New Facebook Meme: 25 Random Facts

One of the new memes going around, courtesy of my friend Rachel via Facebook:

“25 Random – Ober Edition

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 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.”

Since I needed an update in accord with my gentleman’s agreement with Ian and Jaco, and since I don’t spend all that much time of Facebook anyway, I thought I would post my answer here. I charge all of you reading this to take up the challenge and post it somewhere other people will see it, including here in the comments thread for this post. If you post elsewhere, please provide a link in the comments thread if you can.

So without further ado, 25 random things about me you might not have known, and probably didn’t want to:

1. I have no discernable sleep schedule. I used to, but anymore, I wake up when I have to or can no longer sleep. I go to bed whenever I can’t stand being awake anymore, or just pass out. Some nights, I just don’t sleep, but am somehow fine the next day.
2. I just signed an offer of employment from the company I’ve been co-oping and working part time at for the last two years, Pivot Inc. This means I am now employed post-graduation. Huzzah!
3. I find the concept of a “universal truth” incoherent, which annoys a great many scientists and logicians. Despite this, I have no problem with science or logic.
4. My Father, after 30-some years working in the Financial Sector, recently took a position as the Pastor at a church outside of Harrisburg, PA.
5. I have a statuette of God from MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL on my desk. I call him Beardo McSmitey-pants sometimes.
6. The chain I wear on a regular basis was given to me at my high school graduation party by my Mother’s mother, in remembrance of my Grandfather who used to wear one like it. If I don’t remember to put it on, I usually have a bad day that day.
7. As I recall it, if I had been born a girl, I would have been named Diane. (I will confirm this and update it).
8. My middle name was chosen because of Father Christmas.
9. I cannot fall asleep unless the door is closed and I’m listening to music or a podcast.
10. I have always wanted to name a cat “Fido”
11. I am from New Jersey, and I do not like Bruce Springsteen.
12. I “got” Seinfeld and still thought it was stupid.
13. The telephone is my least favorite form of communication. I would rather hand write letters or travel well out of my way to talk to someone face to face. If a medium is completely impersonal, I can handle it just fine, but if I’m going to be interacting with someone otherwise, I need to see their facial expressions and read their body language to have any idea how the conversation is going and to get my point across.
14. I read so far in to everything I sometimes lack the ability to function in real time. I also can read too much in to someone saying something that comes across as insulting, even if they didn’t mean to, and it takes me a long time to talk myself down from taking it personally.
15. I used to collect coins and stamps when I was younger. This is part of why I call myself an old soul, because really no person under the age of 50 should be doing this.
16. I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
17. Despite myself, I like the song “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” by Big & Rich. I also like Lil’ Wayne.
18. I have Man-crushes on David Bowie and Roger Daltrey
19. I’d rather be Right than Rich.
20. The colder it gets, the happier I am.
21. I honestly cannot decide between burial and creamation. On the one hand I feel like having my dead body taking up space is rediculous, but on the other hand, I find it very peaceful and reassuring to visit my grandfathers grave and tell him about what’s been going on. I’m not sure why, this is, but I’d like to leave the option open to my family.
22. If computers and e-book readers kill of the printing of books in my lifetime, I will probably become a luddite.
23. If I could be any rockstar in history, I would be Dave Grohl.
24. I seem to fall much easier for girls who wear glasses than I do for girls who don’t.
25. I have always agreed with Van Gogh: “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” On any given night, given my druthers, I would trek out to country, find an open field with a clear view of the heavens, nurse a bottle of whiskey, and dream about what is and what could be in an infinite universe.