2004-12-20T08:35:00.000-08:00

1. Don't actually know if I have 100 more things to say about myself. But even if I don't, I can make them up and you will never know.

2. I wear a set of stainless steel US Army Style dog tags inscribed with my real details (including blood type) and Halo alias (Snowman)

3. I also used the serial number on my guitar on the tags. CY03044065

4. Also about my neck I wear a coin on a chain. Ma bought me the chain for graduation, the coin is of Asiatic origin and is supposedly good luck.

5. I didn't own a pair of standard blue jeans until 2003.

6. I freeking LOVE mangoes. I could eat mangoes all day, every day, for the rest of my life.

7. I dwell too much on everything. Especially on my relationships with others.

8. I dwell a lot on friendship problems. I get obsessed with romantic life problems.

9. Until recently, I cared way way too much about what people think of me.

10. Despite the fact that I work pizza delivery, I seem to find the silver lining of any job that I do, and subsequently wind up enjoying working quite a bit.

11. My mind; ultimately too busy. I tend to drift, daydream and generally not concentrate on things that I am meant to. At any given time, I am writing songs, making humorous observations for blog entries, writing blog entries, scheduling my day etc etc etc.

12. I like poetry. Some of my favourite poets include T.S Eliot, Robert Frost, Poe, Dawe and others.

13. I have a thing for girls who can kick my ass. This doesn't necessarily mean physically beat me up, but beat me on sarcasm and call me on my bullshit.

14. In short, I like girls with pluck, moxie, (I wanna say 'balls', but that could be misconstrued), strong willed?

15. Though I am not gay, I support gay marriage. I strongly believe that gay marriage is now, what inter-racial marriages used to be.

16. I have a few bi-sexual friends who I respect immensely.

17. I like to think I have a very live and let live philosophy.

18. I don't know if anyone believes that I'm like that, but I try as hard as possible to not let prejudice get in my way.

19. I can't really dance. But I like to try, much to the amusement of others.

20.Had to write this list by printing a copy of the other 100 things list and looking through it constantly to make sure nothing was repeated.

21. Named my Red Holden VP Commodore "Caroline" after the song "Sweet Caroline." I did this because my car is a whore and breaks down frequently, but I love her

22. My maternal Grandfather suffers from Altzheimer's.

23. This is particularly sad, because he was one of the smartest people I knew. He could fix anything.

24. My paternal Grandfather died 2 years before I was born. We don't know why, there was never an autopsy. He did however drink and smoke.

25. He served in Korea, and met my Grandmother over there. He was also in a jeep that went over a landmine, which gave him back problems for the rest of his life.

26. I suck at buying gifts for people. They are almost always lame. I don't think I have ever bought a good gift for anyone.

27. My car always smells funny because the air-conditioned leaks water onto my left foot while I drive causing wet carpet and a mildewy smell.

28. The air freshener that hangs from my mirror is a pine tree that smells like an apple. God bless genetic engineering.

29. Sometimes used sleeping pills to help me sleep. I used to use scotch. More recently have been using a form of Meditation.

30. Generally decided recently to try to improve myself. Started meditating. Find myself calmer.

31. I have this constant fear that if I spend too much time alone, I will break down into some sort of psycho who carries a hunting knife strapped to his shin.

32. I love blues guitar. Especially SRV, but I don't discriminate.

33. I frequently get into situations where "my mouth runneth over"

34. This leaves me into some awkward silences, odd glares and situations where my foot winds up solidly in mouth.

35. My vision of the afterlife is best captured by Dante's Divine Comedy.

36. I know what you are thinking.

37. Not really, but I am actually pretty decent at reading people based on their body language and mannerisms.

38. Of course, this skill completely disappears if you are hitting on me. You practically have to rip off your clothes and jump me before I get the message.

39. I also absorb syntax fairly well. I am guilty of taking on other peoples expressions and colloquialisms.

40. I have some really very odd traditions and superstitions. The oddest of which involves yellow underwear and New years.

41. Nick is teaching himself piano to be able to play "3am" by Matchbox 20.

42. Nick is referring to himself in the third person because he got sick of writing "I this" and "I that"

43. Sometimes I will be gripped by the uncontrollable urge to clean.

44. I will bitch and moan about how much I hate Christmas up until Christmas Eve, then I will suddenly be filled with Christmas cheer.

45. I think it's the shopping and carols and TV specials I hate, not the holiday.

46. I frequently have large delusions of grandeur.

47. I hate writing about myself because I either think it makes me sound like an egocentric asshole or a depressing loser with no self esteem.

48. But I do love the attention.

49. I like to claim I am a romantic, but I don't know wether it is true.

50. I talk in elevators.

51. I have very geeky fan/school boy crushes on Jennifer Garner, Natalie Portman, Liv Tyler, Katie Holmes and Sarah Polley.

52. This is entirely due to their performances in Alias, Garden State, Jersey Girl, Dawson's Creek, Go and Go.

53. I love stand-up, to the point where I have whole sketches memorised from anything I have seen in the last 10 years.

54. This also means I have been repeating sketches and jokes to the point that my friends are sick of them, and know that it isn't my material.

55. This does mean however that when I stick my own material in, they don't think its me, and I can blame someone else if it is bad.

56. Sometimes I crack jokes to diffuse tension. It doesn't always work.

57. I know that I am a nerdy loser, but deep down I like to pretend that I'm cool.

58. I don't like birthdays because I dont like people treating me as if I am special. It makes me feel uncomfortable.

59. The thing most people can't stand about me is the fact that I constantly crack my knuckles.

60. The other thing most people can't stand about me is I am rude, crude and generally disagreeable.

61. I'm ok once you get to know me. I just make a shitty first impression.

62. I think I have a non-sexual crush on Brad Pitt.

63. I hate judging people against other people. Especially when it comes to romantic entanglements.

64. I hate mushrooms. If I wanted to eat fungus I would chow down on tinea.

65. I hate using the words love and hate lightly. They are two words that are too strong to use flippantly. (Wow, that sentence contained too, two and to!)

66. I handwrite one of two ways. One is a horribly outdated cursive scrawl that is too spidery and illegible (and was once accused of being too fancy) to read.

67. This forced me to develop a mini-caps print style which I use for most things other people have to read.

68. When stressed, I often switch between the two at will. This leads to interesting exam situations when different questions and sometimes different sentences are in different handwriting.

69. When I was little, I was awesome at hide and seek. I once lay under a house for two hours and only came out when people started to actually worry.

70. My most memorable moment to date was an exit after a relationship break-up that was almost perfectly from a movie.

71. I screwed it up by going back to destroy what was left of my dignity.

72. I wish I could sing well. The jury is out, half the people I know tell me I have an alright voice, the other half throw things at me until I stop.

73. I am both the most and least patient person I know. I can stand in line for hours, but will snap at something small and stupid when it tests my patience.

74. I would consider getting a tattoo but only if it was something really really cool (Something really cool to me, would of course be horribly lame to everyone else)

75. Sometimes I will get in odd moods where I have to teach myself something new. Wether that is a handful of phrases in a new language, how to juggle, how to cook a certain dish or how to mix a certain drink.

76. I am yet to work out wether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

77. Deep down I have always wanted to be the absolute best at something, but have had to settle for being alright at lots of things.

78. My senses get unusually sharp at night, reinforcing my opinion that I am nocturnal.

79. For a reasonably big guy, I can move almost anywhere almost silently.

80. This was a fact that scared many people at various school camps in my lifetime.

81. I love kids, and yet am horribly awkward and odd around them.

82. This is something that I hope I will remedy before I am a father/uncle/grandfather/cool older cousin.

83. One of my goals in life is to be an awesome father and a kickass grandpa.

84. I keep coolant, a change of old clothes, a change of good going out clothes, a change of work clothes, tools, a blanket, a jack and a box of latex gloves in the boot of my car. Just in case I get called out, to work, or my car breaks down again while I am on the road.

85. Sometimes I will stare into space and go almost catatonic for no reason. It is probably because I am either thinking or arguing with my internal monologue.

86. "Kinky" is my favourite word in my vocabulary.

87. I sometimes put on infomercials to help me sleep. The ones with knives are my favourite.

88. One day, I too would like to cut a shoe.

89. I am a dog person. Dogs love me. I like cats too, but cats don't like me.

90. When meeting me for the first time, people tend to think that I am shy, awkward, introverted, cold or stand-offish.

91. In reality; I just like to watch people before I open up to them. People who know me would say that all of the above are untrue.

92. Writing this many things about yourself is actually quite life-altering. It makes you look at yourself funny. As if you just made a bad joke about yourself to yourself.

93. I love getting snail mail, Until I realise 9 times out of ten, they want my money.

94. The number 94 always makes me think of Star Wars. I'm a nerd like that.

95. I like to think that I am artistic and creative, but am constantly afraid that people are going
to tell me that my writing/songs/anything else are utter crap.

96. I love Chuck Taylor's to the point of obsession.

97. Although I am studying a degree in Forensic And Analytical Chemistry, I still don't ACTUALLY know what I want to do with my life.

98. Suggested careers have been: Journalist, Criminalist, Medical Doctor, Therapist, Councillor, Teacher, Actor, Musician, Police Officer, Lawyer and Psychologist.

99. I made myself sit up until 3am to finish this damn list. The song "3am" was on repeat the entire time. The irony was not lost on me.

100. Writing 200 different things about yourself is actually fucking hard!

101. I wrote that whole list without making a single spelling mistake.
UPDATE: I wrote that whole list, only making a single spelling mistake. Anyone ELSE want to tell me what it is?

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