02 February 2004 20:48

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This is something like a chain diary entry, passed around diary buddies. Try it! Instructions: 1. Copy this whole list into your journal.2. Bold the things that you have in common with me.3. Whatever you don't bold, replace with things about you. Got it from bootsy, who got it from tec, who got it from trains, who got it from the new momma! who got it from someplace i can't remember. 01. i'm right-handed. it's not something i have an opinion or preference about 02. i spend a lot of time in front of computers. 03. i love to read. 04. i would like to work around intelligent life forces, but that is far from the present situation. 05. i am obsessive about language, to the point of pedantry and absolute annoyingness. 06. iam able to cook things people like without following recipes. 07. I am an escapist 08.i own contact lenses, but i almost never wear them. when i do, people who have known me for years fail to recognize me. 09. things i will always talk about include: food, grammar, colors i like, music & books i like, and why testicles are the funniest body part. 10. I like cats, especially when they tear around the house for no reason 11. and dogs 12. i laugh in my sleep sometimes. 13. I've never been to Bermuda, nor do I have interest in going. 14. i've been to canada, germany, switzerland, france, italy, liechtenstein, denmark, sweden, norway, and the u.k., but i've never been west of the mississippi river. 15. i have an incredible sense of direction, but no spatial ability whatsoever. 16. i enjoy a variety of musical styles, and i don't trust people who stick to one genre. 17. i am extremely shy, which sometimes leads people to think i don't like them. 18. i like to go for long walks, but i haven't been doing that lately. 19. i take pills every day. 20. i can be an early morning person, and i can be a late night person, but i am useless in the afternoon and evening. 21. i rarely wear jewelry, but i own quite a bit of it. 22. i never ask for anything. 23. i have problems letting people into my life. i could tell you why, but i'd rather not get into it. 24. i like being female. 25. i am a feminist, a liberal, a pacifist, and all sorts of other leftist things that are supposed to be so unattractive these days. 26. i'm not an alchemist 27. i try to answer any direct questions people ask me about myself, but i rarely volunteer that kind of information. 28. my family is pretty close. 29. i find cleaning and organization almost impossibly stressful. 30. i hate to make my bed, almost as much as i hate putting away laundry. 31. i have controversial and conflicting beliefs about animal rights. 32. i love baby animals 33. i want an explanation for everything, but i love ambiguity anyhow. 34. i am a hardcore homebody. 35. i hate the word "tolerance". 36. i think outsourcing is killing our country and its economy, and i think more workers should organize. 37. i hope the democrats can come up with a good candidate, and i am ashamed of my growing skepticism about the political process in general. 38. i have problems paying attention during long conversations, and often find myself trying to catch up with what's been said. 39. i am very close with my (overprotective, overinvested) parents. 40. i am an alpha female, but i'd rather not be. 41. i really enjoy thoughtful gifts. 42. i hate to drive, and got my license a little less than a year ago. 43. i am an excellent liar. 44. i have not had a cigarette in almost a week. 45. i daydream about being a housewife sometimes. 46. i am currently reading a book about abraham lincoln. 47. i am extremely good with kids, have a background in child clinical psych research, and am extremely conflicted about whether i want children and whether i would be a good parent. 48. i have cable, and enjoy it, but i think i could live happily without television. 49. i think the lack of courtesy and empathy are sucking the soul out of the united states. 50. there have been periods in my life when i slept 15+ hours a day. 51. i like silence, but i also really like fuzzed-out guitars. 52. i like other people to drive me around. 53. getting my head rubbed makes me feel happy and peaceful. 54. i don't know how to garden, but i've grown vegetables before. 55. i like getting my hands dirty, especially when it is from eating with my hands. 56. i own a bunch of makeup and facial lotion/wash but rarely use the majority of it. 57. i own so much tea that it takes up several shelves in the kitchen. 58. i am an obsessive book and music purchaser. 59. i am not a member of the mile high club. 60. i am a worrier, but i wouldn't call myself obsessive. 61. i am employed, though my company just laid off over 100 people, including someone i work with. 62. ideologically, i am in the minority in my workplace. 63. deep down inside, i don't know whether i like myself, though i think i am a pretty good person. 64. if i have children, i want to home school them. i have told my friends that i will home school any of their kids. 65. when i am under a lot of stress, or getting depressed, i have a recurring nightmare that i am a ferret trapped in an animal research facility. 66. i like to people watch. 67. when people know a lot about a subject, i ask them questions about it constantly. 68.i love to dance, but i don't like to go out dancing 69. crowds unsettle me. 70. i have smoked pot, but not often, and not in the past several years. 71. i tend to idealize androgyny 72. i am horrible about mailing things. 73. i am afraid of the current leader of this country, in an almost paranoiac way. 74. i can say no, but usually i don't say anything. 75. i have not been discriminated against based upon my gender, as far as i know. 76. sex? yes, please 77. i was a virgin (in the clintonian sense) until i was twenty. i don't do sex casually, and never have. 78. i got my first vibrator from my mother. i got the most recent one from a boyfriend. 79. the possibility of gwb being president again makes me really really angry and heartsick 80. i heart online diaries, though i have been bad about keeping up with mine. 81. I have two younger brothers and a host of friends. 82. i am trying to come to terms with my pharmaceutical regimen. 83. i love baths. 84. i don't think i'm pretty, but i think i'm attractive. 85. i already knew most of my fellow diarists before they joined diaryland. 86. I daydream constantly. 87. i don't date. 88. i wish i could make a living from my talents for spelling and anagrams. 89. i am on friendster, but have no interest in it whatsoever. 90. i once had 28 cats living in my house. 91. i am superstitious, in a little-old-lady-from-the-old-country-dressed-in-black-with-a-hunchback-and-a-warty-chin kind of way. 92. i am a true redhead. 93. i don't own a cell phone, or have a long-distance plan. 94. i love email. 95. i am judgmental. 96. sometimes, i just want people to say what i want to hear. 97. i like to help people. 98. three of my grandparents were immigrants or the children of immigrants. through the other one, i am related to meriwether lewis. i knew four of my great-grandparents. 99. i can do the sunday new york times crossword puzzle, in ink, and finish without a mistake. 100. i am really funny, and i love to laugh.