Light On Dark Water

I've been tagged by Craig Burrell for this “meme” (more about the term in a moment). One of the rules is that you post the rules, so here ya go:

1. Link the person(s) who tagged you
2. Mention the rules on your blog
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours
4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged

And here is my list of quirks; I trust they are unspectacular enough:

1. I dislike the word “meme,” for reasons that may (or may not) become clear if you read the Wikipedia article to which I’ve linked the word. Moreover, even if you think it’s a useful term, it seems misapplied to online games like this, which is the blog equivalent of a chain letter.
2. In any group of people having a meal together, I’ll almost always be the last one to finish. (I would have left out "almost" until recently, when I discovered that someone I know eats even more slowly than I do.) I think this is mainly because I really like to eat and don't want to rush it.
3. I’ll watch at least a few minutes of almost any movie or tv show that has impressive spaceships in it.
4. I have a great love of canned chili, which stems at least in part from eating it while camping in the woods with my two good friends at the age of 13 or 14. We heated it over our campfire in a cast-iron skillet. Obviously we didn't have sophisticated or even sensible gear and supplies (canned food? cast-iron utensils?) but then our hike or bike ride was not very long.
5. I have a compulsion for saying precisely what I mean, which I think makes me a little odd in conversation, as I keep revising and refining what I’ve said or pause while trying to find the right word. Related to that, I can’t endure being misconstrued, or tolerate being misrepresented. If I think someone doing either of those is acting in bad faith or just not listening, the conversation is over.
6. I am more happy to hear a prediction of rain than of fair weather. I’m not sure whether this is congenital or if it’s a result of having grown up where the summers are very hot and very dry. And of working on the farm in those summers, when rain meant a break from work. And of feeling that if it’s raining I am more likely to be able to read, and less likely to be told that I’m wasting a beautiful day and should go outside and play. But mainly I just think rain, and the world being rained on, are beautiful.

Now, whom shall I tag? Let's see…various people who have linked to me…Alias Clio, Pentimento, the guys at Thursday Night Gumbo (who haven’t posted for a while), Garrett at Postmodern Orthodoxy (who also hasn’t posted for a while, Red Cardigan…and now for something completely different, Saint Kansas (who also hasn’t posted for a while). I’m passing over some of the more popular blogs, which have probably already been tagged. And anyway Dawn Eden is in Australia for World Youth Day.

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