In honor of my thirtieth birthday, I present thirty random things about me you may or may not have known.

1. I have attended four universities.
2. I have very few female friends.
3. My niece and I have extremely similar thumb prints.
4. I caused my cat to have fans.
5. I think like my father.
6. I have been a vegetarian for nineteen years.
7. I make lists.
8. I have my mother’s creativity.
9. I didn’t walk at my high school graduation.
10. I am the baby of the family.
11. I was accepted to a university that I never applied to.
12. I have kept an online journal of one sort or another since 1995.
13. I used to take my cat for walks on a leash.
14. I like baking apple pies, but I don’t like to eat them.
15. I learned how to properly fold fitted sheets five years ago.
16. I have a favorite spoon.
17. I was fourteen when I realized not all homes had central air conditioning.
18. I remember conversations easily.
19. My first piece of certified mail was from George Stephanopoulos.
20. I love black and white movies.
21. My father named me.
22. I had the chicken pox at age 22.
23. I will eat onion chutney on almost anything.
24. I am a gadget geek.
25. All of my official job titles have had the word “Web” in them.
26. I had an Inspector Gadget doll as a child.
27. People thought I was gay in high school because I had gay friends.
28. I am directly related to at least one president.
29. My dream car is a fuel efficient version of Mr. Bean’s Mini.
30. I have the first letter Josh ever snail-mailed me.