1. I was born in the year of the Tiger.
2. I once had a hamster named "Albert B. Fuzzy Hot-in-Tot Ratman the Third"
3. I hate bell peppers of all colors and refuse to eat them.
4. I like the taste of onions, but can't stand to eat them.
5. My father drowned when I was 16 years old.
6. For the first 12 years of my life I was raised Mormon.
7. I have battled with weight and self-esteem issues my entire life.
8. I first made love when I was 17.
9. I taught myself how to drive a stick while visiting a friend in Colorado one summer.
10. I talk to my cats as if they were people. They talk back to me.
11. I bruise easily and often have bruises that I have no idea how I got.
12. When I was in elementary school my family boarded 2 horses named Kite and Legal on our property for the summer and I got to take care of them. Though I couldn't ride them since Kite had cracked hooves and Legal was too wild.
13. I can French braid my own hair, but not someone else’s.
14. I used to dress up as Colombia when I went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
15. I was once part of the floorshow for the RHPS during the Halloween showing at Western Connecticut State University.
16. The college I went to no longer exists. The name was changed from Western Maryland College to McDaniel College. I voted against the name change.
17. My freshman year of college I stood outside a polling location and tried to convince voters to "vote yes on question 6" - which will keep abortion in Maryland if Roe v. Wade ever gets overturned. The resolution passed at my voting location by less than 100 votes.
18. I've been a vegetarian since September 1994. The last piece of beef I ate was filet of beef au poivre at Drake's on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. It was wonderful.
19. For my undergraduate degree I majored in English, with minors in Classics and Comparative Literature.
20. I have a masters in library and information science.
21. I started working in public libraries in September 1990. I stopped working in libraries in 2000.
22. In 2002 I walked 26.2 miles for the Portland Marathon. I did it by training with Team in Training. It took me 8 hours, 28 minutes and 48 seconds.
23. I'm named for my great-grandmothers Chiara Maria Salvatore Nardozza and Florence Mae Courter Mowry.
24. I'm proud of my Italian heritage and want to learn to speak Italian someday.
25. I've been outside the USA to visit: Canada, Mexico, the British Virgin Islands, England, Scotland, Italy, Greece, Brazil, The Netherlands, and Egypt. (And technically I've been to France, but I only spent overnight at the airport, so I don't think it counts).
26. Someday I want to go to Kenya and go on a photographic safari.
27. I have to get over my fear of giant bugs before I go to sub-Sahara Africa.
28. The first "rock" concert I went to was Belinda Carlisle at Hershey's Lake Compound in CT with my Girl Scout troop.
29. I've had two cats that are polydactyl - Scribbles and Freesia.
30. I refuse to buy Nike sneakers.
31. I need to wear orthotics since my feet are pronated.
32. My favorite colors are green and blue.
33. I used to dye my hair all the time. I wanted it the color of a British pillar-box, but never quite got it the correct shade.
34. I have my ears tripled pierced, but I only used the bottom holes for many years. I just started wearing earrings in all the holes again.
35. I think it might be neat to get a tattoo, but I know I'm too much of a baby to put up with the pain.
36. It makes me sad that you can buy "Goth clothing" at the mall now.
37. In college I really wanted to be freak, but I never could pull it off. I'm not even sure that I ever achieved even "weird."
38. In 5th grade I thought if I got my ears pierced and my hair feathered I would be popular, since all the popular girls had pierced ears and feathered hair. It didn't work.
39. I stopped eating meat because I felt like a hypocrite saying, "don't test on animals" and "don't wear fur coats," but then eating a hamburger.
40. I was a Girl Scout for 9 years and earned both my Silver Award and Gold Award. My Gold Award project was to create a council camping cookbook.
41. I earned two scholarships to college - one for getting my Girl Scout Gold Award and the other for academic excellence.
42. I graduated magna cum laude from WMC and summa cum laude from Simmons College.
43. I find European history fascinating, but have no interest in African or South American history at all.
44. Used to ask for a real horse for Christmas and my birthday every year when I was a child. I never got one.
45. I used to give blood as often as I could. I also did aphaeresis (or platelet) donations. My iron counts are too low for me to give blood now.
46. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.
47. I love the work of Beatrix Potter. My favorite character is Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, the hedgehog.
48. I once had a psychic tell me that my first husband would die of a heart attack. And that I would have three children.
49. I enjoy being a geek.
50. I am a Pisces.
51. I love the way kittens smell.
52. Wear size 10.5 in women's shoes, so often wear men's shoes since they fit better and are easier to find.
53. Started living on my own for the first time in April 2004.
54. I am the first one in my (non-extended) family to earn a master's degree.
55. Studied Spanish in high school and college. Pero no hablo muy buen.
56. Wear a toe ring on my left foot because I think it's sexy.
57. Get professional pedicures because I can't paint polish on my nails to save my life.
58. Never had a nickname that stuck until college when I was dubbed "Chachi." My former roommate and friends from that time still call me by that name.
59. Used to have an account on FurryMUCK, before I knew what "furries" were. I was a river otter named Andromache.
60. My first email address was through a freenet in Ohio in 1995.
61. I love to trace my family genealogy, a hobby I got from my father.
62. My dream car is a hybrid or electric station wagon.
63. My first car was a 1989 Ford Escort. It had been my dad's. The first car I purchased was a Toyota Corolla station wagon. I was 22.
64. One of my dreams is to learn how to make fancy cakes and desserts like the bakery does.
65. I've worked as a: library page, catering waitress, food prep, florist, computer lab assistant, office temp, bookseller, librarian (cataloger, reference, ILL, and serials), and information architect.
66. I wear glasses. I first got them in first grade, but I stopped wearing them in 6th grade because they weren't improving my vision. I needed them again in college and have worn them ever since.
67. I have a cataract in my right eye that I was born with that is outside my field of vision.
68. I'm right-handed.
69. I have great respect for fungus. The world could not survive without it. But I cannot eat it.
70. I love elephant jokes. And chicken jokes. And librarian jokes. And librarian chicken jokes about elephants.
71. I love lists. I love making them and crossing things off them. I also enjoy filling out forms that have lots of checkboxes and other widgets.
72. Both my brother and my great-grandfather were born with 6 toes on one foot. I hope I have a child with six toes, but I think it's doubtful.
73. I once got a speeding ticket while driving to a concert. When I got there the singer, Lisa Cerbone, autographed my ticket. I still have it.
74. I used to want to be an artist. But my skills are not refined enough and I don't have the patience to cultivate them.
75. I have been snorkeling twice - when I went to the British Virgin Islands and when I went to Maui. I'm also now Scuba certified.
76. I have never broken a bone. I always thought it would be cool to break my arm though, so folks could sign my cast.
77. I'm scared of heights - I start to get dizzy and panic. It doesn't stop me from hiking, but it does stop me from climbing and repelling. At this point, I'm okay with that.
78. I don't belong to any political party because I don't want to give any of them the satisfaction of having another constituent.
79. Of the 4 cars that I've owned, three of them have been covered with bumper stickers.
80. I'm annoyed by folks who don't use their turn signal while driving.
81. I drive fast. Often.
82. My first crush was on this kid Michael in first grade. He was blonde and had blue eyes and hated me.
83. I've lived in: Virginia, Connecticut, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, and California.
84. I love snowstorms, especially the first snowfall of the year.
85. I hate heat and humidity. I would much rather be too cold than too hot.
86. I don't like the taste of beer. Though I am willing to try different beers to see if I can find one I could drink.
87. I'm a very bad speller. In middle school I had to take remedial spelling classes when everyone else got to study a foreign language.
88. My favorite bands are R.E.M. and U2.
89. While I miss the community that comes from going to church regularly, I do not miss the dogma, politics, and institutionalism that I've found go along with going to church.
90. I did very well in algebra but hated geometry and calculus.
91. I became an English major because I liked to read and I knew it would be easy and I could be good at it. I'm not proud of that.
92. I'm still friends with more folks from high school than I am with folks from college.
93. I love watching fish swim. Someday I hope to have a salt-water aquarium.
94. I hate that I enjoy living in suburbia. I hate the sprawl and the way it looks. But I like the convenience and that I can go visit the city when I want to.
95. I've only been to Las Vegas once. It was on a trip from LA to Denver and the train tracks got washed out so they put us on buses. And the bus changed drivers in Vegas. I was 8. I just remember bright lights. EDIT: I've now been to Vegas 3 times, once for fun and twice for conferences. I don't really like it.
96. I want to hike in the Black Forest and eat real Bavarian Crème.
97. I love looking at currency from different nations.
98. I will probably inherit my father's stamp collection. And I will probably add to it.
99. I never eat any type of fish or shellfish because I don't like the way it tastes.
100. I am finally learning to love me.
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