{"id":252,"date":"2002-03-06T03:03:13","date_gmt":"2002-03-06T08:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2002-03-06T03:03:13","modified_gmt":"2002-03-06T08:03:13","slug":"heres-a-hundred-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a hundred things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a hundred things we don&#8217;t know about me.&nbsp;  <a href=\"opWin('http:\/\/www.halfmadspinster.com\/2002_02_24_archive.asp#10121656', 'PopupWin', 'toolbar=no,menubar=yes,status=no,left=20,top=10,width=860,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');\">She<\/a> inspired me.&nbsp;  Blame her.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>They won&#8217;t be all together?like compiled and then posted?because I come when I come, and I write when I can, and life is not a test.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div>1.&nbsp; I like Dire Straits, the Eighties and the late Seventies.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n2.&nbsp;  I am the youngest of five.&nbsp;  My oldest sister is <a href=\"opWin('http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/journal\/000906.htm', 'PopupWin', 'toolbar=no,menubar=yes,status=no,left=20,top=10,width=860,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');\">dead<\/a>.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n3.&nbsp;  I like sex more than I like relationship, and I feel I should change this.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n4.&nbsp;  I used to be a firefighter.&nbsp;  I delivered two babies, both girls.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n5.&nbsp;  I hate my job.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n6.&nbsp;  I usually hate myself; I was suicidal once.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n7.&nbsp;  My father took me and my siblings to see the Sound of Music when I was in second grade.&nbsp;  We told the school that I was going to a doctor&#8217;s appointment.&nbsp;  I still feel guilty, and I still am grateful.&nbsp;  He was a tremendously good man.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n8.&nbsp;  Most days I sleep til noon.&nbsp;  Some days, I go to bed at dawn.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n9.&nbsp;  I have a switch on my doorbell, and it is usually off.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n10.&nbsp;  I like vodka martini&#8217;s with three olives.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n11.&nbsp;  Garlic and olive oil are my friends.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n12.&nbsp;  I want love more than anything.&nbsp;  I try to hide from it in sex, but I want love more than anything.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n13.&nbsp;  I&#8217;m not sure, but in the third grade, my best friend and I were in love, I think.&nbsp;  I never went past the sex.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n14.&nbsp;  I am a writer.&nbsp;  This is a lie and I still don&#8217;t know what the truth is.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n15.&nbsp;  I have never smoked.&nbsp;  My last date was over two years ago.&nbsp;  He smoked exotic little cigarettes that smelled delicious.&nbsp;  We dislocated my shoulder having sex.&nbsp;  We had only the one date.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n16.&nbsp;  My uncle did something to me when I was not quite three.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n17.&nbsp;  I listen to classical music like I live life; they are both rich with meaning, and I give little attention to either.&nbsp;  But I keep them both close, just in case.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n18.&nbsp;  I drink coffee like a fiend, and eat chocolate (dark chocolate) like an addict.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n19.&nbsp;  My penis is shrinking.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n20.&nbsp;  I don&#8217;t drive or own a car.&nbsp;  I ride a bike (bicycle) 52 weeks a year.&nbsp;  I&#8217;m stuck somewhere between thirty years ago and now, and I can&#8217;t find me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n21.&nbsp;  I have no contact with my family.&nbsp;  I have no contact with my family.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n22.&nbsp;  I sleep on a futon that I fold up every morning, while the coffee brews.&nbsp;  The frame I salvaged off the street.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n23.&nbsp;  If someone rings my doorbell, and I have not disabled it with my switch, then I flee into the bathroom from where I can peer out, unseen, through tiny spaces in the blinds and see the would-be visitor reflected in the windows next door when he finally leaves.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n24.&nbsp;  There is a whole huge hell of a lot that I don&#8217;t know, so if a computer crash irretrievably kills a post that I&#8217;ve been slaving over for hours just moments before I post it, then half of the time I will thank the spirit who saved me from an unforseen embarrassment; the other half of the time I will smash a coffee mug into a thousand pieces.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n25.&nbsp;  I once threw a coffee mug through a TV screen.&nbsp;  Up til then, I had always wanted to do that.&nbsp;  That was almost ten years ago.&nbsp;  It was my last TV.\n<\/div>\n<p>\nStopping for now.&nbsp; Got further than I planned to go.&nbsp;  That&#8217;s nice on hikes and dates.&nbsp;  And on a &#8216;things list&#8217; like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a hundred things we don&#8217;t know about me.&nbsp; She inspired me.&nbsp; Blame her.&nbsp; They won&#8217;t be all together?like compiled and then posted?because I come when I come, and I write when I can, and life is not a test.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[487,488,489,4],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dire-straits","tag-olive-oil","tag-the-sound-of-music","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}