8 Random Things
July 14, 2007 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Classics, Weblogs
Laurentius Rex aka Larry has tagged me to do the 8 Random Things (Octo Res Quaedam) Meme.
The rules (leges ipsae):
- Let others know who tagged you.
- Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
- Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
- Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
My responses (responsa mea):
- I don’t listen to talk radio.
- I only learned to swim four years ago, and only because I had to be sure that I could follow Charlie around the swimming pool.
- I lived in New Haven, Connecticut, for four years.
- I first heard The Ramones while pulling an all-nighter to get out the weekly alternative newspaper at my college.
- While in Taipei to study Mandarin, I got lost on the bus and when I asked someone for directions, he pantomimed putting a ring on his finger and said jie huen?
- Try as I might, I do not like opera.
- I have never gotten near any drugs.
- I have only read the first Harry Potter book; I prefer Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials.
My Taggees (electi a me):
- Liz whose I Speak of Dreams says a lot about parenting, educating, learning disabilities and (recently) body modification.
- Daedalu2u has been very generous in sharing his scientific insights in many comments.
- Harold L. Doherty and his “autism reality” in New Brunswick (not the one here in Jersey, home of Rutgers, my husband’s alma mater).
- A 9th Random Thing about me is that I am writing an article about disability and the media, and so have been checking in on the Disability Studies blog: Penny, you are tagged!
- Ginger whose blog is Adventures in Autism; life as the parent of an autistic child is indeed an adventure.
- Retired Waif, who put together Disability Blog Carnival #18, is still awaiting the birth of her baby—-I guess she or he will not be born on Friday the 13th.
- Wade Rankin at Injecting Sense has some different views than I about autism causation and treatment and vaccines, but we both have fond memories of summers at the beach house.
- Joe at Club 166 has gone fishing and teaching but I hope he might have a moment to “do the meme.”
And, just to end this on a really random note, I only drink my coffee black, and my favorite Greek myth is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Photo courtesy of the bairdacuda via Flickr.
Jeff Stimpson
Jill Cornfield
Kristina, responding (as someone in the music history biz, doing some advocacy of my own) to your random fact #6 - if Orpheus and Eurydice is your favorite myth, you might get a kick out of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, one of the first music-dramas in the Italian “opera” tradition (premiered in 1607), and nowhere as “over the top” as later opera tends to be… you can get my e-mail address from the response submission form, send me a note if you’re interested in a recording recommendation…
I’m glad for the recommendation! Earlier opera does appeal…….
I have one of these memes on my list to do too. I’m a few Harry Potter’s behind too.
Cheers
On an unrelated note, your clarification of the proper, as opposed to the colloquial, usage of the term “awesome” is much appreciated. I will be switching to “rad” immediately.
Hmmph. Classicists.
We have some nerd-like tendencies…….
Mission accomplished. Dang I was going to tag McEwen too.
Okay, so I’ve been tagged for this by Joey’s Mom and you both. Does that mean I have to post 16 things??
I’ve put it on my to do list.
Joe
Maybe just 4 if you’re really busy…..
Not an HP fan? I guess you won’t be hanging around a bookstore past midnight this Friday night, then!
(I’m going to go, pick up our 2 reserved copies, and bring them home by 1:30AM. I hope. Unless I need to make a grocery run on the way home (which happened with the release of the LAST HP book; I got home around 3AM or so that time).)
But definitely very fond of Pullman’s books! May I expect a review of HP from you?
Monteverdi’s Orfeo! Definitely. It was one of the first, if not the first, of the genre we now call opera. I will always remember one of my favorite music history professors describing (and acting!) “Orfeo’s lament” for the class.
I meant to tag you, too!