I've been tagged. Oh well. I'll post a real post at some random point in the future. I'm about to have a lot more free time, so it might be then.
You know the drill. Post 25 things about yourself, then tag a bunch of other people. I'll refrain from tagging others, but here's my 25. Some of these are common knowledge, some of these are things I've never told anyone other than my wife.
1. I was born in Camden, NJ - the armpit of a state that most people consider the armpit of the country.
2. From the age of 10, I knew I was going to college, I knew it was going to be at MIT, and I knew I was going to be an engineer.
3. I didn't get in to MIT - mostly because I nearly failed 2 years of AP Chemistry, a class I loved but was horrible at.
4. I've only had 2 broken bones - I broke a finger when I punched a wall in frustration sophomore year in high school, and Alex Karlowitz broke my nose when he sucker punched me 2 years later. All other injuries I've ever had were inflicted by my older sister.
5. I really hate that I live so far from most of my high school and college friends, and I get really jealous when I see that they are always getting together for good times.
6. I feel incredibly guilty about #5 for 2 reasons - first, it's partly my own damn fault for falling out of touch with them, and 2, I only live about 120 miles away, when my wife lives close to 6,000 miles away from her high school friends. Who the hell am I to whine?
7. I was told that I was lazy so many times when I was a kid that it's become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
8. I love being a dad far more than I ever thought possible.
9. Back in '99/00 I used to have uncontrollable rage/revenge fantasies about killing a certain cousin and his parents. So violent, uncontrollable, and unrelenting it put me in therapy.
10. The only reason I never went through with #9 is that I love his sister and brother far too much to ever do that to them.
11. I only ever asked out my first girlfriend because someone told me that she liked me. I was afraid that she was the first, and possibly the only, girl ever to do so, so I'd better capitalize on it.
12. At a party once in 8th grade, I played a sappy song on a friend's piano while looking off to the side at a girl i was crushing on. Now, purely out of reflex, whenever I play or hear that song, I look off to the side, and still picture her there. But, you know, not in a creepy, stalker-y way, more out of nostalgia.
13. I want 4 kids.
14. I was apparently right handed until my sister chopped off part of my pinky finger when I was 2. I've been a lefty ever since.
15. I wish I was a good enough musician to do it professionally, but I'm not.
16. I know that the fiction I write is publication-quality, but I fear I will never finish a story to send it off.
17. Whether true or not, I have always felt like the black sheep of both my immediate and extended families.
18. Until yesterday, I was very seriously considering leaving bench-work science for a career in bioinformatics and mathematical modeling.
19. Many days i feel like the internet is my only connection to living breathing humans other than my wife and daughter.
20. My favorite childhood memories are of times I was camping with the Boy Scouts.
21. While I love
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eniged to death, and he did a fabulous job, to this day I feel guilty about not picking Mike Phillips as best man at my wedding.
22. I've been an atheist ever since the first time I sat and thought about the nature of the universe, and what made sense, and what didn't. I wish I could believe, and I've tried, but I can't.
23. My honeymoon consisted of camping, hiking, and canoeing for 2 weeks in West Virginia.
24. Inexplicably, I am afraid of cows. Well, they did charge me on two separate occasions in West Virginia.
25. Even though I don't turn them in or give them to anyone, I still arrange songs for my college marching band as a hobby.
tired
silly
lazy
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