Nov 25 2008
I won a blog award. Hey, I rock.
For reasons unknown, I received The Rock Star Award on Nov. 23rd from Davida at Glue 4 Families (discussing family related issues). I’m touched and honored..
Apparently, I’m to state eight interesting fachttp://rocketscientist.today.com/files/2008/11/rockstarnx1.jpgts about myself, so here goes.
1. My father was the oldest of twelve. I’m the oldest of seven. And I have three children (and will not be having more). At least we’re moving down..
2. We have an odd blood type trend going in my family. My father was A, my mother O. Both grandfathers A, both grandmothers O. I am A and I have been married twice: in both cases, my husband was type O.
3. I am descended from Elizabeth, daughter of Edward I of England. Being of that line, makes me a direct descendant of not only William the Conqueror but also Alfred the Great.
4. I am missing the lip of bone that keeps my kneecap from slipping out of place (congenitally). Believe me, this is a very inconvenient circumstance.
5. I have written (or cowritten) and presented a total of six technical papers, five in the last five years. All of the last five were presented at the first three conferences for the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety in Nice, France, Chicago, IL and Rome, Italy respectively. IAASS is the only professional organization that I have been a member of for so long.
6. I really am a rocket scientist, not that I design rockets specifically, but that I have been intimately involved in designing and certifying space hardware for nearly 20 years.
7. I skipped eighth grade.
8. I not only write speculative fiction, I believe in magic and psychic power.
And here are my choices for never-miss blogs because they ROCK:
*blushing*
Thanks! I’ll be sure to check out my fellow rock stars (those whom I’m not already familiar with, that is).
Wow–you skipped 8th grade! That’s impressive!
Davida
You DO rock! I hope you wake up every day knowing that, sis!
Oh, and I’ve broken the family tradition, since my blood type is O, and my hubby’s is AB… the Lord only knows what my kids have! A or B, I suppose, given what they have to work with!
Even more than Alfred the Great, I like being related to Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, and the likely author of much of Shakespeare’s works. Maybe I should blog about THAT some time.