11:12 p.m.
July 06, 2003

  1. I have a buddy list that consists of 22 contacts. If you cut out all the ones where it's people with multiple aliases, it's actually 17.

  2. If someone recommends music to me without me requesting a suggestion, I never follow through. Some bands that I really like were recommended to me years ago, but I had to find them myself to pay attention to them.

  3. When I was a kid, I wanted glasses. Everyone else in my family blurred before I did, and I loved my glasses when I got them. I had to switch to contacts for volleyball, and hated them. Now, I just want eye surgery.

  4. If you're looking over my shoulder at what I'm doing, chances are I'll just say "Go away" or I'll hit you.

  5. I played the clarinet for about six months, switched to the piano for about two years, and now am having a much more rewarding experience teaching myself guitar. People keep telling me to get lessons, but I know that'll end up in never playing the guitar again.

  6. I have a mental block that keeps me from going to bed at a decent hour. I always count the hours I'll be sleeping, and they're always not enough.

  7. I like Taco Bell. Quit looking at me like that.

  8. Weezer is currently one of my favorite bands. I got into them by watching Pop-up Video and bought the blue album on a whim.

  9. On the other hand, I bought the Shawn Mullins album on a whim, and hated it, and never listened to him again.

  10. I once went into a chatroom and someone came in named 'Britney Spears'. One of the other people there said "Are you really her?". I decided to try something by coming in as various musicians I found cool. A Rob Thomas and a Shawn Mullins later, I was dejected because my musical taste is uncool.

  11. My music taste is cool, because I like several bands you've never heard of.

  12. I used to draw using photoshop a lot.

  13. I started doing that again, lately.

  14. I can't sit through a videogame anymore. I usually play a little and get horribly bored.

  15. I am a moderate with Democratic leanings.

  16. I really like lists.

  17. Just not this one.

  18. The longest friend I've had in any sense of the word, I've had since the start third grade.

  19. The second longest was since the start of seventh grade.

  20. There's a clump at seventh grade, but after that, it's directly after eighth.

  21. I capitalize compulsively.

  22. On the internet, I get along a lot better with women than men.

  23. As friends, you sick pig.

  24. I hate porn.

  25. I would rather make someone laugh than laugh myself.

  26. I once applied to be on Carmen Sandiego. They only let New Yorkers do it.

  27. Also, I was too young for them, but I knew all the answers to all the questions.

  28. Since I started playing guitar, I've quit Air Guitar and started playing Air Drums.

  29. I've written song lyrics since seventh grade. I've written parodies since a few years before that. I still look back on my early song lyrics as half-decent.

  30. My computer has two monitors.

  31. I love my city, and never want to live anywhere but Chicago, barring demon-insect infestation.

  32. I learned Left and Right from letters on the sides of our old Nissan.

  33. My mom had an easy time with me as a little kid (at least, after I was out of her womb). One day, I was screaming and crying for her to get me out of my crib, and she said to me, "You know, you don't have to cry. You can just ask me to take you out," and the next day I said "Mom! Out please!"

  34. The longest running joke in my family involves going canoeing and losing shoes and hats, and that night, playing Scrabble. I'm awful at Scrabble. I played F-E-H in desperation. My mom told me that wasn't a word. Sure it was, I said. It's that hat thing people wear. I was informed that that was a Fez, and I said, in a heavy indian accent, "I lost my magic Feh in the Turkey River!"

  35. The second longest involved a card game where they were asking who had a four at the table, and they determined no one had one, when I said, "I have a four." A few minutes later, my mom asked about the score of the Bears game. They were down 21-17. I told her, "I have a four" because they were down four points, and she cracked up laughing.

  36. My mom is weird.

  37. I have a very hard time staying alert for any extended period of time - I miss stop signs while driving for more than 30 minutes at a time.

  38. I put cheese on just about everything. Pretzels, crackers, bagels, you name it. It's hard to eat bland things like that without cheese.

  39. I think mathematically. I look for patterns in floor tile and listen to the beats of things that tick or tap or click.

  40. I hate it when people pick on my height, but the funniest experience with that was when Randy's dad (Randy's dad is very chinese) walked up to me and said "Whoa, Huge guy!"

  41. I've determined that my dad cannot be funny in a restaurant - he makes a lot of the same dumb jokes to make fun of the fact that I'm tall, the fact that I don't like anything green, or the fact that I'm a sixteen year old male. He hasn't gotten any funnier, but apparently he can't come up with new material to interest the waiters.

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