More ways you know you're me:

You get ticky when Blockbuster does not have the movie you want in stock, even though it is on the new release shelf. The fact that it happens to be a 3-hour-long film entirely in Inuktitut does not seem to register in your brain, and you are only slightly mollified when you discover that they do have it, but only on VHS since the DVD is either lost or damaged.

You know what Inuktitut is despite not being Canadian or an accredited anthropologist. More importantly, you recognize it when you see it in its written form.

You see nothing weird about assuaging your disappointment over not getting the movie (Atanarjuat) by renting an Iranian movie instead. You also think it perfectly reasonable that said movie is a G-rated comedy about a young woman trying to get people to vote.

Any DVD that you rent or own is more likely to have a warning about piracy from Interpol on it than it is to have one from the FBI. And you think that's cool.

You can't remember who plays third base for the Yankees or who's in the New York Knicks' roster, but you can name the family of viruses that SARS hails from, its incubation period, the number of cases in the United States so far, and the current state of CDC research on it. Not because you know anyone with it or because any cases have appeared in your area, although one did last week - just because it's the kind of thing you like to know.

You'd sooner eat cold noodles with sesame seeds and peanut sauce, and sweet and sour tofu, than you would the pizza you made from scratch for the rest of your family. Even though you're half Italian-American.

Finally!

Spoke with an artist @ Ubercon back in February about commissioning a drawing of one of my RPG characters. Couldn't pay at the time, so he sent me a reminder just in case I still felt like it when I did have money. I sent him a check for $45 (finished pencil drawing) a little over two weeks ago.

Check got cashed yesterday. I was beginning to wonder if it had been lost in the mail.

Can't wait to see what he thinks Alec looks like!

Thank you, SPC Schwartz,

but I plan on disregarding your list of rules anyway... most particularly this one.

"87. If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it."

Honestly, what kind of a GM would I be if I obeyed such a silly rule? *pats quintus gently on head* Although I do have to say I don't really seem inclined to giggle so much as entertain a nice broad whopper of a monkeysmile... same idea, though.