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Lists, Day 3: Interesting Facts About Me.

It's day number three of "Invalid Item" ...and even though I don't feel like being very interesting at the moment, I know that if I don't start an entry soon-ish, I'll blow it off completely and I feel like doing that even less. So I'm gonna see if I can come up with ten fun little facts about me...most of these I've probably talked about more at-length in previous blog entries, so some of them might sound sorta familiar. If not, then why haven't you been paying attention to me?

1) When I was eight or nine years old (I wanna say eight, but maybe not), I was selected to participate in a local audition for the PBS kids' show Reading Rainbow   (but I wasn't picked to go on). Can you imagine me being some kind of child star?

2) At some time in the mid-nineties I had a poem or two published in a large national poetry anthology (which was more like a money-hungry scam than an actual contest, if you ask me). I still have it somewhere, but I haven't looked at it in ages. The poems weren't very good, but I probably thought they were the best I'd written in my life up to that point.

3) I have five visible scars (and one crooked pinkie finger): two from my ankle injury in 2012, one from having a birthmark removed on my back around 2005, the hernia surgery in 2000, and one long one in between my ankle surgery scars going down my left shin from basically having a bookshelf fall on me when I tried moving it, also probably around 2005...it was tall and narrow, and I didn't realize it was a top-half/bottom-half assembly. It took off a piece of skin roughly 6"x3/4".

4) I have two tattoos and wore up to six piercings at one time (I'm down to three, and that's fine for me, but I will probably add to the tattoo count eventually).

5) I am a "3rd"...my father, grandfather and I share the same name. This is one of the last-known pictures of the three of us: "Three Generations" .

6) I was a defenseman on a championship-winning rec-league floor hockey team back in '99...and all I got was a t-shirt that doesn't fit me anymore (but in my own defense, I also only played in one game that season, which happened to be the title game ).

7) I was also the MVP of my high school's Modified Wrestling team in my freshman year (my first year going out for it).

8) Halfway through 7th grade I got bumped up into the Honors Math class in school...which was basically just 8th grade math for smart kids. After having poor (but not failing) grades in 8th grade Honors Math the following year, I was dropped from the program...which put me in regular math classes with kids who were a year ahead of me until my senior year. It was often awkward.

9) The first time I ever cut classes in school, I was caught...by my mother. I didn't think that she would be driving past the school on her way to work at the same time we were walking back to class.

10) I cheat at crossword puzzles if I think I'm really, really close on an answer or know that I should know it but can't remember it.

Not interesting stuff to me, but it's the best I can do for not feeling very motivated today. I'll try to be more interesting later on this month; no guarantees though.