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Welcome to Weirdsville — Population: Me
December 23rd, 2006
I’m sure the previous photo capturing my ingenuity in times of crisis inspires my readers to want to get to know me better.
Never one to disappoint, I asked the person who knows me best to come up with a few Uppity Highlights: things about me you might not know and might never know unless you demand Kevin stop his Christmas putterings (wrappus interruptus) and help write a blog post.
Thus we bring you Six Weird Things About Uppity (based on a concept stolen from my friend and fellow odd-ball blogger Lachlan, who in turn stole it from someone I suspect is infinitely less weird).
1. “Uppity has an inexplicable yet intense bear phobia.” This is true. It makes things like hiking and camping a little difficult. I even take bear mace with me when I have to go to the University District in Seattle.
2. “Uppity is a shiny crow.” C’est moi. All that glitters is too gold, at least to me. In fact, I thought about naming my card-making business Shiny Crow Designs, but Lachlan talked me out of it in one swell foop by saying “‘Shiny Crow’ sounds like old people.” (SCD was thus reluctantly rejected, lest my art become synonymous with grey hair and Depends.)
3. “Uppity is a fanatical organizer.” True, though I prefer to think of myself as “dedicated.” Even my sock drawer is tidy, with thick, warm socks on one side and thinner dress socks on the other, all in neat, horizontal rows. Stop looking at me like that.
4. “Uppity yowls when she cleans.” What Kevin means by this flattering description is that I sing while I clean the house. Cleaning is a boring yet necessary task, so I liven it up by singing along to my iPod, usually at the top of my lungs due to my headphones. I realize this can be a little startling to a certain someone who also happens to be doing chores, but if they don’t like it, they can do mine.
5. “Uppity has an X Files Cycle.” No, this is not a brand of indoor exercise bike. Somewhat to my chagrin, I have developed a curious pattern of watching my X Files DVDs. For some reason, every May, I feel the urge to watch them, and because I am organized (see #3), I must do so from the first episode of season 1 all the way through to the last episode of season 9. This cycle generally takes four or five months to complete. I consider this compulsion to be one of the darker aspects of my psyche with which some day I will bore some poor bewildered therapist.
6. “Uppity has a pointed head.” The sides of my skull meet at the top, forming a kind of ridge. You could also call it a point, if you were a dickface. My point ridge is not visible to the eye, but you can feel it; indeed, Kevin has the annoying habit of rubbing it, as if he’s trying to coax a genie out of my head. Now you know why I like Santa hats so much.
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Know what? I wish I HAD all the X-Files sets…I only have the first season. Fox Mulder is so hot that I even forgive his Playboy habit.
So, did you give me OCD by osmosis in Junior High?
Mushell
Ummm…about the Sleestack head. Eewww. Thanks :-}
It is not the crow, but the crow’s cousin the magpie that collects shiny objects for the nest. It may be that Uppity has more similarity to the magpie than the collection of bright shiny objects…….Kevin will know.
Crows, magpies, ravens, and jays are all of the same family, Corvidae, and are fascinating birds to study and even to get to know as individuals.
Mushell, I think YOU gave OCD to ME. Or perhaps it’s a gene common to South Dakota natives that remains dormant until one has watched a certain number of Tom & Jerry episodes…
I had to *think* about the
Sleestackhead. Maybe that’s what I am…the sole decendant of the lost tribe?
Jo, what you say is 100% factually correct. Alas, “shiny magpie” just doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well as “shiny crow.” Then again, it’s better than “shiny monkey.”
Ahhh, you do speak Truth, Uppity. However, Nattering Magpie rolls pretty well, doesn’t it?
Or perhaps ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike limpid, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, vivid magpie?
Are you calling me weird?
I have to agree, Shiny Crow does roll off the tongue nicely. So does uppity shiny crow, for that matter. Hee!