1. My life is on a southwest trajectory. Every time I’ve moved to a new town – with the exception of going home after my high school exchange year – I’ve been going generally southwest: Uppsala (Sweden) -> Örebro (Sweden) -> Kumla (Sweden) -> Boston -> Philly -> Scottsdale…
2. I’m a huge fan of Southwest Airlines. No change fees, no bag fees, no seat fees, no surly flight attendants, no delays.
3. I cry during insurance company commercials.
4. I am a big wine geek. I love it. I have been serious about it the last four years and have met so many incredible people and have had so many fantastic evenings because of it.
5. I love to travel and need to make an effort to do it more. Especially to go to places I haven’t been before.
6. I feel incredibly lucky and fortunate to be able to live a life so rich with great experiences and so luxuriously free of constraints.
7. Sometimes I worry about not caring enough about the important things in life, but then I pour myself another glass and say “this is some good juice!”
8. I know a little about a lot of things, but not a lot about most of them.
9. Fifteen months ago I found the music again. I listened to music all the time growing up, and I did it actively. I remember getting a new album and just sitting in my room reading the liner notes and listening to it over and over. In college I’d go to live shows in small clubs all the time. Over the years my interest slowly dwindled all the way to mostly getting new albums from artists I already knew. Now I’m back, baby, and I’ve found a ton of new stuff and I love it.
10. I love having moved around as much as I have and not having any idea where I’ll be living five years from now. It’s an incredibly liberating and enriching feeling, but it has its price. I often miss my friends who don’t live near me and wish I could see them more.
11. I think everyone should live abroad at least once in their life. Or, at least travel to many different places and get to know people from different countries. It totally changes your perspective on life and I can’t deal with narrow-minded people.
12. People who are not intellectually curious bore me. I’ve come to learn that almost any topic can be fascinating if you learn enough about it. Except the names of different rocks.
13. I’m drawn to people who know things that I don’t, do things that I don’t, say things that I don’t.
14. After having moved to sunny Arizona I don’t understand how I ever found the climate in any of my previous places even remotely acceptable. Moving here was like having a life-long mild depression lifted off my shoulders. I guess I just didn’t know better.
15. If I had to give up one of the following features of my TV-watching experience, I honestly don’t know which one I would choose: color, high-definition or the Digital Video Recorder. I’m seriously considering ‘color’ but realize I’m probably in the minority there.
16. I go to Vegas a couple of times a year and feel like it isn’t nearly enough.
17. I occasionally blog: http://janssonmattias.blog
18. I am an elite procrastinator. I’ve been meaning to change that, but haven’t gotten to it yet.
19. I wish I was better at artsy things. I often feel the urge to write, but seldom act on it.
20. If I were very wealthy I’d take all my good friends and family on a giant vacation on a tour of all my favorite places.
21. I spend a lot of time alone. Mostly by choice, and I do enjoy myself when I’m alone but it doesn’t create a lot of memories.
22. I once had an idea to start a business renting dogs in parks for single guys to use to pick up women. It would also be a dog-walking service for busy dog-owners. It’s a win-win – I would just sit in the middle collecting money from both sides.
23. I am a big admirer of Aaron Sorkin and will probably watch all 45 episodes of Sports Night every few years for the rest of my life.
24. Ditto for the Sandman-series by Neil Gaiman. I’ve become very interested in Graphic Novels the last several years, and consider these to be some of the best works I’ve encountered (regular books included.)
25. I feel like I spent more time than I should creating this list but less time than I needed.
2. I’m a huge fan of Southwest Airlines. No change fees, no bag fees, no seat fees, no surly flight attendants, no delays.
3. I cry during insurance company commercials.
4. I am a big wine geek. I love it. I have been serious about it the last four years and have met so many incredible people and have had so many fantastic evenings because of it.
5. I love to travel and need to make an effort to do it more. Especially to go to places I haven’t been before.
6. I feel incredibly lucky and fortunate to be able to live a life so rich with great experiences and so luxuriously free of constraints.
7. Sometimes I worry about not caring enough about the important things in life, but then I pour myself another glass and say “this is some good juice!”
8. I know a little about a lot of things, but not a lot about most of them.
9. Fifteen months ago I found the music again. I listened to music all the time growing up, and I did it actively. I remember getting a new album and just sitting in my room reading the liner notes and listening to it over and over. In college I’d go to live shows in small clubs all the time. Over the years my interest slowly dwindled all the way to mostly getting new albums from artists I already knew. Now I’m back, baby, and I’ve found a ton of new stuff and I love it.
10. I love having moved around as much as I have and not having any idea where I’ll be living five years from now. It’s an incredibly liberating and enriching feeling, but it has its price. I often miss my friends who don’t live near me and wish I could see them more.
11. I think everyone should live abroad at least once in their life. Or, at least travel to many different places and get to know people from different countries. It totally changes your perspective on life and I can’t deal with narrow-minded people.
12. People who are not intellectually curious bore me. I’ve come to learn that almost any topic can be fascinating if you learn enough about it. Except the names of different rocks.
13. I’m drawn to people who know things that I don’t, do things that I don’t, say things that I don’t.
14. After having moved to sunny Arizona I don’t understand how I ever found the climate in any of my previous places even remotely acceptable. Moving here was like having a life-long mild depression lifted off my shoulders. I guess I just didn’t know better.
15. If I had to give up one of the following features of my TV-watching experience, I honestly don’t know which one I would choose: color, high-definition or the Digital Video Recorder. I’m seriously considering ‘color’ but realize I’m probably in the minority there.
16. I go to Vegas a couple of times a year and feel like it isn’t nearly enough.
17. I occasionally blog: http://janssonmattias.blog
18. I am an elite procrastinator. I’ve been meaning to change that, but haven’t gotten to it yet.
19. I wish I was better at artsy things. I often feel the urge to write, but seldom act on it.
20. If I were very wealthy I’d take all my good friends and family on a giant vacation on a tour of all my favorite places.
21. I spend a lot of time alone. Mostly by choice, and I do enjoy myself when I’m alone but it doesn’t create a lot of memories.
22. I once had an idea to start a business renting dogs in parks for single guys to use to pick up women. It would also be a dog-walking service for busy dog-owners. It’s a win-win – I would just sit in the middle collecting money from both sides.
23. I am a big admirer of Aaron Sorkin and will probably watch all 45 episodes of Sports Night every few years for the rest of my life.
24. Ditto for the Sandman-series by Neil Gaiman. I’ve become very interested in Graphic Novels the last several years, and consider these to be some of the best works I’ve encountered (regular books included.)
25. I feel like I spent more time than I should creating this list but less time than I needed.
1 comment:
i don't think i could compile such a list. too cathartic.
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