And for those who do not know me very well, here are some little-known factoids, if you're interested:
~I am a MUSIC SNOB. I like all (or nearly all) genres of music. I go to as much live music as is humanly possible. My tangible CD collection is vast and eclectic. I have no patience for those who think their taste in music is obscure and superior, when in actual fact it is pedestrian and evocative of a misanthropic tenth-grader.
~No, I do not like Journey. I posted that song for obvious reasons.
~I rule at Sopranos pinball. I do not know if this applies to all pinball machines. I am also virtually unbeatable at Tetris. Just sayin'.
~I used to live in a place called "Monkey Town." While I lived in Monkey Town, I went to a convent-run school in a neighboring place called "Sodom." I posted a photo of a map in my pics section for proof.
~This same place, located a bit upstate from the city, was built on a large abandoned mine. It is said to be haunted and it is also a very well-documented UFO hotspot. Unfortunately, I did not see any UFOs. At least not there.
~Even though I had the highest grade-point average at that above-mentioned school in Sodom, I almost got expelled for skipping handbell practice.
~Later, I moved down to a rural community in Buncombe County (where we get the words "bunk," and "debunk" from), North Carolina. I lived in a double-wide on top of a mountain just outside the Pisgah National Forest on Poverty Branch Road.
~During this time, I went to college to study Ancient Greek and Botany, and my Mom, a writer/editor, sewed heirloom Appalachian brooms.
~I once shared a beer with the guy who played Norm in Cheers.
~I like to drive stick. Sorry to disappoint, but I do not mean anything dirty by this. I also have a thing for muscle cars. I like the growl.
~I have an herbarium of over 100 wildflowers I have identified, pressed, and mounted onto paper myself. For some reason, I do not think many of my close friends know this.
~I once saved an old-growth stand in the Nantahala National Forest (one of the last remaining old-growth stands in the eastern US) by sending in a comment to the US Forest Service. Because of this, the environmental group I volunteered for was able to legally challenge and stop the sale under the National Environmental Protection Act. I knew there was a reason I became obsessed with annoying and tormenting the Forest Service with all those comment letters.
~I was devastated when the First American-Roumanian Congregation Synagogue on Rivington Street collapsed.
~I am not just a music snob. I am also a coffee snob. I have very particular taste in coffee. My pink espresso machine perhaps reflects this.
~A certain indie film actress once threw stuff at me at a concert. I do not know why. But this must lend me cred of some sort.
~My favorite place on the Blue Ridge Parkway is the stunning Devil's Courthouse.
~Right after I got a job waiting tables at a pizzeria on the strip in Virginia Beach, a shark attack scared all the customers away from the area. Perhaps not the best career luck.
~An ancestor of mine helped lead the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. She was English.
~She was also the first woman elected to a European parliament. Take that Nancy Pelosi!
~My Mom was born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, but lived (for much of her young childhood) in a tenement on Henry Street down on the Lower East Side. For all of you hipsters, this was before Max Fish.
~Nanotechnology freaks me out.
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