20 Random Facts

I can't believe I got tagged. I'm not even on Xanga. Ok, thanks Joy for thinking of the non-Xanga-ers.

1. I was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, but my parents are both American, and I'm not adopted. Think about that one.

2. When I got my security clearance, the government didn't have any questions about my 3 trips to Eastern Europe or about me being born in a foreign country, but had numerous questions about my dad. Some of my friends think my dad is a spy. Maybe the government does, too.

3. I tried jumps on my first day of snowboarding. I learned landings two years later.

4. I could have been an extra in that movie Hollywood Homicide, but I got bored waiting around for them to start so I left. It's ok cuz the PA just thought I was one of the extras when really I was just walking by anyways.

5. I've never been in a car accident.

6. At Iron Sharpens Iron, I was determined to have had the worst job ever out of all the men at my church. I cleaned up horse manure for $5/hr when I was in high school.

7. Most kids buy their pets, but when I was a kid, my brother and I caught most of ours.

8. When my dad wasn't home, it was my job to kill the rattlesnakes. I was also slated to "take care of" any animals that got into the house (lizards, scorpions, mice, etc.).

9. None of my immediate family lives in the United States.

10. I once co-wrote and acted in a film that was featured in a UCLA film festival. It was called Squambo: First Blood. I still don't understand how it made it into the film festival.

11. I've written about 60 skits. Less than half of them are on the Skit DVD and some of those on the DVD aren't even mine.

12. In high school, the fastest I ran 3 miles was 15 minutes 45 seconds. The fastest I ran a mile was 4 minutes 33 seconds. The fastest I ran a half mile was 1 minute 58 seconds.

13. I've had my name in the newspaper for running many many times, but it took untangling knots for a bunch of four year olds at a vacation bible school to get my picture in the paper.

14. My first pet was a bird that flew into the sliding glass door of our house. I named him Lucky.

15. I played piano for 7 years. Do I still play? Of course not, 7 years and no more!

16. I've visited the sets of two shows I've never seen: Dawson's Creek and Third Watch. Both times the person giving me the tour assumed I had intimate knowledge of the show and I had to pretend like I knew what they were talking about.

17. I once gave this guy a ride to get some gas who turned out to be a gay pornstar. (I'm about 99% certain.)

18. I had my first driving lesson when I was 12 years old. My second driving lesson occurred when I got my learner's permit. I guess the first lesson didn't go that well. Or maybe my mom had something to say to my dad about the first one.

19. The fastest I drove a car was 140 mph on the autobahn in Germany. I'll never do that again.

20. I hate Souplantation.

I tag Amy and Rommel.