100 Random Facts Continued

 

50.)                  Sometimes I think about what would happen and how I’d feel if someone really close to me died in some tragic, horrendous way.

51.)                  Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had weird aches in various places on my body. I always, always think it’s because I have cancer.

52.)                  I may be a hypochondriac because I’m always given a clean bill of health.

53.)                  Friends are never overrated, they’re usually underrated and I think that’s sad.

54.)                  During the years after I got out of the hospital, I’d always complain about being a “poster boy” for safety-related issues. I’d get called to do newspaper interviews, charity calendars, safety documentaries, etc. Now that I’m older, I don’t do that stuff as much and I really miss it. I loved the attention.

55.)                  I’ve never measured my penis; in fact, I don’t think many guys actually do that. But then, who would admit that to someone they aren’t sleeping with or want to sleep with?

56.)                  I was once really good friends with a guy with one hand. He had a hook for a hand and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. He was also the best player on our hockey team.

57.)                  Before my accident, I secretly thought it would be neat to be a paraplegic. So when I had my accident, I was a little bit excited until I found out one could be a quadriplegic. That didn’t sound like as much fun.

58.)                  I was a really, really weird kid.

59.)                  I like pain and have a high tolerance for it, but there’s no way in hell I’d ever get my lip pierced again. I’ve never known pain like that before and I’d rather not again

60.)                  My dreams are way bigger than my motivation and it frustrates me beyond belief.

61.)                  My all-time favorite song is Life by Our Lady Peace, and my all-time favorite band in Nirvana.

62.)                  My parents made me repeat grade 7 because I failed every single course.

63.)                  I went to a different school the following year and made friends with the “cool crowd”. However, I was relentlessly bugged for having to repeat grade 7, and became considered as the “dumb one”.

64.)                  I’m not too sure why I but I played into it. We had to write a poem and recite it to the class for English. I decided to read out Dumb by Nirvana and said that I wrote it.

65.)                  Today, nothing would make me happier than to have a conversation with any of those guys from back then about the implications of quantum theory on the natural world or about why Hobbes was wrong about his theories of human nature.

66.)                  For some reason, my disability made it easier for me to stand up to bullies

in high school. It’s still easier for me to stand up for someone else, but I rarely find it easy to do for myself.

67.)                  I struggle more today with my disability than I did 9, or even 5 years ago. Instead of accepting that I need to do things differently like I used to, I fight tooth and nail to do it like everyone else, even if it isn’t possible. I think it’s because I’m starting to realize that the older I get the more difficult it will get instead of the other way around.

68.)                  Sometimes I feel like I’m at the same age, mentally/emotionally, as when I had the accident. Apparently it’s a common phenomenon.

69.)                  I definitely hold other people to a higher moral standard than I hold myself to.

70.)                  It’s odd, but I have way more in common with people I’ve never met than with people I’ve known for years.

71.)                  I’m a huge fan of superhero, superpower, and paranormal T.V shows and movies.

72.)                  If I could have any superpowers, it’d be a mix of flight, invisibility, and Batmanesque ingenuity.

73.)                  If I were a vampire, I would definitely not be one to avoid human blood.

74.)                  I used to be a big conspiracy nut, everything was a conspiracy. 9/11 was caused by the government, AIDS was created in lab, Kennedy was shot by the CIA, etc. Now, I think, who has the time?

75.)                  I almost ran away from home once because my friend told my mom that I was swearing. The next day, at school, another friend told on me for swearing and my teacher called my mom. When I got home, I snuck into the house, packed a little bag full of He-Man toys, got on my bike, and ran away to the beach down the street from my house. I’d always get in trouble for swearing when I was little.

76.)                  I am an absolute sucker for a cute smile and nice ass.

77.)                  Although, I really love women who can make me look like a complete dumbass. The more brilliant the better.

78.)                  If you can bake sweet, unhealthy goodness, that’s another way to get to me.

79.)                  I bought my IMac mostly because those Mac vs. PC commercials were too good to resist.

80.)                  Iced-Tea is the greatest drink ever to have been invented.

81.)                  I don’t believe in ghosts, but movies and TV shows based around them scare the fuck out of me. The only horror movies that can scare me.

82.)                  Actually, movies with religious tones, like Stigmata, scare the fuck out of me too.

83.)                  My cat sucks and I want to get rid of it, but I probably never will.

84.)                  For the longest time I tho

ught I was still in love with my ex-girlfriend from high school. It turns out I was just trying to cling to the past because of all the good memories.

85.)                  My favorite frozen dessert-type things are Real Fruit popsicles. They’re so bloody expensive but are probably made of awesome and orgasm. Ice cream sandwiches are a close second.

86.)                  My most valued possession is a medal my great grandfather got in 1921 while fighting with the IRA (before they went all terrorist-like) in Ireland. I’m not sure how I wound up with it, but I still have the envelope it was sent to him in.

87.)                  I wear fitted hats almost all the time, but it’s incredibly difficult for me to find a new hat because my head is so big. Big brain!

88.)                  Lately, when I meet a female…I find myself wondering what type of wife and mother (if she isn’t already) she would be. Perhaps a sign of my growing age count.

89.)                  I have a checklist of traits I’d like a significant other to have, but I’ve never actually held to it when I’m about to start a relationship.

90.)                  Sometimes I don’t believe that smoking is as bad as all the evidence says it is.

91.)                  Against my better judgment, I always give people the benefit of the doubt. I don’t know if that makes me a sucker or generous or both, but that’s the way it is.

92.)                  God doesn’t exist. Love exists. People confuse the two. Love has more power than any god could ever have.

93.)                  One thing I’d love to do is bring someone from the distant past to today and be able to see their reaction to things like TV, porn, the Internet, clothing styles. I think it’d be enormously fun.

94.)                  I get really disappointed when I come across a person who doesn’t realize the potential they have. It bums me so I try to make them realize, usually unsuccessfully.

95.)                  I don’t write nearly as much as I used to. I think it might be because I’d rather avoid a lot of the pessimistic feelings I have about a lot of different things. Or, it could just be because I feel guilty writing for fun when I have so many essays to write.

96.)                  My favorite websites are huffingtonpost.com, slate.com, democraticunderground.com, and opendiary.com. I’m addicted to all four and check them frequently throughout the day.

97.)                  Sex on a trampoline would be absolutely fantastic.

98.)                  I think the idea of musical genres is utterly ridiculous, but realize that it’d be impossible not to have them.

99.)                  I have never voted for anything.

100.)               I honestly can’t believe that I actually finished this…and without embellishing anything.