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, March 03, 2006 Must you make me laugh so much, it's bad enough we get along so well....My most profound apologies for the week-long absence. Another week of insanity at a breakneck speed. I've been thinking about the time, one day in the future (near future at that) when I'll have one job and no school. WTF am I going to do with all my free time?
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Incompetence at work? Last week one morning, I was working on analysis at home, and of course I received a call from work asking me a question. When we have women participate in the study, they have to take pregnancy tests (probably not a good idea to be depriving a fetus of oxygen). So the phone call? They were asking me how to take the pregnancy test. First of all, there were instructions in the package with the tests. Second of all, one of the people working on it was a 40-something woman. Honestly in all those years you didn't even pick up on how to take it, regardless of whether or not she ever needed to? Third of all, YOU PEE ON A STICK! It's not that tough!
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My favorite moment of the past few months: Be careful if you're challenging someone to go hug a team mascot in a giant orca costume. Because if he's the right guy, he'll definitely do it and even might grab his ass for free drinks all night. And the photo to capture the moment, my friends, is priceless. I'm laughing just thinking about it. His head only came up to "Shooter's" chest, his arms didn't reach all the way around, and "Shooter" has his flippers up in the air like, "WTF you doin' dude?" A picture's worth 1000 laughs for sure.
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Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand? April 18th? So there. And so pumped.
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It was thundering yesterday morning while is was sleeting.
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T-minus 3 days to the Oscars. Additional movies I've managed to watch: Crash and North Country. I know Blockbuster no longer has late fees, but I'm pretty sure I still managed to rack some up for North Country. On the dockett this weekend: Walk the Line, Pride and Prejudice and I am going to see friggin' Capote if I have to go all by my lonesome. I cannot justify having just read In Cold Blood without seeing this movie to boot.
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Alrighty. My subject didn't show up this morning, so I was here at the bright hour of 5am for nothing. But now, I have lots of time to get other stuff done. TGIF.
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