100 Things About Me

• I am a 5 year old around puppets; if you have a puppet on your hand I will talk to it and not you.  This is also true for those Disney characters at Disney World, even though I know it’s a college kid in a suit I still feel the need to hug “Tigger” and get a picture with him.
• I love milk and drink it every day, pretty much with every meal.  At my peak I can drink almost a gallon a day.
• My favorite color is blue.
• If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it’d probably be cheese steaks from Jim’s.  At least I’d die of a heart attack before I got sick of them.
• You will never see me with my pants tucked into my boots because I think that it looks like you’re trying too hard to be cool.
• My college nickname was “Space Cadet” because I joined the rugby team a few weeks late and all the other rookies already knew how to play while I ran around not knowing what the hell was going on.
• I can memorize the vast majority of a movie’s dialogue having only seen it once.
• Sometimes I give my inner monologue an accent (usually English or Scottish) because I really wish I had one.
• Yes, my hair is naturally this curly and no, no one else in my family has it so I don’t know where it comes from.
• I want to visit as many countries as possible, but I need to see Australia, Germany, Italy, and Egypt.
• I’ve already been throughout the US, Canada, England, and France.
• I’d usually rather sit at home and watch a movie than go out to a bar.
• If you’re male and have a British accent, there’s a 95% chance that I will fall completely in love with you.
• I have never broken a bone (knock on wood) although I bruise super easy.
• My favorite place in the world is a tie between The Eagle and Child Pub in Oxford and Allentown’s Rose Garden.
• I’m a member of the Beta Sigma fraternity (my Ancient Greek language class made it up for ourselves) and our motto is “Ballo suka!” (”I throw figs!”)
• The most fun I’ve ever had was playing a college rugby game when the pitch was 6 inches of mud.  My cleats stuck in it and were filled with muddy water and we were all completely covered in mud, but getting tackled didn’t hurt because the ground was so soft!
• I have a scar through my right eyebrow that was a result of falling onto my grandmother’s step-stool as a little kid, and another scar right under it (complete with stitches marks) from where I fell onto our coffee table.
• I like to sing and I was in choir from elementary school to college.
• I’m so pale that you can see blue veins under my skin that run across my chest and down my arms.
• I have hundreds of stuffed animals and refuse to give them up because they’re all from specific people or places.
• I collect shot glasses and mugs.
• I have 3 different toy light sabers, the coolest of which lights up and makes noise when you smack things.
• I have camouflage bed sheets and in college people actually didn’t see me in my bed, even when they were one foot away from me.
• When I wanted to buy said camo sheets, my mom got upset and whined “why can’t you be more like a girl?” which made my cry because I felt like she didn’t like me the way I was.
• I look exactly like my mom’s mom.
• I make the best cookies of all time.
• I can crochet a full sized blanket in a few days and a hat and scarf set in about an hour.
• I have a tendency to exaggerate and say things I don’t really mean.
• Sometimes my eyes change color between green and blue, and people have had actual arguments over what color they really are.
• I can swim well.
• I can sleep for 14 hours at a time.
• One time during a karate class exercise my partner kept kicking me so hard that both my upper arms from the shoulder to the elbow were completely black and blue for two weeks.  To this day if someone hits me in the arm it really, really hurts.
• I think every single species of animal is cute except for naked mole rats, which are gross.
• I wish I had telekinesis so I could push slow walkers out of my way.
• I hate orange the color and the fruit.
• My favorite bone is the patella, and you get bonus points if you actually know what that is without looking it up.
• I despise bugs, especially when they’re in my house.
• I went to Notre Dame Cathedral and have video footage of me acting like Quasimodo in front of it.
• I know where all the cool spots to visit in London are, and what tube stops to get off at to see them.
• I spent 8 hours outside in the rain at the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at Leicester Square, and I got autographs from the guys who play Seamus Finnigan and Viktor Krum.
• I put milk and about 9 sugar packets in coffee.
• I love the zoo because they’re all about educating people and conservation of animals, but I hate how the animals always look kind of sad.
• I always wear my college ring, and when I’m fidgety I twirl it around my left index finger (and I’m doing it now).
• I feel the most at peace when I’m in a library or park.
• I like astronomy and star-gazing, and I know where to find all the cool constellations.
• I’m 70% sure that tarot cards really can tell me all about my life.
• I’m 30% sure that tarot cards are baloney.
• I like the smell of someone’s pillow, because it’s unique to that person.
• I think that sitting in a basement lab in front of a computer most of the day is killing me a little bit inside.
• Thanks to Tales From the Crypt, I am terrified that an axe wielding psycho killer dressed as Santa will break into my house and kill me.
• If stranded on a desert island, I would bring the books: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, the Lord of the Rings, Pride and Prejudice, The Once and Future King, and The Great Gatsby.
• In college, two friends and I carried my roomate’s mattress across campus and used it as a sled.  To this day I will not use anything other than a plastic coated mattress to sled on, as it is that awesome.
• I tend to take either a glass or piece of silverware from each bar I go to as a token.
• I was voted Best Personality by my high school drama club twice in a row.
• My best New Year’s ever was spent under the London Eye swigging Asti Spumante straight from the bottle.
• I have tons of movie collectables such as Lord of the Rings jewelry, a Harry Potter wand, and the Pirates of the Caribbean dice game.
• I cannot flirt to save my life.
• I have a Bachelors of Science in Biology and Anthropology, ergo I’m really smart.
• I’m really shy and awkward around people I don’t know, so sometimes I come off as cold and distant when I’m really just nervous.
• I cannot listen to “Livin’ on a Prayer” without singing/shouting along with it.
• I’m ridiculously protective of people I care about.
• I said “that’s hot” before Paris Hilton did, but I don’t say it anymore because I don’t want to be associated with her.
• I think almost everything can be solved with a cup of good British tea, and I have about 100 bags of PG Tips in my cupboard at home.
• I would probably kill to host a (good) episode of Saturday Night Live.
• I think Old Yeller is a way cooler dog than Lassie.
• When something really excites me, I will probably tell you about it 4 times, even thought I know I’ve told you about it before.
• If you actually listen to me all 4 times without complaining you are my friend for life.
• I tend not to ask for help or talk about my problems because I’d rather fix them myself.
• I hate those chain emails that say “if you don’t forward this to 15 people you’ll get hit by a bus”.
• I like those chain emails with cute puppy and kitty pictures.
• I procrastinate like crazy on school work, but always get an A on it anyway.
• I sung the national anthem at a Phillies game with my high school chorus.
• My favorite artist is Claude Monet.
• When I was little I used to hide food I didn’t like under the lip of my plate, at the precise angle where my mom couldn’t see it and I’d say I was finished.  Then after I left she’d lift up the plate and see a ring of uneaten food.  She fell for it every time.
• I can impersonate just about anyone’s voice.
• I’m really simple and naive, but I’m not stupid.
• I’m a scorpio and my Chinese zodiac symbol is the dog.
• I’m loyal to a fault.
• I’m the most stubborn person ever and will almost never admit I’m wrong.
• I stick with what’s tried and true, and generally resist change.
• But I’ve got a wandering spirit, and I get bored if I’m stuck in the same thing for too long.
• I think cheating on your significant other is one of the worst things you can do, and it’s one of the few things I could not forgive.
• I’m way too shy to ever make the first move in just about every situation. 
• I believe it’s possible to love one person for your whole life and be the better for it (I think I stole this line from a movie, but it’s true nonetheless).
• It upsets me that movie stars make millions of dollars for a crappy movie, while people who do cancer and AIDS research can barely live off their salaries.
• I’m always polite and I think that good manners will get you far.
• My childhood ambition was to be Batgirl, or a veterinarian.
• I’m extremely low maintenance.
• On a Girl Scout trip in 5th grade I slept a night in the Franklin Institute next to the statue of Ben Franklin.  I stayed up late and read Muppet Babies comic cooks by flashlight.
• I have a series of triangle shaped scars by my left eye and on my cheek where my friend’s dog bit me in 3rd grade.
• I like to walk around Philly, especially Old City and down by the art museum, and clear my head.
• I hate how Americans care more about celebrity’s lives than actual world issues, yet I still read Perez Hilton’s blog every day.
• When Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix came out, I shut myself in my basement and didn’t move until I had read the whole thing.  I finished all 870 pages in 7 1/2 hours.
• I hate eggs, partly because I don’t like the taste and partly because my mom used to force feed them to me anyway.
• I tend to act dumber that I am because whenever I talk about something intelligent people look at me like I’m a freak.
• My favorite athlete of all time is John LeClair and I have his Flyers jersey and an autographed puck and picture.
• I love to be barefoot.
• I still have two baby teeth because the adult teeth just weren’t there.
• I love classical music.