Hey, remember a few months ago when the “Twenty-Five Random Facts About Me” meme was considered a huge cultural phenomenon?
- My favorite words are “constellation” and “quintessential,” and I wish I could find more uses to say or write “syzygy” in my day-to-day life.
- All four books in the Green quartet have passages written. None of them, thus far, include “syzygy.”
- I can’t focus without having either music or television on in the background of whatever I’m doing. Having a built-in distraction keeps me from searching for one.
- More often than not, I’d rather be eating Chinese food.
- The albums I’m listening to right now are Heroes & Thieves by Vanessa Carlton, Folie A Deux by Fall Out Boy, all of Robert Pattinson’s sundry unreleased tracks, and the 2009 tracks by Open Till Midnight. I also listen Owl City’s “Fireflies” a LOT.
- In regards to many Pieces of Flair, would take Jim Halpert over Edward Cullen any day. I’d actually take pretty much anyone over Edward Cullen. But almost no one over Jim Halpert.
- I idolize Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to this day. I originally joined their Fun Club in 1990. I am not currently an active member, except maybe in spirit. …Winning minds, winning hearts, Winning London.
- I prefer salty over sweet and hot beverages to cold beverages. Potato chips and hot cocoa is the best snack. I really eat way too many potato chips.
- I’d rather see a local band in concert than a big, signed, super-professional band. I prefer the atmosphere of hope to one of smug success. I’m also really into has-beens, in a sad kind of way.
- There’s nothing more beautiful in the world than the Manhattan skyline at night — my favorite is the Chrystler Building.
- My favorite movie is secretly Superbad. I tend to tell people it’s Clue.
- If I could have any three guests to dinner, I would invite J.K. Rowling, Jack Kerouac, and George Harrison.
- I still get American Girl catalogs in the mail.
- I HATE socks. I HATE socks. HATE.
- I will always prefer YA and 6-8 novels to novels written for adults. “The salient fact of an adolescent girl’s existence is her need for a secret emotional life—one that she slips into during her sulks and silences, during her endless hours alone in her room, or even just when she’s gazing out the classroom window while all of Modern European History, or the niceties of the passé composé, sluice past her. This means that she is a creature designed for reading in a way no boy or man, or even grown woman, could ever be so exactly designed, because she is a creature whose most elemental psychological needs—to be undisturbed while she works out the big questions of her life, to be hidden from view while still in plain sight, to enter profoundly into the emotional lives of others—are met precisely by the act of reading.” — Atlantic Monthly|Dec08
- I have a presumptuous fascination with molecular gastronomy and experimental haute cuisine. The best meal of my life was at Alinea; I have philosophical problems with Moto; and I feel that I will never be important enough to get a reservation at El Bulli, but relish the idea that someday I may get to go to Adriano Zumbo at Balmain.
- I have terrible taste in movies, and I know it. But I genuinely believe that I have the best taste in music in the entire freaking world.
- Secretly, I kind of wish I could dress like a hipster.
- The only person I really talk to on the phone is my Gramma, three times a week (or more).
- I love the New York Times, and prefer it to the Chicago Tribune. I hate the New York Post with a passion.
- I wish it were always raining, and I love thunderstorms more than anything.
- I’ve read fanfiction for twelve years. ::Facepalm::
- I have a complete fascination with superheroes and often like to pretend that they’re real. Particularly Spider-Man and the X-Men. The only person I would date right now were they to ask is Spider-Man. Or, I guess, Peter Parker.
- The only colors I’ll really wear are black, white, red, and turquoise. If I could pull off kelly green, I’d wear that, too, but I can’t.
- If I could live in any year, it would be 1964.
