This is day two’s topic, so here we go, 10 quick facts about me:
- I graduated from elementary school twice.
- I was in the Navy for two years.
- I taught myself the American Sign Language alphabet in third grade after watching “The Miracle Worker” and still know it.
- I play clarinet, bass clarinet and piano.
- I once called someone a “Denebian slime devil” as a legit insult in school.
- The first album I ever bought was MC Hammer -Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (in my defense this was like 1992 and Jr High)
- I got honorable mention at a state science fair with a project on Brownian motion.
- I nearly went to the state Geography Bee in Jr High, but didn’t do well enough on the qualifying test after winning at the lower level.
- I lettered in Knowledge Bowl all 4 years of high school and am still bitter over the sexist teacher that didn’t let me on the A team my senior year.
- I’ve lived in Minnesota, Washington, Illinois, Virginia, Missouri, North Carolina and Texas.