I'm not usually one for lists like this. But when I awoke at five AM, unable to sleep, and found a comment from Esther at Gratuitous Violins, tagging me to participate in this blog-web of facts, I figured it sounded like fun. (I think I may have done this already a year ago, but I can always come up new ways to talk about myself.) What I didn't realize was how hard it would be to come up with seven facts entertaining enough to be worth sharing. I've done my best! Happy Sunday! Go enjoy the beautiful Fall weather, and get ready for some serious blogging this week!
1. My number one goal in life is to end up like the woman in the picture above.
1. I have a strange addiction to Cherry Flavored Theraflu Nighttime cough syrup. Ever since I got sick, I’ve been going through various phases using sleep medications, but this Theraflu, with its “warming” effect, remains my favorite. What strikes me as most odd about this, is the fact that when I was a child I auditioned for a Dimeatapp commercial with my father, and wouldn’t let them put the (empty) spoon in my mouth during the audition. I couldn’t even feign interest for the casting directors; the taste disgusted me. Yet now I love it. According to the Duane Reade cashier, I’m “crazy.” He told me this as he scanned the barcode under the sensor and continued his diatribe. “This shit is nasty,” he said, as he went to get a bag. “I was sick one time, and downed some of this, but it made me puke all over my momma.” I couldn’t wait to get home and have some.
2. I can’t stand pickles. Any time I got food as a child, I would throw a fit if there was even the slightest bit of “pickle juice” on my plate. I’ve become more lenient as I’ve grown older, but I still get a pang of frustration when I order a grilled cheese (without pickles), and the plate comes with a nice trough of pickle juice running underneath the bread. I did meet a dog named Pickles at a Central Park dog show recently; he was one of my favorites. Maybe the tides are changing.
3. I think I could be President…of Cereal Obsessed Anonymous. First Peanut Butter Puffins, now Raisin Bran Crunch. Is there no stopping me?!
4. The first website I ever went to was the official Star Wars site. I made a special trip over to my neighbors’ house when they bought a modem, just so I could see Yoda’s face load pixel-by-pixel. Fortunately they had a Playmobil figurine house, so I could act out Victorian romances while I waited for his mammoth ears to appear.
5. My favorite ballet to dance at ABT was George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations. It was one of the first “dancing” roles I did in the corps, and even though the boys only come on for the last five minutes of the finale, there is no feeling as grand as performing to that music on stage at the Metropolitan Opera House. It’s so exciting in fact, that when I made my first entrance during my debut, I jumped on, and then went down to my knee with such fervor that I started falling sideways. Fortunately, my washboard model abdominals were able to save me from collapsing on my side, center stage. But I’ll never forget the look on my partner’s face, as she stood adjacent to me and watched me recover from what was certainly not a piece of the choreography. This will be the hardest ballet for me to watch at ABT’s upcoming season; I love it so much.
6. Every time I walk beneath scaffolding on a New York City sidewalk, I have to rap my knuckles on the metal bars building the structure. Just one of several OCD tendencies.
7. When I was a kid, I would come home from New York vacations with multiple disposable cameras filled with nothing but photographs of billboards in, and around Times Square. Even though the pictures had no life in them, there was something intriguing to me about these enormous advertisements that were as big as houses in Montana. Every time I walk through Times Square as an adult, I try to remind myself of the child in me, discovering New York for the first time through the lens of a cheap plastic camera, and I suddenly have a lot more patience for the throngs of tourists doing the same.
(The glory of having a camera is it makes you get out of the habit of looking straight forward, and brings your gaze up from the world directly in front of you, to the world all around you.)
UPDATE: SHARE YOUR SEVEN FACTS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION!
Now it is my turn to tag seven fellow bloggers to participate! Do it, or suffer the wrath of Senor Murphy!
3. Sam
4. Nico
5. Philip
6. Jackie
7. Evan

Thanks for participating, you did great!
I love walking through Times Square and taking pictures of the giant billboards, too, and the theatre marquees. It must be the little kid in me.
And my favorite cereal is Quaker Oatmeal Squares with cinnamon, usually topped with fresh strawberries or blueberries, or both. Funny, as a child, I hated cereal and milk. I didn't like my food getting mushy. But now, it's my favorite meal of the day.
Posted by: Esther | October 19, 2008 at 06:24 PM
I have blog stories backed-up for weeks, so I am posting my seven facts here:
1. I rarely sleep more than four hours a night.
2. The farthest I've ever been from NYC is Houston, Texas.
3. I love peanut butter & bacon sandwiches.
4. I don't own a cellphone.
5. The one physical attribute I wish I possessed is a flat stomach.
6. I have 500 titles in my Netflix queue.
7. My partner and I don't wear clothes at home. So please call ahead before you drop in.
Posted by: Philip | October 19, 2008 at 08:33 PM
Can anyone participate, or do you have to be a blogger? (I refuse to be a blogger.)
Posted by: Larry | October 20, 2008 at 05:55 PM
Let's make it so anyone can participate, Larry! Share away!
Posted by: M | October 20, 2008 at 07:04 PM
1. In ninth or tenth grade I played the double bass in my school orchestra. I took lessons from Mr. Fiske, the junior high music teacher. I was terrible. But at least I had my own bass. My father paid $150 for it at a music store in East Meadow, and since I was within walking distance of school, I carted that huge instrument back and forth with me several times a week. I gave it up a year later.
2. Walking to school one day when I was about 10, an older kid passed me by in the other direction carrying a violin case. When I asked him what it was he said it was a machine gun, and I believed him. He was probably telling the truth.
3. The nastiest thing I ever did to my little sister was when my father bought me a Coke and asked me to save a drop for her. This was back in the days when a Coke was literally 6 oz. of liquid that came in a glass bottle I saved - literally - a drop that was about 1/4 teaspoon and she burst out crying. It was really not very nice of me. Sorry, Sis.
4. I hate taking cabs because I always assume I will be cheated. In fact I'm certain I was a couple of years ago on a snowy day in Boston, where since I was afraid of bodily harm from the cabbie if I spoke up,
wimpishnessdiscretion got the better of valor. Not so in Spain in 1995, where I freaked out at a cab driver I flagged down at night outside the Alhambra in Granada. I made up my mind that he hadn't zeroed the meter and was furious that he was charging me 4 pesetas. He wrote a note explaining the "tarifa minima" was 4 pesetas but I was a loose cannon that night thinking he was cheating me. I even got out before I had reached my destination and slammed the door, giving him the 4 pesetas but no tip. No doubt he was perfectly honest and must have thought he had picked up a psycho.5. On the right side of my back I have a 6-8 inch lipoma, or benign fatty tumor. I was afraid it was cancer at one point. I've never had it removed, but one doctor I went to seemed interested in nothing besides that while he was examining me. What's a blood pressure check when you've found a 6-8 inch lipoma?
6. My absolute favorite composer for all time is Beethoven. There, I've said it.
7. I have had several serio-comic episodes as a driver on the highways of our land. In retrospect, the funniest occurred when I driving on an interstate and some 100 feet ahead of me I saw a mattress had been dropped on the highway, evenly within the lane markers. I couldn't get out of my lane and could see no other option but to stop dead, 5 feet in front of the mattress. Traffic was whizzing by me from all lanes, no one gave me any chance to back up a bit and get clear. Finally I decided - the only thing I could do was drive straight ahead and hope I could clear the mattress. I had visions of pushing a mattress all over New Jersey with my 1987 Toyota. But miraculously I lucked out and cleared the mattress. Picking up speed again, I drove off and did not once look back. And for all I know, that mattress is still there on Route 440 in Perth Amboy, awaiting its next victim.
Posted by: Larry | October 20, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Homework? HOMEWORK?! I'm appalled.
(I hate these things.)
1) I love to sleep. A lot. No really, I like it.
2) I like my drinks cold. I love frozen things. Why not combine the two? One of my favorite presents in the last year has been freezy mugs... yeah, that's right. The ones you put in the freezer and then fill with Dr. Pepper. Or orange juice. Or milk. That's right.
3) I love the History Channel. Especially Modern Marvels.
4) I'm incredibly lazy. And incredibly resourceful. Combining these two things brings me extreme joy. I enjoy finding the most efficient methods to accomplish the things that bring the greatest outcome. I love process.
5) Google + Apple = Digital Bliss.
6) I like lube. A lot. One of the greatest joys.
7) One of the most important things I realized towards the end of college is that bars (esp. 'mo bars) are only ever rooms full of people desperate to be talked to. And hesitation breeds insecurity.
Posted by: m@ | October 25, 2008 at 11:28 AM
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