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Guess what I saw the other day when I stopped over at, Practical Paralegalism<\/a>? I saw that my favorite paralegal, Lynne DeVenny won an Awesome Blogger Award<\/a>! It was no surprise to me of course, since anyone who reads her blog already knows that Lynne is a pretty awesome blogger as well as a snappy dresser. <\/p>\n

In order to qualify for the award Lynne had to share 7 random things about herself and then, (surprise! surprise!) at the end of her post she nominated 7 more people to do the same, including me!!!<\/p>\n

I am not only honored but am extremely grateful for the prompt because in case you haven\u2019t noticed I\u2019ve been pretty slow with the posting lately due to a severe case of blog block. Luckily the idea of share seven random facts about myself got my creative juices flowing. I enjoyed listening to that tap-tapping sound while I came up with this list:<\/p>\n

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1.  I repeated 4th grade.  Yep, they still did that back in the 70s.  Actually one of the reasons why I was held back is because I was extremely shy and a year younger than most of the other kids in my class.  By the time I hit 4th grade I was a complete loser with no friends and I couldn\u2019t learn my times tables.  I gotta say, 4th grade was a lot easier the second time around.  <\/p>\n

2. The school I went to was an experimental \u201copen walled environment.\u201d Each grade was in a single giant classroom, with three teachers and 90 kids. There was never a quiet moment during school hours. Hm\u2026that might explain part of item number one.<\/p>\n

3. I am a native Californian and have never lived outside of the state. In fact, I have never even lived outside of Alameda County. (Other than a brief sojourn in Santa Clara County my husband can make the same claim.)<\/p>\n

4. I am a terrible driver and always have been. In fact, the legendary Jim Willis declared me the worst driver\u2019s ed student in the history of Granada high.<\/p>\n

5. I am not a fan of fruit. To all those people who say, \u201cGee, I love fruit! It\u2019s so sweet and delicious\u201d I say \u201cHave fun and eat your fruit. Just please leave me out of it.\u201d That said, I do my best to still eat some fruit every day because it\u2019s supposed to be good for you but I don\u2019t do it willingly. Bleh!<\/p>\n

6. I went to school with Jill Whelan. You know, the girl who played Captain Stubing\u2019s daughter on The Love Boat? She also played the sick girl in Airplane and had a short run TV series called Friends. (A different Friends\u2026it was 1979.) Jill was in my junior high French class. I never spoke to her. She was always surrounded by a posse of admiring girls.<\/p>\n

7. My grandfather was a chemist at Lederle Labs in the 1940s and worked on the team that helped develop penicillin.<\/p>\n

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OK, that last one is not really about me, but hey close enough right?<\/p>\n

Thanks Lynne for the shout out and most of all the prompt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guess what I saw the other day when I stopped over at, Practical Paralegalism? I saw that my favorite paralegal, Lynne DeVenny won an Awesome Blogger Award! It was no surprise to me of course, since anyone who reads her blog already knows that Lynne is a pretty awesome blogger as well as a snappy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}