Eight meme

I've been tagged. We begin, as is logical, with the rules. (I'm going to ignore rule #5.)

The Rules:

I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

The first dream I can remember is a nightmare involving myself (lying on a table), my mother (slowly disappearing), and a scary wall-hanging (looking, uh, scary). I think I had it when I was about a year old.
According to my parents, I had a serious go at The Maltese Falcon when I was five years old. Needless to say, I didn't understand much of it.
Although I stopped collecting Breyer Horses when I was about twenty-two or twenty-three (they became too expensive, and I preferred accumulating books to accumulating horses at that point...), I still own the first one I ever bought, at age eight.
I decided I was going to be a professor when I was about seven--thanks to the paternal example--and knew that I was going to specialize in nineteenth-century British literature by the time I was a junior in high school.
During my first two or three years of college, I used my father's hand-me-down KayPro II. Despite the computer's supposed "portability," it was so heavy that I had to call for assistance whenever I needed to move it.
I attended kindergarten in Athens, Greece (if I remember correctly, the people who ran the school were English).
Oddly enough, although I went to high school with a Tony-nominated singer/actress, I've never seen or heard her professional work--I only remember her from school choir performances!
Book #3 will probably be about Benjamin Disraeli.