Tagged

Sweet Chatty Purns and Liz both “tagged” me which means I have to write five things people don’t know about me. I’m super excited about the whole thing. Aren’t you? Anyway, here goes…

1. My first job out of college was working at Blockbuster Video.
I went to Tufts University in Boston where my parents paid $100,000 in tuition. A couple of days after graduation I was renting a movie at Blockbuster and filled out an application. After submitting to a drug test (wrong place to drug test, methinks) I was hired for, like, $7 an hour. I worked there for a whole summer. My shift manager was a 16 year-old kid – his Mom ran the store. He used to tell me I should wear more make up, would try to hook up with me in the break-room and would call me a bitch when I wouldn’t do it.

2. I hate this girl:



Her name is Emily Mae Young. In 1997 she was the Welch’s Grape Juice spokeskid and she made a series of commercials where she was drinking juice and giggling. I once told my roommate that her demeanor during those commercials was that of a little girl just asking to get raped by her uncle. This is probably the most horrible thing I have ever said. But, just looking at her picture right now, I stand by it.

3. I like the Enrique Iglesias song “Escape.”
What of it?

4. I was in the World’s Longest Conga Line.
When I was growing up my parents took our family on a series of lame vacations to different places in Iowa. One summer we went to Burlington Steamboat Days. One of the attractions was to be in the World’s Longest Conga Line for the Guinness Book of World Records. There were Guinness judges there to make it official and Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine was on a big stage playing “Conga.” It took quite awhile to get the line going and I think they had to play the song probably 20 times in a row. Life highlight for me, career lowlight for Gloria Estefan.

5. I still sleep with my childhood pillow.
The pillow, I guess, is like a security blanket I never outgrew. I once had a guy sleeping in my bed who thought it would be funny to try to take the pillow from me. I flipped out. This was fairly recently. I am at a loss as to why that relationship did not work out.

I am tagging: Bryan, Nadia and Hiller, who has already been tagged by Liz but who has yet to do the work. DO THE WORK.