Here is the second meme which a friend tagged me. Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.

1 / I still enjoy reading comic books, especially Batman and Green Lantern
2 / Although I don’t watch current television shows, I watch dvd’s of M*A*S*H and Star Trek: the Next Generation
3 / I attended my first science fiction convention in 1967 in New York City
4 / The first science fiction magazine I read was the January, 1963 issue of Worlds of IF.
5 / My first election was 1972 when the choice was Richard Nixon or George McGovern. *ugh
6 / While in college I decided I wanted to be a professional science fiction writer
7 / I attended Clarion West in 1972 and was told by Harlan Ellison to give up writing
8 / I decided to become a teacher because I believed it would give me lots of time to write
9 / I turned out to be a considerably better teacher (I think!) than a writer
10 / I have a stack of unpublished manuscripts which I wrote before computers and which only exist in a single typewritten copy each
11 / My favorite writer has progressed from Clifford D. Simak to Robert Silverberg to Michael Bishop to Kim Stanley Robinson
12 / I grew up listening to WABC-AM rock and roll radio as a child and still love rock music
13 / My favorite artist progressed from Dion to the Dave Clark 5 to the Moody Blues to the Kinks to Bruce Springsteen to Chris de Burgh to Richard Thompson
14 / I prefer progressive rock to any other type of music
15 / For me science fiction is about future history much more than science or technology
16 / I generally prefer planetary romances to space opera
17 / I have created my own future history and have set much of my own fiction in it
18 / I should spend more time writing fiction, even though it has no readership while my nonfiction has a regular audience
19 / I do not meditate nearly as much as I should
20 / How can I possibly retire when I love spending time with my students so much?
21 / I have two big regrets. One is that I have never been able to publish any science fiction
22 / My other regret is that I have always been unable to make social connections in sf fandom
23 / Most people are too selfish to care about the common good, or spend time and effort doing anything unless it benefits themself somehow
24 / I am friendlier with more people I have never met than with people I have actually met
25 / Too many books too little time