{"id":655,"date":"2007-05-30T00:24:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T06:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=655"},"modified":"2007-05-30T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T06:38:43","slug":"8-things-about-the-7-imps-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"8 Things about the 7 Imps: Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/83_number_8.thumbnail.gif' alt='83_number_8.gif' \/>Hey, all. We&#8217;ve been tagged TWICE in the past two days with the &#8220;8 Things&#8221; meme. So here&#8217;s what we decided to do.  First, in today&#8217;s post, we&#8217;re going to play it straight for <a href=\"http:\/\/kidslitinformation.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/8-things-meme.html\"><strong>Kelly&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> tag, and each list 8 random things about ourselves. Then, in our next post, we&#8217;ll each list 8 random things about the OTHER person for <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar-blog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/8-things-meme.html\"><strong>Michele&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> tag. What will we reveal about each other? When we&#8217;ve been friends for nearly half our lives? And even roommates for a couple of years? Ooh, you&#8217;ll just have to tune in and see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The 8 Things Meme rules:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each player lists 8 facts\/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts\/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except, since we&#8217;re spreading this across two posts, we&#8217;ll post our list-o&#8217;-eight blogs we&#8217;re tagging on the second one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jules:<\/strong>  Most of my 8 Things About Me will be shared through the words of authors, &#8217;cause I&#8217;m that much of an Extreme Nerd (shouldn&#8217;t that be a reality show?) and, since practically everyone will probably be doing this meme, why the hell not try to be different?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know if I believe in what most people consider prayer, but this to me is what a prayer should be (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grapes-Wrath-Centennial-John-Steinbeck\/dp\/0142000663\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-0411234-3718308?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1180494213&#038;sr=1-1\"><strong><em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and in the words of the character Casy, the lapsed preacher, when he was asked to say a prayer before a meal): &#8220;I can&#8217;t say no grace like I use&#8217;ta say. I&#8217;m glad of the holiness of breakfast. I&#8217;m glad there&#8217;s love here. That&#8217;s all.&#8221; I&#8217;ve always wanted to, I dunno, learn how to crochet or something and hang that on my kitchen wall. But, even though learning to crochet is a nice idea and all, it&#8217;d take time away from reading, so I&#8217;ll probably only enjoy that in the kitchen-in-my-mind.<\/li>\n<li>There were two men in my life for whom this excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/English-Patient-Michael-Ondaatje\/dp\/0679745203\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-0411234-3718308?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1180494310&#038;sr=1-1\"><strong><em>The English Patient<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Ondaatje\"><strong>Michael Ondaatje<\/strong><\/a> rings true: &#8220;Wherever Hana is now, in the future, she is aware of the line of movement Kip&#8217;s body followed out of her life. Her mind repeats it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;When I was young, I was attracted to sorrow. It seemed interesting. It seemed an energy that would take me somewhere. Now I am older . . . and I hate sorrow. I see that it has no energy of its own, but uses mine, furtively. I see that it is leaden, without breath, and repetitious, and unsolvable. And now I see that I am sorrowful about only a few things, but over and over.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/265\"><strong>Mary Oliver<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blue-Pastures-Mary-Oliver\/dp\/0156002159\/ref=sr_1_17\/104-0411234-3718308?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1180494580&#038;sr=1-17\"><strong>(<em>Blue Pastures<\/em>)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8221; . . . looking back on my lifelong passion for reading, the one activity that has kept me going and given me the most and only lasting pleasure, {I see that}<br \/>. . . {t}he books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aidanchambers.co.uk\/\"><strong>Aidan Chambers<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aidanchambers.co.uk\/books\/postcards.htm\"><strong>(<em>Postcards from No Man&#8217;s Land<\/em>)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, &#8216;This is what I believe. Finished.&#8217; What I believe is alive . . . and open to growth.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madeleinelengle.com\/\"><strong>Madeleine L&#8217;Engle<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcu.edu\/engweb\/transcendentalism\/authors\/thoreau\/\"><strong>Thoreau<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the last two, I&#8217;ll stop being such an insufferable literature nerd and just share random, pointless things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I was a girl, I was in love with Barry Manilow. Go figure. Several years ago, I bought &#8220;Manilow Magic,&#8221; a best-of sort of CD, and I felt like I was twelve again.<\/li>\n<li>I am irrationally TERRIFIED of roaches, as in I practically hyperventilate if I see one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>eisha:<\/strong>  Geez, Jules, that&#8217;s some list. Way to raise the bar&#8230; Um, mine won&#8217;t be nearly as literary.<\/p>\n<p>*  I was raised as a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness from age 11 up. I finally figured out that I wasn&#8217;t meant for that life at 19, in a very weird, powerful, lightning-bolt-from-the-sky kind of reverse-epiphany moment.<\/p>\n<p>*  In elementary school I had the nickname &#8220;Mouse&#8221; for a while, because in our 2nd grade theatrical production of <em>Peter Rabbit<\/em>, I played &#8211; duh &#8211; the Mouse, and being the shortest kid in class I was able to borrow a costume from a previous kindergarten show.<\/p>\n<p>*  My feet are outrageously ticklish. Not in the fun giggly way, more in the horrid nausea-inducing way. Sometimes I give myself the shivers just trying to put my shoes on.<\/p>\n<p>*  That said &#8211; if you ever, EVER try to touch my feet I will kick you in the teeth. I am not even kidding.<\/p>\n<p>*  I have a favorite mole. It&#8217;s a couple of inches southeast of my belly button. I can&#8217;t explain it, I just like it.<\/p>\n<p>*  My husband proposed to me on top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.athensguide.com\/acropolis.html\"><strong>Acropolis<\/strong><\/a> in Athens, Greece.<\/p>\n<p>*  You know how everyone has a favorite movie that they actually tell people about, something classic, or cool, or indie\/artsy&#8230; and then they have a REAL favorite movie that they maybe don&#8217;t admit to so readily? My indie\/artsy favorite movie is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0100842\/\"><em><strong>The Unbelievable Truth<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*  My real favorite movie is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080339\/\"><em><strong>Airplane<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, all. We&#8217;ve been tagged TWICE in the past two days with the &#8220;8 Things&#8221; meme. So here&#8217;s what we decided to do. 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