They Hold No Quarter

I got tagged by a cou­ple of friends on Face­book with the“25 Things” chain let­ter (From Won​der​mark​.com), so here are 25 things you should already know about me from read­ing this blog. I’ll try to throw in a new ran­dom fac­toid with each point, too.

1. I am gen­er­ally not super­sti­tious.. Actu­ally, I’ve been try­ing to rid myself of irra­tional fears and usu­ally break chain let­ters as a mat­ter of prin­ci­ple. (I’m sell­ing out this time because I think it would make an inter­est­ing post to recall some “Great­est Hits.”)
2. My great­est fear is to lose con­trol. My great­est wish is to con­trol the world. Or at least in some way change it for the better.
3. I’ve been told I will become Pres­i­dent. I hope that APhiO Pres­i­dency expe­ri­ence transfers.
4. I love my BB and my LBs. I wish I hung out with them more.
5. APhiO was the best and worst thing to hap­pen to me at Davis. I got so much out of it, but it did make me over­stay my wel­come with the university.
6. Davis has tried to get rid of me sev­eral times. They even tried to kill me.
7. I also almost died when I crashed while moun­tain bik­ing hard enough to crack my hel­met in two. Brian G got into an acci­dent the same day and had to go to the hospital.
8. I’ve fallen out of a mov­ing car while sleep­ing against the car door. Luck­ily I only scraped my chin.
9. I’ve fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed a car. As soon as I get a job with health ben­e­fits, I’m get­ting tested for narcolepsy.
10. My favorite car is the RX-​7. The Wankel has its flaws, but it’s a beau­ti­ful feat of engineering.
11. I’m not as much of a techie as I used to be, but peo­ple still ask me for com­puter help like I was.
12. Speak­ing of nerdi­ness, I have a hard time mak­ing eye contact.
13. I also have a hard time mak­ing small talk.
14. I’m a hor­ri­ble liar. I can never keep a straight face. Except that one time.
15. I am eas­ily dis­tracted. I’m sur­prised my aunt and uncle had kids after that experience.
16. I was born in Texas. Maybe that’s why I talk slow and have a larger per­sonal space.
17. I did not know any Eng­lish on my first day of school, so I couldn’t use the bath­room. But I was prob­a­bly more flu­ent in Viet­namese than I am now.
18. I’ve had a stranger’s shit on me before. Appar­ently I missed a hell of a fight that hap­pened while I was tak­ing care of business.
19. I’ve had a bird shit on me. Indoors. I aced that test, by the way.
20. I used to give blood reg­u­larly. Stopped when Blood­Source moved and I was car­less for a while, but I should start again.
21. Blood­source has told me that I had CJD and syphilis. Not at the same time.
22. Despite being a strong sup­porter of the Lad­der The­ory, I con­sis­tently try to jump ladders.
23. I’ve only suc­cess­fully jumped lad­ders once. And it came at great cost.
24. Bat­man is my all-​time favorite super­hero. I want to become him some­day. At least for Halloween.
25. I’ve been blog­ging on-​and-​off for almost a decade now. I remem­ber back when I was on Geoc­i­ties, and edited the page man­u­ally every time with a text-​editor. There was no saved record at all. What a waste.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this list. I had fun mak­ing it. I’m sad about the holes in my records that it revealed, though. I can remem­ber posts I wanted to link to but couldn’t find any­more. I wish I had bet­ter luck migrat­ing all my old posts from the pre­vi­ous sites to this one. Some of the fac­toids are for miss­ing posts, so I’m going to write them in the future and link back here. I am going to break the chain in that I’m not tag­ging any­one to con­tinue it.

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