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
Thursday, August 10, 2006 This just in, where to begin, grin and bear it, it's bare and grim....Short bits for today:
~ One place I would never want to be this weekend: They're holding auditions for SuperNanny at Oakland Mall. Can you just imagaine having that many rotten children in one place at the same time? My biological clocks comes to a screeching halt just thinking about that. **shudder**
~ On Sun, the boy was rehearsing at his friend's house and I tagged along for kicks to just do some work while I was there. What did I do instead? Play with his friend's ADORABLE new little kitten. I could have just squished him he was so dman cute. Not so cute: the tiny little pinpricks all over my hands from his nails.
~ When I was driving home the other day, there was a fake rubber hand on the shoulder of the highway. I couldn't help but think of Kingpin.
~ So remember how I mentioned previously that I enjoy the variety of triathlon training? Strike that to exclude biking. I seriuosly suck at biking. Everytime I hit a hill I suddenly can't breathe and my legs turn to mush. Makes me appreciate those Tour de France guys a little more.
~ On that note, I can't even begin to tell you how upset I am about this whole Floyd Landis bit. I was so willing to defend him, but as a scientist knowing how the tests work that they ran, the chances are so slim that they had errors twice. Unless someone really is trying to shaft him and the results are being falsified. But that weekend after he had that amazing comeback, I sat on Suzy's deck, telling everyone that was over how it was the most amazingly inspiring feat of athleticism I had ever seen and his determination was just astounding and on and on. Nice that I was all gaga about it.
Alrighty dighty. C'est tout. Happy trails.
3:06 PM
