Solomon Revisited

Pol Montgomery of Fuzzy Typewriter (which you should be reading) recently made a bulleted list of facts about himself. In it he urged anyone with a blog to make one of themselves. Fred, and Kevin quickly followed suit. Here’s me hopping on the bandwagon…

• I slept with a bear named Peeper until I was in the fourth grade. Every night Peeper and I would host a late night radio show. It was excellent. Unfortunately for me, it was in my imagination.
• My parents took Peeper away. That’s when I learned how to make shadow puppets. That kept me going until grade six. At which point I discovered sleep.
• Sometimes I don’t tell people my age for “security” reasons. In reality I just don’t want to be lumped in with most of the e-douchebags my age (18).
• I am obsessed with rounded numbers. It is never 2:23 it is always 2:30. It is never nine it is always ten. If I was graduating in 2007 or 2009 I’m not sure I would take part. My phone number ends in a five, which kills me. When I add up the digits it is thirty seven which also kills me. I take solace in the fact that 3 + 7 = 10.
• I have a sister who is three years younger than me but only two years behind me schoolwise.
• This year gap is because I went to school a year early, took two years of preschool, and then two years of kindergarten. If I hadn’t been (and wasn’t still) so socially awkward I could have graduated and moved out last year. Still, that 2007 thing would have been a kicker.
• I’m the douche who says “I listen to a bit of everything” when it comes to music. Fortunately, I actually try to. I usually say it because I’m far too shy to spew off a list of favorite bands.
• A favorite band of mine is Chumbawamba. I will kill you if you tell me you liked Tubthumping.
• I’m going to university for Education next year. Strangely, my ultimate goal is to run a book/record/comic book store. Not sure how teaching English will help that.
• I’d like to be a food buff. Nothing pleases me more than cooking a really nice meal. Nothing but walking upstairs tired and making Franks and Beans. Hypocrite.
• I love to write. Short stories specifically, and I’m trying my hand at scripts. Still, I absolutely hate my own printing. Fortunately, I am a fairly fast learner and can get by in school without taking notes. I’d probably fail before I actually wrote. My cousin, an awesome guy, decided to try working with leather and made me a gorgeous journal. My first entry was about how I felt like I was ruining it by writing in it. I haven’t wrote in it since.
• I took antidepressants for a large part of my life. Therapists still tell me to take them, but I’ve decided that happiness is probably something I can find elsewhere. It seems to work most of the time.
• I try and have music playing all the time, so that if I ever decide to make a movie about myself the soundtrack should be fairly easy to recall.
• If there is a stage in between a photographic memory and a regular memory, that is where I’m at. If I’ve ever seen a photo of you, or stood behind you in a grocery line, I’ll know it next time we see eachother. Even if thats ten years from now. Also, let me eavesdrop on a person for five minutes, and I’ll piece together their entire life story. Bad habit.
• I played Basketball regularly until I was in the fifth grade. At which point I realized I didn’t have to listen to everyone who told me how tall I was, and that I should be playing basketball.
• I was the tallest person I knew until the tenth grade. I stopped at 6′2″ the summer of grade nine, and at this point everyone has caught up.
• I read a lot. Too much. I have a crazy theory about the borders of reality, and now I get confused about which people I’ve met and who I read about. I’m usually happy when books have a fantastical element like aliens, because I’m fairly quick to weed them out as fake.
• I feel like this list is far too long and I should stop, but I keep thinking of more things I shouldn’t say but will.
• When asked what I’m afraid of, I really don’t know what to say. The correct answer is probably people, but I usually stick to “heights” or “clowns”. Both things I’m not actually afraid of.
• Yup. This list needs to be done.