List #674: Professions I Deeply Mistrust or Fear

List #674: Professions I Deeply Mistrust or Fear

1. School Counselors (one once told me my fear was invalid and silly, among other things)

2. Bouncers (they are scary)

3. Batman (I am a superstitious and cowardly lot)

4. Doctors (I think they're making it up most of the time)

5. Travelling/Phone Salespersonages (I also pity them)

6. Career Politicians

7. anyone whose job is to worry about "the Bottom Line"

8. Lawyers (most of them)

9. Auto Repairists

10. Coat Checkers (or anyone else that takes my stuff away from me)

11. Consultants/Observers/Quality Control

12. PR personages

13. Traffic Cops

14. Telephone Support

15. anyone that wants me to call them with information

16. Choir Directors

Bonus List: Professions I do Trust

1. Librarians

2. Nurses

3. Dentists

4. Beat Cops

5. Cycle Shop workers

6. Science Teachers

7. Most Scientists (depending on their source of funding)

8. Band Directors

Bonus List: Professions I'm on the fence about trusting

1. Administrators

2. Camp Directors

3. Activists

4. Musicians

List #619: Likely Fall TV Watching Schedule

List #619: Likely Fall TV Watching Schedule (plus a comment)

1. How I Met Your Mother (Mondays 8pm) - Still probably my favorite.

2. Modern Family (Wed. 9 pm) - Still probably the best comedy

3. Community (Th. 8) - The Highlight of My Week. Every Week.

4. Parks and Rec (Th. 8:30) - Great cast

5. The Office (Th. 9) - I'm more excited about James Spader than I am sad about Steve Carrell

6. Fringe (Fri. 9) - Best earthbound Sci-Fi in a loooong time

Bonus List: Shows I will try to catch via other means or will consider watching (if it's a new show)

1. Big Bang Theory (conflicts with Community, and Abed>Sheldon)

2. 2 Broke Girls (follows HIMYM, also Kat Dennings)

3. The New Girl (Tuesdays. But Zoey Deschanel is a pretty strong draw)

4. Grimm / Once Upon A Time (two different "Fables"-esque shows later in October)

List #576: Things I Like about Mowing the Lawn

List #576: Things I Like about Mowing the Lawn

1. It's a good time to listen to tapes, cds, or mp3s, especially podcasts

2. It's an outdoor activity

3. It makes the yard look nice

4. Fresh-cut grass smell (with just a hint of gasoline)

5. Its exercise

6. You can make cool patterns

Bonust List: A few things I don't like

1. Running out of gas

2. Having to pull more than once to start it (though not as bad as the snowblower!)

3. When it gets jammed up

4. Shoes turn green

List #567: Favorite Players in NHL '94 For SNES

List #567: Favorite Players in NHL '94 For SNES

1. Alexander Mogilny (Buffalo)

2. Pavel Bure (Vancouver)

3. Pat Lafontaine (Buffalo)

4. Geoff Courtnall (Vancouver)

5. Cliff Ronning (Vancouver)

BONUS: Least Favorite Player

1. Steve Larmer (Chicago)

List #564: Harry Potter Books in Order of Favoriteness

List #564: Harry Potter Books in Order of Favoriteness

1. Goblet of Fire

2. Half-Blood Prince

3. Sorcerer's Stone

4. Prisoner of Azkaban

5. Order of the Phoenix

6. Deathly Hallows

7. Chamber of Secrets (only because it's the exact same book as Sorcerer's Stone)

Bonus: HP Movies in favoriteness order

1.Prisoner of Azkaban

2.Sorcerer's Stone

7. (tie) The Other Ones

8. Goblet of Fire

List #531: Favorite NHL Teams (current)

List #531: Favorite NHL Teams (currently existing franchises AND locations)

1. Vancouver Canucks (since 1993, no bandwagon (not even '94 cup bandwagon))

2. Minnesota Wild

3. Buffalo Sabres

4. Tampa Bay Lightning (though, geographically, they pain me)

5. New Jersey Devils

6. Montreal Canadiens

7. Pittsburgh Penguins ('91 has been forgiven)

Bonus List: Favorites No Longer With Us

1. Minnesota North Stars

2. Hartford Whalers

3. California/Oakland Seals/Golden Seals

List #522: Favorite Tasks While Working at the Hacienda del Sol

List #522: Favorite Tasks While Working at the Hacienda del Sol (as a dishwasher that also did prep-work)

1. Making Guacamole (but I didn't salt it enough)

2. Bleaching Cutting Boards

3. Frying Chips (which I didn't salt enough)

4. Grating Cheese

5. Making Rice (but I burnt it too often)

Bonus: Things I didn't like

1. Chopping Onions

2. Mashing Beans (though the masher was cool)

3. Throwing away food

4. Checking bus-tubs when the patio was open

5. Washing the Onion chopper

Bonus II: Thing that could go either way

1. Rolling enchiladas.

List #513: Things I Hate About Sweating

List #513: Things I Hate About Sweating

1. It makes me damp

2. It ruins clothing

3. It makes me smell

4. It happens whenever I'm outside

5. It is a sign of humidity

6. It makes it uncomfortable to sleep

Bonus List: 2 Thing I like about sweating

1. It flushes the bad stuff from your system and keeps you healthy

2. It can be the result of time in a Sauna

List #486: Computers I have had [Revised]

List #486: (Revised) Computers I have had (including family computers when I lived at home, "*" means I paid for it on my own)

1. Apple IIc (1988-1995)
2. Acer - Pentium, 75mhz, 500 MB hard drive Windows 3.? (1995-1998)
3. *Citon Research - Windows 98, 8 GB hard drive (1998-2004)
4. *HP Media Center - 250 GB hard drive, Windows Media Center (2004-2009), Linux 9.04 (2009-Spring 2010)
5. Dell Laptop (work computer)- (2006- present)

6. *Dell - 1.5 TB harddrive, Windows 7, some other specifications, 2 monitors (fall 2010-present)

7. *Dell netbook - Windows XP (fall 2010- present)

Bonus List: Those Computers' Names (I need to double check these)

3. Total Mass Retain

4. Relayer (windows), Siberian Khatru (linux)

6. Perpetual Change

7. Roundabout

List #342: Good things about Sleep / Beds

List #342: Good things about Sleep / Beds

1. Crazy and memorable dreams
2. rejuvenation
3. Nice sheets
4. Multiple layers of blankets to trap and contain bodyheat
5. Sleep is where Cheif Wiggum says Ralph is a Viking
6. It's hard to be angry/sad/unhappy when you're asleep
7. Sleep is like time-travel
8. Hypnogogic state
9. Waking up without an alarm
10. Naps (when necessary)


Bonus list: Bad things about sleep
1. Nap mouth
2. Takes away reading and TV watching time

List #305: Things I like about Olive Tree Certified Organic Hummus

List #305: Things I like about Olive Tree Certified Organic Hummus

1. It's certified
2. It's organic
3. It's Hummus (and therefore predominantly Chickpeas)
4. It has a good tahini flavor
5. It costs $4.49 (instead of the 6.99 that Safeway charges for the same amount of Tribe)
6. The containers are sturdy, have tightly locking lids and hold exactly 1 serving of soup/pasta/rice, making them amazingly reusable (honestly: they're better than the comparable size of Gladware etc. AND they come with free Hummus inside when you buy them)

Bonus List: 1 thing I don't like about Olive Tree Certified Organic Hummus
1. It only lasts, at most, 2-3 days (and I don't mean "before it goes bad"... :) )

List #289: Reasons Why I don't want or need an iPhone

List #289: Reasons Why I don't need or want an iPhone

1. They don't hold enough music to be my music player, plus who wants their music player to suddenly ring
2. Apps mostly seem like an easy way to dispose of money
3. Sometimes I need a break from the internet
4. Touch screens are annoying
5. Too big
6. I think texting is annoying, and iPhones are like texting-times-ten
7. Apple is kind of annoying (at least they make a 160 gig mp3 player though)

BONUS LIST: Reasons why I would want an iPhone
1. That fake lighter-flame app
2. So I could do something like this!

List #123: Types of Bodies of Water in order of swimming preference

List #123: Types of Bodies of Water in order of swimming preference

1. Lakes
2. Indoor Pools
3. Outdoor in-ground pools
4. Hot Tubs
5. Ponds
6. Slow-moving, clear rivers
7. Oceans, Seas, Gulfs etc.

Bonus List: in order of viewing preference

1. Lakes
2. Rivers
3. Creeks or Streams
4. Ponds
5. Bays, Fjords
6. Oceans, Seas, Gulfs
7. Outdoor in-ground pools
8. Other pools and hot-tubs

List #109: Things I'm Afraid Of (rationally or otherwise)

List #109: Things I'm Afraid Of (rationally or otherwise)

1. Cruise Ships
2. Interactions with Strangers (Stranger Danger!)
3. Biting-off my tongue (esp. when the sidewalk to the bandroom at EHS was icy)
4. Exposed Heights/Edges/Ledges etc. (for myself and for others).
5. Poisonous Animals
6. Snakes (see #5, but any kinds give me the jibblies)
7. Enclosed Spaces / Buried Alive
8. Sharp Objects held by other people - knives, needles, etc
9. Spontaneous Human Combustion (this also ties into my mistrust of psychologists/counselors, etc)
10. Never 'Accomplishing' anything
11. Rejection (see also, but not limited to, #2)
12. Driving places I've never driven
13. My own fears
14. Deep Water / Deadly Sea Creatures
15. Accidentally causing physical harm to others (I got over my fear of accidentally causing physical/emotional harm to others, otherwise I'd never leave the house)
16. Girls





Bonus list: Things that people usually fear that I don't
1. Public Speaking / Speaking in front of large crowds
2. Flying
3. Clowns

List #64: Board Games (and other non-electronic games) I enjoy

List #64: Board Games (and other non-electronic games) I enjoy

1. Heroclix
2. Settlers of Catan
3. Tsuro
4. Hearts
5. Scrabble
6. Apples to Apples
7. Trivial Pursuit, Genus Edition I (not "GenIus"... ugh)
7a: Trivial Pursuit in a Can
8. Magic: the Gathering
9. Marshgammon
10.Phase 10
11. Guess Who
12. Trouble (and the Pop'o'matic Bubble)
13. Catchphrase
14. Risk
15. The Lord of the Rings board Game
16. Cannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom

Bonus List: Games that many people enjoy that I don't really care for
1. Drawing games (like Pictionary)
2. Any bidding/betting game (Poker, etc.)
3. Speed