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Livejournal informs me that I haven't posted an entry in 9 weeks. Yikes. And to think, five years ago I would post daily, sometimes several posts in one day. It's not that I have less on my mind or that my life is any less eventful (oh, would that it were). I don't know. Perhaps I just have difficulty articulating my thoughts at this stage in my life. Or, better yet, perhaps I have discovered the incredible ability to self-edit (looking back at entries written by myself, ages 15-17, the acquisition of this skill can absolutely be placed in the plus column)! Whatever the explanation behind my posting drop-off is, I've decided to force myself to ease back into this habit. Livejournal isn't the cultish hell it was in high school, so I doubt there are many people still out there keeping tabs on me (except, apparently, for ex-boyfriends, but that incident was so long ago that surely the stalking has ceased). Perhaps the knowledge that my thoughts an opinions will (hopefully) not be as scrutinized as they once were will give me a better sense expressive security.
I don't have much now, but I do have a little thing I posted on facebook. It was a prompt that had been circling for about a week, and I had miraculously not been tagged, but it looked fun so I did it anyway. The idea was to write 16 random facts about yourself. Soooo here they are!
16. I love Aaron Sorkin and everything he does. Sports Night. The West Wing. The American President. I didn't watch much of Studio 60, but I sincerely wish that I had before its untimely demise. He writes intelligent and witty dialogue for intelligent and witty people. He writes passionately about people filled with passions of their own. I just love love love his work.
15. Red wine freaks me out. I don't like the idea of booze that is intentionally warm.
14. I have an irrational fear of needles. I barely want to talk about it. I have a panic attack if a doctor tells me I need a blood test. When I got my wisdom teeth pulled this summer, I was crying before they even rubbed that alcohol on my arm. The first scar I ever got was from pulling a syringe out of my leg while receiving an immunization. It's out of control
13. I do a mean Cyndi Lauper impersonation. I have a knack for a few other characters, but my Cyndi Lauper is abrasively excellent. In order to perform this, I require music and vodka.
12. I love the theatre because I am painfully uncomfortable in the real world. If I am in a show, I can exist for two hours without worrying about what to say, whom to speak to, how to stand, where to walk, what others will say to me, or anything. A script is my instruction manual for how to live, how to function. I would be completely lost without it.
11. When I was in grade school, I was obsessed with learning about the Presidents of the United States. I used to be able to recite every president in the order they served. I had a bank of random facts stored in my head. I don't retain much of this information, but I few things have stuck with me. (James Buchanan was the only bachelor elected President. Grover Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. James Madison was only 4' 11".)
10. I don't understand why a cell phone needs to serve any function than that of a phone. It just doesn't make sense to me. I just recently discovered that my ipod has a calendar that I can add events and appointments to. I don't see why it can't just be for music. Things of this nature simply confound me.
9. I hate the sound of balloons. If you are holding a balloon and you rub it and it makes that squeaky sound, I will murder you. No joke.
8. For me, the best thing about December is that clementine oranges are in season. I can eat five of them in one sitting without realizing it. They are so delicious. If you want to commit a crime in my presence, give me a bowl of clementines (and maybe The West Wing on DVD) and I won't notice a thing.
7. I don't subscribe to the idea that people are either "straight" or "gay." I feel like sexuality is much more fluid. If asked, I might say that I am straight, simply because at this point in my life, I am mainly attracted to men, but I allow for the idea that a person's ideas of what is attractive or pleasing can change. I could go on, but in general, I think everyone's sexuality is much less restrictive than they realize.
6. I think cats are snobs. And I think that cats know that I think they're snobs.
5. I have one tonsil that is larger than the other. I realize that no one wants to read about my tonsils, but you have to admit that it is a very random fact. Some people have asymmetrical breasts; I have asymmetrical tonsils.
4. I have never been pulled over. (PLEASE KNOCK ON WOOD). This is due to the fact that I drive like a granny to prevent such an occurrence.
3. My favorite part of watching American Idol is not rooting for people, but ripping the contestants I hate to shreds. I live for cliche song choices. I revel in the glory of poor intonation. Sure, there is the occasional contestant that I don't mock (Carly Smithson), but this show gets more and more predictable every year. I LOVE HATING EVERYONE! Plus, Paula Abdul has to be on quaaludes, right?
2. I have two dream jobs. They are both highly similar and entirely fictional. I want to work at Empire Records or Championship Vinyl. I shouldn't need to explain this.
1. I feel like a tool every time I find myself downloading a song I heard in an Apple or ipod commercial, which is why I have not downloaded that Chairlift song. (I would, however, like to take this opportunity to point out that I've been a Feist fan since Let It Die came out and I knew all the words to "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" before that commercial ever happened.)
I don't have much now, but I do have a little thing I posted on facebook. It was a prompt that had been circling for about a week, and I had miraculously not been tagged, but it looked fun so I did it anyway. The idea was to write 16 random facts about yourself. Soooo here they are!
16. I love Aaron Sorkin and everything he does. Sports Night. The West Wing. The American President. I didn't watch much of Studio 60, but I sincerely wish that I had before its untimely demise. He writes intelligent and witty dialogue for intelligent and witty people. He writes passionately about people filled with passions of their own. I just love love love his work.
15. Red wine freaks me out. I don't like the idea of booze that is intentionally warm.
14. I have an irrational fear of needles. I barely want to talk about it. I have a panic attack if a doctor tells me I need a blood test. When I got my wisdom teeth pulled this summer, I was crying before they even rubbed that alcohol on my arm. The first scar I ever got was from pulling a syringe out of my leg while receiving an immunization. It's out of control
13. I do a mean Cyndi Lauper impersonation. I have a knack for a few other characters, but my Cyndi Lauper is abrasively excellent. In order to perform this, I require music and vodka.
12. I love the theatre because I am painfully uncomfortable in the real world. If I am in a show, I can exist for two hours without worrying about what to say, whom to speak to, how to stand, where to walk, what others will say to me, or anything. A script is my instruction manual for how to live, how to function. I would be completely lost without it.
11. When I was in grade school, I was obsessed with learning about the Presidents of the United States. I used to be able to recite every president in the order they served. I had a bank of random facts stored in my head. I don't retain much of this information, but I few things have stuck with me. (James Buchanan was the only bachelor elected President. Grover Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. James Madison was only 4' 11".)
10. I don't understand why a cell phone needs to serve any function than that of a phone. It just doesn't make sense to me. I just recently discovered that my ipod has a calendar that I can add events and appointments to. I don't see why it can't just be for music. Things of this nature simply confound me.
9. I hate the sound of balloons. If you are holding a balloon and you rub it and it makes that squeaky sound, I will murder you. No joke.
8. For me, the best thing about December is that clementine oranges are in season. I can eat five of them in one sitting without realizing it. They are so delicious. If you want to commit a crime in my presence, give me a bowl of clementines (and maybe The West Wing on DVD) and I won't notice a thing.
7. I don't subscribe to the idea that people are either "straight" or "gay." I feel like sexuality is much more fluid. If asked, I might say that I am straight, simply because at this point in my life, I am mainly attracted to men, but I allow for the idea that a person's ideas of what is attractive or pleasing can change. I could go on, but in general, I think everyone's sexuality is much less restrictive than they realize.
6. I think cats are snobs. And I think that cats know that I think they're snobs.
5. I have one tonsil that is larger than the other. I realize that no one wants to read about my tonsils, but you have to admit that it is a very random fact. Some people have asymmetrical breasts; I have asymmetrical tonsils.
4. I have never been pulled over. (PLEASE KNOCK ON WOOD). This is due to the fact that I drive like a granny to prevent such an occurrence.
3. My favorite part of watching American Idol is not rooting for people, but ripping the contestants I hate to shreds. I live for cliche song choices. I revel in the glory of poor intonation. Sure, there is the occasional contestant that I don't mock (Carly Smithson), but this show gets more and more predictable every year. I LOVE HATING EVERYONE! Plus, Paula Abdul has to be on quaaludes, right?
2. I have two dream jobs. They are both highly similar and entirely fictional. I want to work at Empire Records or Championship Vinyl. I shouldn't need to explain this.
1. I feel like a tool every time I find myself downloading a song I heard in an Apple or ipod commercial, which is why I have not downloaded that Chairlift song. (I would, however, like to take this opportunity to point out that I've been a Feist fan since Let It Die came out and I knew all the words to "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" before that commercial ever happened.)