Tell me more about _______?

[Angrboda]

1. I'm the furthest from a food snob you can be. I love fine foods, but I also love fast food, hospital food, ramen noodles, catfish fillets, and many foods that others might refer to as 'ghetto'.

2. I get too hot real easily, and keep my apartment below 70° F in order to feel comfortable. If it gets over 80° F, I became sluggish and my thinking slows, and I become miserable.

3. When I was growing up, I lived a few blocks from Lake Superior (which I'm told is 600 feet deep just a mile off from the Duluth harbor). I believed the lake was a spiritual entity when I was younger, still do, to an extent. I would go to the shore late at night to talk to 'her' and swim, just stripping down to my underwear and hopping in (usually in the wee hours of the morning). Afterward I'd build a fire and warm up. I've swam there as late as late November and as early as March. The lake itself maintains a year-round temperature of 40-45° F, so it was the air temperature which was the worry more than the water temperature.

4. I love winter sports. I did a lot of snowmobiling and alpine skiing when I was growing up. Before high school, I was often either tooling around town on a snowmobile during the winter, or off exploring the wilderness with friends on snowmobiles. In high school, they had to drag me away from the slopes, as I basically lived at the ski chalet.

5. I was a competitive diver in high school. Winters training with my coach were something of a hardship, as the pool I trained at was not well heated, and I get foot cramps really easily. Typically, during an hour session, I'd have to stop multiple times to massage the cramps out of my feet.

6. I like tequila. (Okay, maybe you already knew that. It's still worth saying. )

7. I was an audiophile when I was younger. I still care immensely about the sound and the music, but I'm no purist, and I believe I've shed all the typical affectations that afflict the stereotypical audiophile.

8. I love everything Asian. (I have twin sisters, one can take it or leave it, the other tries her best to forget that she's Asian. Me, I revel in all things Asian: Japan, China, Korea, Southeast Asia, India, Tibet, Mongolia - I just love it all.)

9. I love tropical fish. In high school, I had 15 aquariums, including one salt water tank.

10. I'm a dog person. I especially like Borzois, Salukis, and Irish Wolfhounds, but unfortunately, due to an attack by a large dog in my youth, I'm somewhat fearful of getting close to large dogs. I could live with a cat, but it would be an uneasy truce, and one of us just might go missing some lonely night.