auspicious coincidence

Oh, dear. TMcG has tagged me for a meme. Here it goes:

The rules of Buddhablog fight club are as follows...

• Link to the person who tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
• Share 7 random or weird things about yourself.
• Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs
• Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I'm afraid of grasshoppers.
2. I switched to the local train today for one stop simply to ensure that I wouldn't have to walk past my ex's place of work in case he was working.
3. I turn on my eagle eyes whenever I walk around places where I might run into him in order to avoid him, and I'm utterly embarrassed by it.
4. I'm in the midst of a text message conversation with said ex, hence so much of these random facts being devoted to him.
5. I am silently crying. I'm often a loud, sobbing crier, but I think that to some degree I just don't have it in me anymore.
6. The only people that I've even been attracted these past few months have been wildly inappropriate (as in married). Perhaps being attracted to wildly inappropriate people is a way to remind myself that I could potentially still be attracted to someone that is appropriate some day, when I'm ready? Or, worst case scenario, maybe I just want to set myself up for continued suffering, an "expect the worst—you'll never be disappointed" sort of mentality.
7. I adore pumpkin, but not pumpkin pie or StarSucks pumpkin spice lattes.
8. Bonus useless random fact: I used to be obsessed with Kids in the Hall and it trips me out when my son watches Lilo and Stitch because one of the kids does a voice in that show. He's watching it now.

Now the hard part. Who to tag? I don't really read blogs much anymore and TMcG already tagged some of my peeps. (Did I just say that? Who are 'you' and what have you done with 'me'?) Do they really have to be Buddhist-y weblogs? Is this like a chain letter? Would anyone out there like to volunteer and I'll just put the link in upon your request?

(Bonus bonus fact: Sometimes I want to put emoticons in entries, like right there after that rather pathetic request for volunteers, but I resist because I think that emoticons in weblogs are kind of tacky—as if they're hip and cool in other contexts. That noted, I use them all the time in email and texts. Oh, and while we're throwing out useful personal trivia let me just add that I like the traditional ones made up from punctuation much more than I enjoy the graphical ones, although the green 'barfy' Yahoo! smiley cracks me up every time.)