Friday, January 30, 2009

Because I'm too lazy to come up with a new blog entry!

I'll give you something I already put on facebook!
This was a meme, which someone creates and then sends to other people, who do it and then send it on and so forth. It's almost like a chain letter, but instead of warning you of all of the horrible things that will happen if you don't pass it on, it's just for fun. Some of the older ones have been traveling around on the internet for years! I first heard about this one from Brynne's mom, who got it from one of her friends where she works, etc., etc. Here's the original post I made, with a few errors fixed.
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Bla bla bla, on with the note already. Read me! >:(

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose up to 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag up to 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

1. I thought long and hard about what to name this note... and I think the result speaks for itself.

2. This note is not, I repeat NOT, an attempt to avoid homework. Crap, 10:00pm already?!

3. This year I'm taking Sociology (to be a sociopath), History of Ethics (to be a bore), Environmental Ethics (make that a self-righteous bore), and Spanish (¡y un aburridor!)

4. Right now I'm listening to the always-excellent Carlos Santana.

5. I only feel slightly guilty that my exercise regimen is based entirely on Wii Sports.

6. If #5 isn't proof, I play waaay to many video games. And I couldn't be happier! :D

7. I overuse internet emotes on a regular basis. >.>

8. Though I do watch dramas and action movies, cartoons will always have a special place in my heart. Near the inner left ventricle, actually.

10. My first job was at Scully's Packing Sheds on Scotts Valley Rd; my second was at the Lakeport Cinema 5.

11. Though I'm enjoying college right now, I am seriously worried about finding a job once I leave.

12. It makes me sad when people dread the future so much; it tends to create self-fulfilling prophecies.

13. I am an avid writer of haikus, both serious and goofy. For example:
So many buttons
one wrong move, it might explode...
new cellular phone.

14. When it comes to music, I like a wide variety of stuff and tend to go through phases. I grew up with U2, Santana, the Steve Miller Band, and Huey Lewis and the News, rolled on towards Queen, The Who, The Doors, and Cake, dabbled in Metallica, AC/DC and Godsmack, moped my way through Evanescence, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, and Coldplay (the older Coldplay stuff, anyway), gnashed through Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, Nirvana, and System of a Down, and am now at a kind of musical crossroads. I still listen to everything above and love it all. I don't care much for rap or hip hop, and dislike country for the most part.

Above all, few musicians have had a greater impact in my life than Raffi. ("Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring--Bananaphone!" God, I loved that song as a kid!)

15. I am a natural expert at the sidewalk dance. You know, where people coming from 2+ directions both try to go left, then right, then left again, then just push past each other mumbling, "M'sorry."

16. I am a serious skeptic and somewhat cynical. I have a lot of trouble believing in anything and only recently have I convinced myself to give everyone the benefit of the doubt instead of thinking they did whatever on purpose.

17. I worry a lot about how I look, but refuse to spend the money on quality clothes.

18. I took an economics class last year, and was amazed at how much I learned and how much I enjoyed it.

19. Though I am a pacifist, I enjoy some over-the-top violent movies as long as they are ridiculous: i.e. Evil Dead = excellent, Saw I-XXV = pointless, uninteresting torture.

20. I am so, so very tired of endless political bickering, and few things make as angry or as frustrated as dogmatism. I'm not just talking about politics here either; this applies to religion (or lack thereof), racial beliefs, economics, social issues, and all kinds of other stuff. Morals and beliefs are good things, but close-mindedness is the bane of humanity. I'm not kidding here. If anything is going to destroy us, it will be caused by people who aren't willing to listen.

21. I often, without warning, provocation, or warrent, erupt in self-righteous rants about all kinds of moral issues. (See #20.)

22. If you say something serious to me and I smile, it is never, ever because I am laughing at you; I am inadvertently imagining myself in that situation and empathizing with you over it. I can't help myself.

23. I am a sucker for romances and romantic tragedies. As goofy as some of the plots were, I can't bloody think about the endings to some movies and books without getting all teary-eyed.

24. If there was a degree and a job in dabbling in everything, I would take it. I like a lot of different subjects, but tend to get bored quickly with a lot of the things I take up. It doesn't help that I'm also fairly lazy when it comes to both studying and in regards to the stuff that will almost certainly come back to haunt me.

25. I am rapidly running out of things to write about myself--oh good! #25! Let's see, some kind of great thing to end with....
How about a riddle?!
If you have it, you want to share it;
if you share it, you haven't got it.
What is it?
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Talk to you all later!

3 comments:

Marilyn said...

#26 - I owe Lynnie for the idea to put this on my blog.

Was that so hard?! =)

Kory Hook said...

You have no IDEA how much copy/paste went into this! What, I should interrupt that just to give credit to who came up with the idea?!
C'MON! >:(

Kate said...

Best post ever!! Spud, you are such a cool guy. Who knew that you liked romantic comedies? I also have a suggestion for a new band for you- The Black Keys. Bluesy rock. You might dig them.
Love you!