As if you cared...
Things you most likely do not know about me:
*The most perfect junk food moment I've ever experienced was when I bought Tastykake Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes and Yoo-hoo at a convenience store in Princeton, NJ in 2002.
*I performed a clarinet duet with my friend Tiffany in elementary school, and she stopped playing her part in the middle. About 17 years later, I was playing a clarinet duet in a church with my friend Patrick when one of the keys on his clarinet got stuck, and he was silent for the rest of the song. The symmetry is eerie.
*I have a strong aversion to ordering the same food as someone else at my table in a restaurant. This idiosyncrasy did not set in until the end of college, and I'm unsure of its origin. If I was rich, this would make me eccentric. I'm afraid to guess what it makes me at my current economic level.
*Just last week I completely forgot my dad's 50th birthday. Once I realized what I'd done, it was the worst feeling I've had about my performance as a son since I told my father that his model of emotional distance made it hard for me to love and trust people.
*My entire life I've been trying to be as fully black and fully Puerto Rican as I can be, but I've rarely explored or embraced my identity as a biracial person.
*I used to be unable to fall asleep unless I had a red lightbulb in the lamp on my nightstand.
*Until I traded in my '85 Corolla to buy my current '97 in the summer of 2000, I didn't know that you were supposed to change your oil every 3 months or 3000 miles. I had not changed my oil for four years and the dipstick was completely dry when my father and I checked it before I traded it in.
*I think the end of A League of Their Own, with Madonna's "This Used to Be My Playground" playing while old women play baseball, is one of the most beautiful endings to a movie I've ever seen.
*The most perfect junk food moment I've ever experienced was when I bought Tastykake Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes and Yoo-hoo at a convenience store in Princeton, NJ in 2002.
*I performed a clarinet duet with my friend Tiffany in elementary school, and she stopped playing her part in the middle. About 17 years later, I was playing a clarinet duet in a church with my friend Patrick when one of the keys on his clarinet got stuck, and he was silent for the rest of the song. The symmetry is eerie.
*I have a strong aversion to ordering the same food as someone else at my table in a restaurant. This idiosyncrasy did not set in until the end of college, and I'm unsure of its origin. If I was rich, this would make me eccentric. I'm afraid to guess what it makes me at my current economic level.
*Just last week I completely forgot my dad's 50th birthday. Once I realized what I'd done, it was the worst feeling I've had about my performance as a son since I told my father that his model of emotional distance made it hard for me to love and trust people.
*My entire life I've been trying to be as fully black and fully Puerto Rican as I can be, but I've rarely explored or embraced my identity as a biracial person.
*I used to be unable to fall asleep unless I had a red lightbulb in the lamp on my nightstand.
*Until I traded in my '85 Corolla to buy my current '97 in the summer of 2000, I didn't know that you were supposed to change your oil every 3 months or 3000 miles. I had not changed my oil for four years and the dipstick was completely dry when my father and I checked it before I traded it in.
*I think the end of A League of Their Own, with Madonna's "This Used to Be My Playground" playing while old women play baseball, is one of the most beautiful endings to a movie I've ever seen.