AimlesslyChasingAmy

I called Iggy the other night because I needed an uber blogger dial a shot moment.  He told me I totally disrupted his blogger tournament.  Blogger tournament?  Damn.  I can’t believe I missed another one.  When I’m on the road I never have time to play online.  Once I’m home, it takes me about five days to figure out what day it is.  Not only did I screw up Iggy’s tournament - I totally forgot it was his birthday.  HB you old fart (takes one to know one). 

Well my misdeeds didn’t go unpunished as Gracie tagged me for the 7 Things About Me Blog Chain.  I figured I’d better get on it or my blogger karma would surely go to hell in a hand basket.  I’ve already posted 50 things about me - but there are probably a few more things that people don’t know about me….

1.  I’m a bone breaker.  I have small bones and break one every few years.  I think I’ve broken a wrist five times and my arm at least three times.  Once when I was a teenager I broke my arm the night before a ski trip.  I didn’t tell my parents, went skiing the next day, and claimed I broke it while skiing.  Right now I have a broken finger which has turned a lovely shade of black.  Since one of the problems with Celiac Disease is that you don’t absorb calcium, I suspect my broken bone trend will continue.

2.  I have a fear of heights and bridges.  I have no trouble flying and love to look down below - but don’t get me near the edge of something high.  I once had to be blindfolded to cross a suspension bridge in the Presidential Mountains.  When I travel, I try to pick a route with the fewest bridges and overpasses.  I once tried to walk out on the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge - I made it out two feet before hyperventilating and turning back.  I’ve never been up on the Stratosphere - and I probably never will.  (I obviously couldn’t take the above picture of the Rio Grand Gorge, so I modified one from here ) 

3.  I didn’t know what my degree was in until ten years after I graduated.  I took Chemical Engineering as an undergraduate.  But I loved molecular biology and genetics so I took a number of biology courses as electives.  It wasn’t until I was applying to graduate school and sent for my transcripts that I realized the school actually gave me a degree in Biomedical Engineering - which was a concentration in the Chemical Engineering department.  I guess they figured no one would take biology classes unless they had to. 

4.  I was asked to leave the Girl Scouts for “lack of ambition.”  Even then I didn’t need no stinking badges.  My mother consoled me by telling me that she, too, had been thrown out of the Girl Scouts - so there may have been some genetics at play.

5.  I have a problem with authority figures.  At IBM I once threw a chalk eraser at my boss, hitting him square in his blue pin striped suited chest - covering him in a lovely white cloud.  In my defense, he threw a piece of chalk at me first.  I threatened the life of another boss and told yet another to go fuck himself.  And yet I had a pretty sweet and successful career at Big Blue.

6.  For my very first sexual experience, I chose someone in college that was very devoted to his girlfriend back home.  I wanted the experience - not the baggage of a relationship.  I suppose it is this kind of behavior that has many of my friends saying that for a gal, I’m a lot like a guy.   

7.  In less than two weeks, I will be receiving my masters degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.  I suspect I am the oldest masters student they have graduated to date.

I have chosen the following victims to continue the chain:

Jen Leo
Short-Stacked Shamus (you gotta check out this post - it was a classic)
The Poker Shrink
Lou Krieger
I had tried to tag Mean Gene  - but dammit donkeypuncher got there first.  Curses.