Chain Mail

When I was in elementary school a friend invited me into this chain mail...let's call it enterprise. It was a well developed system where you are invited in and subsequently have to send postcards to five or so different people. If you know me, you know I have a hard time remembering my childhood, so most of these facts could be wrong. Anyway, you send five postcards and end up getting like 25 back from all over the country. I agreed to do it and lazily sent out the cards. I didn't write much on them and didn't bother to get cool postcards to send. This backfired on me when I began receiving postcards from all over, cool postcards with little stories about who the people were and what they did. I guess I didn't quite understand the excitement and openness with which one should pursue such an endeavor. Since then I've denied access into an underwear chain mail and some sort of bread in a bag chain (sorry Katie). But today I may redeem myself just a little.

Brandon Barker was kind enough to tag me in something called 123, Meme. Here's the rules:

123 Meme Rules: (1) Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating! (2) Turn to page 123. (3) Find the first 5 sentences. (4) Post the next 3 sentences. (5) Tag 5 people.

Here's what I found:

Once a work has been cited in full, subsequent references to it should be shortened in form. These forms are fully discussed and illustrated in 8.84-96.
BOOKS
First, Full Reference
8.23 With some exceptions, such references to legal, classical, and biblical works and to certain classes of public documents (see chapter 12), information in notes citing a published work for the first time is given in the sequence indicated in 8.24-5.

8.24 For a book, the first, full reference should include the following information in the order shown:
Name of author(s)
Title and (if any) subtitle
Name of Editor, compiler, or translator, if any
Number or name of edition, if other than first
Name of series in which book appears, if any, with volume or number in the series
Facts of publication, consisting of
Place of publication
Name of publishing agency
Date of publication
Page number(s) of the specific citation

Wow. That was horribly boring and taken from A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian. You kind of wish you hadn't tagged me, huh, Brandon? Or that my computer wasn't in the dining room, while most books are kept in the living room. Interesting books, too. It does go to show that I'm still a graduate student, even though I'm barely working on my papers. A couple interesting facts about this book and its relationship to my studies: For one class this was the only assigned reading, and we were assigned portions of it to read. Come on profession, you're not kidding anyone. Also, in the seminary a couple professors have the bad habit to calling the author, Katie. Her name is Kate and more so Kate L. Turabian. Just another subtle hint of the chauvinism that is prevalent in my school. To our own fault, Jon and I have called the same author Turbabeian.

As for tagging 5 people. I'll go with: Sarah Albertson, the Tramels (that's four people really, but I would be interested in what Ivy is reading), Tim Ryder, Allison Jackson, and Andrea Schmidt (because she has all but abandoned her blog but is always reading).