–My birthday is July 5th. When I tell this to people, the most common response is, “Oh! That’s the day after the 4th of July!”
–Every day, I go to the random quote of the day on imdb.com’s home page to see if I can place it.
–May 2005 graduate of UNL, with a BME (”Bachelor of Music in Education”) which qualifies me to teach K-12 vocal and/or instrumental music.
–It drives me crazy when people say “hambooger” instead of “hamburger.”
–I would rather be too cold than too hot.
–I’m really bad at lip-reading. People are always trying to tell me something from across a room. Most people get frustrated and give up. This is one area in my life where I’m decidedly below-average. You’re welcome to TRY to tell me stuff, but just keep in mind that I probably won’t understand.
–Raspberry jam is my favorite.
–One time when I was in my grandparents’ back yard, a tree frog dropped from the sky and landed on my head.
–I didn’t pass my driving test the first time I tried.
–My mother and I were independently given the same nickname (”The Ghorms”) by our students.
–I get tired of all the computer graphics in movies today. Sometimes I wish that Hollywood would shoot something *for real,* or find creative alternatives instead of just reverting to their CG artists when faced with something tricky.
–I enjoy DDR and Guitar Hero.
–During a long car trip, in order to stay awake while driving, I told my younger brother the story of “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion,” pretty much scene-for-scene.
–I hold my toothbrush with the same grip I use on my viola bow.
–I hate it when people are pretentious.
I’m really bad at lip-reading, too, and no one ever believes me. It usually goes like this:
Someone: (mouths something to me)
Me: What? I can’t read lips.
S: (mouths it again)
Me: ….I don’t know what you’re saying. I’m REALLY bad at reading lips.
S: (mouths it again, more slowly and more dramatically)
Me: ….yeah, I still don’t know what you’re saying.
S: (frustrated sigh, outloud 
Nevermind.
By: Bethany on October 17, 2007
at 10:21 am
I’ll have to second that (or “third it” as the case may be. I suck at lip-reading and have been through that exact scenario Bethany wrote so many times. It gets really bad though when someone persists and I end up saying “oh, yeah” and it either doesn’t make sense or I’ve just agreed to something I have no clue about.
By: Lindsey on October 18, 2007
at 10:33 pm
I like Raspberry Jam as well and your blog. Keep writing
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at 11:07 am
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