Meme meme meme meme ha!

I've been tagged by Russ to do a meme (MEME... meme... Russ hates the word meme... We hate what we cannot pronounce, eh?). So, here you have it. Six interesting facts you previously did not know about me:

1. I dated a member of the Crips in college. Ex-member, I should have said. He had the tattoo covered with an eagle. I only dated him for maybe two months, so I wasn't crushed when I found out he was cheating on me. He was the last guy I introduced to my grandma before she died. She really like him because he played the trumpet.

2. The last two toes on my left foot are webbed. When I was in high school, I dated a guy with two sets of webbed toes. People used to joke that we'd have kids with duck feet. It wasn't funny. I used to tell people that my webbed toe made me swim in circles and they'd believe me. Now that is funny.

3. I spent 36 hours in a detox program my freshman year of college. (Hi, Mom!) I was caught with alcohol on our dry campus and was hauled off to the drunk tank handcuffed in the back of a police car. I got to wear the blue scrub-like outfits and even had my own room there because all the other inmates were men. The second night there, I shared my room with old lady with stringy hair who said she was a regular and met her husband there. This may give the impression that I was wild in college but I wasn't really. Just ask Russ.

4. A homeless woman in Georgetown once cussed me out for only giving her a dollar. Apparently, the bums in Georgetown are used to a higher standard of living than the bums in the rest of DC.

5. My first car was a 1979 Plymouth Horizon my parents bought for $500. Steph and I shared it. Her friends christened it "The Green Bean" because it was long and narrow and a pukey green color. Part of the passenger's side floor was missing so our feet would get wet when we'd drive through a puddle. The rear-view mirror would sometimes fall off when we drove over a bumpy stretch of road. There was a time when the passenger's side door would fly open whenever we turned left, but then the door handle broke and we had to start climbing in and out the window, Hazzard-style. One day the horn started sounding on and off for no apparent reason which became really annoying in the middle of the night, so my dad finally cut the wire. Despite all it's imperfections, it was an awesome first car and we loved it even after it's death on the side of road in 1995. The Green Bean had character. Forgive me if I'm hostile toward kids today with their brand new Solaras and Accuras. Can you say spoiled?

6. Hey, not to bring this party down, but you should know that I get really tired of constantly worrying or thinking about an entirely different set of issues than your average everyday person thinks about. I don't talk about spinal cord injury-related issues much, but I can't avoid dealing with them. I would really enjoy going through one day with the same stupid concerns that I used to have. Wow. That would be nice.

I'm passing this on to Beasty. Oh, and maybe Big J if he sees this in a timely manor. And if Ben Kepple would like to complete this, I'd find it fascinating. Do you all know I dream of him?