101 Uninteresting Things About Me

001) I like Indian music, the kind my mom's boyfriend called "bing-bong music".
002) I read a lot of books: biographies, history, general fiction.
003) I've kept a record of just about every book I've read since November 2003.
004) I collect things: lists, books, coins, dead lightbulbs, typewriters.. I'm a regular packrat.
005) I eat weird things: raw citrus fruits, unripe fruit, relish, roots and leaves of some unknown plants, peanut butter and jam sans bread.
006) I drink weird things: prune juice, pickle juice, sunflower brine.
007) My favorite movies tend to be ones that other people don't like (or have never heard of).
008) I have random fears: the downstairs bathroom, vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers and occasionally pools.
009) My internet life is a lot like my real life: I draw, I read, I write and I chat.
010) I don't like phoning people, it makes me nervous.
011) I enjoy nightwalking (by myself or with others).
012) I don't have cable, satellite, mp3 players or a cellphone.. but I do have a tape player, a record player, a CD player and a VHS machine.
013) (To my knowledge) I'm the oldest of my parents' children.
014) I'm short and underweight.
015) I collect knives occasionally.
016) I have a cat, his name is Fritz.
017) My favorite kind of plant is the spider plant (chlorophytum comosum).
018) My favorite color varies, today I like blue.
019) When dating I have a strange habit of swapping odd childhood memories with my partner.
020) I've wanted to be a writer since the age of 5.
021) I don't like a lot of country or rap music; I'm unoriginal, I like rock.
022) If I wanted to, I could read 3 novels a day.
023) I have an eye for detail but not the hand to draw what I see.
024) I typically exclaim "I wish I had a camera" when I'm outside.
025) I frequently exclaim "That'd make an awesome painting" during the slow parts of movies.
026) I have watched quite a few movies; I have a habit of quoting random lines whenever I feel like it.
027) Once, when I was high on medication, I tried to list all of the movies I've ever enjoyed seeing.
028) I sympathize with objects.
029) I've kept paper journals since I was 12; I've kept electronic journals since I was 14 or 15.
030) (As of July 16, 2006) I have two electronic journals, the most I've had was 5 at once.
031) I'm addicted to licorice.
032) My favorite band is Goo Goo Dolls, I have every album they've ever made (except for the first one).
033) My daily diet typically consists of salsa, chocolate milk, omelettes and fried rice.
034) My favorite parts of the human body are the hands.
035) My initials are funny because I was named after a trucking company.
036) My idea of a salad is dousing lettuce with vinegar.
037) If I could afford it, I would drink tea all the time.
038) My "lucky" number is 67 (6 7=13).
039) I enjoy sleeping.
040) When I dream, I typically dream of running or the end of the world.
041) My favorite Rush album is "Grace Under Pressure".
042) Weird Al is my superhero.
043) I'm mildly math-retarded.
044) My mother thinks that I should be a politician. I think that I'd be assassinated.
045) I think that Canada is in serious need of a great Prime Minister.
046) I don't tan -- I burn.
047) I'm hungry.
048) My favorite musical instrument is the piano, if I ever learn how to play the piano I want to figure out the solo in Supertramp's "School".
049) Right now I'm listening to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon".
050) In high school, the only class I payed attention in was English.
051) I only like two kinds of potato chips (regular/salt and vinegar).
052) I only just recently started liking cucumbers and bacon.
053) I'm allergic to mangoes, wildflowers, some sort of mushroom, cat spit and cat dandruff.
054) My personal motto for the longest time was "this too must pass".
055) I don't drink alcohol often.
056) I don't drive.
057) I don't participate in illegal activities often.
058) On my birthday, I eat apple pie.. not cake.
059) I have lived by trains virtually my whole life.
060) Zits make me sad.
061) The longest I've stayed awake was 4 days straight.
062) The longest I've stayed in a hospital was 2 and a half weeks. The only person who noticed I was gone was my teacher.. he brought me homework.
063) I'm not very photogenic.
064) My secret superpower is boredom.
065) I wish that I didn't sound like an asthmatic whale while singing.
066) I think that wars are a load of crap.
067) If I were to visit a different country, I'd go to Australia or Sweden.
068) I think that needles are fucking scary.
069) I prefer hamburgers and pancakes cold.
070) Over the years I've attempted to learn French, Sign Language and Japanese.
071) My favorite actors are Jim Carrey, James Woods and Johnny Depp.
072) When I was in Kindergarten my teacher gave the girls of the class a tour of the boys' bathroom.
073) Often when I dream, I dream that I'm male. According to some website, it's rare to dream of being the opposite gender. Apparently, according to the same site, I'm even rarer because I've dreamed like that my whole life.
074) The only time I can recall dreaming of being an object is that time I dreamed that I was a coin.
075) Usually I'm not myself in a dream; often I don't even stay as the same person in a dream.
076) I lose my train of thought while speaking sometimes because I mentally correct my spoken grammar.
077) I write at least one poem every month (but I don't often read poetry).
078) Up until June 2006 I wrote all of my paper journals in a simplistic code.
079) I first started using a code to protect my written thoughts when my little sister threatened to put my diaries up on the internet.
080) My most recent alias (Mina Lambert) comes from "Wilhelmina" of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and "Lambert" of Christopher Lambert ("Mortal Kombat" / "Highlander").
081) I like to paint, draw, sew, write and read. Very boring.
082) For the last few years, on my birthday I watch the movie Man on the Moon.. it's some sort of weird tradition I've come up with.
083) One of my all-time favorite albums is Queen's "Greatest Hits I" (1981)
084) One of the most inspirational movies I've ever seen is "12 Monkeys" (Bruce Willis / Brad Pitt)
085) I'm lazy.
086) I'm a reactionist at heart.
087) I haven't found it very hard to come up with 87 uninteresting facts about myself.
088) My thumb is roughly the same size as the average person's pinkie-finger.
089) When my cat pukes I call it his "lunch" because 9 times out of 10 my cat will actually eat his own puke.
090) I once wrote a poem about my cat peeing all over my mom's boyfriend's house.
091) I think that some of the "Chuck Norris Facts" are funny.
092) Two of the weirdest things I've ever collected: pencil shavings and dryer lint.
093) "Dinosaur orgies" (my main catchphrase) may or may not be an unconscious salute to "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".
094) It is my personal opinion that duct tape is best used for childcare.
095) I know how to make a few snacks that look nasty and taste great.
096) I rarely finish what I start.
097) As a child I gave two funerals for gerbils.
098) It is my personal pun, experience and opinion that sometimes it's more fun IN the closet.
099) I enjoy watching 80's reruns and murder mysteries (like Columbo and Poirot).
100) I don't like carpets.
101) The sound of crying babies makes me think of riding the Greyhound buses.