In fact, I'm generally pretty vanilla, which is why I have nothing to contribute.
this is the same with me...I have been thinking for days and haven't come up with one interesting thing yet
Lies. Everyone is interesting.
Oh, I know I'm interesting
. I just don't feel I have many particularly interesting details. It's more a collective thing. A personality thing. But I'll give it a go anyway.
1. I lived for two and a half years in Ankara, Turkey from beginning of '96 to mid-'98. While living there I went to a Department of Defense school called George C. Marshall. It was situated on a former American military base, and most all my friends were American, though the school was filled with many other nationalities due to all the children of parents who worked at the various embassies. I barely know a word of Turkish. I tend to believe that the constant watching Disney/other VHS movies brought from Canada were what eventually led me to my love of film.
2. I have had quite extensive dental work done over my relatively short life. While living in Turkey I had surgery done on my right incisor. That tooth was, in fact, two teeth. It was the incisor, plus an extra tooth which had grown fused to the main tooth. I had the "teeth" split apart, with the extra one removed, and a root canal done to let the one tooth live on its own.
I then wore braces for about a year to correct the location of that tooth. After not wearing braces for a couple years, it was decided that I needed full and proper orthodontic work done. This involved the pulling of four teeth to make more room, as well as the realization that the previous root canal had been botched and had become infected. Another root canal was done, which effectively rendered the tooth dead. i then wore braces for nearly 5 years before getting them taken off.
Now, a number of years after getting the braces out, it came time to see what should be done about that dead, unsightly incisor. My dentist figured all it would need was a crown, but he sent me to a consultation today to find out for sure that the tooth could support veneering. As it turns out, not only is the tooth incapable of supporting a crown, but the tooth, close to the bone, has remained infected. The tooth needs to be removed as soon as possible, which will require a bovine bone graft. I have that surgery, which will require full sedation (my first time, cool!) scheduled for November 4th, and hopefully, six months down the line, the graft will have set effectively and I will be able to have a dental implant. If not, then I will be stuck with either forms of bridges or dentures. Yay!
3. I once wrote a 140-page screenplay for an adaptation of the Monkey Island series. I later trimmed it down to 100 pages. It was mostly an adaptation of the third game in the series, but with a lot taken from the first game as a means of introduction to the world of Monkey Island. Unfortunately, I lost the only copy of that script when I forgot to copy it from the hard drive of my old computer, and then my dad threw that computer away. If you search online you should be able to find a much earlier, and much worse attempt at adapting the first game practically scene-for-scene. It shouldn't be very long, and it's obviously incomplete, but it's there somewhere.
4. In high school I mostly coasted right through, until grade 12 when that "coasting" was causing me to nearly fail. As a result I did not get into university and had to take an extra year. It sucked.
5. I always wear a watch. I never take it off. Never. I feel naked without my watch, and in my opinion it is the most important thing I own.