The obligatory n things

I am married to the only woman I ever dated.

I once wrote a budget that was in excess of 17 million dollars, for a project that was never funded.

I have a doctorate in Molecular and Medical Genetics, but I nearly failed introductory molecular biology.

If I had been born a girl, I would have been called Rachel.

I have been mentioned twice in a major electronic music magazine.

I once played the part of Sid Sawyer in a musical version of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer.

I worked for three years in a place where I had access to a variety of controlled substances.

I have traveled to only eight of Canada’s ten provinces, and none of the Territories.

I have never been east of Paris, or west of Vancouver Island.

I once used a microscope belonging to a Nobel Prize Laureate.

As far as I know, I have never broken a bone.

I have written a piano waltz, a jazz quartet, and a piece for solo clarinet. None of these has ever been performed on the instruments they were intended for.

I live only a few minutes from a very large amusement park, which I’ve never visited.

I lived in Wales for a year.

I have never had a nickname that I didn’t give to myself.

At the age of eight, I was a fairly decent soccer player.

At the age of 16, I was a very slow cross-country runner.

I have been on local television.

I was once in charge of maintaining two websites.

The worst sports injury I have ever had was sustained in a non-competitive, recreational softball league game.

I could have entered university as a clarinet major.

There exist recordings of me playing synthesizers, piano, harmonica, electric, acoustic and bass guitar, and bongos.

I love using the Oxford comma.

In the past, I have done research on antibody genes, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

I am a published author.

I have two budgies that are older than my children.

I studied the behaviour of millimetre-long nematode roundworms for a while.