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Oooh, good one brooke! I'm addicted to true crime tv shows (dark heart/ iron hand, dominic dunne's power and privilege, cold case files, snapped, etc.) I think it has something to do with the schadenfreude factor.

My other random personal fact is that I think I might be turning into an old lady before my time, but it doesn't really worry me. It kind of makes me laugh. One day I got into the shower with my bra still on. I've been missing one of my favorite shoes for over 48 hours. I planned to make chocolate chip cookies, and went to the store to meticulously purchase all the ingredients except the chocolate chips. I paid for gas and forgot to pump it, and didn't realize my error for a full day.

Such is life. I suppose I'll be well prepared for when I reach my golden years.

Thanks, Kerosena -- and know you're not alone in the what-did-I-walk-into-this-room-for? phenomenon. Some of my co-workers comment from time to time that they forget to eat -- I've never had that problem!

@Kerosena - it happens to me all the time too! Glad to know I'm not alone:-). I regularly forget to take my watch off when I step into the shower. I've happened to keep pouring water into a full glass. I also have this amazing ability of walking into anything that is not even in my way (and have plenty of bruises to prove it!). I once got a concussion because I didn't notice a traffic light pole behind me when I threw my head back trying to get rid of that pesky hair in my face - imagine that!

Kerosena, welcome to my world! I've actually gotten into the shower with shoes still on :( I had to buy a watch that was waterproof because I never remember to take it off. I've put a pan in the oven set the timer and walked away only to return 2 hrs later, having missed the timer, to find I never turned the oven on. I woke up on morning this week determined to make breakfast for SO before work, I cooked bacon, made hashbrowns, had the eggs cooking and he came out and asked why I was making Breakfast at 2 am :( I blame it all on age and chemo brain! (I figure I'm covered for a long time, they came out with a study that says chemo can affect your thought process for years after the fact) hey gotta find a bright side ;)

My absent-mindedness started when I was in my early 30s. :P

I'll often boil water, walk away, and come back to a very hot, dry pot. Or I'll heat up chili/stew/soup for breakfast and forget to turn off the heat after I'm done...only to remember while at work, drive home during lunch break, and have to throw away the pot.

People at work think I'm joking when they use me as a confidante, and I tell them, your secret is safe with me, because in an hour, I'll forget what you've told me. It's probably because I don't care -- gossip and stuff about people's lives always sift through my brain quickly -- but I listen and have a caring face...?

I'm Japanese and don't eat sashimi. It's not the texture, it's the flavor. I'll eat raw beef w/o any issue. I can't stand fried rice.

I've listened to industrial and goth for well over 20 years, which totally trips people out. They are even more surprised to find out I had a white mohawk 25 years ago.

3 Random Facts: (not to be confused with the 3 totally unrandom ones I throw around.)

1) I am addicted to toro sashimi
2) I love skeletons
3) One day i want to buy and live in the house that the women lived in in Practical Magic.

I can't believe how many things we have in common!

I, too love the smell of bleach. and hate coffee. and walk into things too often and bruise easily and love skeletons ( I really want one of those skeleton hoodies, and someday when I die, I'd like to have my BLEACHED bones wired together and live in a classroom)(TMI?)

ANNNDD, I also really enjoy giving the cat a bath. I used to have purple hair that I wore in cornrows. Yesterday, I tried to make tea without tea OR water. Just a pot on a hot burner.

I feel so close to you guys right now.

I have never dyed my hair. When you are born a redhead and through your life, the red gets slowly, slowly less bright and beautiful, you reach 33 and say to yourself, OK, self, one of these days we're going to have to dye it. But not yet.

I dropped my computer a month ago, the same day I went down to the car to go pick up my husband at the airport and found it dead in the water after I'd left the door ajar five days earlier (we don't drive much).

I flipping love coffee but cannot tolerate caffeine, so am always on the search for delicious decaf. Toronto SEers, try Le Gourmand's, it's good.

@Chelley, I never go un-pedicured either! Nobody will see my toes for 6 months straight and they'll still be perfect inside my socks :)

@bitchincamero, My coworkers were incredibly freaked out the other day to find out I remembered all their middle and maiden names, AND most of their birthdays. I felt so creepy, but little details like that just stick in my head!

Whenever the volume on a TV or radio is measured in numbers, i have to leave it on a number ending in a 5 or a zero. My boyfriend thinks this is very weird and will turn the TV volume to 26 just to see me squirm.

I love the smell of windex.

I can't swim, and I can't tie balloons closed.

I totally believe in ghosts and every once in awhile, I still check my closets and under my bed before I go to sleep.

Crumpled, ripped and/or wet kleenex, toilet paper, or napkins grosses me out more than anything in the world.

I am so glad that I am not the only one that listens to goth and metal. I think that I nearly made someone faint when they found out that little old me went to her first concert at the age of 14 and it was Nine Inch Nails. And I loved it, and still listen to that sort of music. Actually, not so much metal as industrial or something like Low-Fidelity All Stars or even rap music, like Outkast and Spooks. :) I love it when people get the wrong impression of me and then looked shocked. Never judge a book by its cover.

And on the forgetting front: I just got back from an hour-long meeting - I had to go to the bathroom beforehand, but forgot to...until about half-way through that meeting...bad idea. Tryto remember that, at least. I was absolutely bursting!

I have a thing for faces. If we've met or even just spoke for 5 minutes, I will remember you forever. Even if it's 15 years and several pounds later, I will remember you.

I am a fount of useless information. It's wonderful when playing any sort of trivia games or when there is a lull in the conversation.

I am a pool shark--I have won a couple of amature tournaments and own a couple of professional caliber pool sticks. A couple of my friends are making a very good living on the professional pool circuit. I guess people who don't know me assume because I look like a straight laced "girly-girl" I don't know how to shoot pool.

Guys we're all so fabulous and OCD!! I think it's great.

@Traveller - my first concert at 14 was Ozzfest, and my second was Metallica, and my third was metalfest, you'd TOTALLY never guess, as I'm sitting here in a khaki suit and bright pink blouse. I own every cd Metallica recorded before they started to suck, and have lots of dark metal cds whose covers would probably scare most people.

A gentle reminder that we'd like to keep the conversation on Serious Eats focused on food and drink. No objection to us all getting to know each other better, but let's keep it on topic. Carry on!

Random food fact about me: I can't stand beets. I've tried them every which way, but me and beets just aren't meant to be.

i shave my head everyday.....have sideburns and a fumanchu goatee thingy goin on.....5 ear peircings and too many tattoo's to count.....everyone oi know says i look like a real bad*ss.....but they all laugh at me coz i'm totally asoftee at heart. my grandson was born april 17 and i cried like a baby !!!

I'm not a natural redhead. I'm a natural dirty blonde, but that just doesn't look as good with my skin tone.

I love random trivia, and a dream is to be on Jeopardy one day. =)

@myself: MONKEY

1. I curse like a sailor and sometimes find it VERY hard not to include curse words into my Serious Eats posts.
2. This may make me sound like an alcoholic, but keeping in mind I don't drink often- when I do: I can out drink all of my male friends and I only drink whisky.
3. I love listening to punk rock when I write and cook.
4. Like a few women have already mentioned, I'm kind of obsessive when it comes to my nails. I don't trust anyone to touch my hands and feet, but I paint my nails at least once a week.
5. I put on vanilla lotion and cherry chapstick obsessively.
6. I really, really, REALLY dig my boyfriend's Southern accent.