Weird Things About Me #2
Okay, so “tomorrow” turned out to be “next month.”
Nina, a.k.a. SF Girl, tagged me with the “Seven Weird Things About Me” meme, which she caught from Mel.
As I mentioned yesterday, er, last month, I’m doing mine a little differently. Instead of doing all seven at once, I am going to do one a day. I will also tag one person a day. Today, er, this month, I’m tagging Lewis.
Weird Thing About Me #2
Since the sixth grade, I have been publishing a newsletter/magazine. It started weekly, which lasted for almost two weeks, with the second weekly issue never published. In the seventh grade, it went monthly. I don’t think it was until several years later that I actually managed to put out an issue for each month of the year.
Since about the mid-nineties, it’s become an annual publication. I also had various spin-offs. I think it was 1996 that I first set up a website for it, and briefly attempted to do a regular online edition, which lasted a single issue.
Since then, it’s just been an annual edition and, in the last few years, the circulation has fallen to, well, I can count the subscribers on one hand.
On the one hand, running my own company in grade school did cost me some friends. I was very good at firing people. And, trying to “hire” just about any new friend I made that showed the slightest bit of talent.
On the other hand, I do have pride in some of the work that I produced. And did get compliments on it along the way. In junior high, there was a humorous piece I wrote that my neighbor’s father actually passed around to his co-workers at work. And, in high school, people I wouldn’t normally have probably talked to actually approached me to tell me they liked something in it. I keep all the copies in a fireproof file cabinet.
It’s something I’d like to start up again someday, but who really wants to read silly little stories these days?
Stay tuned tomorrow or next month or whenever for Weird Thing About Me #3!
LOL. Don’t ask me such complicated questions. I’m just here for the silly little stories!