Okay, here are five things you might not know about me. Tagged by LadyTurpentine.

This is hard. 😛

1. I knew how to read when I started kindergarten. I sensed that this was not typical, and so pretended that I didn’t know how to read. I apparently successfully convinced my teacher, because the only part of this story I remembered was that Mrs. M didn’t believe I could read. My mom reminded me of the rest.

Me: Mrs. M didn’t believe that I knew how to read.

My mom: That’s because you pretended you couldn’t read.

2.  I played a parrot in my Girl Scout play when I was in middle school. I later used the costume (multi-colored streamers glued to…something…and a beak) in a Halloween costume contest and won an honorable mention. They called me a “paper chicken.”

3.  The first record I remember buying was the 45 of “Eye in the Sky” by the Alan Parsons Project.

4. When I was in high school, my aunt (who lived in California at the time) married a man who had a son who was my age. When I was a sophomore, they moved back to Pennsylvania and lived with my grandparents for a while. My aunt’s stepson was my first real kiss. (ew) At the end of that year, he went back to California to live with his mom, and I have never seen or heard from him again.

5. My freshman year of college, I took an acting class. I had to perform a scene from “A View from the Bridge” in which I had the line, “Teach me, Rodolfo. I don’t know anything. Teach me.” After my partner and I had finished the scene, my somewhat pervy professor asked me to explain what I meant by “teach me”. I was 18, shy, and utterly mortified. I’m pretty sure my response was, “um……um…well, you know.”

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