'cause I was tagged by frickangel, you see ...

Here are the rules:
• Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
• People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
• At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
• Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.


1. I constantly daydream about new characters, plots, and scenes for stories -- especially while doing mundane tasks like taking walks and mowing the lawn, which is one reason why I like to do those things.

2. Whenever I eat, I compulsively chew each bite on different sides of my mouth: first left, then right, and so on.

3. On a related note, it was recently pointed out to me that whenever I take a sip of a drink I always take *two* swallows before setting it down.

4. I once had a firecracker go off in my hand -- luckily, I'm still a ten fingered typist.

5. My first compulsive fandom was the Oz books, by L. Frank Baum -- followed closely by Star Trek.

6. Thanks to early conflicts with a sadistic dentist, I live in constant fear of (and have nightmares about) my teeth crumbling and falling out.

7. After I left home, I moved 7 times in 7 years -- yet never left the borders of my home town.

8. I like to listen to movie soundtrack music while I write fiction.


I'm tagging ... nobody, because I've already done this a few times and I don't remember who I've already tagged. But everyone's welcome to do it.