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1. I cried once in 7th grade because a girl said "You make me sick" to me after I got the highest grade on the history test in my class. Which was a B+.

2. I used to hit people with my books to shut them up. Except there was this one girl in 7th grade who wouldn't stop laughing no matter how many times I hit her in the head with my blue book. WHY. WOULDN'T. SHE. STOP. LAUGHING.

3. I went through a traumatic experience in 6th grade that repeated itself in 10th grade by sitting in front of someone who liked to poke me from behind with a pen for fun. IT HURT LIKE HELL.

4. My favorite type of candy was M&M's until I discovered Sour Patch Kids. And somehow operant conditioned myself to desire Sour Patch Kids whenever I play Team Fortress 2 (which is rarely ever...).

5. The first character(s) I ever recall using in Super Smash Bros. Melee consistently was the Ice Climbers, back when the game first came out in '01. Back then, though, all I ever did was spam their spinning attack because it was fun to do that... and I never really figured out how the game actually worked until somewhere along the transition between high school and Berkeley, so I'd keep getting last place whenever I played with my friends anyway. So I stopped playing Melee after a while and forgot it for some time in high school.

Ironically, after coming back to the game and having gone through a bunch of characters over the past year, I've just now rediscovered my love for those climbers. :P

6. I didn't start listening to music seriously until sophomore year of high school (when I discovered Broken Social Scene off a topic at gameFAQS >_>). Before then, the most exposure I'd really had to listening to music was the stuff I'd deal with in piano and my middle school friends' obsession with Linkin' Park.

My favorite musical piece from that time period was the Trout Quartet? Quintet?, which my piano teacher used to play for me from her CDs sometimes when I had free time waiting for my parents to pick me up. It's one of the few good memories I have of piano...