my list

otherwise known as Things one may not know about me nor may not necessarily care to know about me but since one is still reading will, indeed, know about me.

1. I really hate the stereotype that all women love chocolate (think that hershey's commercial with the guy imitating girls who like chocolate)
2. but i still like chocolate, especially dark.
3. this year i discovered that i really like strawberries.
4. i get freckles in the summer. i really like them.
5. i haven't gotten any yet because i use a moisturizer with sunscreen every day.
6. i sleep in the center of my queen-sized bed. why choose a side when i'm not sharing it?
7. i used to hang any flowers i got from anyone on a string in front of my bedroom window.
8. yesterday i threw out that string complete with flowers. i only saved one.
9. it was a rose someone gave to me in Argentina that i smuggled back into the states by hiding in the back of a notebook.
10. i have tea twice a day, even in summer.
11. once in the morning and once when i get home from work.
12. i generally read three magazines cover-to-cover: Vogue, Time, and National Geographic
13. is my favorite number, because my birthday is a 13 (january)
14. 13 in my mind always has the same color - white on top, pink on bottom, with a black ziz-zag border going across. i don't know why i assign colors to numbers, but i do.
15. i am a very visual person.
16. if you're telling me a story about something you did and it involves lot of people and is pretty complicated, i'll ask you to draw a picture so i can understand what is happening.
17. i've crossed the andes six times.
18. i've flown between the US and Argentina ten times. that is a hundred hours flying.
19. in high school i ran 1500 miles.
20. i love telenovelas.
21. i have been to london exactly once. i spent the majority of my time riding the tube.
22. my best time for two miles was 12:15
23. though the mile was my favorite race.
24. i love yoga.
25. i almost have a six pack stomach from doing pilates.
26. i have not done crunches or sit-ups since i started doing pilates.
27. i have a 24-inch waist.
28. and my hips are 34-inches at their widest.
29. which converts to a 0.70 waist-to-hip ratio.
30. this is the basis of my self-confidence: if i am deemed attractive by sientific studies, then i must be OK. (it looks like an interesting article - scroll down to the Waist to Hip Ratio section - for the non-math inclined, 70% = 0.70)
31. i feel like a nerd for actually looking this up. i actually saw this a while ago on discovery health channel and was fascinated.
32. i used to write. but i'm not depressed anymore so i haven't had the drive to come out with a good poem.
33. once, for an extra credit project in high school, i wrote a six page poem all in rhyming couplets (nurugger8 helped me with a few lines.)
34. i keep a journal of my dreams. i like to trace the themes in them. some have been: volcanoes, the color purple, houses within houses, and huge mansions.
35. i have a dream-world; i've visited the same place in more than two different dreams.
36. once when i was very depressed (fall 2001) i dreamed about the main thing that made me sad (mp) and woke myself up laughing. i was dreaming about him calling my brother a mariposón because he was wearing butterfly wings.
37. i've never desired to kill myself. i have desired to not be alive (in fall 2001.)
38. i was taking five math-based courses at university at the time. on top of being depressed.
39. my sisters are fraternal twins.
40. my mom is a fraternal twin.
41. i absolutely hate it when someone accuses me of having an eating disorder.
42. i weigh myself in the locker room every time i'm there.
43. it's to make sure i'm not losing weight.
44. sometimes i worry bystanders will think i have a problem.
45. this also happens when i'm out eating and i go to the bathroom after i'm finished; i'm worried it looks suspicious of nothing.
46. i have an uncle in prison. i know that's not really about me, but it's something that the general public does not know.
47. i regrettably voted for You Know Who in 2000.
48. i was brainwashed at the time.
49. one of the most difficult things about my job is seeing developing girls who are already bigger than i am not even knowing what is happening to their bodies! it's so unfair.
50. i used to be against breast implants. now after Dicsovery Health Channel and Dr. 90210, i am considering looking into it.
51. i'm noticing that a lot of the random facts i'd like to write about myself have to do with academic acheivements - i was going to say that i scored higher in english than i did on science and math on the ACT, yet i majored in a science.
52. it was Physics.
53. because i wasn't planning on going to UIUC, i put physics as my intended major because at the time i was in AP-B and i liked it. i never changed it.
54. i decided to go to UIUC the day of my high school graduation. i had already sent my deposit to a small private college in pennsylvania, but at the last minute decided against it. i have never regretted that decision.
55. i'm taking french this summer.
56. i took four years of french when i was younger.
57. so i feel like french-speaking area of my brain has already developed, but because of disuse, has atrophied. i just need to get it in shape again.
58. little words and mots keep coming back to me.
59. Miss V, a colleague, is taking french as well. it helps to have a third language in which to communicate; too many people speak spanish at our school!
60. what inspired me? my ambition. and Anna Karenina - i thought it was so posh how the main characters spoke in french when they didn't want the servants to know what they were talking about.
61. i had a 5-month bout of depression my senior year of high school also.
62. during that time i read Wuthering Heights and was able to identify with nearly every character.
63. i mostly identified with heathcliffe, because i had recently been betrayed by someone i had known for a long time.
64. i still have dreams about running cross country races.
65. i had to sit out the last race of my high school career because i had a stress fracture in my tibia (or fibia - i forget.)
66. my coach had given me the choice - run the race and risk breaking your leg all the way through, or don't run.
67. i chose not to run for two reasons: one, to spite the assistant coach who was an asshole and a pot-bellied idiot; two, my doctor had told me there was a "very slight possibility" that the bone could break all the way through and i'd need surgery.
68. this doctor had also told me there was a "very slight possibility" of my tendons getting caught in my elbow joint right before he put my dislocated arm back together and did, in fact, get the tendons caught.
69. i now have a three-inch scar on the inside of my right arm (he had to do surgery to get the tendons un-stuck.)
70. there were also two pins sticking out of my elbow. i would make disgusting clicking noises by rubbing them against the inside of my cast.
71. i do NOT have a firecrotch, despite my slightly red hair.
72. i like plucking hairs from my skin. it's soothing. it doesn't hurt anymore.
73. numbers are not just numbers to me; i visualize them. they have colors too.
74. nine is purple, two is orange, five is red. 13 was described above.
75. when i am on a plane and there is turbulence and i get nervous, i close my eyes and visualize myself dancing. that makes me feel better.
76. my toes are very long. i can pick things up with them and throw them across the room.
77. i started an oral contraceptive not because i need it but because i wanted to see if it made me any bigger.
78. i hate onions. the smell of onions being cooked nauseates me.
79. i am very vain. there are more pictures that i have taken of myself on this computer than i have taken of anyone or anything else.
80. my last name translated to english from german means just that: vain.
81. i thought high school was really easy. my thoughts were that the entire battle is getting to the top, but once you're there it's very easy to stay there.
82. i will not eat ketchup or drink beer.
83. beer because it makes me think of all the drunk-ass sorority girls walking (stumbling, rather) down green street saturday nights with their beer guts hanging over their too-tight black pants. either that or some guy with a pot belly in a trailer in front of a tv.
84. i have been accused by more than one person of being a snob.
85. i am sometimes though.
86. i could see how it would seem that way - i did take horseback riding lessons when i was little and had a horse by the time i was twelve.
87. on things snobby - i have a lacoste sweater (you know, with the alligator logo.) funny thing though, i bought it to be a house sweater and not anything with which to make a statement. how ironic is that?
88. to me, the lacoste brand is like a staple and not something you would wear to say a night club. the lacoste polo is something i would wear under any normal circumstances - like going to the store or hanging around the house. it bothers me when i see people trying to make a statement of their little alligator (or is it crocodile?)
89. the most pivotal disappointment of my childhood was when a friend of our trainer, who was a writer for the newspaper, came to our house to do a report and they completely excluded me. instead, there was a picture of my younger sister printed.
90. and i consider myself the one responsible for the snowball that has become our horse hobby. when i was little i loved horses and begged my parents to let me start taking lessons. they relented, and my sisters and mom soon followed.