The Adnostic

I realized recently that this blog has gotten a lot less personal over the past few months and I'm not sure I like that. I think it dilutes the voice I had established earlier, so I consider myself tagged (thanks Clay). Now I have to reveal five little known facts about myself. Five little known facts that aren't already in my 100 (okay, 62) Meaningless Facts About Lauren. This will be tough.

1) I was a late bloomer when it came to music. I didn't go to my first concert until I was in college and regrettably, it was the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over Tour. I even bought a t-shirt. Pity me.

2) I tried out to be on Win Ben Stein's Money. I never even made it past the written exam, but it was something fun to do and I almost (but not quite) got a date out of it. I would think of answers to some of the questions I missed for weeks after. Manhattan Project still vexes me.

3) I have a scar in the middle of my forehead from when my grandmother dropped me on the edge of the coffee table when I was a baby. My dad rushed me to the hospital and sewed me back together himself.

4) I never really got into drugs. I tried pot a few times and it always just burned my lungs, made it painful to breathe the next day, and failed to leave me in any sort of altered state aside from the hacking and hyperventilation.

5) I seem to have developed a double standard when it comes to ego. I do very well when working with horses who have an inflated sense of self-worth, but I have little patience for it in human beings and I have difficulty hiding my distaste. I guess it's because those kinds of horses will just push back and test your resolve, while people can make you feel like you're not even in the room. They're very different expressions of similar afflictions.

With that I tag five more people . . . .

Jen - because she's always interesting and has lots of color to draw from.
Erika - because I wish she would blog more.
Dave - I know he won't do it, but I'm tagging him anyway. No one is above meme. No one!
Jelly - because it would be cool if she podcast it
Wendel - he needs to be baptised into blogging.