Don’t Cross The Streams

In honor of yet another birthday, I’ve decided to take a crack at revealing 100 more random items about yours truly. Hopefully, I won’t repeat myself from my first two efforts (Parts 1 & 2). If I do, let me know and I’ll come up with a new one (Update: the ones in red are replacement facts):

1. The last birthday party my parents threw was when I was 10 years old. My cousins all brought me fireworks for my birthday, which I wasn’t allowed to light. Dicks
2. The first DVD I bought was Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
3. I can’t help but cry through Björk’s screaming and crying towards the end of Dancer in the Dark
4. I’ve only had one non-funeral related trip to Jamaica
5. I didn’t miss a day of school until 8th grade.
6. In nursery school, the teachers had made each of us little trucks made out of construction paper with our names written on it. Mine had “Shawn” instead of “Sean” written on it. I cried beyond the point of consolation
7. Whenever I knew I was going to get spanked after parent/teacher conferences, I had two strategies: a) stay in my mother’s room watching soap hiding under her protection or b) getting under the covers and using my comforter as cover while pretending to get hit
8. My brother and I figured out every hiding spot for our Christmas presents. It got so bad that we were playing with our new toys during the day and would put them back before my parents got home from work. It kinda took the fun out of Christmas in hindsight
9. I was a latchkey kid from 4th grade on
10. My favorite baseball player growing up was Don Mattingly
11. Things I used to have posters of in my room: John Starks Dunk over Micheal Jordan (a.k.a. “The Dunk”), The Punisher, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Sade (taken from my brother), 1996 World Series Champion New York Yankees
12. I was in the National Honor Society in high school…barely
13. How I knew Girlfriend #1 and I were done. Before she went away for the summer, I went with her and her family while she bought shit and got her hair done. While she was in the chair, I gave her my Casio organizer because she wanted to write me a little note that I wasn’t supposed to read until she left. Of course, I read it as soon as I got home and it was innocent enough. I later noticed she deleted all the anniversary reminders from the month she left until the end of the year (I was a weirdo and had all the monthly anniversaries up to a full year). Ruined my whole summer. We “broke up” after she got back
14. To this day, I’ve never asked her about it
15. The name “Melanism” came from a band I saw in NYU called “Melanin 2000″
16. I’m a Democrat
17. I still haven’t had a check-up or physical
18. For almost six months, I would meet friends in front of the Wetlands on Tuesday night, drive to Philadelphia for Black Lily, leave around 1-1:30 AM, drop everyone off and then go to work the next day
19. In high school, I let three kids copy off me for the Chemistry Regents exam. I had a 95% going into the test. I was in the front and everyone behind me passed my answers back. I got a 70%. The kid directly behind me got a 66%. The rest failed and had to go to summer school. Oops
20. My first official date with Girlfriend #2 was a double date with her younger sister and her boyfriend to go see Kids.
21. I thought Mister Rogers was creepy
22. The reason I’m such an early bird: my father kept all his suits for work in my closet and he would come into my room at 5:45 AM to get dressed every morning. He wasn’t exactly ninja-like plus the closet door got stuck alot so you had to pull really hard to open and made a loud noise when it did open. A few years of this and waking up at 6 AM was the norm
23. I have a name I want to name a girl if I ever have a daughter but at this rate, it might end up being the name of one of the future pets-as-a-supplement-for-human-relationships I get (regardless, I’m not telling)
24. I was kinda disappointed when I met someone with that name (middle name though)
25. The motivating factor behind any career achievement at my current place of employment is: “How far can I get in this place without having to take the writing test?”
26. The original point of this blog (actually my blog predates the term “blog”) was to share my opinion about movies without having to repeat myself. Not much has changed
27. I slept with a night light a lot longer than I’m willing to admit on this list
28. I used to eat Luden’s Wild Cherry Throat Drops like they were Skittles. I had a serious addiction to them in high school
29. I’ve been wearing glasses since Kindergarten
30. I’m still paying off my student loans
31. I think I’ve said ‘I love you’ first in all my relationships (GFs 1-3: please feel free to refute)
32. My middle name is “Andre” (Hey, some people don’t know that)
33. I hate people who get on the subway before most of the people on the car get out
34. I’ve only had to go to the hospital twice: 1) Stomach pains from eating too many greasy foods in one day when I was in grade school and 2) Severe sprained ankle from kickball last year
35. I have a small birthmark on my right tricep. I think it looks like a dog or a rabbit
36. I prefer being cold over being hot because you can dress for being too cold
37. Every stage of my life, I have a new person I consider my “best friend” (the feeling isn’t always mutual)
38. My father also ruined cereal for me. As mentioned in #22, my father used to get dressed at 5:45 AM and leave at 6:05 AM. He would fix me a bowl of Frosted Flakes cereal before he left and by the time I got downstairs, it was really soggy but my mother made me eat it. I didn’t have cereal again until I was in college
39. Eric is my oldest friend as I’ve known him since first grade
40. No one ever thinks I am as old as I actually am
41. I have never been to a professional or college football game
42. I can’t say that “I can’t cook” because I haven’t really tried
43. I kinda suck at Guitar Hero-related games despite the fact that I own a number of them
44. I don’t like having company because then no one knows how messy my apartment really is
45. The only class I ever got an F in was Religion. My mother laughed when I showed her. Her response (paraphrased): “What’s there to fail: God. Jesus. Holy Spirit?”
46. I can’t sing but this does fact does not keep me away from karaoke mics
47. 8 times out of 10, I will arrive early to any party or gathering unless I’m coming from another party (which I probably arrived early to)
48. I think the reason I eat and drink so fast was that was the only way to escape the dinner table and inquiries about homework (that I wasn’t doing) when I was growing up
49. I can listen to sad music all day long
50. Despite being an A/B+ student for my entire grade school life, it took me four and a half years to get Student of the Month at St. Brigid’s. When I asked why I hadn’t gotten it, a teacher told me I questioned my teachers too much during class
51. My favorite video game of all time is Final Fantasy VII. I once spent 10-12 straight hours in college sitting in front of the TV playing that while my roommate/suitemates went out to class
52. I used to have a huge crush on this girl in high school but she liked one of my best friends. I wanted him to ask her to the prom which he wouldn’t because I liked her. He wanted me to ask her which I didn’t because I knew she liked him. She ended up going to the prom with this d-bag who shared the limo with us making us both wish we had asked her
53. I can’t function during the work day if I don’t have some sort of breakfast
54. I try to eat dinner before 8 PM. I don’t know when that started
55. I have little-to-no willpower when it comes to rejecting food (or booze)
56. Open bars are my kryptonite
57. I want to own or run a bar, lounge or diner. Not because I have any interest in any of these types of establishments. I just want to work at a place that I can listen (and make other people listen to) music I want to hear
58. I think I spend at least $150 dollars on comic books a month
59. If I spent as much money on clothes as I did DVDs and comics, I would be quite stylish
60. I fooled around with Girlfriend #1 more after we broke up than when we were together
61. As a child, I used to fluctuate between sleeping with the door open or close. The argument I made to myself was “Would I rather see whatever was coming down the hallway to get me or would I rather hear them open door and pretend to be asleep?” I think I settled on the latter
62. When I went to see Monty Python’s Spamalot with some friends, imagine my surprise when i saw the girl who I went to NYU senior formal with and who ditched me for her friends afterwards on stage
63. I drool in my sleep a little. A lot if I’m sick
64. I never had an answer to the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
65. One day, two friends and I went on a shoplifting spree throughout Broadway Mall leaving with at least $200 worth of bounty
66. I used to try and write hip-hop verses in high school. They were all laughably bad
67. As much as I love them, no piece of art (TV, comics, movies, paintings, etc.) has ever changed my life
68. I’m always afraid of missing the last step when I go down a long flight of stairs
69. I get nervous when too many people pay attention to what I am doing
70. I learned wrestling was fake a little later than I am willing to admit on this list
71. 90% of my Facebook status messages are from books, movies or songs I just listened to at the time of posting
72. I’m currently harboring 4-5 crushes. They range from “fleeting” to “mildly debilitating”
73. The first R-rated movie I snuck into was Alien 3
74. After I watched my brother’s tape of Private School, I started calling his friends “douchebag” whenever they called. I was probably 8 or 9 years old
75. I’ve never come into a job drunk. Partially tipsy twice
76. When I buy TV shows on DVD, it’s moreso to lend out to get additional people hooked on said TV show then for my own personal viewing pleasure
77. Unless you bludgeon me over the head with it, I’m generally oblivious to people showing romantic interest in me
78. I’m 5′9″
79. I didn’t start drinking coffee until I started working here six years ago
80. In college, my roommate, Pierre, and I watched The Tick on FOX Saturday morning cartoons religiously. No matter what we were doing or where we were, we were in front of the TV at 11 AM
81. I’ve had a cell phone since I was 21
82. I don’t use more than 25-35 talk minutes on my cell phone a month. When Lost or 24 is on, it goes up to an hour
83. I used to hide the lunches my father made me that I didn’t want (he used to make me HAMBURGERS and put that in my lunch bag…WTF?) behind my bookcase. One day, I forgot and my mother found a rotten bag of food while she was cleaning my room
84. The first time I puked as a toddler was in kindergarten. After eating one of those soggy bowls of cereal (#38), I got on the bus and the driver strapped us all in. I started to feel sick but couldn’t get free from seat beat. I puked all over myself. The bus driver was running late so let me ride the entire way covered in soggy Frosted Flakes vomit and cleaned me off when we got to school
85. The first movies we got when my parents bought a VCR were Raiders of the Lost Ark and Purple Rain
86. I learned how to dub movies when I was 12. I used to rent 3-4 movies a week from Blockbuster Video and make copies for my brother and his friends
87. The last movie I saw at the Westbury Drive-In before they shut it down was There’s Something About Mary
88. I’ve never been on a pre-relationship “date” (and by “date”, I mean asking a girl out to dinner or a movie with the intention of wooing her AND she knows it’s a date)
89. My being single has more to do with my shyness than I lead people to believe
90. My father used to academically compare me unfavorably to my classmates which made me want to try less
91. I did better in the verbal section of my SAT and my GRE but both times my score was below 1,000. (I can’t remember the exact score for either)
92. I have no problem having the same meal over and over again for lunch or dinner.
93. I was in the General Studies Program for my freshman and sophomore years of NYU (for those of us who weren’t quite up the NYU standards)
94. For many years of my grade school and high school years, I would never look at myself directly in the mirror for self-conscious-about-my appearance reasons. I would take off my glasses first or always look at myself from some sort of angle
95. I prefer the right side of the bed
96. I used to drink Welch’s grape soda all the time. Now I only drink Diet Coke or Coke Zero
97. Anytime I do laundry on the weekend, 9 1/2 times out of 10, I will end up taking a nap for at least an hour. I can’t explain it
98. I hate calling people in my office. I’d rather talk to them face to face. If that’s not possible, e-mail. The phone is a last resort
99. It is understood amongst my family that at any holiday dinner (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc.), I have first dibs on chicken and/or turkey legs. It has been tradition since I was a little kid
100. I’m not that into big breasts

Now everyone knows 300 more things about me than I do about them…

Happy Birthday to me (on July 4th)!

* These aren’t really “facts” as much as tidbits or stories you didn’t know about me

Some goddamn point a man’s due to stop arguing with his-self and feeling twice the goddamn fool he knows he is ’cause he can’t be something he tries to be every goddamn day without once getting to dinnertime and fucking it up. I don’t want to fight it anymore, understand me Charlie? And I don’t want you pissing in my ear about it. Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?
- Wild Bill Hickok from Deadwood

These things are always on my mind but maybe if I write them down and publicly admit them, I’ll be more likely to do them…

• Learning how to cook from a recipe (as opposed to the microwave option I naturally gravitate towards)
• Learning another language
• Saving money like I’m going to have a long life
• Stop spending money like I’m going to have a short one
• Go to the doctor for a check-up for the first time a decade (to see if I can ignore #3 or #4)
• Go to the dentist (so it doesn’t hurt when I eat candy)
• Don’t watch so much TV (not that I have to stop watching my shows but during that time when I’m just flipping channels)
• Read more books
• Watch more documentaries
• Stop buying DVDs that I’m never going to watch more than once
• Stop buying video games that I’m not going to make time to play
• Make time to play the video games I have
• Stop spending so much money on comic books (if you only knew how much I spend in a month)
• Learn to do my job better (or get a new job)
• Pay off my credit cards before making any other major purchases
• Travel somewhere outside the U.S. that’s not England (although I do want to go back)
• Call my parents more
• Call other people more
• Answer my phone when people call and I’m watching TV (not like I couldn’t pause it)
• Spend less time aimlessly surfing the internet
• Spend less money on buying alcohol
• Don’t use going to the gym as an excuse to eat poorly
• Stop buying amusing t-shirts and buy regular clothes
• Stop buying clothes you never get around to wearing
• Dust your room more regularly
• Go out more often
• Be more social when I do go out
• Don’t use payday as an excuse to go shopping
• Ride that bike you bitched about getting from UPS
• Blog more about myself instead what I’m watching or reading (mostly watching)

Who are we kidding though. It’s not like I’m going to do 98% of the things on this list but at least if you see me not doing any of these things, you have permission to openly judge me.

What’s on your mental “to-do” list?

*This was going to be another 100 Things list but even I’m not that screwed up that there are 100 things that could improve my life.

It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these things.

Thanks to Cindylu for the inspiration.

Let’s get it on

1. Akon’s voice
2. People who claim to be die hard fans but can’t name more than five people on the team (you can just be a fan of a player)
3. That face Eli Manning makes when he botches a play
4. Any article by Bill Simmons about Boston teams (except this one)
5. The current exchange rate with US Dollar and any country across North Atlantic Ocean
6. Being stuck at work late because I’m waiting for someone to send me something or respond to something
7. Southern hip-pop especially when the song is just an excuse to do a variation of a “kick, twist, finger snap” dance
8. Meetings/Conference calls at work scheduled between 12:00-1:00 PM
9. E-mails or phone calls requesting work that requires more than 30 minutes of your time 15 minutes before you’re going to leave
10. People who talk on Bluetooth headsets but don’t think they look strange
11. Isiah Thomas’ continued existence on the Knicks sideline
12. A-Rod interviews
13. People who talk throughout the movie
14. People who look at their cell phones/Blackberrys during the movies (Thanks, Andrea. I was letting that one go until I met you)
15. People who talk about a movie or television assuming you’ve seen it and spoil something
16. Paying extra money for a comic book and just getting 4 extra pages and 8 more pages of ads
17. That point in a book where you know you don’t like it but you’ve come this far so you have to finish it
18. Spam comments on my blog
19. Invites to add more applications to my Facebook page
20. Myspace pages that are so busy they crash my browser
21. E-mail spam that starts out like “hi” in the subject line but then in the message in says “Do you want a bigger penis?”
22. When something I want goes on sale the second I decide that I’m not going to spend anymore money
23. Skunky beer
24. Celebrity tabloid culture
25. When people act like my racial identity is tied to my interests or my social activities
26. Couples who act like “schmoopies” in public
27. Fox News Channel
28. Waking up 30 minutes before your alarm goes off
29. When a McDonald’s has a different Dollar Menu than the one I’m used to in Harlem
30. The sound of cat murders/orgies that goes on every other night behind my apartment
31. When they have block parties on my block and play offensive music despite being across the street from a church
32. When you order a DVD online and it arrives but the DVD got lose in the packing and it is all scratched up
33. When my DVR/cable gets messed up due to inclement weather
34. When someone gets to the register at a fast food place and acts like they’ve never been to a fast food place before
35. Chappelle Show: The Lost Episodes
36. When a presidential address disrupts my favorite television show
37. When I get lost or stuck in a video game
38. Friend requests on Facebook or MySpace from people I am 100% sure I don’t know
39. When people complain about how much the Yankees spend on their roster, especially when those people are fans of other big city/big spender teams like the Mets or the Red Sox
40. The “Why are you single” question
41. Jessica Alba’s acting
42. When an album has more shitty songs than good ones and no great ones
43. My own debilitating laziness
44. When a new female character appears on The L Word and she just happens to be gay
45. When people are cast in movies because they are famous, not because they can act
46. When I’m downloading something off a torrent and it stops at 99.7%
47. When people try to manipulate you into doing something, not by asking directly, but by trying to make it seem like it’s something you wanted to do anyway and you notice and you would have done whatever they had wanted if they just asked but now you almost want to say “no” just because of the shitty attempt
48. Run-on sentences
49. Close talkers
50. Stuart Scott (just talk like a normal human being)
51. When good shows not only get cancelled but don’t get a chance to wrap up the show semi-cleanly
52. When shitty shows never end (especially if you find yourself hooked on it for some reason)
53. When Yankees fans boo Yankees (except for Kyle Farnsworth)
54. Bandwagon jumpers
55. People who don’t believe that you aren’t a bandwagon jumper
56. When comics come out a day late because of a holiday
57. When the office is closed on a Tuesday or Thursday but you don’t get Monday or Friday off respectively
58. When a comic book I love is turned into a really shitty movie (i.e. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
59. An itch in my lower back that is out of my reach
60. Being put in the friend zone before you get a chance to make your move
61. When girls make sure to tell a story that includes the phrase “So my boyfriend…” and you weren’t even interested in her like that
62. When girls make sure to tell a story that includes the phrase “So my boyfriend…” and you thought you had a chance
63. When a concert I want to go gets sold out in less than 15 minutes
64. Standing behind a tall person at a concert
65. Expensive umbrellas that fall apart after the first strong gust of wind
66. Losing a good umbrella at a bar
67. When multiple projects come in around the same time with the same deadline (give or take a day)
68. When something you want is on sale but not in your size
69. When you buy something and then it goes on sale but too much time has passed to get a price match
70. Rude people at the register (especially at fast food joints)
71. Beers that cost more than $7
72. Having to go to Brooklyn for a party that starts at 10 PM
73. Any “no panties” pictures of Lindsay Lohan/Britney Spears/Paris Hilton/etc.
74. Poorly choreographed wrestling matches
75. When people can’t take a joke
76. Junk mail
77. People who don’t know how to walk on the sidewalk
78. Tourists in Times Square
79. People who don’t flush the toilet after use
80. When people complain about not getting answers in Lost
81. Women who don’t like to be on top
82. People who treat their opinions like facts
83. When I buy a DVD and five months later a 2-disc special edition comes out
84. When people show up 10 minutes before a movie starts on opening weekend and complain that there is nowhere to sit
85. People who call you 5 minutes after they sent you an e-mail and say, ‘Did you get my e-mail?”
86. Seeing a bad movie in the theater
87. When you order food to go with special requests (”medium well”, “no tomatoes”, etc.) and you get home and they didn’t do it
88. That look the Chinese food delivery guy gives you when he feels you haven’t tipped him enough
89. That tone friends at work (or co-workers pretending you are friends for the time being) get when they are going to ask you a favor they think is unreasonable
90. My paycheck
91. Calls from headhunters
92. Calls from vendors looking for business
93. When people treat politics like they are voting for High School Prom Queen or King
94. When people who try to walk into the subway car before everyone gets off
95. When people jaywalk with baby strollers
96. When the bartender can’t mix drinks properly and there is either too much alcohol or too much chaser
97. UPS
98. When an article of clothing you love gets ruined in the wash or gets a mysterious hole
99. The quality of toilet paper at the office (it’s apparently 0.5 ply sheets)
100. In the summer, when you are about to get on a subway car and it’s pretty empty but before it’s too late, you realize you are in either the no A/C car or the “homeless guy who has shit himself” car (or both!)

So what annoys you…besides me?

Memories are wonderful things if you don’t have to deal with the past.
~ Celine from Before Sunset

This will be my last “100″ list. Seriously.

1. The party we threw the night before graduation from New York University at Bar 85.
2. Oversleeping for graduation and wearing the clothes I had on at the party under my gown.
3. My first night at NYU when I met Anya and Rashida and we all went to Tower Records.
4. When I tied Anya to her chair so she would finish her paper
5. Getting my first tattoo in Philly in 1999
6. When Nou yelled at me from the stage and accused me a heckling her. Then talking at the bar and becoming great friends immediately
7. Black Lily at Shine on Hannah’s birthday (technically)
8. When Joey convinced the Mrs. Cantino (the Spanish teacher) that he had jumped out the window
9. The first time I went snowboarding with Eva
10. Going all the way to New Hampshire to get furniture for Anya’s apartment and driving back to NYC in the largest U-Haul truck they had on the lot.
11. My first kiss on the bus of Young People’s Day Camp on the last day of camp.
12. The first time I kissed T.Y. at Todd’s house waiting for her father to pick her up
13. The first time I kissed E.B. on her couch after I rushed to her house in Queens from NYU.
14. The first time I kissed F.J. in my car after weeks of just sitting in my car and talking and, well, NOT kissing.
15. Eric and I getting in trouble during our first high school dance at St. Mary’s for dancing too promiscuously with the girls during the reggae portion of the DJ set
16. When Nou, Tank and others who I can’t recall were listening to D’Angelo’s Voodoo for the first time.
17. When I got laid off from Sukin Law Group
18. First time I went to Great Adventure with F.J.
19. After the blackout in 2003, walking down to Jen’s apartment and sitting on her stairs with Suzy, Sheila and Jen drinking her remaining Bud Lights
20. Celebrating the Yankees 1996 World Series win with E.B.’s mother because E.B. didn’t care.
21. Celebrating the Yankees 1999 World Series win on street in front of Third North Dorm. All the bars between 10th and 13th street let out and we stopped traffic until a truck full of cops made us go back inside
22. After an argument before I had to go to work, E.B. driving in the rain from Queens to Broadway Mall in Hicksville to give me a balloon that said “I’m Sorry.”
23. When F.J. made me a makeshift pair of glasses.
24. When Pierre interrupted E.B. and I in bed then decided to hang around and watch Mr. Wrong with us until she left.
25. The first Okayplayer reunion in Philadelphia
26. When I finished moving into the Harlem apartment and just passed out in my bed
27. When none of us could get a rental car, driving down to Atlanta from New York with Kristy, Derreck, Eric, Fatima, Tara and Bill.
28. Going to Chik-Fil-A on the way home
29. The first time I went to England to visit Hannah and she brought me to a wine bar with her friends and I pretended to be a “rude American”.
30. Watching the Giants beat the 49ers in the NFC Championship game with my brother and his friend Seth
31. Winning that writing award and $500 bond at my 8th Grade graduation.
32. Lance kicking the Nintendo every time I was about to beat him in RBI Baseball via the mercy rule
33. Going camping with E.B. and all her friends
34. Helping Jen paint a room in her house
35. Visiting Angie on the set of Scrubs
36. Mercy Flush Ski Weekend I & II
37. Seth: “I think I blew my load on that granny shot.”
38. Kaiva’s going away party
39. Winning the Unsung Hero Award at the OPR Professional Achievement Awards
40. After Jeremy’s Ale House, K.P. breaking into a Axl Rose impression that caused Nikki, Kevin and I to fall to the ground simultaneously.
41. Tara falling in front of Nevada Smith’s Matrix-style
42. 2002 New Year’s at Kristy’s apartment in Far Rockaway
43. Paintball with Tony, Kevin and T.J.
44. Finally winning Student of the Month in 4th grade
45. When Kerwin and I got drunk on our suitemate’s Pepsi that, unbeknown to us, had vodka in it then heading to NeoLounge and havign he best night ever
46. Going to Great Adventure with Bill and Yusef
47. Hannah’s birthday at Kristy’s house in which her birthday cake cracked so we wrote “Boom” on it
48. Hugging Anya in Loeb Student Center and cracking her back to which she gave an orgasmic reaction
49. Riding in the “cage” on the way to Great Adventure with Pam, Nikki, Alison, Andrea and Copas
50. My fight with Frederico which resulted in getting hit in the ribs with a shovel and having my finger bitten so I couldn’t punch him back
51. When Kenny, Nick and I went into Broadway Mall and stole more than $100 dollars worth of cassette tapes
52. Snowball fights at the dead end of Montauk Court
53. Kerwin and I playing NBA Live until 5 AM because he wouldn’t let me go to sleep until he beat me
54. When I accidentally did the Rock Bottom to Jasmine in Chicago
55. Getting pulled over in Port Washington with Todd driving and Andrew, Brian and Eric in tow. Andrew starts singing “Bad boys, bad boys. Whatcha gonna do?” and Todd freaks out and yells, “Shut the fuck up!”
56. Passing History in Junior year of high school. The teacher said you couldn’t pass if you didn’t do the homework. I proved him wrong.
57. Sneaking out of art class, jumping over the fences and buying new cassette tapes every Tuesday.
58. Sneaking out of art class to play basketball with Todd, Eric and Rueel.
59. Getting on the bus to go to Roosevelt Field to buy TY a Valentine’s Day present, falling asleep in the bus and ending up in Jamaica, Queens.
60. Passing notes in high school with Eva and Jen.
61. Jessica R’s overly-extravagant and drama-filled sweet 16 party.
62. Dressing like an idiot for high school prom - white gloves, sunglasses, cane and Kangol
63. The first post Ogilvy PR hug from Sheila
64. Taking care of my baby cousin Christopher at my grandparents’ house in Jamaica
65. Getting chased by Brother Joseph in the hallway after he noticed I had shaved my head
66. Going to the Intrepid with Mona for no reason and taking 50 pictures
67. Senior formal at NYU until I got drunk, locked out and stuck with a whiny Rafick
68. The Halloween Black Lily show where I dressed as Dr. Evil with my personalized Mini Me
69. Rock Lily when Danophonic Dan tried to jump into the crowd but took too much of a running start and jumped over the crowd
70. Jen and Christine’s housewarming party where we all agreed not to show up drunk and we showed up obliterated instead
71. Setting my alarm to chest Kevin at midnight at the housewarming party and hitting him so hard, he collapsed
72. Drunkenly walking Crosby around the block at the same housewarming party.
73. Getting paid to dress up as Blade at a comic convention
74. In Chicago, walking all the way to the store in the rain and coming back to the hotel empty handed forgetting that I went to the store for food.
75. Attempting to drive to New Jersey with Danophonic Dan and ending up in Deleware
76. Dinners at Tara’s apartment before Black Lily shows
77. Playing Kickball in Prospect Park and then attempting to play Every Man For Themselves Dodgeball
78. Tara’s birthday cake that had an inappropriate message on it
79. Getting drunk on Stella Artois with Hibo in London
80. After a girl he was messing with had left the dorm room, Kerwin and I trying to determine what that foul odor was
81. Playing tackle football in Cantiague Park on Sundays
82. Handing out flyers for Black Lily shows with Nou and Tank in the city
83. Sex
84. Getting chased out of Sherwood Gardens on Halloween for being from Westbury Hills
85. Matt: “What kind of stupid name is ‘Hibo’?”
86. Seeing The Ring with Kristy and Eric (spoilers) and a) busting out laughing when the horse jumped off the boat and didn’t clear the ledge and b) huddling up and yelling “WHAT THE FUCK?!” when the girl crawled out of the TV
87. Going to a random park, seeing Harold & Kumar Goes To White Castle then going to White Castle and ordering Crave Cases with Eric, Derreck, Bill, Tara and Ian
88. Getting kicked out of English Honors Class twice in 15 minutes: First for being late (I wasn’t) and second when I was sent back to class without a detention and I chuckled at Mrs. Hill when he looked at me during attendance
89. My backrub exchange program with Anya
90. When my brother and his friends were riding around the neighborhood with weapons because they thought someone stole me bike
91. When my father foolishly had the barber shave my hair almost bald and I was so embarrassed that I opted to wear my Superman hat in class the next day. The teacher took me outside and told me to show her and it couldn’t be that bad and I did and she laughed.
92. Out last day in Amsterdam when Derreck wouldn’t let us leave any unfinished business
93. Lining up with Andrea to try to get the perfect space to watch Casablanca in Bryant Park
94. Racing back to the city from my high school reunion because Nikki and Tony were sending me text messages that Kevin was drunkenly making out with a really tall girl
95. The one year in Little League when our team won our division after playing on last place teams for three years
96. When Mary showed me her nipple piercing in Houlihan’s in front of the window
97. Seeing the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in New Jersey from 10 AM to 1 AM at a movie theater in New Jersey with Tia
98. Playing “Red Light” on the bus on the way home from school.
99. Making mix tapes in my brother’s room for T.Y. and E.B.
100. When Kerwin, Troy and I had to drag Rafick out of Christine’s dorm because he was drunk, professing his love for Christine and wouldn’t leave. Then we got him back to our room and he threw up and missed the the trash can and Kerwin kicked him.

If you are mentioned somewhere here, thanks for the memories. If not, I’m sure we have some beautiful memories that I just couldn’t remember while I was putting this together (did I mention I drink a lot?). Feel free to leave a comment mentioning a memory of us you think I forgot (or if I got one I did post wrong). Otherwise, I look forward to making future memories with you. Bring a camera though. It will be easier for me to remember.

Another project from Sheila:

1. Will Ferrell’s scenes in whatever movie he is in
2. New comics on Wednesday
3. Snickers bars
4. New episodes of my favorite shows
5. Hearing a song that is line with what I’m feeling at the moment (if that moment is a good moment, of course)
6. Receiving cards in the mail (not e-cards, USPS style)
7. Receiving hugs in proportion to the hugs I’m giving
8. Trying to have a intelligent conversation with someone under the age of 9
9. This song
10. First kisses
11. Inside jokes
12. False glimmers of hope from crushes
13. Receiving a complement about something I don’t necessarily believe about myself
14. The ten seconds between just finishing cleaning your room and starting the process of messing it up again
15. Seeing something I want on sale
16. The moment you realize a movie is going to be one of your favorites
17. Learning something new about someone I care about
18. Not having to get out of bed when other people are at work
19. Sugar
20. Beating the hard part of a video game
21. Winning
22. Being right
23. Having a conversation with a friend who is just as drunk as you are about how drunk you both aren’t
24. Holding hands when its cold (locking fingers, not grasping hands)
25. Noticing something cute about someone they may not notice about themselves
26. When one of your favorite movies are on cable and you turn to it and it’s at your favorite part
27. When I realize the person I saw a movie with loved it just as much as I did and instead of defending it, we can exchange praise, favorite parts and quotes all the way home.
28. Being finished with a project
29. When an album I’ve been dying to hear leaks on the internet
30. Soft vanilla ice cream in a cone with rainbow sprinkles
31. Getting comments on my blog especially from friends I didn’t know read it
32. Watching recaps of the Yankees or Giants winning on SportsCenter
33. Getting a phone call right after a new episode of 24 or Lost concludes
34. When someone loves a movie I recommended
35. Finding a present that is perfect for someone
36. The first sip of the first beer after a long shitty day
37. When a book turns into something you have to finish, instead of something you are just reading
38. Rilo Kiley songs
39. Telling people who make at least $20,000 more than me what to do
40. Giving somebody something they wanted, especially if they didn’t ask for it
41. A good chicken cheesesteak
42. Someone liking something I wrote
43. Not having to do anything
44. Genuine surprises
45. Seeing someone smile at me
46. Being complimented on what I’m wearing
47. Receiving voicemails & text messages from drunk friends
48. Being missed
49. Reading my friends’ blogs
50. Having a good week in fantasy football
51. Game winning home runs by the Yankees
52. White Chocolate Mocha Latte from Starbucks
53. Black noodles with chicken from Spice
54. Reading Ask Ausiello on Wednesday morning and talking my friends about it
55. Looking at my checking account online and realizing I’m not going to be broke before my next paycheck arrives
56. Kristin Chenowith on Pushing Daisies
57. When the Yankees beat the Mets or the Red Sox
58. When the Mets and the Red Sox lose
59. Seeing pictures of myself that I actually like
60. Getting a back massage of equal or better quality than one I would give myself
61. Finding money in a pair of jeans
62. Finishing all the shows stored on my DVR
63. Shelia’s morning instant messenger hugs
64. Tara’s “eeeee” when something is hilarious
65. Nikki’s 3D dance
66. Andrea’s “I wanna see that!” face after a good movie trailer
67. Getting sincerely thanked
68. Seeing my friends who are pregnant
69. Open bars
70. Spring
71. Waking up at my stop on the subway (on the first try)
72. Having a really good idea
73. Welch’s grape soda
74. When there are Twizzlers in the vending machine at work
75. When Jack Bauer shoots someone
76. Being done with work for the day or the week
77. When a movie I’ve been dying to see again finally comes out on DVD
78. Getting answers on Lost
79. Tropicana Orange Juice (No pulp)
80. Egg and bacon on a roll in the morning
81. H&H plain bagel, lightly toasted, one butter
82. New Perry Bible Fellowship comic strips
83. Being needed but not manipulated or abused
84. Juvenile humor
85. Getting a new tattoo
86. Being comfortable with someone or something
87. Having all my shirts ironed and put away
88. Meeting someone new who loves things that I love
89. Finishing my bag of comics for the week
90. Seeing someone I miss
91. Soft white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies
92. New t-shirts on Threadless (even if I’m not allowing myself to buy anymore)
93. Getting White Castle after 2 AM after a night of drinking and hanging out
94. Laughing hysterically with friends
95. Epiphanies
96. Seeing someone on the street I don’t feel like talking to first so I can avoid them
97. Making someone feel better
98. Getting a blog post out of my system
99. Hearing an amazing album for the first time.
100. Making someone else smile…if only for a second