Ambercake pointed out that my seven things were missing a number four.  I'll skip the obvious one (that me and numbers aren't on speaking terms sometimes) and give you something else ...

4. In ninth grade (which was still in the Middle School) I was allowed to join the High School debate team. After school I would go over to the High School and do research.  When you are on the High School Debate Team, the first quarter is all research and the second quarter is all debate tournaments.  I loved the research part: finding facts,  writing them on note cards, and filing them.  My debate partner, September, was an older girl who seemed super-worldly to me.  I suspected her of drinking alcohol and possibly even going further than first base with her boyfriend.  I was a little afraid of her.

Our very first tournament, September and I swept the floor with everyone and took first place.  It was an Open tournament, meaning they didn't split us up by grade or ability.  My theory is that we won because no one could be mean to us without looking like a jerk because we were girls.  Usually, in a debate, you call the other side dummies, etc. to discredit them.  We could do that, but our opponents, who were all guys, had to be polite.

I did two ridiculous things during the tournament:

1) I walked out of the bathroom with the back half of my skirt tucked in my pantyhose and didn't notice for about ten minutes ... until I noticed people down the hall whispering about me.

2) During the final debate, with everyone packed into a tiny classroom watching, I referred to murderous South American dictators who torture and kill their own citizens as "those yucky people."  Only one of the judges mentioned the fact that I used "yucky people" and suggested that I work on my vocabulary.

All that to say, sometimes the English language and I aren't on speaking terms either. :)