10 Things About Me, 9 True: Tagged by Real Opinionated
by Alex Wang on Mar 15, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Jonathan Greene over at Real Opinionated blog tagged me for 10 things people didn't know about me beforehand. The spin is that one of them is a complete fabrication, bogosity incarnate! So without further ado…
1/ My middle name is Dominic.
2/ I've had brain surgery.
3/ Jonathan got better SAT scores than I did.
4/ I'm searching for the world's best clam chowder.
5/ I'm deathly afraid of roaches.
6/ I'm really proud of my high school for reopening only a few months after Katrina hit.
7/ My favorite geek moment is texting my friends from the top of Uluru.
8/ I drew a daily comic strip about a wizard in a bathrobe for three years.
9/ I moved to 9 different cities across the U.S. before 15.
10/ MIT was my first choice school.
BTW, I'll spot people one. #3 is completely true! Thanks Jonathan, a little introspection is fun! You can check out the full thread on his Tampa real estate site.
Dearest reader, please consider yourself tagged at your leisure. Free… um, smiles… for anyone who posts their 10! ;-)
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I’m thinking there’s no way I scored better than you on the SAT.
Nope, you did!
BTW, I would never have put that up there if I did score higher than you :-)
Wow, I’m such an under achiever.
Three degrees, honorable service, you’re a guitar hero and piano man to boot? And you’re an under-achiever? I’m assuming you don’t really sell flowers on eBay, so you’ve also written a full-length novel?
Getting into the tough-love segment of this program… it seems like you should be extraordinarily happy with what you’ve accomplished. :-)
Grass is greener right? Sure, I did go to a fancy school. I really wanted to be a pitcher for the Cubs growing up… The point is I did what I could with what I had and it sounds like you’ve done some amazing things too.
I think everyone has done great things, it’s just tough to appreciate when it feels like those things are easy to you.
Steve,
I know you lived in N’Awleans, so there’s NO WAY you could be afraid of cockroaches – heck, they FLY there!
My best guess is that you didn’t have brain surgery?? Your brain seems to work pretty darned well to me :)
Hey, you did the native pronunciation! Those cockroaches take more than one hit with a hard-soled boot to kill — and the clapping sound they make when they fly at you scares the heck out of me. I think they have a training manual that says to always aim for the head when they fly.
Thanks, the brain surgery one is true too! Not being able to hear or keep your balance for months on end makes you very appreciative when you get those skills back.
Oops, I meant to write 10 things about myself in my last comment…so here goes….
1. My Grandfather was the first POW for the United States in World War II
2. I speak Italian, but my genes are not Italian
3. Tom Brady (the football player – quarterback for the Patriots) is my cousin.
4. When I was growing up, I wanted to be a (Catholic) priest (I’m female).
5. One of my hobbies involves haunted houses & haunted real estate.
6. I am an ordained minister and have presided over several marriages.
7. I won a writing contest as a teenager, “What the Bicentennial Means to Me” in 1976.
8. I have co-authored a book on selling homes.
9. I travelled through Nazareth (in Israel) on the back of a donkey.
10. My mother was a Realtor for 40 years and I swore I’d never go into this business.
I’m going to guess #7 because there’s no way you look old enough to be a teenager in 1976!
Nope, I won the award as a Junior at Saratoga High School and I have the Silver Bicentennial Medal and some old newspaper clips to prove it :)
Steve,
Way back when we used to live in Cambridge, MA, my husband and I loved the clam chowder from Turner Fisheries. I’m wondering if it’s still just as yummy…we haven’t found anything remotely close to it here in Silicon Valley.
Thanks for the latest scoop into real estate world. This site has been immensely helpful as we are currently in the process of closing our new home in Palo Alto and selling our current home in Mountain View, CA.