50 Things About Me

...because I couldn't come up with 100. Maybe I'll post another 50 at some point; until then, welcome to my dark and twisted psyche.

50 Things About Me

1. I am ridiculous.
2. I have been known to howl with my dog.
3. Every night before I go to bed, I make my lunch for the next day.
4. Small children think I am a riot.
5. I once took the Myers-Briggs personality test at the career center at college. The woman who went over the results with me said she had never seen anyone more solidly introverted.
6. I get really crabby when I’m hungry.
7. #6 can happen very suddenly. I’ll be fine, and then literally ten minutes later, I’ll be ready to snap at someone for no reason. (sorry, Jamie!)
8. I am very fond of Canada.
9. I don’t dry any of my pants in the dryer, for fear they will shrink and be too short. This probably stems from a childhood of almost never having pants (or sleeves, for that matter) that were quite long enough.
10. I generally only buy pants from this store, because then they will actually fit.
11. I am a very bad liar.
12. Natalie Portman and I share the exact same date of birth.
13. I was voted ‘Most Intelligent’ in my high school class.
14. I get very competitive at trivia games. Sometimes, scarily so.
15. I would give one of my appendages for a dishwasher.
16. I can be very stubborn.
17. The surest way to get me to do something is to tell me that I’m not capable of doing it.
18. In middle school, I was the skinniest and most geeky, awkward, braces- and glasses-wearing, frizzy-haired, picked-on kid you can imagine.
19. Only now, at age 24, am I coming to terms with how I look.
20. I put an extreme amount of pressure on myself to do everything well.
21. I have this irrational fear of driving. I think it’s because I’m a bad driver and I hate not doing things right (see # 20).
22. Name a movie that is a standard of the 80’s, and I probably will not have seen it.
23. I tend to be thrifty. Okay, maybe just cheap.
24. I despise Vivaldi.
25. For the life of me, I cannot keep papers/documents organized.
26. I spent about 10 days in England last year. For about 3 months after that, and without realizing it, I was still talking with a British inflection.
27. I constantly have purple rings under my eyes.
28. I have a weakness for musicians.
29. I have only ever been really drunk once or twice. Both times, I could walk a straight line and carry on a reasonable conversation.
30. I have never met the majority of my relatives, and I don’t know most of their names.
31. I am the procrastination queen.
32. I don’t own a pair of plain white socks.
33. Once I get about halfway through a book, I’ll sometimes flip to the end and read parts of the last chapters. Then I go back and continue reading from where I left off.
34. I love Cryptoquip puzzles: the ones where letters are represented by other letters and you have to figure out the quote.
35. I harbor a secret ambition to get an MA in Linguistics from Cambridge.
36. I also think that working for the NSA would be an excellent job.
37. I know embarrassingly little about popular music.
38. I could eat chocolate chip cookies every day for the rest of my life.
39. I haven’t been on a real vacation (in which you travel someplace else in order to relax, not a traveling, see-everything-you-can-see-in-this-city trip) since I was a junior in high school.
40. If I had the option, I would wear a fleece and jeans every day.
41. I have a tendency to read emails and not answer them, until they either all pile up and I have to spend forever writing people back, or I forget about them.
42. I am incapable of doing anything only half-way.
43. I think dark chocolate is far superior to milk chocolate.
44. I own far too many shoes.
45. I think my eyes are my best feature (apart from the dark circles).
46. I was born over 2 months early. They weren’t sure I was going to make it.
47. I love to cook, but I end up eating pasta all the time because I’m too tired to make something halfway decent.
48. Annoyingly, and for no obvious reason, I get extremely nervous talking to guys.
49. In Germany, I became addicted to coffee. Since then, my tolerance for caffeine has only improved.
50. I appear much more put-together than I really am.