off topic
stolen from karen. my 100 Things:
1. i can't touch my toes
2. but i can get my ankles behind my head
3. i used to play the violin
4. i can't touch sandpaper because it makes my skin crawl
5. i was born three months premature and weighed 2 pounds 5 ounces
6. i am an infp
7. i do recreation with alzheimer's patients
8. i am extroverted with them, with the rest of the world, not so much
9. i was born in my grandparents house
10. i have zero sense of direction, and i think this is why new york sometimes petrifies me
11. i named my cat after gargamel's cat in the smurfs
12. i still have my satin yankees jacket from when i was tiny
13. i can't dance
14. i can't sing
15. i wish i could do both
16. i miss my estonian great-grandma every day. every day.
17. my dad is not my dad but strangers always say we look alike
18. i was a gothity goth in high school
19. i have 20/200 vision in my left eye
20. which doesn't mean i wear my glasses like i should
21. my mother is convinced i have some form of math dyslexia
22. i used to want to be a writer
23. i nearly went to college in boston (i recall visiting emerson and going to some bar with my parents to eat, there was a yankees-sox game on the television, i vividly remember trying to keep my body language still...)
24. anyway, i didn't go there, because i was dumb in-love
25. i really, really regret it
26. i rarely watch movies that aren't black and white
27. i used to work at an auto parts store
28. i have a filthy mouth
29. i think the elements of style and sin and syntax are totally awesome books
30. i am a social smoker
31. i don't like watching yankee games with people who talk too much. my father's words: "you're MEAN."
32. i have been to every state on the east coast but never west of philadelphia
33. i think george clooney is the bee's knees
34. i hate the question "what kind of music do you listen to?"
35. i am going to start telling people i don't listen to music ever so i can avoid the blank stares i get when i answer honestly
36. i love clothes but i hate shopping
37. i can't balance a checkbook
38. i have a scar across my right hand from being continuously fed intravenously as a baby
39. i have a slight underbite + a strong jaw so on bad days i think i look like slingblade
40. but i wouldnt let the doctor crack and reset my jaw when i was 16 so i guess it's my own fault
41. american gothic was the coolest show ever
42. i hate the phone
43. but i love getting voicemail
44. the chrysler building makes me happy. not as happy as yankee stadium, though.
45. i read poetry out loud to myself, sometimes. other peoples. i don't write anymore.
46. i have some ridiculous smartypants genes running amuck in my family, and while i am beyond delighted and proud to tell people about my one cousin going to william and mary, or my other cousin planning her postgrad work at columbia, i sniff at academia in regards to my own self. don't ask me why, because i don't know.
47. i have a history of frustrating teachers with my totally awesome potential and lack of caring about fulfilling it. one teacher in high school called my mother up, bewildered on the verge of tears, and asked "WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?"
48. and yet, i have a great WORK work ethic. i love my job and bust my ass on a daily basis.
49. helping professions are a trend among the females of my family: my mother teaches classified kids; her sister is a social worker with a hospice agency; another aunt was an ER tech, taught at a school for "adoescents with mental illness who have failed at all other treatments," and now teaches special education; another does book keeping for her church and helps run a program there that integrates female prisoners back into society.
50. my first word was duck
51. apparently i referred to myself as "jenny quack quack"
52. i had an imaginary friend named michael ditdiddle
53. i forgot all about that until just now
54. my late aunt's name for me as a child was sarah bernhardt, because i was so dramatic
55. i love the Eloise children's books to distraction
56. my middle name is kate, but isn't really. my dad decided one day that it had a nice ring and it stuck.
57. red is my favorite color - my room is painted red
58. i never want to be far from the ocean
59. i love to read up on voodoo and caribbean culture
60. i took six years of french and couldn't tell you merde about it
61. my first kiss was when i was in italy at age 16
62. i am a good cook. i love shopping, chopping, measuring, all of it. i could stay home and cook all day long. and sometimes i do just that.
63. joseph campbell is my hero
64. my mom's idea of family vacations was to go to historic sites. i have been to monticello so many times it's accrued a warm familiar feeling in my heart.
65. i have religious candles all over my room, but am not religious. far from it.
66. i like to listen but i hate talking about myself. this list is fairly out of character for me.
67. i am pigheaded: when i was 5, i refused to open my mouth for the dental hygenist and she was so mad she told my mother never to bring me back again.
68. my dad is a general contractor and taught me not to be afraid of swinging a hammer. we spent one summer weekend finishing and screening in our porch, something that astonishes my friends, because i guess i'm girly or something
69. i am guilty of seeing cute old people on the street and thinking LET ME BRING YOU BACK TO THE NURSING HOME
70. i am obsessed with makeup but rarely wear it
71. i had a teacher who once told me i should be a hand model
72. my hair used to be down to the small of my back
73. i was class individualist in high school. snort.
74. i can't bake
75. i don't watch the news
76. i love bruce springsteen
77. my ap english teacher stalked kevin smith into coming to speak to our journalism class. it was FUCK this and FUCK that, and when one girl got up to go to the bathroom, it was WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING. it was hilarious. sadly, the video mysteriously vanished.
78. i am obsessed with dutch coffee from the inkwell in red bank
79. boys still make me shy
80. i think a jamaican accent sounds weirdly like an irish one
81. yes, i do have a new jersey accent
82. i subconsciously mimic other people's accents during conversations
83. i drive a volvo
84. for a swedish car it's shitty in the snow. stupid rear wheel drive.
85. i have a pocketbook fetish
86. i am opinionated
87. but i hate confrontation
88. i am a Cancer
89. i am the oldest child
90. i read SoSH regularly, and not just for the schadenfreude
91. i love new jersey and don't you dare talk shit about it to me
92. i grew up in a racially diverse town and for whatever reason feel ill at ease when i'm surrounded by white people, even though i'm the whitest whitey that ever was.
93. i have a baseball signed by a bunch of mets. i was probably 7, and i remember being thoroughly unimpressed because they werent yankees. and grossed out that bud harrelson signed it " to jennifer - love and kisses."
94. i love writing and getting letters
95. i had night terrors as a child
96. my mom really did want to name me after thurman munson. i had the misfortune of being born a girl and instead she named me after jennifer, from wkrp in cincinnati.
97. i have a diamond ring i inherited from a great aunt and it only fits on the middle finger of my left hand. the people at work always mistake it for an engagement ring and demand to know when i'm getting married.
98. sometimes i slip it on my ring finger to fend off creepy guys
99. i hate salmon
100. i'm always late. always.
1. i can't touch my toes
2. but i can get my ankles behind my head
3. i used to play the violin
4. i can't touch sandpaper because it makes my skin crawl
5. i was born three months premature and weighed 2 pounds 5 ounces
6. i am an infp
7. i do recreation with alzheimer's patients
8. i am extroverted with them, with the rest of the world, not so much
9. i was born in my grandparents house
10. i have zero sense of direction, and i think this is why new york sometimes petrifies me
11. i named my cat after gargamel's cat in the smurfs
12. i still have my satin yankees jacket from when i was tiny
13. i can't dance
14. i can't sing
15. i wish i could do both
16. i miss my estonian great-grandma every day. every day.
17. my dad is not my dad but strangers always say we look alike
18. i was a gothity goth in high school
19. i have 20/200 vision in my left eye
20. which doesn't mean i wear my glasses like i should
21. my mother is convinced i have some form of math dyslexia
22. i used to want to be a writer
23. i nearly went to college in boston (i recall visiting emerson and going to some bar with my parents to eat, there was a yankees-sox game on the television, i vividly remember trying to keep my body language still...)
24. anyway, i didn't go there, because i was dumb in-love
25. i really, really regret it
26. i rarely watch movies that aren't black and white
27. i used to work at an auto parts store
28. i have a filthy mouth
29. i think the elements of style and sin and syntax are totally awesome books
30. i am a social smoker
31. i don't like watching yankee games with people who talk too much. my father's words: "you're MEAN."
32. i have been to every state on the east coast but never west of philadelphia
33. i think george clooney is the bee's knees
34. i hate the question "what kind of music do you listen to?"
35. i am going to start telling people i don't listen to music ever so i can avoid the blank stares i get when i answer honestly
36. i love clothes but i hate shopping
37. i can't balance a checkbook
38. i have a scar across my right hand from being continuously fed intravenously as a baby
39. i have a slight underbite + a strong jaw so on bad days i think i look like slingblade
40. but i wouldnt let the doctor crack and reset my jaw when i was 16 so i guess it's my own fault
41. american gothic was the coolest show ever
42. i hate the phone
43. but i love getting voicemail
44. the chrysler building makes me happy. not as happy as yankee stadium, though.
45. i read poetry out loud to myself, sometimes. other peoples. i don't write anymore.
46. i have some ridiculous smartypants genes running amuck in my family, and while i am beyond delighted and proud to tell people about my one cousin going to william and mary, or my other cousin planning her postgrad work at columbia, i sniff at academia in regards to my own self. don't ask me why, because i don't know.
47. i have a history of frustrating teachers with my totally awesome potential and lack of caring about fulfilling it. one teacher in high school called my mother up, bewildered on the verge of tears, and asked "WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?"
48. and yet, i have a great WORK work ethic. i love my job and bust my ass on a daily basis.
49. helping professions are a trend among the females of my family: my mother teaches classified kids; her sister is a social worker with a hospice agency; another aunt was an ER tech, taught at a school for "adoescents with mental illness who have failed at all other treatments," and now teaches special education; another does book keeping for her church and helps run a program there that integrates female prisoners back into society.
50. my first word was duck
51. apparently i referred to myself as "jenny quack quack"
52. i had an imaginary friend named michael ditdiddle
53. i forgot all about that until just now
54. my late aunt's name for me as a child was sarah bernhardt, because i was so dramatic
55. i love the Eloise children's books to distraction
56. my middle name is kate, but isn't really. my dad decided one day that it had a nice ring and it stuck.
57. red is my favorite color - my room is painted red
58. i never want to be far from the ocean
59. i love to read up on voodoo and caribbean culture
60. i took six years of french and couldn't tell you merde about it
61. my first kiss was when i was in italy at age 16
62. i am a good cook. i love shopping, chopping, measuring, all of it. i could stay home and cook all day long. and sometimes i do just that.
63. joseph campbell is my hero
64. my mom's idea of family vacations was to go to historic sites. i have been to monticello so many times it's accrued a warm familiar feeling in my heart.
65. i have religious candles all over my room, but am not religious. far from it.
66. i like to listen but i hate talking about myself. this list is fairly out of character for me.
67. i am pigheaded: when i was 5, i refused to open my mouth for the dental hygenist and she was so mad she told my mother never to bring me back again.
68. my dad is a general contractor and taught me not to be afraid of swinging a hammer. we spent one summer weekend finishing and screening in our porch, something that astonishes my friends, because i guess i'm girly or something
69. i am guilty of seeing cute old people on the street and thinking LET ME BRING YOU BACK TO THE NURSING HOME
70. i am obsessed with makeup but rarely wear it
71. i had a teacher who once told me i should be a hand model
72. my hair used to be down to the small of my back
73. i was class individualist in high school. snort.
74. i can't bake
75. i don't watch the news
76. i love bruce springsteen
77. my ap english teacher stalked kevin smith into coming to speak to our journalism class. it was FUCK this and FUCK that, and when one girl got up to go to the bathroom, it was WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING. it was hilarious. sadly, the video mysteriously vanished.
78. i am obsessed with dutch coffee from the inkwell in red bank
79. boys still make me shy
80. i think a jamaican accent sounds weirdly like an irish one
81. yes, i do have a new jersey accent
82. i subconsciously mimic other people's accents during conversations
83. i drive a volvo
84. for a swedish car it's shitty in the snow. stupid rear wheel drive.
85. i have a pocketbook fetish
86. i am opinionated
87. but i hate confrontation
88. i am a Cancer
89. i am the oldest child
90. i read SoSH regularly, and not just for the schadenfreude
91. i love new jersey and don't you dare talk shit about it to me
92. i grew up in a racially diverse town and for whatever reason feel ill at ease when i'm surrounded by white people, even though i'm the whitest whitey that ever was.
93. i have a baseball signed by a bunch of mets. i was probably 7, and i remember being thoroughly unimpressed because they werent yankees. and grossed out that bud harrelson signed it " to jennifer - love and kisses."
94. i love writing and getting letters
95. i had night terrors as a child
96. my mom really did want to name me after thurman munson. i had the misfortune of being born a girl and instead she named me after jennifer, from wkrp in cincinnati.
97. i have a diamond ring i inherited from a great aunt and it only fits on the middle finger of my left hand. the people at work always mistake it for an engagement ring and demand to know when i'm getting married.
98. sometimes i slip it on my ring finger to fend off creepy guys
99. i hate salmon
100. i'm always late. always.