Ten Facts...

[Astreja]

1. I was a science geek in high school, but in the end I wound up with degrees and certificates in arts, business administration and computer networking.
   
2. I brew mead.
   
3. I have a purple belt in Shotokan karate and a yellow belt in judo.
   
4. My musical instrument collection consists of four clarinets, a digital piano, an alto sax, and a flute.
   
5. At one point there were nine cats living in my house.
   
6. Given the choice between shopping for clothes and shopping for building supplies, odds are 10:1 in favour of building supplies.
   
7. I speak bits and pieces of over twenty languages, just enough to get me into serious trouble on any continent.
   
8. The thought of eating smoked oysters fills me with irrational terror.
   
9. There's a toy Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog on my desk, and there's a USB cable in his fierce jaws.  (His name is Wensleydale, the Cable Management Rabbit.)
   
10. I "won" National Novel Writing Month six years in a row (wrote 50,000+ words), but had a perfect storm of obstacles in 2011 (broken fibula, rear-ended and totaled car, and less spare time due to musical commitments) and haven't done it since.