I've decided to take a page from a good friend's blog. She has an entry in her Myspace blog where she lists 100 facts about herself. And as you go down the list, it gets more and more candid with each fact. These lists usually start off with pretty basic facts, like core personality traits, interesting facts, favorites, pet peeves. But as the list goes on, you start peeling back the layers, and much like in the Freudian school of thought, you start to uncover memories that you don't necessarily keep in front of your head. It's good blogging material, too. So here goes.

1. I'm a very passive person, because I was such a little snot when I was a kid.
2. I am a very avid fan of the works of David Byrne. Yes, even his solo stuff.
3. I'm really, really good with numbers. That is, I can remember birth dates better than names or faces. I remember the phone number, birth date and home address of the guy I hung out with in third grade.
4. On November 20, 1992, I met Megan. She was the first person I've ever reached out to. She needed someone's help and I offered it. We've been best friends ever since.
5. The last time I was really overwhelmed with joy was when Megan told me she'd consider it an honor for us to raise children together.
6. I decided to learn Vietnamese, just to impress her, too.
7. It's been seven years since I had a haircut, about six since I had a trim.
8. I spend insane amounts of time going on Google Earth and looking up foreign cities. Particularly ones in the Baltic region or in Africa.
9. When it comes to dating, I prefer somewhat older women.
10. I also enjoy the companionship of black women.
11. When I walk, my left ankle makes a sound similar to someone walking on gravel. Why I didn't sue Einstein Medical Center is beyond me.
12. I have an incredible ability to solve interpersonal conflicts, but I hate doing it.
13. Another personal hero of mine is psychiatrist Dr. Aaron Beck. He kicks Freud's ass.
14. To prove my love to a girl, I wrote an entire omorashi novel in two weeks and sent it to her. Click the link for the punchline.
15. Yeah, that's right. A 106-page novel on a subject that eludes me over and over again. Meanwhile, my current novel has been in production for over two years.
16. I don't give advice unless people ask, because that's the proper thing to do.
17. I don't ever curse in front of women.
18. For someone who works in maintenance, I'm a total slob.
19. Few things piss me off more than when people keep score. Ya know, people keeping tabs on everything that has inconvenienced or offended them.
20. I really, really like my alone time. If I don't get it, your ass is in trouble.
21. I know the origins of all my scars. There's one along the shaft of my penis, because someone forgot how to perform oral sex without the use of her fucking incisors.
22. If there's ever such a thing as being too much of a gentleman, that'd be me.
23. I absolutely detest grape juice.
24. It's been proven that I have an intense fear of emotional attachment. The closer I get to a person, the more I fear hurting them.
25. I've had two sexual partners in my entire lifetime. I only consider the second of the two to be fulfilling.
26. A lot of people know the story of my first sexual partner. I actually got the girl pregnant, and the shock and worry of it ultimately lead to her death. I've only recently come to terms with it. That really shouldn't have come out so casually, but it's an event in my life I've struggled to deal with for the last three years, and I think I've finally made peace with myself.
27. I was born two weeks premature.
28. I was conceived during an LSD trip.
29. There's been no greater catharsis than my writings. If I didn't have a creative outlet, there's no telling how insane I'd go.
30. Victorian literature rocks my socks.
31. I have a really hard time explaining things to people, especially if it involves music tastes. So I link them to my Last.fm account.
32. I prefer sepia tone to black and white.
33. There's very little TV I watch, especially now that Hell's Kitchen is over.
34. I absolutely despise Family Guy. It's just not funny... sorry, people.
35. I owe my love for the written word to my late Aunt Rose, who taught me how to read.
36. I believe that if two people argue, they are both wrong.
37. If you talk condescendingly to me, I will slap you.
38. I have Delayed Circadian Rhythm Disorder. It's like insomnia, except somewhat more manageable.
39. I get along well with young children. My favorite group of people in the community center in which I work has to be the 3-year-olds. They're just so much more fun than the seniors.
40. I've actually backhanded people for reading over my shoulder when I'm writing or doing something on the computer. I find it rude as hell. Not to mention distracting.
41. When I learned of the recent death of an ex-girlfriend, I reacted with a degree of indifference that surprised even me.
42. I can defeat the lock on any toilet paper dispenser in this city.
43. According to #1, I'm a passive person. But the word I'm really looking for is docile.
44. How little do I care about money? I'm the only person in my workplace who has to be reminded when it's payday.
45. Most people don't know I'm about 75% fluent in Spanish. But I don't like speaking it, especially when I'm asked to do it on command. I'm not a seal, after all.
46. I don't tell people I was in choir during my junior year in high school. People hear that and insist I sing something. Again, I'm not a seal.
47. In fact, I have many talents I don't broadcast because I don't want people to ask me to demonstrate. It really puts me on the spot.
48. The only time I've made a girl cry was the only time I did it intentionally.
49. I collect children's literature.
50. My first celebrity crush was that girl who played Kara on Shining Time Station.
51. The only woman who makes sense to me is my cat Geep.
52. As for religious beliefs, I was baptized into the Catholic faith at 18. Nowadays, I put my faith in humanity. It is up to us to help ourselves.
53. I also think I'm a sun worshiper.
54. Phone sex doesn't work when you have a tendency to wheeze. But for some reason, a certain ex-girlfriend of mine seemed to have missed that memo.
55. Without masturbation, I'd probably go absolutely insane. Don't laugh, it's probably the safest form of stress relief there is.
56. I was the only boy in my fourth-grade class who didn't find the pink Power Ranger attractive.
57. Come to think of it, blondes don't really appeal to me at all.
58. When I was little, I wanted a toy trash truck for Christmas. My father spent an entire day looking for something that specific, but dammit, he found it.
59. On my first night trick-or-treating, I wanted to go out as a puffin, because my favorite book at the time was some deal about puffins.
60. The following year, I was Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
61. One of the things I'd do with toy cars when I was a kid was to arrange them in a specific order, rearrange them to my liking, and just continuously doing that. Incidentally, that exact task is what many child psychologists look for when diagnosing autism.
62. In my opinion, Japanese is the best language in which to write pop music.
63. And German is ideal for metal.
64. The only country music I consistently listen to is Rodney Crowell.
65. I will not listen to any mainstream hip-hop or rap that has been produced after 1994.
66. Maggie and I had this harebrained idea of getting married on my ex-girlfriend's birthday.
67. One of my biggest turn-offs is body glitter. No, no way, never, not in my lifetime or yours, will I ever date a girl who wears body glitter.
68. Actually, I hate glitter altogether. I work maintenance in a building full of children who like to do art projects, so that shit is everywhere.
69. I once wrote an entire blog entry in Morse Code. It took me five hours.
70. I've been working at this list for three days now.
71. When people ask me how I've been, I send them links to my Deadjournal.
72. I'm allergic to cologne.
73. My first word was "bus." Except, I didn't just say it, I had to be the scholar and spell it out too. So my first word was "B-U-S bus."
74. Okay, I've started a lot of items on this list with "Few things piss me off more than..." But my greatest pet peeve of all is when I can hear people chewing. Nails on a chalkboard don't bother me. If I hear people chewing, it just cuts through me. It grinds on my nerves... and so on.
75. I'll take The Shaggs and Wesley Willis over The Beatles any day.
76. I don't like demonstrating my music tastes to people. Mine are somewhat removed from the mainstream, so there are a lot of people who'll say "I don't get it." That also gets on my nerves.
77. Once, I asked the opinion of a guy whom I consider a good writer about a piece I wrote. He and I exchanged a lot of works, so I trusted his opinion. He passed the piece off, saying he didn't like it because "it sounds like something I'd read in a textbook." I haven't spoken to him since.
78. About eleven or twelve years ago, I formed a club with a bunch of the neighborhood kids. It was a club that sought revenge against this asshole kid that lived there, who'd badger and guilt people into being his friend, then eventually turn on us. It lasted for three years.
79. I took off from school when I learned Mister Rogers died.
80. I absolutely love low-budget, terribly written cartoons from the early 90s. That is, anything produced by Ruby-Spears. My favorite of the horribly dated cartoon series genre is Bobby's World.
81. If I had the choice between cuddling and sex, I'll always choose cuddling.
82. That said, I prefer focusing on the level of companionship and emotional fulfillment of a romantic relationship rather than any sexual manifestations of the relationship.
83. I don't have any tattoos or piercings, and I don't plan on getting any.
84. I don't own a cell phone.
85. In the third grade, we had this teacher that always said "it doesn't have to be perfect," when referring to a project or any other assignment. She was going over the instructions and didn't say it had to be perfect. So for reassurance, I raised my hand and asked "Does it have to be perfect?" The lady thought I was nuts.
86. Another story from the third grade. I was looking for a way to get out of a test I hadn't studied for, so I deliberately wet my pants and was sent home early. I took the test the next day and still flunked it.
87. One time I submitted a short story to a small literary magazine in the Midwest. They rejected it, calling it pretentious and pedantic. It was the same story that "sounded like something I'd read in a textbook."
88. I eat blocks of cheese like most people eat candy bars.
89. At times, I like to start trouble with people on a whim.
90. I'd like to think I have some degree of spontaneity, but I'm probably the most calculated person around.
91. I tend not to favor overly idealistic people.
92. I am a huge fan of Ed Wood and Roger Corman, directors of some of the worst movies ever made.
93. I've learned something new from each and every relationship I've ever been involved in. The worse the relationship, the more I learned.
94. And by the time I got together with Maggie, it was as close to perfection as I could muster. Then she moved to Alabama.
95. I'm so paranoid about walking through my neighborhood I take a cab home from work.
96. Every year, at exactly December 28th, I get a bad case of bronchitis.
97. You can consider me an attention whore. I badger people to read my blogs... a LOT.
98. In the sense of academic interest alone, I find some sexual fetishes absolutely fascinating. Amongst my particular favorites are vore, AB/DL and guro. Vore is especially interesting, you oughtta look that up.
99. I'm pretty convinced I have a furry fetish. Yeah, I like yiff. Look that up, too.
100. Oh, and I'm an elitist bastard. At least, that's what I've heard.

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