getting over it

It is so bizarre, you put this up and I was gonna have a similar one on my blog, now I have to put it off for a lifetime or so.

I hate small talk, I hate the mess left over after sex, I like the way the sun comes through the window onto the bottom of my bed on a Saturday morning, I love the way water trickles down a window, I love drying out in the sun after being in the ocean and the crusty feeling it leaves on your skin, I like shutting down my computer at the end of the work day, I like catching a friend doing something embarrassing when they don’t know I was watching. I have a scar on my chin from where I went head to head with my street and lost and I never wore disposable nappies as a baby.
 

"I love drying out in the sun after being in the ocean and the crusty feeling it leaves on your skin"

That was really the only one that surprised me.

I used to eat sand when I was a kid.

It tasted great.

I would still if I wasn't aware of how many creatures poo there.
 

oh, you think you know me now?
 

nope.

want me to list what i do know?
 

i'm obsessive compulsive to the point that i blink when the arch of my left foot lands over the line between slabs of sidewalk (they say that's what makes me a good math major); i've never broken a bone, and i've only had stitches in both my big toes (from ingrown toenails - they still look odd as a result); i look thin and twigy, but i've got a little pooch of a hairy belly; i'm addicted to soda (pepsi or coke, it doesn't matter, just not diet); i probably know the words to every song off the first two cds i ever owned (matchbox 20's yourself or someone like you, and third eye blind's self titled first album); i love the smell of the air and the feeling as a light rain moves in, especially when you can see the front line of water moving closer; the numbers 7, 1 and 4 come up in math in that order a lot, which bothers me, because it reminds me of an old girlfriend (her birthday was 7/14); i have a need for human contact that's best displayed when i'm drunk and tend to find someone who'll let me hold them, if just for a little while; sleeping with my arm around someone means more to me than "sleeping" with someone (for that matter, an honest holding of hands can mean more, at times); years ago, i had a blogger account, and suddenly, blogger remembers me now, as it's offering me to comment as "Michael", and i don't know why it suddenly remembered my name; michael was the most common name for boys born in the states in 1986, as such, when people call out for a mike, i tend to not respond anymore, since most times, it's not for me; i havn't cried in years, though i've tried several times, and needed to many more; i love good writing (storytelling and poetry, which is why i read Vonnegut and whatever you have to say) and wish i could write as well (by which i mean, think of things worth writing); i want to travel, though i've never left the east coast in my life; i'm afraid of making decisions or taking action because then i take on the responsibility of the consequences (which is why i've always stayed close to home and hesitate to try anything different or new); i still have a crush on my first girlfriend, and still check her blog from time to time, despite the fact that we havn't talked in a long while (and the crush exists despite the fact that i've been in a few relationships since her, and in spite of knowing that her and i are wrong for each other); i'm growing my hair out, even though it doesn't look so great right now, just to see what it looks like while i still have hair to grow out; i feel this list is long, but i'll keep going anyways; i look for wood to tap when i say "knock on wood", for fear i might actually jinx something; i tap the windshield whenever i make it through a yellow light; i both love and hate driving on highways; i have a wide nose because there's a good chance i broke it when i was 3, but i was too young for the medics to tell if it was broken or not, so i think it just set busted; my eyes change colour from shades of brown to green, depending on the lighting (though, i tell people it depends on my mood); i use the "-our" spelling of a lot of words (like colour instead of color), even though it's highly uncommon here (i don't remember when or why i picked it up, but i like it, since it's different around here); group situations and parties are fun, but the times i love the most are having a real, honest, one on one conversation with someone; my biggest fear is letting people down, dissapointing them (which is why i hesitate to take action - the less i try, the less i can fail at); i absolutely love water, though i never get to a pool or the beach as often as i'd like; i like to watch "pro" wrestling, not for the big guys or the lack of story telling, but for the smaller guys who fly around, and i wish i had that sort of control over my body; i can't sing, but i love to; i can't figure out what to do with my facial hair, so right now, it's a trimmed beard (i think i'd like to try a goatee next, but my moustache doesn't meet my chin fuzz, there's a gap where no hair grows next to my lips); i feel like i'm exhausting this list, and i should do my work for my next class; as always, keep writing, Hil, and take care...

~Mike
 

whoa.

you have no idea how much i loved that, michael.

'never left the east coast'? what about japan?
 

never been to japan... i've been as north as boston, south as florida, west as eastern pennsylvania, and east as the beginning of the ocean... i was *supposed* to go to japan a while back with some friends, but plans fell through... we'd also tried to plan to go to ireland and had that fall through... heck, we've even tried to go to canada and havn't been able to get that organized yet (we're not exactly great at planning things, lol)... but yea, my life has been contained on the east coast of the states, never straying far from jersey... i havn't even been to new york that often, just a handful of times ever...

~Mike