Friday Five

Five facts about me:
1.  My parents are both geologists.  I spent a considerable amount of time as a child looking at road cuts.  And I still, on car trips, can look up and exclaim, "Look at the stratification in that."
2.  When I was ten, I wanted to go to law school and then become President.  My fifth grade teacher set up a "learn about the law" program in which kids could take "the bar", become lawyers, and then hold mock trials.  We had one.  I was prosecuting attorney.  But during recess, when the trial was over, I saw the accused (who had been found guilty) crying in the classroom.  And my dream of being a lawyer died right there. 
3.  My sister and I shared a room for years.  At night, when we were supposed to be asleep, she read aloud THE HOBBIT and the entire LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy.  I still can't disassociate the stories from the sound of her voice.
4.  I studied ballet for two weeks when I was eight.
5.  The thing that frightened me most as a child was a nightmare I had in which a pretty little yellow bird turned into a monster.  The thing that frightens me most now?  Well, I'm not saying…