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I've been tagged by
Samara Link to share
with the world - six
strange things about myself:
1. I shoot pool left handed although I do everything else right handed. I can't even hit the cue ball when I try to play right handed.
2. I CANNOT under any circumstances fall asleep in bed at night if I have socks on. I can't even analyze this one...but it is not conducive to living in northern Michigan.
3. I rock standardized tests. I just get them. I can read between the lines and I see some kind of rhythm to them that sends me into some altered state of consciousness. The reason this is strange is that I am no genius or idiot savant, but I never studied for the SAT, ACT, LSAT or GMAT but I kicked ass on all of them. But in school and real life I am just an average joe.
4. I had a pet tarantula in college, whose name was Rusty. Rusty was given to me as a high school graduation gift from two little boys I babysat for. Imagine the surprise when I opened the the box (yes, it was wrapped in a box). Rusty traveled with me from place to place for four years until a plumber visited my apartment to unclog a drain and left with a new pet!
5. I can't make coffee. It doesn't matter the pot, the coffee, the water, the instructions...it turns out terrible every time I try. Thank god for coffee shops.
6. I'm not sure there is anyone else who is as terrified of flying as I am - who travels as much as I do. I get physically ill before every flight (usually throw up), I take anxiety meds, I religiously count to 90 in Mississippi's when the wheels leave the ground (because I once read a report a majority of plane crashes happen in the first or last ninety seconds of flight) and I lean in the opposite direction of a turn in flight to help make sure the plane doesn't "tip over". I could go on but I will spare you. The strange thing is that I find myself traveling around the world...go figure. I'm sure I'm quite a sight.
I think these are strange things...I don't know. It is more difficult to judge my own strangeness than I thought it would be.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Sabbatical
If I were a professor, that is what I'd call my absence. But I'm not, so instead I have decided to give you a list of excuses for why it has been six weeks since I last posted:
1. I'm a lawyer. If there is one thing lawyers have in common with each other, it is their uncanny ability to put off today what can be done tomorrow. Any of you who have had the pleasure of retaining legal counsel can attest to this fact.
2. I hate my camera and the unskilled photographer behind the lens. I once told my friend Samara that I could never scrapbook because I hate my handwriting. When I buy birthday/get well/friendship cards I always buy two of the same because I inevitably hate my handwriting so much on the first one that I throw it away and try again on the second. I now realize I feel the same about photographs. I can take a photo of the same still ten times and not be satisfied. Part of the problem is that I have a plain ol' run of the mill digital camera from Best Buy which has a super slow shutter speed. Another problem is I know nothing about light and angles. I think i am going to take an online photography class this summer to grasp the basis a little better.
3. I can't get my computer to connect to my internet at home. Ok, this is really the biggest obstacle. We have your standard wireless internet through our cable company and I can NEVER get online with my laptop. Matt's laptop connects with great accuracy and speed, but not mine. The most frustrating thing is that I have no problem connecting anywhere else. My office (although they purchased the laptop and service through our IT service)will not cover the expense of IT troubleshooting at home. So, I lumber through the dark ages on the weekends. I can respond to e-mails via my Blackberry and I can venture the 8 blocks from my house to my office if I need to...but I really want to do the blogging at home. I guess I will have to break down and pay for the IT dudes to come over and figure out the problem.
Ok, that is all I have right now.
1. I'm a lawyer. If there is one thing lawyers have in common with each other, it is their uncanny ability to put off today what can be done tomorrow. Any of you who have had the pleasure of retaining legal counsel can attest to this fact.
2. I hate my camera and the unskilled photographer behind the lens. I once told my friend Samara that I could never scrapbook because I hate my handwriting. When I buy birthday/get well/friendship cards I always buy two of the same because I inevitably hate my handwriting so much on the first one that I throw it away and try again on the second. I now realize I feel the same about photographs. I can take a photo of the same still ten times and not be satisfied. Part of the problem is that I have a plain ol' run of the mill digital camera from Best Buy which has a super slow shutter speed. Another problem is I know nothing about light and angles. I think i am going to take an online photography class this summer to grasp the basis a little better.
3. I can't get my computer to connect to my internet at home. Ok, this is really the biggest obstacle. We have your standard wireless internet through our cable company and I can NEVER get online with my laptop. Matt's laptop connects with great accuracy and speed, but not mine. The most frustrating thing is that I have no problem connecting anywhere else. My office (although they purchased the laptop and service through our IT service)will not cover the expense of IT troubleshooting at home. So, I lumber through the dark ages on the weekends. I can respond to e-mails via my Blackberry and I can venture the 8 blocks from my house to my office if I need to...but I really want to do the blogging at home. I guess I will have to break down and pay for the IT dudes to come over and figure out the problem.
Ok, that is all I have right now.
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