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six random facts
six random facts that either tell you
everything about me or tell you nothing at all
1) when I was eight years old my older cousin (a world-weary twelve) came to visit for a long weekend and I begged him to teach me how to play dungeons and dragons. begged. begged. it had dragons. it had swords. it had magic. it had dice. it was make believe. it sounded like the best game ever. my cousin wasn't happy to be saddled with the company of an eight-year-old girl in the first place, and wasn't going to spend the bulk of a crisp fall weekend teaching me how to figure points and armor and attacks or whatever you do in D&D. I carried a grudge around that fall and the next. it was years before I realized how big a bullet I'd dodged.
2) and yet, seven years later, I still ended up working at a comic book store. I was very popular. particularly when I got into involved arguments with adolescent boys and adolescent men about the casting travesties of the first Batman movie (Michael Keaton?!?) or if Rob Liefield was worth the salary (talentless hack!) or whether it would be physically possible for Superman to have sex with Lois Lane (the less said, the better). I had opinions about these things, oh yes. strong, vocal, ridiculous opinions.
3) at least three times in my life I've been asked out by someone and never realized I was being asked out. usually a friend who witnessed the conversation points this out to me much later. examples of invitations that went right over my head include:
"hey, we should go see the new Batman movie this weekend."
"want to hang out tonight?"
"maybe next time, before the show, we should go out and get something to eat." (this one from someone I was actively crushing on)
4) there is a band named for me. not so much in honor of me, as bitterly commemorating a breakup I was part of, but nonetheless.
5) I have been thanked in the album liner notes of an obscure British ska band (circa 2000).
6) I spent a lot of time in the mid-nineties doing things like listening to, and writing about, obscure British ska bands.