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Nine truths and a lie:

Posted on June 22nd, 2001
Nine truths and a lie: Revealed. Eric is our winner, folks. Though guessing incorrectly, he was the first (only) person to enter, and thus will recieve the yet-to-be determined prize of his choice. In the mean time, go visit Hanging On and tell him what an incredibly enlightened human being he is.

  1. I have partaken of web-based chat only once in my life.True. Very shortly after I first ventured onto the web, I tried it. Though sticking to general chat areas, I never actually managed to engage anyone in a conversation that didn’t revolve around how much the other participant would like to know more about me, meet me, call me on the phone, etc.
  2. I have visited only seven US states, and never left the country.True. My family always placed quantity over distance. We’d go to the beach six times a summer and the mountains twice every autumn, but I have never been on an airplane.
  3. My dreams are almost always in the third person.True. There sometimes exists a character in the dream that I simply know is supposed to represent myself, but often that person has nothing in common with me, and is not even the main character.
  4. My most frequent daydreams revolve around meeting and interacting with fascinating people.True. Not necessarily people I like, or celebrities, or people that actually exist. Just folks who are as interesting as I become in these fantasies.
  5. My second-most frequent daydream involves never interacting with anyone I don’t want to.True. The specifics vary: withdrawing to a private island, a floating fortress, another planet. They all amount to declaring my independence from the human race, so that I might actually get something done, or simply to have done it.
  6. The number of

    Books
    CDs
    MP3s
    Movies

    I posess is

    somewhere in the mid-hundreds
    around three dozen
    around three hundred
    six
    .
    True. Watching a movie I have already seen is usually a pointless undertaking for me.

  7. The web is the only public artistic expression I’ve ever had.True, in spirit, though I was way in the back of the chorus in fifth grade. I’ve never been published, danced, acted, exhibited a painting, what-have-you.
  8. I do not have a single “favorite” anything. Color, food, season, etc….book, movie, writer, actor, word, and on and on. True. The whole concept has never made sense to me.
  9. I have made a number of prominent appearances in the local media, every time as a result of tragedy.True. A photographer captured a shot of me, age 11, looking wistful and distant at a candlelight vigil during the gulf war. It ran on the front page. It’s gone downhill from there.
  10. The first word I ever spoke was “why?”False. I am told that when I first spoke, it was in complete sentences.

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