Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.
1. My conscience has a British accent. I read silently and think with a British accent. Don’t ask me why.
2. I would’ve been the Valedictorian of Magee Elementary had I not gotten a “C” in second grade.
3. I developed an allergy to shellfish in my adulthood. It’s better to have loved and lost.
4. I tear up during slow mo superbowl/world series and in memoriam montages.
5. Throughout most of my childhood, television was my parent. Mostly PBS, Spanish soap operas, abc family, and Three Stooges marathons.
6. Spanish was my first language.
7. I read all of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind in the fourth grade and my teacher didn’t believe me. Aside from the various books about the Mayas, aliens and Nostradamus, that’s about all I had to read at home outside of what I was assigned in class.
8. I ditched most of my Junior year of high school because I just wasn’t interested.
9. Consequently, I had to attend truancy correction classes.
10. I was angry at my mom for 18 years because she sold my piano. When I was four years old there was nothing else I loved more than that piano. She redeemed herself last Christmas.
11. My favorite television show of all time is The Wonder Years
12. If I had the money, I’d be living in Spain.
13. I lack culture. It’s why I have such a huge appreciation for the people who are aware of their culture and celebrate it.
14. I don’t know my biological father. It doesn’t bug me that I don’t know him. It does bother me that I don’t know my other siblings. Because of this I live with a constant “what if” hanging over my head.
15. I used to think the BET channel was called the bet channel as in “Let’s make a bet,” until one day Anais corrected me and said, “No, it’s B-E-T. As in Black Entertainment Television.” It’s the last memory I have of her.
16. From the time I was 11 to maybe 13, I had a 2Pac poster hanging on my wall positioned in front of my bed. I took it down one night when I awoke and noticed he was looking at me funny.
17. The myth might be better than the truth.
18. I’ve been in love twice. The first time I didn’t know it.
19. As I type this, Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part 1 is playing in the background.
20. I appeared in the NY Times when I was 18. Not a glorious moment given the fact that I had pink eye and a horribly short and unflattering haircut at the time.
21. I have an uncanny obsession with studying the Kennedy Family.
22. I love a good conspiracy theory.
23. I prefer non-fiction reads. Life is truly more fascinating and stranger than fiction.
24. People never cease to amaze me.
25. Laughter is the way to my heart. I revel in comedy.
