Pretty soon, y'all are going to start thinking that my blog is nothing more than lists of factoids about me. I promise to stop soon. In the meantime, the latest, greatest Facebook fad has forced me to write another 25 things about me... and then another 5. And then 25 about my boyfriend, Marcus, and then 25 about our relationship. I'll leave Marcus out of this for now, though. Enjoy reading another 30 things about me before I go back to writing things of substance.
From my Facebook page:
1. I have a blog, where I recently wrote 100+ things about myself. I'll try not to reuse any here, and, instead, use this as an opportunity to be even more self-involved than normal. :-P
2. My boyfriend and I have been talking about writing 25 things about each other, but I'm afraid to find out that I don't know 25 things about him. I'm going to try after this.
3. I often tell people that I'd never met an Asian person (or most any other race) before I went to Carnegie Mellon. This is only partly true. As far as I knew, if you weren't black, then you were white. And we only had a few black people in my town anyway. But looking back, I realize that we occasionally had a foreign student whom I'd quickly become BFFs with for a brief time before their family ran screaming from our WASPy town. So, Vina from Vietnam, Reema from Iran, Ingrid from Mexico... I remember you and now know that you were not white! :) (As it turns out, I'm practically married to an Asian guy now, but I forget that he's not white all the time.)
4. I went to CMU, in part, because I wanted to meet people from other countries. I didn't think I'd ever get the opportunity to go out of the country. They taught me that it's not that hard, though.
5. I once unwittingly starred in foot porn in Paris. (I have extremely high arches.)
6. The very first time in my whole life that I ever slept in a room by myself for more than a few days was during my senior year in college. It was very difficult to adjust to.
7. I still was terrified of needles until I was in college. And until about the same time, I couldn't sleep unless my bed was up against a wall, because I couldn't get over the idea of someone coming up behind me while I was sleeping. Until sometime in high school, I showered with the curtain slightly open so that I could keep an eye out for Psychos, and if I had to go into the basement or the attic, I would run there and back, because I was afraid of someone hiding there. As much as I talk about fears that interrupt my life as an adult, I didn't realize until right now that I had so many growing up. My fears now are quite different.
8. I've studied Latin, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and American Sign Language. But all to a pitiful extent and for different reasons. One of my great regrets is that I didn't get to study a language intensely and become fluent in it when it would have been easier.
9. When I was little, I would introduce myself to people by saying "My name is Julia, and my birthday is July 31st in the summer."
10. It is extraordinarily difficult for me to find shoes that do not make my feet bleed. Over the years, I have gone through dozens and dozens of pairs of heels, flats, loafers, sandals - cheap and expensive - and have yet to find anything that is "work appropriate" that doesn't also result in some sort of problem. After running a 10k once, I found out that even my sneakers had caused one of my feet to bleed so much that my sock was half-soaked in blood. The result of all of this is that I'm extremely bitchy when people tell me that I'm wearing inappropriate shoes (or no shoes), and I have scars all over my feet.
11. My hair was blonde when I was little and has gradually turned to a medium brown over the years.
12. I wrote a 10th grade English paper about the phrase "Ignorance is Bliss", claiming that self-awareness is the ultimate virtue. For the paper, I coined the term "bovinarianism", which I explained as being "state of being cow-like and ignorant to the world, and the belief that this is a preferable state of being." Of course, I was an anti-bovinarianist. But the older I get, the less sure I am about that. :-P And the more I think that the ultimate virtue is pro-activeness. I still think the ultimate vice / fault is apathy. Or willful ignorance, perhaps.
13. I absolutely cannot stand to see/hear Carson Daily, and I cannot understand why he's on tv at all. I feel like 99% of anyone that you'd randomly choose on the sidewalk would be a more talented interviewer and tv personality than him. He's not just neutral -- he's bad. Very very bad. And annoying.
14. I'm a somewhat obsessive fan of NPR.
15. I sleep with my mouth open frequently.
16. In May, Marcus and I went to Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. We snorkeled, caved, and saw old Mayan ruins. We stood on the side of the road in Guatemala waiting to catch a chicken bus to Belize. We haggled with the border patrols. We started a fight between cab drivers. We were filthy, sweltering, freezing, eaten by bugs, sunburnt to a crisp, under-slept, over-laiden, and had a really amazing time.
17. My favorite bar in the world (so far) is a tiny little cubby at the back of a used bookstore in Antigua, Guatemala. It serves only tequila and beer, and it's called Dyslexia.
18. I grew up eating salami sandwiches with Mancini's bread almost every Saturday of my life. Still one of my favorite things in the world.
19. Growing up, I tried many things: Basketball, soccer, softball, gymnastics, then finally swimming stuck. Piano, saxophone, clarinet, and then I finally stopped trying. :)
20. In high school, the car that we were made to drive / be driven in was a 1981 Ford Bronco that was brown with orange stripes. We called it "The Poopmobile." It was older than I was and had an unknown number of miles on it, because there was no 100,000th mile digit on the odometer. There were metal shards sticking out of the dashboard, the ceiling was falling down, the car exhaust came into the car through the heating vents, there was no AC or radio, and you had to climb over the front seats to get to the back seats. We hated this car with a passion.
21. I spent a lot of time in high school working on technical theatre activities: set construction, stage management, run crew, crew head, etc. I still really love theatre -- particularly high school theatre, which has an energy behind it that you really can't find anywhere else.
22. My favorite classes in high school were calculus and ceramics. Math and 3D Art led me into being an architect, I suppose.
23. I was a computer science wiz in high school (to the extent that you can be), but I had to leave 1/3 of my AP Comp Sci test blank because it required you to write a program that would output various histograms. And I didn't know that a histogram was just a bar graph... So all I could do was write "I don't know what a histogram is!" in that section of the test.
24. Despite a giant panic attack that almost caused me to leave the LSATs in the middle, I freaking rocked that test. :) And then decided not to go to law school.
25. I have been eating spreadable cheddar cheese (Cracker Barrel) on crackers since I was old enough to eat solid food. (My boyfriend refers to this as my "cold-packed cheese food" habit.) It was my favorite food until I first had Welsh Rarebit, which was my favorite food until I first had fondue, which is probably still one of my favorite foods. If you want to please me, you pretty much can't go wrong with cheddar cheese and a good crusty bread.
1. Grapefruit is my favorite fruit.
2. Banana Cream Pie is my favorite pie, but Tartufo is my favorite dessert.
3. I have a somewhat random love for African a capella music, gospel choirs, and a few Christian songs (even though I'm not Christian): Ave Maria, Amazing Grace, A Gift to Be Simple, Nearer My God to Thee... and a few songs that the UU church likes to use: This Little Light of Mine, Go Now in Peace, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, etc. I guess the uniting factor is that they have simple melodies and no instrumental accompaniment. Not that I have anything against instruments at all.
4. If a band has a fiddle or an electric violin in it... or a regular violin, even... I'm automatically enamored. Which makes me realize that I also have a thing for bluegrass.
5. I was born at the very peak of Leo-dom. July 31st, which makes me as much of a lion / fire / sun-sign as you can get, I think. (I'm not an astrology expert.) But my kinship with the sun has been longstanding. My "Indian Princess" name when I was little was Glittering Sun. My favorite color is yellow. I have often referred to myself over the years as a "sunchild" in various writings. The most amazing piece of art I've ever seen was the Sun exhibit by Olafur Eliasson at the Tate Modern in 2003. I tan extremely easily and it lasts a very long time. I spent my first 18 years soaking in as much as I could get before I had to resign myself to darkened libraries, cafes, and studios. I have seasonal affective disorder, amongst other things, and just found out that I have a vitamin D deficiency -- you get vitamin D from the sun! And my super-duper D supplements make me feel like I'm laying on a beach in heaven under the sun. :) One of my favorite songs is "It's the Sun" by Polyphonic Spree. I love love love the sun.
From my Facebook page:
1. I have a blog, where I recently wrote 100+ things about myself. I'll try not to reuse any here, and, instead, use this as an opportunity to be even more self-involved than normal. :-P
2. My boyfriend and I have been talking about writing 25 things about each other, but I'm afraid to find out that I don't know 25 things about him. I'm going to try after this.
3. I often tell people that I'd never met an Asian person (or most any other race) before I went to Carnegie Mellon. This is only partly true. As far as I knew, if you weren't black, then you were white. And we only had a few black people in my town anyway. But looking back, I realize that we occasionally had a foreign student whom I'd quickly become BFFs with for a brief time before their family ran screaming from our WASPy town. So, Vina from Vietnam, Reema from Iran, Ingrid from Mexico... I remember you and now know that you were not white! :) (As it turns out, I'm practically married to an Asian guy now, but I forget that he's not white all the time.)
4. I went to CMU, in part, because I wanted to meet people from other countries. I didn't think I'd ever get the opportunity to go out of the country. They taught me that it's not that hard, though.
5. I once unwittingly starred in foot porn in Paris. (I have extremely high arches.)
6. The very first time in my whole life that I ever slept in a room by myself for more than a few days was during my senior year in college. It was very difficult to adjust to.
7. I still was terrified of needles until I was in college. And until about the same time, I couldn't sleep unless my bed was up against a wall, because I couldn't get over the idea of someone coming up behind me while I was sleeping. Until sometime in high school, I showered with the curtain slightly open so that I could keep an eye out for Psychos, and if I had to go into the basement or the attic, I would run there and back, because I was afraid of someone hiding there. As much as I talk about fears that interrupt my life as an adult, I didn't realize until right now that I had so many growing up. My fears now are quite different.
8. I've studied Latin, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and American Sign Language. But all to a pitiful extent and for different reasons. One of my great regrets is that I didn't get to study a language intensely and become fluent in it when it would have been easier.
9. When I was little, I would introduce myself to people by saying "My name is Julia, and my birthday is July 31st in the summer."
10. It is extraordinarily difficult for me to find shoes that do not make my feet bleed. Over the years, I have gone through dozens and dozens of pairs of heels, flats, loafers, sandals - cheap and expensive - and have yet to find anything that is "work appropriate" that doesn't also result in some sort of problem. After running a 10k once, I found out that even my sneakers had caused one of my feet to bleed so much that my sock was half-soaked in blood. The result of all of this is that I'm extremely bitchy when people tell me that I'm wearing inappropriate shoes (or no shoes), and I have scars all over my feet.
11. My hair was blonde when I was little and has gradually turned to a medium brown over the years.
12. I wrote a 10th grade English paper about the phrase "Ignorance is Bliss", claiming that self-awareness is the ultimate virtue. For the paper, I coined the term "bovinarianism", which I explained as being "state of being cow-like and ignorant to the world, and the belief that this is a preferable state of being." Of course, I was an anti-bovinarianist. But the older I get, the less sure I am about that. :-P And the more I think that the ultimate virtue is pro-activeness. I still think the ultimate vice / fault is apathy. Or willful ignorance, perhaps.
13. I absolutely cannot stand to see/hear Carson Daily, and I cannot understand why he's on tv at all. I feel like 99% of anyone that you'd randomly choose on the sidewalk would be a more talented interviewer and tv personality than him. He's not just neutral -- he's bad. Very very bad. And annoying.
14. I'm a somewhat obsessive fan of NPR.
15. I sleep with my mouth open frequently.
16. In May, Marcus and I went to Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. We snorkeled, caved, and saw old Mayan ruins. We stood on the side of the road in Guatemala waiting to catch a chicken bus to Belize. We haggled with the border patrols. We started a fight between cab drivers. We were filthy, sweltering, freezing, eaten by bugs, sunburnt to a crisp, under-slept, over-laiden, and had a really amazing time.
17. My favorite bar in the world (so far) is a tiny little cubby at the back of a used bookstore in Antigua, Guatemala. It serves only tequila and beer, and it's called Dyslexia.
18. I grew up eating salami sandwiches with Mancini's bread almost every Saturday of my life. Still one of my favorite things in the world.
19. Growing up, I tried many things: Basketball, soccer, softball, gymnastics, then finally swimming stuck. Piano, saxophone, clarinet, and then I finally stopped trying. :)
20. In high school, the car that we were made to drive / be driven in was a 1981 Ford Bronco that was brown with orange stripes. We called it "The Poopmobile." It was older than I was and had an unknown number of miles on it, because there was no 100,000th mile digit on the odometer. There were metal shards sticking out of the dashboard, the ceiling was falling down, the car exhaust came into the car through the heating vents, there was no AC or radio, and you had to climb over the front seats to get to the back seats. We hated this car with a passion.
21. I spent a lot of time in high school working on technical theatre activities: set construction, stage management, run crew, crew head, etc. I still really love theatre -- particularly high school theatre, which has an energy behind it that you really can't find anywhere else.
22. My favorite classes in high school were calculus and ceramics. Math and 3D Art led me into being an architect, I suppose.
23. I was a computer science wiz in high school (to the extent that you can be), but I had to leave 1/3 of my AP Comp Sci test blank because it required you to write a program that would output various histograms. And I didn't know that a histogram was just a bar graph... So all I could do was write "I don't know what a histogram is!" in that section of the test.
24. Despite a giant panic attack that almost caused me to leave the LSATs in the middle, I freaking rocked that test. :) And then decided not to go to law school.
25. I have been eating spreadable cheddar cheese (Cracker Barrel) on crackers since I was old enough to eat solid food. (My boyfriend refers to this as my "cold-packed cheese food" habit.) It was my favorite food until I first had Welsh Rarebit, which was my favorite food until I first had fondue, which is probably still one of my favorite foods. If you want to please me, you pretty much can't go wrong with cheddar cheese and a good crusty bread.
1. Grapefruit is my favorite fruit.
2. Banana Cream Pie is my favorite pie, but Tartufo is my favorite dessert.
3. I have a somewhat random love for African a capella music, gospel choirs, and a few Christian songs (even though I'm not Christian): Ave Maria, Amazing Grace, A Gift to Be Simple, Nearer My God to Thee... and a few songs that the UU church likes to use: This Little Light of Mine, Go Now in Peace, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, etc. I guess the uniting factor is that they have simple melodies and no instrumental accompaniment. Not that I have anything against instruments at all.
4. If a band has a fiddle or an electric violin in it... or a regular violin, even... I'm automatically enamored. Which makes me realize that I also have a thing for bluegrass.
5. I was born at the very peak of Leo-dom. July 31st, which makes me as much of a lion / fire / sun-sign as you can get, I think. (I'm not an astrology expert.) But my kinship with the sun has been longstanding. My "Indian Princess" name when I was little was Glittering Sun. My favorite color is yellow. I have often referred to myself over the years as a "sunchild" in various writings. The most amazing piece of art I've ever seen was the Sun exhibit by Olafur Eliasson at the Tate Modern in 2003. I tan extremely easily and it lasts a very long time. I spent my first 18 years soaking in as much as I could get before I had to resign myself to darkened libraries, cafes, and studios. I have seasonal affective disorder, amongst other things, and just found out that I have a vitamin D deficiency -- you get vitamin D from the sun! And my super-duper D supplements make me feel like I'm laying on a beach in heaven under the sun. :) One of my favorite songs is "It's the Sun" by Polyphonic Spree. I love love love the sun.
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