So this tag has been sweeping around DA a fair bit recently and I decided I couldn't resist jumping on the bandwagon when I got hit with it by
I'm sure you know how it plays out. You list 8 random things about yourself (I would say "cool" things, but there's nothing "cool" I'd like to reveal about myself) and at the end, you get the joy of passing this plague on to eight other unsuspecting victims. >8D Fear me!
Right.

1) My middle name is Lorena. It's Spanish ^^ Why couldn't that have been my first name? Then I wouldn't have to put up with comments about how my first and last names sound like something, "straight out of british literature."

2) I'm sadly addicted to the song Tainted Love by Softcell. I adore every single remix, and every single version--there's an entire playlist on my ipod dedicated to various takes on that damn song.

3) One of my fencing bruises looks eeriely like Abe Lincoln. I kid you not: there's a silhoutte of our sixteenth president hanging out in bruise form on my right thigh. It's epic. He's got to be a bringer of good luck for the qualifiers tomorrow: where others might have years of experience on me, I have Lincoln. Bwaha.

4) I'm just getting over a pretty bad fever at the moment, and I'm amusing myself with the hot/cold flashes. So far, I have taken off my jacket and put it back on 23 times today. 24. 25.

5) When I'm in a bad place mentally, I will start to parallel my feelings to poetry. Some people beat the crap out of inanimate objects, some people cry...I quote the abstract genius that is Neruda and Cummings.

6) One of my all time favorite movies is Collateral. Say what you will about Tom Cruise: point of the matter is, I completely the atmosphere of the movie.

7) Indecision will forever be my downfall.

8) I failed my driver's test the first time I took it. Because I failed to do a headcheck. After the car was parked in the stall. Apparently, even though my vehicle was no longer in motion its very presence was such a threat to pedestrians that I absolutely NEEDED to make sure no one was walking behind it. I guess the blue subaru of death had uber-heat-seeking lasers in its tail lights that vaporized innocents. That's not it? I guess then, that the blue death car had the ability to kick itself out park into reverse and crush whoever was passing behind. That's not it either?
So what's the reason behind this head check, oh enlightened driving instructor?
.....So I don't hit anyone when I open my door?
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I tag whichever 8 watchers decide they want to hop on the bandwagon with me.