7 Things

So my buddy Eve tagged me to do an entry listing 7 things that you might not know about me. So here we go.

1. I am possibly the world's most forgetful person. Important things are no problem to remember, but I forget people's names about 15 seconds after I meet them most of the time. I can't even count how many times I've thought about doing some chore around here only to forget about it completely while checking my email for a minute. This is why nothing EVER gets done around my house.

2. I used to travel internationally every other year or so. Most of my extended family lives in the UK, so that was our bi-annual summer vacation. Scotland is awesome.

3. When I was in high school, I played the drums in a pop-punk-emo band called The Johnsons. After a big show in our senior year, we were actually offered a record deal by Sony but turned it down so that we could all go to college. I have no idea if I'd be richer or poorer now if we'd taken the deal and I wonder about it a lot.

4. My middle name is Alexander.

5. My father used to be a bookie in Scotland. He took bets on horse races and various other sporting events in a little betting shop owned by his family. He still won't tell me if his dad ever had to break anyone's kneecaps for skipping out on a bet.

6. I was a local spelling bee champion in middle school. I used some prize money to buy a hamster.

7. My high school once accused me of threatening a teacher on the internet and suspended me after a long period of threats and forced compliance... with the help of the ACLU I (and one other kid) successfully sued Gwinnett County Public Schools for a full expunging of our records and a sizeable amount of money. Sadly, the ACLU kept almost all of it. JUSTICE!

I'm supposed to tell 7 others to do this, but I only know maybe 4 people on blogspot. So if you're READING this, do it or don't or whatever.