grindmonkeh

100 things that you may or may not have known about me...
Stolen from question_mark

1. I've found employment in cornfields, a grocery store, a construction site, a cd store, two golf courses, website management, and a university network operations center.

2. The first albums my brothers and I ever had were Queen - News to the World and Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Show on 8 track...and Kenny Rogers - The Gambler on vinyl.

3. I almost lopped my left ear off when I was about 6 years old.

4. I've never broken a bone.

5. My dad made toilets for a living for 22 years until the company relocated to Mexico for cheaper labor.

6. Public speaking almost makes me physically ill.

7. I was so bored in a math class I took in high school that I memorized pi out to about 45 decimal places. This is really useful in everyday life.

8. I spent the night in jail for drinking and driving when I was 20. I should have gotten a DUI. My dad, my stepmom, and I picked up my car from the impound the next morning. My dad found an unopened can of beer in the car that the officer had dropped when he confiscated our alcohol. He opened it to pour it out, and beer erupted from the can into his face. I've neither seen my dad so pissed over the span of my life, nor have I ever had to struggle with so much effort to keep from rolling on the ground in laughter.

9. When I was a kid, my dream job was to ride on the back of a garbage truck and pull the lever that smashed the trash. Not for the glorious wages, but for the love of it of course.

10. I give people too much credit.

11. I really like Clint Eastwood westerns. Maybe it's something about making solitude look noble.

12. I love baseball. I played the position of catcher really well, but was a TERRIBLE batter. At the age of 15 I didn't have enough coordination standing at the plate to make the cut.

13. I was cut from the basketball team too.

14. I was captain of the golf team.

15. The only food that I really despise is Jello.

16. I was so fat as a baby that someone approached my aunt and expressed sympathy that my mom's new child was retarded.

17. My tastes are highly eclectic, though usually bad.

18. I love spending time on the river, or just about any body of water.

19. I only have good luck catching fish when running trotlines and bank poles.

20. This list is harder than I thought.

21. When I worked in the cd store (Camelot Music), we watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation at least twice a
day almost every day of December. I know every line of dialogue from that movie.

22. I bite my lips.

23. I bite my fingernails until they bleed.

24. I read books.

25. Bees fascinate me.

26. Celestial bodies do too.

27. I can't resist the temptation of an unjumped-in puddle.

28. I watch less than three hours of television per week. Canned laughter drives me insane.

29. I love Fruity Pebbles, and can eat almost an entire box in one sitting.

30. I wonder how long it took for Mark to make his list of 100 things.

31. I wear a hooded Carhart thermal jacket almost everyday at work because it's 68 degrees in this room.

32. I've recently become hooked on listening to "COAST TO COAST AM with George Noory" talk-radio in the early a.m. since Superfly tipped me off to the webcast. I used to listen to it on occasion while driving to work, though the AM reception is hit or miss. Sometimes I don't mind just listening to the ambience of empty AM static.

33. There's a little black spot on the sun today.

34. It's the same old thing as yesterday.

35. I got one of our student workers fired a week or so ago after repeatedly telling my boss that I was fed up with having to "clean up" after them for an hour when I start our production week every Sunday night. We've hired this incredible young sophomore co-ed to take his place. She's incredibly engaged too.

36. Two days prior, Sexual Harrassment brochures were distributed to us. We're not sure if this was coincidental.

37. Lance Armstrong is probably the athlete that I look up to the most.

38. When I take a 10 mile bike ride around my designated route, I imagine buying a motorcycle and riding it while imagining that I'm exercising.

39. I was pretty close to becoming a step-parent once.

40. Arrrrrrrrr, Matey.

41. My golf game is terrible. Nobody continues to care.

42. I have almost 800 albums on cd or mp3 format. I'm seriously anal about keeping my cd's organized in an alphabetical order.

43. I binge drink. Drinking makes me chain smoke.

44. I'm downloading Skid Row - Slave to the Grind from Metal Monkey.

45. I've never had a cavity.

46. I feel like listening to Hall & Oates.

47. I eat like a horse.

48. I've flown an airplane. I was too chickenshit to land it.

49. I rear-ended a Princess while crossing the border back into the U.S. from Canada and was stranded in Detroit for a few days. I never found out what country she is a Princess of.

50. I never vote.

51. I have one kidney.

52. I was one of two people to get a physical fitness commendation in a detachment of sixty ROTC cadets. About two weeks later I was disqualified for asthmatic symptoms on my medical history from my youth that would hinder my physical performance...after they waived this for a year.

53. I'm nondogmatic, but I generally root for the greater good and on the deserved occasion natural selection.

54. I have one brother, one step-brother, one half-sister, and one ex-step-sister (with one ex-step-brother-in-law).

55. I've gotten phone numbers from two girls in the past two weekends. I've called neither of them. One of them was a single mother.

56. I almost never cook.

57. I haven't done my dishes in over a week.

58. I brew a pot of coffee every morning before the daytime employees arrive, but I rarely drink it anymore.

59. Nestle's Quik, oh how I love thee.

60. I've been in six weddings...the best man in two.

70. Baby, if you've ever wondered...wondered whatever became of me...I'm living on the air in Cincinnati...Cincinnati, WKRP.

71. Bananas make my mouth and throat itch.

72. I stole a pad of parking tickets out of a campus police officer's golf cart once, and liberally ticketed the cars of anyone that I knew and those who you'd guess let their seeing-eye dog park it. I also learned that if you ticket your own vehicle, you can park anywhere.

73. I had a dream the other day that Firestorm was passing through town and needed a place to crash overnight, so I let him stay at my place while I was at work. I remember wondering if he would either rob me or rifle through all my shit while I was gone. He also had dreadlocks.

74. It's not uncommon that people on my lj friends list make cameo appearances in my dreams.

75. I got in trouble as a kid a lot for taking things apart to see how they worked.

76. The maddest I've ever seen my mom was when my brother and I had a war against eachother with ketchup packets in the dining room. Mass carnage.

77. There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going. There's no knowing where we're rowing...or which way the river's flowing. Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a'blowing?...

78. I write bad poetry with big pretentious words.

79. My favorite words are: bastards, diligent, regoddamnfuckingdiculous.

80. I scored a 29 on the ACT, tying for the third highest score in my high school class. I was ranked #25 by gpa. Underachieve much?

81. Movies can make me cry. Books can too. I'm a sap.

82. I have the coolest cat.

83. I've worked the midnight shift on two different jobs for a total of five years. When I was a kid I didn't want to go to sleep at night because I thought that I would miss something.

84. My brothers and I were raised on horror movies since my dad was a fan of the genre.

85. Three movies that gave me nightmares were Gremlins, Krull, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. I sat straight up in bed and vomited each time.

86. When I was about three years old, a friend of my step-dad's stopped by to visit. He set his cowboy hat on the coffee table, and as I walked up to look at it I spontaneously vomited all over it. The next time I saw him was on my 21st birthday. I stopped in a bar and ordered a beer. He was bartending and asked for my i.d., so when he checked it he saw my name and said very loudly, "YOU PUKED IN MY COWBOY HAT!!!" Hilarity ensued and stuff.

87. I can barely remember when my mom and dad were married.

88. My prized possession is a near mint 1973 Rickenbacker that was my Great-Uncle's.

89. There is a lot of hot on the U.S. Women's World Cup soccer team. If I could find a poster online then I'd buy it.

90. I like high places.

91. I hate wearing a wrist watch.

92. I don't have time to smoke pot anymore. I've been sitting on the same quarter for almost five months.

93. I stand between 6'1" and 6'2", and my weight fluctuates between 160 and 175 lbs.

94. My favorite place is our cabin on the river. I have yet to spend the night there this year.

95. I sleep best with a fan blowing on me.

96. I've put ten minutes of actual work into my shift thus far. I'm going home in an hour.

97. I wake up with really bad songs in my head.

98. I can hold my breath underwater for almost two minutes.

99. The only place I have ever seen the ocean is Florida.

100. I average four hours of sleep per day in two hour naps.