8 Random Things Meme

I just realized today that Joy tagged me for the 8 Random Things Meme, so here are eight things you may or may not already know about me:

1. As a young child, I desperately yearned for a dog, but my mom wouldn’t let us get one, so my brothers and I instead owned a series of gerbils, all named after mythological figures: Odysseus, Theseus, Sigurd and Atalanta. None of them lived very long, as they tended to escape the gerbil cage and plunge to untimely deaths after crawling into the forced air heat vent.
   
2. My most earnest, heart felt desire is to be able to raise one eyebrow at will, thus conveying a sense of paralyzing irony.
3. In my youth, music dominated my life for a long time. I aspired to be a professional cellist, but I don’t play anymore.
4. I adore peanut butter but can’t stand peanuts. Go figure.
   
5. I’m PK twice over, as both my father and grandfather were Presbyterian ministers.
   
6. I grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio during the Mistake on the Lake era. Yes, Cleveland is where the river caught on fire.
   
7. I suffer from an irrational fear and loathing of slugs. Eewww.
   
8. It irks me tremendously when people put quotation marks around words for no legitimate reason; for example, when people use them for emphasis. Stop the madness, people!

I think every single person in the biblioblogosphere has either completed the meme or been tagged, so I give up on trying to tag anyone. If you see this and want to do the meme, feel free to pretend that I tagged you.