compile a 100-things-about-me list

25. i have a thing for chunky watches; if it doesn’t have a wide band, i don’t want it.
26. i have this thing with books dated before 1920—no matter what it is, if it’s affordable, i’ll buy it. i have a stack of them on my dresser at home.
27. i also have a thing with sniffing books. new books, old books . . . all books have awesome smells! if you’ve never done it, just pick up a book and page through it really, really fast, sniffing as the pages go by . . . it’s amazing (sort of!)
28. i’d prefer being unpopular than being really popular
29. i love watching foreign films, and someday i want to watch them without looking at the subtitles and create my own plot, then write a book about it.
30. i’m a compulsive cleaner, but i can’t clean my room to save my life.
31. if i was ever an actress, the first actor i’d beg to work with would be denzel washington
32. i wanted to vote for gonzo in the last election . . . just because i had a button that said so.
33. i told half my friends i was voting for kerry and the other half i was voting for bush, just to keep them all satisfied; lucky none of them asked anyone else what i said . . .
34. i’m incapable of taking politics seriously, just because i think politicians themselves are sooo funny
35. i’ve got that song “believe it or not” stuck in my head :believe it or not, i’m walkin’ on air, i never thought i could be so free-hee-hee . . .:
36. i LOVE redheads
37. i like really tall and lanky guys, because i’ve always wanted to marry someone taller than me who’d have to bend down to kiss me. :)
38. i prefer spelling words the british way to the american way . . . there’s just something so much cooler about colour, favourite, neighbourhood, and checque book . . .
39. i have very vivid dreams. sometimes it’s hard to convince myself they were only dreams.
40. i have also had very vivid daydreams, which have frightened the crap out of me; especially the one when i was walking to work across the bridge, and i pictured the train below me . . . well, i won’t go into that, but i wound up standing on the bridge gripping it like a crazy person and thanking god noone was around to see me!
41. i don’t like odd numbers (sorry, 41)
42. i have this thing where the volume for anything has to be set on either an even number or an increment of 5. if it’s on something like 11 or 19, i’ll complain until someone changes it, or just change it myself.
43. because of #41, i particularly despise the channel 67; most of the other odd channels are fine, but 67 just bothers me
44. i LOVE bubble wrap!
45. i have a big anger management problem when it comes to my computer and small things that go wrong; if something major goes wrong, i can handle it, but the small things drive me wild
46. i love guys with curly hair, or medium length hair, because i love the thought of running my hair through it
47. i can write a ten paged paper for just about anything without any effort, but a one page paper, even on something i know like the back of my hand, is an impossibility
48. i cannot crack my fingers . . . i also cannot snap my fingers, and i think it’s related.
49. i have at least one pity friendship going on right now, and i know it’s wrong, but i feel too bad to tell the person how annoying i think they are . . .
50. i love sporting events, and i only ever go with a group of people, but i hate it when the people i go with try and talk to me because i get WAY too focused on the game!

1. I am afraid of clowns, but only sort of
2. One of my favorite words is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which is the fear of long words . . . and that’s why i love it :)
3. I sleep with four Ugly Dolls because I love them, but if I look at them before I go to sleep I have nightmares . . .
4. I may be the only person in the world who feels terrible getting an A in a course I think I only earned a B in. In fact, it tends to make me feel so bad, I’ll protest it, if only to let the teacher just how bad it makes me feel.
5. Vincent Price’s voice still tends to freak me out . . .
6. I could probably quote the entirity of The Godfather, and most of The Godfather Part II
7. My favorite books are actually children’s books
8. I often make myself laugh hysterically at nothing
9. I’m more of an optimist, but my friends think I’m a pessimist, so I tell people I’m a realist.
10. I don’t know what my favorite color is, but when people ask I always have an answer.
11. I’m obsessed with painting my nails, and frequently chipping off the paint within a day or two.
12. I don’t think I’m as creative as people tend to think I am.
13. For a while I got utterly fed up of my best friend, but never told her about it. We’re still best friends, and I’m glad I never told her.
14. When playing two lies and a truth, I sometimes make up three lies and just pick one as my truth.
15. I talk bad about frat parties, but the truth is I really wish I’d get invited.
16. I honestly wish life was a musical, and when guys fell in love they had to burst out in high-stepping dance and a musical number.
17. I use sarcasm as an excuse to never have anything really substantial to say.
18. I use jokes and made up funny stories to hide the fact that I feel there’s nothing interesting about me worth sharing sometimes.
19. I have an online journal. I sometimes write about a guy I liked in high school; in fact, one of my best posts is about him, during high school. He is subscribed to my journal and has no idea.
20. I think sometimes I like guys I know I’d never date just so I don’t feel like I’m “settling”.
21. I’ve published four books on lulu.com!
22. I have glitter all over my hands and have no idea how it got there. I like to believe it’s magic :)
23. I’ve never been able to snap my fingers.
24. I love to harmonize with my music collection; every song that comes on, I love to sing along and harmonize with the vocalist.
25. I’ve always secretly wanted to be either an actress or a musical artist.

That was over and done with a little too quickly . . . and sort of didn’t make me feel good . . . but it got better towards the end, I guess. Self-revelation is a hard thing!!!