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I’ve been asked to share five weird things about me and pass the request on to five others in chainletter fashion.

Okay, here goes:

1. School officials decided to make me take an IQ test in the fifth grade. As I wanted to avoid attracting to much attention, I cheated to get my score down to 138.
2. My eyes look brown when casually inspected. When you look closer, though, you’ll see the iris of each is a set of concentric rings of brown, gold and green. Also, when I’m majorly angry, they’ve been said to turn pitch black. I’ve never verified that last part, though.
3. I’m an occasional, dilettantish student of magick (hermetic magick and chaos magick, specifically) and consider Aleister Crowley an underappreciated, misunderstood genius. I should add that I consider myself a rationalist and don’t believe in the supernatural. Rather, magick to me is a form of mental technology that involves use of tools (such as symbols and ritual) to take control of one’s own subconscious for purposes of boosting human potential — “hacking yourself”, so to speak.
4. I’ve always had a sort of mild fetish for redheads. I’ve traced the origin of this back to my first playmate as a very small child being a little redheaded girl my own age who later went on to shoot me with my own sister’s BB gun — on purpose.
5. As a teenager, I once got pulled over for speeding because the low-slung frame and narrow windows of my Mustang prevented me from noticing that the white van beside me on the interstate, which I thought was acting like it wanted to race, was actually a paddy wagon. The cop had a sense of humor about it, didn’t pull me over until we both hit something like — oh, I don’t know, maybe 90 mph — and let me off with a warning.

Who to pass this on to seems a bit problematic. Kirsten has already been tagged, and Tom Knapp would undoubtedly have extraordinary difficulty narrowing it down to just five items…

I pick the following: RadGeek, Faeriebell, Luka, Little Iguanodon and Caffeine Sparks. Nominees can send hate mail to my usual address.

Tags: Personal, Weird //