Ten random facts

To finish out 2014, here are ten random facts about me, in no particular order and of no particular significance.

1. I am right-handed but left-leaning.
2. I can recite my Discover Card number (16 digits), my library card number (14 digits) and my online banking sign-in number (12 digits) but I have to stop and think to remember my cell phone number.
3. I swam in the Mediterranean before I ever set eyes on the Atlantic Ocean, even though I grew up in the United States.
4. I am a native English-speaker; am fairly fluent in Spanish; passed graduate reading exams in Latin, French, German and Koine [New Testament] Greek; and have preached a homily I composed in Kiswahili.
5. I know how to fold cloth napkins to look like roses, turkeys, swans and trees.
6. I have a serious thyroid condition, because of which I once weighed almost 300 pounds.
7. I can still sing the song I learned as a kid in Vacation Bible School that lists the books of the New Testament in order. For that matter, I can still sing the Jiminy Cricket "Encyclopedia" song.
8. I taught aerobics classes for priests, brothers and seminarians.
9. I have a Bachelor of Adequacy degree from the International University of Nescience.
10. I am a passport-holding citizen of Ladonia, where I am known as Lord Michael Dodd.