Things I like: alphabetizing, astronomy, autonomy, avocados, bioethics, books, bowling, bubble tea, celebrity gossip, CNN.com, competitive eating, cosmology, couches, crossword puzzles, Diet Peach Snapple, ellipticals, Erotic Photo Hunt, fake meat (specifically, vegetarian pepperoni), flossing, gay rights, Google, grammar, irony, jukeboxes, karaoke, kittens, Kroger, laughing, live music, lola, Mac users, martinis with blue cheese-stuffed olives, MICHELLE (hi!!!!!), office supplies, palindromes, parentheses, people watching, portmanteaus, processed cheese, procrastination, psychopathology, puppies, relaxing, semicolons, sociology, sweatpants, symmetry, tattoos, tetris, traveling, trivia, upright bass, VH1, vodka, word games, women's rights, working out.
Things I do not like: abbreviations, Chevrolets, cigarette smoke, conservativism, cooking, debt, folding laundry, Fox News, hiccups, law school, misspellings, mushrooms, pretentiousness, raw onions, smell of rain, spontaneous capitalizations, tequila, traffic, vanity plates, verbosity, wind (even worse when combined with sun), worms.
Career counselors. Cat lovers. Columbus residents that are as apathetic about football as I am. Grammarians. Holden Caulfield sympathizers. Lawyers who are happy. People in the throes of existential crises. Photo Hunt partners. Questioners. Trivia buffs.
NOT BANDS. Seriously. If I don't know you in real life or haven't been a member at some point, don't even try.
And, Ben Wallace. Just so I could touch his arms.
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The 6ths, The Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys, Beck, Belly, Bishop Allen, Eels, Erasure, The Magnetic Fields, Operation Ivy, The Pixies, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Elliott Smith, The Violent Femmes, Weezer, World Party.
I am intentionally omitting from this list any mention of my love for cheesy 70s and 80s crap and early 90s love songs.
American Beauty, The Breakfast Club, Clerks, Dazed and Confused, Dirty Dancing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fight Club, Flashdance, Funny Ha Ha, The Ice Storm, Laurel Canyon, Mallrats, Muriel's Wedding, Office Space, Old Joy, Reality Bites, Singles, The Slums of Beverly Hills, Wet Hot American Summer, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Zoolander.
The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Da Ali G Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeopardy!, The L-Word, My So-Called Life, The Office (though I've really only seen the BBC version), Peep Show, Saved By the Bell, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under.
Despite these "favorites" of mine, I spend a ridiculous amount of time watching whatever crap MTV puts out, as well as the entire "CelebReality" lineup on VH1.
Atlas Shrugged, The Catcher in the Rye, East of Eden, Einstein's Dreams, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Franny and Zooey, The Fountainhead, Lolita, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Nine Stories, The Second Shift, Skinny Legs and All, The World According to Garp, There Are No Children Here, Valley of the Dolls.
Kim Deal, Albert Einstein, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Hawking, Takeru Kobayashi.
And, Nora, the piano-playing cat.