8 things about me

  • I was tagged by Hand­maid Mary Leah to give eight ran­dom facts about myself.

    It actu­ally took me a lit­tle while to come up with them, which ought to knock down the idea that these are all that ran­dom. But any­way, I’ll try not to make a sim­ple thing complicated …

    1. I’ve sung a Blues Broth­ers med­ley in an inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion and won. I was singing in a bar­ber­shop cho­rus of 130 women. We sang the med­ley — com­plete with sun­glasses and black hats — as part of our show pack­age before a panel of judges and an audi­ence of 10,000 people.
    2. While still in Bar­ber­shop World, I sang in a dou­ble quar­tet at the House of Blues in West Hol­ly­wood for their gay Christ­mas party. It was pretty weird, but at least they tipped well.
    3. For a year I cre­ated a comic strip called “Hap­pily Ever After”. It was about the frog prince and his king­dom — I got the idea from hear­ing Peter Gabriel’s song “Kiss that Frog”. Doing the comic strip was a lot of fun, but since it only ever ran in one paper, it didn’t exactly pay the rent.
    4. For a cou­ple years, Greg and I lived next door to Michelle Pfeiffer’s parents.
    5. As an art stu­dent, I got to work on a sec­tion of “The Great Wall of Los Ange­les,” one of the longest murals in the world. I worked on the shad­ing for this run­ner for the Olympics sec­tion. So good for me, but … another non-paying gig.
    6. I actu­ally know what the absolute value of pi is, but I’ve decided to just keep it to myself.
    7. My favorite show when I was a kid was “My Favorite Martian.”
    8. Weird eat­ing habit: I don’t like mix­ing fla­vors at a meal. So I’ll often work my way around the plate eat­ing all of one thing at a time. And I usu­ally don’t drink any­thing until I’m done. I think my taste buds are the bet­ter for my ded­i­ca­tion to purity.

    And can I count as a bonus ran­dom fact that I can’t really think of eight other peo­ple to tag? I think this one has made the rounds already, so I’m out of fresh tagees. But if you haven’t done it yet and want to, feel free. It’s a bit of fun.


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    June 29th, 2007 | Grace | 7 Comments |

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  • Cather­ine K. 06.29.2007

    Very cool “ran­dom” facts — and thanks for the link to the Mural — I hadn’t heard of that before.

    Tech­ni­cally I have been tagged with this one as well, but as I can’t think of 8 ran­dom things that are worth post­ing, I am pre­tend­ing I didn’t see it :)

  • hand­maid Mary-Leah

    As far as meme’s go its not an easy one…
    good stuff!

  • Mimi

    Great list! Wow!

  • Deb

    What a fun list.

    I’ve given you a Blog­ger Reflec­tion Award at my blog. So, there’s yet another list for you to come up with :)

  • s-p

    I love it! and yeah, I’ve been tagged too, but I’m try­ing to find time to write it up in a way that either doesn’t scan­dal­ize peo­ple and sounds hum­ble. :)

  • Grace

    Cather­ine:
    Mural: Boy, that was a lot of years ago. I didn’t real­ize until I looked it up that the sec­tion I worked on was the last one they did. Hope it wasn’t any­thing I did. (Hey, I was young. I thought all run­ners were bright red!)

  • Grace

    s-p:
    Okay, now I’m just intrigued. If the dan­ger is to be either scan­dalous or brag­gado­cious, your list must be some­thing like:
    1-Won a Nobel peace prize, a Pulitzer and an Emmy. No big deal.
    2-Am a cross-dressing foot-fetishist.

    Now I can’t wait.

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