Blog Candy

Warrior Woman has tagged me with another one of these stupid survey things. I believe these things are absolute crap, but she's right, I did deserve it after a comment that I left recently. Still, I am going to do my best to bury this foolishness under a new post very, very soon. So here it goes:

The rules:

• link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog
• share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird
• tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs
• let them know they are TAGGED by leaving a comment on their blog.

Link to tagger: Warrior Woman is my favorite commenter, and her blog is a riot. That is, when she can be bothered to post. But that's the kind of talk that got me into this mess... For a GOOD example of how to do this survey, visit her blog.

1. I once stuck a fork in an electrical socket just because I was curious about what would happen. I was in high school.
2. I have peed in the pool. I have peed on my bike (actually it was a borrowed bike). I have peed my pants running. Only one was an accident.
3. When I first got my driver's license I used to get so lost I would find myself in the wrong state.
4. I am terrified of heights, water where I can't see the bottom, and dogs. I have been reduced to tears on the top of 5 story buildings. My open water problem almost kept me from taking up triathlons. I could have gotten over the time when a friend's 150 lb dog attacked me when I was nine if they hadn't forced me to stand right out of reach of the dog's leash wearing a helmet for 15 minutes to try to teach the dog not to attack strangers in hats.
   
5. I don't like chocolate. I'll tolerate it in a few forms (around caramel, hot chocolate), but I never seek it out. People give me dirty looks when I tell them this.
   

Now I have to tag someone. Well, because I don't want to have bad luck for 7 years, or for the person I have a crush on to despise me, or that kid in Michigan to not get his cancer treatment, or to have bad breath for the rest of my life, or whatever implicit threat this chainletter holds, so I tag:

• Does anyone else smell chlorine
• Pimply runner geek
• Tour Rider on Hormone Treatment
• Biker's Plumber's Crack
• Stationary Bike Humper
  

More blog candy

Every blog I've read this week seems to be people plagued by this blogger survey. I'm such a sucker for surveys and normally try to relegate them to myspace junk posts. However, I've been tagged by name by nitsirk and warriorwomen. Despite some misgivings about revealing personal information like "favorite movie" and "vacation spots" to potential stalkers and papa razzi, I can't resist a blatant request for me to talk about myself. So here it is. Feel free not to read it.

Job's I've Held:
Ice Cream Scooper
Pastry Peddler
Florist (after a few months they stopped letting me arrange flowers other than corsages)
Volunteer for a suicide hotline (oh if I only knew then what I know now)
Lifeguard
Mail stuffer for Mailboxes Etc.
Barista at a bus station hub (I know homeless people!)
On the street solicitor for an adopt-a-child charity (longest week of my life)
Casheer at a kitchenware store
Fitness instructor at a gym
"Reader" (i.e. Teaching Assistant without teaching duties, only class-attending and paper-reading duties) for an upper division class outside my major. (Made me power-hungry)
Overnight truck loader for UPS (where I was quite proud to hear I struck fear and respect into the hearts of my male coworkers)
Isolated translating jobs
Administrative assistant at a gay bed & breakfast (I was fired for being a ditz)
Teacher/tutor of English (much to my chagrin)

Movies I can Watch Over & Over:
V for Vendetta
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Silence of the Lambs
Finding Nemo
Titanic (and no, I'm not ashamed)
Spice World (and no, I'm DEFINITELY not ashamed)
City of Lost Children
Volver

Guilty Pleasures:
Beer
Cheese
Sleeping late
TV or movie marathons
Britney Spears (pre-babies, pre-drug addiction)
P!nk
blogs

Places I Have Lived:
Winchester, MA
Salamanca, Spain (but for only 6 weeks)
Santa Cruz, CA
Barcelona, Spain

Shows I Enjoy:
House
CSI
X Files
Law & Order
Will & Grace
Simpsons
Family Guy
Daily Show (but not so much lately, what happened?)
My Name is Earl
Ally McBeal

Vacation Spots (places I've visited that I remember):
Cape Cod
Mexico City/ Acapulco (I wish I could visit now with what I know now!!! How on earth did I wind up in Spain and not Mexico?!)
Maine
New Hampshire
Italy (wasn't down)
Driving cross country (you MUST do it someday! Especially Arizona and New Orleans)
Denver
LA/San Diego
Canada
Orlando

Favorite Foods:
Thai
Indian
Mexican
Mexican
and Real mexican
American (and that means Whole Foods, Trader Joes, etc, NOT McDonalds and Wendy's)

Websites I Visit Daily:
gmail
nataliedee.com
myspace
all y'all's blogs (especially the people on my sidebar, and some I haven't gotten arround to adding yet)

Body Parts I have Injured:
I smashed open my chin falling in the shower in second grade
Shins more times than I would care to count
The ligaments to both hamstrings right up there below the butt
Tennis elbow
I broke my foot once practicing the guitar. I don't play anymore.
Fractured wrist (Old Sweedish Dodge Ball injury from summer camp)

Awards I've Won:
An embarrassing number of awards in my high school language department in Spanish, Italian, French and Latin... A Spanish one at the state level (and look at me now... I can only speak Spanish and Catalan with some degree of fluency)
Graduated Cum Laude in my major (Language Studies) which was beyond me because my GPA in my major was lower than my overall GPA which wasn't good enough for the Dean's List).
1st of almost no women in a bike race.
"3rd" (actually 4th) in my age group in the Nutmeg State Sprint
Best at archery several weeks running in the Geese group at the Meadow Breeze Day Camp

Nicknames I've Been Called:
Claire de Lune (hate that one)
Clarise (said in creapy Silence of the Lambs voice)
Clairvoyant (refuse to respond to that one)
Psycho (hated that one more)
The Claires
No Wetsuit Girl
Claire Bear (and I'll kill you if you call me that one)
Shorty
Spanky hands
"You know, the little one"

And now I get to tag someone. Only I won't, because if you have something better to say you should say it. But repost the next time any of you are having a slow week.