There’s a meme out I’ve been avoiding for years. It requires that one post seven things most people don’t know about you. So having not been tagged by Dorothea (because she is kind and does not tag people), and feeling lazy enough that this saves me much thinking, here we have my
Seven Things:
1. I can’t knit. I can’t seem to learn to knit beyond the very basics of knit and purl. I’ve tried times beyond number, but the patterns simple enough that they don’t confuse me bore me. I can, on the other hand, crochet without need of pattern and sew anything I can see, so I don’t find my inability to knit to particularly be a lack.
2. I learned to bake bread from my grandmother. She taught herself from her American Jewish Cookbook first, expressly so that she could teach me, so we essentially learned together. I also learned the attitude that learning goes on forever from that.
3. When most flustered, I have been known to mix French, Spanish, and Russian into a single sentence. ( I was lost in Montreal, and the passers-by I stopped to ask directions of wouldn’t speak English to me. So I started to stumble through my request in my extremely minimal French, got even more flustered, and not only tripped over my tongue, I did it in three languages. When they stopped laughing, they didn’t just give me directions; they escorted me.)
4. The only reason scary movies no longer give me nightmares is that I flatly refuse to watch them.
5. I love maps, especially old maps that let me see how political boundries have changed.
6. I love chocolate and almond together, but can’t abide chocolate and hazelnut. (No Nutella for me, thank you.)
7. Despite the way I sing now, until I was about 13, I couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.
I’m like Dorothea; I don’t tag people. If you want to play, consider yourself tagged.