The lovely Customer Service Guru Kelly hath taggeth me for the “8 random facts about me” meme, which to the best of my recollection I have done at least eight times on other various blogs. But since I’ve never done it on this particular blog, and because Kelly was nice enough to come stalk me down out of my semi-coma, I’ll play along. However, because I have UMS (Useless Memory Syndrome), I’ve gotta add the disclaimer: if you’ve been stalking me for a while, I can’t promise these will be new things… just things you didn’t know before I told you the first time. [insert winkage here]

1. I regularly obsess over stupid shit. Like how many jelly beans are really in the “guess how many” jar at the ice cream shop. When I buy my coffee there, I tell the woman who owns the place that if she doesn’t let me dump the jar out and count them, then organize them by color, I won’t come back. But she knows I’m a liar.

2. I like to tell people I’m batshit crazy. Because I like to say “batshit,” and I’m not really sure there’s another context for it.

3. I quit smoking in February, but I still reach for the cigarette pack at least twice a day.

4. I haven’t watched the news since 9/11. I don’t read the news either, except for what I have to for work.

5. I didn’t know who was running for president until a few weeks ago.

6. When Bush — the original, not the extra-crispy — got elected, I said I was going to move the Canada. I was nine, I think.

7. People all my life have said I’m an old soul. I have no idea what that means, or whether it’s an insult.

8. I’m not religious. My beliefs/philosophies come closer to paganism than anything else. Which is something I don’t generally tell most folks, because then they want to know if I boil kittens.

Since everyone I know well enough to tag has done this meme at least twice, I’m not tagging anyone. But if you’d like to play along, please do tag thyself. Go on. You know you wanna.