Stranger Than Fiction

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.