The Facebook 25 Random Things Thing
Sunday, 01 February 2009 16:47
Facebook is...
I keep getting tagged with this 25 things thing on Facebook, so I'm just gonna post this here and link to it whenever people tag me:
1. I once ate an entire watermelon at one sitting.
2. My rules: a) don't hurt people, b) stimulants in the morning, depressants in the evening, c) never eat anything bigger than your head.
3. I'm prone to breaking rules.
4. I have a birthmark on my ring finger which, when rubbed, disappears then slowly reappears.
5. I write poetry, but rarely read it.
6. Crap I've written fills boxes in our basement. I'm saving everything for my biographers.
7. Some days I think I'm brilliant, others I'm filled with self-loathing.
8. I occasionally feel sorry for the people who love me.
9. I used to hate Brussels sprouts, now I don't.
10. Writing in the first person feels self-indulgent; in the second person, patronizing; in the third person, egotistical. I’m experimenting with writing in the fourth person.
11. In college, I received every possible grade at least once: A, B, C, D, F, NP, P, and an I in Philosophy 12A (An Introduction to Logic).
12. I've driven from Pasadena to Berkeley in less than five hours. I drove from Berkeley to Calgary in 24. I drove from Seattle to Chicago in 40, but that included a stop at Mount Rushmore for breakfast and the associated fifteen minutes of debate over whether to get the Teddy Roosevelt Rough Riders Biscuits and Gravy or the Thomas Jefferson French Toast.
13. I no longer like driving.
14. I've passed a kidney stone.
15. When I was a kid, one of my older sisters told me yogurt was made from ground pig feet. She also told me if you swallowed gum it would stick to your ribs and the only way to dislodge it was to swallow an ice cube and jump up and down.
16. I like yogurt, but I don't chew gum.
17. I have dreams about getting rid of all my clothes and starting my wardrobe over, yet, in reality, I can't bring myself to throw anything away. The other day I wore a pair of underwear that's a quarter of a century old.
18. Raccoons make me smile.
19. Baseball movies make me cry.
20. When I played hockey, I was a goalie. When I played soccer, I was a goalie. I'm defensive. You got a problem with that?
21. I've held more than 20 different jobs and see the Protestant Work Ethic as a hoax perpetrated by the lucky on the unimaginative.
22. I think it’s impossible for humans to fully comprehend the grand designs of whatever force may or may not have created this vast, magical universe. Some people believe this is agnosticism, I’m not convinced that’s true.
23. They say: “Do what you love and the money will follow.” I love drinking beer and watching baseball on TV, and have been doing so for years. They need to pay up.
24. The older I get the more ridiculous everything seems.
25. Three things I never want to live without: my wife, my kids, the DirecTV Baseball Package.