Fifteen sentences meme

Fifteen sentences. Ten are true, five false, though two of those are kind of true. You pick. I'll let you all know on Sunday, probably. (I was right. This was scary to write.)

1) I first met my husband at the age of nine weeks.
2) I have served shots at a strip club.
3) My sisters have both served shots at a strip club.
4) I am deathly allergic to cottonseed oil.
5) Practically all jewelry makes me break out in a rash.
6) I got the best massage of my life on Christmas Eve 1993, from an American in France.
7) I once rode on the back of a scooter in Florence.
8) I have French grandparents.
9) I possess a bound edition of a weekly French newspaper chronicling the first six months of WWI.
10) My book collection exceeds two thousand volumes.
11) I wrote my first book at the age of eight.
12) I visited or lived in eight provinces before my sixth birthday – but not a single state.
13) My great grandmother was an ordained minister.
14) I am the only member of my immediate family never to play a brass instrument. (Elizabeth excepted.)
15) I have written letters to the editor defending creation science.

I respectfully request that family abstain from answering this until friends have had a chance to do so. It’ll make it more fun, since you have a MUCH better chance of getting it right.

Musings on online friendship

I was thinking about the phenomenon of which everyone reading this is a part, the idea of having really good friends with whom you converse (sort of) on a near-daily basis, but never (or rarely) actually meet in real life. A few things occurred to me.

First, I have revealed parts of myself online that I have never revealed any other way. There are some things that are still private, of course, but my online friends know more about me (or have the potential to know more about me, if they've been paying attention) than many of my RL friends of longer standing.

I also thought of a better image for a friends list than a list. Lists imply ranking, which is not the case at all. I prefer to see my circle of friends as a Venn diagram. One circle is the people I am friends with in real life; the other is the people I am friends with online. In the middle are the people I know both ways. I value everyone in both circles.

I have to go to a three-year-old's birthday party.