
TEN Random Things About Me
1) I once drove from Georgia to California in less than two days.
2) I was the Homecoming Queen in high school.
3) I have a tracheotomy scar at the base of my throat. I tell people it's from 'Nam, but it's really a leftover from a childhood illness.
4) I've never sat through an entire Monty Python movie.
5) I once lived on an organic fruit ranch in the middle of nowhere.
6) I can sing ALL eight minutes of Don McClean's "American Pie" and will, if provoked.
7) I'm the only liberal arts graduate in my entire family.
8) I'm a strong advocate of bringing back the Fifth Grade in everyday conversation. I really DO say "Nerd Alert" at least once a day.
9) I've heard Milton Berle's endless penis jokes in person.
10) I have the neatest penmanship in the entire world.
NINE Ways To Win My Heart
1) Scratch my back.
2) Dance in the aisles.
3) Rub my head.
4) Be kind.
5) Draw me a bath
6) Play with my hair.
7)Love what you do.
8) Sing to me.
9) Take care of me when I'm sick.
EIGHT Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1) Live in another country
2) Run Bay to Breakers
3) Experience Carnival in Rio
4) Go on the Great Southern Road Trip (Hunter S. Thomson style)
5) Write a book.
6) Have children.
7) Achieve Big O-ness (it's not dirty, read the book)
8) Hike the Appalachian Trail
SEVEN Things I Believe In
1) Joy
2) God
3) Friendship
4) Transformation
5) Understanding
6) Karma
7) Yoko & Me...
SIX Things That Get Me Mad
1) Passive-aggression
2) People with no concept of shared public space
3) Neo-Cons
4) Anti-choicers
5) Incessant cell-phone chatter
6) Bullies
FIVE Things I'm Afraid Of
1) The GRE Math Section
2) Nuclear War (I grew up thinking it was all going to end any moment)
3) Big Brother
4) Puking
5) A life of quiet desperation
FOUR of my Favourite Items In My Room Right Now
1) My Sub-Commandante Muertos Diorama from Dia de los Muertos
2) My America's Favorite Dictators Trading Cards
3) The stuffed animal my sisters gave me for Xmas
4) My feather bed
THREE Things I Do Every Day
1) Take my vitamins
2) Hit the snooze button and flip the bird to my alarm clock
3) Listen to NPR
TWO Things I Need To Do Right Now.
1) Slather on lotion
2) Go to sleep
ONE Person I Want To See Right Now
1) N (and I'm not sure why.)