100 Things About Me

  1. I’m a Libra.
  2. I think the zodiac is crap.
  3. I do not date Ares. None. Never again. Moreover, you cusp people are nuts.
  4. I originally went to college to become a broadcast meteorologist.
  5. I lasted all of one semester in that major.
  6. I used to think Blogging was stupid.
  7. I have a brother and sister, both younger, and both in college.
  8. I am barely five foot five. Actually, I think I may be closer to five foot four.
  9. I lie about my weight. I’m about 5 pounds lighter than what I say I am.
  10. Make that 8 pounds.
  11. Ok . . . 10 pounds.
  12. Seriously, it’s 10 pounds. That’s the truth.
  13. My state ID card says I’m five foot seven.
  14. My height has given me a Napoleon complex.
  15. I tend to stare people down on the street due to said complex.
  16. I am attempting to gain 10 of those pounds I’m not truthful about then 10 more.
  17. I WILL do it by May 2004. Watch me.
  18. I do not like cheerleaders.
  19. I once had a goldfish named Madison (yes, after James Madison.) He got big and fat but lived all of four months.
  20. I cried like a baby when he died.
  21. My mom bought me a card. Her coworkers thought she was nuts for buying me a card over a dead goldfish.
  22. My dad swears the fish lived all of one week. He is wrong.
  23. I’m still trying to repress the memories from middle school. I suspect most people are.
  24. I hated gym class from 2nd grade till senior year in high school.
  25. I’m a fitness nut now. (Irony, she lives.)
  26. I still eat bad foods, though. That will never change.
  27. I think I look okay. Others think I’m hot.
  28. I think the others are deluded.
  29. I like shaving my head.
  30. I do not dress like a thug.
  31. I like cats.
  32. I once let a stray have her babies in our basement. Now we have a cat named Nerkle, who is the granddaughter of that stray. She’s also mildly retarded, but she’s my special baby.
  33. I can read a 400-page novel in two hours, and a 700-page novel in five.
  34. For some reason, this talent does not transfer to textbooks.
  35. I procrastinate.
  36. MTV, Fox News, MTV2, and VH1 are all blocked on my TV.
  37. I once wrote a 20-page paper in the ten hours before it was due.
  38. I thought it sucked ass.
  39. The professor gave it an A-minus.
  40. I want a tattoo
  41. My indecisive nature prevents such things, however.
  42. The only thing I’ve ever broken is my right eardrum, from where I fell on a patch ice and hit my head when I was twelve.
  43. I do not like medical doctors.
  44. I am a carb addict. Yet I remain thin.
  45. I don’t think I’m allergic to anything.
  46. I’m a registered Democrat, although I’d prefer to be independent.
  47. I think Christina Agulera is a slut.
  48. I’ve had exactly one romantic relationship.
  49. I don’t want to talk about said relationship.
  50. I’ve never learned to drive.
  51. I like Guinness. A lot.
  52. I’m a packrat.
  53. My middle name is Rawn.
  54. I spell it Rhawn.
  55. I am the second incarnation of Terry Pinder, my dad being the first.
  56. My best friend from 3rd grade through senior year is also named Terry. He is a conservative.
  57. In high school, once, I accused the administration of threatening my class (we were juniors at that point) if we did not do well on the state exams in a newspaper commentary.
  58. I think I could have been suspended, but several teachers intervened.
  59. My senior year, as my final act, I pissed off the theater clique in my high school in a newspaper commentary.
  60. I loved every second of both.
  61. My first ever political argument was junior year over the Kosovo crisis. I opposed it for isolationist and pacifist reasons.
  62. I still oppose said action.
  63. I admit fully to having nude pictures of myself, taken by myself.
  64. No more comments on the pictures.
  65. I almost fought my friend Larry in New Orleans two years ago over a shot of Jaeger.
  66. I was very drunk by that point in the evening.
  67. I STILL do not know how I got so many beads, but I have a sinking, err, dropping feeling about it. (Think about it . . .)
  68. I gave almost all the beads away as Christmas presents.
  69. I’ve done this ;-). Hehehehehe.
  70. I tend to drink too much.
  71. My sexual preference is none of your damn business. We’ll leave it at that.
  72. I bite my nails and pick my toenails.
  73. Most deodorants make my armpits burn.
  74. I have two…no, now three drawers full of underwear.
  75. I had my first birthday party since I was maybe 9 or 10 this past October.
  76. I turned it into a toga party. Well, I was the only one in a toga.
  77. I partied a lot last semester
  78. I also got the highest GPA I’ve ever attained at Millersville last semester. Go figure.
  79. I’ve done really stupid things at parties. Like strip.
  80. I tend to lose the ability to type when drunk.
  81. As you can see, I’m very open about myself.
  82. Except to family.
  83. I love storms.
  84. I love hurricanes.
  85. I wanted to walk home when the school let us go early during Hurricane Floyd in September 1999. My better judgment prevailed that day (cause a creek that I would have crossed was up over the bridge. By about 5 feet. I would have drowned.)
  86. I think I remember Hurricane Gloria in 1985.
  87. I missed Hurricane Bob in 1991.
  88. I want to chase twisters.
  89. And Hurricanes.
  90. I’ve eaten snow
  91. I used to be Baptist. Tried Buddhism. Couldn’t fathom atheistism. Sort of was a Quaker. Dated a Catholic, heh. Now, I’m making it up as I go along.
  92. At the moment that I’m writing this, I’m reading bits and pieces of 9 books, all non-fiction, most for my thesis.
  93. I don’t like kids under age 10, for some reason.
  94. There’s one person from high school I actively dislike. My parents dislike her too, so it’s all good.
  95. I tend to buy dietary supplements like whey protein and such and then not use them as they are supposed to be used.
  96. I love whole milk.
  97. I like medium rare steak. I like rare too…it should still be mooing when it gets to my plate.
  98. I hate Pennsylvania but I love it at the same time.
  99. I boo the Cowboys when they come play the Eagles.
  100. I like cheesecake of any variety. I think it may be an unhealthy habit.