So, Melinda, here we are.
It has taken me a while, but there is a good reason for that. See, first I had to figure out exactly what a "meme" was. I mean I had a pretty good idea of what I was expected to do, but I needed to know more. Where did the idea originate? What were the origins of the word? It turns out to be a word first used in a 1976 book by Richard Dawkins to describe "how one might extend Darwinian principles to explain the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena." Interesting. I wanted to read further. (1. I love any excuse to buy a new book.)
Or possibly I was just stalling. (2. I am a chronic procrastinator.)
Share seven facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
Why seven Melinda? Because that seems like kind of a cliché. (3. I like to make my own rules.)
What constitutes a random fact, I wonder? Is that like a bra size? (4. 34B)
I am totally stumped on "weird" though. "Is there anything weird about me?" I ask my 10-year-old daughter. "Your hair," she says. (5. Some people seem to think I have weird hair.)
I wonder if it's a little weird that I can't think of anything weird about myself. I wonder if I could count that as 6? I wish it was "unusual" instead. Then I could have said... something. I would have thought of something. Oh for chrissakes. (7. I need a tattoo, or something.)
What's wrong with my hair anyway?
Bonus Fact Photo: President, the Chin-Ning Chu fan club.
Sending this on to you, Cuppa Jo, MommyTime, Kalle C, MomZombie, Leanne, Rattling the Kettle and Gary, the old dude.
Good thing you didn't ask me, I don't meme, haven't for years, not since the operation.
Posted by: Audubon Ron | August 22, 2008 at 02:41 AM
Yes, you missed a bullet there Audubon. I decided to punish the first seven people on the recent comments list. That will teach them.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | August 22, 2008 at 08:10 AM
34B? You wish.
Posted by: Executive Suburbanite | August 22, 2008 at 04:29 PM
Weird fact number eight: you are standing in a mega bookstore, instead of that fantastic bookstore on that main drag next to the train station...
Posted by: BOSSY | August 23, 2008 at 05:50 AM
Yes, well I was in South Florida where the weather and the mojitos are first-rate, but the bookstores, sadly, are not.
SK
(A notable exception: Books & Books, Coral Gables)
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | August 23, 2008 at 09:00 AM
I think I will pick up of a copy of that book myself...it is just up my alley.
Thanks for joining in, love your (unique) approach. I guess I can say I have at least one thing in common with you...and most notably, the same bra size. So nothing weird huh? Not even a weird uncle? Doesn't everybody have at least one weird uncle?
Posted by: Melinda | August 24, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Thanks for the tag. I'm going to have to ruminate on this one for a few days.
--MomZombie
Posted by: MomZombie | August 24, 2008 at 06:19 PM
So I finally got around to posting, thanks for the tag! And for the link to "meme" - I had assumed it was pronounced "Me! Me!" since that's what it's all about. My something learned for the day.
Posted by: Cuppa Jo | August 26, 2008 at 08:45 AM