25 Random Things About Me

25 Random Things About Me (Or what I’m thinking right now)

1. I didn’t get tagged by anyone on Facebook to do this.  I guess either no one loves me anymore, or everyone is just sick of hearing from me.  Either way, it doesn’t matter.  I’m doing it anyway.
2. I am pretty sure I am one of the first people who ever used the internet. My first connection was at 14.4kbps.
3. In recent years I’ve become a bit of a word-nerd.  I really enjoy painting pictures using language.  I have to do this since I have absolutely no talent for drawing with a pencil and paper.
4. I won my 5th grade science fair with an exhaustive understanding of my project on How Electricity Works.  I was the nerdy front man, and my Big Brother did all the work on the actual model/presentation.  I got a $75 savings bond for first prize, and a $50 savings bond from the PTO.  Those bonds are now worth $167 if I cash them in.
5. I think science fairs were invented just to help the nerdy kids who are bad at sports feel good about themselves.  And they work.
6. I really love weekends.
7. I’m looking forward to changing back to a family congregation at church.  I have loved my singles congregation, but am ready to move on.
8. I lead the choir in my church congregation.  Last week we sang, and it was kind of a musical wreck, but I still had people who came and gave me sincere compliments on how nice the music was.  I am now convinced that 90% of people have no clue what good choral music sounds like when they hear it.
9. I feel my universe shrinking now that I’m engaged, and that kind of scares me.  This is a whole blog topic all by itself.
10. I am now wondering and trying to figure out how much my EE Savings Bonds will be worth when they reach full maturity.  No online calculator seems to know the answer to that question.
11. I really enjoy a variety of different things.  I consider myself a bit of a renaissance man.  I have even learned to enjoy sports and rock music, thanks to my brothers.
12. I often wonder who is blog-stalking me.  It doesn’t worry me, but I wish they would have the huevos to make themselves known in the comments.  I also wonder who “Bocudo” is.  I still haven’t figured it out.  Whoever you are, thanks for the comments.
13. I am kind of a comment whore.  I comment on everyone’s stuff online.  Why?  Cause what I have to say is really important, of course!
14. It’s not that I have to be right all the time.  It’s just that I honestly believe that my ideas are genuinely better than everyone else’s – until I’m conclusively proven wrong.
15. I think the hardest thing one can learn to do is fully communicate a vision you have.  I am a creative person, and basically this is what I went to school to learn, and I still think I’m only partly-good at it.
16. I’m really sad for those people who are losing their jobs right now.  It’s scary because it’s not just folks who are working at a random jive job, who can just go flip burgers somewhere else… These are people who are losing their careers.  They can’t just go down to the corner drugstore and offer to design their microchips for them.
17. I obsess a bit about the things I write online.  I wonder if they are too personal sometimes.  I would classify myself as healthily paraniod.
18. Being totally messed with by another person seems to be a common rite-of-passage into adulthood that most people go through.  Although we’d like to believe that everyone out there is good, there are people who really want the worst for you and want you to be miserable.  I feel sorry for those people.
19. I’m not good with numbers or spreadsheets.
20. I wish the world could run off of good feelings rather than money.
21. I have never cared who won the World Series or the Super Bowl.  I only consider such events good excusese to host or attend house parties.
22. I pee’d my pants in the second grade when my really mean teacher got mad cause everyone was asking to go to the bathroom. George stood up for me, insisting that my pants were just that color.  George and I were never really friends, but I have always appreciated him sticking up for me that day.
23. I have recently started wondering if anyone from my elementary school class every amounted to anything.
24. I think music is the best way to record and recall particular emotions.  I associate music with seasons of my soul.  There is fall, spring, summer, and winter music.  Some good examples: “Singles Ladies” one of my newest Winter tracks, Fine Frenzy is indellibly linked with Spring in my heart, “No Air” and “Bleeding Love” are definitely Summer tracks,  “Rent” is indellibly Fall.  Any time I want to change my personal season, I change my playlist.  There is also music associated with going to sleep at night.  And music associated with driving.  Whatever you do, dont’ listen to the go-to-sleep music while you’re driving.
25. I regret the fact that my children will never have the childhood I had.  They are bound to be more shut in, more hovered over, more obsessed about, and too well taken care of.  I’m a little surprised that I’m feeling so strongly about something so cliche, but maybe there’s something to cliches.