I'm it! I'm it!

IME tagged me for an Eight Random Things About College Me quiz. So, here are the rules!

Each player must post these rules first.

Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.

Tagged people post their eight things and these rules.

End your post by "tagging" eight new people to play.

Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog for these instructions.

Here goes:

1. I sometimes make hand gestures that don't match what I'm saying. Because of this fact, there were at least three people in college who made air quotes whenever they greeted me.

2. I played in a Christian band that consisted of agnostic me on bass, no-longer practicing drummer, and Christian enough for ten singer/songwriter.

3. Majors I've had in college include astrophysics, computer science, physics, music theory, religious studies, English, and. . . does 'undecided' count? As far as minors go, there's political science, philosophy, and professional writing.

4. The semester I lived in the same dorm as piwok I spent a good deal of my time in the lobby playing pool. I was pretty bad at pool, but that didn't stop me from putting my birthday money toward buying my very own pool cue. Within three to five months of buying the cue, I stopped playing pool altogether.

5. I had a friend who was ultra conservative. For some reason, he thought I was conservative too. I'm not sure how that happened because we disagreed a lot.

6. After an oral exam, my French teacher told me that I defend myself very well. I think that was because I was willing to lie when answering the questions. He asked me what I was going to do over the weekend, and instead of trying to figure out how to say what I actually was doing during the weekend, I just said that I was going to play tennis with my friend.

7. If you don't want to know what a procrastinator bragging looks like, don't read this list item. I'm really good at math. Really good. In one math class I took, the professor would hand back the graded tests and then we would spend that class period going over the problems that people had questions over. Usually, he would have announcements and then say that anyone who didn't have any questions over the test could leave. One day after the announcements he forgot to let people know they could leave, and I kind mouthed a few words "Is it all right if I. . ." and pointed toward the door. He kind of laughed and said, "Yeah. You can go." When I started to leave he said, "Actually, maybe I should just give you this." He held out the chalk. "And let you teach the rest of the class." That made me feel sooooo good that I literally skipped back to my car. I think I smiled for the next three days.

8. I never smoked pot in college. Most people think I did. But, well, I didn't. Maybe I should've. I don't think I'm likely to ever have the opportunity again. And even if I do, society looks at pot smoking in college and pot smoking after college completely differently.

That's it. I don't think I'm going to tag anyone. All the people who I know that read this blog and have blogs have already been tagged. If I'm wrong and you're reading this blog and you do indeed have your own blog, then TAG! You're so it right now.

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