Minutiae and the "Wonder of Me"

I've seen this sort of thing on other people's blogs, and been one of those wackos who reads the whole list. Are you?

100 trivial bits about me:

1. I’m a Scorpio
2. I’m left handed.
3. I have poor eyesight.
4. I have a love for swing music of the ‘30s, 40’s & ‘50s
5. I’m an avid, self-taught photographer.
6. I’m the father of three children.
7. I have a cat.
8. I’m tall.
9. I don’t believe in the popular god (that “Him” that’s supposed to lurk somewhere up above)
10. I don’t believe in the popular concept of heaven and hell.
11. I’m years out of touch with all my friends from high school and college.
12. I was a high school sports star in basketball and football, but traded that for drugs in college.
13. I’m a good filmmaker.
14. I’ve written six feature films… sold none.
15. I blew my knee out playing league basketball when my oldest son was one.
16. I’m good at spontaneous poetry.
17. I love to read.
18. I want to write a novel.
19. I don’t care about fast cars or spectator sports.
20. I love boats.
21. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday.
22. I regret not raising my kids in another country.
23. I had my heart broken this year.
24. I’ve been reckless with my online persona.
25. I like to read people’s blogs.
26. I admire anyone who makes a living in writing or photography.
27. I’m interested in Wicca.
28. I’m interested in tarot.
29. I’ve taken a lot of self-portraits since I got a digital cam.
30. I’m kind.
31. In the last six months I’ve drank more alcohol than in the last six years.
32. I have a dvd collection, but I know it’s a waste of money.
33. I catch up on phone calls to my friends when I’m in the car.
34. I’m very strong.
35. My kids think I’m funny.
36. My marriage has been hanging by a thread for most of 2005.
37. I used to believe in the friendships I made online.
38. Most work days I get up at 4am.
39. I was once a capable equestrian.
40. My success in sports came from having “great hands.”
41. I have always adored women.
42. To my sorrow, I adore them less than I used to.
43. I can sing.
44. I’ve been learning ballroom dancing.
45. I’ve been employed as a decorator.
46. I’ve been employed as a waiter.
47. I’ve been employed as a soil scientist.
48. I’ve been employed as a business consultant.
49. I’ve been employed as a paper bag stacker.
50. I’ve been employed as a cashier.
51. I’ve been employed as a sales rep.
52. I smoked pot every day for 15 years.
53. I quit in 1996.
54. I started again this summer.
55. I’m not good a growing things.
56. I’m not good at auto mechanics.
57. I’m not a good money manager.
58. I’m very good with people.
59. I get on very well with babies.
60. My love of language gets in the way of my storytelling.
61. I’m a natural leader.
62. I tend to speak my mind too much.
63. I hate to be misunderstood or not understood.
64. I’m too smart for my own good.
65. I no longer believe that our government is good.
66. I touch the people around me a lot.
67. I have many ideas.
68. I haven’t written fiction in over a year.
69. I recently lost sixty pounds.
70. I’m an incorrigible flirt.
71. I have crossed the desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas well over 100 times.
72. I have never won a contest outside of sports.
73. 72 is not true; I won a bag of army men on the Bozo the Clown Show when I was five or six years old.
74. I cry in movies.
75. I cry when telling emotional or inspirational stories.
76. It’s been said of me that “I don’t suffer fools…” I don’t think that’s true. Ithink I suffer them all the time.
77. I’ve been told that I talk too much.
78. I was once told that I need to feel more, and think less – in 2005 I would gladly have thought more and felt less.
79. I need to see the dentist.
80. I have a natural aptitude for the physical.
81. I want to learn to play the guitar.
82. I have contemplated murder.
83. I too easily walk away from friendships.
84. I’m always surprised when smart people are impressed with me.
85. I have become less than I could have been.
86. I am still becoming.
87. The age difference between my children is the same as between my brother and I -- to the day.
88. I have been a very good person.
89. I have been not a very good person.
90. I hate flying bugs.
91. I would do any of the stunts on the TV show ‘fear factor,’ but I would not eat any of the gross stuff.
92. I don’t watch TV, but I work on a TV show.
93. I was painfully shy in my youth.
94. I am still too often shy.
95. I want to be liked.
96. I discovered yoga this year.
97. I have set goals for 2006.
98. I would make amends for my mistakes.
99. For the most part, I like myself.
100. I worry about the picture that this list paints of me, even if it’s true.