37 Things about Spo

Here are 37 things about me I thought may be curious for Spo-fans to read

1) I was supposed to a “Martha” when I was born.
2) I am board certified in both Neurology and Psychiatry but I don’t do the former anymore. I started off in Cardiology.
3) These are careers I almost had < Astronomer, Animation/graphic designer for Walt Disney World (I would have lived in Orlando, Spider and Sorted!), Church Organist, and Professor of Botany.
4) I have arachnophobia. It’s greatly improved but tarantulas still give me panic attacks. When I knew I was moving to the Southwest, I went through a treatment called EMDR, which seemed to diminish the phobic reflexes.
5) My favorite city is Vancouver.
6) Twice in my life I have been a vegetarian, and I am slowly becoming one again.
7) I love storms, the worse the better. I sorely miss Midwest thunderstorms.
8) Apart from The Weather Channel, I don’t watch television
9) The majority of foods I eat as an adult I either hated or never heard of as a child.
10) I knew I was ‘different’ somehow at six years old.
11) Both of my parent’s paternal families go back 12 generations here on North America. (both sides came over to Massachusetts in early 1600s)
12) I did drag only once. A friend threw a “Come as your Mother” party. I came as Elizabeth I. The hoop skirt would not fix in the taxi, so I had to walk to the party. On Halsted St. in Chicago this didn’t get much attention.
13) Someone is my first real try at a relationship; next January it will be 10 years
14) I have never seen a ghost; this is a disappointment
15) I have been through 2 psychoanalysis; one Freudian, the other Jungian. I don’t recall any benefit to the first one, but the 2nd one was very therapeutic.
16) I very much want to see Ireland and Greece, even though I have no blood of either.
17) I can not eat cheesecake without becoming ill.
18) My Godfather is George. While I am a WASP turned Catholic, he is African-American and Lutheran. He is the closest man I know to be a Saint.
19) With few exceptions, I think men look better with whiskers.
20) Tea is my drink of choice – hot or iced; white, green, oolong, black, or red - it’s my elixir of life.
21) I fear being sued.
22) In my goal to see all of Shakespeare’s works, I am missing only “Love Labor’s Lost”
23) I am left handed
24) I can not throw a ball, which may be related to 23.
25) I want to meet every person on my blog link.
26) I hate cruelty; I still find it shocking even though I am never surprised.
27) I have never hit anybody.
28) Soup is my food of choice; so many soups, so little time
29) I have never smoked marijuana or tobacco or done XTC, or cocaine.
30) Six times in my life I thought I had a personal Armageddon, only to have survived each one.
31) When I am down or taking life too seriously, I watch The Marx Brothers
32) The worse pain I have experienced was a week’s worth of migraine headaches. They have never reoccurred.
33) All my family but one went to the University of Michigan (Go Blue!)
34) Vain about my skinny legs, I seldom if ever wear short pants in public. This is in contrast to my complete ease to be nude in clothing optional places.
35) Macaroni and cheese is the comfort food of choice.
36) Activities I miss doing < two stepping, growing tomatoes, using a fireplace with real wood, taking classes in a classroom with others.
37) I have never purchased a lottery ticket.