8 random things about me

Hurricane Hetta has tagged me to write eight random things about myself.  I will go as fast as I can...

1. I have been to many schools since I graduated from High School, including DeVry, Musician's Institute, multiple community colleges, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where I finally got a degree.
2. I went through a phase where I loved epic poems.  I read everything I could get my hands on, including the Iliad, Beowulf, Icelandic literature, the Kalevala, Nibelungenlied, The Song of Roland, and many, many more.  They gave me a great sense of what it means to be human, and to struggle.
3. Current favorite video game: Dance Dance Revolution, Mario Mix.  Favorite dance in that game: Always Smiling.
4. I am on the Atkins diet.  The first three days of no sugar and no caffeine had me weak and shaking and convinced me that I had an addiction, not a habit.  The snack I spoil myself with now is apples with peanut butter.
5. As soon as I know I want to watch a movie or read a particular book (for example, if somebody I trust recommends it), I don't want to know a single bit about what it's about--not even if it's a comedy or a drama.  I like to come in completely blind and let the storyteller bring me into the world.
6. I have lived in 10 different states in the U.S. and even more cities.
   
7. I wrote a computer program in Java that generates moves on a Rubik's Cube and checks to see if they did anything interesting (for example, swap only two corners).  I used the output of that program to create a solution where you only have to learn four moves to solve the cube.
8. I have a HAM radio license.