I did not come up with the idea for this, but I have been seeing it pop up around the interweb for a while, so Ima let you in on a few little known facts about me. I do this not because I think it is some kind of truly useful endeavor in my writing career, but rather because I have yet to finish my ideas about why parents today should be banned from parenting, feel like crap, and frankly am lazy.
Here then, dear reader, are 25 little known facts about yours truly.
1. Most of my best thinking is done in the shower. In the morning I take a nice long hot shower and kind of let my brain run through its process of figuring out what the hell has gone on while I was asleep. I do the same thing at night, and formulate ideas as to what I am going to think about the next day. This has a side effect, however.
2. I dream. Vividly. Most of the time I don’t get out of bed until 10, despite my alarm going off at 8 because I have been awake for half the night in a confused daze, trying to figure out just what the hell the imagery that just flashed through the neural pathways of my cerebral cortex actualy mean.
3. I don’t get sick. Well, not very often. I get a cold every now and again (like now), but I can’t remember the last time I was knock-down drag-out so-sick-I-can’t-get-off-the-bed sick.
4. I talk to myself. I have gotten really good at concealing it, but there is a continuously running dialogue between myself and, well, myself going on in my head. My head is a vast storehouse of random information, and this is how I organize and process the things that I know for more convenient use in the event of a random game of Trivial Pursuit.
5. I suck at math. For someone who is as scientifically inclined and wanted for most of his life to be an astronaut, I well and truly suck at math. I had to take BOTH algebra levels in college, and stopped there.
6. A brunette with bright eyes and laugh wrinkles will stop my heart, every time.
7. I am 6′ 3″ tall and weigh roughly 190 lbs. I wear a size 12 shoe.
8. I am an avid user of the Steve Perry psyche-out. Screaming the name of the man from Journey at the appropriate moment is virtually guaranteed to give me a leg-up in whatever competition I am participating in, be it Pool, Bowling, Darts, or Big Buck Hunter.
9. I play the guitar. Many of even my closer friends don’t know that.
10. Noah Sucks.
11. I can read weather radar. I taught myself years ago since it made my mildly over-wrought obsession with meteorology easier when I didn’t have to listen to the drivel spewing from the mouth of whatever lackey they got to speak over the weather on the interweb.
13. I don’t like politics. I mean, I understand that they exist, and I definitely have my own opinions, but it seems to me that I am never going to change your mind and You are not going to change my mind, and that is that. It is also fine. The problem comes when you decide that I am dumb because my ideology differs from yours. Eff you, we can be different and still get along. Also: I believe that politicians for the most part are egotistical, self-serving, type-A scoundrals and are not to be trusted under any circumstances.
14. I have been to Space Camp. Twice.
15. Far as I am concerned, a brand new pair of socks is jsut about the best thing in the world that is not sex.
16. I have literally boxes full of paperback novels about war. I have, in hardcover, everything that Tom Clancy and Dale Brown have written, and absolutely love getting swept up in some internationalal intrigue that results in tanks shooting at each-other.
17. I work at Starbucks and I don’t drink coffee. That stuff is bad for you.
18. My life is an amalgamation of random ex-girlfriends, trips to shows in different parts of the country, encounters with more people that I could possibly remember, and oh so much music. I find that I look back on this and dwell on the good old days more than I really should, and am working to correct that.
19. I have a friend who sings and acts just like Mike Doughty.
20. I am finding rapidly that I am not as interesting as I thought I was.
21. Um… Track Jackets. I love them. I collect them (until I lose them). If you have one you don’t want, and it is a size large, gimme. now.
22. I have friends right now that are on 4 continents.
23. My CD collection pretty much stops in 2002. When not listening to electronic choons I am perpetually stuck in the post-punk grunge movement that spawned al of my favorite bands. As such I have absolutely no idea about really anything regarding modern music. Don’t ask me if I’ve hear that new band, because I haven’t. I don’t even listen to the radio.
24. The ocean is my sanctuary. Well, to be fair the beach is. I can’t breathe underwater. but I can literally sit on the beach from sun-up to sundown – and longer – just watching the ocean.
25. I really, well and truly love your mom.
