Weird Things Meme

Kerrie at The Daily Headache tagged my blog with the Six Weird Things meme.  The idea is, you come up with six weird things about yourself, then challenge six other bloggers to do the same.  It didn’t take me too long to come up with my six weird things, but it’s taken me a while to figure out who to tag in return.

So I’m tagging a combination of my friends and some other migraine bloggers:

http://lizmosphere.livejournal.com
http://joyinthedark.livejournal.com (hardest thing for will be stopping at 6 - and I say that with love)
http://gingersea.livejournal.com
http://migraineur.blogspot.com
http://headacheslayer.blogspot.com
http://thesassylime.blogspot.com/

I tried to pick people who haven’t been tagged before; forgive me if you have!

Without further ado … 

Here are the six weirdest things I could think of that are suitable to share with strangers, friends, and family:

1. I didn’t learn to drive until I was 27, and I’ve never owned a car and hope I never will.  And while I now live in Boston, which has a wicked pissah public transportation system, I have also lived and survived without a car in locations that are unhospitable to the carless, like St. Louis, Santa Fe, and small-town upstate New York.
2. Handling ground raw chicken gives me the willies, so I never cook with it.  I don’t mind handling ground raw beef, pork, or lamb, or intact raw chicken parts, but the texture of raw ground chicken grosses me out.
3. I am unable to wink, which saddens me greatly, since there’s nothing as fetching as a well-timed wink.
4. I picked my TV up off the curb on a trash night in 1999.  It had a sign on it - WORKS GREAT — NO REMOTE - and it still works pretty well 8 years later.  Then again, I probably watch TV less than once a month.  This is the only TV I’ve ever owned, and I don’t know if I’ll replace it when it finally quits.  (My husband owns a projector and a screen, so we can watch movies on DVD without a TV.)  I actually kind of wish we didn’t own a TV at all, since any TV automatically draws all eyes to it in any room (even if it’s off!).
5. I went to St. John’s College, also known as the Island of the Misfit Toys.  Among graduates of the College, who are known as Johnnies, I am probably only medium-weird, but among the general population, this places me high on the weirdness scale.
6. Since this is my migraine blog, I’ll mention my weird migraine fact.  As a child I had bilious attacks, which Oliver Sacks describes as a variant of migraine.  These were replaced with severe, full blown migraine with aura when I hit puberty.  Then, right before I started St. John’s, I had a migraine that was triggered by some cleaning spray that was used at a bakery where I had a summer job.  Now, here’s the weird part - that was my last migraine until 19 years later.  When I was a teenager, I would have little clusters of migraines in the spring and be free of them again until the following year.  This time around, I’ve been having them three to six times a month, though the inderal really seems to be helping.