I've Been Tagged!

So somebody (Twice Tenured) actually tagged me for a meme, scary but true! Here are the rules:

• I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
  
• Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
  
• People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
  
• At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
  
• Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

Okay, so eight random facts/habits about myself.  Hmm... let me think... I am kind of boring so this is tricky.

1. I chew gum every afternoon, and my flavor of choice is wintergreen.  Jeff and I have a joke that all gum is actually wintergreen flavor, so when he pulls out his cinnamon gum, I always say, "Mmm... wintergreen!"
2. I love bad puns and what most people would call groaners.  Some people, such as my boss, appreciate this sort of humor.  Others don't, so I keep my humor to myself with them.
3. I had a pedicure from hell about a year ago, where the person giving the pedicure accidentally took off a chunk of my right heel.  The gash healed very slowly, and I still have a scar there that hurts if I rub it the wrong way.
4. Since we're on the subject of injuries, when I was in college I fractured my right radius (arm bone) right near the elbow by gracefully falling in the shower.  That was quite humiliating.  I tried to tell my friends that I'd done it during my Olympic ski trials but somehow nobody was convinced.
5. And since we're on the subject of elbows, I am double-jointed in the elbows.  I can open my arms out to more than 180º.  This is what caused my arm to break, because it bent backwards instead of bending the right way when I tried to catch myself.  It's also something that has exacerbated my very serious medial epicondylitis (golfer's elbow) in my left arm.
6. I keep all my fingernails except for my left thumbnail very short.  This is residual from playing the violin.  The only nail that could be long was the left thumbnail.  I used to keep fingernail clippers in my violin case just in case one of my nails had gotten too long.
7. I am one of a small minority of people at my workplace who dresses up to go to work.  I don't get too dressed up.  It's just that I never wear jeans and I always wear a blouse.  Most of "the guys" wear t-shirts.  I dress up because I feel like I have to look professional in order to be taken seriously.  Does it work? Maybe.
8. I've always been very tall.  I was taller than my teacher in the fifth grade.  By the age of twelve, I had grown to almost my adult height.  One nice thing about being tall is that I can reach the top shelf at the grocery store.  A woman asked me to reach something for her at the store the other day, and it felt good to be able to help.

Now I have to tag people.  Well, I'm definitely tagging my better half, my sister Rachel, my sister-in-law Ginger, my cousin Susie, my blogfriends Tony, Flicka Mawa, Doctor Pion, and anyone else who wants to play along.