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8 Random Facts Meme
By Richard Nantel | August 3, 2007
My friend and colleague, Janet Clarey (who I just found out has used a parking lot as a changing room), tagged me on the 8 Random Facts About Me meme.
Here’s how it works:
- Post these rules before you give your facts.
- List 8 random facts about yourself.
- At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them.
- Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they’ve been tagged.
So, here are my eight random things:
- From the age of 16-18, I worked in a pet shop and knew the Latin names of all the tropical fish. Although my bedroom at home was only about 8 x 10 feet at the time, it contained 18 aquariums.
- I once almost capsized while sea-kayaking from having a Minke whale surface an arm’s length away from me.
- My favorite wine variety is South African Pinotage. I’d pour this in my morning cereal if it didn’t interfere with my productivity and make the neighbors gossip.
- I have a thing for scientists.
- I’ve never understood why perfume companies don’t make a product that smells of freshly ground espresso. A scientist with a dab of this behind an ear would work for me (big time).
- Every day, I take a multivitamin as well as a vitamin C, vitamin D, calcium, Omega 3, niacin, folic acid, ginkgo biloba, and ginseng. (I may have forgotten a couple of others.) I also either run 30 minutes, bicycle 45 minutes, or do strength training. Accepting my inevitable mortality? Not so much.
- Although five foot, eight inches tall and weighing 150 lbs, I worked as doorman for a jazz club in the seediest part of town to pay my way through university. This taught me negotiation skills.
- When I was 18, I dated an artist whose studio was upstairs from The Midget’s Palace, a museum and Montreal landmark where all the furniture was built to 1/3 scale. After the museum closed at night, she and I would descend to cook our dinner on a tiny stove, eat on little plates, sit on little chairs, etc. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot: she had a pet pig that lived on the roof of the garage adjacent to the building.
Well, that’s it for my random facts. I need to find my eight people to tag. So, I’ll update this post with their names shortly.
I tag:
[To come]
Also, I haven’t completed the Goal Meme I was tagged with months ago. Time to give that one some thought.
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