100 Facts About Me
Updated Feb. 18, 2005
- Serious Christian, but I try not to wham it over people's heads (WHAM!)
- Right handed
- Married to a left handed man
- Straight brown haired
- Dangerously nearsighted and too cheap to get new glasses
- Read-a-holic
- Think of myself as outdoorsy
- Reality of self is sit-on-butt computery
- Love photography, however bad I am at it
- Only wear a watch occasionally, and then on my right hand
- Only use fountain pens
- Write note-cards to learn everything
- Don't have a job, don't really want a job
- Trying hard to be a good wife
- Work hard at friendships and often fail
- Tell really stupid jokes too much
- Don't laugh at normal people jokes
- Born May 23rd, 1984
- Married August 9th, 2003 (you do the math)
- Love golden retrievers
- Hate small lapdogs
- Not a fan of shaving my legs, but do when necessary (rarely)
- Have 9 pairs of shoes including my slippers, which get by far the most use
- New favorite tea: Celestial Seasoning's Honey Vanilla Chamomile
- Very studious and maintaining a 3.75 GPA (approximately)
- Attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute until 2006
- Paying full tuition to above, since transfer students don?t get much money
- Previously attended Clark "We'll give you $11,000 a year" University
- Have one sister who is at Scripps College in Claremont, CA until 2008
- My parents are still married to each other
- My in-laws are still married to each other
- Very suspicious of naturopathic medicine
- Generally a very trusting person, despite above
- Uniform: jeans, T-shirt, REI jacket; if cold, add PJ pants under jeans and long sleeves under jacket
- Have a scarf from Scotland that is the official Ferguson tartan
- Would like to get a guinea pig
- I type about 50 wpm. Is that fast or slow?
- I read science fiction, fantasy, nonfiction, historical fiction, anything good
- Don't ask what good is
- Fear too many things
- Don't share very well
- Have 12 one-liter bottles of water just sitting here
- Hate flying
- Get motion sick easily
- Very critical of self and others
- Not particularly accepting of others? faults
- Repeats self often
- Says the same thing over and over a lot
- Asks a lot of questions like: "What is that juice that collects in yogurt? And don't tell me it's the bacterial pee. Yuck."
- Like to watch movies
- Not very touchy-feely
- Brusque
- Like to get mail, though the vast majority comes from home
- Love to bake, especially experimentally
- Sometimes easygoing, sometimes really uptight
- Smoked salmon Caesar Salad with broiled bread is a favorite meal
- Drink homemade smoothies every night (paying for smoothies is dumb)
- Think coffee smells gross and tastes grosser
- Never had a drop of alcohol (knowingly)
- Never smoked a cigarette, or anything else
- Try to eat healthy, but who eats perfectly these days?
- Sleep with three (3) stuffed animals, not counting the husband
- Do weird things in sleep-talking, sometimes walking, insulting said husband
- Like bio, but isn't very good at labs
- Am an honorary member of the Society of Professional Communicators
- Prefer to have the heat way up so I can sit around in my underwear
- Who doesn't?
- Collect stuffed-that's plush-lobsters
- Collect GiantMicrobes because they?re so cute
- Compulsive blog reader
- Only quasi-interested in world events
- Very much environmentalist, but not a hippie
- Once cut my hair shorter than 1? (it grew back exactly the same as it was. Darn.)
- Write stories occasionally in spare time
- Feel guilty pirating music
- Love Phantom of the Opera and Evita
- Haven't ever actually held a really useful job
- Am relying on the husband to make real money while I write
- Pack-rat? I like to think of it as conscientiously saving correspondence.
- Used to be a runner
- Father runs marathons occasionally, as do in-laws
- Ruthless towards animals-put 'em down if they get infirm
- Have had more hamsters than you have fingers and toes
- Once had a parakeet and a sparrow dead in the freezer
- Owned a garter snake as a child
- Not very mechanically adept
- Love playing Rummy Royal, which is also known as Michigan Rummy
- Would buy health food if it wasn't twice as expensive as Price Chopper food
- Stingy
- Always write an outline for papers
- Sometimes afraid of spiders
- Sometimes not afraid of spiders
- Sometimes state the obvious
- Enjoy the following quotes said by self or husband:
- Husband: "I'm making a conscious effort to put testing over gazing at my parts."
- Me: "What are you doing with all that paper?"
Husband: "Building a nest." - Husband: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
- Math professor: "Studying a rigorous definition of limits is akin to having a root canal and being kicked in the crotch at the same time."
- Husband: "Dividing by zero is like having unprotected sex with a 50-year-old French prostitute. It may seem like a good idea at the time but IT ISN'T!'
- Husband: "I am the anti-affirmative action candidate!" (regarding being white, male, not disabled and not a veteran)
- "Fox news is the sleazy porn of news stations."
- Regarding a group member's broken laptop:
Me: "I thought it didn't work?"
Husband: "He can get it working if he goes through an elaborate ritual of beating the crap out of it."
- Husband: "I love you so much that calculating it I get overflow errors."
- Me: "Morphologically deep sea fishes are really quite ugly. They tend to be big and round, not particularly streamlined, dark colored, have huge enormous mouths, tiny eyes, weak fins and flabby muscles."
Husband: "Sounds like me." - Husband: "I saved all my money by eating pocket lint."
- Husband: "I'm making a conscious effort to put testing over gazing at my parts."
- Don't laugh very often
- Love cornbread with actual corn in it
- Life might very well revolve around food
- Prefer to sleep closer to the ground?less distance to fall
- HATE shopping, particularly at malls
- Believe in spending time, not money, on people you value