Six things that are odd about me

Like Deep in the Heart (another friend in the blogosphere), I am finally responding to a long overdue tag from Melinite (see parentheses above :) So, here goes:

1) I have been bitten by an ostrich. At least, I think I have. That's the story I've replayed in my head millions of times, but like many memories, I don't have any proof of this story's so-called 'authenticity' (a term that I've learned in grad school is debatable in itself...). I was in kindergarten. We took a class fieldtrip to the Como Zoo. I had my hands on a cinder block wall dividing some of the large birds from the throngs of onlookers, and all of a sudden I felt a pressure enclosing one of my hands. I turned around to find an ostrich standing in an awfully close proximity. I'll never know if s/he actually bit me...but I think it's more fun to think s/he did.

2) I have a somewhat unique (read silly and sentimental) and perhaps populist sense of taste when it comes to movies and music. To put it bluntly, I love 80's hairbands and cheesy, light, literal spoofs a la Spaceballs, Naked Gun, and Airplane. A couple of friends recently went to a Journey and Def Leppard concert...and let's just say I was thoroughly crushed to not be with them. I heard something on NPR once about bonding with specific selections from such media when you're around 10-12 years old, which I think might explain it. Though my tastes do expand from these basics, they will always be close to my heart, and never fail to cheer me up.

3) I have a frustrating feeling, in many aspects of my life, of being torn between two or more ideological poles. For instance, often when I'm in class and we're analyzing a text or a production to the hilt, I feel the incredible need to connect it to something practical. And then when I'm doing something practical, I wonder why people aren't analyzing things more. It can be difficult to find that happy medium. I don't know if this makes me odd...but it's just something I've been dealing with lately.

4) Let's talk war wounds for a second. I still have [the scar of] a chicken pock from when I was 3 on my sternum, although you probably wouldn't know it unless I told you. Which now I have. And now you do. So much for any criminal aspirations... AND, Sam and I have the same scar on our chin from stitches when we were kids. We were obviously meant to be :)

5) When I was around 8 (I think) I wanted to be Jane Goodall and live in the African jungle with the Chimpanzees. To this day I get very irritated when people confuse apes (no tails) with monkeys (tails), and chimps are still my favorite animal.

6) I am a freak for color coding! The presentation I recently gave for my seminar class included it. My class binders are organized by it. I even got mercilessly teased at Mu about needing to have every different shade of highlighter. Knew I shouldn't have listed that on the Office Max list...

How about you??? I tag anyone else that would like to, to share your 6 oddities!