100 Facts About Me

Updated Feb. 18, 2005

  1. Serious Christian, but I try not to wham it over people's heads (WHAM!)
  2. Right handed
  3. Married to a left handed man
  4. Straight brown haired
  5. Dangerously nearsighted and too cheap to get new glasses
  6. Read-a-holic
  7. Think of myself as outdoorsy
  8. Reality of self is sit-on-butt computery
  9. Love photography, however bad I am at it
  10. Only wear a watch occasionally, and then on my right hand
  11. Only use fountain pens
  12. Write note-cards to learn everything
  13. Don't have a job, don't really want a job
  14. Trying hard to be a good wife
  15. Work hard at friendships and often fail
  16. Tell really stupid jokes too much
  17. Don't laugh at normal people jokes
  18. Born May 23rd, 1984
  19. Married August 9th, 2003 (you do the math)
  20. Love golden retrievers
  21. Hate small lapdogs
  22. Not a fan of shaving my legs, but do when necessary (rarely)
  23. Have 9 pairs of shoes including my slippers, which get by far the most use
  24. New favorite tea: Celestial Seasoning's Honey Vanilla Chamomile
  25. Very studious and maintaining a 3.75 GPA (approximately)
  26. Attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute until 2006
  27. Paying full tuition to above, since transfer students don?t get much money
  28. Previously attended Clark "We'll give you $11,000 a year" University
  29. Have one sister who is at Scripps College in Claremont, CA until 2008
  30. My parents are still married to each other
  31. My in-laws are still married to each other
  32. Very suspicious of naturopathic medicine
  33. Generally a very trusting person, despite above
  34. Uniform: jeans, T-shirt, REI jacket; if cold, add PJ pants under jeans and long sleeves under jacket
  35. Have a scarf from Scotland that is the official Ferguson tartan
  36. Would like to get a guinea pig
  37. I type about 50 wpm. Is that fast or slow?
  38. I read science fiction, fantasy, nonfiction, historical fiction, anything good
  39. Don't ask what good is
  40. Fear too many things
  41. Don't share very well
  42. Have 12 one-liter bottles of water just sitting here
  43. Hate flying
  44. Get motion sick easily
  45. Very critical of self and others
  46. Not particularly accepting of others? faults
  47. Repeats self often
  48. Says the same thing over and over a lot
  49. 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."
  50. Like to watch movies
  51. Not very touchy-feely
  52. Brusque
  53. Like to get mail, though the vast majority comes from home
  54. Love to bake, especially experimentally
  55. Sometimes easygoing, sometimes really uptight
  56. Smoked salmon Caesar Salad with broiled bread is a favorite meal
  57. Drink homemade smoothies every night (paying for smoothies is dumb)
  58. Think coffee smells gross and tastes grosser
  59. Never had a drop of alcohol (knowingly)
  60. Never smoked a cigarette, or anything else
  61. Try to eat healthy, but who eats perfectly these days?
  62. Sleep with three (3) stuffed animals, not counting the husband
  63. Do weird things in sleep-talking, sometimes walking, insulting said husband
  64. Like bio, but isn't very good at labs
  65. Am an honorary member of the Society of Professional Communicators
  66. Prefer to have the heat way up so I can sit around in my underwear
  67. Who doesn't?
  68. Collect stuffed-that's plush-lobsters
  69. Collect GiantMicrobes because they?re so cute
  70. Compulsive blog reader
  71. Only quasi-interested in world events
  72. Very much environmentalist, but not a hippie
  73. Once cut my hair shorter than 1? (it grew back exactly the same as it was. Darn.)
  74. Write stories occasionally in spare time
  75. Feel guilty pirating music
  76. Love Phantom of the Opera and Evita
  77. Haven't ever actually held a really useful job
  78. Am relying on the husband to make real money while I write
  79. Pack-rat? I like to think of it as conscientiously saving correspondence.
  80. Used to be a runner
  81. Father runs marathons occasionally, as do in-laws
  82. Ruthless towards animals-put 'em down if they get infirm
  83. Have had more hamsters than you have fingers and toes
  84. Once had a parakeet and a sparrow dead in the freezer
  85. Owned a garter snake as a child
  86. Not very mechanically adept
  87. Love playing Rummy Royal, which is also known as Michigan Rummy
  88. Would buy health food if it wasn't twice as expensive as Price Chopper food
  89. Stingy
  90. Always write an outline for papers
  91. Sometimes afraid of spiders
  92. Sometimes not afraid of spiders
  93. Sometimes state the obvious
  94. 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."
  95. Don't laugh very often
  96. Love cornbread with actual corn in it
  97. Life might very well revolve around food
  98. Prefer to sleep closer to the ground?less distance to fall
  99. HATE shopping, particularly at malls
  100. Believe in spending time, not money, on people you value