Hometown: The Roch, MI (aka. The Crotch, aka. Crotchscratcher, aka. Crotchmolester, aka. Rochester)
Currently Living: Clawson, MI
Height: 5'8
Weight: Ha ha, yeah right
Favorite Color: Blue (preferably navy)
Profession: Researcher
Favorite Nickname: Trick, Sloan
Favorite Drinks:Vodka Tonic, Guinness, Diet Dr. Pepper, Dirty Martinis, red wine
Favorite TV Show: Friends, Sex & The City, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Iron Chef America
Least Favorite TV Show: A Baby Story, I Love Lucy, Martha Stewart, Everybody Loves Raymond, every hour long drama
Favorite Books: The History of Love, Beloved, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fight Club, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The of Being, SurUnbearable Lightness vivor, Empire Falls, The Corrections, The Bell Jar
Favorite Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Wordplay, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Breakfast Club, Singin In The Rain, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sleeping Beauty, Dancer in the Dark, Duets, The Virgin Suicides, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Austin Powers I, II & III, My Best Friends Wedding, Moulin Rouge, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, The Shining, Gone With The Wind, Bridget Jones' Diary, Chicago, Love Actually
Guilty Pleasure Movies: Xanadu, Dirty Dancing, Overboard, Groundhog Day, Steel Magnolias, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bond movies, Footloose, Clue, Murder By Death, High Spirits, A Cinderella Story
What I Do Too Much: Check email, crossword puzzles, complain about my job to friends and family,
Obsessions: sushi, Indian food, ranch dressing, toenail polish, song lyrics, hands, awards shows, symmetry, avocados, maps, dreams, This American Life, the display in my car that tracks my MPG
Pet Peeves: loud eaters, slurping, gulping, arrogance, snoring, bad grammar, repetition, late mergers, ripping cardboard, the word "chunky", intolerance, couples in a restaurant sitting on the same side of a booth, pop-up ads, privacy manager, men that drive without shirts on, being foolish, unfairly jumping to conclusions, being made fun of, cat-calling, people who type too hard
Greatest Fear: crossing bridges
Relaxing Activites: late night drives to sing by myself, headstands, hot baths,
Wish I Was: Ansel Adams, Jenifer Aniston, in love, living alone
Prized Possessions: ring from my grandparents, flower pot of my Grandma's, electric blanket (temporarily broken), tongue scraper, my bed
Craziest Thing Ever Done: getting a tattoo, strip Jenga
Things I Eventually Want To Do: skydive, buy a guitar, learn how to play the aforementioned guitar, take flying lessons, travel to France, write a novel, learn how to play the harp, tap dancing lessons, run a marathon
Friday, October 04, 2002 I never told you I told you so, but I told you so....So imagine my surprise yesterday to discover that they do in fact already have a Behind the Music of Kelly Clarkson. It's actually that show called Driven on VH1 where they round up all the random coat-tail riders posing as friends and mentors. Some poor intern probably had to bust his/her ass working overtime to amass all of the footage of her so quickly. Are we down to 13 minutes now?
So I had to work on Wednesday night, and lemme just say that I will work any night you need me to if the subject is going to be as damn adorable as the guy on Wednesday was. Thank God it's a 2 night study and he gets to come back. He was totally that cute, edgy, and kind of grungy look, but still adorable. And he garners points for using the word, "jammies" and reading Oscar Wilde. It was suggested that I ask him if he would sleep better if I stood in as his teddy bear for the night. Hey, anything for "science". And speaking of quotation marks, who wasn't dying watching Friends last night?
The tradition of Friday night dinners will be resuming tonight. The menu is set with a Carribean theme of lime grilled chicken and black beans and rice. Mmmmm...Man, it's only 8:05 and I already want to go home...I have jack squat to do today at work, so I don't really know how the hours are going to get filled.
Oh, my mom gave me the saddest news I could have possibly heard. When I was young, our whole family used to go up north to Port Austin, which is right at the tip of the thumb here in Mich. And it was just this little rinky-dink town that got a lot of summer vacationers because it's right on Lake Huron. This town is the definition of a one stop-light town. But there's something inherently ingrained in my brain about this town and all of the memories that my brothers and sisters and I collectively share. Like Nanie's spaghetti dinners, Slush Puppies, getting ice cream and walking on the dock (we used to pull the trick where you'd go, "Man, there's something worng with my ice cream. It smells really weird. Here you smell it." Where you'd promptly shove the scoop of ice cream into the unsuspecting victim's nose. Actully the unsuspecting victim was usually me...don't I just have the most loving family?), playing Putt-Putt (where I sucked so bad that I would hit the ball across the street) and eating dinner at the little restaurants and shopping in the little Dime Store. Well, my mom told me that part of the town burned down not too long ago. From the Dime Store all the way to the Hardware store. Joe's Pizzeria. Gone. It just breaks my heart. Even though I haven't been there in years, I just assume that everything up there should just stay the same. So so sad....
Well, I should probably get to doing something now. TGIF.
