K Award

Thanks, Karen!

Wait til I tell Hubby I got a K Award!  He'll be so jealous! (This will only be funny if you are in or know someone who is in academic medicine; it's a career development grant given by NIH.)

But still!  My first award!  Yay!  Since I'm a total newbie, I'm going to try to do what Karen did, so if I do it wrong, let me know, OK Karen?

Apparently the rules are that I have to tell ten facts about myself, and then tag ten other bloggers to do the same.  Kind of like a chain letter, no?

Fact #1:  Tulips are my favorite flower:

Tulip border, Millennium Park, Chicago
May 6, 2011

Fact #2:  I.  Love.  Shoes:

Slingback Clogs, Boden

Fact #3:  I just learned how to swim last summer.  Here:

Aegean Sea, Turkey

Fact #4:  I love jazz:

Brad Mehldau Trio at Chicago Jazz Festival, 2010

Fact #5:  I collect vintage Vera Neumann scarves:

Vintage Vera Neumann scarf, silk, 1950s

Fact #6:  I love hats.  And playing with Photobooth:

Modest Cloche by Jennifer Hansen,
100% silk

Fact #7:  I love to go for walks and hikes:

Niskayuna, NY.  Photo taken by my brother-in-law.

Fact #8:  I speak passable Turkish and French, and used to be able to speak German and Spanish as well, although I've lost those due to disuse.  I also studied Latin.

Turkish Flag, Istanbul

Fact #9:  I am a vegetarian:

Carrots from the farmers' market

Fact #10:  I'm fascinated by architecture:

Sweet, colorful houses
Balestrand, Norway

Now I'm sending the award to these bloggers:

The Yarn Poet, because she is my bestie and I love her!

To these three ladies because they are also knitters who love nail polish, and comment regularly on my posts:

So KnitPicky

Knitionary

GerryART

To Deniz at Emerald Sparkled because reading her blog helps me practice Turkish!

To Stephanie at Short n' Chic because hers was one of the first nail blogs I started following.

To Kim at Anthroholic, because she seems so nice!

To these two ladies because they gave me a plug on their blogs:

Deez Nails

Twisted Knitter

And to Saffron at Mooncalf Makes because I love all her craftiness, and also her photos of England (with which I'm a little obsessed).

Thanks again, Karen!  I really enjoyed following the links to the blogs you gave the award to!

And to those of you I tagged, I hope it was OK to do so.  If you choose not to participate I totally understand - it took me almost two hours to put together this post, so I may not participate in future ones, but it was fun to do for the first time. Or  if you feel that I have violated your privacy, please let me know.  I don't really know the rules about these kinds of things.  (Yes, I worry about things like this.  My dorkitude knows no bounds. Fact #11.)