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Twenty-five not-so-random things, facts, habits, or goals about me.
If you like this, consider yourself tagged. Participation *will* be part of your final grade.
1. Wallace Stevens is a hero to me.
2. One of the greatest disappointments of my adult life is that linguistics is not really a science.
3. One of the greatest joys of my adult life is that psychology is not really a science.
4. I am endlessly fascinated by Friedrich Nietzsche, but I wouldn't have him over for dinner.
5. Camille Paglia tops the list of famous people I would like to invite over for dinner.
6. For almost a year I have been entranced by the untranslatable Renaissance Neoplatonist slogans "serio ludere" and "festina lente".
7. I seem to be awfully darned attached to being eccentric.
8. The Wizard of Oz has been my favorite movie for as long as I can remember. Never. Gets. Old.
9. I like to personify inanimate objects, give them names and personalities, and pretend they are out to help me.
10. I've been practicing piano every day for over a year now and am starting to sound ok. I can play the first two movements of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata without cringing.
11. I can't remember the last time I washed my car.
12. Living in San Francisco is the first time I haven't felt a strong pull to try out living elsewhere. I've lived in Texas, Alabama, North Carolina and Massachusetts. Now I feel like I've landed.
13. I used to want to retire early. Now that sounds really dreadful to me.
14. My paper on the application of discrete mathematics to generative syntax, which I wrote in high school, won state-wide awards. For some reason, I haven't mentioned that to anyone in 25 years.
15. My ham radio license is still active.
16. My license to practice law is no longer active.
17. Sometimes I experience serious social anxiety. Sometimes pharmaceutical help is needed to get me to go to a party.
18. I have recently learned that I am "depressed". Complete surprise to me.
19. In my mind I am much better at expressing myself than I really am.
20. People who go around typing other people on the Enneagram without their consent are "zeros" in my book.
21. I really wonder what's become of my friends from elementary school but can't seem to turn them up on the Interwebs.
22. The style manual of the American Psychological Association is embarrassingly stupid.
23. I am completely comfortable with whatever projection you have on me, as long as it's not that I'm normal (see #7 above).
24. Some things I have a love-hate relationship with: rudeness, anger, perfectionism, academia, food, talking.
25. My left arm is an inch longer than my right arm. Bilateral symmetry is overrated.
There, wasn't that fun? Now it's your turn.
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