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What are five things that most people don't know about you? 
Submitted by mika.

I am a klutz. Well, many people know that. I've descended from klutzes - my dad had a belt sander eat his shirt. My mom hit a factory once with her car - she swears to this day that it jumped out in front of her. I have managed to break the passenger-side mirrors off three different cars. I'm really not a bad driver - I just have bad luck. I also tried to learn to roller blade - broke my leg and spent seven months on disability. That's talent.

I am a geek. People in real life know this - I don't know that I've blogged much about it in recent memory. I got my first computer when I was 11 - an Atari 800xl. I taught myself to program BASIC on it. I want to memorize Pi (not all of it obviously, but a good-sized chunk of it). I met my husband at a late-night gamer geek session - Magic: the Gathering and Vampire: the Masquerade. He kicked my butt at Magic and I knew he was the one.

I love trivia. I'm nowhere near the god-like level of Hotrod and Dabysan, but random trivia is just the best. A local radio station once had an "impossible trivia" contest. I made an enemy for life when I called with the answer before the DJ had even finished asking the question. He was so certain no one would know the answer that he hadn't even chosen a prize yet.

I played the clarinet for eight years. Turns out I learned to play it wrong. Maybe that's why I had so much trouble in marching band. We had mock awards at our annual band banquet every year. In high school, I earned the "happy wanderer" award three years out of four. I had a lot of fun at band camp - though there were no sexual shenanigans involving musical instruments. Or, if there were, nobody invited me. There were allegedly underwear marches on the guys' end of camp. They had a ukulele. That's got to count for something.

I guess there are only four things. I initially created this entry back in July but couldn't think of an interesting fifth item so I never finished and made it public. But what the heck... here are four things about me. :)