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geminigirl1. I once got to sing at Carnegie Hall.
2. One of the people I respect most is the only guy who
ever asked my permission before he kissed me. And since
he may be reading this, thank you-I never told you how
much that meant.
3. If I weren't doing something related to what I'm doing
now, like teaching or something, my dream jobs would be
either newspaper columnist or event/party planner.
4. If you've ever watched an American Popeye Cartoon, or
watched American television and seen ads for Little
Ceasar's Pizza, GI Joe, Amoco gasoline or Frosted Flakes
you're almost certainly familiar with my Uncle
Jack's voice, but you most likely wouldn't recognize
his face.
5. I'm very proud of the fact that I can usually speak
freely as a rape survivor and actually talk about what
happened.
6. Kate Bornstein signed my tits.
7. I have a weakness for Barry Manilow.
8. My Mom was friends with Barry Manilow many years ago-
before he'd even begun playing piano for Bette Middler.
9. The song "The Ugly Duckling" makes me cry.
10. I won a national award from the National Council of
Teachers of English.
11. I used to compete in synchronized swimming.
12. My favorite Christmas carol is The Cherry Tree Carol
13. I have an extreme aversion to eating things with
heads...no animal crackers, gummi bears, gingerbread men
or animal shaped peeps. And forget the chocolate bunnies.
14. My other weird phobia is tentacles. Anything with
tentacles.
15. But I've had nightmares about sharks eating my toes
while I sleep ever since I was a kid...I have to sleep
with socks on or my toes covered by the blankets or both.
16. After I read Helter Skelter-the book about the
Manson Family Murders I refused to sleep with my bedroom
windows open for years.
17. My grandfather was once featured in Fortune magazine.
18. My best ever Halloween costume was a table.
19. I want to learn to speak Dutch.
20. I applied to 11 schools for my undergraduate work-I
wasn't rejected from any of them.
21. I appeared in the Portraits of Long Island ad campaign
for a bank back in 1989.
22. Michael Flatley (of Riverdance) saw me naked.
23. A paper I wrote on treating HIV in prison was presented
before the New York State Assembly.
24. One of my guilty pleasures is Christain radio parenting
advice call in shows.
25. When I was 16 I got to interview Erica Jong.
26. I helped found a Women's Center at the university I did
my master's degree at.
27. I once had sex in the Lincoln Memorial.
28. I've never taken a human sexuality class.
29. I never believed in Santa Claus.
30. Mac and cheese from a box or grilled cheese are comfort
foods.
31. My star chart was done by the Rabbi when I was born. I
didn't see it until many many years later, but it was so
spot on that it scared me. It's for this reason that I
have some faith in astrology.
32. I loved Richard Scarry books as a kid, and learned to
read in nursery school because I'd make my Mom read the
same book again and again til I'd memorized it. She got
bored/annoyed and put them on tapes for me-that's how I
learned to read.
33. When I was first given solid foods as a kid the only
thing I'd eat was my Mom's Barbqued chicken (which is
more like sweet and sour)-it's still one of my favorite
foods.
34. I have incredible texture issues with food...I refuse to
eat things like cottage cheese. lima beans, oatmeal and
a bunch of other stuff because of the texture.
35. I don't mind speaking in public.
36. Multitasking is easier than doing one thing at a time
for me.
37. I hate making phone calls-especially to people I don't
know. I'd much rather e-mail people initially.
38. I still like to sleep with a teddy bear.
39. I've only just started sleeping without a nightlight and
I think I'm going to get a new one-I don't like the dark.
40. I keep a list of guilty pleasures.
41. ET was the first movie I ever cried at.
42. I hate going to public events alone. Which really means
I'm far shyer than most people think...unfortunatly, I'm
intimidated by meeting new people.
43. I regret never coming out to my grandfather.
44. The one article of clothing I couldn't live without is a
black t-shirt.
45. I used to keep a list of things I'd done that I'd never
thought I would have done. It got too long, so I
stopped.
46. Meat on pizza is weird. Chicken is sometimes okay.
47. All my boyfriends from jr. high and high school except
for one are now gay.
48. My hair has been a variety of different colors, most
often purple. I kind of miss that.
49. I decided not to get any facial piercings back in
college because I was very involved in student
leadership related stuff and thought it would be easier
to be taken seriously by administration if I looked less
freaky.
50. One of the things I want to do if it's ever possible in
my lifetime is to see what the earth looks like from
space.
51. My very first celebrity crush was on Gary Coleman
52. I once appeared on Candid Camera-eating corn on the cob.
53. There is one thing my mother can still do that will
guarantee that I start laughing.
54. The book "The Velveteen Rabbit" scared me as a kid-and
now makes me cry.
55. I know how to play the viola.
56. I love game shows.
57. The animated Lord of the Rings stuff I saw as a kid
terrified me so much that I didn't read the books until
I was in high school.
58. I hate not finishing a book once I've started-no matter
how awful it is.
59. Most of the time, I'm in the middle of at least three
books at a time.
60. I'm incredibly touchy about using the word Nazi in any
context other than relating to the National Socialist
Party in Germany and the era in which they were in
power.
61. I went to the same summer camp as one half of Ben and
Jerry (I think only one of them went) but I don't recall
which one.
62. I have scoliosis.
63. I love logic puzzles-the ones with the little grids.
64. Sometimes I miss smoking cigarettes. But they never
taste as good as I remember.
65. I used to help beta test stuff for BattleLords of the
23rd Century.
66. I read Clan of the Cavebear when I was in second
grade. The most memorable part of it was the nudity.
67. One of my favorite places to read is the bathroom.
68. I tend to gorge on veggies rather than sweets.
69. I have one piece of clothing I've owned since junior high
70. Because technicalities count, I have actually lost the
beastiality point on the purity test.
71. I'm allergic to latex. I'm also not supposed to eat
bananas or kiwis.
72. One of my favorite drinks is Bailey's and Coke.
73. I am often sappy and romantic.
74. I cry easily.
75. I enjoy needlepoint, but cross stitch is far too fussy
for me to find it relaxing.
76. I love baking cookies but don't do it because I don't
like eating cookies very much.
77. I have no nicknames related to my real name.
78. I'm uncomfortable when people tell me I'm attractive.
79. I'm not always very good at asking for what I need or
want.
80. I avoid conflict whenever I can.
81. I'm passionate about things I percieve as unjust or
causes I believe in.
82. One thing I usually like about myself even when I'm
having a self-hating day is my hair.
83. I've been doing something HIV related for more than 1/3
of my life.
84. I hate the regional accent from where I grew up (Long
Island, outside New York City) and have very little
accent, but I'm very conscious of it when I hear it from
my mouth.
85. I'm superstitious about a few things.
86. I used to kill my mother's fish by feeding them my
bologna and cheese.
87. I hate having cold feet, but hate wearing shoes.
88. I'm not always comfortable with the label bisexual, but
I'm not comfortable with the label lesbian either.
89. I hate to drive, but I want to learn to fly an airplane.
90. The very first music I bought for myself was Falco's
Amadeus. I bought it on a 45.
91. I've never taken a physics class.
92. I've never dissected anything.
93. I've never taken a calculus course.
94. My initials spell EGG-this was a souce of much childhood
teasing.
95. I don't like having my feet touched.
96. I love playing Monopoly. I don't get to play often
though.
97. I didn't learn my 12 times table until high school.
98. I've forgotten how to ride a bicycle.
99. The most common name among men I've dated is Mike.
100. There are no repeats among the names of women I've
dated.
That was hard to do. An all day project in fact. I did it for the sheer challenge of doing it...and I'm glad I did. It was interesting to think about.
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Date: 2002-12-25 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-25 09:22 pm (UTC)lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-25 08:50 pm (UTC)Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-25 09:03 pm (UTC)Depending on the year, I may even have been a host.
Or I'm way off base. In any event, impressive list. :)
Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-25 09:13 pm (UTC)Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-25 09:40 pm (UTC)The most amusing part of this is that I didn't know until several years after it happened that I'd been seen nude by him...I heard about it at a party when the story was being told by someone else-who didn't know that I was unaware.
Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-25 09:57 pm (UTC)Goodnight,
J
Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-25 10:03 pm (UTC)Such is the exciting life I have.
Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-26 03:21 am (UTC)Nope. Can't say it with a straight face. But I had to try :)
"Dance, dance, wherever you may be. I am the lord of the dance said he!"
Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-26 05:52 am (UTC)I had nothing to do with it, other than being naked at the place and the time.
(I'm not even sure "right place, right time," works here!)
Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-26 08:50 am (UTC)That song is one of my all-time FAVORITE songs. We used to sing it in church (when I went to church.)
Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-26 07:39 am (UTC)As I re-read this less fogged by the need for sleep, I'm reminded of that conversation we had about who from livejournal knows who you really are.
And then I wonder, how in the world can you take me seriously on a professional level when you've now heard this story.
Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-26 07:43 am (UTC)please, don't sweat it. we all have stories, and to me being real about who you are only enhances your credibility.
peace out
j
Re: lord of the dance, indeed!
Date: 2002-12-26 07:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-26 06:09 am (UTC)"78. I'm uncomfortable when people tell me I'm attractive."
You're attractive. :-)
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Date: 2002-12-26 07:16 am (UTC)And thank you.
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Date: 2002-12-26 06:54 am (UTC)beastiality point on the purity test.
*giggles hysterically*
*says nothing*
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And thank you for making me laugh this morning.
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Date: 2005-01-06 02:36 pm (UTC)Just wanted to let you know that I may be stopping by your journal. I wish you well.
L.
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Date: 2005-01-06 06:45 pm (UTC)You're welcome to read my journal. I was in DC as a college student and then in the DC Metro area for another four years after a few in New York. I've recently left the DC Metro area to head back up north to be with my fiance, however, my journal is filled with cool DC-Local people, and you may find that you cross paths with them if you keep reading.
Welcome. I love DC, and would move back there in an instant if it were sensible.
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Date: 2008-04-01 04:00 am (UTC)#13 made me think of this post: http://bezigebij.livejournal.com/155100.html
I'm very pleased to say that in the last 6 months #5 is true for me as well.
Curious, why are you interested in learning Dutch? Ik bedoel, als je niet eens in Nederland of Vlaanderen woont, heeft het nut?