Nancy at Keeping the Farm tagged us to post five things about ourselves.

Five Things About Cabol

1. I don’t have a favorite color. For a while it was green. Then when I met Andy, his love for purple infected me, too. But now, I can’t really say any one color is my favorite. It really just depends.

2. I only have half a nail on my left big toe. Which half? The middle half. When I was in high school I had some toenail problems, and both sides of the nail were killed off in two separate and excrutiatingly painful procedures. In one of them, I have a very vivid memory of the main doctor sitting at a computer playing video games while the student doctor did the procedure. At one point, main doctor checks up on student doctor and says, “No, no! Jam it in farther!”

3. I love composting. I really love vermicomposting. It’s like having a few thousand cute, wiggly pets who never have to go to the vet, don’t need any grooming, and eat for free. At my last job, I somehow convinced them to let me keep a worm bin in my office and eventually convinced several other floors to set up worm bins, too. The year I kept track, my floor composted a ton of organic waste. (Not all of that went into the worm bins. I took some home ’cause worms are kind of tiny and can only eat so much.) I was sometimes called The Worm Lady of Fleming.

4. The Little Prince bothers me intensely. A little kid living on a planet about the size of a VW bug? What does he eat? Where does he poo? How can the thing even have gravity or an atmosphere? Who cuts his hair? Where did his clothes come from? It’s just plain freaky. Nothing quite bothered me in the same way until those creepy caveman commercials came out. What the heck are cavemen doing here? And, ya know, even if they somehow managed to get frozen and then thawed out recently, they wouldn’t be all educated and well groomed and standing upright. It’s just wrong. Utterly wrong.

5. I took five or six years of French class, and all I can really remember is how to ask if your goldfish are wearing pantyhose.

I tag Andy, Anya, and Larry to post five things about themselves.