The Thomas Chronicles

Generally speaking, I like to keep my personal life out of this blog. On this one occasion though, I think I might tell you a little bit about myself without give too much away. (I know. Anonymity is a pipe dream in the cyber-universe if someone really wanted to find out who you are, but what they hay.)

So, without further ado, via Mrs. Bookworm:

Players list 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, players then tags 8 people by posting their names and makes sure they know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at the tagee’s blog.

1. I love pens. My friends keep their good pens under lock and key, buried inside their drawers, and stuffed in between the mattresses when I come by. I’m a regular klepto when it comes to pens… (”Roll the sad music! Yeah, the one with lots of strings!”) It’s a character defect I’ve just recently admitted. It’s tough, sometimes, you know. Just walking by and not taking that lovely Bic home.

2. I have a cat, a female American Tabby. She does very strange things, this cat. Every morning when I stumble out of bed and grunt at the sun drilling into my eyes on my way over to make coffee, my cat trails me into the kitchen meowing at me in ten different tones. Mew, Meow, Myyyew, Miiyahh, and so on and so forth, almost like she’s singing to me. But alas, she just wants to me pet her while she eats her dried food.

3. That brings me to coffee. I used to drink about 8 cups a day while I was in college. I’ve scaled it back some. It’s just 3 cups nowadays.

4. I recently kicked the habit of smoking. For a little over ten years, I smoked about a pack of cigarettes a day, and by the end of it, I was smoking about a pack-and-a-half. Since quiting I’ve stayed the same weight but I’ve unaccountably grew in width. Ah well. At least I can walk up a hill without gasping for air on my knees, eh?

5. I own a typewriter… and it’s not for show. I actually work on a manual Royal Aristocrat typewriter when I’m not on the keyboard blogging. In my humble opinion, there is no replacing the sound of keys jabbing at a white page. I’m sorry, the electric hum of a computer just doesn’t do it for me.

6. I’m 28 years old and I’m ethnically Vietnamese. I grew up in a strict traditional Vietnamese home but can barely speak the language anymore.

7. I was an English Literature major in college, even after I wasn’t. I was very sore at college as an institution for a long time because I was taught more Marxism than Dickens, four whole years of it, in fact. So, even while I obtained a little sheet of paper that said I went to college (kind of like a postcard), I was self-educating myself outside of it. The maxim being, “I shouldn’t let school get in the way of my education.”

8. I love movies. From the old, black and white days of Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart; to musicals like 1776, Mary Poppins and Moulin Rouge; to action movies like Die Hard, Gladiator and Fist of Legend; to dark brooding horror movies like Salem’s Lot (the Rob Lowe version), the Omen and In the Mouth of Madness.

I think I’ll let whoever I was going to tag off the hook…

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