Eight random facts about Ini!

I've never been tagged for a meme before, so I'm very excited. Thank you Craver!

So here are a few random/strange facts about me.

1. I eat pizza backwards--starting from the crust, and finishing with the narrow end. This is because I had to eat everything my parents put on my plate when I was little, so I learned to eat the parts I didn't like much first, so I could then take my time to relish the bits I did.

2. I cheated on a Social Studies assignment when I was in 6th grade. The teacher caught me and took me to the office of the middle school co-ordinator (equivalent to the principal for the middle school) and told me I would probably be suspended. I was so traumatized by this that I have never cheated on anything since.

3. I still remember a dream I had when I was about four or five years old that an elephant ate Nev while I watched--it looked pretty painless, but was nevertheless quite alarming, although I felt no fear for myself (Any dream interpreters or budding psychoanalysts want to give this a shot?)

4. I bought a beautiful red rug when I went to Turkey for six weeks during my last summer in college--which were incidentally six of the best and the toughest weeks of my life-- and it has gone everywhere with me since. I think I've spent more money carting it from place to place than it cost me to begin with--but I will never part with it.

5. During my last few months in London, I was so restless that I went from one hobby (or plans of a hobby) to another at lightening speed, sometimes even before the plans actually came to fruition. Some of these passtimes: salsa dancing, cross stitching, building a doll's house, and learning Latin American Spanish.

6. While growing up, I was banished from eating with my family at the dining table because I couldn't eat if I wasn't reading a book at the same time. So it was off to the living room for Ini and her book.

7. We lived in a really old house while growing up, and a family of little mice had decided to join us there. My parents would lay traps for the mice and pour cement to block the holes they made, but I developed a rapport with them--during my mealtime banishment, I would put little bits of food at the opening of the hole and watch in fascination as they crept out cautiously and collected their regular meals. (what can I say? I was a weird kid!)

8. I associate butterscotch candy with injections because that was what my parents would give me to soothe me after my shots as a kid. . . yellow toffee in red cellophane wrappers.

I tag Erik, Cyberoutlaw, Ficali McPipe, Mivla, Michael Melcher, Mia