The facts.

I've seen some other bloggers write up those "100 Interesting Things About Me" lists, and I'm always surprised and a bit jealous that they actually get to #100. I've been working on my own list off and on for a month now, and I could only get to #56. So, because I've got no knitting news to post today, here it is: 56 Interesting Things About Me (with pictures!) 1. I'm a vegetarian. 2. I like to think I'’m organized, but I'm really not. I'’m forever making lists and promptly losing them. 3. The ball of my foot is very wide, but my heel is extremely narrow. This means I don't buy shoes very often. 4. I'’ve been to Japan a few times (Kobe, Osaka, Nishinomiya, Kyoto -- that area). Nice place, but I wouldn'’t want to live there. 5. My favorite color is blue. 6. I can read Old Icelandic. 7. When we were little, my sister and I used to wish that we were twins. 8. I'm the only member of my immediate family without any tattoos. This one is my brother's, who is the most recent convert to the ink. 9. I hate doing dishes. 10. I was raised Catholic, but have since strayed from the flock. 11. I love Indian food. 12. I don't like babies and children; although I have met a few individuals that I make exceptions for. 13. My wardrobe is 95% blue and black. 14. My favorite bands right now are The Dead Milkmen, Polysics, The Misfits, and Wire. 15. I have knobby knees. 16. I love science fiction: movies, fiction, television, etc. I've got a small pile of sci-fi paperbacks that I plan to read in my "“free time". 17. I'm forever saying sarcastic things that are not taken as sarcastic by whomever I'm talking to. 18. I met The Boyfriend in a Wildlife Conservation course at college. 19. I never wear shorts. See #15. 20. I am terrified of centipedes. I hope they don'’t run rampant in Tennessee. 21. I procrastinate. 22. I don't wear high heels often because The Boyfriend and I are the same height (short). 23. After years of resisting, I've finally admitted that I'm a morning person. I know, I hate me, too. 24. I define morning as after 8:00. I'’m not completely insane. 25. I was in an abusive relationship for two years while in high school. 26. I have a social anxiety disorder and depression. 27. I think #25 and #26 are related. 28. I keep trying orange juice, hoping that someday I'll like it. I still hate it. 29. I wanted to be a professional ballet dancer for most of my life. 30. I a’m a natural blonde. 31. I have read all of Moby Dick. I'’d advise against it. 32. I hate the following fashion items: Uggs, ponchos, capri pants, and boys in pants three sizes too big. 33. I love the following fashion items: boot cut jeans, mary janes, glasses, cardigans, and skinny hipster boys in pants three sizes too small. 34. I'’m horrible with names. This is not a good trait in a scholar/researcher who should always know whose work she'’s reading. 35. I cannot make an omelet without overcooking or burning it. 36. I have high blood pressure and my doctor has no idea why. 37. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. 38. My first and only hospital visit happened when I was 2 years old; I ran smack into a low shelf in my (parents'’) LYS. Incidentally, it was called the Darn Yarn Shop, and I've yet to hear a yarn shop name that I like more. 39. I'm scared of horses. 40. I'm politically and socially liberal. 41. But grew up in a conservative Southern-ish small town. 42. I played the flute and piccolo in high school band. I still play from time to time, but I'm always frustrated by how awful I am now compared to how good I used to be. 43. I'm starting a PhD degree in August, studying Anglo-Saxon/Old English literature. 44. I used to enjoy building "“robots" by taking apart old electronics and gluing/taping the circuitry into cardboard boxes with robots drawn on them. This was when I was 8 or 9, not last week (although it still sounds like fun). 45. In 3rd grade, I was obsessed with the paranormal and monsters (Bigfoot, Nessie, Jersey Devil, that sort of thing). I started a Monster Hunters Club with my friends. 46. My feet? Always cold. 47. I don't get people who "“forget" to eat or sleep. My body shuts down if I don't do both of these things. 48. I hate writing papers for classes. There. I said it. I hate jumping through the right hoops and pretending to be interested in a topic just to get a grade on an artificially truncated piece of research. 49. I'm a bitter old cow. 50. I have an intense anxiety toward talking on the phone. I'd do all my communicating through email and IM if I could. 51. I buy 90% of my clothes from thrift stores. The last time I bought new clothes was at Christmas, when I had exchanges to make and gift certificates to use. 52. I'’m really very boring. 53. I'm afraid of the ocean. (Rehoboth Beach, Delaware in January) 54. I drive a minivan named Bessie. 55. I was really scrawny as a kid. My best friend nicknamed me Shrimpy. 56. I love tea.