100 things about me

1) I have no conception of my actual body size.
2) I wish that the entire chick lit genre had ended with Bridget Jones.
3) I hate to run, but I do it anyway because it keeps me thin.
4) I have an addiction to text. I read compulsively, every day.
5) I love to bake and cook.
6) I clean and tidy obsessively when I'm stressed.
7) I hate folding laundry. As far as I'm concerned, when it goes in the dryer, it's done.
8) While I love to bake, I rarely like eating what I've baked. I feel that if I brought it this far, someone else should eat it.
9) I am afraid of almost nothing concrete.
10) I am very afraid of things that lurk in my brain, sometimes.
11) I can knit, crochet, and sew.
12) I prefer caramel and marshmallow to chocolate.
13) I have an extreme need for fruit, daily.
14) My superpower is always knowing where things are.
15) Water will always be my drink of choice,
16) but if I'm in a bar, I drink amaretto sours and a variety of girly cocktails.
17) You'd never guess from my alcohol preferences, but I'm very sensitive to sugar in drinks; if it's too sweet, I don't like it.
18) I'm also super sensitive to caffeine, which is why I almost always drink decaf
19) I love bright colors.
20) I have many, many opinions which I share with little provocation.
21) I am aware that many people don't like me. Can't win them all.
22) If I don't know you, like you, or care about you, you will never be able to ruffle my confidence.
23) Some might call me arrogant. I might agree,
24) but I'd rather be arrogant than full of false humility.
25) I have been in love twice.
26) I almost always know what I want and how I'm going to get it
27) and times when I don't are very disturbing for me.
28) I make time for eight hours of sleep almost every night
29) which is why I think I don't get sick very often,
30) but when I do, I am a total whiny baby and I pity anyone who's around me.
31) I believe firmly that I am in control of my life and that if it sucks, it is my job to fix it.
32) Lolita is my favorite book.
33) I recite poetry to myself when I am upset, sick, or scared.
34) I am becoming the kind of person my mother wants me to marry.
35) I love amusement parks and rollercoasters, the faster and higher the better,
36) and I don't care if that makes me white trash.
37) I love people who drive pickups,
38) fried bologna sandwiches,
39) and I am not ashamed of being a country girl.
40) Warm homemade tapioca pudding is the ultimate comfort food.
41) I'm the girl in the english/theater class who brings up the feminist, homosexual, and/or sexual themes in whatever you're reading.
42) When I was younger, I would have made an excellent ecoterrorist.
43) Thankfully, I have mellowed as I've grown, but I still want to drive a hybrid.
44) That said, I'm not a kneejerk liberal. I'm not really a kneejerk anything.
45) I am, however, firmly pro-choice
46) even though I'm adopted.
47) I didn't really live in my body until I started rock climbing and yoga.
48) I am much stronger than I look, and a little less strong than I think I am.
49) My personal strength comes from being my own biggest cheerleader.
50) Like nearly every other English-reading woman on the face of the earth, I love Pride and Prejudice.
51) I feel guilty for not wanting to be a doctor.
52) I am learning, slowly, that cynicism is not reality,
53) but I still don't believe in true love.
54) I donate blood whenever I can.
55) I prefer Superman to Batman, which is out of character for me
56) because usually I prefer literature dark and twisty.
57) I rely on wit and charm a little too much sometimes.
58) The most formative books of my childhood were The Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, (and others in the series) various and sundry fractured fairy tales, and Gone With the Wind.
59) If I could change one thing about myself, I would have a better singing voice.
60) I am not a strict recipe follower. I am a constant tinkerer.
61) Music is not a large part of my life,
62) which is odd because in high school I was all about music.
63) I own a third-generation iPod because I hate the click wheel.
64) I dance while I'm on the elliptical. I suspect I sing as well.
65) I am much more like my father than my mother.
66) I crave cheese more than any other food, trailed by potato chips.
67) I never drink soda.
68) In fact, I steer clear of most prepackaged foods and drinks.
69) I can count in both base 10 and binary on my fingers.
70) I am capable of functioning as a normal human being and as a complete and total nerd.
71) I love precise language.
72) Two of my personal heroes are Christopher Reeve and Jane Goodall.
73) I love chemistry, so much that if I had college to do over, I'd probably major in it,
74) but I don't regret choosing physics.
75) I could never be a vegetarian.
76) Flavors that will sell me on a particular dish are ginger, raspberry, and carrot.
77) I love soup. Especially non-clear soups.
78) The first place I sweat when I am overheated is the bridge of my nose.
79) I prefer Katherine Hepburn to Audrey.
80) I don't color enough. It's very theraputic.
81) I binge on celery when I'm angry. The crunch is satisfying.
82) I wish I could count cards.
83) I love sushi.
84) I feel at home in many places other than where I live.
85) I never wear gold, or gold-colored metals.
86) A large vocabulary and good grammar go a long ways towards winning me over.
87) That said, I'm now dating the least articulate man I've ever dated, and we're doing just fine.
88) If I'm wearing flats, I'm either on my way to the gym or trying for the fourth or fifth time to learn to walk like a normal person.
89) I never wear sweatpants in public unless I'm on my way to the gym.
90) I own a vibrator.
91) I also own something like nine or ten different perfumes. I wear three on a regular basis.
92) I'd rather buy books than clothing.
93) If I cook for you, you're doing the dishes.
94) I'm remarkably handy about the house, due to working in a lot of labs.
95) I can't barbeque. That's a man's job.
96) I used to collect paint samples from home improvement stores.
97) I send lots of thank yous.
98) I can use chopsticks, and I prefer them to forks sometimes.
99) I cannot stomach mint-flavored liquor.
100) I substitute cottage cheese for sour cream on baked potatoes and with salsa.