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I might be wrong, since I'm thirty now and all, which means my memory for childhood games is clouding over with time, but since I just played tag last weekend I think I still have some authority on the issue. Let me know if I'm missing something, but by my calculations there are four sorts of tag:

1. TV tag, where you run away from whoever's IT really fast, and if they get near you have to yell out some television show, and if it hasn't been yelled out before than you don't have to be it.
2. Freeze tag, where if the IT tags you you have to remain frozen until someone who's not IT has a clear path to dive under your legs and unfreeze you.
3. Flashlight tag (my favorite) which is played in the dark, and you are IT if whoever's IT shines the light on you and calls out your name, which they can never do 'cause they can't see anything at all. This game is best if you are in an old, two-story barn in Southern Michigan. And if you're not IT.
4. A blogging game/get-to-know-ya/pass the time-a-thon where someone (usually Erika) tags me to answer the same questions that some other blogger just tagged her to answer.

So, I'm it. The questions are:

5 CDs in your Player
1. Chill Out series Acoustik, disc one
2. Chill Out series Acoustik, disc two
3. a birthday CD Jeff mixed me with lots of good jazz
4. Bitter, Meshell N'degeocello
5. Sweep the Leg Johnny

5 Movies You've watched Recently:
1. Me and You and Everyone We Know
2. LOTR (All three)
3. Closer
4. Dirty Pretty Things
5. Kill Bill (both)

5 Nice Things That Happened To You Lately
1. My birthday weekend! Had a wonderful party with the Bongo Room girls at the Tasting Room on Randolph (my friends Susan and TC came up from Florida!), amazing dinner with Christopher at my favorite sushi place, Sushi Wabi, plus tiramisu at Sugar, breakfast with Tracy, Kaya day-spa with Jeff, margaritas with my cousin, and then Aretha Franklin at Ravinia! Christopher invited a ton of people, and so many of the people I love were there (including my mother!) which was the absolute best thing: realizing how lucky you are. While Doctor Feelgood is playing live. And you have a glass of good wine, and birthday cake, and blankets on the grass.
2. I got to do a story with the Low Down Brass Band!
3. I found an out-of-print book I've been wanting from abebooks online.
4. Molly brought me a bottle of Frankovka back from Prague.
5. Christopher gave me a killer backrub.

5 MP3s on your playlist
1. Modern Girl, Sleater-Kinney
2. Blower's Daughter, Damien Rice
3. Me Jane, PJ Harvey
4. Close Your Eyes, Bebel Gilberto
5. Triptico, Gotan Project

If you would like to be it (i.e. copy/paste these questions onto your own blog and answer them so we can get into your life for a brief moment, and therefore out of our own) please consider yourself tagged. Imagine I've run up behind you and tapped your shoulder and laughed maniacally because I am no longer IT.

(and FYI, it does the soul good to think of five nice things that have happened lately. Reminds you of all the niceness flying around. Which is a necessary reminder sometimes, I think).