to own a red, VW microbus because I so love the song Alice's Restaurant.
19. I love doing crosswords. They're relaxing. And I feel like I'm smart when I finish. Sudoku, on the other hand... meh.
20. Sometimes, when I'm bored on a flight, I'll write comments in the Skymall magazine. Not always relevant to the products. Sometimes just a comment on how I'm feeling, or who is sitting next to me.
Her name is Chuck Baudelaire. She has a real name, but as I've never met her, I know her as Chuck, or Esther Blodgett, but really, that's not important.
She writes a blog, and it's pretty funny, so check it out.
Anyhoo, today she posted a Twenty Random Facts blog, an idea she borrowed from another blogger pal. And I love to plagiarize, so here goes.
1. I believe that the key to good plagiarism is knowing whether it's good enough to steal.
2. I borrowed the phrase, "What's in the cats is in the kittens" from a book I read called Among School Children, by Tracy Kidder. I read it in High School - it's a non-fiction book that follows a year in the life of Mrs. Zajac, a 5th grade teacher in Massachusetts. It's a great book. Her husband uses that expression, and so do I. Relentlessly.
3. I have been to 34 states. One I haven't been to is Massachusetts, and it's one of the ones I'd like to see most.
4. I have no desire to see all 50 States, per se, but I would like to cross them all off the list.
5. I sometimes start out training sessions with my customers by asking them what their state bird is. I'm currently in Alaska - where it's the Willow Ptarmigan.
6. I recently found out my nephew and I have the same favorite color; red.
7. I send my nephew postcards when I travel for work, because I hope that one day when I'm gone, he'll find them and remember, "Man, she really loved me."
8. I have sent postcards to PostSecret, but none have made the website. One was about finding a job, one was complaining about the job I found.
9. I am very picky about perfumes, and there are really about one or two that don't make me angry when I smell them. I'm seriously - funky smelling perfumes literally make me angry. And it's the funky ones that women marinate in.
10. I'm an aisle seat lover when I travel.
11. Yesterday, on the 3.5 hour flight from Seattle to Anchorage, I got on the plane to find a guy in my seat. He offered to let me take his, one row ahead of mine, in the middle. I said, "Not happening, and nice try." My tone had to suffice for the implied, "asshole" at the end of the sentence.
12. Occasionally, I want to punch people in the face. See #11.
13. I once sent a recruiter at Turner Broadcasting a box of plastic insects with my resume saying, "I don't want to bug you, but...".
14. I sent the same recruiter a box of fortune cookies with fortunes in them related to hiring me.
15. I was offered an interview for an Administrative Assistant gig at Turner several months after the bug and cookie mailings, but by then had a great job with a start-up, and I turned it down.
16. I made 4 Cs in college - Weather and Climate, Statistics, Econ, and... Creative Writing. I didn't disclose that last one to my parents for many, many years. It was my last term of my Senior year, and I slept in most days with my boyfriend, who also took the class. I was a dumbass. The rest of my grades were As and Bs.
17. I really want some botox to remove the "Eleven Lines" between my eyebrows.
18. I would love to own a red, VW microbus because I so love the song Alice's Restaurant.
19. I love doing crosswords. They're relaxing. And I feel like I'm smart when I finish. Sudoku, on the other hand... meh.
20. Sometimes, when I'm bored on a flight, I'll write comments in the Skymall magazine. Not always relevant to the products. Sometimes just a comment on how I'm feeling, or who is sitting next to me.
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