Following the Crowd

First off, apologies to anyone who actually checks this, in that I haven't posted in a while.

Second, I keep seeing people on facebook getting tagged in that 25 things about me, yet I haven't been tagged yet, and am slightly jealous, so I'm going to put 25 things about me here:

1) I go on facebook a lot, but much less than I used to.

2) I really like christmas trees

3) I rarely remember dreams, and if I do I forget what I remembered by the end of the day

4) I've had stitches twice in my life, both in the exact some place on my right eyebrow, 16 years apart.

5) I was bit by my neighbors dog when I was 5 because I was pulling the dogs tail, but when my mom asked if I was doing anything to the dog, I said that I had no idea why he would have bit me.

6) I was at Kerry Wood's 20 strike out game

7) I want to go on a Safari

8) I think mustaches are creepy, although, if you've had one since the 70's you can keep it.

9) I locked my keys in the car at Prom, while double parked outside my dates house, and tried opening the car with a clothes hanger while thousands of cubs fans walked by after a game laughing at us in our formal attire

10) I watch Morning Joe and do the Metro Crossword every morning

11) I wish that I could confine my entire memory or GW basketball from 2004-2007 and forget that anything has happened since then

12) My drink of choice is Gin and Tonic, which helps lend to people's beliefs that I'm an old man

13) One day I want to be the White House Press Secretary, and the closest I've been was getting my picture taken in the White House Press room

14) I really want to spend a day de-friending people I don't talk to anymore

15) I love coffee shops, and could (and have) spend an entire day in one

16) I drink my coffee black

17) One dream of mine in life is to be a contestant on Jeopardy! Additionally, when I played scholastic bowl in high school I often missed questions because I would answer in the form of a question like its required in Jeopardy!

18) Throughout college my roommate would save all the pink straws for me and make me use them if I wanted to use a straw

19) I was photographed for and interviewed for a cover story in Chicago Tribune Magazine in 2002

20) I like meeting new people, enjoy transitions, and consider myself a "Connector" in the words of Malcolm Gladwell

21) Last year in D.C. my apartment had bed bugs and it was one of the worst experiences of my life -- which in some sense means i've had a pretty good life

22) I wrote my thesis on the Political Attitudes of Young Jewish Voters, and found it interesting

23) During the time that I'm writing this I could have done multiple unnecessary things, including going to bed at an early hour

24) One of my students just got a 98 on his U.S. History Regents half way through the year. That impresses me.

25) I like details; I remember everything about most conversations I've ever had, and as a result I often fake not remembering things later on because if I let on that I remembered these things people would think that I'm creepy for remembering them, since most of the time they don't remember ever saying it.