25 Random Things About Me

Inspired by Michele's "25 Random Things About Me," here are mine:

1. I have very loud shoelaces.
2. I've had entire conversations with people who think I'm my younger brother, Paul.
3. I find alliteration charming.
4. I am NOT a pet person.
   
5. In a surreal moment of terror, I was once absolutely positive that I was about to be murdered (by a person who turned out to be my friend's mom).
6. I sleep with a shaking alarm clock in my pillowcase (to wake me) and an audible alarm clock in the next room, set to go off 3 minutes after the Shake Awake (to make me actually get out of bed before it wakes up the whole house).
   
7. Your phone number is stored in my wristwatch's incredible memory.
   
8. My older brother (Brian) and I were born in the same calendar year.
   
9. I once foiled a mugging using only my phenomenally commanding voice.
10. When a stranger begins saying, "Has anyone ever told you...?" I can finish the sentence for him or her.
11. Every single shirt in my closet faces to the left, but I promise I'm not obsessive.
12. If there is such as thing as an addiction to chocolate, I'm fairly certain that I qualify.
    
13. Twenty years ago, a friend told me to memorize the number 965752591651711989, and I've never forgotten it. Next time you see me, ask me, and I can rattle it off in an instant. (I have since forgotten the name of the friend that made me do this.)
14. I once dumped a large can of Chocolate Quik powder on my mom. (It was an accident. Really.)
15. I consider it a public service that I do NOT dance outside of my home.
16. When I was fifteen, I ate several dozen chocolate-covered mini-donuts and got more violently-ill than I had ever been. It was a very long night. I haven't eaten a chocolate-covered donut since. I don't think I ever will.
17. Though I hold linguistic conventions in high regard, the J in my signature is always printed, rather than signed.
18. When eating out, I prefer going to the same restaurants and ordering the exact same thing every time.
    
19. I am now appalled by almost every one of the movies that I loved as a teenager.
20. I am ten years older than most of my law school classmates, though few of them know that.
21. I am particularly fond of the em-dash--it's my favorite punctuation mark.
    
22. I used to love winter. Now, I can hardly bear it.
23. I was in my mid-twenties when I first ate a fresh peach.
24. I sometimes break the subjective/objective pronoun rules, ironically, because I don't want to sound like I use poor grammar.
    
25. I regularly have apocalyptic dreams. I sincerely hope they don't ever actually happen.

MOJ