21 things

awhile back i was asked to write 20 things about myself. this is a slightly modified version. and i ended up with 21.


1. i'm a big fan of aerobies because they fly so much farther than regular frisbees, but the worst part about them is that they sink. i've lost at least 10 of them in my lifetime, probably more. they have fallen victim to bodies of water all over the world, including lake michigan, both domestic oceans, the mediteranean sea, the red sea, the caribbean sea, and a lot of lakes throughout the midwest. i think losing an aerobie in the nearest body of water has become something of a right of passage for me when i travel.

2. i can never tell exactly how selfish i am (but i'm always fairly certain that i am quite selfish). i wish i was less selfish, and at times, it seems like i might be.

3. as a general rule, i'm confident about things i shouldn't be, and i'm not confident about things i should be.

4. one of my favorite things is change/newness--this applies to surroundings much more than company but sometimes includes both.

5. i must fight the urge to climb every tall thing i see. my favorite mood is when i don't fight that urge.

6. my best friend and i used to hit each other with my station wagon for fun...until we broke the windshield with his arm. it wouldn't have happened if he had used proper form. and yeah, i drove a $100 station wagon in college.

7. i'm rarely sure of exactly what i think about anything specific.

8. i frequently hate the passage of time. also, i really wish i could believe in reincarnation. that just sounds like a really cool thing to believe in.

9. i sometimes consider myself to be the absolute authority on humor.

10. i can't wait until the first time i can look around and not see any land.

11. i love the existence of so many choices but i have a very hard time with the permanence of my decisions...and i hate big decisions unless i can make them impulsively.

12. i love planning unconventional dates.

13. my favorite word is "waft."

14. i LOVE storms. especially tornadoes. for some reason they still don't seem all that dangerous to me. whenever there is a tornado warning, i get in my car to go looking for funnel clouds.

15. i've had an inexplicable obsession with the idea of sailing for a decade, and a couple years ago i bought a shitty 26 foot sailboat on an impulse. my friend and i lived on it for half a summer and attempted, but failed miserably, to sail down the pacific coast of mexico. i had set foot on a sailboat once in my life prior to that summer.

16. i have a hard time getting close to people, but i'm fortunate to have one of the best best friends in the world.

17. i tend to get really passionate about incredibly random things when i'm drunk. i've had intense conversations about topics such as hockey in space, using sinkholes as a storytelling device, and alarm clocks that use the sound of gunfire and shattering glass to keep people from being groggy when they wake up.

18. i was inadvertently roofied in alaska when i drank a stray drink to save money. fortunately, i was not taken advantage of.

19. i say that i value truth more than happiness. this may or may not be true.

20. i had a fantastic childhood. my neighbors had this giant, amazing yard that i swear had all four climate zones. my childhood involved a lot of forts, homemade weapons, and zip lines.

21. i feel like an almost unimaginably different person than i was 6 years ago.