Yeah yeah. well I noticed that Foodie Esq. did this. I also haven’t blogged in a while. Obviously I love lists.
- I am named after a soap opera character but my Mom doesn’t remember much about the actual character now.
- I don’t look my age. (or so other people tell me. They always guess younger)
- I started getting gray hair in my late twenties
- I used to be an investigator — like Veronica Mars
- Veronica Mars is one of my favorite TV shows of all time.
- Yes I sent some kickstarter money to get the Veronica Mars movie made
- I am tall for a woman
- I used to be thin but now I am obese
- My grandparents have a family farm/deer camp with no electricity, no running water, and an outhouse
- I am from Arkansas
- I live in Arkansas now
- I spent a little over 5 years in the DC with a summer in NYC.
- I still miss the East Coast
- I miss the diversity of big cities, especially one chock full of embassies
- I was a legal observer (think poll watcher for protests) at the 2000 IMF/World Bank protest in DC. It was huge
- I play piano
- As a kid, I wanted to grow up and become a concert pianist. I was inspired by a cartoon of Bugs Bunny playing Listz’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2.
- I made it pretty far. I got to college with a music scholarship but ultimately didn’t desire to be music faculty at a college
- I have a box of piano trophies in my closet.
- I have seen every episode of Six Feet Under
- I have also seen every episode of Dawson’s Creek
- My two favorite books of all time are Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Strangely enough, they are both studies about how a person’s views and personality alters his perception of the world.
- I think cell phone typing has totally fucked by ability to write grammatically correct sentences. I have to edit like a Mother fucker now.
- I curse like a sailor
- I like the idea of cooking but I don’t cook that much.
- i am a twitter fool
- I am a crime magnet
- I’ve been mugged
- I have had my car stolen
- I have had another car broken into
- Someone burglarized my apartment
- My apartment was broken into on the date of my first law school exam as a 1L.
- Seriously that was fucked up.
- I was so wired about exams that I was more upset that the burglars had ransacked my notes and outlines in the process of going through my stuff than the actual taking of my stuff.
- They did take my alarm clock
- I almost missed my second law school exam as a 1L because I set the clock wrong.
- I woke up 40 minutes before the exam was to start.
- How I managed to wake up, put on clothes, get my papers together, get a cab, and make that cab take me from Adams Morgan to the law school in that short period of time, I WILL NEVER KNOW!!!!!
- I like to run.
- I have completed the Little Rock half marathon four times
- I, unfortunately, due to a cranky calf a little bit of laziness, have fallen off the running wagon and am hopping back on.. like now.
- I think Capital Hotel pens are the best pens in America.
- I think boiled okra is the grossest food ever.
- If dinosaurs had boogers, they would look like boiled okra.
- When I was a kid, I would “tromp cotton” with my cousins.
- I am fascinated by the Allen House
- I have raging insomnia.
- I am extremely critical of myself