Things You Don't Know About Me!

[bespecledcow]

Hey all! I thought I'd start a thread, as sorta a way for us to all know each other better, by coming here and posting something that no one else here knows about you. There can be more than one (but no more than three per post) and they can be either serious or funny.

So, I'll get things started...Let's see...

I am a very very fast reader; I read all 800+ pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in five and a half hours.


I used to drink pickle juice from the jar.


The person that makes the cry the most is my sister. And not out of joy, either. I love her more than she loves me, and as a result, my heart gets repeatedly stepped on. -_-

[PuzzleChick]

Lemme think, you guys already know quite a bit about me...!

I'm slightly double-jointed in my arms, so I can bend them further than they should go. It's awesome, people always get grossed out. xD

As a kid I was convinced a vampire lived behind our bathroom door at night. (And if you went in the bathroom and checked, he'd hide in the shower. And if you checked the shower, you wouldn't see him anyway because he was invisible. FIVE-YEAR-OLD-PUZZLE'S LOGIC IS IRREFUTABLE.)

When I'm older and actually have money, I plan to get plastic surgery on my chin. (I have an underdeveloped jaw. Did years of orthodontics trying to improve it and they worked a little, but a chin implant is so simple and easy, I'd like to go for it.)

[taranova]

Well, I can twist my hand all the way around!

My sister and I sing.
This is me doing a Michael Jackson song (badly): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnh0f3H_f9w&feature=player_embedded
This is my sister's first produced song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiH11YAj5w&feature=related

[bespecledcow]

I love Spiders and Snakes; I used to want a trantula as a pet, as well as a snake. I wasn't even deterred at the idea of having to feed the snake mice. Snakes were so awesome it didn't matter.

I draw as well as write, plus do black and white photography, as can be viewed here: flower-in-the-light.deviantart.com/

Mr. Bubble Bubble Bath gives me a hell of a rash.


Oh, tara, I think the both of you sound really good! The one of you is a little hard to hear, but I think it still sounds good. I can't hit the high notes very well, my own voice is really deep so I'm sorta envious.

[PuzzleChick]

Tara, you sing awesomely! <3

(*high fives bespecledcow* Hey-o, fellow low-voiced person!)

I'm extremely NON-germophobic. I'll eat food I dropped on the floor, I almost never use hand sanitizer and I used to drink water from the hose as a kid. Okay so I still do. Interestingly, I am rarely ever very sick. x3

The last time I WAS badly sick, (back in 1999/2000 or so), I had such a high fever that I started hallucinating brightly colored geometric shapes dancing around my room.

My favorite episode of Spongebob is when Squidward forms a band and they all play the Bubble Bowl. x3

[bespecledcow]

To add to yours ^, I hate Spongebob.

Oh, and I'll take your high five, Puzzle, and raise you a fist bump!

Let's see...my last name means Ugly Head. Or Big head, depends on the translation.

In the fifth grade, my science fair report was all about proving that Nessie the Loch Ness monster was real.

[PuzzleChick]

^ If it makes you feel any better, my last name means Son of Dick. >_<

On that note, my middle name means Deceiver of Men, which is kind of badass. xD

I have this crazy superstition that it's bad luck to put shoes on a table. Today someone gave me this keychain that is a little model shoe, and it's sitting on my desk, and due to said superstition I'm honestly rather bothered by it being there even though it's not a real shoe. =|

[Artemis Day]

I am extremely NON-claustrophobic. In fact, when I was a kid I used to look for cabinets and dressers wide enough for me to sit in and make into forts or something.

I also sing and was in my school's choral program from third grade to twelfth grade (and was in chamber choir for my last two years of high school). This means that thanks to having teachers drilling proper technique into my head, I can recognize when someone is singing incorrectly. I can't however, read music, which is why I didn't get into All State. ><

I am extremely non-confrontational. If someone says something I don't agree with, I tend to ignore it and go on my way. This is a serious contrast to my mother, who will fight tooth and nail to get people to see things her way (or maybe that's just me...).

I own the first volume of over 200 manga series.

Even though I tell people I want to be a writer, my true dream is to be a mangaka.

I can't draw worth shit, this throws a monkey wrench in that above mentioned dream of mine.

[taranova]

At least you guys have interesting names. XD Mine is a German pet name meaning "might," and my first name is boring. I'll never forgive my parents for naming me Taylor. It means TAILOR. HOW INTERESTING!

I've always wanted to write, but not just anything. I've always wanted to write literature.

[PuzzleChick]

Being a novelist has been my dream for several years now and WILL happen eventually, but it wasn't always what I wanted. When asked at age five what I wanted to do with my life, I said, quote: "I want to be a truck driver and a ballerina and to have a fast boat with three engines."

Ironically, now I prefer small sporty cars, don't know a lick of ballet, and no longer own a boat. ^^;;; (I guess the liking fast boats thing translated into liking fast cars, though. xD)

[piedpiperpluto]

I have some really weird combination of claustrophobia and... claustrophilia, I guess? I hate being surrounded by huge crowds of people, and generally feeling like I can't escape from somewhere, but I really like small spaces like cabinets and closets....

I'm also kind of germophobic, and I'm pretty much constantly sickly.

If I lived in California, I could qualify for medical marijuana.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a doctor or a nurse. Then I wanted to be a vet, then a writer, then a quantum physicist, and now I want to be an animator.

[PuzzleChick]

When I was in first or second grade (I don't quite remember which) we had a class garden where we grew radishes and sunflower seeds, and I was the only kid in the class who wanted to eat the radishes after we grew them. Thus, I got to eat everyone's radishes. x3

When I was younger and reading a really good book and my mom ordered me to take a shower, I'd take the book in with me and sit on the side of the tub between the two shower curtains, and would read for twenty minutes and then take a super-speedy five minute shower. Once I lost track of time and ended up taking like an hour long "shower" because I got so caught up reading. xDDD (I feel bad now for all the water I wasted doing that. ^^; )

[bespecledcow]

I read while I eat.

I can whistle just about anything. The Star Spangled Banner and the theme from Kill Bill are some of my favorites. Its funny, with whistling I can hit all the high notes I miss when singing.

I take birth control pills.

[helle is a SLYTHERIN <3]

I've won two awards for theatre - one for musical theatre (cabaret-style singing), and one for a Shakespeare scene.

I've been to France twice. Last time I was paranoid about breaking school rules; this time I broke into a school, skipped class, had alcoholic cider, snuck out of the hotel room to buy comic books, went into a guy's hotel room (and had the same guy in mine - completely platonic, of course), and finished up the trip with shandy - sharing two with a friend and a semi-stalker, and then giving a 14 year old my change to buy another (though that was an experiment to see if he could get away with it, as he looks 12 - and I gave him less than half).

I have my own Al. Well, sort of. Apparently I'm a lot like Ed, and she's a lot like Al, so we call each other "Brother", "bro", and "Ed/Al".

Al enjoys setting me up with people. These are almost always people who I either have no attraction to or cannot stand personally.

I don't mind what other people do, insofar as drugs and alcohol, as long as they don't drag me in. Therefore, I was able to find a stoned freshman's "I'M SMOKING MEOSIS. PLANTS ARE HAVING SEX INSIDE OF ME!" hilarious. Until he started wandering off when there were teachers at the carnival. "Where's Yann? Dude, I lost Yann!" (Yann was his corrès; his host while we were in France).

I am dying to study abroad in France, England, or Germany.

Apparently, as a freshman, I found my friend William an efficient way to express my knowledge in Geometry.

I have never had an actual boyfriend, and have no interest in getting one before I'm done high school. I'd really rather focus on my studies.

My school had the make up SATs on 4/20. Bad idea, Cape.

I'm surprised when I know more sexual/inappropriate things than Al. I guess hanging out with faux-punks in freshman year kind of paid off in a way.

I'm one of the best students in my French class, but when I went to France, I promptly blanked whenever I meant to speak French. At least my family spoke English this time.

I have volumes 25 and 26 of FMA in a language I can read (French), and volume 27 in a language I cannot (Japanese).

[piedpiperpluto]

I really love lizards and snakes and squids and other weird-looking critters. I'm not really sure why, I just do.