Important WriterWriting Information

1. I am not disturbed by the fact that I am in my 30s, except for when I discover that children whom I remember being born are now, in fact, getting married.
2. I live in North Carolina, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
3. I moved here from northern California, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
4. I grew up in Oklahoma, where the wind actually does come sweeping down the plain.
5. I have a degree in English that I do not use.
6. Sometimes I knit things. Very poorly.
7. Dave Matthews Band brings me an unending supply of happy.
8. The only reason I tolerate the existence of summer is because summer is DMB tour season.
9. One of the things on my bukkit list is to spend a summer following DMB.
10. Another things on my bukkit list is to play flute and/or piccolo in an orchestra during a performance of The Nutcracker.
11. I have an obsession with Africa.
12. Eastern Africa.
13. I also have an obsession with WWII and the Holocaust.
14. In my free time (and when I’m not being lazy), I study genocide and its impact on nations.
15. I took two years of German in high school but only remember how to count.
16. I can read/understand very basic French and only know how to say a few phrases. I spend a lot of time repeating “avec fromage” in my head.
17. I love cheese.
18. I really do.
19. Fromage!
20. I can discern simple French because of my two semesters of Spanish.
21. I have forgotten a shameful amount of my Spanish.
22. I want to gain fluency in French and Arabic so I can move to Europe and work for an aid/relief/human rights organization.
23. I will never move to Europe because it’s too far away from my mom and dad and brother.
24. If I did move there, I’d move to the Faroe Islands or The Netherlands.
25. I’d probably smoke myself to death in the first week.
26. I really love DMB.
27. I have very vivid memories of things I have never done.
28. I believe in God.
29. I believe in ghosts and spirits.
30. I believe in alternate planes of existence.
31. I believe in spiritual and other-worldly connections.
32. My spiritual gifts are intercession and mercy.
33. I’m done talking crazy Christian talk for a bit.
34. I’m very liberal.
35. I believe that God loves everyone, including Osama and Karl Rove.
36. Unfortunately, I also believe that I should love them, too.
37. I am misanthropic.
38. This makes it hard to love 95% of the world’s population.
39. I’m exploring becoming Quaker.
40. I’m a pacifist.
41. I’m all for gay marriage.
42. Sometimes I wish I could just become a lesbian.
43. I am woefully attracted to men.
44. One time I fell in love with a boy who had blue eyes.
45. I prefer men with brown eyes and five o’clock shadows.
46. When I was little, chest hair grossed me out and I would only drool over men with smooth, smooth chests.
47. Then I realized that wait a minute, some hairy chests are just hot.
48. Dave Matthews, for example.
49. Raul Bova, for another example.
50. Even though I’m not so good at it, I love photography.
51. I shoot with a Canon Power Shot S3 IS.
52. I lust after the Canon Digital Rebel XTi. Silver.
53. I like silver electronics.
54. I like silver cars, too.
55. I like cars.
56. My dream car is a Jaguar XR convertible in gun metal with black leather interior.
57. I’d also take an Audi in any flavor.
58. Or a McLaren.
59. The only car race worth watching is a Formula 1 race.
60. In my family, chicane means “oh shit.”
61. If you Google my first and last name, you’ll find that there is a porn star with my first and last name.
62. My name is not sexy.
63. One could say that I am addicted to the internetowebosphere.
64. I met most of my friends online.
65. I met my best friend online.
66. She is the most awesome person ever.
67. I met my ex-fiance online.
68. He’s a tool.
69. SEX.
70. I have many freckles.
71. There is a boy I fancy.
72. I like his butt and fancy hair.
73. I also like his eyes.
74. And his stubble.
75. And his chin.
76. Did I mention his butt?
77. I was born!
78. I should list interesting facts here.
79. My best friend was born!
80. I’m German, Irish, Swiss, Dutch, Danish, and English.
81. This means I’m a double-drunk peaceful pot-smoker with bad teeth and a tendency to avenge my father’s death.
82. I have a thing for Jack Kerouac.
83. Jack Kerouac and David Thewlis-as-writer are strikingly similar in my mind.
84. I collect blogs like some people collect figurines.
85. I decided this afternoon that I need to spend more time studying the European women who slept with German soldiers during occupation in WWII.
86. I am an unapologetic, unabashed feminist.
87. I am a dog person.
88. I would like cats more if I weren’t so violently allergic to them.
89. My favorite animal is the African elephant.
90. My favorite DMB album is Under the Table and Dreaming but 9 times out of 10, I put in Crash while I’m driving around in my car.
91. My favorite DMB song is #41, Cry Freedom, The Stone, Warehouse, Dancing Nancies, Granny, Recently, #36, Bartender, and Alligator Pie.
92. Yes, I have 10 favorite songs and I reserve the right to add as many as I like at any point in time.
93. My favorite Matt Nathanson song is Sooner Surrender or Church Clothes.
94. My favorite Howie Day song is After You, Annalise, Kristina, Disco, Come Lay Down, So Stung, and Standing in the Sun.
95. My favorite Led Zeppelin song is Hots on for Nowhere.
96. I love music.
97. Can you tell?
98. There are so many things about myself that you will never know unless you get to know me.
99. The odds of that are slim, sorry.
100. Any questions?