Picking up the meme from SayUncle and Robb Allen, here goes:
1. I shave as little as possible because I have the sort of beard that produces lots of ingrown hairs. I’ve tried different razors, shaving creams, shaving techniques, and lotions without notable success. It ain’t easy, being this manly.
2. I lost my virginity to a witch (an actual, practicing witch), in a movie theater, during Star Trek: Insurrection. Hey, we were horny kids with nosy parents at home and insufficient funds to get a hotel room. And the theater was empty. Mostly.
3. I’ve attended a black-tie, $1,000-a-seat charity concert at the Lincoln Center in a T-shirt and tattered blue jeans.
4. In addition to the witch, I’ve also dated a bisexual drag king (who was actually very beautiful when she wasn’t dressed like a dude), a bipolar junkie, and a crazy German girl who wanted to violate my tender young body in an entirely unacceptable way. I know how to pick ‘em.
5. I’m mixed-handed. I write and do most other fine motor skill operations with my left hand. I play baseball and golf (both very poorly) right-handed. I shoot long guns right-handed but shoot handguns just about equally well with either hand. I use a computer mouse right-handed but tend to favor my left hand for touchpads and TrackPoints. I never know what the hell to do with eating utensils.
6. I’m a lousy athlete whose lone gift is a freakish talent at the standing long jump. The one thing I can do well, isn’t done anymore.
7. I’ve been rail-thin my entire life, but I weigh about 25 pounds more than you’d guess from looking at me. Yes, that makes me extraordinarly dense.
8. My ex-girlfriend took a series of portraits of me that won several awards. Only she didn’t have my permission to enter the photos in any contests. And I was nekkid in them. Being naked on the internet is a hard thing to undo.
I’m mixed-handed too… They say some interesting things about folks like us…
Do you hold a pencil the same way most people do? (eraser-end pointed over your shoulder)
The eraser end points to about 10 o’clock. Does that mean something?
I was well on my way to being truly ambidextrous until two things happened… one, everyone refused to assist me to write left handed when I was a little kid, and two, I broke my arm at the wrist severely when I was 12 and got *just* enough loss of fine motor control to keep me from writing without probably a couple months of hard practice.
That said, I freak people out when I’m mousing with the left hand, typing with the right, and every so often swapping to typing leftie and writing something down rightie. Nobody’s comfortable at my desk
Whoops, just realized that you didn’t mention whether you write left or right handed. When you’re mixed handed and write right handed, you’re supposed to hold your pencil like you’re left handed (which makes no sense, since you have no reason to write like that). Mixed handed people are supposed to be adept at both logical and creative faculties. We’re very well-rounded.
Are you a skinny fat man?