25 Random Things About Me

I read a note on facebook the other day which was posted by my friend Clarece. It was a list of 25 random things about her. After I finished reading her list, I decided to compose one of my own. I initially published it on facebook but then I figured, hey, why not post it here on my blog as well.

So here is my list of 25 Random Things About Me.

25. I was one of those kids who got their head stuck between two wrought iron bars at the mall.

24. A classmate of mine, named Craig Mah, was so intrigued by a class discussion in Mr Dakes freshman English class about the double standard that exists in our society of how women can wear pants but men cannot wear dresses that the very next day he arrived late to class…in a dress. Too bad Mr Dake was absent that day.

23. I have seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the theater at least 35 times. “Michael Rennie was ill The Day the Earth Stood Still, but he told us where we stand…”

22. I once told an intolerably annoying and haplessly gullible coworker that my great great grandfather invented the comma. I informed her that before his incredible contribution to society at large, people didn’t know where to pause when they read.

21. I entered my first comic book shop in 1992 to pick up Superman #75, the Death of Superman, which I had heard publicized on the radio. I must have enjoyed it because I have returned to one comic shop or another each and every week to pick up new issues.

20. I learned my numbers 1 through 80 by the tender age of 3 because my family spent so much time in Harvey’s Casino, Lake Tahoe at the Carriage House diner and all I had in terms of entertainment were the blank Keno tickets (numbered 1 to 80) and those long black crayons.

19. I married Fehmeen three times in 2006. The civil ceremony at the Rotunda in City Hall in San Francisco was on June 20, the Islamic Nikah occurred on July 1, and the American wedding went down July 8.

18. I played the xylophone in marching band in high school.

17. I once won a radio contest where the prize was the opportunity to play catch on the field at Candlestick Park with my Dad before a Giants game. It almost didn’t happen, though, because when the station called to tell me that I had won, I hung up on them because they had pronounced my last name incorrectly. Once I surmised who had been calling me, it took me several apologetic phone calls and one long ass ride down to the radio station to pick up my prize.

16. In the months prior to the manifestation of my initial ALS symptoms, I was playing the best softball of my life. I was hitting the ball harder and farther than Barry Bonds circa 2001 and I was running faster than a third grader’s nose in December.

15. One summer during college, I worked as a Census Enumerator.

14. One of my most vivid childhood memories is from the time that I threw up in the eye doctor’s office. I will never forget the sight of him wadding up his bagged lunch nor will I forget the sound of that lunch hitting the trash can.

13. I have always had this crazy theory that everyone knows someone who was born on April Fool’s Day. For as long as I can remember, whenever I told somebody that my birthday was on April 1st, they would proceed to tell me that their Uncle Bob or their neighbor’s son’s girlfriend’s mother was born on that day, too.

12. I still own Roberto Clemente’s last baseball card (1973 Topps). The card is worth over $70 in mint condition. Not the one in my collection, though. I colored on mine when I was four. Apparently, I thought the Pirates would look cooler in green and purple uniforms.

11. I have 7 tattoos. Five on my ankles and two on my arms.

10. My first album was The Eagles’ Hotel California, my first cd was the soundtrack to West Side Story, and my first (legally) downloaded mp3 was Britney Spears’ Toxic.

9. My grade point average in high school was 4.13, in college at UC Davis it was 2.63, and at teacher school at the College of Notre Dame it was 4.0. It’s all about how you start and finish, right?

8. My favorite attraction at Disneyland is the Tiki Room.

7. For years, I paid two tolls whenever I crossed the Bay Bridge; one for me and one for whomever was behind me.

6. When I took driver’s ed, the day before we took our permit test, we were given a practice test. The next day my test was exactly the same as the day before. Two words: aced it.

5. There is a 13 year age difference between Fehmeen and myself. When I was going off to college, she was entering kindergarten.

4. I have long aspired to marry the first woman president. It would so cool to be the first first man.

3. For three years I taught a class called math puzzles and games. Over the course of a semester, I taught seventh and eighth graders how to play such games as Hearts, Texas Hold ‘Em, Blackjack, Spoons, and a whole lot more. Needless to say, it was a very popular class.

2. One year, my grandpa and I were the same age (18). He was born on February 29. That’s leap year and he only had a birthday once every four years.

1. As Fehmeen and I debated what to name our soon to be born daughter, I awoke one morning at 3 AM from a dream I had just had. I woke Fehmeen up immediately and told her that we should name our baby Emma. I explained to her that in my dream the letters in the name Emma represented the words Every Moment Matters. The Always part came a few days later, courtesy of my Aunt Nancy.

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