I've been tagged!

by eliskimo:

Here's the gig: write 6 things about yourself; then tag 6 other people on your friend's list to do the same.

1. When I was younger, I used to want to be a mailman when I grew up. I was an avid stamp collecter and was fascinated at the idea of seeing what kinds of mail, to whom, and from where, the people on my route would receive and send.

2. I really dislike lumpy, grainy food. It has nothing to do with the taste and everything to do with the texture. I can choke down potatos if they are served to be by an unknowing host, but it's hard.

3. I first got involved in researching names when I was bored one day when I was 10, opened up our big two-volume dictionary, and found a list of popular men's and women's names in the introductory material, complete with meanings.

4. I hate wearing socks in bed, even though in winter I have terribly cold feet.

5. I'm a strong believer in that one can never have too much chocolate.

6. I've read The Lord of the Rings more than any other book; I first read it when I was 7 or 8, and then for the next 10 years or so read it one to three times each year. I still have large portions of it roughly memorized, and when I went to see the movies for the first time, my friends had to keep elbowing me as I quoted all the lines before they were said.

Whom to tag? How about...baron_berwyn, kontzel, leleth_faery, panizvaka, and snowy_owl30.

so, that's it?

I'm done with classes.

Tomorrow and Friday are university holidays, and so tonight's math logic seminar lecture was my last class. Not of the semester, not of the year, but ever (assuming, of course, that I don't end up going for another degree after I'm done with this one, and also not counting any future classes I plan to audit, since they aren't required). After 19 years (around 185 months), I'm done with taking classes.

This is a bit of a bizarre situation. Virtually all my life has been defined by me being a student. Granted, I'm still a student, and will be at least for another three years, and granted out of those 19 years, during only 8 of them was I actually in a class room setting, so the actual attendance of classes hasn't really defined me as a student, but it is something of a milestone to realize that, given my current degree plan, I'm done with course work.