Random overshare

I usually don’t do memes as a rule, but this one is from Molly.
“You have to tell your readers 10 things about you they may not know, but that are true.”
My 10 things after the jump.

1. I started to seriously listen to music around 4th or 5th grade. I only listened to oldies for the first year or so because when I first got a radio the oldies station was the only station that wasn’t playing commercials. I don’t know why it took me that long to move the dial. I think the first cassette that I bought was “Drop Dead Gorgeous” by Republica. The first CDs I bought were “Ray of Light” by Madonna, “The Dynasty Roc La Familia” by Jay-Z, “AntiChrist Superstar” by Marilyn Manson and “Two Worlds” by ATB. And yes, the clerk in the store looked at me like I was crazy.
2. Growing up, I spent most of my summers in Germany with family. We would frequently go to Holland for a week or two around my birthday. We stayed in Zandvoort, which is a resort town by the sea. In Zanfort I had my first exposure to a nude beach and discovered that only really old and/or really fat people frequent nude beaches.
3. I didn’t drink in the US until I was 21 years old.¹ I’ve also never smoked a cigarette or done any illegal drugs.
4. My first dog was Buster. I think he was a mut, and he was uncontrollable. He was so awful that my parents gave him away when I was at school one day. My next dog was Hubert, a mini-longhaired-dappled-Dachshund. I had Hubert until freshman year of college when I moved into the dorms and my mother moved into an apartment that didn’t allow dogs. My mother was also commuting from Miami to Atlanta a lot, so making arrangements for the dog was a hassle. I think she gave Hubert to some old lady in central Florida who is currently overfeeding him.
5. My childhood crush was Andre Tanneberger:
6. My Freshman and Sophomore years of college were SO much fun. I was stupid, trendy, over-employed, and loving it. The last two years were sort of marred by my job as a Resident Assistant. I had a very German matter-of-factly manner that came across to Americans as caustic/toolish. So, when the matter-of-factly guy writes up a roomful of drunk freshman, the legend of the “asshole RA” is born. I eventually bought and read “First Impressions” which helped me become more relatable, but by the time I read the book my reputation preceded me. I hear people at UMiami are still bitching about the mean RA who had the nerve to write them up for drinking in the hallway. Oh well…
7. I don’t have a favorite color, but Purple is my least favorite color.
8. Junior year of high school I really wanted to attend Dartmouth. Everything was about Dartmouth – Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Dartmouth. Then my parents and I went on a week-long 13-college tour. Yes, we drove all the way up to Hanover, New Hampshire from Miami. My interview at Dartmouth was disastrous. The lady basically said, “Wait, you didn’t get a 1500 on the SAT. WHY AM I TALKING TO YOU?” The next school we visited was Columbia² in New York. The second I saw Columbia I had forgotten all about Dartmouth. I applied to eight schools – UMiami, Florida International University, Georgetown, NYU, Macalester, Lafayette, Columbia, and Holy Cross. And of course, Columbia was the only school that I didn’t get into. It was between a full scholarship at Macalester, three quarters at Georgetown, and half at NYU…. And I somehow ended up at UMiami. Hm.
9. I come across as antisocial to a lot of my classmates because I don’t hang out with them outside of school. I know it’s strange, but I’m slightly scandalized every time I get invited to anything by classmates. For some reason hanging out with classmates just seems wildly inappropriate³ to me. And I know it’s perfectly normal and probably a good thing to be friends with your peers, but it’s hard to say “yes” when you’re having revulsions.⁴
10. I used to have really long hair:
    And yes, the caption for this is “dur-da-dur.”

¹ I had beer during my summers in Germany, but tended to stick to the non-alcoholic variety. I never had this “Woo let’s get shit-faced!” phase that most American teens go through…
² And we went to New York the day before the Northeast Blackout of 2003…but made it to Philly (UPenn) when the outage happened.
³ Seriously, like on the level of sleeping with a professor or wearing a sweater to meet The Queen.
⁴ And again, there’s NOTHING wrong/repulsive about my peers aside from the fact that I think it’s weird to hang out with your classmates. I know I’m alone in this…and it’s strange because I have no problem hanging out with co-workers or random neighbors. Hm.