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Can you believe it? This is the blog’s 200th post!!! And judging from the title, I’m apparently in a Spanish frame of mind. Even if you can believe it (and I doubt you can), I’m having a hard time getting my head around the idea that I updated this junk blog at least 200 times, which equates to at least 100 days. I was excited enough about reaching 100 posts, because I never expected to go far with this whole blog business. If you remember, the first posts on this thing were just old comics I’d drawn or random word associations. After all, I originally thought this would just be a place for me to post my drawings on a public domain outside of Facebook. Little did I know I’d write so much about so many worthless things!

In any case, when posts 180-190 came by, I started wondering what I could do to really commemorate the occasion. What could I do that had to do with the number 200? I wasn’t going to make a 200-frame Herman strip, considering I’d already done that for 100 and I didn’t want to repeat myself. At one point, I thought about things we all used to do on Xanga and Facebook in the past, and I had an idea. A great one. And I’m going to call it…

In possibly the most narcissistic gesture I’ve ever pulled, I decided to sit down over several sessions and come up with 200 facts about myself. Some of them might be more well-known, but I’m hoping that a lot of these come as surprises to even people who have known me for a long time.

Also, many of these facts are dusted with links. In order to make this a bit more entertaining, I inserted links to relevant pictures, websites, videos, and songs that will hopefully enhance the fact-reading experience. Some are more random and/or interesting than others, but I encourage you to satisfy your curiosity and click around wherever you see underlined text.

One last thing before the facts, which I’ll also mention at the end just in case people miss it here. I’ve been posting on this blog at least once or twice a day for almost every day over the last 3-4 months, with a few days off while in Korea and New York. However, this 200th post will be a turning point. After this, my updating of the blog is going to be a bit more sporadic than before. By that, I just mean it may not be on a daily basis, but it will be still be constant. No worries. I know this isn’t going to traumatize too many people, but I just wanted to be honest. Especially until grad school applications are turned in.

With all that in mind, here we go. (WordPress lists don’t seem to be able to go over 99, so please forgive how the list goes from 99 to 00 (100) and back to 00 (200).)

1. I was born in Columbus, Ohio. Not Cleveland.
2. I’ve never broken a bone in my body. Yet.
3. My favorite number is 3. Or 10. Or multiply them together to get 30. I like that number, too.
4. In elementary school, I used to trade things in my sack lunches for hash browns.
5. For some reason, I wanted to play oboe. I was recommended the clarinet, instead. I miss playing the contrabass clarinet in high school. Its rumble was soothing yet powerful.
6. I used to own a MiniDisc player… remember MiniDiscs?
7. In first grade, my parents bought me a magic trick kit. I showed off tricks to friends and teachers at school.
8. I can repeatedly pop the joints in my fingers.
9. My favorite guitar chord is Em. It’s dark and dense.
10. I love podcasts. The first one I ever downloaded was a May 2006 episode of NPR’s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! with guest Tom Hanks.
11. I took a picture with Tom Hanks in Manhattan. The person who took the picture totally botched it so that nothing’s visible.
12. I’m on Tom Hanks roll. Since middle school, I’ve said that my favorite film is Forrest Gump. It may not be anymore, but I’m still okay with that answer.
13. The first movie I ever fell asleep watching in a theater was Godzilla 2000.
14. I’ve only ever completely solved one New York Times crossword in my life.
15. I skipped the seventh grade.
16. I remember playing with a small kitchen set that I got at the dollar store.
17. During summers, I studied either math or the SAT for an hour a day.
18. I was drum major (conductor) of my high school marching band during junior and senior year.
19. I have a habit of shaking my right leg when doing things. It keeps the blood running.
20. I once wore a torn contact in my eye for four hours. It really hurt.
21. The first real medal I won was for getting 1st place in a city-wide geometry competition in 4th grade.
22. The most recent game console I have is a Super Nintendo.
23. My junior year prom date is now married! Spending an evening with me must have that effect.
24. Cerulean blue is the best blue. It was my favorite in the Crayola crayon box and preceded the existence of Cerulean City in Pokémon.
25. I bent my high school class ring when I slammed my hand against a table.
26. I really enjoy wearing business suits.
27. The first sentence I said in Korean was “It’s dark.” I apparently stared outside at night and said that repeatedly.
28. There was a three-day phase in my life when I ate white rice mixed with ketchup.
29. I co-MC’ed our second-grade musical program with a girl named Lauren.
30. I co-wrote our fifth-grade musical program with several other students. It was a crowning achievement of mine to hear the entire class sing “The Ballad of Magellan” from the Animaniacs.
31. I didn’t get my real driver’s license until I was 17 (the driving age in Kansas is 16).
32. I taught myself to pen-flip while I was bored at a family friend’s house.
33. The first time I went paintballing, my goggles and glasses fogged up, rendering me blind.
34. My grandmother almost cried when she saw me as a baby, thinking I was too small. (I was an average-size newborn.)
35. Whose Line is it Anyway? used to be an entirely unhealthy obsession of mine.
36. I once got and wore a Pillsbury watch that would say “It’s _____ AM/PM, hmm-hmm!” in the Doughboy voice.
37. In kindergarten, I dressed as an Oriental phantom for Halloween. Nobody in my class knew what I was, so I got class time to explain it.
38. The first unique thing I ate in New York was a Magnolia cupcake. I was blown away.
39. I was an NFL All-American, meaning I was in the top 25 debaters/speakers in the nation. I wonder where those skills went.
40. Our family got our first computer in 1997. It was a Gateway desktop with a 200 MHz Pentium processor, 16 MB of RAM, and a 2 GB hard drive. Beastly.
41. In 2008, my mom gave away my Legos to my cousins. I was heartbroken and nearly infuriated. I treasured my Legos like children and felt betrayed that my mom gave them away without consulting me.
42. Sometime between ages 16 and 18, my appetite for Korean foods suddenly exploded. I used to be pretty picky, but something drastically changed, leaving me enjoying nearly everything.
43. In high school forensics, I wrote and gave speeches on why our country should switch to metric and abolish the penny.
44. I regret not having learned to play piano. The harder my mom tried to convince me as a kid, the more I refused.
45. At one point, I used to pronounce the word “epitome” as “epi-tome” and thought that it was a different word than “epitome.”
46. I can still sing my elementary school song.
47. On almost every break during college, I re-watched The Shawshank Redemption.
48. I think it’d be fun to be a chef. I don’t have the money or time to be one, but it seems fun and inspired.
49. I seem to be the only person who remembers the show The Puzzle Place on PBS. Does ANYONE remember it? I am not imagining its existence.
50. Biology is a pill to me.
51. I love Twix. It’s my favorite candy bar.
52. I was afraid to watch E.T. as a kid because of the scene where E.T. is white, gaunt, and abandoned in that creek.
53. At Strand Bookstore, I bought an old encyclopedia from the 1960’s for 99 cents. It had an incredibly biased entry about the USSR and the Cold War. I don’t know what happened to it.
54. Right before going on stage for CAS Commencement, I had to cut the line for the bathroom. It stems from a high-school habit of having to go to the bathroom before a speech.
55. I’ve been annoyed by The Wizard of Oz. The scarecrow says the Pythagorean Theorem incorrectly, saying it involves an isosceles triangle instead of a right triangle. Shame.
56. For years, I thought the Mercury Cougar was the coolest car ever.
57. Until maybe first or second grade, I used to think root beer had alcohol in it. I was shocked that my dad served it at his deli.
58. I won my iPod Touch from an NYU contest where I’m pretty sure I was the only entrant.
59. My sophomore year English (we called it Communication Arts) teacher had blue-tinted teeth from some medication she took. We still made fun of it behind her back. We were awful.
60. Perhaps the first time my heart skipped a beat while listening to music was when I heard “Song from a Secret Garden” back in sixth grade.
61. Strawberry milk > Chocolate milk.
62. When I was four, I was chased by a dog. Because of that, I’ve irrationally never been completely at ease with dogs.
63. I got my first cell phone in freshman year of high school. It was from Sprint and had a panda on the main (monochrome) screen.
64. During my trip to London, I fell down the stairs of a double-decker bus. Like, head-first, from the top, diving down 135 degrees. I luckily slowed my fall by momentarily grabbing onto a pole before slipping and completing my fall.
65. On my 19th birthday, I walked across Manhattan the long way. From the South Ferry all the way into the Bronx.
66. I never met my father’s mother or father’s father. The grandmother died when my dad was young and the grandfather died when I was about 8.
67. The first internet service I had was AOL. It was the one-month free trial that was on those CDs that were everywhere in those days.
68. My favorite childhood author was Louis Sachar. He wrote the Wayside School series and was later famous for the book Holes.
69. I once met Stephen Colbert and shook his hand. I have photographic proof.
70. I absolutely loathed the Dr. Scholl’s commercials from years ago with all those rhymes. “I’m gellin’ like a felon. Want some melon?” Go die.
71. The first DVD I ever purchased (or had purchased for me) was Shanghai Noon.
72. I was in the local newspaper in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 12th grades.
73. When Windows XP came out, my computer sadly had Windows ME. I tried to color the taskbar so that it sort of looked like the blue bar in XP.
74. I’ve read almost all of The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. I loved both, though The Far Side clearly had a bigger influence on me.
75. I’ve never been to Disneyland or Disneyworld.
76. I saw two cows doing it.
77. Try crushing a bag of potato chips and then pouring the contents out into a bowl and eating them with a spoon. I did that when I was about 7.
78. In elementary school, I had a clip-on Batman necktie.
79. Articuno > Zapdos > Moltres, because Blue > Electricity > Turkey on fire.
80. I first created an account on YouTube in March of 2006.
81. I used to have what I thought was a fairly impressive falsetto that I used for a special song. I’ve lost a lot of my range during college.
82. I don’t think I’ve ever really had a girlfriend.
83. Welch’s used to have orange pineapple juice. I loved that stuff.
84. I never bothered to understand how Minesweeper worked until maybe a couple years ago. I randomly clicked and didn’t get what the numbers were telling me.
85. During my freshman and sophomore years at NYU, my residence hall had Seafood Night on Fridays. Most people disliked it, but I got giddy on those days.
86. I grew up without cable, leaving me a child of PBS.
87. I have at least 16 cousins. Four of them live in the US–three in California, one in Washington state.
88. One reason I’m an only child is that my mother was one of eight siblings. She didn’t want her child to go through that.
89. Thanks to Street Fighter, I used to wish that my name was Ryu.
90. I believe I played a large role in bringing the “Numa Numa” song to my high school.
91. I was scared by The Magic School Bus when Arnold takes his helmet off on Pluto and freezes his entire head.
92. My acting career ended in freshman year of high school when I couldn’t pull off a Scottish accent for a duo performance in forensics. My partner refused to acknowledge that we did that together until after we graduated.
93. I do a fairly good Ernie impression. “I can’t hear you, Bert. I have a banana in my ear!”
94. When I interned for my congressman, I got a phone call from a lady at a nursing home who wanted the congressman to get extra virgin olive oil at their cafeteria.
95. In sixth grade, I got knocked out of the school spelling bee because of the word ‘transient.’ I spelled it ‘transiant.’
96. One of my earliest memories I have involves a cube-like booger that came out of my nose that I showed my mom.
97. I almost exclusively fall asleep while on my stomach with one arm under the pillow.
98. I got my first pair of glasses in fourth grade.
99. I have watched The Room at a midnight screening with a bunch of rowdy audience members. I suggest you do the same.
100. I used to make laptop computers out of construction paper and markers.
101. As much as I don’t like Garfield these days, one of my comic strips that I drew in elementary or middle school (I don’t remember) totally ripped off a Garfield strip. Garfield says “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” and then he’s pelted by a dictionary. I wish I still had it.
102. Baseball does not interest me. It’s slow. And sporadic. And slow.
103. I came up with: “Yo mama so fat, when she jumped up into the air… she died.” I laughed uncontrollably when I thought of it and I still have a hard time saying it without cracking up. I think it’s the imagery of it that gets me.
104. I am one of the few people who have played the Virtual Boy. It did hurt my eyes.
105. When McDonald’s had Tamagotchi toys in their Happy Meals, one of the toys looked like it shot a laser. I kept getting Happy Meals until I got that toy and realized it was just a red light bulb.
106. I was also fooled by ads for Muppets toys at McDonald’s. I thought the toys talked since they did in the commercial. Little did I know they didn’t. Fooled me twice… shame on me.
107. When I was a baby, the pediatrist my parents saw said I’d be at least six feet tall. Reality left me at least two inches short, but I’m good with my height.
108. I fell asleep at the wheel once. Fortunately, it was stopped at a stoplight and it was for about 30 seconds. But it was scary to suddenly wake up and realize what I had been doing.
109. I suck at first-person shooters, especially when they aren’t on the computer. I went head-to-head with a friend in Halo. He killed me 20 times while I only got him once. And that was because his younger brother took the controller from me.
110. I don’t find Alex Trebek to be very likeable.
111. For the longest time, I loved coffee ice cream but hated actual coffee. Now, I like iced coffee.
112. I’ve always wanted to try eating raw cookie dough. I’m not sure why I haven’t, considering raw cookie dough isn’t a rare commodity.
113. One song I can easily listen to repeatedly at almost any time is “The Spirit Carries On” by Dream Theater.
114. Favorite comics: Eddie Izzard, Mitch Hedberg, David Cross, Lewis Black.
115. I’ve gotten into the Saturday Night Live broadcasts four times. The hosts were Dane Cook, Lebron James, Megan Fox, Gabourey Sidibe.
116. The one time I didn’t get into SNL, I stayed outside for 11 hours in freezing weather. It was the first time I shivered uncontrollably, and I’ve never been so cold in my life. Apparently, NBC staff took all the standby seats to see the musical guest, which was Arcade Fire.
117. I first permed my hair last December. I’ve had it permed twice more since then, and the most recent one was in Korea.
118. I was in the Wall Street Journal, though not in the most flattering light. Also, a resident of mine took the picture that the WSN used.
119. Another resident of mine last year painted my nails dark pink. I kept it on for the whole weekend.
120. I started letting my hair grow while I was studying abroad in Madrid in 2008. I was scared that I couldn’t accurately describe what I wanted, and because I saw another guy get an unwanted mullet from his haircut.
121. Back to the Future, Part II is the best installment of the series.
122. I am not sure why I watched “2 Girls, 1 Cup,” but I did. I was also tricked into watched “Kids in a Sandbox.”
123. The first time I saw a drawing of Pangea in my children’s encyclopedia, I was totally blown away. Contintental drift was incredible.
124. I blasted through John Grisham books when I was in middle school. It all started with The Firm back in sixth grade. I read that whole thing during a car trip.
125. I color-coordinated my folders in college. Each class had a corresponding folder and notebook. Call me nerdy, but it helped.
126. When I was tutoring at the Learning Center at NYU, I gave a student completely wrong information on how to solve a Calc 3 problem… right before he went to his midterm.
127. I haven’t watched The Office since the end of Season 4. Season 4 horrified me and made me want the show to end, so it ended in my personal world.
128. I used to have a hard time deciding which was better: Bill Nye the Science Guy or Beakman’s World. Rewatching both recently, Bill Nye totally rules.
129. When I spent summers at my parents’ deli, I inhaled Encyclopedia Brown, Goosebumps, Animorphs, and Clue.
130. My favorite Monty Python sketches as a kid: Self-defense against fresh fruit, the dead parrot, and how not to be seen.
131. One of my finest debate rounds was at Ark City during freshman year of high school. My partner and I actually helped the other side find evidence and think of arguments against our case, all in front of the judge. (We won.)
132. I have watched Dumb and Dumber so many times that I could easily recite long stretches of that movie. I totally wore that VHS tape out.
133. Prior to high school graduation, I took my cap and stretched the elastic around a large metal tin so that the cap would fit my large head.
134. I thought the pictures of Nick in the Backstreet Boy’s album Millennium were gorgeous. It was the closest I’ve gotten to turning homosexual.
135. I used to put tape on the corners of paperback books to preserve the corners. I hated having books with crinkled corners.
136. I was rear-ended during senior year of high school. I was stopped at a pedestrian crossing in front of my high school when a fellow student crashed into me. He wasn’t looking forward. And he’d just totaled his previous car a few weeks before.
137. In the first year or two that I had the internet, I conversed with some 30-some-year-old guy named MADBillyD. Looking back, that was stupid. At least he was just secretly evangelizing.
138. I was not a fan of Avatar. The 3D looked cool for a few minutes, but the story was totally insipid.
139. The most that I think I’ve spent on a meal for myself was $50, including tax and tip. It was during Restaurant Week in New York.
140. I currently have a $4.80 fine at the library. I checked out two books from the library and then didn’t turn them in before I left for Korea. Whoops.
141. Frozen grapes are delicious. I only found out about them last year.
142. I absolutely adore Jackie Chan. Everyone should see Legend of Drunken Master. It’s a fantastic film with some of the best martial arts fight scenes ever.
143. In 1996, I saw the Olympic torch pass near where I lived. That was cool, and lots of people were outside for it.
144. One day, my scooter’s handle fell off in my hands.
145. I started “learning” Spanish in second grade. A teacher (Sra. Shaw) would come to our classroom with a cart twice a week and teach us basic phrases and words. We didn’t really learn that much, I think.
146. No Spaniards even tried speaking in English to me while I was in Spain. I think they all figured I only spoke Chinese or something, so they didn’t even bother trying to speak in English to me. They were surprised whenever I responded.
147. My Korean name literally means “large tree (with wide-spreading branches).” It’s supposed to signify strength.
148. In second grade, one girl inexplicably headbutted me in the stomach once. That’s all I remember about that.
149. I love Monopoly to the extent that I had it on Game Boy and even a dedicated Monopoly handheld game. And the theme of my floors while I was RA was Monopoly, too.
150. I rode my first roller coaster (the now-gone Orient Express at Worlds of Fun) when I was seven. I just passed the height limit. I felt sick afterwards.
151. Saw was a fair film, but I will never forgive its ending. The dude could have totally reached that phone instead of hacking his foot off. And once he cut his foot off, he still didn’t pick up the phone!
152. The only ringtone I ever spent money on was “The Tale of Brave Sir Robin” from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The first day I had it, it went off in my Spanish class and I didn’t even realize it was mine for about five seconds.
153. I am terrible at consuming hot liquids. If there was ever a competition in it, I would totally lose.
154. I used to own an old-school typewriter from the 60’s. Fully manual, ink ribbon and all. Pressing “Shift” was murder on the pinky, because it lifted the whole typing mechanism, which was really heavy for one finger to lift.
155. I touched a blazing-hot pan with the top side of my right thumb a few days ago. It’s almost all healed now.
156. INTJ.
157. I read over 100 books during fifth grade. For that, I earned a portable reading light and my name on the teacher’s hall of fame. I was always resentful of the student from the previous year that had somehow (SUPPOSEDLY) read 216 books.
158. Doubts about Santa Claus started in second grade, yet I continued to ask Santa for stuff up through sixth grade.
159. Perhaps one of the strangest movies I loved as a kid was Ghost. A kid had no business enjoying that film so much.
160. I really want to go to Waffle House. I’ve only gone once, but I really really want a good waffle right now.
161. Catch-22 is the first book I ever read where annotations were actually helpful. It’s still in my top three favorite books.
162. At our house, we drink barley tea. It’s made then put in the fridge. We drink it like water. People who’ve tried it say it smells like popcorn and tastes like weak coffee. I love it.
163. I hate the sound of smacking lips when people eat with their mouths open.
164. On the other hand, I absolutely love the sound of chalk smacking on the board as someone writes on it.
165. At home, I sleep on a queen size bed that lies on the floor of my bedroom. No bedframe. It is heavenly.
166. I don’t replace my monthly contacts on a monthly basis. It happens more like once every two months.
167. I have been an avid viewer of an internet series by the Angry Video Game Nerd. He attacks awful games from the past. He’s been big for about four years now, but I caught him when he was just budding. I take some pride in that.
168. I would absolutely love to be the host of The Price is Right.
169. I used to get repeated ear infections when I was in elementary school. I don’t remember why, but I know it was made worse by my constant smashing of my ear with my hands to try to alleviate the pain. If I’d just gotten a couple more infections, they would have had to have put tubes in my ears.
170. Sadly, I purchased a pretty nice guitar during the summer of 2007 and haven’t played it in the last year. Once grad school stuff is done, I hope to pull it back out and get some new strings.
171. I went to National History Day 2002 in Washington DC. It was a lot of fun, though I still remember all the concrete slabs and security sprinkled all around the city. After all, it was less than a year after 9/11.
172. During last winter break, I played Donkey Kong Country and finished it in an hour and a half. Definitely not a world record or anything, but I was still oddly satisfied with myself.
173. My parents and I went to South Korea in the winter of 1999 and came back on New Year’s Eve, just in case Y2K would make our plane implode or something. I didn’t go back to Korea again until this summer.
174. In high school, I wore a jade-like ring on my left pinky because of a girl that I liked. I broke it one day by slapping it against the class ring on my right hand. (I bent my class ring later.)
175. The clock in my bedroom is about five minutes late. I am too lazy and accustomed to it to fix it.
176. I’ve only been really late to class once. My freshman year at NYU, I almost totally missed the last class of my UN seminar, where we all had to turn in our final paper which was worth 50% of our final grade. That was not good. Fortunately, the teacher was fairly understanding. I think.
177. I am a lifelong fan of Mario, but even as a kid, I was appalled by Super Mario Bros.: The Movie.
178. Until late last year, I thought that Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” was Miley’s Cyrus’s “Party in the USA.” I have no credible explanation why. I thought the line where it goes “caught in a bad romance” was saying “party in the USA.”
179. I was mildly crushed by Amazon. I bought the Kindle 2 in late May, only to have the new Kindle 3 come out a couple months later and be half the price of what I shelled out. And thinner. And faster. And contrast-ier.
180. Favorite ice cream flavors: strawberry, cookies ‘n’ cream, mint chocolate chip, and probably other ones that would make me go “Oh yeah, that too!” if you mentioned them to me.
181. I once met a cancer-sniffing dog named Nana. Though I’m really not sure that’s true, considering the slightly odd and unkempt nature of the dog’s owner.
182. I’ve been stung where the sun don’t shine. It happened back in elementary school. And it itched.
183. My blankie was a large towel with Slimer (from Ghostbusters) on the front. Because it was green, I called it “Ninja Turtle.” I hated it how it smelled when it was washed.
184. I took great pleasure in opening up computer mice and cleaning out the gunk inside. Of course, this was with a mouse operated by a ball, not optical magic.
185. Anyone remember that computer game, The Incredible Machine? Man, that series of games was awesome.
186. Also, I totally adored SimCity 2000, even though I wasn’t good at raising property values on it. Personally, I had more fun unleashing disasters–especially the UFO.
187. From ages 13 to 18 or so, the amount of sleep I got each night decreased by about 30 minutes per year. It eventually came back up and evened out.
188. I have watched Arthur on PBS since the very first episode aired in 1996 (“Arthur’s Eyes” and “Francine’s Bad Hair Day”). The first few seasons were the best. I still watch the show when I can.
189. In middle school, I got the nickname “The Genius Boy.” And “The Minister.” In ninth grade, it transformed into “The Minister of Pain.”
190. Until fourth grade, my family moved on an almost annual basis around the same general area. Then we stayed put in the same house for 9 years, and we’ve been at our current house for the last 3.
191. I didn’t take naps until sophomore year of college, where I suddenly and belatedly learned how awesome they really are. That year, I napped in a really strange position, on my knees with my upper body lying on the bed.
192. Chex Mix and Cheez-Its are yummy. Occasionally, Gardetto’s are good too, though they’re overseasoned.
193. Speaking of food (and since I’m writing this fact at 12:20 AM), I crave chicken and rice from 53rd and 6th. Ohhhhh.
194. There are some people I watch/listen to on YouTube just for their voices. One in particular is ElectricalBeast. Greatest accent ever.
195. I got my first flash drive back in senior year of high school. It was 128 MB. My current flash drive is 16 GB. How times change.
196. I was a late fan of Arrested Development. Sadly, I only watched one episode of it when it was on TV, and that was one of the final episodes before the show got canceled.
197. Once, I swung at a golf ball with a real golf club in my backyard. The ball hit the side of a neighbor’s house, just a couple feet away from a large second-floor window. I stopped shortly thereafter.
198. I designed the cover of the elementary school yearbook in fifth grade. It has the Wildcat (the mascot) climbing a huge tree and saying, “Climb our Learning Tree!” I ripped that name off a local kids’ educational toy store.
199. At the end of very first lecture of my college career, I went up to the professor, introduced myself, and shook his hand. He just nonchalantly accepted it. It didn’t take me long to really how tool-like I must have seemed.
200. I had no idea it would be so hard to come up with 200 things about myself.

That took a ton of time to compile and link-ify. I hope some of the facts intrigued you, and I admire you for getting this far (even if you skipped most of the post and just scrolled down to the bottom).

Like I said near the beginning of the post (in case you missed it there), this post will be my last consistent update to this blog. From now on, posts will be more sporadic and will show up whenever I feel like I have the inspiration and/or time to work on it. At least until I am finished applying to graduate programs.

Regardless, I want to extend my sincerest of thanks to anyone and everyone who’s ever visited this blog–even those of you who might have come here for the first time today. Blogging is great, but it’s really more invigorating when you know that people are actually taking some time to see what you spent your own time doing. As hard as it might be to believe, this blogging business takes quite a bit of time. So your eyes and ears really mean a lot. I hope they’ll find their way back here in the future, too–assuming you don’t all delete me from your Facebook friends.

Thanks x 200!