an impromptu list

a friend of me sent me this chain list thing on face book. you're supposed to list 25 things about yourself, but i kinda just kept going. thought i would reproduce it here.

1. I despise chain emails
2. I was a stripper (very briefly)
3. I have an OCD about my hands
4. I love sleeping, but have a hard time falling asleep.
5. I have been playing guitar for 18 years (on and off)
6. I play guitar, piano, bass, drums, and have even dabbled with trombone
7. My first bf was 16, I was 19
8. He seduced me.
9. His parents found us asleep together.
10. My first job was as a fry cook
11. I was fired from my second job for stealing (I didn't do it-long story)
12. The first time I kissed a boy was behind a church.
13. I am moderately ambidextrous
14. I have tried to read moby dick 5 times.
15. I was in a church band.
16. I speak 5 languages other than english, I am fluent in none of them (I can read 6)
17. I enjoy obscure terms.
18. History is my favourite subject.
19. I am listed on IMDB.
20. My 'first time' was in the woods.
21. I have spelled colour with a 'u' since college.
22. I bite my nails.
23. I have 9 pins and 2 plates in my left leg (I was rejected from the navy for this reason).
24. I am a hopeless romantic.
25. I love being lost.
26. My favourite word, ironically, is quim.
27. I am attracted to intelligence.
28. I used to play chess over the phone.
29. I didn't own a computer until I was 24.
30. I prefer stick shift to automatic because of the sound of the engine.
31. Three of my top 10 movies of all time were released in 1995.
32. I once worked at a bathhouse.
33. I love hockey, but I cannot ice skate.
34. I despise running.
35. Soccer is my fav sport to play.
36. I am slightly pigeon-toed.
37. Until I was 17, I wanted to be a writer.
38. I got some poetry published in high school.
39. I wrote and directed 2 plays
40. I am a voracious reader
41. My favourite movie is 'street of crocodiles' by the bros. quay.
42. I drown once when I was 6 (woke up on the beach while they were doing CPR).
43. I love swimming.
44. My favourite book is ender's game (i have read it a minimum of 10 times)
45. I never capitalize my name.
46. I prefer lowercase letters, but my handwriting is mostly caps.
47. I was very nearly given up for adoption as a newborn.
48. My best friend and i have known each other for 28 years.
49. I am too lazy to think of 50 things, but egocentric enough to come up with 49.