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Uh, looks like I was tagged to write a post about 5 things people don't know about me... I don't even know what a "meme" is. Why do I have to write it? Because Sanaz tagged me. Oh, and I almost fell out of my chair when I read Mike's #3. I am guilty of getting rid of a gadget or two because I scratched it... I'm also borderline OCD, but not nearly as bad as Mike... Geez man, that's creepy... but I aspire to have OCD like yours...

1. I can't spell without a spell checker (well some people know about that). With a spell checker I use the wrong words (like homonyms). This is a direct result of #2.
2. My first language was French. My second language was Arabic. I learned English when I had to attend Nursery School, a side effect of that was I forgot my French and managed to average a B- for 7 years in school. I hate languages, except computer languages (cause they have rules allowing them to be compiled unlike spoken languages that have more exceptions than rules).
3. I was pre-med in college, applied to like 20 medical schools and never got in. I was devastated as that's what I spent a good chunk of my life at that point trying to do, but it was also the best thing in the world that ever happened to me. I would have been a terrible doctor. Instead I got lucky because Dick hired me pretty much on the spot at Macworld... but only after I asked my mother if it was Ok for me to go work at Microsoft. Anyway, my wife turned out to be an amazing Doctor and I'm much happier we're not both Doctors.
4. I have a filling in almost every tooth in my mouth. I spent an ungodly number of hours in the dentist office and an ungodly amount of money for that privilege. What you don't know is that for every cavity you have, you're chances of later having to replace that filling, or worse, get a crown or inlay is pretty high. Oh, and these things don't last forever. A result of my misery and the quickly disappearing money I was spending on this problem is that I started to floss on Jan 1st 3 years ago and have yet to get another cavity. My only problems have been issues related to my existing cavities or chipped teeth (as a result of the fillings in my mouth). I only wished I started flossing a decade ago.
5. When I was in grade school I wanted a job one summer. I applied for a job picking strawberries in a field. I wasn't paid by the hour, and in fact this wasn't a legitimate or legal job. I was paid by how many strawberries I picked. Well, I sucked at picking strawberries, and I made half of minimum wage cause I was so slow. One morning I woke up and it was drizzling. I called my "boss" and said it's raining and I'm not coming to work. He fired me. It's the only time I've ever been fired . I used my money to go see a movie and buy some popcorn.

Lets see. I'll tag Trina, Reeves, Mike, Aditya and Dan.