I Surrender

Ok... so pretty much everyone and their mom has that Facebook note with the 25 random facts about them... and I'm too much of a rebel to do it on Facebook. But it looks like TONS of fun, so I'm going to do it here. Here goes:

1. When I was younger I had blonde, very curly hair.

2. My mom died of breast cancer when I was 3, and I have one vivid memory of her saying, "You look maaaahvelous daaahling." I don't know if this is a real memory, or something I saw on a video, or even something I just made up in my head that seems to fit. It's quite possibly that last one.

3. I'm procrastinating right now.

4. I've had a lot of dream jobs in my life, but currently my goal is to be a correspondent for NPR who gets to interview interesting people and report interesting stories. Much like Terry Gross.

5. My dream broadway role is Eponine in Les Mis. I know it's cliche. Shut up.

6. I just started a book called "This Common Secret: My Life as An Abortion Doctor" by Susan Wicklund. I got interested in it after hearing the author interviewed on none other than NPR.

7. My two best friends in high school were a gay guy and a lesbian. We had endless amounts of fun. I mean good clean fun, not that kind of fun.

8. Once in a community theatre show I played a sassy, cowgirl-esque grasshopper. During one performance, I was ad-libbing and mentioned something about one of my bug relatives being squashed. Apparently a woman in the audience complained that my reference was too violent for her daughter.

9. I really like the taste of cherry Nyquil.

10. I'm not extremely into sports, but I get really cranky and angry and take it personally when a team I'm rooting for loses (I'm talking about you, Eagles)

11. I bought scalped tickets on the street for a U2 concert in Dublin. It was totally worth it.

12. Speaking of Dublin, Ireland is my favorite country in the world. Scotland comes in a close second; Nicaragua is third.

13. I lose respect for people if they don't spell or punctuate things correctly. That said, I am often guilty of these offenses myself, but when I do it it's ok. :)

14. There's a show that I watch pretty much every night of the week. Monday: House. Tuesday: Scrubs. Wednesday: Lost. Thursday: The Office. Friday: The Soup. And... every night I like to watch Jeopardy and reruns of Scrubs on Comedy Central. I also have a weakness for bad reality TV like Tool Academy, Double Shot at Love, and Ruby... but also good reality TV like Project Runway, Supernanny, and What Not to Wear.

15. I'm surprisingly good at the game SSX Tricky on Playstation 2. I also KICK ASS at Tetris and always play the hardest level of game type-B so I can get a spaceship.

16. Thinking of 25 random things about myself is really tough.

17. I only got accepted to 2 of the 7 colleges to which I applied, but ended up being really happy at Muhlenberg.

18. While at Muhlenberg, I volunteered as an ESL conversational mentor. One of the students in my session was Indian, and worked at the Dunkin' Donuts near school. He gave me free bagels and hot chocolate. It was pretty much awesome.

19. My favorite restaurant is The Olive Garden. But it's always so darn crowded!

20. I got a good piece of advice today when interviewing someone for an article. When writing an email to a potential employer, it's a good idea to write it in Word and then copy and paste it into the email. That's so you can spell-check it.

21. My grandparents on my dad's side are holocaust survivors. My grandfather doesn't know his real birthday or age. He was shot in the leg during WWII. Sorry... that was a few facts in one.

22. My apartment still doesn't have HD.

23. I used to own a red Jetta and her name was Frida. I named her that because [gory imagery to follow] there's a scene in the movie Frida where she loses her baby in bed and is surrounded by bright red blood. It's honestly the first thing I thought of when I saw my car.

24. I have this memory that always stands out in my mind of sitting on my swingset late on a summer day, looking up at the darkening sky and pondering the vastness and mystery of the universe. I was probably like 12. But it still baffles me.

25. At the house where I grew up, I had a sandbox. For my brother Mike's bar mitzvah, which was Hawaii themed and held in our backyard, my dad screwed a life-size fake palm tree into my sandbox. That's just the kind of guy my dad is.

Phew. That took a whole half hour. Now back to work... in the meantime, check out the article I wrote! I'm published!