Blind Prophecy

I’ve been tagged for this meme a couple times, mostly on Facebook (but I decided to do it here).

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note blog 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. (yeah, I don’t do that–part of the reason this is here instead of on Facebook–so consider yourself tagged if you care.)

1. The only thing decorating the walls of my room right now are badges and lanyards from events and conferences I’ve participated in (or organized) over the last 10 years.
2. I drink about 2 liters of Diet Coke every day (3-4 of the 20oz bottles). I know I shouldn’t. I know it’s rotting my teeth. But we’re going to call this habit the “last step” in the ongoing “getting healthy” efforts.
3. But my real guilty pleasure is Chips Ahoys chewy chocolate chip cookies.
4. I’m trying to play it cool, but this waiting to hear back from law schools has turned me into a neurotic mess. I think Jennifer is the only one who really suspects just how tense, self-doubting, and insane I’m feeling at the moment–especially after getting rejected from the first school I applied to.
5. I dream about having a magical singing voice. There’s no metaphor in that sentence, I have recurring dreams where I can make magical things happen by singing. I like to daydream about this when taking walks with my iPod in.
6. I have a fairly large mole over the tip of my sternum that my doctor (when I had health insurance) wants me to start watching carefully. It’s still smaller than a dime.
7. My idea of the perfect vacation is: me, my camera, my iPod, a tourist map of whichever city I’m visiting, and lots of walking. I don’t mind traveling with friends, but the standing still parts (shopping, debating what to do, sticking to one place for several hours) wear on me.
8. I go days at a time without hearing my phone ring. This is more true since I no longer have a job where people have to call me. I think this should upset me more than it does.
9. I have five pairs of sunglasses because I never remember to take them with me on sunny days when I’ll be outside a lot.
10. I don’t get what people find attractive about Shia LaBeof.
11. Or George Clooney.
12. I’ve started accidentally telling people I have “five sisters” when I have six, but I’m particularly estranged from one of them and getting less bothered by that fact with each passing year.
13. When I was in high school, I had chronic hangnail in my toes. They were painful and infected often until I had surgery to cauterize part of the nails. I haven’t had a problem since then.
14. I’ve led to the death of over 20 pet hamsters. RIP Fluffy, Frosty, Frisky, Furry, Lil Benny, Lil Bart, and the unnamed offspring of the lesbian couple. I won’t own rodents as pets again.
15. I have to be up at 4:00 am tomorrow through Wednesday. I’m not happy about this. At least I don’t have to dress up.
16. Until recently, I thought meme was pronounced “mee-mee.”
17. I haven’t had meaningful (emotional, relationship-oriented) sex since I lived in Las Vegas. I think I’m still waiting to be swept off my feet.
18. Of all the places I’ve been, the Kenai Fjords were the most impressive so far.
19. Buffy the Vampire Slayer may still be my all-time favorite show, but it’s been a long time since I felt like sitting down for a marathon.
20. I have about 4 loads of laundry sitting in a pile on my bedroom floor and no intention of washing anything until I run out of clean underwear. It’s time to own up to the fact that I’m basically a minor slob.
21. I have no intention of getting an Ohio driver’s license, either.
22. The reason I haven’t stayed with theatre after college is because it just isn’t the same. In college, part of the magic was the classes and atmosphere that encouraged risk-taking, creativity and experimentation. It startles me a bit when I look back and see how much happened in such a short span of time. Community and professional theatre has less opportunity for experimenting and discourages risk-taking that threatens commercial success.
23. The worst job I ever had was packing donuts into boxes for early-morning delivery to Reno’s convenience stores.
24. I’ve never been overseas. If I had to pick only one trip to make in my lifetime, I’d do the horribly cliche Rome-Venice-Paris-London trip.
25. I have five digital cameras now, two are broken, one is on my phone, one doesn’t have a memory chip. I want a new one.

That was harder than I thought. I’m pretty open on this blog and I’ve shared so much about myself, it was hard coming up with things I haven’t already divulged at length.

Filed under: miscellaneous, personal by Jere Keys