1. I'm left-handed.
2. I have also never been skiing --- nor am I likely to go, ever.
3. I would, however, love to go skydiving.
4. I have three gold teeth; I have a pirate's smile.
5. I have a weakness for leopard print and black leather, but in an uptight Mrs. Robinson kinda way, not a free-wheeling biker-chick kinda way.
6. I used to paint for eight hours a day before I discovered that skill is not the same thing as talent.
7. The Fella and I made a deal: I never make him stay in a bed & breakfast and he never makes me go camping.
8. I'm currently working on a novel and a spec script.
9. I made a resolution: drink 100 bottles of sparkling wine, and keep track of where and with whom. I'm 3/4 of the way there, and when I hit the 100 mark, I think I'll bump up the goal to 1000.
10. I once spent a night shipwrecked stranded on an island.

1. I have a complete and utter love for diet vanilla coke and schweppes dry grape ginger ale.
2. Movies I can never not watch: the Princess Bride, Clueless, Bring it On
3. I have green eyes
4. I can't play any musical instruments
5. One of my examiners couldn't find much to criticize my PhD about scientifically, so he spent nearly 10 minutes haranguing me for using "neuron" (American spelling) while the rest of my thesis used British/NZ spelling. Dick.
6. I love road trips.
7. I am a magpie about clothing: I love bright and shiny things. Too much of my wardrobe is orange-hued.
8. I ate sushi when I was pregnant. And unpasteurised cheeses. And deli meat.
9. Favourite beer: Newcastle Brown.
10: Less than two months until I go to NZ on holiday, yay!

a. I had a Library of Congress stack pass for a whole year.
b. I hold grudges.
c. I am not allergic to anything.
d. I pay someone to mow my lawn because I’m too lazy to do it myself.
e. I once did the voiceover narration for a gynecological video.
f. I dislike being told what I’m thinking.
g. I have twice watched the National Roller Skating Championships in person.
h. I really hate walking by myself.
i. I have all 4 of my wisdom teeth.
j. I only have 1 uncle left, and only 1 aunt. I used to have 4 of each.

1. I was once a cheerleader -- and, before that, a Pom. (Wonderful!)
2. I played ice hockey, very poorly, for club teams in college.
3. I once burnt my hand on a fridge lightbulb. (It may have been a black light bulb.)
4. Although the rest of my family have jetted around the world and even lived elsewhere for months at a time, I have been out of the country exactly twice. Once was to Canada (staying with a MeFite) and once was to Mexico. Not a resort, though.
5. I lived in Delaware for the first ten years of my life, but am indisputably Midwestern.
6. I have a tendency to pick up accents (or approximations thereof) while in the presence of people from that region.
7. I have been skiing exactly twice, most recently in 1992 or so. I wouldn't mind going again.
8. Of course, I hate the outdoors. This song is the story of my life.
9. I would really love to sing in an all-female, extremely heavy-sounding speed bluegrass band.
10. One of my dreams in life is to carve my own figurehead. For the living room, of course.

1. I have skied, and didn't like it
2. I too, have never had a cavity
3. I run into things a lot, and hence, am generally covered in bruises
4. I will NEVER go camping, ever.
5. At any given time, I am in possession of no less than ten different types of skin lotion
6. I don't wear jewelry, not even my wedding ring, although I always enjoy seeing jewelry on other people and often wonder why I don't wear any myself
7. I also have all four of my wisdom teeth
8. Cooking for my loved ones is a passion of mine
9. So is good wine
10. I probably spend too much time cleaning

1. I am the oldest living person in my bloodline. I find this disconcerting.
2. I have never skied, and hate snow and cold weather with a passion.
3. I tend to learn things by osmosis: I can't learn a language from a book, but stick me in a country where it is spoken, and in six months I'll be dreaming in that language. Take me out, and I lose most of it over time.
4. Movies I can't not watch: Field of Dreams, Amadeus, Airplane!, Aeon Flux
5. I'm the traditional bull in a china shop: I WILL break something sooner or later.
6. The only jewelry I wear is a watch. I know everything has a clock on it nowadays, but I feel naked without one. I even wear it in the shower.
7. I have lived in 7 US states and 7 countries outside the US.
8. I never finished college.
9. My favorite music runs the gamut from opera to Romantic-period classical.
10. I may be the most easily bored person on the planet. I have no patience for the mundane.

i. I also pay someone to mow my lawn and it's the best thing I spend money on.
ii. I'm heading towards my mid-30s and still have all four of my grandparents.
iii. I would make an awful housewife as I hate cleaning and don't like to cook.
iv. I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of falling from a height. Therefore you will never find me jumping out of a perfectly good airplane or sliding down a hill on a pair of sticks.
v. I've never been in a relationship and most days it doesn't trouble me at all.
vi. I read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in 10th grade and it was my gateway book into SF/F.
vii. I was valedictorian of my high school. I had no idea there was the position of valedictorian until I was in 11th grade and some seniors were talking about their rankings.
viii. I did not plan to be a librarian when I started my master's in library and information science. By the end I decided to try it and did not like it.
ix. I have no tattoos but am seriously considering getting a small dragon on my hip.
x. I've been outside the continental US twice: a trip to Hawaii in 2010 and a New Years trip to Toronto in 2001.

1. The place I worked as a lifeguard was hired out for a porn shoot. Hence I got paid for sitting and watching. Not the sex scenes, but still.
2. I spent 3 weeks in the hospital when I was 12 from a surfing-related spleen injury.
3. A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient ran over my foot with her wheelchair this morning and did not apologize.
4. The woodstove in a house I once lived in was reputed to have once been owned by Charlie Manson.
5. I am 61 years old.
6. I once played an open mic at a bar in Santa Barbara. Jim Messina (of Loggins and. . .) was in the place but did not come up to me afterwards, as my fantasy indicated that he would.
7. I have never had a broken bone.
8. I have an artificial stapes (stirrup bone) in one ear, which prevents me from getting MRI's.
9. I have been to 20 or 21 Grateful Dead shows.
10. I spent part of a night in jail due to an unpaid dog ticket.

I. As someone who hates the phone, I almost cried when they invented caller ID.
II. I first started having sexual fantasies and dreams when I was six years old (I still remember a dream about a naked male teacher).
III. I am violently anti-drug, and think that drug abusers are the scum of the earth. I won't even consider dating someone who does anything more than drink once in a while. (Perhaps you already know this from my Metafilter comments.)
IV. I hate coffee, have not had a cup of it since I was sixteen, when I tried it and didn't like it.
V. I poo at least twice a day, every day, always with a healthy result.
VI. I have a bad habit of buying instruments, and then never learning to play them. I have a piano, electronic keyboard, oboe, fife, and flute that I can't play for shit. I also have a violin and viola, which I have taken lessons on, but I don't practice nearly enough. I just saw a video of someone playing the bombard, and now I want one.
VII. I was in a TV commercial as a kid. It was to encourage people to become foster parents; my mother was a social worker, and they decided to use the staff's children to be in the commercial. Supposedly, they picked me because "I looked like a foster kid."
VIII. I love products from The Body Shop.
IX. I eat at Fire & Ice in Cambridge every week.
X. I am also violently anti-tattoo, for some reason.

1. I was raised in and around NYC by Texan parents, so I was the only kid in school who ate chicken fried steak and cornbread
2. My mom taught me to sew when I was so young that I don't remember learning - I've always just been able to do it
3. I recently figured out that I love exercising (running, riding a bicycle, hiking, etc) but HATE the gym
4. My husband and I met because we both ride motorcycles
5. I have no wisdom teeth (or wisdom, for that matter.) Never did, never will; dentist says one in 400 are like me
6. I didn't learn to swim properly until I was an adult
7. I live adjacent to a National Park and used to live within the boundary of a National Historic Site
8. I have no aunts or uncles and no first or second cousins
9. I like sweet sweets (cake and candy), but I don't like sweet food (duck a l'orange or sweet & sour chicken)
10. For some reason, people often think I'm a vegetarian. I am not

1. I grew up at the coast and can swim like a fish but cannot do any proper strokes.
2. I used to train horses.
3. I love to paint my fingernails but they're almost always in too bad shape for it.
4. I'd like to have grey hair.
5. Wine is so tasty but since I'm allergic to sulfites I have to plan in advance and take a pill prior to a glass.
6. I spend two nights per week at my Mom's to help out (she's in her 80's)
7. I'm pretty good at plumbing.
8. Most of my friends are at least 10 years older or younger than me.
9. I cannot sleep past 7:30 AM and am usually awake at 5:00.
10. I like jazz music.

1. I hate housework, especially vacuumng, and would eliminate a lot of other things before I stopped paying someone else to do it.
2. I make my bed every morning without fail.
3. I used to smoke over a pack of cigarettes a day.
4. I was 3rd in my high school class but was disqualified from National Honor Society because I had an Unsatisfactory in Office Conduct due to my habit of coming late to school so I could skip homeroom and go straight to my first class.
5. I have a potty mouth even though I don't use those words on the internet.
6. I hold grudges too. It takes a lot to get me angry but I rarely forgive.
7. I can't not watch and indeed have watched The Fugitive, Gladiator, Terminator II and Titanic too many times to count.
8. I can't resist dark chocolate covered orange peel.
9. It drives me crazy to be asked to repeat myself.
10. I love photography, especially photos of water and watery scenes.

1. I can sew by hand, but not with a machine.
2. I love going grocery shopping and whenever I travel, I try to find time to go to other grocery stores.
3. I am a big fan of lengthy car trips (with me driving).
4. Wearing watches drives me nuts.
5. I used to have two ear piercings per ear.
6. I hate drinking normal beer (but I adore things like Mike's Hard Lemonade).
7. I can clap one handed.
8. I dislike showering.
9. My favorite book series is The Last Herald-Mage trilogy.
10. I love the smell of gasoline.

1. I can bend my lower arm backwards past the line of my upper arm.
2. I can read the microprinted "FIVE DOLLARS" in the loops on the right side of a $5 bill.
3. I've set foot on every continent except Antarctica.
4. I shook hands with Neil Sedaka while he was wearing his bathrobe.
5. I acted in a play with Anderson Cooper.
6. Not having a ticket, I bribed my way into my first rock concert.
7. I listened to all 4 sides of Metal Machine Music in a row to prove I could.
8. I told my future wife I loved her the day after we first met in person.
9. I auditioned for a role in Once Upon A Time In America.
10. I've driven a cab in Manhattan.

1. I can read handwriting upside down, for example, across a desk from someone writing.
2. I have all four wisdom teeth, but had four of my other teeth removed when I was 7 years old because I have a small mouth and my teeth were crowded. This meant I did not need braces on my teeth as my adult teeth came through.
3. I still remember the dream I had under that dental anaesthetic - a teddy bear walking a tightrope.
4. Movies I can't not watch : Crossing Delancey, Manhattan, Hannah & Her Sisters, The Godfather Parts I and II.
5. I have visited every continent except Antarctica.
6. I love the smell of nail polish.
7. I dislike lying in a bathtub.
8. I don't like sweet and savoury food together, so I don't 'get' American breakfasts where bacon and sausage live side by side with pancakes and syrup on the same plate.
9. I've been invited to Eric Clapton's New Year's Eve party for the last three years, but haven't been able to go for various reasons.
10. I've never regretted being childless but sometimes wonder who will take care of me when I am too old to look after myself.

1. When I'm nervous, I use big words as a defense mechanism. I secretly love when people call me out on it.
2. Both of my thumbs are double-jointed.
3. I've learned to fake it pretty well, but I have nearly no ego. This bothers the crap out of me and makes me still feel like a shy child.
4. If I don't watch myself, I can anthropomorphize nearly anything.
5. I had 2 wisdom teeth, both on the top row. I elected to stay awake during their removal, under heavy doses of nitrous and novacaine. It was creepily awesome, especially the cracking sounds that kind of echoed through my head and the sewing up part, watching the thread move in and out of my range of vision.
6. I received my Bachelor's degree ten years ago this past May. I'm no longer in contact with anyone that I graduated with.
7. I'm awesome at Wheel of Fortune.
8. Movies I can't not watch: Spaceballs, A League of Their Own, Tombstone, Singles
9. I'm terrible at remembering peoples' names, but very rarely forget an animal's name.
10. As much as I love hip-hop/rap and I love going to concerts, I've never really enjoyed a live hip-hop show, even from some of the "party" groups like Jurassic 5.

0. I can't wear a watch anymore, I'm allergic to the stainless steel (and I own a lot of watches :-(
1. I have never been skiing but think it would be fun
2. I am almost ambidextrous, I can do everything with both hands but feel more comfortable with my right
3. I like to camp
4. I like to fish, but have only done catch and release so far (stupid salmon)
5. I was born and raised on SoCal but consider Seattle to be my hometown
6. I was on TV once as a kid (kid show I can't remember the name of at the moment)
7. I have only one uncle left and no aunts
8. I don't have any wisdom teeth left and am missing one permanent molar
9. I like to cook but haven't in a long time

1) I love to cook.
2) I cannot even look at a mushroom much less eat one.
3) I can chat up anyone and enjoy doing so.
4) I get a lot more pleasure out of giving gifts than receiving.
5) I like to work the system. Tell me there's a 6 month wait for my son to see a medical specialist, and I will find a way to get an appointment within 2 weeks.
6) I worked in network television for 15 years and now I watch exactly no television. Zero. Ever. Just hate it.
7) Absolutely the best taste on earth is cotton candy.
8) I like dogs well enough but I'm so glad we don't have one.
9) I love my husband and love being married but secretly prefer sleeping alone.
10) I desperately want to slow time down. It's all going by too fast.

1. Been doing a lot of medication, "drug," and sexual issue lecturing which leads me to
2. my apparently limitless ability to be astounded by people's resistance to fact in favor of hypocrisy, fear, bias, and an inability to take in new information.
3. There are people who think I am nothing but nice, quiet and kind.
4. I think people have the endless capacity to surprise you and yet
5. I find most people to be an expectable disappointment.
6. I am surprised at how prevalent Dan Akroyd's vodka is.
7. Getting a predictable laugh is not fun.
8. I changed the last three to be less of a bummer.
9. Blah.
10. Double blah.

0001. I tried water skiing and failed hard, so I'm not eager to try it in snow.

0010. I'm fully ambidextrous but you can tell which hand did which.

0011. I've hit 95% of my fitness and health goals and I'm pretty stoked about that. that was in my cradle & coffin,IIRC

0100. I'm pretty bossy, though I try to keep a leash on it.

0101. I love long drives with me or someone else driving. If they don't weave around too much and I have something else to do.

0110. Movies I can't not watch: Kill Bill & Princess Bride

0111. I love fishing and cooking and eating fish. I hate killing them.

1000. I failed miserably the first time I rode a motorbike because I didn't know what a clutch was.

1001. I still want to get one.

1010. I learned to drive a boat before I learned to drive a car. I can't think of a better way to learn how to drive in snow and ice.

1. I have been driving my '94 Honda for 17 and 1/2 years. It still runs great and gets 40 mpg.
2. I love cold cereal. I could eat that happily for every meal.
3. The pressure around getting people useful and pleasant gifts usually ruins the holiday season for me.
4. I had all 4 wisdom teeth out under general anesthetic. Afterward there were years of recurring infections until a kind lady on Long Island fixed it up right for me.
5. Once I was in a position to sue somebody, but didn't. Later on that person did me a big favor.
6. I am trying to grow a pineapple top. I don't think its working.
7. There was a time when I liked and defended Nixon.
8. It was discovered, years ago, that I have more albums by King Crimson than by any other group.
9. During the day, my room is generally lit by 4 clip-on shop lights using CFL bulbs: 2 daylight and 2 warm-tone.
10. I am not able to get any pleasure from drinking alcohol.

1. I went snow skiing exactly once, as a kid, and was unimpressed. Seemed like a lot of wrok for very little fun. I'm open to trying again, though.
2. I can water ski, badly. But I at least enjoy it.
3. I cannot remember learning how to swim. I have always been comfortable in the water.
4. My favorite novel is probably Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, but people roll their eyes when I say that.
5. Movies I can't not watch: Caddyshack, The Dirty Dozen , Bullitt, and Battle Royale.
6. Except for the time I spent in college dorm rooms, I have ALWAYS owned at least one cat.
7. I have never read Othello or As You Like It.
8. I can operate a forklift, a Bobcat (er, "compact track loader"), and an overhead crane.
9. One of my favorite things to do is to read Wikipedia pages about comic book characters.
10. When I was in high school, I had a bicycle accident and broke my jaw. It was wired shut for a couple of months. It was really no big deal. Except that three weeks before I broke my jaw, I'd finally gotten my braces off. Boy were my parents pissed.

1. I have a lot of things in common here with others.
2. I've never had wisdom teeth either.
3. At 45, I still have all my aunts and uncles and one grandparent left.
4. I have 8 tattoos. The most recent was from this summer.
5. I have only visited three other countries; Bermuda was my favorite.
6. Yes, I hold grudges as well.
7. I believe in the hereafter and have had experiences with spirits.
8. I cannot understand the fascination with "Twilight".
9. I can drive a manual transmission.
10. I truly enjoy helping people in my retail job, as long as they are equally nice in return.

1. The first 18 years of my life I lived on various military bases because my dad was in the Navy.
2. Before I was 13 I had visited and/or lived in Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Scotland.
3. I love to read and have to always have something to read with me at all times because you never know when the opportunity may arise.
4. I can be a shit stirrer (and I enjoy it.)
5. I never wanted to have children.
6. I never wanted to be married.
7. I had uterine cancer but it was caught early enough.
8. Since I have had uterine cancer I have realized I don't have to be angry about a lot of the bullshit in life and at work.
9. I am not a very good friend and I am OK with that.
10. I like to be alone.

Let me just say I have loved reading so many of these... so many cool/strange/funny things to learn about fellow bunnies. And a few that I might have guessed, had I thought about it. :)

1. I get freaked out having to deal with poisons (bug spray, rat poison, etc) or electricity. The latter's kind of ironic since my dad worked as an engineer for a company that made wire and cable, made transformers and eventually superconductors (which were his project), etc.

2. I was once an extra in a Civil War movie.

3. My outlook on life can largely be chalked up to the Tao te Ching and LSD, both of which I encountered in my early 20s, built on a base of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers's Neighborhood in the 1970s. (3a. If my morals were a religion, Fred Rogers and Jim Henson would be my saints.)

4. Riding in a plane, car, or train almost always puts me to sleep. I hate the constant interruptions in airplanes because I could sleep through just about any flight.

5. I've been "indoor skydiving" and was actually pretty good at it. (Well, I got near the ceiling and they started giving me the "Cross your arms! Cross your arms!" signal.)

6. The first movie I ever remember seeing in a theater was the original Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, in 1971. I was 6 years old and it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

7. One of the things I most want to do that I haven't done: go to a drag race. There's an NHRA track not too far from Atlanta- I really want to go. I also really like movies about racing and/or cars. (Two-Lane Blacktop is a big favorite, though it's about cross-country racing.)

8. I once collided awkwardly with Rev. Jesse Jackson in a men's room door. Before I could even apologize he said, "Whoops, that's okay son, you have a good day." And I can still hear him saying it in his voice, in my head.

9. I love classical music almost as much as I love pop/indie/etc music. My ratio of classical/non-classical listening is probably about 50-50 these days. I've liked classical music since my teens, but my college-aged, Joy Division/Cure/Velvet Underground obsessed self never foresaw this.

10. Pat Buttram, also known as Mr. Haney on the show Green Acres, was my grandfather's cousin.

1. I am an honorary Canadian citizen, because once when I was backpacking in Manitoba, I rescued an injured baby bald eagle and nursed it back to health.
2. I spent a year as a front desk clerk in a haunted hotel in Austin, TX.
3. I have never used illegal drugs, but not for lack of trying.
4. My first childhood memory was watching Elvis's televised funeral.
5. I once knew a girl who left a trail of M&Ms from my apartment to a bar four blocks away, just so I would go out with her.
6. "The Long Hot Summer" starring Paul Newman was shot in my hometown. My dad appears in the church picnic scene. I was once interviewed on AMC as an "expert" on the filming of the movie.
7. I've had cocktails in a newsroom alone with Walter Cronkite and I sat behind Dan Rather in a screening of "Happiness".
8. My favorite movie is "Moulin Rouge" and my wife's wedding ring is inscribed "Come What May."
9. I once carried 37 magazine subscriptions. I'm down to 14.
10. I am so full of love that I probably call at least four people a day just to let them know that I was thinking about them and that they are dear to me.

a. I often sleep with my legs crossed; it's a habit I got from trying to keep my feet warm as a kid in spite of blankets that were getting loose and falling off. Duvets are magic.
b. when I go running in the woods I often have moments where either 'original thinking' starts to happen; making new connections between things I observe and know, or where I enjoy the surroundings, the smells or the sound on my mp3 player so much, and I'm struck how it wouldn't be possible to communicate very well what's so special about the experience.
c. I feel rather alienated from metafilter and metachat. For some reason most comments I am about to make feel very pointless. (Like this one) And then I won't make them. I guess it's because I don't have a mental image of the person(s) I'm talking to. And because I don't find most ensuing discussions very enlightening or satisfying.
d. when I was 17 I was followed by a giggling class of Italian teenage girls. This was in the Italian alps where I was trekking. (I thought I'd include a self congratulatory anecdote. Inspired by coldchef)
e. I once was a voracious reader of high culture. But at some point I've developed a profound blahness about high culture. So much so that I can't bring myself to read physical books anymore.
f. I have an extra digit on either hand. As a result I can type a bit faster since I don't have to move my hand to hit 'enter', or to go to another line.
g. deleted, see c.
h. my grandfather had a scar in his face (mensur) from dueling as a student. That's why Hollywood movie nazis tend to evoke a strange affectionate feeling.
i. I have recently had a suit made by a Hong Kong tailor. The lining is bright orange.

1.I, on the point of honor and for being stubborn, refused to have my teeth "corrected" as a child, crooked teeth pride.
2. I have however, seriously considered two minor plastic surgeries.
3. My father is quasi famous, but we never talk.
4. In High school I excelled at two sports: Archery and fencing
5. Growing up, my dream was to be a Director. My life's goal is to finish at least feature length film.
6. I have 4 uncles and 4 aunts.
7. I was a child actor but never broke into anything past local commercials and regional theater
8. I was kicked out of my dorm for knocking down a door by kicking it.
9. I have kneejerk antagonistic reactions to authority (see above)
10. The very first movie I ever saw was The Little Mermaid and it's my first clear memory.

1. I went on my first real dinosaur dig when I was 8
2. I have over a year of unread New Yorkers piled up in various places around the apartment. They make me feel guilty.
3. I am very bad at posting pictures and remembering to take them off my camera.
4. I secretly hope that people on MetaChat remember me and who I am even though this job I've been at for a year and a half doesn't let me sign on during the day (I'm home now) so I haven't been posting
5. My sister lives 6 blocks from me and I hate when we live more than 10 min apart even though when we were growing up together we didn't get along at all.
6. I rarely think anyone my friends are dating is good enough for them, and I am not shy to tell them.
7. When I have a fever and I read something, I hear my "inner head voice" echo and repeat what I am reading on delay. That is usually how I know I am really sick.
8. When I get dehydrated, my left shoulder hurts.
9. I'm a loyal and naive friend. When someone points out a character flaw in one of my close friends or something annoying that they do, I am always blindsided even when (or especially when) it is true.
10. I went to high school with John Krazinski and BJ Novak from The Office (ran cross country with John, he's a great guy)

Of course we remember you, rmless2, and the Senator too!

:) Of course you remember me, though, Senyar, since I've hung out with you in person!
I just never know if the people whose names I recognize also recognize mine... I guess I'm internet insecure.

This has been really neat to read. You folks are so fun and interesting!

(For the record, rmless2 and anyone else who's uncertain: I recognized --- and was excited to read the 10 things from --- everyone here as quickly as I'd recognize a friend at a party.)

This is extra hard for me, because there isn't much about me I haven't already turned into a multi-paragraph anecdote.
(1) Born in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, the day before the Ohio Turnpike officially opened.
(2) Dragged to L.A. with family in 1961, via Route 66 in a brand new Dodge Dart
(3) Had a hernia operation at the age of 6. Scandalized the hospital by showing everybody the groin-based scar.
(4) My first adventure in nerdiness was trying to keep Episode Lists of all my favorite cartoon shows (and all the individual segments therein). Decades later, when such lists showed up on the Internet, I learned how badly I'd done.
(5) The first copy of Playboy I ever hid under my bed contained the short story "Duel" that was made into Steven Spielberg's first "Movie For TV" (and featured a radio DJ on the soundtrack I would end up working for years later). I remember that story more vividly than any of the centerfold girls.
(6) Had my tonsils taken out at the age of 16. (Our pediatrician didn't believe in the dominant 'get em out young' theory, so I had too many sore throats as a kid.) They also removed my adenoids while I was under and I woke up feeling LITERALLY empty-headed.
(7) Played the clarinet as a kid... intended as a stepping stone to the much cooler saxophone, but that didn't work out.
(8) As part of my Radio Sidekick fame, somebody made t-shirts with my picture holding a phone and the caption: "Keep America Beautiful. Keep Wendell on Hold."
(9) I have owned 7 cars, 5 of them until they fell apart and could only be sold for salvage.
(10) My most embarrassing medical problem was hemorrhoids in my early 20s (officially too young for them according to my doctor). Recurred occasionally until I was almost 40, then stopped, not to return until last week. Another medical mystery.

1. I am my own father. And mother. My parents don't talk to each other.
2. My house has many mansions. All of the windows are painted shut.
3. I invented the ferris wheel. Then some genius attached those struts that hold it up in one place all the time. Jerk.
4. I'm a bird. I'm a bird. I'm a bird. I'm a bird.
5. I experience time backwards. That's why I can't remember your name.
6. Excessive flatulence gives me tasty baked beans.
7. My face no longer stops clocks. At least not the digital ones.
8. I invented a type of lawn dart with a rocket assist to be used on concrete pavement. They never really caught on.
9. I talk to animals. They understand me perfectly. But only my parrot replies. He won't tell me what's up with all the others, though.
10. I often do not take things seriously.

Splunge wins.

10. I played piano by ear until I was about 30.
9. I'd love to take a train trip across Canada with mrs. chewie one day.
8. I'm still outwardly a kid; to the point people sometimes think I'm mentally "challenged".
7. I still have my Space Tilt game, & once played it forwards & backwards without falling in a hole 38 times.
6. Nature is my most inspiring designer.
5. I have no patience for stupidity, ignorance, arrogance or prejudice.
4. I hope one day to regain the confidence & jocularity I had in high school.
3. The youngest of 4, I thought I had to go very fast to keep up with everyone, & that was why I was alone all the time. Turns out it was too fast & I was alone because everyone was behind me.
2. I've been to 11 Jimmy Buffett concerts, one of which was on St. Bart's.
1. I love mrs chewie more every day.

Totally missed this thread while on vacation! Well, nothing like talking to an empty room! ;)

1. I have gone skiing exactly once, although I wouldn't mind doing it again.
2. I had all four of my wisdom teeth and they were all taken out.
3. (Some) movies I can't not watch: Dune, Airplane! and sequels, Clueless, Bring It On.
4. I watched the second half of The Remains of the Day three times before I was able to catch the whole movie from beginning to end.
5. I don't know how to swim.
6. I went camping for the first time a few months ago.
7. I once set foot on the U.S. Senate floor: I was passing by in the hallway that the floor opens onto so I snuck to one of the doors and put one foot down on the blue carpet. That blue carpet was plush and printed with the U.S. Seal all over. I still remember.
8. I also noticed that each step in the marble stairs back there was worn down in the middle. Imagine all the people whose shoes helped wear them down!
9. I have been to both Europe and Asia twice, but I have never been to Canada.
10. I would make a great homemaker. I'm great at cooking, cleaning, organizing, and decorating. I suck at paying my own bills.

1. I like to cross-country ski, though my coordination could be better.

2. I read in my head, but in a different voice than my speaking voice.

3. When I get nervous or agitated, I count things to calm down.

4. I once was propositioned via the instant message chat we use at the reference desk in my library. I never found out who messaged, "I would like some information on how to woo a certain reference librarian."

5. I have worn a Super Bowl ring (on my thumb; it was giant!)

6. I currently have deer and moose meat in my freezer.

7. My favorite book is The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery and I own copies in English, Spanish, Italian and Croatian.

8. I was accused of using "ten-cent words" when I was in the fourth grade. (Guilty.)

9. I once taught in the same elementary school that I had attended, and could not bring myself to call any of my new colleagues by their first names.

10. I love yard work, especially snow shoveling.