{"id":30199,"date":"2012-09-10T10:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/fifteen-things-about-me.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:03:09","slug":"fifteen-things-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/fifteen-things-about-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen Things About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's the #15thingsaboutme<\/a> \u00a0meme, curated by +<\/span>stephanie wanamaker<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n

1. I am much more of an introvert than it seems, and than is healthy for me. \u00a0I compensate well, and am very good at public speaking, but settings full of strangers (or even light acquaintances) suck the energy out of me like a plug pulled from a bathtub.<\/p>\n

2. Coke, not Pepsi. Coke Zero, not Diet Coke. But I'm flexible.<\/p>\n

3. It took me maybe a dozen tries to get into Lord of the Rings,<\/i> which I'd received as a gift from my grandparents. I just couldn't get past all the Shire twee-ness. \u00a0Finally my two best friends in HS plowed through it, talked non-stop about it, and that was enough to get me going (and become an obsessive fan myself).<\/p>\n

4. Though my career is in computer science, I was actually a History major in college, with my senior thesis done on Desiderius Erasmus.<\/p>\n

5. Raw tomatoes make me nauseous. Tomato sauce, salsa, etc., are all favorites of mine.<\/p>\n

6. I collect quotations, and even have a website on it (http:\/\/wist.info<\/a>) where I do a pretty decent job of loading up 5 quotations a day.<\/p>\n

7. I played the viola as a kid, stopping after junior high. Part of me wishes I'd continued, and a big part of me is jealous at my daughter who's learning guitar.<\/p>\n

8. I was raised Catholic and am now Episcopalian. Some of my theological beliefs would probably get me burned at the stake if I chose the wrong century to live in.<\/p>\n

9. I have a hard time letting go of past embarrassments, which can still make me cringe years\/decades after the fact (even if nobody else remembers them).<\/p>\n

10. I tend to trust people, and assume they'll behave in a mature\u00a0\/ civil fashion. Which actually works out well most of the time.<\/p>\n

11. Cookies, M&Ms, any sweet that's in a small, convenient package for eating is my bane. \u00a0I won't nearly as easily dive into cake or ice cream or pie or anything that requires carving out and serving up.<\/p>\n

12. I was heavily into tabletop wargaming (the kind with hex sheets and cardboard counters, not the type with figurines) when I was in junior high and high school. As a result, I still have a lot of military\u00a0trivia floating around my head, esp. regarding WWII.<\/p>\n

13. I'm horrible with names. \u00a0Rather, I'm good at remember names, just not the faces to whom they belong.<\/p>\n

14. I've had glasses since the 1st grade. My mom finally got tired of telling me to sit further away from the TV and asked me why I kept doing it. "Because I can't see from back there …" \u00a0Never\u00a0occurred\u00a0to me I should be able to.<\/p>\n

15. My first job on a payroll was at Burger King, where I worked a number of summer and spring breaks while in college. I actually enjoyed it — finite tasks, working against the clock, immediate feedback from customers. It also made me appreciate fast food workers a lot — and hold them to higher standards, too.<\/p>\n

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