Saturday, December 5, 2009

My favourite things

There are three things I value about myself:

1. I can make people laugh. Not everyone all the time. But most of my friends and quite a few strangers. When it counts. And sometimes when it doesn't. Because unexpected hilarity is often the best kind.

2. I take good photos. I hesitated a moment before typing "good". But, actually, sometimes I get lucky. I have been to a couple of weddings where the couple ended up using my photos instead of (or as well as) the professional photos. The grad student who just had a baby changed her profile pic to one of the photos I took in the hospital. And she said another one that I took in the hospital made some of her husband's family cry. That's good enough for me.

3. I'm decent with Excel. This may sound ridiculous but I can colour-code spreadsheets like a maniac on the floor...

Ya, it's definitely time for bed.

6 comments:

SaneAndSingle said...

Your blog cracks me up! I can so see being your friend. You are just as geeky and random as I am!

Asshat said...

Excel is a great mystery to me. I bow and doff my hat to you.

Ms Behaviour said...

Asshat, is there anything else you would like to doff for me?

Itneverrainsinseattle said...

I'm sure you've heard of Shakespeare's Excel formula:

=OR (B2, NOT (B2))

Of course, that's not a question. That's a tautology.

But cereally folks, I think it's great that you know how to make people laugh, and then you take pictures that make people cry. The fact that you can take *baby pictures* that make people cry is AWESOME.

[I was going to post a comment about how you must have many more than three things that you value about yourself, but I just got carried away. I'll try harder to be serious next time.]

Jenny DB said...

unexpected hilarity is a serious skill!!!

Single and Picky said...

Excel is wonderful, and the colours just make all the pain that goes into it pretty...