10 random things about me

• I like bulleted lists.  They’re not as restrictive as numbered lists, but they still maintain order.  I discovered relatively recently that I’m incredibly boring and linear.

• Once, when I was a kid out riding my bike, a bug flew into my eye and got stuck – I had to be taken to the emergency room, where a doctor put some kind of solution into my eye, held a black light over my face, and proceeded to detach the bug with tweezers, like I was the guy in the Operation game.  I now have a freakish “eye thing,” where I can’t stand watching people put drops or contacts in…

• I would like to own a bearded dragon some day.

• I think my dream job would be as an analyst for the Congressional Research Service, examining and helping to craft domestic social policy (education/technology, family rights issues).  speaking of boring…

• I’m usually only funny when I’m being crude.

• I’ve always loved the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, but according to this (<scientific) study, I’m probably dumb…  I guess I should read Lolita to smarten up – At least I already know that I like other Russian literature, so maybe there’s a little hope for me.

• My best friends are usually engineers and computer scientists.  And occasionally some humanities kids, since they know how to interact with others.  : o)

• I’m a very slow veggie chopper.  LOVE to cook, but it takes me considerably longer than it should.

• We own every season of Stargate SG-1.  And Atlantis.  And the movies.  And a Dog’s Breakfast.

• On spring break in Washington, D.C., in 2007, after spending an entire day in the National Air & Space Museum, I stepped outside the door, walked down two stairs, and a bird pooped right in the middle of the top of my head.
  • *That may have been the most preposition-filled sentence I have ever written…