Friday Question #65 [24]Comments on:

By: aron

aron — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:28:48 +0000

I hate hate hate those questions!!!! lol I dont know why but I just cringe when I have to come up with “unique facts” or whatever in classrooms/meetings, bleh… haha.

By: pinaymama

pinaymama — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:25:35 +0000

mine is late but I still have to write about it! Interesting topic!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:16:49 +0000

OMGosh! I’m totally with you on the Justification of their diet to me and that you don’t care. Now I don’t feel so bad that I feel that way!

By: DeAnne

DeAnne — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:41:23 +0000

to be honest it depends on the day and the company. some days I’d really say the first 3 things about me which would reveal yet another: I’m very comfortable with me and really don’t care what you think about that! but if I were sitting at a table with say my boss who at the moment I don’t want to dislike me, then I’d probably find 3 tactful things to say that wouldn’t later be contorted.

there’s nothing wrong with having something great about yourself that you prefer to keep private. however I will say that in my opinion you should have said “I like to run 10K’s” “I’ve driven/ridden in a Ferrari” and “I walk my cat on a leash” or “my husbands co-workers put in requests for my baked goods” and oh yeah “I’m kinda a big deal”

three things about me:
I frequently use an alias and have different ones for different situations.
I’m very shy but hide behind the shield of extrovert.
I am a big time Daddy’s girl which means that I am such a geek/tomboy. I love this one though and wouldn’t change it one bit, in fact I’m trying to rub it off on my girls who don’t have the same type of relationship with their father.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:14:55 +0000

I’ve had to do this a couple times before. I always pick the most bizarre things about me and then people leave me the hell alone cause they think I’m crazy.

1. I was born with birthmark – a red cross in the middle of my forehead. After awhile you could see it only when I got mad.
2. Outtie belly buttons weird me out.
3. Of my three siblings, the one that everyone used to say looks just like me is the adopted kid.

By: beth

beth — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:50:03 +0000

I can’t stand to do this type of thing because I really hate for the attention to all be on me. I’d much rather just listen to everyone else!! I think of the fastest thing that won’t lead to questions!!

By: Nat

Nat — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:19:43 +0000

Ummmm…. depends on the context.
It really really does.

If it’s in a professional context I tend to leave the blog out of it.
1. I ran a 200-mile relay on a team with my husband and 10 people I met on the Internet. It was so much fun.
2. The Man and I hate seeing concerts in our home town Ottawa, hence we travel to see our favourite bands. We went to see the Bruce (Springsteen) the night before the relay.
3. Something about photography.

In a context where people know me as whacky and have heard all my stories:
1. I have 43 versions of Evenflow on iTunes
2. English is my second language, but I don’t speak it with an accent. (Sorry.)
3. One my oddest claims to fame is that a story I wrote, ended up in the headlines segment on Leno. (This woman was being inducted in some country music hall of fame. She was 94 and played the fiddle. I asked her the secret to her success, she said: “I have a bowl of porridge every morning and I fiddle with younger men in the afternoon.”)

There you go.

By: diane

diane — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:33:54 +0000

I think I always share that I minored in Russian as an undergrad and that I have a Master’s degree in English…both are far enough back to have some emotional distance and usually surprise people (since I am not doing anything with either). Depending on my audience I might also share that I can say “Your crocodile is wearing a very ugly tie” in Russian.
I used to tell people I did improv for all of college and half of my time in Chicago…sometimes I’ll throw out that Jack McBrayer (from Talledega Nights and more famously 30 Rock) was one of my improv instructors and I went to his birthday party. People always seem to like to hear about connections to famous people.
Honestly I haven’t had to answer these types of questions in a really long time so I don’t know if I would “update” my answers. I might add that I’m an only child who is dating an only child because that’s fairly unique. But it’s kind of nice to have standard answers I don’t have to think about for such occasions.

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:34:22 +0000

I would never let people I work with know my blog address. If they find it accidentally, so be it, but there’s no sense in making the additional information available to them when they could ultimately use it in a way that would not be favorable to you. I think people are jealous of us runners. Sure, they say we’re going to ruin our knees (despite the fact ALL the recent medical studies support that running actually helps support the joints) but they view us as a secret society. We’re part of a world that they just cannot understand. They don’t know that anyone can run, you just have to be disciplined enough to work at it. They think we have some magical ability. And a vegan runner? Oh, you would really shake them up with that!

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:14:17 +0000

I hate talking in front of people so I always hated “ice breakers.” But I guess that’s the point of them, right?? I usually pick generic things about myself, such as…

1) I’m from Chicago (this always worked at college because I went to an out-of-state public school).
2) I like to run.
3) I play the trombone (not too many female trombone players in the world).
4) I have a twin sister.

Generic enough that I could get away with people forgetting about me! I’m a terrible person.