I've Been Tagged!

I've been tagged by Janet and I'm finally getting to it on a three day weekend.
It's an interesting task to itemize yourself like this. I tended to want to qualify everything, but here I am - unqualified. : )

1. When I was in my teens and twenties, music was like food and drink to me - as necessary and constant - but in my thirties, when I had kids, all I craved was silence - so vast swaths of 80s and 90s popular music are unknown to me.

2. I'm an atheist and comfortable with that. I try not to be self-righteous.

3. I value kindness and generous hearted, good humored people. Life's too short to be a mean spirited jerk.

4. I'm a librarian and love to read. (Duh) Here are some books I've loved:

The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neil
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Far From the Tree by David Solomon
The Book of Ebebezer Le Page

5. I was featured in a medical textbook when I was 14. It wasn't for my high IQ :)

6. I've been a vegetarian since my 20s but sometimes wonder if that's self indulgent in a world with so much human misery.

7. I love to laugh. That sounds fatuous but I REALLY love to laugh the kind of laugh when you're falling all over someone to keep yourself from falling down, your stomach muscles hurt, you're trying not to pee your pants or snort through your nose and you feel like you've run a marathon when you're finally done. Except you keep thinking about what set you off and start laughing again. I love that.

8. These were some of my life goals when I was in my 20s. I guess I wasn't enormously ambitious!
1. Travel
2. Have a girl before I was 30
3. Work with kids
4. Marry a man with curly hair who cooked
5. Move to Vermont or California
6. Live abroad

AND .........................here's the breakdown
1. Yes, until my mid twenties but a lot less than I wanted.
2. Nope - 4 boys - all different all wonderful
3. Yes, I taught for years.
4. Yep, no more curly hair but he's still cooking!
5. Vermont
6. Yep, lived in Ireland

9. I don't get - I mean I REALLY don't get couples who vote different political parties. It's like - how could you live with someone with a totally different world view???? I know that people do - and I'm not meaning to sound intolerant - I just don't understand how it works.

10. I was involved with a very radical educational philosophy for years (Sudbury Valley Model) I still think it's the only educational model worthy of the label "paradigm shift."

11. What the hell. I'll do an extra one. I'm Left Left Left all the way but the left can still drive me crazy. I'm also (this should be 12 probably) part of a weekly peace vigil that meets every Friday and has done since before the invasion of Iraq.
War is not the answer.