Ok, folks. Since everyone and their dog has now completed the "25 Things About Me" Facebook meme, I feel somewhat guilty for using recycled Things. Hence this list of 50 new and improved Things About Me! (Well... 33 for now. More to come!) So without further ado... 50 more Things!
101. My interests definitely go in phases. My current loves include TV on DVD, Lexulous and pineapple upside down cake. These replace (most recently) audiobooks, WordTwist and coffee cake.
102. I tend to see deeper meaning in things, sometimes to a ridiculous extent. We thought the cat’s cascading water dish was broken, until we took it apart and cleaned out the hairballs. My first thought was “wow, I wonder what other ‘broken’ things in my life are actually just clogged?”
103. There are some things that my brain does without any conscious input from me. These things include grammar assimilation, anagrams, and analysis of social systems.
104. Until last year, I had gone to the same dentist since I was 6.
105. I am currently reading a book aloud to myself with five different Southern accents. It’s hard to keep them all distinct, but I am having a blast. I wonder what my roommate thinks of this new hobby.
106. At any given moment, I am very, very likely to have a song stuck in my head. This moment’s is “Anyone Else But You,” the version sung by Michael Cera and Ellen Page.
107. I heart anything by Joss Whedon.
108. Having lived at the co-op in
109. Both my mom and my sister are quilters. There is absolutely no way I would ever have that kind of attention span.
110. My grandfather was an amateur genealogist. It turns out I have a relative—Salome Nipp—who was burned at the stake in the 1600’s for being a witch. Because the stake business was fatal, she was posthumously acquitted.
111. I’m not a genealogist. There are dozens of Nipps in Schlesswig-Holstein, but the whole time I was in
112. For a couple years when I was little, my grandparents used to reward my sister and me with a silver dollar for every A grade that we got. I still have a bank full of them. What do you do with 200 silver dollars?
113. I learned how to ski at “Afton Alps” in
114. Transportation-wise, I was much happier in
115. One time, I carried home an ironing board, an iron, a laundry basket and a week’s worth of groceries on my bike. I felt like a superhero.
116. I am an unconventional sitter. Given my druthers, I’ll sit on the floor, the windowsill, the fencepost, the top of the couch. I put my feet up whenever possible.
117. There is something really satisfying to me about owning all of the seasons of a TV show, or all of the books by a particular author. Boxed sets are particularly awesome.
118. I love containers. Big ones, small ones… plastic ones, cardboard ones, metal ones, wooden ones… I think heaven must have a Container Store.
119. A former neighbor of mine, Aviv Screwvalla, came to the
120. I could happily furnish my entire world with IKEA furniture. I love to use vertical space.
121. I miss getting the Sunday paper. Mostly for the coupons.
122. I shamelessly use brand names, but generic merchandise: my “Q-tips” are actually cotton swabs, my “Kleenexes” are just facial tissues, my “Band-aids” are merely adhesive bandages, “Tylenol” is really acetaminophen. What a poser!
123. I’m currently awed and fascinated by the artwork of He Qi.
124. I’m not a huge sports fan, but I had a long streak of Twins fandom when I was a kid. (I discovered recently that I could name a good portion of the 1987 and 1991 championship players.) When I was in
125. I am a huge procrastinator, but I very, very seldom miss deadlines.
126. I am considered the organized one in my department at work (all together now: LOL!).
127. I’ve been a straight-A student since birth, I get consistently good job evaluations and promotions, even my credit rating is an impressive 868—but I’m pretty sure I’m “not living up to my potential.” I suspect I’m a perfectionist.
128. I grind my teeth so zealously at night that I’ve chewed through several mouthguards, and have recently found a way to unconsciously subvert even my current industrial-strength one. I’m worried I’ll have to live with the headaches forever.
129. My parents had pretty blue-collar jobs when I was little. Mom did daycare, and Dad drove and truck and then managed a gas station. Then when I was 12, Mom graduated from college and became a nurse and Dad got a job in jail administration.
130. Due to the blue-collar upbringing, I’m still pretty thrifty.
131. We heard a lot of gory medical stories at the dinner table (“today at work, this guy put his hand through a plate-glass window…” “You know what happens when you ride a motorcycle and don’t wear a helmet?”) so it takes a lot to gross me out.
132. However, due to an unfortunate incident with a transatlantic package and a rainstorm, I have a strong negative reaction to mold.
133. I have been to a lot of gorgeous, huge weddings. I do not wish to have one of those. Wedding, yes. Huge, no.
(17 more to come! I bet you can hardly wait.)
2 comments:
#102 is very profound.
#105 leads me to believe you should read 'Sybil' in the same fashion.
#108 can you still call it mac and cheese with no cheese? or bacon when no bacon-ness exists?
#110 i read the last word of the first part as 'geologist', which confused me greatly when you started to talk about poor Salome Nipp.
#117 and #118 make me think you are more concrete sequential than the metrodome.
#119. best. name. ever.
#123 i had to google. interesting!
I think we've waited as long as we can stand! :) Where are the other 17?
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