I was checking my stats today to discover that I had been tagged. Twice. Now I am a bit ignorant of such things and had to look up what a meme is and what I am supposed to do with it. A meme (according to the trusty wiki) is a unit of cultural information that is “transferable from one mind to another”. Memes must therefore thrive in a blogging environment. I have been tagged with the “six weird things about me” meme. So here goes.
1. As a teenager I loved to sit and read the dictionary. I took particular delight in finding obscure words, using them in my essay when a simpler word would do, and arguing with my english teacher about the word’s legitimate place in the english language. I have been known to bring out the dictionary with a triumphant flourish.
2. I am a Battlestar Galactica addict. I was listening to a christian DVD today talking about the hebrew word/name adama, and all I could think about was the Galactica’s revered leader.
3. I am a geek. I like to play around with my operating system, and have not used Windows as a primary OS (still dual boot of course) for about four years. My distro of choice? Kubuntu.
4. I have been obsessed with the Dune series – I have read every one of them, and even suffered through the movie with a rather weird performance from David Bowie.
5. I love the dark, walking at night (not much opportunity for that now) and love nothing more to run as hard as I can on a full moon night accross fresh grass or in the sand.
6. Like Will, I have a photographic memory for some things. When preparing for an exam I use different colours to highlight headings etc, and in the exam I recall the colours, layout, and lastly the notes in each section. I also remember phone numbers. I still remember a friend’s phone number from grade six primary school (and that was a long time ago 
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So now I am supposed to tag six people, and can tag back people who tagged me…
Hmmm, that is going to have to do as I can’t think of six people just now….
Ashish C. Said:
on January 22, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Well since you haven’t done two posts i.e. one for Will’s Tag and one for mine, which means I don’t have to either, so I’ve already done it!
will Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 4:40 am
I agree with Ash on this one. Besides, finding six weird things about me was hard enough!
I liked the post though, my photographic memory sister!
Christina Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 8:02 am
six was hard enough for me too, so let’s consider all of us off the hook.
Bec Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Before I comply, your blog template is having some serious issues… no side bar, text isn’t within the white background area.
all said and done » Meme Brain Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 12:57 pm
[...] it’s one giant game of tag amongst Bloggers. Last night I got tagged by [...]
Christina Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 12:59 pm
That’s weird Bec – it looks perfectly fine in Firefox – text alignment, side bar etc. What browser are you using? I haven’t looked at it lately in IE – don’t use it. Anyone else noticed problems with layout?
Bec Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 1:04 pm
hmm I’m using firefox, latest update.
Bec Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 1:05 pm
and now it looks fine. No idea what was going on.
Christina Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 1:07 pm
That’s weird – I’m using latest firefox too – maybe there was a wordpress.com issue? I don’t muck around with my template much (can’t anyway as I don’t host it). Anyway I enjoyed your top six – impressive tongue shot!
scott Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I think you mean sting, not david bowie
Ashish C. Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 7:29 pm
so let’s consider all of us off the hook
Until next time…
Christina Said:
on January 23, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Thanks for pointing that out Scott
louise Said:
on January 24, 2007 at 11:48 am
I don’t know you yet I found your 6 weird things strangely interesting.
Christina Said:
on January 25, 2007 at 7:48 am
Thanks! Hopefully weird confessions are interesting…
Peggy Said:
on February 24, 2007 at 8:05 am
LOL! I still can get caught up in reading the dictionary…and the encyclopedia, as well! And I thought you might like to know the word for those of us who love big words: sesquipedalian. (I’m not sure if that’s the exact spelling…one of my dictionary-reading sons has absconded with mine
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Christina Said:
on February 24, 2007 at 8:29 am
That’s a great word – not sure how to pronounce it though Peggy!