The Book of Me - Chris Carter

100 Random Things About Me.
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Just a list for your perusal.

1. My middle name is Scott.

2. I feel guilty that I don’t floss enough.

3. I secretly sing around the apartment sometimes when I’m alone.

4. I smoked for five years.  Quit a long time ago.

5. I have been told by more than one person that I should write the How-to book on Truth or Dare.

6. I don’t drink very often or very much.

7. Everyone in my family knows my family nickname, Shorty, but my older brother is the only person to ever use it.

8. I and three of my friends in college talked ad nauseum for years about starting our own theatre.

9. I was in a school play when I was 9.  I was a delivery guy.

10. I’ve only been really drunk maybe five times my whole life.

11. I’ve been attacked by a mob of squirrels, twice.  And neither time did I have any food.

12. I almost moved to Minneapolis for a guy I barely knew.  (Learned THAT lesson.)

13. I have never tried to pick the lint out of my bellybutton.

14. When I was fourteen, I told Jehovah’s Witnesses that Lord Satan said I wasn’t allowed to talk to them anymore.  We never had Jehovah’s Witnesses drop by again.

15. I had my own shotgun when I was a kid, and now I think guns should be outlawed.

16. (for peaeye) I fold, I don't crumple.

17. I give up my seat on the subway to woman and the elderly.

18. I was in the marching band in high school.  I played the marimba and the xylophone.

19. I haven't resolved the battle between having a job I like or one that pays well.

20. I wore the same necklace for just over seven years without ever taking it off.

21. I do my own taxes every year.

22. I’ve been too stupid to hire someone.

23. My best friend in college cut my hair once.

24. I went home and fixed it.

25. I'm proud of my southern upbringing.

26. I’m glad I moved away.

27. I have an unhealthy obsession with ice cream.

28. I can name that Golden Girls episode in two or three lines.  Tops.

29. I don’t keep in touch with my old college friends that much and I miss them all terribly.

30. My friends and I played home-made “Naked Jenga” (aka Drinking Jenga) all through college.

31. The only drug I’ve ever done was pot in college, and I didn’t like it.

32. I got the new Trivial Pursuit for Christmas, but no one will play me.

33. I don’t have any debt at all.

34. I’m almost thirty and I still get carded for alcohol / bars every once and a while.

35. I hate fishing, and most fish (except Nemo.)

36. I have brewed my own beer.

37. I’ve been to nineteen state capitals.  And counting.

38. I fooled around a lot with an ex-Navy boy in college.

39. His girlfriend would have freaked.

40. I think I was in love with him.

41. I have a very good memory.

42. I’ve never had a cavity.

43. In the eighties, I was into heavy metal - for about two weeks.

44. I have a very good memory.

45. I’ve never been to Southern Decadence or Folsom Street Fair, and I’m dieing to go to both.

46. I hate the thought of being perceived as stupid.

47. I have repelled from a water tower.  And just escaped the police.

48. I make short stories long, but I am told they are always entertaining.

49. I lied.  I am told they are only sometimes entertaining.

50. I stumbled onto – completely by chance – Little Beaver, West Virginia… twice.

51. I love wine but don't even own a wine rack.  Yet.

52. I get into trouble all the time for saying religion and science are the same thing.

53. When I was seven, for Halloween, I went out as a businessman, putting my candy in a briefcase.

54. I still remember everything about the two guys (friends) in high school I had crazy crushes for.

55. I hate dingleberries.

56. After getting food poisoning, I threw up in eleven counties in Michigan, in one day, in the snow, usually on the side of the highway.

57. If you have a problem, I am a great listener.

58. Teenagers are starting to call me Sir way too often.

59. I have a hard time saying I love you to those I do.

60. I saw the big screen Jetsons movie with thirty-seven friends… in the eleventh grade.

61. I rarely ask for directions, but I'm addicted to Mapquest and my Rand McNally, so I rarely need to.

62. I am JUST starting to handle not wearing a watch all the time.

63. I’m one of the three people that hated the movie “Moulin Rouge.”

64. When in bed alone, I sleep cuddling a “long-term” teddy bear.

65. (for peaeye) I sometimes fantasize about winning the lottery but I have never bought a ticket.

66. I am obsessed with the name Djori.

67. I created it.

68. I don’t’ understand why people get frustrated in traffic.

69. I’ve had food delivered to an upstairs bedroom because I was afraid of a (temporary) roommate who was downstairs and in a very very bad mood.

70. My best friend from high school was on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”

71. I’ve always wanted to go skydiving.

72. I had the same cat for 19 years.  A calico named Spot.

73. I like to be tidy.  Everything has a place and everything in its place.

74. I’ve been slipped a drug in my drink at a bar and found myself in a precarious position I had to get out of.

75. In middle school I liked to bake cakes all the time.

76. I study astral physics, cosmology, astronomy, and some quantum mechanics for fun.

77. I fall asleep almost immediately when I lay down.

78. I could never move back to Virginia.

79. I have played flaming marshmallow golf and hallway Frisbee.

80. I started writing a book in 1997.  I haven’t worked on it since 2000.

81. I am a perfectionist and a realist.

82. I am totally at ease being high-brow or low-brow, but am really somewhere in the middle.

83. When we were young, my older brother and I hated each other and beat the tar out of each other all the time.

84. Well, he beat the tar out of ME anyway.

85. Even though I think it is stupid, I can’t stop watching reality TV.

86. I bite my fingernails too much.

87. If I see a crooked picture on the wall, I have to straighten it.

88. I study languages as a hobby.

89. I am fluent in one that I made up, at over seven thousand words so far.

90. My family doesn’t understand my homosexuality at all, but they have always been fantastically accepting.

91. I have an apartment full of books, and very few of them are fiction.

92. As a kid, I had three hamsters, all named Carter.

93. I’ve ridden on floats in two gay pride parades.

94. I studied karate for five years in middle and high schools.

95. A very close friend in college tried to kill me.  Well, one of her personalities did anyway.

96. I absolutely love roller coasters and thrill rides.

97. I have 20/20 vision.

98. I’m afraid of snakes in the wild, but if they’re out of their element I’m not at all.

99. Sometimes I’m shy, and sometimes I’m unabashedly out-going.

100. I make lists all the time, and close friends make fun of me for it.