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
Monday, November 29, 2004 Breathe in for luck breathe in so deep, this air is blessed, you share with me....I just started participating in this research study a couple weeks ago comparing which flu vaccine works better -- the shot or the nasal spray. So I was randomized to one or the other or either placebo. So I don't know for sure if I actually received the vaccine or not. Part of the deal of the study is, when I get sick, I need to notify them immediately so that they can record my symptoms, severeity, duration, and if I can, come in so they can do a throat culture. If I didn't get paid extra for the throat swab, I sure as shit wouldn't do it again, because unlike the gentle, tender touch of my pediatrician and even my doctor now, this woman went to work with her cotton swab on my epiglottis. I think my throat hurts more now than when I got there. What I had forgotten about though was that just for coming in, they give you a $10 gift card to go spend on remedies. Mine was thoughtfully spent on 7Up, chicken soup, Tylenol, honey, and a thermometer.
Did you know when you sleep for 4 hours in the middle of the day when you're sick you can have dreams of walking around downtown Detroit carrying your tennis shoes (I don't really know why they wouldn't be on my feet), and running into so many random random people that you knew in high school riding around on their bikes trying to get home before the sun set, but not wanting to fight traffic on the highway? Did you also know that if you have enough berry zinger tea, your teeth will feel like they're going to rot out of your head?
Back to my archnemesis: oh the dreaded research paper. Do you think this should serve as a warning flag that perhaps I shouldn't be in research if every moment spent working on my research paper makes me want to have a bonafide temper tantrum?
Pleasant question to leave you with:
Would you rather.... have your romantic moments scored by an Air Supply soundtrack
or
make the sounds of a pinball machine during intercourse?
My answer? "You're every woman in the world to me...."
7:17 PM
