Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

I've been tagged by Trixie! She says:

It's time for a little post-Christmas game of tag! We haven't done a good meme or tag for a while and things are dull, dull, dull in much of blogdom right now. ...

So here, in an effort to liven things up a bit:

Rules
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Here are my Five Facts:

1. Odd jobs: I have been a watermelon hoer in Oklahoma, Gospel radio announcer in Arkansas, farm-and-ranch editor in Texas, and a dancehall bouncer in Texas.

2. I worked at the last place I worked for 10 and 1/2 years; I had five different jobs but had the same desk in the same place in the newsroom for all but the first five months; on that desk were a salt block, a decorative bull scrotum and other odd items.

3. I've worked where I work now for eight years, and have had the same job the whole time; I'm on my second desk; on my desk are a small ceramic fighting cock draped in a Confederate battle flag, a fake stuffed rooster, a voodoo doll complete with a note pinned to it labeled with a certain kind of "profession" that I deal with regularly, and other odd items.

4. I am thinking only of work stuff because I'm back at work for the first time in more than a week, and actually am glad to be here! The hardest part of my pending move to Colorado is detaching from my work -- not my job per se, not where I work per se, but the GROOVE I've been in since I graduated college 19 years ago. My career has made sense up to now.

5. I've lost 30-plus pounds in the past 15 months, with a little help from Mr. Phentermine, and by watching what I eat more often, doing the Subway diet for long stretches at a time, and by not avoiding exercise as much.

The Five Suspects:

Geoffrey
Kirsten
Junk Thief
Politits
Hapa Theology

WHILE yer at it: Tell us why you named your blog what you did. Myself: A Yankee editor in Texas, now a friend in advocacy communications, called me an "erudite redneck" years ago, and it stuck because it fit!

--ER