barash @ 2009-03-12T22:17:00

2009-03-13T02:29:59Z

50 things about AJ Barash.

My name is AJ Barash and only my family knows what the AJ stands for, it does not stand for anything you may assume it does. I was born in Hawaii, but my family moved to LA when I was thirteen years old. My mother is from Poland, her surname is Szymanskii. My father is from America, I don't know how or when they met. My mother made sure that I could speak both American and Polish fluently, and we have gone back to Poland every summer since I was a baby. My father comes from a wealthy family who handed everything down to him when they felt he was old enough for it all. He once told me that "one day this will all be yours." I didn't like it so I moved out. I spent three months living on the streets. I didn't have any money so I would wander around the supermarket and eat the food in the store then ditch the boxes before I left. I did this for a good month until I was finally caught. When the manager saw how young I was he gave me a gift card to the store for 100 dollars. It was a good deal so I did it in three other stores and got gift cards from all of them. On the last day of my third month I decided it was time to go home, so I gave the gift cards to this homeless friend of mine, Danny. Twenty minutes later he was hit by a car and died. I always wondered what happened to those cards. My sister told my parents when she was twenty-one that she was gay, she was kicked out of the house. Not because she was gay but because she waited until she was twenty-one to tell them. Mad disrespect there. When I was sixteen I ran away to Ireland to live with my aunt and uncle. It was too cold and wet all the time and none of my cousins were around so my aunt and uncle bought me a plane ticket back home. I didn't tell my family I was coming back because I knew they'd say "I told you so" so instead I stayed in my ex-girlfriends basement until the day I was supposed to come home. That was awkward because she thought we were back together and I was just using her for a place to crash.

I don't like long paragraphs. I lost my virginity when I was seventeen. I act like I've been with tons of people but only four times with two girls. I once got lost for six hours in the bad part of LA and thought I was going to die. The summer I was eighteen I worked at the San Diego Zoo cleaning the animals poop up all over. I used to sneak in at night to sleep and play around. Me and my friends used to drive around and throw loose change on the windshield of passing cars so the window would break. One time we caused a accident and stopped doing it. When people hear that I come from a family of money they assume I'm a snob so sometimes I play it off that way for fun and because it's exhausting trying to prove otherwise. I don't care about money, I want to be poor. Don't quote any TV shows to me because chances are I don't know it. I haven't watched more then one hour of TV a day my entire life and don't intend to start anytime soon. I read a lot. I listen to a lot of music. Movies are okay every now and then, usually only when I'm sick and can't do anything else. I like playing on the computer. I'm here for Graphic Design with a minor in Radio Broadcasting. I want to step on the moon. My beer of choice is Blue Moon but sometimes I'll drink Killians if there's no Blue Moon. I don't like mixed drinks. Straight up alcohol makes me roll my eyes. I don't care for big groups. I have social anxiety. I feel a lot of people talk just to hear their own voice. I laugh when people are uncomfortable or angry. My older brother moved back to Hawaii a year ago and claims he was attacked by a shark. We all think he dropped too much acid and fried his brain. I used to smoke pot but I outgrew that stage of my life. I've totaled eight cars. All my fault. I have driven drunk several times but not anymore. I have been arrested four times all for different reasons. When I'm really pissed off, I rant in Polish. My mother taught me how to read Yiddish when I was very young but I can't do so well anymore. I have a cousin who moved to Texas a few years ago and now he talks with a very awful Texas accent. Because of it the family has disowned him and pretend as if he never existed.

I don't like to leave my writing so short. I once entered a poetry contest and won 500 dollars. I used to go to karaoke bars under a false name three nights a week. It became a serious addiction. I flirt constantly with all the pretty girls but I'd never just screw a girl and pretend like it didn't mean shit. I've had two serious relationships both ended because of them, not me. I hooked up with my best friend one night at a party three years ago and she hasn't spoken to me since. I went to her grandfathers funeral last summer and she wouldn't even look at me. When I say hooked up I mean made out and played some touch me. I've tried every drug under the sun but not more then once and never will do so again. I llke to cause a scene. I like to scream for no apparent reason. My favorite band is Semisonic and The Smashing Pumpkins. Bob Dylan is my god. I love potato foods of all kind. Chips, Mashed, Fries, Pancakes. Syrup is my favorite condiment. Some nights I wish I was in Poland. I plan to move there some day and work in my Uncle's restaurant. I've never been in love and believe that I'm too young to understand what that word means. For a kid from a wealthy family I only own five shirts and three pairs of jeans, two sweatshirts, one pair of sneakers and one jacket. I don't need much else. I only use my parents money when I need it, like for school. I got average D grades all through high school but a 1600 on my SATS. I can't eat more then two times a day and usually I have one meal around lunch and another at around 1 or 2 am. I don't sleep more than 4 hours a night. I like to draw and take pictures. I used to want to major in photography, maybe I'll change my major eventually. I am the master at ultimate Frisbee. I used to play baseball but then I stopped giving a damn.

I'm pretty sure that all turned out to be way more then 50 things, but now I can say anyone that reads all of that, knows everything there really is to know about me. Except for one thing. My AIM name. Which is barashing skulls. Now you know everything. Use it wisely.

AJ

barash @ 2009-03-12T22:17:00

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