Alice in InfoLand

Doug Johnson tagged me with the “Five Things you don’t know about me” meme, probably as a way to prod me back into blogging, so here goes:

1. I was born with an extra toe on my right foot. The toe was removed when I was 6 weeks old, but the remaining ‘bump’ has caused shoe problems ever since.
2. I am mentally allergic to bananas. Just the smell can make me queasy.
3. I sometimes dream that I am being attacked by isosceles triangles. Yes, I failed geometry in High School, but that was almost 50 years ago.
4. My undergraduate major was ‘creative writing.’ Not because I had any intention of being a writer (I already knew that I would be a librarian) — but because I had discovered that this allowed me to take courses in as many different subjects as I wanted. So I explored psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, mythology and folklore, European history, American literature, stagecraft, journalism, and even food science at Brooklyn College. My faculty advisor accused me of being a dilettante. He was right. OTOH, my father insisted that I take enough ed. courses to qualify for a teaching license, no matter what, so I taught English and Social Studies while getting my MLIS degree.
5. I am profoundly lazy. I can be very efficient (and even effective) when necessary, but my natural inclination is serene slothfulness.

Now I tag Joyce, Sophie, Laura, Sara, and Charlie.