11 things you probably didn’t know about me..
(i decided it was time for another list)
1. When i was 4 years old, i came very close to drowning. i was pulled from the bottom of the pool where i’d been playing by a stranger, a woman who’s name i never knew.
2. I had to learn how to swim three times. First when i was six, again at age 8, and again at age 9. How I managed to forget how to swim in between still baffles me. I suspect it had something to do with a suppressed memory of almost drowning.
3. Between the ages of 13 and 15, i was the biggest Led Zeppelin fan ever. I was deeply in love with Robert Plant (the 70’s version of him in any case), and spent hours drawing amazingly good pencil renditions of the photos inside the book that came with the “remasters” cassette collection my brother owned. (Later he bought all of their albums on cd, and I spent an estimated 5 hours every day listening to them) Some of these drawings were done on the inside of the loose-leaf binder I used at school, and got me more than a few admiring comments from classmates who, on the whole, had never heard of Led Zeppelin, and viewed me as a bit of a weirdo.
4. I am a bit of a weirdo.
5. When i was 15, (1993) i bought myself an accoustic guitar. I had planned on buying an electric one, but somehow my mother talked me out of it. I daydreamed about Jimmy Page teaching me how to play. I got as far as teaching myself how to strum the basic chords to “heart of gold” by neil young (even sang along, as i recall, when nobody was in earshot) , but i think i gave up on actually learning to play before my 16th birthday came around.
6. I have never seen the movie “reality bites”.
7. My temper has cost me 3 jobs.
8. I’m afraid of spiders.
9. I’ve been lifting weights seriously for 12 years, but am never quite happy with my body.
10. I often laugh at my own wit, usually when no one else does.
11. While writing this, I’m supposed to be working on updating my school portfolio… go figure..
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