Caroline originally posted this on FB, but I’m putting mine here, because although technically more people could see it, fewer people will actually read it (and I’m more likely to know them). Be forewarned, you will never be able to unlearn these…twenty-five things about me (You need to read that last part with the voice of a cheesy county-fair fortuneteller).

1. I rarely wear pants around the house. I wear socks even less frequently. Really, if it were up to me, flip-flops would be acceptable office wear.
2. I don’t claim to be a music expert, but I do listen to a lot and I have some strong opinions. That said, even if I absolutely hate your taste in music, I don’t judge your worth by it. I do take it into account if I have to ride in a car with you for a long time, though.
3. On the other hand, I will take great pains to keep you at arm’s length if I can’t respect you intellectually, or if you’re incurious (In related news, I don’t always have to win, but I do have to be right). This doesn’t mean you have to know how to calibrate the LHC–any of the so-called “intelligence types” will do. And I’ll be interested in what you have to say.
4. It took me a long time to get comfortable with my position as a Korean-American kid growing up in the Midwest (I’ve actually been meaning to write more about this for a while. Maybe this week). As a result, I can come across as aloof or detached with people I don’t know well, especially since I enjoy delivering deadpan one-liners.
5. I think I’ve cried three times in the last five years. I’m not bragging–sometimes I think I might be a little too detached at times. These two may be connected.
6. I hate drivers who take up the left highway lane, and see nothing wrong with flashing my lights or honking at someone driving 70, especially if the right lane is open.
7. Related to #6, I’m willing to be a jerk if I’m “right” (yes I know that going that fast is “illegal”). Ultimately, being right > being diplomatic.
8. I don’t make much concerted effort to maintain friendships, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think about them.
9. My attention span for planning is approximately equivalent to a fruit fly’s. If I had the money, I would happily set off on a cross-country road trip without a place to stay or a defined plan of where I was going except for “West!”
10. If I say I don’t care, I really don’t. I’m simple like that.
11. On the other hand, if I have a vision of what I want, I will get it come hell or high water. Something as simple as a case for my new MBP took a week to find. This is especially true of clothes, and makes me really hard to shop for (My big head doesn’t help).
12. I like all cuddly, fuzzy squeezable animals. Possibly related: it’s been suggested multiple times that if I were an animal, I would be either a panda or a guinea pig.
13. Playing baseball through junior year of high school has left me with an easily-aggravated left elbow and wrists that will probably be arthritic at 29. It still does not necessarily mean I will catch an apple tossed to me.
14. My ideal schedule would be something like 11AM-2AM. I generally find I’m most productive later at night, which conflicts with waking up for a morning commute.
15. I don’t need to believe in the cause as long as I get paid. If I do, it’s an unexpected bonus.
16. I burp in public a lot. I’ve been trying to work on it.
17. I read a lot, but don’t spend enough time digesting and thinking about what I consume.
18. I love cooking, but I hate cleaning up. I am also becoming more particular about the ingredients and utensils I cook with.
19. In high school, I had two rules for dating: girls couldn’t be taller than me, and they couldn’t weigh more than me. I’ve broken the first rule twice. Since then, several more rules have been appended.
20. I don’t really know what I want to do in life, and I’ve recently started avoiding the phrase “I’m not going anywhere” and its variants because I’m afraid it might be true.
21. I’ve gotten a lot better at managing my money in the last four years. Admittedly, I started at the “running up a $2500 credit card bill in a year” level, but I’ve gotten it sorted and have a plan to pay off the sexy laptop I’m typing this on.
22. I’m most attracted to women with full lips and an apple bottom, race unimportant.
23. Video games are not a waste of time. Surgeons who play video games do better than their Luddite peers, and also anyone who’s played Wii [anything] knows there’s some fun times to be had.
24. I think my mathematical peak was in about eighth grade–after that, I’d still know what I had to do, but not the formulas I needed to use. Thank god for Beloit College and Cultural Approaches to Math.
25. Oh, also, I don’t believe in god. The most wiggle room I can give you is “militantly agnostic.” I don’t mind if you’re religious, as long as your beliefs don’t include proselytizing at me or otherwise interfering with my schedule of sleeping and making hot wings on Sundays (wings only during football season).

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