Some helpful facts about me.
-My immediate family can easily be separated into two categories. People with normal names/people with silly names.
The breakdown looks something like this.
Normal names: Zach Cherry(Me!Who is awesome.) Colin Cherry(My brother!Who loves burger King.) Juanita(My mom! Who is caring.) Spunky(My dog. Who is dead.)
Silly Names: Merkle(My dad! Who is Merkle?)
One could make the argument that in my mother’s case the name Juanita is silly. The name Juanita isn’t itself silly. What is silly is picturing old Mary and Curtis Cook out on the family farm in Illinois flipping through the days(1950’s) popular baby names and settling on Juanita.
Merkle however is pretty much an open and shut case. What makes this name especially silly is that my dad’s name is Merkle Cherry junior. Yes this means that two, TWO, people in my family were dead set on Merkle as the name of their kin. A lot of people think I am being tough on my dad when I say things like this, but to a guy who grew up with the name Merkle this is baby stuff.
-I went to the same school from first grade until I graduated highschool.
-A cucumber is MUCH wetter than a catalog.
-A pretty accurate description of the way in which i live my life:
When I got in to Amherst, a lot of people from back home assumed that I had a very specific skill set that got me here. Some common guesses were:
- Sports(really?)
- Maths
- Learning Abilities
An uncommon but very real guess was:
- Handjobs(Funny Dad)
None of these are in fact correct. I only have one ability. Depending upon how loosely you define the word ability i have two, but most people argue that taking slow craps is not an ability. If you want to take that cynical approach my only ability is luck, yes luck. Luck is a skill, or rather being smart enough to trust luck is a skill. For those of you who have ever seen a little show called Yugi Oh(i admit with pride to be a former yugi watcher), the main character always says “trust in the heart of the cards.” And he always is always right. Sometimes he will even play a card he has never seen before, he certainly doesn’t always know what the cards will do, but every week Yugi trusts the heart of the cards(luck) and his deck provides him with a little gem like “If you are named Yugi and you play this card you Win!”. Yugi never loses. I never lose.
4 responses so far ↓
1 irradient (yhuang11) // May 9, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I wonder if your ability can be more accurately termed: tempting fate.
2 zcherry (zcherry10) // May 9, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Yes this might be true, but if fate is tempted by my slow craps, i’m probably screwed anyway.
3 Deidra Montgomery (dmontgomery10) // May 11, 2008 at 10:37 pm
You’re missing an exclamation point.
4 zcherry (zcherry10) // May 12, 2008 at 2:36 am
Well, if you are talking about the exclamation point that would appear to be missing after “My dog.” I left it out on purpose. I figured he is dead so I probably shouldn’t be that excited. If however you are referring to the exclamation point that could potentially appear after the phrase “Who is dead.” Well, then, you must hate dogs.
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