After reading roughly 20 of these on facebook over the last few months, I realized that I am way too egocentric not to write one myself. Hope you enjoy.
1. I love the idea of going to concerts and have fond memories of most of the concerts I’ve attended, but I always feel awkward while I’m there.
2. I absolutely love movie trailers. I just caught this one today…it is my favorite since this one. But I’m totally the market for “500 Days of Summer” though…Zooey Deschanel is my celebrity crush and Joseph Gordon-Levitt may be my favorite actor.
3. I am nostalgic about Omaha and will defend her to her many detractors, but I’m not creative enough to think of a confluence of events that could ever lead to me living there again.
4. I always have been something of a prankster. I did horrible things to my roommates in college and nearly wasn’t allowed to graduate from high school because I circulated a fictitious “Senior Superlative” list. Nothing prepared me for living with medical students, though. One morning, after a night of heavy drinking, I woke up to an itch on my back. I tried to scratch it, but for some reason my arm was heavy and I couldn’t fully move my fingers. When I finally opened my eyes, I realized the problem...my right arm was in a full plaster cast. Never did get revenge for that one.
5. I haven’t been to Las Vegas in over two years, my longest drought since I turned 21 by more than a year. Not to worry, though…I already have my tickets for a trip in May.
6. I’m in my second year of working full time with elementary school students. I love my kids, but it the single best form of birth control ever invented. Want to lower teen pregnancy numbers? Force high school students to work with 10 year olds for a month.
7. I’ve only really been in love twice, but I fall half in love easily. Fortunately, I’m fickle enough that it usually only last for a couple hours at a time.
8. I’ve had nine concussions since my sophomore year of high school. Those who know me now may find it hard to believe, but I once was pretty smart.
9. When I was in 8th grade, I missed roughly 8 weeks of school with an illness that basically caused me to lose my balance. This resulted in me inadvertently becoming a major trend-setter at Morton Junior High. When I came back to school, I was walking with the assistance of a cane. Within a week of being back, 20 different kids were walking around the halls with canes. It certainly wasn’t that I was that cool…this was just at the height of Boyz II Men’s fame and no one realized you could bring a cane to school before I did it.
10. I am not nearly as big of a sports fan as I used to be. I still follow my teams (Astros, Rockets, Creighton basketball, Nebraska football, Reading F.C.) but I almost never watch a game anymore that doesn’t involve one of them.
11. Now I’m more of a pop culture junky. I would probably write a lot more if I didn’t feel the need to see every movie that comes out or watch every episode of any television show that is even mildly critically acclaimed.
12. I believe that “Arrested Development” is the funniest show ever made and “The Wire” is the greatest piece of art, regardless of medium. I try not to, but I look down on people who don’t like either of those shows.
13. But I also watch “Gossip Girl”. Whew…admitting that is a weight off of my chest.
14. I claim to be most attracted to brunettes, but I always end up dating blondes and redheads.
15. My favorite author is Nick Hornby. My buddy Rob was kind enough to go out of his way to get his autograph during a layover in London and give it to me as a Christmas gift. That is a little more thoughtful than the Corona I bought him.
16. I go out to eat so often, that two of my neighborhood places know my order when I walk in and have even given me food on credit. I bet you don’t have a tab at bagel place.
17. 2008 was the first year that a candidate I voted for has been elected president or to the US Senate. I think this has more to do with me moving from Nebraska and Texas to Massachusetts, than any sea change in American politics.
18. The reason I am a winning poker player is the same reason that I haven’t been as successful in other avenues of life. I don’t value money enough.
19. I have run a NCAA Tournament pool and a fantasy football league every year since I was in 6th grade.
20. I am a total sap. I probably cried 10 times during the 3rd season of “Friday Night Lights”.
21. My hero was my grandfather who I was named after. He was a state senator in Nebraska and told some of most amazing stories about backroom politics that you have ever heard. One reason that I will always be grateful to my ex Kiley is that she talked me into making an impromptu visit to his house when we were running late to a wedding. It was the last time I saw him before he died.
22. Neither of my parents were Catholic, but both remarried Catholics. Now they regularly attend mass and all of my half-siblings are being raised Catholic. This means I’m going to be stuck going to extra-long weddings and graduations for the foreseeable future. Thanks a lot, Mom and Dad.
23. I used to make important decisions by flipping a coin. It didn’t matter what side it came up on, because I would always find myself rooting for one outcome or the other. I used to think this was clever, until it was used as a plot device in the crappy Gretchen Mol movie “Music From Another Room”
24. I think a puppy dies every time Anne Coulter speaks.
25. Nothing has ever gotten me into as much trouble as the fact that I am not nearly as funny as I think I am.
