I've been Tagged!

Mary Beth at The Stitchery  has tagged me! Initially I started to panic, hoped it was a mistake, and wondered if I could disappear into the bowels of the earth.  Well, secretly I was thrilled, like the child I was once was who was always one of the last ones chosen to be on a team during PE.  Terrified, but thrilled.

Here are the rules (lifted from Mary Beth's blog).  Thank you Mary Beth!

1. someone tags you,
2. you post five things about yourself that you haven’t already mentioned on your blog,
3. you tag 5 people you’d like to know more about

1.  I mentioned the first one in that first paragraph.  I was the kind of child that was never picked in school.  When I was very young it bothered me terribly but I learned that the harder I tried the more I was teased.  So I started pointedly ignoring everyone else, trying to be different, deliberately walking a different path.  I think I was trying to fool myself as much as the others and it didn't always work, but I think I became much more resilient in the long run.  And although I still secretly want to be "chosen" the popularity game is one game I can't bring myself to play.

2.  I grew up in a small town in the bible belt in a very protected environment.  Although I was not completely ignorant -- I read widely and was familiar with literature, science, world politics, I was completely naive about the world.  I knew racism existed but I didn't know I had ever encountered it.  I knew homosexuality existed in an abstract intellectual way, but I had not been aware if I had ever seen or encountered it.   I traveled 1500 miles across the country to go to college in the age of sex, drugs, rock & roll, and cynicism as a complete naif.  Although I knew first hand that people were not nice, I believed that liberal intellectual people lived their lives seeking a platonic ideal of goodness and knowledge. 

3.  When I moved away to college I knew the words to every song John Denver and Barry Manilow had ever written. I still probably know most of them.

4.  At one of my first jobs, the company I worked for offered to pay my way through Law School.  I turned them down because I thought I was too shy to be a good lawyer.  I now think I probably would have made an excellent lawyer, but other opportunities have presented themselves.

5.  I knew that I would end up marrying my husband the first time we spoke.  I have never regretted that decision.

Now who to tag?  Always one to over think these things I worry, what if I tag someone who doesn't want to share things on their blog? What if they don't do tags?  What if?  What if?  Will I commit some king of faux pas (there is the girl who wasn't chosen speaking up again).  Oh who cares.  Consider yourself tagged.  Respond if you wish...or don't.

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Comments

[gina L]

Your post was very moving and made me think. I see the areas in which you have been chosen. To be offered a law education by your first employer is a stand out example. You are a fortunate or should I say chosen woman to have a man that you love so. I am not a liberal but I seek a life of goodness and kindness. Pass it on! Nice to meet you Mardel! PS- How did you get your name? Just curious my sister's name is Marnell.

[Lisa Laree]

I was always the last one chosen, too...that leaves an inner hesitation that just never quite goes away. I'll bet you hate making phone calls, too! ;)

[Mary Beth]

Of course, you've been tagged! Anyone who willingly slaves in the family accounting trenches and is not behind bars is very interesting to me, at the very least! So now I know you're just a very nice person who loves her husband. Attorney-ing is a great job if you get to do it and get paid with a paycheck rather than having to bring in all the clients.

[Gina]

Indeed, I think you would have been an excellent attorney. Your comment about meeting G made me tear up!