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25 randomly uninteresting things about me

So here go 25 things about me in chronological order.

1. I was born at a very early age in what I was later going to recognize as Athens, Greece. One of the ugliest cities in the northern hemisphere.
2. My dad was born in Cairo, Egypt and my mom in Istanbul, Turkey. They both worked for airline companies. My first word was “Passport”.
3. I started talking when I was 10 months old (my wife being the genius that she is beats me by 4 months). I loved watching ads on the TV and I knew all the logos by heart. Even at that age, I was doomed.
4. I started playing the guitar in 1981 and never stopped since. Conveniently, I have a deaf cat.
5. I can solve the Rubik’s Cube. All sizes. My newest is a 7x7x7 cube. Pure excitement. Oh, and you know what’s even more exciting? It’s made in Greece!
6. I work as an advertising copywriter since 2001. I write mostly funny ads and it’s something I like to do. It also seems I’m quite successful at it.
7. I have written three theatrical plays so far. One for each of my readers.
8. I used to write for a Greek Mac magazine. A funny column of course.
9. My first mac was an LCIII in 1993 but that’s another meme.
10. Being a mac user in Greece in 1993 was like being a gay atheist catholic priest. I wore black clothes and pink underwear. No, not really. I was just part of a very tiny -yet secretly cool- minority. I’m so bad at analogies I’m like a… erm…
11. I studied political science at Panteion University in Athens and then went to England for an MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis.
12. That year at the University of Essex (‘97-‘98) was one of the best years of my life.
13. The MA combined Linguistics, Psychoanalysis, Politics and Philosophy. I studied Derrida, Lacan, Barthes, Wittgenstein and other names I like to drop occasionally to pretend I’m intellectual. Wittgenstein.
14. I served on the Greek Army for 23 months as an officer. It was such a monumental waste of time I applied for a time refund.
15. During my service I became interested in the New Testament (At the MA my dissertation was on the Old Testament.) I studied the life of Jesus with passion (no pun intended). I tried to find the truth behind the words and eventually I became an atheist.
16. I hate driving but I’m such a control freak that I hate it even more when somebody else drives.
17. About a year ago I had some really terrifying panic attacks so now I’m seeing a shrink and getting some mild anti depressants. This is surprising for me given the fact that I’ve always been annoyingly happy-go-lucky, extra positive and really calm. Anyhow. Seeing a shrink provides me with lots of twitter material.
18. Twitter: I never participated actively in an internet community, apart from a BBS back in the internet bronze age in 1995. When I joined Facebook I started writing witty statuses just to entertain my friends. Twitter came later when I was trying to find a way to archive my statuses. Even then it took me a while to move directly to Twitter and it was during that time that I found favrd.
19. I’m so much addicted to favrd that I try not to write tweets late at night because I tend to wake up to check their progress.
20. I’m not online all the time so I can’t really follow all the memes or answer my @replies. Not to mention that I am asleep too early for US tweeps. Sorry if I appear rude.
21. Normally if you follow me on Twitter I’ll follow you back. Every now and then I’ll unfollow some people. And then I’ll regret it.
22. I’m also addicted to RSS feeds. In fact I am the reason they are called feeds. They keep me alive.
23. I do not smoke but I occasionally enjoy inhaling Helium. I find it gives my voice a deep manly tone.
24. I am happily married with the girl that writes the missing pets column at Eleftherotypia (a popular Greek newspaper. She’s also a Creative Director at an ad agency. My wife, not the paper.) Therefore we have lots of cats and dogs and I’m not allowed to kill spiders.
25. I’m never serious. No, wait. Now I am.

That was it. I tried to make it funny, otherwise I can’t find a reason why anyone would like to read it. I really hope I didn’t bore you. It was very hard for me to squeeze out all my narcissism and find a way to talk about myself. I’m used to advertising other people’s products.