A colleague of mine, Robin Yap, tagged me yesterday with 8 Random Facts about me. I liked how it linked it to an ice-breaker, especially for team and virtual team-building. From this perspective, it can be somewhat eye-opening in a relatively safe way.

Robin listed 3 rules for this meme:

1. List 8 random facts about yourself.
2. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them.
3. Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they’ve been tagged. I will do a slight twist on the final one–I will email them instead.

8 Random Facts about Jeffrey:

1. I can eat pizza for every meal every day of the week.
2. I don’t like being in crowds at parties.
3. I really do believe that New York City is the Center of Civilization as We Know It.
4. Lyotard’s definition of post-modernism as “incredulity toward metanarratives” really did change my life.
5. Pugs are my favorite dogs.
6. I equate communication with education, as I do not believe the one can occur without the other.
7. I feel moved every time I read Walt Whitman’s poem, I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing.
8. I first appreciated Vincent Van Gogh when I saw his painting L’église d’Auvers-sur-Oise in a show that just closed in the Musée d’Orsay.

Looking back at my list, I am not sure what it reveals about me, but lets see how other people interpret it. Thus, I shall in turn tag Jenny, Arjun, Ernie, Howard, Isabel, Josh, John,
and Ophelia. It will be nice to hear from some of you whom I have not spoken with very recently, and I intentionally tried to get an interesting cross-section of people!

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