Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them. No tag backs.
Oh yay! I love these things and no one ever asks me. I’m utterly fascinated by learning about people and seeing the things they pick to share about themselves.
1. People always ask if I studied production in college because I work for MTV. Nope, I have an incredibly lucrative degree – joint major in Philosophy and Spanish, minor in Russian. I’m out of practice and can barely speak either language now, except when I’m drunk and I’m not overthinking it.
2. I’m currently working on a Joss Whedon biography that was to come out in 2012. It might be delayed. It has been both an amazing and nervous breakdown experience.
3. When trying to explain PopGurls to people – I’ll often say, “Do you watch Project Runway? Do you remember the first season reunion show…” Because that interview that Jay called Vanessa out on? That was with us.
4. I fractured my foot doing a cartwheel. It was a perfect storm of pride, wet grass, crappy Payless shoes and utter darkness. I had surgery 2 years later and it still bothers me.
5. I’ve had my passport confiscated by the KGB in high school.
6. I spent so, so, so many years obsessing over how fat and ugly I felt I was. What therapy and thousands of long, drawn-out conversations with friends, even more spent in my own head couldn’t fix – performing burlesque did. Well, maybe not fix, but certainly helped a lot. (I still think I’m fat and ugly most of the time.)
7. I have 5 tattoos – three of which involve text. One is from an old English poesy ring (“Many are thee starrs I see, yet in my eye no starr like thee”), one is a lyric from The Weakerthans (“i know you’re strong”) and one is from Doctor Who (“one shining moment”).
8. I still can’t discuss Donna Noble to this day without getting teary and all choked up. I just relate to her so, so much in her way of wanting to be important and special and just… not managing to do it. And then she was, and she was robbed of that knowledge. I know how badly I want to do things of importance and inspire people and the idea of accomplishing it and then having that knowledge taken away breaks my heart to an immeasurable degree.
9. I think that’s why I reach out to people when I like their work – especially their writing – because I want to put a big spotlight on people I think are awesome.
10. It frustrates me that there’s no way to express being in love with someone as a friend. You can “love” them but “in love” seems to be reserved for romantic love. That’s just dumb. There are so many friends of mine that I am passionately in love with – so much more than just “love” – and I have no desire to make sexy timez with them.
