Something Substantial?

Well, it appears that the wonderful Sprogblogger nominated me for a "blog with substance" award.  Many thanks!  Sprogblogger was one of the first blogs I read after my entrance into the RPL community, so this means a lot coming from her.  From what I can tell the gist of this award involves coming up with 7 things readers don't know about the blogger in question, which is going to be difficult, as there's very little that I don't talk about here.  But I'll give it a shot.

1. My parents divorced when I was four.  I haven't spoken to my father since I was twenty-two or twenty-three, for reasons that aren't entirely clear even to me.  I don't regret not having him in my life or LG's, though I have thought about sending him a letter.
2. The greatest tragedy of my high school life was not being selected to be on the pom-pom squad.  It's pretty uncharacteristic that I'd want to do anything involving school spirit, so I'm not sure what that's about.  I am not looking forward to the day that LG announces she wants to be a cheerleader.
3. When I was in college, according to my roommate, some of the girls a few doors down on my floor called me "Depeche Mode Girl," which I found somewhat strange even at the time, as I had only one Depeche Mode CD and didn't even listen to it all that often.  As I recall, that was more the era of Madonna.  How I got papers written listening to "Erotica" is probably worth further contemplation.
4. My picture hung in the student union (of the fairly large state university I attended) for the entirety of my senior year in college because I was one of 12 (or 14?) who won an annual big deal award.  (Yes, I was that kind of student.)  And my mother still has that fucking picture on her mantel, where I am frozen in time, along with high school versions of my siblings.
5. My first year in grad school I dyed my hair, which fell at the time to my mid-back, BLACK.  I also have pretty fair skin and looked something like Morticia Addams.  Probably good that I dyed it back to its normal boring brown before I started teaching.
6. I'm sure I've said this before, but I decided to become an SMC at 27.  I was 29 when I put the plan in motion, and 31 by the time LG was born.  The first time I went to a meeting of my local SMC group several women assumed I was there to babysit.  Of course, that same year I was also taken to be an undergraduate by my new colleagues and carded when trying to rent a rated R movie.  Seriously.
7. I am HTML challenged, which is why you won't see fancy linky things on this blog, including the list I am about to give.  There are many things I'd like to learn in my lifetime, but website creation/maintenance is not one of them, at least at this point in time.  For the moment, basic blogger suits me just fine.

And now I am supposed to nominate 7 other bloggers for this award:  Maddy, MeAndBaby, Mo, InBetween, Irrational Exuberance, Shannon, and Justine, consider yourselves IT.  You're tagged.