Posts from March, 2009(2)

The quick brown fox jumped over the good, but lazy Parker family.

bad facebook meme week, part two: firsts

Wednesday, 4 March 2009

in part two of “bad facebook meme” week, a list of firsts … which should be interesting considering i basically don’t remember anything before seventh grade:

Who was your FIRST prom date?
Sarah Bierenbaum, and saw her in NYC last week.

Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
Christine Holt, and the last time I saw here was ~15 years ago in an outlet mall in Williamsburg.

What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?
Frozen Mudslide, at some bar in Richmond with Maya Larson.

What was your FIRST job?
Nick’s Pancake House, or Williamsburg Country Club … depends on what you count.

What was your FIRST car?
1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88. It was my grandmother’s car, and it was awesome.

Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
(Damn, i’m old.)

Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
Tasha Spindler.

Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
Pretty sure it was Mrs. Sidebottom (don’t laugh) at Rawls Byrd Elementary School.

Where did you go on your FIRST airplane ride?
No clue. The first one I remember was to the Middle East, but there was certainly something before that.

Who was your FIRST best friend?
Tie between Mark Drew and Tim Bilbo.

Where was your FIRST sleep over?
First I remember was a church lock-in, but that was in High School. Did i mention i have a horrid memory?

Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
My brother’s … I was Best Man.

What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
Wii Fit.

What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?
I hope to God it wasn’t New Kids on the Block, but I am pretty sure it was. The things one does to try and impress a girl … especially one that didn’t look at me the whole night.

What was your FIRST foreign country you’ve been to?
Bahamas (but have no real recollection). First I remember was a summer scholarship to Jordan and Syria.

What was your FIRST movie you remember seeing?
Black Cauldron. Damn scary movie when you are eight.

When was your FIRST detention?
Never had one, but it should have been when I slugged Justin Timpane in 8th grade.

What was the FIRST state you lived in?
Virginia. Then Maryland. Then DC, and that’s it. I’m not much for variety.

Who was your FIRST roommate?
I’ve blanked on the name (Josh?) but he dropped out after a 0.0 semester, and last I heard he was working at a deli in Williamsburg.

bad facebook meme week, part one: twenty-five random things

Monday, 2 March 2009

it’s bad facebook meme week here, so i’ll be posting not one, not two, but three of the worst facebook memes i could come up with. try not to read with any sharp objects lying around.

I started writing this about a month ago, back when “25 Random Things” was still a meme on Facebook. Unfortunately, I’m no where near as interesting as I had originally thought, so it took forever to come up with a list that wasn’t tortuously dull to read through.

  1. I refuse on principle to have any regrets … you make the best decision you can with the information you have, and move on.
  2. When I wear a watch, I wear it on my “wrong” hand because that’s how my brother (left-handed) did/does it.
  3. In 5th grade, I won an award from Optimist International.
  4. I don’t remember anything that happened before seventh grade that isn’t a picture in a photo album.
  5. The first album I ever owned was The Police’s Synchronicity.
  6. I have the world’s worst taste in music (chick rock/chick pop) and place the blame squarely on my debbie gibson/shania twain-loving brother.
  7. I’ve been hit on by so many men that I’ve stopped counting, but I knew I was very, very straight ever since the first time I kissed Christine Holt in 9th grade (felt it in my knees).
  8. I named my future kids (three of them, all girls) back in high school and believe I still have a realistic shot of using the names.
  9. My 10th grade English teacher was awesome, and I often wonder what she’s up to.
  10. I can’t think of a single funny one-liner that I have said in the last two decades that wasn’t stolen from a movie.
  11. I was two classes away from being a Theatre major, but refused to take acting 101 and 102 on principle. I was a theatrical designer — did 35 light designs at nine different theaters before I graduated — and acting was “beneath” me.
  12. I’ve studied three different languages (Spanish, Arabic, Russian) for a total of twelve semesters, but sucked at all of them.
  13. If I could do College over again, I’d study Sociology.
  14. I occasionally worry that I will never reconcile my spirituality with the mess that is organized religion.
  15. I’m quite possibly the only person in the world to be turned on by women in colonial garb.
  16. I keep a list of every book I’ve read since 1997.
  17. I have incredible hair envy whenever I see a black man with short dreads (specifically Lenny Kravitz.)
  18. Up until five years ago, I had never been farther west than central Ohio.
  19. The most regularly trafficked part of my website exhibits paintings of Mary Magdalene through art history
  20. Even though i do it for a living, I hate technology, and refuse to buy the first generations of pretty much anything.
  21. I’m permanently concerned about being awkward in social situations, which (not surprisingly) usually makes me awkward in social situations.
  22. I’d give up every skill I have in my generalist (wide, not deep) skill set to be a virtuoso at any one thing, and it doesn’t matter a lick to me what that one thing would be.
  23. When I retire, I want to be a taxi cab driver in Washington, D.C.
  24. I don’t believe that Big Bird qualifies as a Muppet, and get angry when people make that argument … even though they are right.
  25. I have never been happier in my life than I am right now, and just about all of that is my wife’s fault.