Blog Challenge: 30 Random Facts

Warning...today's blog topic has the potential to be pretty boring, because I have to write...30 Random Facts About Myself. I was going to find pictures or something to liven up the monotony that is my life, but it would probably be copyright infringement.

1. I like airports, but I hate airplanes.
2. My hands get really sore and bumpy when it's cold, so I can't play the piano very well.
3. I play the guitar extremely badly. (Not just in winter, all the time.) The first song I ever played was "Beowulf's Song," a parody of "Our Song" by Taylor Swift, which I had to learn the same day I bought my guitar. I haven't improved as much as you'd think I would have since then.
4. I love the TV show Bones.
5. I love having long conversations.
6. My guitar is named Esmerelda. My piano does not have a name, but he is very out-of-tune.
7. I'm obsessed with Harry Potter. Not obsessed in the robe-wearing, wand-waving way,  but obsessed in that I've read each book more than fifteen times and I connect most experiences in my life to parallels in the wizarding world.
8. I listen to music for about five hours a day, on average. (While doing other things, of course.)
9. I hate winter. If I had the ability to hibernate in winter and then go without sleep for eight months of the year, I would do it.
10. I like doing math (and by extension, physics and chem and other mathsy subjects). I listen to music while I do problems for homework or studying, and I actually kind of look forward to it.
11. 2010 was the best year of my life.
12. I'm really nervous about the whole college decision process, because I'm very afraid of making the "wrong" choice. I don't think I'm the sort of person who could be happy anywhere.
13. The coolest thing I've ever done was meet Carol Greider, co-discoverer of telomerase.
14. I spend far too much time on Youtube.
15. While procrastinating writing my final college essay, I put all the different college-related essays I've submitted together in one word document, and it was 20 single-spaced pages long. I took a kind of savage pleasure in this at the time, but now it just kind of horrifies me that I wasted that much of my life.
16. I'm an odd combination of loud and self-conscious, so if I'm really enthusiastic about something, I'll show it...but then I'll worry about the impression I was giving for a long time afterward.
17. I hate pipettes a lot. They're my nemeses.
18. I have a horrible sense of direction, and have actually gotten lost while directing people from my school to my home on two separate occasions. I think it might be an actual learning deficiency, because no matter how much attention I pay to my surroundings, it's very difficult for me to find my way somewhere.
19. Clearly, I'm not a Hufflepuff.
20. I write a blog, even though about three people read it, including myself. I put it on Facebook for about an hour once, but then I took it off...I guess that's part of the whole "obnoxious yet self-conscious" thing.
21. When I'm by myself, I'm extremely introspective and self-involved, but when I'm with other people or even reading a book or watching a movie, I'm completely involved in their story. Basically, my world-view changes every few hours.
22. Even though I change my opinions a lot, I'm very enthusiastic about my beliefs-of-the-moment.
23. I love being in a lab, and I love research. I can't explain why.
24. I'm incurably clumsy, particularly when I drink coffee or when I concentrate on not being clumsy.
25. My favorite word is "esoteric," which refers to knowledge that's only familiar to a few people. I think the word conveys a lot of nice things, like enthusiasm and devotion and intelligence, and also a bit of absurdity.
26. I secretly know all the lyrics to most Taylor Swift songs, even though I make fun of her a lot.
27. I admire simple writing that doesn't unnecessarily use adjectives to impress people, so I try to write in that style. But when I write under pressure, all the verbosity just kind of spews out. For example, these were the last words I wrote on my English midterm: "...except perhaps the haunting reflection that the temptations and intentions that we find so fascinating will inevitably be subordinated to the inertia of causality." What does that even mean?!?!
28. I analyze my dreams a lot.
29. I have a theory that people glow according to how well you know them, and that's how you can differentiate people you like from strangers. I wish this were also true for navigation landmarks.
30. I published this without realizing I had only done 29 facts. Oh well.