An Experiment in Introduction

Posting an introduction for this class presents a rare opportunity because, with the exception of Ms. Carpenter, I'm quite familiar with each of you.  What should a person say to a group of people who you've know for at least two years?  I suppose the humanizing quirks are the best place to start...

1. I have a cup of warm milk every night, well I have for the past few weeks.  I feel like a crazy little kid, but I anticipate it all day long.  Lately, I've been trying soy milk and almond milk -- and I've liked it!

2. I'm an Internet junkie.  Which is a huge problem.  I go on the Internet with something productive in mind before spending upwards of an hour or two accomplishing nothing.  Straight-up nothing.

3. I have the memory of a goldfish.  Seriously.  For instance, I had to call someone back this weekend, and I forgot about it for a day, so I wrote it on a post-it and stuck it on my door.  Then I forgot the post-it was there.  I still haven't called her back...Perhaps I'll do that now.

4. I'm a terrible artist, but I adore the arts - especially visual arts.  As in I-want-to-double-major-in-art-history kind of love it.  So I'm trying to learn to paint, but I know NOTHING about creating realistic-looking pieces.  So don't ask to see anything I've made.  Because it is straight-up shameful.  And I'm not just saying that; it's embarrassingly bad.

5. I love love love funky questions.  So I Googled "Fun Get to Know You Questions" and found two interesting ones.

• If you could have a super power what would it be?  Trite, I know, but I'm not sure I've ever really thought about it.  I yearn for a Time Turner because there are all of these great hobbies that I'd love to do all of the time.  And a do plan on doing them, but in extreme irony, I think I have to wait until adulthood to have enough time for any extensive hobby.

• Where's Waldo?  This is a seriously legit question.  Because there is NO elaboration on the website.  A complete exploration of the mind's process.  I think I always imagine Waldo somewhere exciting.  Right now, my Waldo is on this mountain that my family and I climbed on in Alaska this summer (see right).  We didn't summit, but it was some legit hiking.  Hiking is one of those all-the-time hobbies I'd like to adopt as an adult.

Writing to an audience that knows me was fun, but now homework calls.  I pray Ms. Carpenter doesn't find me completely insane.  There are normal aspects of my personality as well, or professedly so. 

To close, I'll put in a shameless plug.  My favorite website is: http://theirheadsintheclouds.blogspot.com/, which is my currently inactive blog for a mini-bucket list of activities that I wanted to do this summer.  I didn't finish very many of them, but I'd like to keep it going and see what the blog morphs into.  Check 'er out.