1. I start things all the time, but I almost never finish them as intended.
2. This blog will probably be a shining example of that trait.
3. I was raised largely by “girls”. This has left me extremely tolerant of long waits outside bathroom doors, but I am a 25 year old guy and have only a vague awareness of the rules of football.
4. I pretend I understand football. And basketball, and baseball. Hockey I’ve given up faking.
5. At various times in my life, including last year, the collective value of my bicycles was higher than the resale value of my car.
6. I’ve only ridden a bicycle three times in the last year.
7. I swear less than I did in college, but now I use harsher words and I do it in front of my mom.
8. Despite the fact that I am largely a vegetarian(flexitarian, to have Em describe it), I go on a fast food binge every week or two. It grosses me out, makes me feel sick and leaves me feeling hungover the next day, but I do it anyway.
9. I’m not addicted to the internet, but I have a very hard time going more than a few hours without looking at some form of new update.
10. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. Especially to eat out, even though its the one meal where I can cook everything thats on the restaurant menus.
11. I was an international studies major in college, I’ve directed researchers in China, done consulting work for companies out of the Middle East, Europe and South America, and sold a couple hundred thousand dollars in global industry research. But I’ve never gone anywhere but Toronto and the Caribbean.
12. I love going to hole-in-the-wall neighborhood bars, gourmet restaurants, wine bars, ethnic restaurants, orchestras, local theatres, amateur auto race tracks, campgrounds and art museums. I hate going to places that pretend to be these things.
13. I finally stopped biting my fingernails this fall, because I was trying to impress a girl.
14. I think that suburban subdivisions full of manicured lawns and matching houses are ugly and boring.
15. Medical procedures make me queasy – I once passed out while getting blood drawn for a military fitness examination. But I still give blood a few times a year.
16. When they put my dog to sleep I hugged her until her heart stopped beating. She struggled.
17. My barbershop butchers my hair most of the time, but I keep going there because I like the magazine selection and the old Italian music they play.
18. Ever since college, I’ve made it a point to read “The Lord of the Rings” every year. I haven’t read “The Hobbit” yet, however. I’m saving that for an as yet undetermined special occasion.
19. BBQ sauce is the greatest of all non-salsa condiments.
20. I own a Playstation II, which I use to watch movies. When I want to play video games, I use my Super Nintendo.
20.(part II) …there are a great many ways to have fun playing Tetris…
21. I sleep better when its raining.
22. I am out of shape to the point that I get winded walking up two flights of stairs. 18 months ago, I finished a 70 mile, 6 hour triathlon. This represents a decline.
23. I spent at least an hour a day staring off into space.
24. Mayonaise need not exist.
25. I am largely incapable of comprehending auditory spelling…i.e., when someone mentions that after children go to bed, the adults can eat some I-C-E C-R-E-A-M, I have no idea what they are talking about.
26. American Idol – I just don’t care.
27. My right hand is always colder than my left. Its an old swimming issue, and I find it alternately amusing and disturbing.
28. Charities keep sending me nickels in the mail, trying to guilt me into donating. It does get me thinking. Then I use them to buy Twix from the vending machines at school.
29. I hate drinking beer out of cans. Bottles or a heavy glass all the way.
30. Cans are okay when its summer.
31. I’m a morning person. And a night person. Afternoons are a different story.
32. I can’t stand using non-mechanical pencils. It reminds me on screeching my nails down a chalkboard.
33. At any given time I’m in the middle of reading at least a half-dozen books.
Expanding occasionally, just like my belly
February 21, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Really? That’s funny, because I have been impressed with your non-bitten, non-dirty fingernails. I never realized it was on purpose!
So I take it you got your hair cut today, and it was bad again. That’s ok. I’m short and can barely see it.