Why we are awesome:
Gavin and Nida have been best friends since the summer following the 8th grade. After various adventures in and around upstate New York, New England, Canada, and the better half of Europe, we’ve decided to keep up a blog to both entertain the masses and stave off missing the other’s charm, wit, and good looks too much, though the latter is a challenge we’ve yet to surmount.
If at any time you feel that our writing is simply too good to not tell us in an e-mail, feel free to contact us at gavinandnida@gmail.com. We’re all too willing to hear your praise.
Why we started a blog…
Nida, for one, generally feels that blogs are narcissistic and somewhat unappealing unless they are meant to entertain. Gavin doesn’t really care. We started this blog mainly to have fun, write about things that amuse us and we hope will amuse you, and also to offer commentary on daily goings-on in the worldwideworld. We’ll occasionally publish haikus, perhaps write a song or two, and talk about university life and what people get up to, and we hope you’ll find it fun in one way or another.
Some necessary facts about us:
Gavin
Weight: about 11.5 stone.
Height: a shade over 3.5 cubits.
Languages Spoken: English, French
Accents: Irish vigilante, Irish gay transvestite, Scottish tailor, Scottish king, BBC announcer, Scotsman singing Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, Murray Hewitt, Jemaine, Barney Stinson, Russian mob boss, French diplomat/lizard, Turkish bath attendant, Japanese short-order cook, Southern referee, Travis Faust
Least favorite number: 418,329,158
Compares Everything To: Three Men
Most episodes of How I Met Your Mother watched in one night: 11
Most ice cream eaten in one sitting: approx. 10 scoops
Gay? Unlikely
Gay ’90s? Probably wouldn’t have enjoyed the shorter lifespan and crippling lack of Game Cubes.
Usually chose at beginning of Pokemon Blue: Squirtle
Favorite person to use in Madden 2007 Rushing Attack: Reuben Droughns
Good at: Math, crosswords, eating ice cream
Bad at: Shapes, not being too silly when I first meet people, dancing
Shame level: Low
Knowledge of song lyrics: High
Ninja skills: Dormant
Time waited to read Lord of the Rings: 19 years, 11 months
Time it took to read Lord of the Rings: 3 days
Loves: Ents, Wheat, Root Beer, Beef Jerky
Hates: Milk, bananas, hypocrisy, injustice, the New York Yankees
Nida
Weight: Around seven.
Languages Spoken: English (manageable), Spanish (cerveza me), Urdu (I know, it doesn’t even sound like a real language), Glabbar (the language of the future. My future.)
Loves: Unrepentant gossip blogs, satire, witch-burnings, plums, The Royal Tenenbaums, the George Foreman Grill,
Hates: Pollution, literary fallacies, polyester, the tsetse fly.
Least Desired Death Scenario: Getting dominated by the Africanized Honeybee.
Most Desired Measure for Self-Protection: A flamethrower to protect from Africanized Honeybees.
First Choice at the Beginning of Pokemon: Charmander (Charizard FTW).
Shoes: Did Jesus wear sandals?
Favorite So-Good-They’re-Bad-Films: Bring it On, Batman and Robin, the American Pies.
Favorite Films That Are Actually Good: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and American History X. A crossover of the two would be a dream come true, because Turtles kick racism’s ass.
Favorite Descartes’ Meditations: The one Jay-Z remixed.
Favorite Philosophical Work: Straight Outta Compton – NWA circa 1988.
Favorite Thing to Hate On: The energy it takes to hate on things.
Favorite Thing to Do: Use big words without knowing what they significate.
Most Commonly Heard Phrase: “Nida, this is a terrible idea.”
Most Commonly Used Phrase: “Hey guys, I’ve seriously got a really good idea.”
