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B3DA Introduction: numbers edition

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B3DA has begun. It's round 3 ladies and gentlemen! I realized as I started to write this post that I had no idea what I was going to write for this intro. Isn't this supposed to be the easiest one of these to write? I didn't want to just use last year's questions because unlike Amy, my answers won't be much different. So after some brainstorming, I thought I'd tell you my story in numbers.

Number of ways I've spelled my first name since birth: 5 (Rebecca, Becky, Beckie, Becca and for like 4 weeks in 6th grade Beka)

Age: 26 (and almost 11 months)

Number of cities/states I've lived in: 4/2 (Janesville and Madison, WI and Mount Vernon and Dubuque, Iowa)

Years since I started blogging: 11 (I started an Open Diary in 2000. The one I started in 2001 still exists there. I don't have the heart to kill it.)

Entries in this current blog: 333 (soon to be 334 when I hit publish on this one.)

Cumulative years B3DA participants have known me: 80 (56 if you don't count the 24 years I've known my sister Manda. Next longest? Blake at 13 years)

Number of library class sessions I'm on track to teach this year: 137 (in approx 6 different disciplines)

Number of organized sports I've participated in: 5 (Softball, basketball, cross-country, volleyball, and tennis)

Number of penguins in my office: 28 (including a set of bowling pins and jacks accounting for 18 of the 28)

Number of pics I took on my weeklong UK/Ireland trip in 2009: 700+ (I also took 11 rolls of 36-exposure film on a 7-day trip in high school)

Number of songs in my iTunes: approx 5000 (I subtracted the audiobook I have in there. *Bonus points for the first person in the comments to name that book!)


Number of words in the story I'm writing: 2,534 (of the 50,000 I promised by June. Oops.)


So that's me in a numerical nutshell. Hope you've enjoyed the intro, and I can't wait to read all your posts for the rest of the month!!
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  1. Christina HicksApril 1, 2011 at 2:11 PM

    Numbers, interesting take on the intro! My other challenge is to read everyone's blogs all month. We'll see how that goes!

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  2. AmyApril 1, 2011 at 2:19 PM

    Is is An Abundance of Katherines?

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  3. Becky JeanApril 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM

    It is Amy. Imaginary bonus point to you! :)

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  4. AnonymousApril 1, 2011 at 2:51 PM

    Oooh, I want to steal this and tweak it for my very own. I still have to write my intro.

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  5. njgruberApril 1, 2011 at 6:27 PM

    that's a lot of penguins and I beat you in the number of pictures taken in a week long trip...nearly 2,500 on our Washington D.C. trip

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  6. AnonymousApril 1, 2011 at 8:34 PM

    Beka? Really? Wow. Just wow. I know you were in 6th grade, but...

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  7. Becky JeanApril 1, 2011 at 9:39 PM

    Says the guy using a name he picked in high school as a pseudonym? Really? It was for like 4 weeks in 6th grade after I read it in a book. I was 11. Also probably an Angie influence...you know how it is.

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  8. UnknownApril 2, 2011 at 6:33 AM

    I thought it was familiar! Love it.

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