rodeo clowning. juggling. spotting trains. misusing the word 'jaded'. misspelling the word 'douche' in emails. coping with debilitating OCD. irrationally fearing people getting suddenly hit by cars in movies. heating up giant bowls of popcorn for devious purposes. watching 'real genius' to jot down ideas for using giant bowls of popcorn. playing soul crushingly bad golf. jibbing. buttering. hucking. climbing walls (both metaphorical ones as well as ones covered in little multi-colored pieces of plastic). parentheses-ing. ellipses-ing. eBuying and eSelling. making the least of a boston university degree. pokering and scrabbing away this week's grocery money. single-handedly inventing the word 'scrab' as the verb of 'scrabble'. acronyming. anagraming. alliterating. unassumingly stealing books from unsuspecting friends' shelves to build my own impressive collection. doing the same thing with dvd's. netflixing. defending the intellectual validity of that ralph macchio classic 'the karate kid'. falling victim to classic blunders. getting involved in land wars in asia. going in against a sicilian when death is on the line.