I wish I had something really special for my Andrew Fact # Life, the Universe and Everything, but I don't.

42. I don't like shopping.I don't really like to shop, for anything at all. I dislike food shopping the most, and I'm not so fond of clothes shopping either. Every once in a while my desire to own something overcomes my dislike for shopping ( Read more... )

I haven't had my cry yet ( Read more... )

I've created a new box in the left margin of my journal to keep track of my "Interesting facts you may not have known about me," now renamed "Andrew Facts." So if you missed a fact (and care), you can navigate right to it by number!

40. I've inherited my mom's interjection: "UCH!"No, that's not pronounced "ooch!" as in rhyming with pooch. The " ( Read more... )

39. The voices!There's usually a lot of noise going on in my head before I go to sleep. It only starts up after my eyes have been closed for a while, but I'm still very much awake. Sometimes it'll be music and other times it'll be a lot of voices and yet other times it'll just be nondescript noise. It always starts gradually, so gradually that I ( Read more... )

38. I'm not good at giving complimentsThis is kind of along the same lines as my "I'm not polite" revelation. It never occurs to me to compliment people, though I realize even the smallest compliment can brighten a person's day. When I was a teenager, I somehow got it into my head that complimenting someone, that is to say revealing a feeling ( Read more... )

36. I am impoliteSometimes I think good manners and common courtesies that seem to be engrained in other people are as far outside of my nature as they can possibly be. For example, if someone is reaching across me to grab something, it doesn't occur to me to grab it and pass it to them until long after the moment has passed. If someone drops ( Read more... )

34. I always choose comfort over style.
That's all there is to that one.

35. I have the driest skin on the planet, especially on my hands and toes.
That one's pretty self-explanatory as well.

Can anyone recommend a good hand cream?

30. I am not a breakfast person.Under normal circumstances, I don't eat breakfast. For the first few days after a major routine change (such as going to college or starting a new job), I'll give it a shot, because I'm certainly not averse to eating. But usually, I either don't leave myself time for breakfast or I find I just can't stomach food ( Read more... )

29. Guilty pleasureI LOVE the Olive Garden. I was never afraid to shout it from the rooftops until I went away to college and met a bunch of snotty Jews. We all went out to the Olive Garden for our last meal before fasting on Yom Kippur. The topic of our favorite restaurants came up and each person shared theirs. They were all very specific ( Read more... )

28. I am shyMost of you have seen the wacky, gregarious, loud Andrew, but that is Andrew in his ultimate comfort zone. In a situation where I don't know anyone, or where I only know a few people but those people know everyone, I tend to be very withdrawn and guarded, and I'm afraid that sometimes it makes me come off as snotty or aloof. I ( Read more... )