*ahem* mememememe...
Dec. 25th, 2002 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geekchickMore trivia than you ever wanted to know about me.
1. I taught myself to read well before kindergarten.
2. I always got frowny faces rather than gold stars on my coloring assignments, since I always colored outside the lines.
3. I played alto sax in the school band and was good at it.
4. I stopped singing in front of other people after my grade school music teacher made a disgusted face when it was my turn to sing in front of the class.
5. I could probably carry most of a very light tune in a bucket if I had to, but generally I don't sing unless I'm in the car alone.
6. I am phobic about public speaking, the prospect makes me physically ill.
7. I never really dated in high school, with two exceptions.
8. I had to "borrow" a friend's boyfriend as a date or else I would have had to go to my senior prom alone (which you did *not* do at my school).
9. I went to a Catholic girls' high school, which probably doesn't explain nearly as much as you might think.
10. I also went to Catholic grade school, and a Catholic (er, Jesuit) college.
11. I never really learned to study in grade school or high school, as I rarely had to. Bit me in the ass later on, that did.
12. I spent the summer after seventh and eighth grade taking college-level classes at Duke University (the TIP program, for those who know it).
13. I take standardized tests extremely well.
14. The last math course I was any good at was Algebra I. Geometry was the start of my long-standing hate/hate relationship with mathematics, and Calculus cemented it.
15. I love weddings.
16. I own my dream wedding dress: 1940s-vintage candlelight satin with long sleeves, sweetheart neckline, and a train.
17. I don't expect I'll ever use that dress.
18. I love snow, but hate generically cold weather.
19. I'm from Mississippi, but I have no discernable Southern accent (except when I say a few specific words like "doggie" or when I get really tipsy). That's not intentional on my part, I suspect it has everything to do with my mom being from Long Island.
20. I've always wanted to be able to sew clothing, but for now all I can do is counted cross-stitch.
21. I've adored opera ever since I first caught a Met performance of "Tosca" on PBS.
22. The first opera I ever saw performed live was "La Boheme" at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.
23. I am allergic to cats and dogs, although I have owned dogs and currently own a cat.
24. I smoked for a while in late high school and at times in college. I had no problem at all quitting, because I didn't ever smoke very much and the asthma made it less fun that it might otherwise be.
25. I am extremely sensitive and can get my feelings hurt fairly easily (but in turn recover fairly quickly too).
26. I cry easily.
27. I'm a picky eater.
28. I'd never eaten mushrooms or broccoli until I got to college, and they're now some of my favorite foods.
29. I am a creature of habit at my favorite restaurants; I tend to order the same thing most all the time.
30. For someone who doesn't cook very often, I have an unhealthy attachment to cookbooks and kitchen gadgets.
31. My preferred editor is vi.
32. My preferred mail client is elm.
33. My eyes change color based on mood; normally they're green, but may be either blue or blue-grey.
34. If I could change just a single thing about my physical appearance, I'd fix my teeth.
35. I have an $80k piece of paper that says I can speak Spanish, but I can't. Not anymore, at any rate.
36. I had a double minor in government and history, and wanted to switch majors to either of those.
37. I applied to two universities total: Georgetown and Michigan State. I didn't go to Michigan State since with rolling admissions they had already filled the public policy program I was interested in and I had no interest in going there as an "undeclared freshman".
38. When I was sharing an apartment with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mouseman, it was coincidentally just about a mile down the road from where my parents and I lived until I was about one.
39. I'm usually more physically attracted to women these days, but all but one of my relationships so far have been with men.
40. My senior year of college and the year after I graduated, I was a regular at Mr. Smith's in Georgetown (enough so that Dennis, my favorite bartender, would have a screwdriver waiting for me by the time I got to the bar stool).
41. I got most of the drinking out of my system in college, and rarely drink much more than a glass of wine now.
42. I lost my virginity at 18 to a guy who turned out to be a drunken one-night stand.
43. I got picked up by a guy once who took me back to his room at the Hay-Adams overlooking the White House. Swank. The room was much better than the sex.
44. I have a Great Regret.
45. For a while, several years ago, I was in a 24/7 BDSM relationship.
46. I got to play "lovely bondage model" for a friend of mine's rope bondage workshop at a weekend fetish event in NJ.
47. I remember clearly thinking when my aunt took me to see UC Berkeley while doing the college tour thing (I was out there looking at Stanford) that I would never fit in with pierced, green-haired freaks. And then I ended up becoming one. *cough*
48. I have one tattoo, in the middle of my shoulder blades.
49. I had two not-visible-to-anyone-but-close-friends piercings and a nostril piercing long before I got my ears pierced (at all).
50. This is the first time in more than a decade that my hair has been its natural color other than at the roots. It has been various natural shades of red, a deep green, dark purple-based blue, a couple shades of not-natural red, and I'd been joking about doing something like Black Watch plaid.
51. Part of my reluctance to cut my hair really short comes from having my waist-length, blonde, wavy hair chopped off by our neighbor (she gave me the same near-buzz cut she gave her sons).
52. I have a fair amount of gothy club clothes, including big stompy boots and several corsets, but I don't actually much like to go out to clubs.
53. I am not still in touch with any of my friends from high school, and have been in contact recently with only one person from college.
54. At 18 I had the shortest engagement on record (about half an hour, before I snapped out of it and realized I really wasn't ready for such a thing).
55. I've been engaged twice (with diamond ring on hand), counting that previous reference (which really shouldn't count at all I think), but never married.
56. Sometimes I really miss the ritual of High Mass, although I no longer consider myself Catholic.
57. When I was in fifth grade, I wanted to be a nun when I grew up. I got over it.
58. I once won a leather-bound Bible by beating the preacher's daughter ("oops") at memorizing Bible verses in Vacation Bible School.
59. I took baton lessons as a kid. I still am not sure why.
60. My favorite holiday movie is "A Christmas Story", with Peter Billingsley.
61. My favorite Christmas special is "The Year without a Santa Claus", and "Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey" always made me cry.
62. I love Christmas, it's my favorite holiday.
63. I have a certain fondness for KC and the Sunshine Band.
64. And for weird music.
65. My idea of comfort food is Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, with the orange powder.
66. I cannot snap my fingers. Yes, really.
67. Despite my love of Hello Kitty, I do not own either of the HK vibrators. And I'm totally okay with that.
68. Up until the last couple of years, I was completely incapable of reading more than one book at a time, or having a stack of books (i.e. more than one) that I had not read or was not in the process of reading. It drove me crazy. Now I have a stack of about five that are waiting for me.
69. I had an Atari 2600 with a boatload of cartridges and a CoCo.
70. I've only ever walked out on one movie in the theater: "The Fisher King".
71. Far too many of my brain cells are devoted to the storage of lyrics to 80s pop tunes rather than actual useful information.
72. If my cable company left me with nothing but NBC, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, SciFi, VH1 and CNN, I'd be okay with that.
73. I once dated someone literally twice my age (50 to my 25).
74. I am exceptionally bad at maintaining correspondence.
75. I tend to seriously underestimate my own abilities.
76. I love stuffed animals, I have a large collection.
77. Of the five times I've seen "Lilo & Stitch", I've cried at the "lost!" part 4 and a half times.
78. I'm a packrat. I finally threw out three boxes of stuff I'd been schlepping around from move to move before my next-to-last move.
79. My favorite book is "Jane Eyre", because I'm a big sappy romantic.
80. I have some sort of mental block which prevents me from retaining any knowledge of how to drive stick shift.
81. I can't dance.
82. Despite having two left feet, I'd love to learn to waltz.
83. I generally have poor hand-eye coordination and balance.
84. Yet I can still walk in stilletto heels.
85. "You hate people." "Yes, but I love gatherings. Isn't it ironic?"
86. I can kill nearly any plant I'm given. The pothos and philodendron I currently have seem to be exceptions...for now.
87. I really like to get dressed up in evening wear.
88. If I could wear any style and have it be practical, it would be Dior's "New Look" and/or Victorian. More of the latter if possible.
89. I've been jonesing for granny boots since "Desperately Seeking Susan", and they seem to be back temporarily (so I'm stocking up).
90. I am seriously addicted to Diet Coke.
91. I regret that most of my grandmother's costume jewelry was lost after it was given to me as a kid to play with.
92. I do not like yellow gold.
93. I think the idea of spending 2 months' salary on an engagement ring is ridiculous; I'd rather have a smaller ring and a nicer honeymoon.
94. I've been to Canada, England, Wales, and Italy and I want to go to Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, and China.
95. I've never read more than a small bit of "The Lord of the Rings" because I found the writing style tedious. I do think it's a great story and respect the sheer amount of work that went into it though.
96. I'm getting incredibly tired of LDRs, but I'm not sure how well I'm handling having more than one local partner for the first time in about seven years.
97. I flirt quite a lot, because it's fun, and am not always sure myself whether or not it's "with intent".
98. I seem to be unable to flirt with women (with one or two notable exceptions) since I have a much harder time reading women than men.
99. I feel like I need more hobbies that don't involve a computer.
100. I wrote a little perl script to add line numbers to this list because I was too lazy to do it by hand.
1. I taught myself to read well before kindergarten.
2. I always got frowny faces rather than gold stars on my coloring assignments, since I always colored outside the lines.
3. I played alto sax in the school band and was good at it.
4. I stopped singing in front of other people after my grade school music teacher made a disgusted face when it was my turn to sing in front of the class.
5. I could probably carry most of a very light tune in a bucket if I had to, but generally I don't sing unless I'm in the car alone.
6. I am phobic about public speaking, the prospect makes me physically ill.
7. I never really dated in high school, with two exceptions.
8. I had to "borrow" a friend's boyfriend as a date or else I would have had to go to my senior prom alone (which you did *not* do at my school).
9. I went to a Catholic girls' high school, which probably doesn't explain nearly as much as you might think.
10. I also went to Catholic grade school, and a Catholic (er, Jesuit) college.
11. I never really learned to study in grade school or high school, as I rarely had to. Bit me in the ass later on, that did.
12. I spent the summer after seventh and eighth grade taking college-level classes at Duke University (the TIP program, for those who know it).
13. I take standardized tests extremely well.
14. The last math course I was any good at was Algebra I. Geometry was the start of my long-standing hate/hate relationship with mathematics, and Calculus cemented it.
15. I love weddings.
16. I own my dream wedding dress: 1940s-vintage candlelight satin with long sleeves, sweetheart neckline, and a train.
17. I don't expect I'll ever use that dress.
18. I love snow, but hate generically cold weather.
19. I'm from Mississippi, but I have no discernable Southern accent (except when I say a few specific words like "doggie" or when I get really tipsy). That's not intentional on my part, I suspect it has everything to do with my mom being from Long Island.
20. I've always wanted to be able to sew clothing, but for now all I can do is counted cross-stitch.
21. I've adored opera ever since I first caught a Met performance of "Tosca" on PBS.
22. The first opera I ever saw performed live was "La Boheme" at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.
23. I am allergic to cats and dogs, although I have owned dogs and currently own a cat.
24. I smoked for a while in late high school and at times in college. I had no problem at all quitting, because I didn't ever smoke very much and the asthma made it less fun that it might otherwise be.
25. I am extremely sensitive and can get my feelings hurt fairly easily (but in turn recover fairly quickly too).
26. I cry easily.
27. I'm a picky eater.
28. I'd never eaten mushrooms or broccoli until I got to college, and they're now some of my favorite foods.
29. I am a creature of habit at my favorite restaurants; I tend to order the same thing most all the time.
30. For someone who doesn't cook very often, I have an unhealthy attachment to cookbooks and kitchen gadgets.
31. My preferred editor is vi.
32. My preferred mail client is elm.
33. My eyes change color based on mood; normally they're green, but may be either blue or blue-grey.
34. If I could change just a single thing about my physical appearance, I'd fix my teeth.
35. I have an $80k piece of paper that says I can speak Spanish, but I can't. Not anymore, at any rate.
36. I had a double minor in government and history, and wanted to switch majors to either of those.
37. I applied to two universities total: Georgetown and Michigan State. I didn't go to Michigan State since with rolling admissions they had already filled the public policy program I was interested in and I had no interest in going there as an "undeclared freshman".
38. When I was sharing an apartment with
mouseman, it was coincidentally just about a mile down the road from where my parents and I lived until I was about one.39. I'm usually more physically attracted to women these days, but all but one of my relationships so far have been with men.
40. My senior year of college and the year after I graduated, I was a regular at Mr. Smith's in Georgetown (enough so that Dennis, my favorite bartender, would have a screwdriver waiting for me by the time I got to the bar stool).
41. I got most of the drinking out of my system in college, and rarely drink much more than a glass of wine now.
42. I lost my virginity at 18 to a guy who turned out to be a drunken one-night stand.
43. I got picked up by a guy once who took me back to his room at the Hay-Adams overlooking the White House. Swank. The room was much better than the sex.
44. I have a Great Regret.
45. For a while, several years ago, I was in a 24/7 BDSM relationship.
46. I got to play "lovely bondage model" for a friend of mine's rope bondage workshop at a weekend fetish event in NJ.
47. I remember clearly thinking when my aunt took me to see UC Berkeley while doing the college tour thing (I was out there looking at Stanford) that I would never fit in with pierced, green-haired freaks. And then I ended up becoming one. *cough*
48. I have one tattoo, in the middle of my shoulder blades.
49. I had two not-visible-to-anyone-but-close-friends piercings and a nostril piercing long before I got my ears pierced (at all).
50. This is the first time in more than a decade that my hair has been its natural color other than at the roots. It has been various natural shades of red, a deep green, dark purple-based blue, a couple shades of not-natural red, and I'd been joking about doing something like Black Watch plaid.
51. Part of my reluctance to cut my hair really short comes from having my waist-length, blonde, wavy hair chopped off by our neighbor (she gave me the same near-buzz cut she gave her sons).
52. I have a fair amount of gothy club clothes, including big stompy boots and several corsets, but I don't actually much like to go out to clubs.
53. I am not still in touch with any of my friends from high school, and have been in contact recently with only one person from college.
54. At 18 I had the shortest engagement on record (about half an hour, before I snapped out of it and realized I really wasn't ready for such a thing).
55. I've been engaged twice (with diamond ring on hand), counting that previous reference (which really shouldn't count at all I think), but never married.
56. Sometimes I really miss the ritual of High Mass, although I no longer consider myself Catholic.
57. When I was in fifth grade, I wanted to be a nun when I grew up. I got over it.
58. I once won a leather-bound Bible by beating the preacher's daughter ("oops") at memorizing Bible verses in Vacation Bible School.
59. I took baton lessons as a kid. I still am not sure why.
60. My favorite holiday movie is "A Christmas Story", with Peter Billingsley.
61. My favorite Christmas special is "The Year without a Santa Claus", and "Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey" always made me cry.
62. I love Christmas, it's my favorite holiday.
63. I have a certain fondness for KC and the Sunshine Band.
64. And for weird music.
65. My idea of comfort food is Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, with the orange powder.
66. I cannot snap my fingers. Yes, really.
67. Despite my love of Hello Kitty, I do not own either of the HK vibrators. And I'm totally okay with that.
68. Up until the last couple of years, I was completely incapable of reading more than one book at a time, or having a stack of books (i.e. more than one) that I had not read or was not in the process of reading. It drove me crazy. Now I have a stack of about five that are waiting for me.
69. I had an Atari 2600 with a boatload of cartridges and a CoCo.
70. I've only ever walked out on one movie in the theater: "The Fisher King".
71. Far too many of my brain cells are devoted to the storage of lyrics to 80s pop tunes rather than actual useful information.
72. If my cable company left me with nothing but NBC, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, SciFi, VH1 and CNN, I'd be okay with that.
73. I once dated someone literally twice my age (50 to my 25).
74. I am exceptionally bad at maintaining correspondence.
75. I tend to seriously underestimate my own abilities.
76. I love stuffed animals, I have a large collection.
77. Of the five times I've seen "Lilo & Stitch", I've cried at the "lost!" part 4 and a half times.
78. I'm a packrat. I finally threw out three boxes of stuff I'd been schlepping around from move to move before my next-to-last move.
79. My favorite book is "Jane Eyre", because I'm a big sappy romantic.
80. I have some sort of mental block which prevents me from retaining any knowledge of how to drive stick shift.
81. I can't dance.
82. Despite having two left feet, I'd love to learn to waltz.
83. I generally have poor hand-eye coordination and balance.
84. Yet I can still walk in stilletto heels.
85. "You hate people." "Yes, but I love gatherings. Isn't it ironic?"
86. I can kill nearly any plant I'm given. The pothos and philodendron I currently have seem to be exceptions...for now.
87. I really like to get dressed up in evening wear.
88. If I could wear any style and have it be practical, it would be Dior's "New Look" and/or Victorian. More of the latter if possible.
89. I've been jonesing for granny boots since "Desperately Seeking Susan", and they seem to be back temporarily (so I'm stocking up).
90. I am seriously addicted to Diet Coke.
91. I regret that most of my grandmother's costume jewelry was lost after it was given to me as a kid to play with.
92. I do not like yellow gold.
93. I think the idea of spending 2 months' salary on an engagement ring is ridiculous; I'd rather have a smaller ring and a nicer honeymoon.
94. I've been to Canada, England, Wales, and Italy and I want to go to Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, and China.
95. I've never read more than a small bit of "The Lord of the Rings" because I found the writing style tedious. I do think it's a great story and respect the sheer amount of work that went into it though.
96. I'm getting incredibly tired of LDRs, but I'm not sure how well I'm handling having more than one local partner for the first time in about seven years.
97. I flirt quite a lot, because it's fun, and am not always sure myself whether or not it's "with intent".
98. I seem to be unable to flirt with women (with one or two notable exceptions) since I have a much harder time reading women than men.
99. I feel like I need more hobbies that don't involve a computer.
100. I wrote a little perl script to add line numbers to this list because I was too lazy to do it by hand.
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Date: 2002-12-24 10:58 pm (UTC)You are so my hero now!
Wonderful list. I'll have to hack one out tomorrow with some many on my friends list having done it.
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Date: 2002-12-25 01:31 am (UTC)When the instructor saw me typing the next program, he asked whether I meant to space over six places. I told him I got tired of doing that, so I wasn't going to do it any more. He asked how I expected my program to compile. I saved my file, ran my line-number program, and looked up. He offered to teach me any other language that term as long as I helped the rest of the students with their COBOL. And yes, he also called me a wise-ass.
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Date: 2002-12-25 12:18 am (UTC)What the hell is wrong with you, woman?
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Date: 2002-12-25 04:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-26 06:30 am (UTC)