About a fifth of the "100 Things About Me" meme

[pseydtonne]

1. I'm not quite tired enough to sleep, but I should be soon.
2. I have a problem staying awake during meetings, lectures, et cetera. I suspect I have sleep apnea.
3. When I was a kid, I found an outlet for my obsessive-compulsive desires in figuring out the divisibility of numbers I encountered.
4. My parents had a Betamax VCR with a big, blue LED clock on the front.
5. 8:46 was my favorite time on the clock because it was the largest number divisible by so many numbers.
6. Later on, I learned how to masturbate. That seemed to calm my brain.
7. I first successfully whacked off the day before I turned thirteen.
8. The following day, I took the SATs for the first time. Since I was only in the eighth grade, I only got a 430 on the verbal. This was not good enough for CTY's humanities programs, as I recall.
9. I did get a 610 on the math. Not bad for having a fever the previous night, but still a lousy way to spend my first teenage birthday.
10. I have a best friend that hasn't spoken to me for four years. I still don't know how I pissed him off.
11. I don't remember people's names,
12. although I'll often remember everything else about people I meet.
13. This is why I blank out when i have to introduce people to each other. I prefer letting them sort it out, but that's not polite.
14. Paranoia got me through ninth and tenth grades.
15. ...and the Dead Kennedys.
16. When I was nine, I earned permanent shotgun in my parents' cars because I navigated us from our house to the Sheraton on Queen Street, Toronto.
17. I became obsessed with subways as a result of that trip.
18. I began to draw subway maps for fictional cities, including trestle schematics for elevated runs.
19. I still draw subway maps when I'm working on story ideas. It helps me get a landscape for the action.
20. Freudly speaking, subways are anal-fixation (stuff in a tunnel, et cetera).
21. I hate taxicabs -- I figure, I know how to drive, so why should I pay the cost of half a tank of gas to get five miles up the road?
22. I will do anything to avoid riding in a cab. It's a control issue.
23. I still suck my thumb at age 27. It was that or cigarettes.

Since my guess about how has worked, I'm going to gloat and then tell you more about me later.

Comments

[epanastatis.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, I found an outlet for my obsessive-compulsive desires in figuring out the divisibility of numbers I encountered.

Sheeit, man, I still do that!

I still suck my thumb at age 27. It was that or cigarettes.

As you know, I prefer chewing. It gives the thumb a nice leathery texture and makes it look as if 20% of my digits are accustomed to hard labor.