7 Things

I am way behind in doing this...adjunct whore tagged me and I am going to break the rules by not posting rules or tagging. me lazy.

This was really hard for me because I really think that I am fairly uninteresting...


1. I was diagnosed with epilepsy...twice. The first time was when I was in the 4th grade and was getting very poor evaluations from my teacher for "daydreaming" in class. Finally went to a doc and discovered this daydreaming was actually petit mal seizures. Second time was in the 10th grade (after being declared cured in the 7th or 8th grade)when I was taking a timed test in typing class and started shaking uncontrollably. The next thing I know, I am sitting in the nurses office and she is asking me who the president is. I answered "Reagan" and looked down at my fingers which were strangely sore. On my finger tips were little teeny inked letters and numbers where my hands had fallen into the typewriter carriage.

2. I am addicted to cheesy TV and film. I think it is because I spend so much of my professional life critiquing aesthetic texts that when I want to shut down, I need to watch things that are so undeniably bad that there is no incentive to ignite any critical neurons.

3. I am a past state and national quarter, semi, and finalist in high school and college competitive speech and debate. a.k.a hopeless nerd.

4. When I was in elementary school (I think in the first and second grade) the teachers made me wear a hand-brace in order to hold my pencil correctly. Particularly traumatizing because

5. When I was a toddler, I wore a special pair of shoes connected by a metal bar in order to correct my pigeon toes. Made toddling a bit of a challenge:)

6. I was rejected by all but one of the grad schools that I applied to because my GRE scores were absolutely miserable. And here I am, toiling away at an R1-type place. Stupid GREs.

7. I always have to have some kind of part-time job in addition to my "real" job. In college I worked as a waitress. In grad school, I had my TA gig but I also waited tables 40 hours a week. Now I teach aerobics. I am the kind of person who has to have an outlet from my regular job that accesses a different part of my body and brain otherwise I go a little bit crazy and become really unhappy and unproductive.

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