1. I enjoy peanut butter. Sometimes I eat it by itself. Sometimes I eat it with Zia Rahaman.

2. I like making lists. This was a huge passion in the past. In middle school, I tried to a 50 pushups every day, and every day I would write 50 on this calendar I drew out. But then I thought it looked very conspicuous because any liar could write 50 a billion times, so I tried to vary the number of pushups I did every day to make it look more realistic. And when I used Myspace, I quickly hid my Top Friends’ List, because I didn’t want to risk anybody disapproving of my choices, but I still secretly updated my hidden Top Friends’ List every few months or so. Even today, I like making lists of favorite bands or whatnot every now and then.

3. I like kids. I used to play with them a lot. That’s how I chipped my front tooth in 6th grade.

4. When I realize that it’s late and I have to wake up in less than five hours, I put my pillow on my desk and sleep there. That way I won’t sleep through my alarm. In fact, I wake up every other hour.

5. In 3rd grade, I liked a girl for the first time, and I don’t remember anything about her except that she often worse a brown necklace, and one time we were playing Freeze Tag and she tagged me and was puppyguarding me. That was one of the highlights of the year I think.

6. In 7th grade, I worked in the school lunch lines, and I got a certain amount of free food every day. I liked this other girl who I knew I had no chance with. She asked me to get cookies for her, so I did. This happened three times before I realized how foolish I was.

7. I have recently taken the philosophy that a guy starts to become more romantically mature when he begins to “like” girls that most guys don’t often “like.” Sometimes.

8. Every month or so, I go to http://www.youtube.com/onionringleaders and watch all of the videos under that username. That is a video podcast of a road trip I partook in during the summer of 2008. That road trip was perhaps the largest milestone in my teenage years.

9. The first song I recorded with a friend was Dare You to Move in 2004. It was recorded on an MP3. It sounds bad. That is not relative.

10. The following musical artists were, in at least one point in time, my favorite artist. Roughly in order. Casting Crowns, MercyMe, Jeremy Camp, Matthew West, Seventh Day Slumber, Relient K, Switchfoot, Anberlin, The Classic Crime, Boys Like Girls, Cartel, John Mayer, Daphne Loves Derby, and Copeland. Switchfoot probably had the longest reign. This is evidence for #2. Some notable honorable mentions include Delirious, Kutless, Falling Up, FM Static, Mae,  Sherwood, Lifehouse, The Iguana Armpits, Prescription for Collision, The Starting Line, U2, Journey, Matchbox Twenty, Circa Survive, Fall Out Boy, Starfield, Holiday Parade, We Shot the Moon, and Shane and Shane.

11. I spend a lot of time searching and not enough time finding.

12. My favorite instrument to play is the drumset. It is also my worst one probably.

13. I played YMCA basketball almost every season in elementary school. I thought I was good until I didn’t make the 6th grade basketball team at school.

14. I played Little League baseball for about three weeks. I never thought I was good at that.

15. Once upon a time, I was a representative of Cutco Cutlery.

16. In sophomore and junior year, I spent a lot of time researching things like creationism vs evolutionism, biblical prophecy, and evidences of Jesus’ resurrection.

17. Amazing Grace might be my favorite movie.

18. I rarely watch TV shows. The only one that I can say I was passionate about was Pokemon. And maybe Flight of the Conchords.

19. In middle school, I wrote these series of stories known as The Adventures of Pineapple Man. There were ten episodes.

20. In elementary school, the two games I played the most were Pokemon Red Version and Tetris.

21. In elementary school, I wanted to become a basketball player. Shortly after, a writer. Shortly after, a computer engineer. Shortly after, a pastor. Shortly after, a rock star. Shortly after, I had no idea. Therefore, I went into chemical engineering.

22. One time in high school, my anger caused me to punch a hole in the wall. A hole about the size of my fist. Then I left home for a couple hours.

23. I was very inconsistent in high school. I did one year of marching band. One year of swimming and water polo. One year of rugby. Two years of debate. It was worth it.

24. In 7th Grade, I ran for Class Secretary. I wanted my motto to be “Don’t pick your nose. Pick Larry for Secretary.” It was disapproved. I still ended up winning.

25. I love Jesus.

– Larry