10 more things

4. I have never had a wet dream. Part of me thinks that they are made up, like theoretical sexual physics.

5. After a series of comical near-losses of virginity, it finally happened on November 12, 1995. The previous weekend I bought an abridged copy of Alex Comfort's The New Joy of Sex, for reference material. I wish I still had that book. Good material there. For reference.

6. Every single day, I think about wielding a sword, or a staff and magic, sometimes with my fists and feet, and defeating enemies, anime style. Probably up to 20 times a day, and always when I am walking alone outside. That's not to say that the entire walk is made up of this, just that at some point it will happen in my mind. There is a lot of slate blue and grey in what I am wearing. This has to do with defeating those that think that they have all the power. See number 3.

7. My body is covered in little self-inflicted scars. I scar easily. There's one on each arm from when I was about 15. One Saturday, I had a slight hangnail. After taking a shower, I scratched an itch on my arm and cut myself: the scratch was about two inches long. A week later, not thinking it would happen again, I did the same thing on the other arm. The other body scars are also from scratching my apparently sensitive skin, usually during sleep when I was a child. Must have been a reaction from the comforter or pyjamas. No, I don't think that I was living some kind of horrific existence in my dreams, I just overscratched my itches.

8. When I would shower, again around the age of 15, I used to imagine sometimes that there were nerdy girls hiding in the mirror that wanted my body. They would try to conceal themselves, but what I didn't know was that I knew they were there. So I would always tease them getting in and out of the shower, not letting them see "the goods". Why not imagine the hot, popular and nice ones? Because that would be too ridiculous to contemplate.

9. I used to think that the word "bum" was spelled B-U-M-B, like "bomb". I figured somehow that B-U-M was just too simple. I must not have been too certain, though, because I would do anything to avoid having to actually write the word.

10. In Grade 6 we had contests. One was the spelling bee, which I won about half the time. The other was "Oral Math", which I won 90% of the time. In Oral Math, the class is split into two lines on opposite sides of the class. One person from each side goes to the teacher in the middle of the class, and he asked us an arithmetic question such as 9+2. I was the undisputed champion in this game. The weaker kids would just sit down when they had to oppose me. One time, though, after racking up 24 consecutive wins, we were down to the final three. It was me, Andrew Preston, and Hung Duong. It was me versus Hung, and the question was 20 x 5. I blurted out: 60! And the dynasty ended. I don't know who won that one, but I will never forget that failure.

I won't be tagging anyone else for this, nor will I be doing any more of these types of memes in the near future. It's fun anyway, though.

*If you saw a spelling error in the sentence: "One was the spelling bee, which I won about half the time", it's because of an error in my software. Hopefully this has been corrected and you see the proper spelling. The correct spelling of "won" was in Movable Type, but it was spelled "one" in the blog.