Five things you didn't know about me.

Well, Susan Wittig Albert was kind enough to blog tag me. So I've spent the morning sitting at the pediatrician's office (which has, thankfully, replaced the rather colorful carpet with vomit-proof laminate and removed the "Typhoid Mary Toy Table") thinking of things that might be interesting enough to merit posting.

Here's what I came up with.


1) In 1992, I was the fastest chugger on the Wiess College Women's Beer Bike Team at Rice. Which is, to be honest, kind of embarrassing. Of course, it's not nearly as embarrassing as the fact that fifteen years later I still remember my best time. (Twenty-four ounces in 5.8 seconds, in case you were wondering. And to think my parents were under the impression that I wasn't learning anything!)

2) My favorite show is All Creatures Great and Small, which was a BBC series filmed in the 70s based on books written about the 30s. This could have something to do with the fact that I have no television reception in my house, but there it is.

3) I have a secret (well, until now, anyway) fondness for British comedic actors such as John Cleese, Peter Davison and Robert Hardy. The last two, oddly enough, both starred in the series All Creatures Great and Small.

4) I never eat cold cereal for breakfast. Okay, so that's not that interesting. But my time in the pediatrician's waiting room was brutally curtailed by someone actually inviting us to relocate to an examining room.

5) I speak four -- well, three-and-a-half, really -- languages, of which I use precisely one. Which is why I never understand why parents bother to shell out thousands of dollars so that their pre-school children can learn their ABCs in languages like, say, Swahili. I mean, if you're going to give them something really useful, why not enroll them in speed-laundry-folding classes? Or dishwasher loading theory?

6) (A bonus) I'm in a procrastinatory mood right now. Is that a word? If not, it should be. In fact, I think I'll take a few moments to contact my daughter's teacher and request that it take the place of this week's star spelling word, which is -- perplexingly -- 'veejay.' (For full rant, go here.)

And by the way, I didn't end up going anywhere but dreamland last night. On the plus side, both Peter Davison AND John Cleese were there, so it wasn't too bad...

And now, I get to tag... fellow cozy chick Diana Killian and fellow mystery author Candy Calvert!

P.S. Lest anyone cross Rice off their children's college list for fear of alcohol poisoning, the beer was (a) boiled, (b) non-alcoholic, (c) flat, and (d) not exactly a taste sensation. :)