Dan Drezner has tagged me for the latest meme — 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me.

1. I was the smallest kid in high school, until I hit my growth spurt sometime in my sophomore year. One gym teacher gave me the knick-name “peanut.” One of many scars that came out of gym class.

2. I entered college in 1983 with the plans of being a computer science major. The first program I wrote was a bubble sort on punch cards. Even though I recieved As, I decided to not be one of the only female computer science majors at my school and start off at a company like Microsoft on the ground floor. No, I decided to be an anthropology major. That lasted for a year or so and then I switched again and again, finally settling on political science.

3. During summer break, I wrote a database program organizing their entire year’s sales using Lotus 1-2-3 (eyes rolling) for a solenoid valve computer. On top of the minimum wage salary, they gave me a $100 saving bond.

4. After college, I was an editor for the computer book division at Simon & Schuster. My boss encouraged me to flirt with the writers for PC Magazine in order to get them to sign book contracts with us. One columnist agreed to write a book with us after we solved the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle on an airplane going to COMDEX in Las Vegas.

5. While I was a computer book editor, someone tried to fix me up with Bill Gates. I said, no way, man. At that time, I was into poor poetry-type guys.

I tag Russell Arben Fox, Scott Lemieux, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Melissa Summers, and Heather Armstrong.