Jan. 17: A peek at my incompetencies

I am not very good at these things:

• serving a volleyball
  
• playing chess
  
• making Thanksgiving dinner
  
• not singing along
  
• throwing away magazines
  
• saying "no"
  
• sitting through an episode of "The Doodlebops"
  
• hiding disgust
  
• driving in snow
  
• lying
  
• listening to George W. Bush speak without doing that Kramer/Mary Hart thing
  
• drawing recognizable objects on paper tablecloths in restaurants (instead I write naughty things and draw arrows toward my tablemates)
  
• solving world hunger
  
• getting the bottle of grenadine syrup open
  
• keeping track of who's who in Vic's extended family
  
• recycling
  
• being tolerant of intolerance
  
• dieting
  
• choosing good coffee drinks anywhere other than Starbucks
  
• oil painting
  
• replying to e-mails in a timely manner
  
• having my picture taken
  
• caring one bit about football