Ezra Klein has tagged me (and Ann) with a meme. I'm supposed to reveal five things most people don't know about me. This is somewhat difficult, because anyone who has ever met me knows that I have a tendency to blurt out inappropriate anecdotes about myself at the drop of a hat.
In any case, I'm with Ezra that this is a little lacking in the fun department so I'm also going to include one thing in my list that isn't true. See if you can guess.
1. The two songs I dance around my apartment to the most are The Grasshopper Unit by the Beastie Boys and Elton John’s Don't Go Breaking My Heart. But the most listened to artists on my iPod are A Tribe Called Quest and Slim Harpo.
2. While I think lip rings on guys are uberhot, I have yet to make out with anyone who has one.
3. I’m a bit of a math and science dork—they were always my best subjects but I refused to go with my strengths and took all English classes instead.
4. I only sneeze in threes or more.
5. I got a tattoo of a lotus on my lower back when I was 15 years-old; I used a fake i.d. to get it. The parents were not pleased.
Ok, my turn to tag: Amanda, Zuzu, LadyRed, Lauren and Norbizness.
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Jess, you forgot to mention that your three sneezes sound like a toy poodle who's been inhaling helium. You should record them.
I have no idea what you're talking about. My sneezes sound perfectly normal.
If #3 is true, I'm the opposite--English & history always my best classes in high school, planning to major in statistics. Go figure.
I think #2 is false, but I'm not sure which clause makes it so.
I just need to pare down the 29 most disturbing things about me into 5 pithy things without replicating yours, although I'm not sure why you saw fit to steal #5 from me.
P.S. So take yourt roly-poly fat promoter ass / to the Chemical Bank, and get my cash!
ahh, rap promoter.
ditto on the #3...I've insisted since I was in grade school that I sucked at math, but I've consistently tested higher in math/analytical than verbal at each step of the way, even on the damn GRE after 4 years of cramming in history and lit classes in high school, and 6 years of doing history in college& an MA (and now 4 years into a PhD in history). I took fucking calculus in high school, and thought I sucked at math. Talk about internalizing gender roles...
A lot of people who hate continuous math (calculus/analysis) are actually much better at the discrete stuff (combinatorics and the like), but you don't really see advanced discrete math in high school. (And then of course it's then easy to assume your calculus deficiency is because you're a girl and therefore bad at math, not because you're discrete-math oriented.)
Interestingly, I managed to flip my test scores. In elementary school I scored consistantly higher on math/analytical tests than in the verbal comprehension. However, when introduced to fractions, my head exploded. I brought home my first "bad grade" and my grandmother comforted me by saying that math just wasn't my "forte". So I went with that. By the time the SATs rolled around, I aced the Verbal and barely pulled myself up to the national average in Math.
Am now studying the math half of the GRE. It makes my head hurt sometimes, but I really want to conquer the whole "numbers are scary!" thing.
I LOVE COMBINATORICS.
And am actually not that good at it. BUT WHATEVER IT'S STILL AWESOME.
(I mean, sure, humanities were easiER for me in high school, but I was good enough at math to do decently in honors. and my honors teacher was awesome. as evidenced by my love for combinatorics, which I got entirely from him).
Yay, another combinatorics fan!
I remember my mom saying, "So you're taking a grad class about...counting things?"
I'm going to guess that #3 is false, because if you were a math/science geek, you'd probably have asked me a lot more about math than you actually did at the pro-choice public education party.
Jessica, I want you to be my ti ni nee ni nu.
;-)
oh yeah...btw, #5 is the lie. i do have a lotus tattoo, but I got it in my 20s...