I’m having some real trouble with that Five Things You Don’t Know About Me meme — more so, maybe, then I had anticipated. My life is not all that interesting, to be honest, and the interesting bits are not exactly state secrets. I’ve already blogged about a lot of them here.

But maybe you don’t know. Maybe you haven’t been paying attention. Maybe you’re only just now joining this regularly scheduled weblog. If that’s the case, maybe a refresher wouldn’t be such a bad idea. So here, then, are Five Things You Probably Already Know About Me, But Maybe You Forgot

  • I was twice interviewed by BBC Radio. This took nobody by surprise as much as me. (Details are available here and here. Transcripts and audio are available here and here.)
  • I have written a number of songs. This is no small achievement, considering that I don’t play an instrument*, can’t sing very well, and can’t read or write music to save my life. This may help explain why all but two of the songs still exist only in my head. And maybe why they’re about such silly things. (The mp3s at that link, incidentally, are not safe for work.)
  • I have been a capper for almost as long as I have been aware of the Internet. In early 1996, I was exposed for the first time to Mystery Science Theater 3000. (Hey, it was college; people were experimenting with all sorts of things.) It wasn’t long after that that I discovered Caption That! on the Sci-Fi Channel website, where you could make fun of the pictures on the screen. CT has since fallen by the wayside (as has MST3K, sadly), but there’s still a lot of us out there. And I still cap regularly at Gerson’s Inventing Situations and my own Capper Blog.
  • I live with my parents. I have since I moved back to New York in the summer of 2004. Before that, I was living in Pennsylvania for five years (nine if you include college), so moving back home has been, understandably, a little trying at times. Don’t get me wrong, I love my parents very much, but still. Unfortunately, it costs a ridiculous amount to live in New York (especially on Long Island), and I’m not entirely convinced this is where I want to stay.
  • I have worn eyeglasses nearly all my life. I have a slight astigmatism in my right eye, diagnosed when I was two years old. I can function reasonably well without them, but after so many years, they really do feel like a part of me. I have never seriously considered wearing contacts.

I’ll keep mulling over those things that nobody knows, to try and meet Heather‘s challenge.

* I took piano lessons as a kid and hated to practice. I don’t know exactly how long I stuck with it — a year? I suspect it couldn’t have been even half that long — but I quit on the day I finished the first beginner’s book. My teacher was unhappy, and I’ve always sort of regretted it — I like the piano — but I don’t think I had the discipline to practice.

5 thoughts on “”

  1. I moved back in with my folks last year to be close to my children and avoid losing the house in the divorce I’m mired in right now. No shame in that at all.

  3. I found that moving out actually brought me closer to my family.

    And there’s nothing to be ashamed about.. until you bring a date home, of course.

  5. Well, you’ve got me hooked on Inventing Situations, now. Thanks. If you see me on there, say hi, I’m TheFiddler.

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