Hello, all!

This is my first journal entry; it's been occasioned by Deltabeta's kind and gentle prompting.

To return DB's kindness, I shall follow his rules.

Here are his instructions:

~1. Post these rules.
~2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their self on their journal.
~3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the same journal.
~4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
~5. No tag-backs.

And my response:

a) I'm a brown-belt Judoka. I'm aiming to have my black belt at the next grading in May, 09.
b) I ride a Suzuki Burgman 400. For the uninitiated, it's a very fat scooter.
c) I'm a recruitment consultant, and make my living finding people for sales and marketing jobs.
d) I have six sisters, all told. They're now scattered all over South Australia, with one in America.
e) If I could have any super-power, it would be to be able to understand and speak any and all languages.
f) I have a swallow tattooed on my right shoulder, with the Latin words "Dum Spiro, Spero" beneath it. This phrase translates to "As long as there is breath, there is hope".
g) Ultimately, I'd like to be a professional writer. I'm most interested in copywriting, and telling a moving story concisely, and gracefully. Hence my preference for Haiku.
h) I've written a great many Haiku, and now I am considering expanding into Tanka. These poems follow a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern. This poetry form has been popular in Japan for over 1,300 years.

The eight people I'd like to tag are:

1) ~ littlelovelost (Read "Grey and Blue Eyes...")
2) = Princess-of-Shadows
3) ~ meisan
4) * gnato
5) * kerembeyit
6) ~ JesterSeven
7) * ssilence
8) ~ nlgaud

~sethyboy7788 gets an honourable mention, but I'm not allowed to tag him back!

Now to inform the others that they've been tagged. Mu hu ha ha ha.

P.S. The full title of what I'm reading is: Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to strategic threat, by Anthony Judge.