Like a lot of my friends, I have seen this all over Facebook and I’m thinking it’d be fun as a Blog post.

Here are 25 lame facts about me.

1. I am obsessive compulsive about cleaning myself.  But only in the morning.  I can get ridiculously sweaty and dirty all day and not care, but the first thing I do in the morning, if I’m not avoiding bears while camping, is shower.

2. I hate shopping (much to the surprise of most people).  It’s just that when I need to do it, I like to get really into it and get it all done at once so I don’t have to do it again for a long time (there’s a that’s what she said somewhere in there).

3. I don’t care that I just had surgery on my knee.  I will continue riding my bike and skating as soon as I am able because they are the only things that truly clear my head.

4. When listing life goals, I typically include some sort of reference to wanting to be like Pete Townshend.

5. My name is not Marcus.  It is just Mark.  Plain, simple, boring, Mark.  That is why I want to have it changed to something amazing, like Luke, Wesley, or Fitzgerald.

6. I wish I was better at poetry.

7. I live with a bunch of people who are the exact opposite of me and, at times, I wonder if they despise me.

8. Rearranging my room is one of the more therapeutic things I can do.

9. The subway makes me more nervous than Nixon taking a polygraph test.

10. I do not think Obama will get the job done.  This is a much bigger problem than him and I earnestly believe that optimistic realism is the best way to go about judging most of the things he will do.  I’m scared that other people will not realize that and call him a failure for only being able to put things in motion, not totally fix them, over the next four years.

11. Marty McFly’s life makes me jealous.

12. I love living in Brooklyn.  But I’m positive that I would love living in many cities.

13. If I get offered a job in Paris, there will be no hesitation in accepting.

14. I only began eating salads two years ago.  For the longest time, the idea of leafy greens incited my gag reflex and I only trained myself to love an all-green diet in order to be more compatible with a significant other.

15. I have no memory prior to 5th grade.

16. I am in graduate school and I still don’t care about what I do for a living.  Right now, I can honestly say that I just want to live.

17. I’ve never owned a car.  I never want to.

18. My parents are the most ridiculously giving and wonderful people on Earth.  It tears me apart to know that I will never be able to fully repay them.

19. People say I drink too much.  Most of the time I’m drinking so that I can’t hear them.

20. I love Meat Loaf.  Not the food.  The singer.  And yes, I would do anything for love (but not that.)

21. I am not nearly as knowledgeable about music as I act like I am.  Mostly I’m really good at BS’ing.

22. I’m scared of confined spaces.  This makes riding the subway quite difficult.

23. I am one of the most optimistic people you’ll meet.  It just takes me some talking through things to get to that optimistic part.

24. I’m unhealthily obsessed with The O.C.  But only the first two seasons.  And mostly just the episodes with Anna.  And, like Ira Glass, I could have done without Ryan and Marissa.  It’s always been about Seth and Summer.

25. I am not angry about any portion of my life.  Anyone who means anything to me, you’ve been wonderful.