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I missed the 100 Things
craze of 2002. I don't think I would have even been able to come up with
100 things about myself, but I thought it might be interesting to throw a few
factoids out there.

1. I
do own a cheap blue guitar.

2. My father wanted to name me after him, which would have made me a Junior.
My mother wanted to name me Wyatt. They hated each other's choice so
they settled on naming me after actor Brian
Keith. They never told me exactly why they did this or even
indicated that they were fond of him. (I think I would have preferred
Wyatt, but at some point I would have figured out I could write my name as
"Y@" and that would have certified me as a dork.)

3. When I was 13, I saw the The
Secret of NIMH and wanted to change my name to Nicodemus. My
parents didn't really go for this one either.

4. I don't collect anything, however I do buy a lot of funky looking spiral
notebooks. Far more than I will ever have a need for.

5. I have a 3/4" scar on the back of my left hand approximately one
inch below my knuckles. I got it in high school from a stray wire from
a spiral notebook. This has no correlation to my collection of spiral
notebooks.

6. No
one notices the scar on my left hand but me, or at least no one has ever
asked me about it.

7. People often comment that I have soft hands. I always joke that
it's because I avoid hard work at all costs.

8. I have a Bachelor's degree in Music Theory and Composition, however never
studied with a composer during college. I didn't realize what a
limitation this was until I met students from other colleges who did study
with composers.

9. When people ask me why I stopped composing, I tell them it's because I
lost the passion to write. They never seem understand this so I try to
explain, but I don't think there is anything I can say to sufficiently make
anyone understand why or how it felt.

10. Writing music was absolutely exhilarating for me, yet it was also very
frustrating. My greatest problem was I could never get the music that
I heard in my head onto the page. When I wrote it down, the music was
different. Not necessarily bad, but not as grand or complex as it was
in the orchestra in my mind. I'm not certain if any amount of
training could have helped me overcome this problem.

11. I hate labels and price tags. Even more, I hate the residue
left behind when you remove a label or price tag from something. I use Goo
Gone to remove it. This stuff is amazing. You barely
need any at all. I've had the same bottle for about 8 years and I
still have 1/4 left.

12. I read more magazines than I do books. I feel embarrassed to admit
that.

13. I
listened to Swamp Ophelia by the Indigo Girls on the way to my mother's
house and back on the day I came out to her.

14. I
promise I'm not a lesbian, but most of my friends are.

15. When
I make mistakes, I find it hard to forgive myself.

16. I tend to talk to myself a lot. Not so much holding a conversation
with myself, but kind of rehearsing a conversation I am going to have or
want to have.
17. I prefer to have the roll of toilet paper going over the top of the roll.
I have been known to take out the roll and put it back the way I like it in
other people's bathrooms.

18. I have an odd habit of buying things I don't need. Not frivolous
spending, but buying things that will need replacing but that I already
have. The main culprits are toothbrushes and deodorant. On the
other hand, there are certain things that I inexplicably always forget to
buy when I run out of them such as toilet paper.

19. I love iced tea as much as most people love coffee. I've been known
to dine in restaurants not because I liked their food but rather because
they serve kick ass iced tea. (Yes, there is such a thing as kick ass
iced tea.)

20. I
hate coffee.

Okay...so maybe I could have come up with 100. Twenty wasn't that hard.