16 random facts about me

taken from my facebook note.

1. Day dream a lot. (Read: Excessively). Star Wars. If I could be a lightsaber wielding, force using Jedi. I would be. Yoda would be my hommie. And Darth Vader would be like "I am not your father. But I wish I was. Damn!". I've read more than 40 Star Wars novels.

2. I have a dislike for people in general as other people agitate me and cause me to feel anxious. Though this is setting dependent. Which makes friendship especially important to me, for a simple reason. My friends don't cause me to feel on edge all the time.

3. One of my all time favourite meals is the Christmas meal. Roast Turkey and the various trimmings that go with it. (Thank you early American pilgrims and puritans.)

4. I am afraid of heights, small spaces and of being in a coma; conscious of the world around me but unable to do anything, trapped in a prison of the body.

5. I enjoy humour. I try to colour everything about my life with it.

6. I don't particularly enjoy poetry (reading it) but find it an excellent way to cryptically express my feelings on subjects to close to home to express otherwise.

7. Songs I'll never get tired of Tea and Sympathy by Jars of Clay, Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol, Change Your Mind by Boyce Avenue, Everlong by the Foo Fighters and Glass to the Arson by Anberlin.

8. Aerosmith's song was right, falling in love is hard on the knees and I fall in love way too easily. I have accumulated plenty of metaphoric scars over the years. Some worth their pain. And to that end I hate Alfred Lord Tennyson. I swear the bastard was piss drunk or on crack when he said it is better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all.

9. I love the rain, thunder storms get me high and lightning is by far the most amazing natural phenomenon that I have ever seen. I can spend hours staring at the skies as lightning streaks the sky with light as I lose myself to the steady rhythm of the rain falling. Playing in the rain only serves to enhance the experience and after the skies have cleared the stars never look more beautiful.

10. I enjoy conversations. Listening or the other thing people do in conversations. I enjoy them so long as the subject matter is engaging. Topics ranging from fart jokes to life, the universe and everything. (Thank you Douglas Adams).

11. Ambition in life: to be a good father.

12. Have a morbid fixation with death, depression, sadness.

13. When playing a video game that involves moral choices, have never been able to go down the "evil" path willingly. I feel real guilt for hurting pixelated people. Except when they deserve it and then I show no remorse.

14. I have a weakness for brunettes. In my opinion, Paz Vega is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen on TV. Followed closely by Eliza Dushku, Christina Ricci and Kristin Kruek. But that is just TV. And since we're on the subject of beauty. I think the most attractive physical quality of the opposite gender is the eyes. Iris colour is irrelevant, but I do find shades of brown and green to be the most enthralling. All that beauty on the inside goes without saying in fact mentioning it in depth is hackneyed.

15. Nickname growing up "Ton". Short for Titon because at the age of two I couldn't pronounce Tristan. Heck some 30 year old and older adults can't pronounce it. I've been called Christian, Kristin and some others.

16. Considered being a Priest. True story.