raybear | Not-so-secret Secrets

I've decided in lieu of waxing eloquently about something from my past or present or hope for the future, I shall instead make a list of random things people probably don't know about me (and there's no reason why they should know them) or strange elements of my past I think of fairly regularly. I could probably write a story surrounding each one, but that's for another day.

1.) In eighth grade I was the middle school Geography Bee champion.

2.) I have a scar on my left arm, near where it bends that came from getting the skin caught on the door handle of a camper I was hiding in during a neighborhood game of Kick The Can.

3.) On the way home from a friend's funeral my senior year I rear-ended another friend who was attempting a U-turn on interstate access road. It was legally her fault but my dad paid for it anyway.

4.) I've never honestly told anyone the truth of the first person(s) I really kissed. At least, I don't think I have.

5.) I wet the bed at least until the age of 7, possibly up to 8.

6.) My freshman year I got up at 6 am and took a train downtown to mildly stalk someone before I took a chemistry final exam at 9 am. But she wasn't even there.

7.) My aunt is the first person I knew who got a divorce -- it happened when I was 7, yet somehow I knew exactly what the word meant. Her ex died in a car crash while drunk a couple years ago.

8.) I have a phobic hatred of golf.

9.) When I babysat instead of eating all their food I would instead consume excessive amounts of children's vitamins. I still crave flinstones vitamins.

10.) In a particularly religious phase of mine sometime around the age of 10, I set up an altar by my bed so I could have daily meditation and communion. It never really panned out because my mom wouldn't allow me to have food in my room.