Meme time...

[lady_sarai]

Eh, bored again. Went to Boothbay Harbor with Mom and bought salt water taffy today! Woot! :) But the drizzle and grey skies have got to go. I will read, and I will try to write. I will NOT play with icon making. ::nods:: nope.

So, it's meme time, because mage_brandebouc did them, and they look fun.


1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

Everyone in the family, even the littlest, knew that Tamia was of no importance.

"This man has a message for you."

Tamia set Miz on her own legs, and stepped timidly forward.

(The book being right here in the living room, The... Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson. It was that or my Praxis Study Guide. ;) So...)

List 5 reasons why you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud about how big of a dork you are! Then pick the 5 biggest dorks you know and have them do the meme.

1. I am, as my roommate dubbed me, a "Potterhead." I have all 5 books, in first edition hardcovers, AND paperbacks. I also have a Canadian version of Book 5. I have bought several "guides" to HP, and returned them... because they didn't have anything I didn't know. Book 6 will be the 3rd time I've waited in line at midnight. Saw movie 1 and 3 at midnight showings... PoA in costume, and taught people to play the "Cup Game" while waiting in line. Sat on the floor while waiting for Book 5 and played "Miss Mary Mack." Argued with a professor who said, "now how would you know what house you're in?" Stayed up until 5 am reading the 1st 6 chapters of Book 5 aloud the night it came out. Have written 2 college essays on HP-- one a character study of Ron in Book 1, and the other applying Queer Theory to the characters of Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, all the while avoiding the burning "are they gay" question... called it "Harry Potter and the Queer Theory" and got As on both essays. Have seriously wondered what JKR was thinking when she wrote about the Chamber of Secrets... the entrance is through the plumbing, but in 900 AD, there was no indoor plumbing. Explain, please!

2. I attended an all day workshop given by Maine's Dept of Agriculature on Agriculture in the Classroom, just to receive a 4 inch binder of 57 lesson plans. And squealed and clapped when they told us the other binder contained the Maine Learning Results alignments for EACH lesson plan. And showed off said binder.

2b. Goes along with 2. Am terribly excited to teach 2nd graders about soil and compost, and colonial days. Am thrilled to be going on a field trip next fall to a rock quarry with 6th graders. Am as excited to teach A Wrinkle in Time as to read it. Was beyond thrilled about teaching 4th graders the different sentence types.

3. I have bought, at various times, both Star Trek: Voyager and Star Wars novels. And novels of the young adult/intermediate variety, no less.

4. When American Idol had "Broadway Night" this year, I literally screeched. I wound up hopping around the room during commercials, calling my mother with incoherent babbling, and sitting on my *heels* on my bed to watch it. I shouted at the TV when contestants were less than enthusiastic. I have held a grudge against Bo Bice to this day because all he did was close his eyes and point to pick his song.

5. In high school, I bought MANY packages of glow-in-the-dark star stickers, most just tiny circles, and put them all over my room. To give this perspective, those packages contained up to 1000 stickers, and I had at least 3. They are still there. As is the 3-d moon. And I have read books about astronomy, for fun. Would take the course, but no room in my schedule before graduation.

Okay, so 5 people... aradiachiba, and if she has time, zoe_chan... (Although quite a few of the things on my list probably apply to you two, so there we are, the Terrible Trio. ;) hee) Otherwise, other large dorks on my list who have yet to do this. It's fun.

The sad thing? This is a tiny list. I could think of more ways I'm a dork. ::sigh:: But, like I say fairly often to my less dorky friends at school, "I know I'm a geek. I accept that I am a geek. I *embrace* my inner dork, nerd *and* geek... My geekiness gives me my power." That's right. The power of the high GPA. Bwahahaha.

So, in conclusion, Mega-Dork here, Ruler of Geekland and Lesser Nerddom.