Well, he DID ask

Because talking about myself is one of my favorite pastimes and all, at least according to some jerkwad sports columnists, and because Bobby Rozzell is such a swell fellow (unrelated), I am participating in this blog tag game that has developed over the past couple of days.

Bobby, the creator of the very cool Douglas and Main blog, is the one who tagged me.


Here are the rules:

• Link to the person who tagged you.
• Post the rules on your blog.
• Write 6 random things about yourself.
• Tag 6-ish people at the end of your post.
• Let each person know he/she has been tagged.
• Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Six random things about me:

1. I was adopted. Most people who know me very well at all know this, and it's not a topic I'm particularly sensitive about. In fact, amazingly, I rarely think about it and have never been seriously tempted to go looking for my birth parents. Maybe it's because my actual parents are all the parents anyone could ever want and more. I do, however, wish I had my medical history. Especially now that I'm getting old and falling apart.

2. I'm left handed, but I think I was supposed to be right-handed because I do everything with my right hand except write and bat, not that I bat often or well. Many of the coolest people I've known also are lefties.

3. I was on "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire." Well, sort of. My husband, Nick, was a contestant the month after we got married six years ago. They showed me in the audience, and Meredith, that bitch, asked me some sort of embarrassing/awkward question. Nick ended up winning $125,000 (you'd be amazed how far that does NOT go after taxes.) Our all-expenses paid five-day visit to NYC felt like an even bigger prize.

4. My over-publicized pug, Norton, is named after county commissioner Tim Norton. He was a stray in our neighborhood (the dog, not the commissioner) and he followed Tim Norton into our house during a Gridiron scriptwriter's meeting on a freezing cold January night.

5. I worked from my sophomore year in high school until my sophomore year in college as a "teammate" at the Brass Buckle in Dodge City and then in Lawrence, hawking Pepe Jeans and Z. Cavaricci's on commission. I still occasionally have nightmares about working retail. And about Z Cavaricci's.

6. My journalism career started in earnest in high school in Dodge City, when I won lots of awards and scholarships for reporting the story about my principal being arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious conduct in an adult theater in Wichita. Thank you, Mr. Fox, wherever you are.

I tag:

Suzanne

Lori B.

Lori L.

Kathryn

Travis