Tagged!
I have been tagged by the wonderful, dear Siren. Here are 20 random facts about me:
1. By the time I finished high school, I had gone to 8 different schools. My family moved around a lot due to my brother’s health–started out in Brooklyn, trotted out to Detroit, and then settled in Los Angeles.
2. I will move to New York. I feel superlatively in my element there.
3. I will never live in a small town. The smallness of them really get on my nerves.
4. I do not get along well with people who are not open-minded. After everything history has told us about truth and certainty, I just do not understand how people can be anything but open in their thinking.
5. There are 7 medical doctors and 6 artists/musicians in my family. Thus, I will be the only non-medical doctor and lawyer in the family.
6. Since age 7, I played classical piano and had plans to become a concert pianist. I used to sleep with Chopin sheet music under my pillow.
7. … and yet, the instrument that moves me like no other is the cello. Yo-Yo Ma has said that it is the closest sound to the human voice. I also think it is incredibly beautiful to watch a cellist play, particularly a female cellist.
8. Often, if you check my handbag, you will find a copy of The Communist Manifesto. You should see the looks on people’s faces when I whip it out in trains.
9. I have a heart-shaped face complete with a widow’s peak that I pluck at.
10. I went to the Violator signing/stampede at the Beverly Connection and Martin Gore kissed me on the cheek.
11. I was a diligent member of a youth choir for 5 years. I sang 4 years as a soprano and my last year as a mezzo-soprano. Right now I sing comfortably in the mezzo-soprano range.
12. I hate driving (and yet, I live in LA… well, see #2)
13. I have never had a tuna fish sandwich. I practically have to leave the room when someone else is eating one. I do not get how people can eat tuna out of a can period.
14. The only times I drink soda are when I am having whisky or rum (although I love them neat, too).
15. I love persimmons, but prefer them hard with some crunch and slip as opposed to soft requiring a sloppy slurp.
16. I always wear sunscreen; I never wear foundation.
17. I went to a highly gifted junior high where everyone had an IQ of at least 150. They were the most unique and scary smart group of people I have ever encountered. Most went on to become remarkably accomplished and the rest went a bit nuts.
18. I am ridiculously picky about writing instruments.
19. I call myself a second impression maker. I do not make the best first impression and worry that I will not get a second shot.
20. Life without the arts is unimaginable to me.
I hereby tag the remarkable L. at Make a Mental Note.
