The Pi Meme

Along with everyone else here, I've been tagged with the new Pi meme. Since I'm still a bit shy, you'll have to click here to find my answers:

3 reasons you blog about science:
I love questions, and science has answers that lead to more questions.
I like information that has been tested, or at least can be.
Science is just plain cool.

Point at which you would stop blogging:
When I disappear into the woods.

1 thing you frequently blog besides science:
Poetry and prose (is that two things?)

4 words that describe your blogging style:
Tangential
Eclectic
Visual
Lyrical

1 aspect of blogging you find difficult:
Balancing the time to blog with motherhood, my studies and reading, my home and garden, and writing for pleasure.

5 ScienceBlogs blogs that are new to you:
Good Math, Bad Math, (who I actually discovered slightly before the ScienceBlogs debut, but I'm still trying to catch up.)
Terra Sigillata
Retrospectacle
Corpus Callosum
Framing Science

9 blogs you read outside the ScienceBlogs universe:
Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding
Changing Places
Inky Circus
Cosmic Variance
Bioethics Blog
Scientific American Blog
The Panda's Thumb
Daily Kos
JayIsGames

2 important features of your blogging environment:
Eye candy--lots of pictures, imported objects, prisms, fossils, gems and minerals, pillows, plants and flowers, and books, books, books, books, books
Fuel--typically caffeinated, but also the standard crunchy or chocolaty carbohydrate variety

6 items you would bring to a meet-up with the other ScienceBloggers:
My notebook
Coffee mug
PDA
Laptop
A hat
Something paisley

5 conversations you would have before the end of that meet-up:
With John Wilkins on phylogenic trees
With Janet about the curious things our children do
With Carl about writing science that sounds like science fiction
With Mark and Coturnix about time and dimensions
With PZ about religion, just because I'm brave and it would be fun to see him fired up in person.

One more digit:

3 cheers to Janet for the idea... this has been an interesting way to get to know the new neighborhood.

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