Birthdate: 1980 January 31
Famous people who have the same birthday as me: Franz Schubert (1797), Zane Grey (1875), Tallulah Bankhead (1903), Jackie Robinson (1919), Carol Channing (1921), Norman Mailer (1923), Philip Glass (1937), Suzanne Pleshette (1937), Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), Nolan Ryan (1947), Phil Collins (1951), Johnny Rotten (1956), Anthony LaPaglia (1959), Minnie Driver (1971), Portia de Rossi (1973), Justin Timberlake (1981)
Astrological sign: Aquarius
Chinese zodiac sign: sheep
Wedding date: 2006 September 02
Blood type: A +
Gender: male
Location: western Pennsylvania
Pets: none
Piercings/tattoos: none
Work experience: two summers of janitorial/maintenance work in my school district; four months of being a clerk at a discount store, where old people would try to haggle with me; a year and a half at Burger King, where I would burn myself on a daily basis; one semester as a technician for distance learning classes at college; fifteen months at Taco Bell; five years as a bank teller; currently a call centre customer service rep
Martial arts experience: a month and a half of taekwondo and one day of judo (after having most of my big toenail ripped off, I decided to quit judo)
Languages spoken: English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, Swedish, Italian
Favourite English words: antipode, detritus, miasma, asphodel, borborygmi, juggernaut, vermilion, omphalos, quincunx, maelstrom, Panthalassa, lammergeier, victual, chrysalis, ephemeral, morass, grimoire, catafalque, umbilicus, caterwaul, ziggurat, gangrel, noetic, abye, ixia, effluvium, talisman, avatar, shillelagh, vermin, (and who could forget,) zyzzyva.
Favourite ice cream flavour: moose tracks
Favourite cereal: Strawberry Yogurt Burst Cheerios
Favourite candy bar: Nestlé Lion
Favourite number: 11, because it's a one right next to another one
Favourite colour: the dark blue that the sky turns right after the sun sets
Favourite sports: Australian football, sumo
Favourite musical instruments: didgeridoo, crwth, contra bassoon
Favourite plants: mandragora, bird of paradise
Favourite animals: pangolin, marmoset, oryx
Favourite birds: owl, cassowary
Cavities: 1 - and it was in a baby tooth, so it doesn't count
on the radio (2000)
me dressed up as Barney (1995)
How embarrassing! My kindergarten picture! (Nov 1985)
Look at those glasses! And that shirt!
Ready to graduate (May 2002)
dressed up for Liz's Mu Phi formal (Feb 2003)