First thoughts meme

My friend Meg posted this interesting meme. Someone gives you five words she thinks of when she thinks of you. You write about them. Here are the five words Meg came up with about me:

Pirates, kombucha, tattoos, freckles, boots.


1. I like pirates. What more can I say? Well, I don't really like them at all. I think piracy is terrible. People get killed by pirates, and other people kill pirates. But I like pirate lore. Highwayman lore, too. I have an unfinished tattoo of pirate skeletons on my right forearm. It's part of a sleeve. The top is of a mermaid with octopus tentacles. She seems to be triumphantly rising above the dead pirates. My tattoos carry no deep meaning, so take what you will from that. I like pirate lore and all the skallywags, scoundrels, outlaws, and free spirits who live there--even some of the really nasty ones. No, I do not want to be a pirate.