10 things I bet you didn't know about me
Jen wrote up one of these the other day, and I got to thinking about what I'd write last night. Here are the fruits of my thoughts!
1. When I was a baby, my parents and my uncle built our house on the side of a mountain in Groton, New Hampshire. We lived in a tent, then in the foundation. My memories of that place are big icicles and squashed frogs on the road. I lived there until I was school age, then I moved to Plymouth.
2. I was a pagan witch when I was in the military.
3. I sold educational books door to door one summer when I was in college for Southwestern. I lived on the border of North Carolina and Virginia. I worked like 80 hours a week and barely broke even.
4. I was a virgin until college.
5. I never smoked weed until college. In college, I was eventually a total pothead. I'd get high nearly every day, and I can remember thinking to myself: "I can't remember the last time I *wasn't* high." one time. My favorite pipe was one a friend of mine made out of some wood.
6. I used to read the Illuminatus Trilogy in high school. This is a rather unique book that had a profound impact on my life. It's not written in cronological order. If you can make it past the first 100 pages of the first book, you should be Ok. I've read it a lot of times, and used to treat it like I imagined other people would treat "the bible". In fact, I used to call it my bible. My copy was dog eared, highlighted, and the binding was held together with that clear packing tape.
7. When I was a kid, there was this girl who was my age who lived in the neighborhood. She was one of those "cool" kids. She and a couple of other kids at her encouragement started throwing rocks at me on the street one day. I picked up a piece of broken off pavement from the street and chucked it at her, and it hit her full in the face. My parents made me apologise to her, but I always thought she deserved what she got. Why is the victor always the one who gets in trouble?
8. I joined the military because my car broke down.
9. I got kicked out of the military for smoking weed. I had the highest recorded THC content discovered on the base, ever. I think I had smoked out the day before.
10. I'm a "messy". I lack organisation in my life, and I don't really see clutter. It doesn't bother me. It's a problem for me, and I try and combat it, because it's embarassing to have a house that's messy when other people come over.
1. When I was a baby, my parents and my uncle built our house on the side of a mountain in Groton, New Hampshire. We lived in a tent, then in the foundation. My memories of that place are big icicles and squashed frogs on the road. I lived there until I was school age, then I moved to Plymouth.
2. I was a pagan witch when I was in the military.
3. I sold educational books door to door one summer when I was in college for Southwestern. I lived on the border of North Carolina and Virginia. I worked like 80 hours a week and barely broke even.
4. I was a virgin until college.
5. I never smoked weed until college. In college, I was eventually a total pothead. I'd get high nearly every day, and I can remember thinking to myself: "I can't remember the last time I *wasn't* high." one time. My favorite pipe was one a friend of mine made out of some wood.
6. I used to read the Illuminatus Trilogy in high school. This is a rather unique book that had a profound impact on my life. It's not written in cronological order. If you can make it past the first 100 pages of the first book, you should be Ok. I've read it a lot of times, and used to treat it like I imagined other people would treat "the bible". In fact, I used to call it my bible. My copy was dog eared, highlighted, and the binding was held together with that clear packing tape.
7. When I was a kid, there was this girl who was my age who lived in the neighborhood. She was one of those "cool" kids. She and a couple of other kids at her encouragement started throwing rocks at me on the street one day. I picked up a piece of broken off pavement from the street and chucked it at her, and it hit her full in the face. My parents made me apologise to her, but I always thought she deserved what she got. Why is the victor always the one who gets in trouble?
8. I joined the military because my car broke down.
9. I got kicked out of the military for smoking weed. I had the highest recorded THC content discovered on the base, ever. I think I had smoked out the day before.
10. I'm a "messy". I lack organisation in my life, and I don't really see clutter. It doesn't bother me. It's a problem for me, and I try and combat it, because it's embarassing to have a house that's messy when other people come over.
posted by Adam Skinner at 9/30/2004 11:00:00 AM
4 Comments:
You joined the military because your car broke down? Wow.
heh yeah. My car broke down and I got to thinking. What would be ideal? Limiting my requirements on expenses: transportation, housing, healthcare, etc. Joining the military seemed like a good idea.
Hindsight is 20/20.
Anyway, finally caught up with you here!! I was wondering why I hadn't seen your Journal entries on /. any more... I suddenly thought to look into how you were doing and discovered that you moved your journal here.
We've still been praying for you! Good to see that you're doing so well.
Paul
aka PDA_Monkey / [Chameleon]
p.s. We really do need to hookup in Battlefield some time... ;)
My score is seven out of out of 10, not bad! :)
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