I’ve been tagged by Sarah on the 8 random facts meme:

First, the Rules:

1) Post these rules before you give your facts

2) List 8 random facts about yourself

3) At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them

4) Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they’ve been tagged

So:

1. I was hospitalized twice in exactly one month–once for a car accident and once for an appendectomy. Though the two were entirely unrelated, you would’ve had a hard time convincing me of that back in 2003.

2. I once recorded a concept EP based on The Hunt for Red October. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

3. I’m very bad at saying “no” or “I’m not interested.”

4. My dietary habits come from growing up in a semi-kosher home (no pork, no shellfish, no simulataneous milk and dairy, but also no separate plates, fridges, sinks, etc). To this day, I have a hard time even considering ham, lobster, or cheeseburgers food, and I definitely won’t eat them (which isn’t to say I haven’t sampled).

5. I am convinced that the best way to travel is to carry everything you need on your back and just hoof it.

6. I don’t have the attention span for a PhD.

7. I think I’m closer with my family now than I’ve been at any point in my life up to this moment.

8. I am insanely jealous of anyone who can speak more than one language. In order to force myself to get on that bus, I’m thinking about booking a trip for next summer to a place where I won’t find too many English speakers (in all seriousness, I’ve almost been convinced, in the past couple of weeks, to check out the backpacking in Slovakia), then try to learn the language enough to be functional. If all of these people from around the world can be fluent enough in English to sit through the lectures that I can barely follow, there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be able to do even a tenth of that.

Now, I’m not sure who to tag on this…if it’s redundant, my apologies. Let’s see:

Evan, Kim, Keath & Ceridwen (they count for two, even if they write on the same blog),  Damian, David, Alexander, and Eric.  Go to it, kids.  Go to it.