Twenty random facts
Apparently I have to post twenty random facts about myself 'cause Carolyn says so.
1. I have a tattoo of a purple peace symbol on my right shoulder blade. My mom wigged when she found out about it, and nearly pulled the funding for my planned semester abroad that was a mere 1.5 months away.
2. I beat the arcade game Double Dragon with one quarter.
3. I taught beginning- and intermediate-level German at the university level.
4. I once ate brain.
5. When starting grad school, I reconnected with my best friend from junior high, and we became best friends again. We remain so to this day.
6. Back in my childhood, when the term "LARP" was years away from being coined, I was running around my neighborhood with a broomstick "quarterstaff" and in "armor" made out of duct tape.
7. In college, I dressed up a Frank-n-Furter for Halloween, and then went to a local "frat" bar. One person actually walked up and asked if I was male or female - I said, "thanks for the compliment to the make-up job." In retrospect, I'm amazed I didn't get my ass kicked that night.
8. In high school, I was moody, hypersensitive, and socially inept. I'm amazed I escaped that place without a good ass-kicking as well...
9. My wife, son, and mother-in-law are all Leos.
10. I have a true addiction to chocolate, a vice that has proven more formidable than alcohol and tobacco combined. I suppose I could give it up if I got really discipined about it, but why the hell would I do that?
11. I once attended the high school graduation party of someone I didn't know, pretending to be a German exchange student. I kept up the charade the entire night.
12. I took six months of karate lessons after watching "The Karate Kid."
13. As a kid, my older brother and his friends used to pit me and my younger brother against each other for their amusement. The winner would be rewarded with the title of "Bruiser," whereas the loser had to endure the moniker "Buttshaker" for an entire day.
14. I'm very particular about my remote control. I actually invested in a $150 remote that lets you program macros and map any function to a given button.
15. In my childhood, in an act of trying to impress the neighborhood kids, I made up a pretend girlfriend. Her name was "Sunny DuBois." I picked the name Sunny because that was the name of Donna Dixon's character in "Bosom Buddies" (and boy, I sure thought she was hot), and DuBois just because it was exotic sounding. Plus, I think that was Benson's last name. Man, I watched too much TV as a kid...
16. I once lost a series of pool bets, and ended up at Dooley's (now Harpers) and Sensations (now whatever that crappy disco below Harpers is called) wearing canary yellow bell-bottoms that were two sizes too small, a powder blue turtle neck, and a blue necktie with the USS Enterprise emblazoned on the front.
17. Since the age of fourteen, my jaw clicks whenever I open my mouth. One day during my senior year of college, it froze. I couldn't open my mouth wider than a 1/2 inch for six weeks.
18. I once narrowly avoided riding a family friend's horse into their swimming pool.
19. I once met Willem Dafoe in Berlin after seeing a play in which he, along with the rest of the cast, appeared completely nude.
20. I've been to both Climax, Michigan, and French Lick, Indiana.
M'kay, I guess I have to tag a couple of people now. Problem is, I don't have many LJ friends outside of TechSmithees. Oh well, braindonut and jennyvel, you're on...
1. I have a tattoo of a purple peace symbol on my right shoulder blade. My mom wigged when she found out about it, and nearly pulled the funding for my planned semester abroad that was a mere 1.5 months away.
2. I beat the arcade game Double Dragon with one quarter.
3. I taught beginning- and intermediate-level German at the university level.
4. I once ate brain.
5. When starting grad school, I reconnected with my best friend from junior high, and we became best friends again. We remain so to this day.
6. Back in my childhood, when the term "LARP" was years away from being coined, I was running around my neighborhood with a broomstick "quarterstaff" and in "armor" made out of duct tape.
7. In college, I dressed up a Frank-n-Furter for Halloween, and then went to a local "frat" bar. One person actually walked up and asked if I was male or female - I said, "thanks for the compliment to the make-up job." In retrospect, I'm amazed I didn't get my ass kicked that night.
8. In high school, I was moody, hypersensitive, and socially inept. I'm amazed I escaped that place without a good ass-kicking as well...
9. My wife, son, and mother-in-law are all Leos.
10. I have a true addiction to chocolate, a vice that has proven more formidable than alcohol and tobacco combined. I suppose I could give it up if I got really discipined about it, but why the hell would I do that?
11. I once attended the high school graduation party of someone I didn't know, pretending to be a German exchange student. I kept up the charade the entire night.
12. I took six months of karate lessons after watching "The Karate Kid."
13. As a kid, my older brother and his friends used to pit me and my younger brother against each other for their amusement. The winner would be rewarded with the title of "Bruiser," whereas the loser had to endure the moniker "Buttshaker" for an entire day.
14. I'm very particular about my remote control. I actually invested in a $150 remote that lets you program macros and map any function to a given button.
15. In my childhood, in an act of trying to impress the neighborhood kids, I made up a pretend girlfriend. Her name was "Sunny DuBois." I picked the name Sunny because that was the name of Donna Dixon's character in "Bosom Buddies" (and boy, I sure thought she was hot), and DuBois just because it was exotic sounding. Plus, I think that was Benson's last name. Man, I watched too much TV as a kid...
16. I once lost a series of pool bets, and ended up at Dooley's (now Harpers) and Sensations (now whatever that crappy disco below Harpers is called) wearing canary yellow bell-bottoms that were two sizes too small, a powder blue turtle neck, and a blue necktie with the USS Enterprise emblazoned on the front.
17. Since the age of fourteen, my jaw clicks whenever I open my mouth. One day during my senior year of college, it froze. I couldn't open my mouth wider than a 1/2 inch for six weeks.
18. I once narrowly avoided riding a family friend's horse into their swimming pool.
19. I once met Willem Dafoe in Berlin after seeing a play in which he, along with the rest of the cast, appeared completely nude.
20. I've been to both Climax, Michigan, and French Lick, Indiana.
M'kay, I guess I have to tag a couple of people now. Problem is, I don't have many LJ friends outside of TechSmithees. Oh well, braindonut and jennyvel, you're on...