12/18/06 12:14 AM
So, I was tagged by Mr. Elastique a couple days back, and instead of being my usual curmudgeonly self, I decided I would do my first ever meme. Whoot! Or something. The theme of this one is apparently quite simply 6 things about myself that people might not know about me.
- My left-front top tooth is fake. I have a small titanium rod that goes up into my jawbone and this fake tooth gets much colder than all my other teeth in the winter. It’s a really odd sensation.
- During the summer before my senior year in college, I had a stretch where I worked 63 days in a row (two different jobs). At this same time, I was also heavily into running and in those 63 days managed to log just under 350 miles (and a sub 5-minute (4:46) mile on a bet with myself).
- During my junior year of college, my roommate and good friend and I ran for student body president and vice president on a write-in campaign. We started it out as a joke to make fun of the process, but actually got more serious about things and in only two weeks managed to come in second place (not too far behind the winners, and ahead of one ticket that was actually on the ballot).
- I’ve had 8 surgeries in my life (9 if you include the tooth implant), but have never broken a bone.
- I am more than kind of a sports nut (both participating and watching).
- I have a list of every book (165 and counting) I’ve read including page numbers (44960 and counting) since 1998.
In the true spirit of a meme, I’m going to tag Mouser and Brett. Whee!
December 18th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
I have accepted this meme tag, and have fulfilled all the requirements as outlined. Now where are my gold coins I was promised, with which I can take to the market to buy a fat goose for my goodly wife?
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:48 pm
Hrmm… Evil Aaron… your scheme to get me to do a meme in my journal will not be successful! I will maintain a certain amount of my curmudgeonality. But not to be a total spoilsport… I’ll meme it up here. And to make it more of a challenge, I’ll try to make it six things that you don’t know about me, despite knowing me for well over a decade.
1. I hyperventillate when trying to snorkel.
2. Before college, only four people called me Mouser, and never in public.
3. I have never broken a bone.
4. When I was a little kid, and my family moved to a new house, I beat the crap out of the neighbor’s kid on the first day for no reason whatsoever.
5. I have a secret passion for architecture.
6. Once upon a time, I did public performances as a magician.
Now where is the goodly wife I was promised, so that I might stuff a goose with gold and make ultra-high density foie gras? (wha?)