100 Things About Me, 1-20
1. I was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts.
2. My parents attended Brandeis University in Boston (which is why I was born in the States).
3. Learning to say my “R’s” was next to impossible thanks to the Boston accent.
4. Saying my name “Cara” was also next to impossible, also thanks to the Boston accent.
5. I no longer have a Boston accent.
6. I have a sister named Darmody (her nickname is Duckie and my name for her when I was too young to say her name properly was Doormouse).
7. I have several first cousins that I’m close with; two of them are getting married in 2007.
8. I’m designing the invitations for one of them.
9. My mother is a Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Arts and Literature at Trent University.
10. My father lives in the Northwest Territories, teaches at the local college and plays sax in a jazz band.
11. They both have their Masters in Fine Arts, one of the few things that they actually have in common.
12. I rebelled as a teenager by going into science.
13. My undergraduate studies were in Mathematics.
14. I love math puzzles.
15. Kakuro puzzles are way better than Sudoku puzzles.
16. My graduate studies were in Veterinary Medicine.
17. I spent two summers working at equine clinics outside of Chicago.
18. I currently work as a writer and editor.
19. I am an aspiring filmmaker.
20. I think I had a relapse from my rebellion.
Death by Cactus
In 1982, 27-year-old David Grundman and a roommate decided to do a little “cactus plugging,” by shooting the desert plant with a shotgun.
The first one, a small cactus, went off without a hitch and Grundman was encouraged to try a larger prey: a 26-foot-tall Saguaro cactus, probably a 100-year-old plant. Unfortunately, Grundman blasted off a large chuck of the cactus that fell on him and crushed him to death!
To date, this was probably the only known instance of revenge killing by a plant.
More strange deaths can be found at Neatorama.
