Memeage: 25 random things

Because I feel like I neglect this blog sometimes. This has been going around. I answered it ... elsewhere ... but thought I might as well post it here, too. 17, 18 and 25 have been changed because they give away my secret superhero identity.

1. I like cats better than people 98 percent of the time.

2. I don't mean to talk in movies, but sometimes I just can't help myself.

3. I have horrible taste in music — I like it all pretty much indiscriminately.

4. I enjoy being underestimated, and play dumb a lot to help facilitate this. I don't know if I'm fooling anyone.

5. I used to draw horses and cats constantly. I had stacks of horrible drawings of both.

6. Sometimes I think it would be really fun to be a mechanic, except I hate the feel of grease on my hands.

7. I think mimes are kind of cool. Except those ones who follow you around copying whatever you do. Those ones I hate.

8. I hate being short.

9. I am excited that I haven't been carded at the movie theater in almost a year, though.

10. One time I thought the day to vote was a week later than it actually was, and I was so upset about missing it that I cried when I got home from work.

11. Despite that, sometimes I'm not sure democracy even works, and I do think voter fraud changes the results of most elections.

12. Every year I give up Diet Dr Pepper for Lent and think I should just give it up entirely, but then I start drinking it again because otherwise I'd have nothing to give up for Lent the next year.

13. I like hockey way better when the refs let the players fight.

14. I haven't studied karate for six years now, but I still find myself sizing up new people as potential opponents.

15. I also scan every room I enter for potential weapons and potential escape routes.

16. I hate being touched.

17. Every time I have a dream where I can fly, I realize that I'm dreaming and start flying around doing stuff that I can't do in real life, because it's a dream and I can do what I want! This only ever happens with flying dreams, though.

18. I like earthquakes. Not the big scary kind that drop the Bay Bridge on people and stuff, but little rumblers that do no damage? Love 'em.

19. I wish I spoke more languages fluently. If my schedule allowed it, I would spend every night in a language class at [local community college].

20. The real reason I don't want my driver license is because I'm afraid that someday I'll hit someone and kill them, and I wouldn't be able to live with that on my conscience.

21. This list has taken me almost 45 minutes to write. I'm just not interesting, sorry.

22. My favorite color is the taste of York peppermints.

23. I hate the numbers 4 and 7.

24. I still watch kids' shows. I think the ones I watched when I was a kid were better, but I don't know if that's because shows have gotten stupider or I've gotten smarter.

25. I miss college. Like, a lot. I worry that those were the best years of my life.