First, I got the invitation. Someone had written 25 notes about themselves on Facebook and tagged me. I was supposed to write another one and tag more people. I decided to pass on it.

Then, I read my brother’s blog. He had done it too.

Finally, I saw an awesome Times Magazine article by Claire Suddath, 25 Things I Didn’t Want to Know About You. Apparently in one week’s time, 5 million of these posts had been made – 125 random things – and at 10 minutes a set, 800,000 hours of productivity had been lost. Granted, a lot of these notes were written by children, but it still doesn’t quite meet Obama’s call for “working harder.”

I was about to do it on Facebook, but why not on the blogging world? (I’m sure someone else has been done it, but I consider it a new idea in my head at least).

I’m going to write 25 random facts about myself and write a comment on another blog. The victim must write 25 random facts on their own blog and “pass-it-on” to another blog lest he/she is struck by lightning/loses their true love/gets hit by a bus/stubs their toe/etc!

Here goes my list:

1. I have 3 bottles of contact solution.
2. I carry my cell phone in my left pocket, my keys in my right pocket, and my wallet in my back pocket.
3. I poured water out the window onto passing bystanders from my third-floor freshman dorm room. Then giggled as I ducked out of sight.
4. I have a starlight ladybug that projects constellations onto my ceiling.
5. I lose a bicycle helmet every 3 months, on average.
6. I now have a pink bicycle helmet. Pink men’s items generally go on sale earlier.
7. I once attempted to use a homeless man’s cup for basketball practice. He was a well-to-do homeless man, though, with a new leather jacket and Timberland boots. That, or I was conned.
8. I have never seen the Titanic before. People have differing responses to that statement.
9. One of these 25 facts is a lie.
10. I once had 20 pet goldfish. They all died.
11. I flushed at least one of my dead goldfish down the toilet.
12. Fish is one of my favorite meats.
13. I secretly fear that the Power Button on my computer monitor will break, rendering it useless.
14. The servers at the Hong Kong Restaurant know me by sight, greet me, and know what I am going to order.
15. I purposely change my order at the Hong Kong Restaurant to confuse the servers.
16. I have a box full of unused Christmas bows because I made the mistake of buying from Costco.
17. My favorite dining hall food is Cappuccino frozen yogurt.
18. I am very good at estimating the caloric contents of food.
19. I have a poster on my door that reads, “NO FARTING.”
20. I am considering getting an M.P.H. I just need a school to consider me.
21. I got some boxers autographed by Paris Hilton. I hope she has another scandal so I can auction them on eBay.
22. I once pretended to be a saber tooth tiger and jumped off a futon to attack someone.
23. I don’t have a favorite color.
24. I dream of jumping across the subway tracks from platform to platform in a kung-fu movie.
25. I just realized that Facebook Notes is a lot more efficient way of doing this than weblog comments.