� Used to camp when I was in the Boy Scouts, but I�m not the outdoors type.
� Taught college level English composition courses. Thought about writing a textbook but didn�t think the world needed another one.
� Was an extra in a movie shot in Dayton by a WSU grad�Blue Car�and handled props for �A Midsummers Night�s Dream� and other plays for Sinclair College productions several years ago.
� Can�t act; dropped out of acting class. Can�t dropkick, either; dropped out of Tae Kwon Do class.
� Don�t do comedy, don�t sing, don�t play musical instruments, don�t dance. Lousy tennis player, but I like to watch and go to the ATP championships in Mason, OH.
� Like to watch football and played several positions on pee wee teams (until the kids thought it was too weird at my age).
� Won a case in small claims court, and lost two. Handled the paperwork for my marriage dissolution and didn�t lose a shirt.
� Was a successful teenage runaway from a blended family situation.
� Have worked for several corporations, a meat-packing plant, a tobacco plantation, a residential home for the mentally challenged, several fast food concerns, on military installations, as a sanitation engineer, and a teacher. I have also delivered newspapers. I have been a secretary in special interest, nonprofit organizations. I have volunteered to help in Juvenile Diabetes Foundation fund-raising events.
� Helped various people start crafts and pet kenneling businesses, but I�ve never been good at managing businesses, just contributing where I could.
� Have changed brakes on old cars, master cylinders, starters, and alternators; the mother of self-sufficiency is being too poor for professional mechanics. But you can fall off roofing a house.
� I�ve owned an Oldsmobile 88 and a Chevette and a Maverick and a Charger and a Grand Am and a Colt and a Chrysler E-Class and a Duster and an Impala and a Cavalier and a Lumina and an Accord and a Sentra and a Voyager van and an Econoline Van and some bikes. I don�t like Nascar and got sick once from the fumes, maybe. I�ve had a drivers license since I was 15 (and they weren�t happy I took it).
� I�m photosensitive and sneeze looking at the sun after an extended absence. My pee smells funny after I eat asparagus. After eating hotdogs or baloney, my burps taste rat-lippy. My hearing and eyesight are poor. I get sneezy when I mow the lawn. I have severe skin reaction to poison oak, but I allow it to grow in my yard for the sense of living on the edge.
� Been in two car accidents, neither my fault and one of which put me in the hospital with a concussion for a day, where I developed a fondness for nurses because they seemed kind and take care of people and some are very pretty.
� Several police cruisers and a paddy wagon once surrounded a paneled moving van I was driving because I clipped a neighbors garage eave and I drove away. That turned out to be a frightening minor accident.
� Can�t hold my booze. So I�ll never know for sure whether Canadian whiskey is as good as Kentucky whiskey. And good Key Lime pie is hard to come by in the Midwest.
� Go to rock concerts, local and out of town. Been to local theater plays, musical theater productions, philharmonic concerts, ballet (mime set to dance), and operas, and don�t find them interesting. Not very interested in art. Horrible at math, and have no parenting skills. Don�t like poetry, romance novels, or Shakespeare.
� I like to play Spades, Hearts, Euchre, and Canasta; one of my grandmas taught me Canasta.
� Moved around a lot as a child (before Ritalin) when my dad was active in the Navy as a Chief Petty Officer: San Diego, Honolulu, Virginia, Ohio.
� My dad has had triple bypass surgery and treatments for melanoma skin cancer.
� I�m fascinated with forensics. Not so psyched about minor league baseball.
� Little boobies are usually enough.
� I�m afraid of heights, tight spaces, horses, and snakes. It�s pretty easy to understand how guns can kill you. When you�re afraid, it�s hard to take naps.
� I�m not afraid of technology (not a Luddite). Cancelled my television cable service and didn�t miss the shows much. I don�t surf the Web much and never stole a song on the Internet.
� I like monosodium glutamate instead of salt on fried eggs.
� Helmet and Fuel have a number of songs that I like. Polka music isn�t all that good. Willa Cather has written some interesting stories, but none as good as Faulkner�s.
� Sometimes I wonder whether carpeting is worth the trouble, or whether the stories in Cosmo hinder rather than help women.
� Generally, I understand plumbing, but electricity is scary.
� My neighbor once set her house on fire, killing her cat and two dogs. She had emotional problems that were especially bad all the time.
� The number of words in a sentence don�t necessarily determine readability, and fewer words can decrease intended comprehension.
� They don�t really mean it, so corporations pander when they publicize their efforts to achieve a concept of cultural diversity.
� I rarely miss The McGlaughlin Group on PBS, but I don�t understand the appeal of David Letterman.
� Possum Creek is a funny name for a wildlife park, but I think possum are cute if they�re not living in your garage.
� People who set boundaries are likely hiding their true feelings about you (dislike or distrust or dismissiveness) and their relationship with you.
� I don�t like fixing up old houses.
