My good friend Hassel Weems from Georgia sent me an email a few days ago. It said:

" I'm tagging you. I know you don't have time, but I don't care.

This is how it was explained to me:
"About two weeks ago a photographer friend of mine started it all by tagging some
photographer friends and challenging them to post "8 things you might
not know about me." On their blog and then tag other friends to do the
same. "

It's pretty fun to look at your life and figure out 8 things nobody
really knows about you. Of course some of you couldn't keep a secret
if you had a locked bucket to put it in, so this may be harder for
you."

Hassel is a southern good ole boy (my mother LOVES him) so he often uses funny phrases that my white Yankee ass has never heard. However, I am pretty sure Hassel meant me when he said that I can't lock my secrets in a bucket. Or whatever. But anyway, this one's for you, Hasselicous.

1. My grandmother owned the snack bar at an outdoor movie theater when I was
a kid. Every Saturday when I was with my dad in the summer he loaded me, my
sister and my two step brothers into a Oldsmobuick station wagon and we
would go watch the entire 3 movies, no matter how good or how bad. This is
when I became a cinema junkie. We would go into the snack bar and walk
behind the counter like we owned the place for food. My dad grew up there
and worked there in the late 50's when he was in high school at Racine Park
High, and told horrific stories of spitting in the popcorn which made us
giggle uncontrollably. My childhood memories revolve around the smell of
popcorn, the tinny speaker in the window, and falling asleep cuddled like
puppies with my siblings in the back of the station wagon. I remember when
Jaws came out and that we could hardly sleep for days before that movie came
out. They tore the theater down in 1976. There is a freaking Shopko there
now. Two years ago when I had a wedding in the middle of nowheresville
Wisconsin I drove by a outdoor movie theater, still working. I took my
kids. They loved it. The movies were horrible, and they don't have
speakers anymore, you tune in your radio. I gave them each a $20 bill for
the snack bar.

2. No matter how hungry I am, I will never, ever eat steak. Of any kind.
Not a vegetarian, but I cannot even stand to look at it. I've also never
had a hamburger. Ever.

3. I have never been stung by a bee. Which makes me positive that I am one
of those people who will die if I am ever stung. Just like when I went to
all those Grateful Dead Concerts in the 90's I never tried the pot brownies
or mushrooms because I was sure if I did I would be one of the .001% of
people who would try it once and then be featured on "scared straight"
frying an egg that was once my brain. Get it?

4. I never took the ACT or the SAT, but the University of Wisconsin Stevens
Point let me in anyway. Later it was discovered that there was another
Kimberly (mine is Kimberley) Anderson (my maiden name) with a SS number that
was off by only 4 digits (this was before a whole lot of computer stuff,
remember) For 3 years we both had to battle to separate ourselves from the
other. She was horrified when she was placed into math 50/51 based on my
testing scores. I was so dumb in math that freshman math 100 was so beyond
me I had to have two semesters of remedial math first. She was a geeky sort
who could not hold a conversation to save her soul . We let it happen. The
stupid school could not figure it out. She carried me through math 50/51 I
and breezed her through Comm 50/100 and we never told anyone. Looking back,
that was probably the most dishonest, insane, how the hell did you do that
thing ever. We literally just switched identies to pass the classes that we
did not do well at. Wow.

5. I've loved only two men in my life. Well, not including Shaun Cassidy.
Whom I have never met. But I still think I loved him, as much as a 12 year
old can love. So two plus Shaun. Da doo run run run, da doo run run.

6. In my life I've only never owned a dog for 1 year. And that was one year
too long. A year without a dog is a year that no one should bother with.

7. I like Vegas. I like Vegas because no one is the boss of me there.

8. Photography...good photography...completes me.