Five Things

Joy, my favorite whore tagged me for this, and like her, this is difficult because I'm one of those no secrets, compulsive disclosure kinda guys. I mean, I keep a blog.

The deal is I'm supposed to write five things you may not know about me. I could be a smartass and write who I am and where my restaurant is, but that won't work for some of you who have blown my cover. The real difficulty is finding five things that are suitable for for a PG rated blog like this one.

I collect neckties from the 1940's
Not long after the GM and I met we moved to Chapel Hill, NC. To raise cash, and to lighten my load I decided I would sell my collection, keeping only 10 favorites. When I told her my plan to drive to SF to sell my tie collection she thought "What kind of nut have I hooked up with? Sell ties? What are we gonna get, fifty bucks?" A thousand or so later, she thought differently. I am no longer the rabid collector I was, and still have only about 30 or 40 ties but I can't pass a rack in the Goodwill without thumbing through it. These days I only buy them if they're in perfect shape and really cheap, a rare combination. It's been nice working the floor as it gives me an excuse to wear them.

Besides culinary school I've had only 7 years of schooling
Some of you may know at the advanced age of 13 I decided to quit school to become a rock star. The years from 13 to about 24 provide the fodder for all the other things you don't know about me that aren't fit for publication. You might not know that I skipped first grade. On my second day of the first grade in Austin, TX I was told I was now in second grade and to report to another classroom. I had great plans to be done with school in 12 days. Alas.

I have lived all over this great country of ours
Born in Ohio, lived in Indiana, Illinois, Texas (numerous places around the Gulf like Port Arthur, Beaumont, Galveston as well as Austin and Burnett), Florida (Hollywood, Gainesville, Keystone Heights), Nashville, New Orleans, upstate New York (Oxford, Mt Vision, New Lebanon), New York City, North Carolina and California.

Janis Joplin was my babysitter
Or so my mom says. It's certainly plausible. We lived in Port Arthur when she did and the hippie scene in those days ('64-'66) was pretty small. If true, this may explain a lot.

I am a big time hypochondriac
I am perpetually thinking I am about to have a heart attack, or that I have some sort of tumor or disease. I am 99% certain my real illness is plain old anxiety, but it's that 1% that keeps me on the edge of freak-out, anticipating doom at every turn. It doesn't help that I don't have a doctor I trust here. It also doesn't help that I am too lazy to do anything that might help me like yoga, meditation or exercise. I guess I like being in a constant state of nervous tension.

There are plenty of other things to know about me. You'll just have to get to know me to find them out.

Whoops. After posting this I realized I left Colorado out of my list of places I've lived. That's because Colorado sucks.

Comments

[D]

Hey, go easy on Colorado. It's not so bad.

[lucette]

I'm terribly jealous of you and your Mom about Janis Joplin.
Hi from another Ohioan.

[matty k]

where did you live in port arthur? my aunt was apparently in bluebirds with janis joplin. Side note: two of my uncles (they married in) pulled a shotgun on jimmy johnson after senior prom and he got scared and jumped into an oil filled ditch on the side of proctor street extension.