my 100 list!

[supercheesegirl]

1. I wish I had short hair like a punk girl, and I wish I had the guts to dye it blue. I feel like this could be a major life regret when I’m old.
2. One time in grade school I actually caught the kickball, and everyone looked at me all amazed.
3. Other than that one time, I hated sports so much that in sixth grade my mother let me skip school on Field Day (when everybody’s on a team and is forced to compete in group physical activities all day). In my absence note she wrote that I had "spring fever", and we went to the zoo instead.
4. Even though I hated sports, I still tried to be a cheerleader in sixth grade. I couldn’t for the life of me do a cartwheel, and the other girls made fun of me, and I cried, so I dropped out of cheerleading.
5. My incentive for joining cheerleading in the first place: my mom used to pick me up from school, and one day she was running late, so I was sitting out on the playground waiting for her, alone. Mrs. P, the mother of one of the girls in my class, walks by, and says to me, "Roxanne, why aren’t you at cheerleading practice?" I in my innocence replied, "Because I’m a not a cheerleader." She said, "Oh. I thought *all* the little girls were cheerleaders." Bitch.
6. I first fell in love with Battlestar Galactica on Christmas Eve my senior year in college because the sci fi channel was having a marathon, and my dad and I stayed up till 3am watching it before we gave up and taped the last two episodes.
7. I hate broccoli, mayonnaise, and doritos.
8. I was always sort of afraid of dogs until I worked at a kennel the summer I turned fifteen. I learned dogs are fine as long as you know how to get along with them.
9. The best job I ever had, though, was as the Talking Reindeer at the mall during the Christmas season. I sat in a giant purple package and startled people when they walked up to the big furry animatronic reindeer.
10. I’ve never been skinnydipping.
11. I once met Mr. T and got my picture taken with him. He smelled bad.
12. My favorite TV shows growing up were Muppet Babies, Twin Peaks, Beauty & the Beast (the series with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman), and Garfield and Friends.
13. I still have all my old Barbies.
14. The first modern poet I ever read was William Carlos Williams; the poem, "Nantucket." I realize now that this event sorta set me on my way to where I am now (and hopefully where I’m headed).
15. First kiss: Steve Schroeder, the Welcome Back Dance, September 25, 1993.
16. My bestest companions when I was little were: Jan (a rag doll won at a carnival by my mom when she was pregnant with me, and named for Janis the muppet), GloFord (aka GloBaby—her face lights up when you squeeze her; dubbed "GloFord the World Traveler" by my mom because I wouldn’t go anywhere without her), and Bear (a panda bear won at a boardwalk in NJ by Mrs. Kletzel [Allie’s mom] playing Whack-a-Mole, when I was seven; Allie could’ve had a Bear too, but she chose a generic teddy).
17. All three of the above currently live with me in NC, but Bear’s the only one I still hold when I go to sleep at night.
18. In grade school I was known for carrying around huge books and reading them on the playground at recess instead of playing with the other kids.
19. The first of the aforementioned huge books was Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. I think I read everything by Brooks and by Anne McCaffrey between 5th and 7th grades.
20. I bowled in a Saturday morning league with my friend Missi for nine years—age 9 to age 18—and I won a few awards, too.
21. High bowling score: 228. Average (when I was 18): 145 or so.
22. I once went skiing. I’ll never do that again.
23. I don’t like beer. I drank Guiness in Ireland and German beer in Germany, and I didn’t like it. I doubt I’ll ever like it.
24. Despite this, I visited the Yuengling brewery (the oldest still operational brewery in America) and met Dick Yuengling during senior week 2001. It was phucking cool.
25. I don’t like wine either.
26. I visited Salzburg, Austria and saw the garden where they played during The Sound of Music, as well as the opera house where they performed and the cemetery where they hid at the end.
27. I climbed a mountain in Ireland. It wasn’t a very big or intimidating one, but it was still a mountain and I climbed it, and I didn’t slip and fall on my ass and get covered with mud like everyone else in my group, either.
28. Every one of my ex-boyfriends, and even most of my major crushes, have been some sort of musician. However, the non-musician crushes include two actors, two or three poets, and a dancer.
29. I have kissed: two sig ep brothers, one phi sig, two phi mu deltas, and thirteen (or maybe fourteen) phi mu alpha brothers (this presented as further evidence of my thing for weird musicians).
30. I once had a torrid love affair while on a spring break holiday trip in Ireland.
31. I went swimming with stingrays two summers ago. They’ll take food right from your hand.
32. once a choir tourbus with 40 people on it pulled over to the side of the road because I was sick. In France, no less.
33. I have puked in France, Germany, and the US, but no other countries yet (except maybe Canada, but I don’t remember).
34. I got sick at play practice once in high school and puked in the vestabule next to the cafeteria while calling my mom to come pick me up. I had to clean myself up in the boys’ locker room (which was thankfully empty, because I was disgusting, and the girls’ locker room was on the other side of the school), but I didn’t clean up the pile of puke underneath the pay phone. I stayed home sick for a few days, and quit the play when I came back.
35. I climbed to the top of a cathedral in Basel, Switzerland. Into the bell tower and everything. There were 246 steps total.
36. I love bras. I could wander in the ladies underwear section of a department store for, like, hours.
37. My favorite muppet is not Fozzie or Animal. Beyond that, I can’t really decide.
38. Freshman year in college, I had a vision of what hell could be like: typing an endless term paper on the Council of Trent for a few days straight. I imagined that if I passed out on the keyboard, Satan would come along and delete every third word so I’d have to pretty much start over. I got an A, though.
39. I have done ecstasy twice and have smoked pot many times, but no other drugs.
40. My car’s name is Arturo. He’s a flamboyant purple neon who’s unashamed of who he is.
41. is my favorite number.
42. In sixth grade, I was picked to read a speech for the christmas pageant, and I got so worked up over it that I had to leave right afterwards (and missed the rest of the pageant, too), so I could go home and throw up, and I was home sick from school for two days. This is a pretty good summary of how I feel about speaking in public.
43. I once celebrated New Years Eve in Germany. We called our parents and boyfriends back home ("Happy New Year!" "But it’s only 6pm!"), drank champagne, and watched from the balcony as fireworks went off all over the countryside.
44. I have a subscription to the Weekly World News.
45. Two of my ex-boyfriends came out after I dated them (though not *immediately* after I dated them). Two more at least are suspected.
46. Before Jorn, two of my other major relationships ended as a result of infidelity on my part.
47. I was the drum line chick in my high school marching band. I started out playing cymbals and moved up to bass drum and then snare, and I got to be section leader senior year even though I wasn’t all that great a player just because no one else could get the guys to shut up.
48. It’s not a fun thing to be wearing a bass drum in the middle of a muddy field while a football team is running toward you.
49. I own pleather pants that I almost never wear (what shoes go with pleather, anyway?).
50. I once fit almost the entire contents of my dorm room into my little purple neon.
51. I want to be a fairy almost every year for Halloween.
52. Except for last year, when I went as William Butler Yeats. But the whole time, I was feeling stupid, like I should’ve been wearing glitter and some wings.
53. My favorite band ever is Ben Folds Five, which sucks because I only saw them twice in concert before they broke up.
54. One time I had to fight my way through a crowd of adolescent French boys in their underpants to get to my room in a youth hostel. Ah, Europe.
55. A total of seven French whores were seen during a lively game of Spot-The-Whore while driving through Paris on our tourbus.
56. The one time I had a really important role in a play, I was a dying senile old woman.
57. I don’t have to put on the red light.
58. I can provide a wealth of information on such topics as W.B. Yeats, Kate Chopin, Irish/Celtic mythology, and Hrotsvit the 10th century playwriting nun.
59. All my grandparents are deceased.
60. I’m an only child. Sarah B, when we were roommates, occasionally used to stop what she was doing in the middle of a conversation and start walking around me in a circle. When queried, she replied, "I’m revolving around you. Isn’t everyone supposed to?"
61. I’m a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, pledged in spring ’98 with Sigma Omega chapter at SU, and later became Vice President of Ritual. I’m currently not affiliated with Kappa Gamma chapter at UNCG (but I hang out with them sometimes).
62. I am terribly insecure and persistently awkward. This is why getting dressed in the morning (for example) takes a really long time (and why I sometimes will change clothes several times a day)—because I have to look exactly "right" or I feel really weird and uncomfortable. I’m always hyper self-aware during conversations with people, even people I know pretty well. If I feel I’ve said a "wrong thing", I get really embarrassed and feel shameful afterwards (sometimes for a really long time).
63. Once when I was seven, taking a walk with my mom, we passed a square of wet cement in the sidewalk, and she showed me how to write our initials really small in the concrete. Twenty minutes later, she had gone inside a house to visit with a friend, and, bored, I was playing outside. The man who owned the wet square of sidewalk was *not* pleased with my artwork (cats, I think), yelled at me, threatened to call my parents, and basically scared the crap out of me. I was too embarrassed to confess this to the priest when I had my First Confession at church a few months later. Sometimes at night I’ll still remember this event and feel ashamed of myself. I’ve never told anyone about it before.
64. My contact lenses have a prescription of negative 7 and negative 10. No one believes that my glasses have featherwate lenses because they’re so thick.
65. The thing I want most for someday is an oceanfront house with lots of rooms.
66. If I could go anywhere in the world: Egypt.
67. I used to work at Boston Market when I was in high school. In spite of this, I love their food and eat there whenever I can afford to.
68. I’m a real pain in the ass when you have to spend a lot of time with me. Thankfully, I have an amazing boyfriend who doesn’t seem to mind too much.
69. I call my parents once a week.
70. I have seen nine penises up close, but only one uncircumsized one.
71. I’m unhappy with how my body looks between my ribcage and my knees. Otherwise it’s pretty okay.
72. I hate wearing shorts, particularly with sneakers. When I *am* forced to wear shorts with sneakers (like when it’s hot and I’ll be walking a lot or something), I feel like an ostrich—big fluffy butt, skinny legs, giant feet. Since I rarely enjoy sticking my head in the sand or laying eggs, it’s best to wear shorts either barefoot or with sandals, or preferably not at all.
73. Shorts also should not be worn with skimpy tank tops. Decent tank tops are acceptable with shorts, but skimpy ones should only be worn with long pants or skirts. There’s just way too much of my (jiggly, pasty-white) skin hanging out otherwise.
74. I used to be built like a stick, even into the second year of college. After I went on the pill, though, curves started developing like mad, and there’s been no holding them back. I’m still not altogether used to this (ie, my ass), and I can’t help nurturing the secret suspicion that I’m pudgy.
75. Pizza is one of my favorite things. (Perhaps a factor contributing to the previously mentioned issues?)
76. I love to eat it, though. I can’t help it, and I won’t be giving it up.
77. The best food I ever had was on a weeklong Carnival cruise. I could, logistically, eat six meals a day, not counting room service and the stands that served pizza, burgers, and Chinese food all day long. All you can marthaphucking eat, from dawn till midnight, on those ships.
78. I *loved* the Wendy’s chicken caesar pita. They discontinued it. Assholes.
79. I own a lamp, the base of which is made from a large orange traffic cone. There are gills cut into it that will hold cds. John S. made it for me, and he phuckin’ rulez.
80. I got my best pair of wings at the PA Renaissance Faire my junior year in college. They are blue and maroon and cost $30, and they’re so pretty I wish I had grown them myself.
81. I like glitter. I don’t buy that girly makeup glitter stuff though, I get the hardcore Halloween shit, half off on November 1st. I’ve acquired quite a supply of cheap quality glitter that way.
82. I’m a feminist. Or I try to be.
83. My favorite city in Europe so far: Prague. But I could totally live in Basel or Dublin.
84. I know all the words to the Pokemon theme song.
85. I like smuggling food into movie theaters. I have the perfect big black purse, which will hold two cans of soda and snacks without looking at all suspicious or unpurselike. One time I cut up Muenster cheese into slices and put baggies of cheese in the purse, and it stayed cold next to the cans of soda until the movie came on and we ate it.
86. I’m a tour guide for historic Blandwood Mansion in downtown Greensboro. I like it a lot.
87. For Easter last spring, I hid plastic eggs full of candy all over my apartment and made jorn find them.
88. I have four best girl friends from high school. We are Five. We still email almost every day, and we went to Vegas together this summer.
89. I think walruses are really cool.
90. The last cd I bought was Ben Folds’ solo album, "Rockin’ the Suburbs". That was a year ago—I’ve received cds as gifts since then, but haven’t purchased any.
91. I can cross my littlest toe over my fourth toe without any outside assistance, and it’s quite comfortable for me to sit around with my toes crossed; in fact, if I’m barefoot, my toes are probably crossed. This totally skeeves out my mom.
92. I *love* The Legend of Zelda—I’ve played all the games except for zelda 2 for original nintendo. I’m dying for a gamecube so I can play the new one.
93. Jorn and I once stayed up all night played Castlevania (the very first one)—I got us to the very end, and Jorn beat Dracula. We fell asleep triumphant at like 5am.
94. I kept a really great travel journal for pretty much every trip I’ve been on in the past few years, and I wrote down all the good stuff I saw and heard and did (see above #35). I also carried a glue stick with me and glued into the journal any interesting stuff I found or bought or acquired. Consequently, it’s really phucking cool, and I’m so glad I did it.
95. I have visited Luray Caverns, Shenandoah Caverns, Endless Caverns, and the Caverns at Natural Bridge, all in Virginia. I did not visit nearby Skyline Caverns, Crystal Caverns, Grand Caverns, or Weyer’s Cave (but I’d like to).
96. I like to save the ticket stubs from concerts and movies and stuff. I have tons of them from high school, and some time I’d like to take the best and most memorable ones and make a big collage.
97. My favorite movies: Amélie, American Beauty, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, anything starring Indiana Jones, The Lord of The Rings, Monsoon Wedding, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pride & Prejudice (the 6-hour BBC version), and Spaceballs.
98. My oldest T-shirt: Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet. There’s a group picture of the band and their hair on the front. My dad bought it for me when I was six and I thought Jon Bon Jovi was sooooooooooo cool, and I still wear it all the time.
99. I went through thirteen years of Catholic school. This is probably the reason why I’m such a loony (and it’s definitely the reason why I never developed any useful fashion sense).
100. I write poetry. Wahoo!

Comments

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

ok, so i mentioned puke a grand total of FOUR times. it's not my fault i have a weak stomach. there were a lot of other puke-worthy incidents i *could've* mentioned but didn't, and all the ones i listed were there for a reason.

41. it comes from this thing i used to do to make my family laugh. at 7pm, see, right before jeopardy!, they do the pennsylvania lottery on tv, and gammy loved jeopardy! so we always got to watch them pick the numbers, and everybody would call out a number. mine was ALWAYS 41, and i would yell it in this crazy voice. fyi, 41 isn't even a choice in the lottery--there's a three-number thing, a four-number thing, and then a thing where they pick five from a group of balls numbered from 1 to 39. so i would never ever win, and then i'd be all disappointed, and it made gammy laugh.
70. want the list?
84. OUR HEARTS SO TRUE... OUR COURAGE WILL PULL US THROUGH!!