Oh man, I just did this on FaceBook.

I think without going into all that detail you should just picture a [somewhat] grown-up Lisa Simpson. That would be my character.

1. I've done this stuff a couple of times here before so;
2. I'll leave it up to the new kids to play.
3. I'm having a BLT sandwich.

hello! cut and paste people!

Duke Ellington, Bill Hicks, Frank Capra, Italo Calvino, William Stafford, Michio Kaku, LL Bean, Portuguese Water Dog, dolphins and my character is that silly-ass grinning blond Labrador Retriever you see everywhere in your neighborhood.

1. I never eat donuts.
2. I prefer Tom Selleck over Burt Reynolds.
3. I confuse Burt Reynolds with Tom Selleck.
4. I think eatdonuts should do 20 as a good example.
5. I don't like dolphins.
6. My goal in life is to sue someone.
7. I don't believe in Delaware.
8. I don't think New Jersey is really a state.
9. I have never been to an anal sex party.
10. This one time, there was a kid at school and he stepped on some ants and no one ever saw him again. They say he was eaten by a crocodile.

Oy! Just did 25 of these on Facebook. Excerpts:

1. I have perfect pitch.
2. I have this deluded idea that I'm going to actually learn to play my violin, piano, flute, oboe, and soon-to-be-purchased viola.
3. I don't know how to reconcile the fact that I need tons of alone time (which includes all hobbies mentioned here), but hate being single.
4. I like Shirley Temple movies.
5. I love diner food, and am NOT an adventurous foodie.
6. I'm uneasy about turning 40 this year.
7. I wish I had gotten to know my father as an adult, he was a lot more complicated than I ever realized.
8. I direct a handbell choir.
9. Some of my non-music hobbies are soapmaking and sewing.
10. I run cold all the time.

1. I am not ambitious, I just want to be happy. I have no problem leading a very little life that will fade out…
2. …However, I desperately want to crisscross the world and see it all.
3. I know for a fact that Italy is God's country and I can prove it.
4. Only my husband understands my rambling. He totally understood my email this morning: "Bad bad cats all rocket fueled and I had to venture to another level to complete the mission as anonymity was essential."
5. I am an armchair home farmer and one day dream of raising chickens, children and goats. I have a few very choice books on the subject which I love to flip through and just dream…
6. I will likely never leave New York city.
7. "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (with Gene Wilder, the OLD one) is my favorite movie.
8. I think MS Office 2007 is crap compared to MS Office 2003.
9. I paint like a motherfawker.
10. I have milk for my tea, I'm ok. Regardless of whether or not it's one percent or fat free, you can enjoy a nice hot cup of tea with it. The question is whether or not you can get donuts with that tea. Lovely, airy donuts constitute a kind of Zen in life. Not that donuts are an adequate consolation for any of life's problems, symbolic or not, but donuts are groovy enough in respect to themselves. Sure, donuts often conflict with cholesterol, sugar levels and other dietary concerns, but donuts do not have issues with their job, at least none which they collectively or individually express. Donuts do not have issues with other nations. Donuts do not even have issues with other donuts... regardless of whether they are jelly-filled or not. Donuts do not have issues of integrity in the art world. Donuts are the kind of evolved bread where man has taken dough to flavor it, color it, fill it with jelly, and decorate it for a fleeting moment of pleasure.

Must...resist...list...meme...monster....aaaaaaahhhhHHHH!!!!

1. When I get stressed out, I lose my appetite.
2. I work from home full time, and it's very comfortable and convenient, but there are plenty of things about office life I miss- regular human contact, treats, putting on clothes in an attempt to look nice.
4. I go through phases where I hate all the clothes in my closet and it almost always falls during the winter, since I'm much better at buying spring/summer clothes.
5. Life in a big city has filled me with a fury of righteous anger that I am ready to unleash at a moment's notice. People pushing in on the bus, beware.
6. I pick up change off the ground. Even pennies. And I have a cheer for when I find one - "Find a penny, pick it up, all day long, you're have A PENNY!!!!!!!!!" Money makes me happy.
7. Disorganization drives me craaaaazy.
8. I have a chalkboard wall in my living room. It is very helpful to writing lists and notes on.
9. Every night before I go to bed (well, sometimes I forget or I'm too tired), I lotion up my hands and put on those little cottong gloves to help it all soak in. It's the only thing saving my hands during dry, dry winter.
10. I am ambitious, but I'm still figuring out where to focus it.

1. For a short period I was lead singer for a funk band in Kyrgyzstan. When I was on stage I was terrified, always, but it was also the bestest thing I have ever done in my life. I want to be a rock star again.
2. I am too lazy to write, but long ago I thought I could be a writer. I still dream, but now I just want to be a plagiarist, and have reserved www.plagiarizingfranzkafka.com for my future plagiarism work. I will plagiarize The Trail and the short story In the Penal Colony, because being the author of those two stories is something I would be really proud of.
3. When I meet women I think about whether or not I would like to have sex with them. I find it difficult to have healthy platonic relationships with women who I would like to have sex with.
4. I like noodles. In sauce.
5. I don't like rice or potatoes very much. Please give me noodles instead.
6. It bothers me deeply that the Netherlands has enacted an indoor smoking ban.
7. I like fast food burgers, and am a frequent customer of McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's.
8. I don't really feel at home somewhere until I have met a reliable dope dealer. It frustrates me that I have not found one yet in Bulgaria yet, because I would like to feel at home here.
9. I prefer carbonated mineral water, the stranger / stronger the mineral taste the better.
10. Long long ago I was a builder. At least in theory I know how to build stick frame walls, install doors, etc. But I have back problems, and can't lift heavy things anymore.

1. Savory over sweet
2. I hate parties (actually I don't hate them, just being at them)
3. Pork is a beautiful thing
4. I was a nanny and I worked at a preschool (and I'm good with kids in general)
5. Animals like me on first meeting (and I generally like them)
6. I prefer cartoons to "real" TV, and reality television not only an oxymoron but not very entertaining
7. I play a Zendrum and like anything thaty i can beat on with my hands
8. I've always wanted to be a poster artist ala the Fillmore, 60's poster artists
9. I own 3 guitars and a Chapman Stick and can't play any of them
10. I too prefer noodles to rice (but I like potatoes, good god Meatbomb, POTATOES!)

In no apparent order:

1. As an adult, I work in the home I grew up in: my family's funeral home. I am currently thirty steps from my bedroom.

2. I learned how to cook in the Boy Scouts, where I had a fishing tackle box full of spices and herbs. At other times my tackle box would be full of: comic books, sci-fi novels, Starburst, various pocketknives. Never in my tackle box: fishing tackle.

3. I am afraid of heights. Driving over bridges makes me white-knuckled. I have an irrational fear of my glasses falling off of my face.

4. I'm trying, really I am.

5. Comedies are my favorite type of movie. I have a huge collection of comedy DVDs and comedy albums on CD. I do not care for horror movies at all.

6. My wife thinks I'm incapable of pronouncing the word "cinnamon." When we met, I used to say "CIM-a-nun" for fun, and she'd correct me, and I'd try to stutter it out, but would never do it. This running joke has been going on for over 18 years. I'm going to tell her the truth on my deathbed.

7. I make lists obsessively on 3x5 cards. I have hundred of packs of all different kinds of 3x5 cards. Lined, unlined, colored, graph...I'm a freak.

8. Sometimes I have nightmares about the people I bury.

9. About once a year I find a new album that I enjoy. I listen to it constantly until I am tired of it, and then I put it away, never to listen to it again. For some reason, I haven't gotten tired of Vampire Weekend yet.

10. As I was typing this, I stopped twice to write obituaries.

1. For a short period I was lead singer for a funk band in Kyrgyzstan. When I was on stage I was terrified, always, but it was also the bestest thing I have ever done in my life. I want to be a rock star again.

Neat!

How exactly does one sing "HUH! HAH! LIKEASEXMACHINE!" in Kyrgyz?

1) I had my gallbladder out in 2000.
2) Friends got me a Furbee
3) Furbee said "me poonchai" nonstop.
4) Every christmas I make toffee. 1 cup butter, one cup sugar. Boil, stirring constantly until it's at the "hard crack" phase. I don't have a candy thermometer, so when I began making this, I'd use a cup of ice water to test it. Now I just go by the color.
5) I'm landscaping my rental house's front yard. I hope I don't get into trouble.
6) My first concert was Asia in 1982. I was very young and accompanied by my parents.
7) My saturdays used to be defined by Love Boat and Fantasy Island.
8) I sat on Tip O'Neil's lap in college (Hey, anyone have that picture?)
9) I kind of want to live off grid, but I know I'll miss the internets.
10) I don't work in the field I studied in grad school.

How exactly does one sing "HUH! HAH! LIKEASEXMACHINE!" in Kyrgyz?

Funk is in English, that's how I got the gig!

(also just did the list of 25 on Facebook)

3. I used to be quietly ashamed of my hatred/fear of peanut butter, but now I feel vindicated.

5. My mom took me to many amazing concerts as a child. (Gil Scott-Heron and Peter Tosh are two that stand out). My high school German teacher took me to see the Circle Jerks and a family friend took me to see the Dead Kennedys because I was underage.

6. No one ever recognized that I was named for a singer until the movie Point of No Return came out. Now nearly everyone I meet asks. I wish that I could unremember that my mother told me I was conceived to one of her albums. I love my name anyway.

9. I've been snowboarding but can't stand cold weather. The only times I've been were when it was 60 degrees and sunny. I've never been on powder.

10. I don't like blimps or hot air balloons. It's a primeval fear of something looming overhead that makes me feel like a tiny mammal what needs to hide from a giant predator.

12. My last birthday party was my 4th. I am either crying or sticking my tongue out in all of the photos.

15. Pauline Black from the Selector held my baby son and said he was cute but heavy. He weighed 10 lbs at birth.

20. My husband and I have a codeword for something that feels like impending vehicular doom, but probably isn't. If he's driving too fast for my comfort, I say "Flava Flav".

21. I do not own anything red, not one single thing.

25. When I asked my husband for a random fact for this list he said, “one time at a restaurant you found a ladybug in your salad".

1. My brother says I look just like Lawrence Taylor, and I see exactly what he means, though of course there's a slight difference in skin tone.

2. I once played second violin in the pit during a production of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" in order to make money to pay for an operation.

3. Novocaine doesn't work very well for me, so I have felt teeth being pulled and stitches put in my toe in all their unanaesthetized glory.

4. I love math, but unlike most mathematicians, students, and mathophiles, my favorite things are addition and subtraction. I'm fascinated by the way people chunk large multiplication and division problems differently.

5. I was depressed for all of last year; I lost my job as a risk analyst and failed a drug test for the next high-paying office job I snagged. This put me into a funk and only encouraged me to engage in more and more self-destructive behavior until some time just before Thanksgiving last year, when I broke down on the phone with my dad and asked for help. I've just managed to control it to a point where I help myself, and every day gets easier. I gave up pot and I feel much better. The less I drink alcohol, the better I feel, too. The new abstemious me feels unusual but happy.

6. I'm on the dole. I receive unemployment though I do labor for my landlady and her friend; I'm paid under the table so my unemployment insurance pays the bills and the cash I get keeps me from going hungry.

7. My last name is German but I actually have more British blood. My first ancestors in America came here in irons in 1710. They owed money they couldn't pay and chose transportation. Some of my ancestors held slaves. Some worked to free them. One was kicked while shoeing a horse (long line of blacksmiths) and lost his faculties; his brother married his wife, became father to his children, and took over the forge, as was often done in those days. Only he didn't die for another forty years, so I sometimes wonder how or if he felt about that.

8. I don't make a big to-do over it, but I'm a huge sports fan. I don't get into the this-sport-is-better-than-that-sport shit: I like gridiron, soccer, and rugby (I don't have much exposure to Aussie-rules) and both baseball and cricket are fine with me. I even like bloodsports and ring sports (I love sumo). I post under the same name on SportsFilter, and I have a penchant there as here for saying ridiculous things. I like making up fables and legends about sports stars like Brett Favre and Kevin Garnett; they're the knights of our times in a way.

9. I write plays, usually about historical moments where there's a record of a meeting taking place, but no record of the meeting itself. There's often quite a lot of possibility there. I have a friend who wonders why plays, and not, say, screenplays, and I don't have much of an answer for that, except that physically inert and psychologically or cerebrally active topics like these lend themselves more to a theater audience than to that of the cinema. Though I do have a comedy about mall retail I'm writing, and I bet that could bloom into a movie script if I water it carefully. I'm also writing a book about my career as a banker, which is ridiculous (both the book and my career).

10. I now own a computer, which helps with the writing and also allows me to get online and post here more often. I'm working on a website full of book reviews, since I have lots of good books and I love recommending them and writing about them. And after many years online, I'm starting to learn how not to be such a big asshole.

one time at a restaurant [I] found a ladybug in [my] salad

You left out the most crucial detail: Did you still eat the salad?

@Atom Eyes: Yes, of course! Finding a ladybug just meant it was organic salad, right?

1. I have been refusing to do this list on Facebook and I'm still refusing.
2. I talk to myself and to my dogs and cat all the time and I wander around muttering like some kind of crazy lady. I have decided that's okay.
3. I'm liking my job less and less and that makes me sad; also, it's going to be a huge PITA to find another job if there is even one to be found here where there were no jobs even before the economy collapsed.
4. I read a LOT. I read really fast. Last night I read a 366 page novel (one of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey & Maturin novels; I've been rereading them since I got sick last week and it's been awesome. I have all of them (see stuff thread.))
5. The shuffle on my iPod is NOT random at all and this drives me crazy but I can't figure out how to make it work properly and I'm too embarrassed to ask because then I think I will get into some terrible techie lengthy thing and all muddled up.
6. Looks like I'll probably be single for the rest of my life. Depending on the time of the month, that either upsets me totally or I really don't care.
7. I like painting things orange even though orange is really not my favorite color. My office; my kitchen.
8. I think I might be quite shockingly lazy at heart.
9. I am wearing new boots and they are making me happy.
10. I swear I'm going to quit smoking someday.

1. I'm going to loiter until everyone posts theirs and then just cite their items as appropriate. We can begin with mygothlaundry's #8. So shockingly, shockingly true for me. Which is why you'll have to wait for 2-10 until I can poach the rest of my list.

1. I hate my contact lenses.
2. I believe in the afterlife.
3. I think I am a country girl at heart. I am always happiest at my aunt and uncle's farm.
4. Most of the time I don't mind that I am curvy.
5. Although I try to hide it, I have a serious Irish temper.
6. There are two murderers in my family tree; both on my father's side.
7. I love winter and snow. I can't get enough, and I'm disappointed that its' been snowing all day with little accumulation.
8. My father wanted to name me Maureen.
9. There has always been a black cat in my life since I was 14.
10. I don't like to be alone.

1. I am not on Facebook.
2. Today is yet another quit smoking day one.
3. I'll be shocked if I make it to sixty.
4. My father wanted to name me Claudine.
5. I was once an extra in an Aerosmith video.
6. I have store credit from Xmas returns and an Amazon reward, and I still don't feel like buying anything. I am bad for the economy.
7. I'm glad Hugh Janus is back.
8. I also hate all contacts I have ever tried, but I'm glad they exist.
9. I exhibit the maladaptive behaviors of a sexual abuse victim, but I was never abused. Attempts at therapy fail, because, seriously, they push it. Yes, I have tried people with different techniques.
10. I'm a screamer.

At stavrogin's line "My goal in life is to sue someone." I decided that I should add and win! to every line. That is my list, all of the above with and win! at the end.

1. I have a phobia of the sound of toothbrushing.
2. My left eyelashes are dark and my right are blonde.
3. I don't like ice cream or donuts.
4. I like almost none of my friend's S.O.s.
5. I don't consider myself shy at all but I am less outgoing than either of my parents.
6. Today I ate 3 cookies, a mini-snickers, and a caramel.
7. I love traveling but loathe flying, so every trip brings a nervy mixture of fear, dread, and excitement.
8. I pick at everything there is to pick at.
9. I might be the only person on the internet who doesn't like cats.
10. I paint my nails at least once per week.

1. I decided to limit my Facebook to only people I was in college with. Therefore, there are two people I'm currently Facebook friends with, and I doubt that this number will grow because I don't know any of the rest anymore.
2. I am a hypochondriac. I go from having (any) symptoms of anything straight to the end game that I am dying of whatever disease that I guess the symptoms are connected to. I just found some Lorazepam in one of my drawers here at work, and this had helped with the lastest episode of this craziness.
3. I've shot the pier.
4. I can't cleanly play a lot of the more obscure chords that I used to be able to play.
5. I am currently reading a biography of James K. Polk and finding it incredibly boring, although I will never admit that to my wife, who laughed at me when I got it from the library.
6. I find that most people in Eugene are pissy and insecure about their "hipness."
7. It took me a good year before I "got" Hugh Janus's username. . .
8. I thought that I had a shitty childhood but I am over that now. I had an OK one.
9. Going to the gym after work but ONLY to take a shower.
10.I wear hearing aids. . they are a pain but life would be a lot harder without them.

1. I too have resisted the facebook 25 things list.
2. I am job-hunting. It's the first time I've ever looked for a job with a locality restriction.
3. I get obsessed with subjects for a few months and then drop them and never think about them again. At the moment it's Washington/Adams/Jefferson, probably because I never got much American history at school.
4. When I had my baby last year, I didn't realise I was in labor. Thus, I only just made it to the hospital to give birth.
5. I like dirty (vodka) martinis and my alcohol-snob friends sneer at me for it. I still drink 'em.
6. One of my closest friends just left her husband. She's the first one of my friends to end a marriage (if it stays ended).
7. I was once an extra in Xena
8. My husband was an extra in Homicide
9. I find it easy to lose weight by eating right, but I don't have much motivation because I can go +/- 15lb and look the same. So my motivation is health and life-span which is difficult because I don't do well with the big picture. I need to cultivate some self-loathing.
10. My favourite colour is forest green.

1. I can shoot a nail gun at 40 paces.
2. Chickens are in my future. I have no logical basis for this thought. Still, I want chickens.
3. I don’t like seaweed. Or sushi.
4. I pick out what I’m going to wear the night before.
5. I use my Mom’s library card.
6. Two cats sleep with me at night.
7. I accessorize.
8. My left sock goes on first.
9. Scary movies/books scare me. Except that I will not watch a scary/gory/war movie. I dislike romance movies/books too. I like stories about people.
10. I’ve never been to Oklahoma.

1. My father named me for an old crush of his. He says she had red hair just like mine. For most of my life, I had thought he meant an old girlfreind, and I thought Mom was a little nuts for letting him do that. It was only recently that he said she was a freind of his sister's, so she was more than 10 years older than him.
2. I paid off one loan today!
3. In another month I'll have paid off one car!
4. I don't get on Facebook because I only really know two people there, and one is the Ex, and I just couldn't deal with him inviting everyone else out for drinks.
5. Said Ex has apparently made a 180 degree turn and is asking me to go to counseling, and is actually reading the shit I gave him years ago when we started this mess. I'm going, but I don't know whether to be hopeful or scared.
6. I'm still getting the divorce papers ready, just in case.
7. Good lord, ten?
8. I've had two student employees bail on me, and my full timer is out sick, which means I had shit tons to do today, and not enough time to get it done, which means my boss will be on my ass.
9. I'm glad today is almost over
10. I really like chocolate covered Cheetos. The best ones are the Cheeto Puffs in milk chocolate. The crunchy ones are good, too.

mightshould: why would you do that to an innnocent nail gun?

lysdexic: Just to watch him die, of course!

1. I take long showers, but it's where I do all my thinking for the day - I cruise on autopilot for hours after being in there for 15 minutes. This seems like a good investment, especially when someone else is paying the bills.
2. I can write almost as fast as I type.
3. My new enameled Dutch oven is the only physical object to bring me joy, really, since my apartment was burgled last year. Only good things come out of it, and I don't think any thinking burglar would make off with it, so it's safe.
4. In 2003, I went to Togo and Togo's within the same month.
5. Until I was 18 and moved away to college, I ate more home-canned tuna than commercially-made stuff.
6. I have never killed anything larger than a fly.
7. I went through a phase in high school where I seemed to subsist entirely on Ricola lozenges.
8. My first kiss was behind a church on a moonlit autumn night...next to a freeway.
9. Sim City 2000 bows before me.
10. I only shave once every three or four days, so slow is my facial hair growth. Yay stubble!

'pode, I was impressed by your number 7, until I read your number 8. Homicide! Did he get to meet Kyle Secor? By which I mean, My-Future-Husband-Kyle-Secor?

1. Dropping my life and career to move to Germany at 24 was the craziest thing I may have done. I don't regret it.
2. I understand every word of German, but sometimes I still have trouble getting my point across.
3. Most people think I am very laid back and relaxed. My true friends know how extreme I can have anger attacks and fly into a destructive rage.
4. I had a heart attack at age 29. The doctors never found out what caused it. All tests came back normal.
5. Because of number 4, I am afraid of dropping dead any minute. Whenever I feel heartburn or any sort of discomfort on my left side, I get panic attacks. I have mellowed considerably since.
6. When I was 17, I was stopped at a stop sign and somebody ran up and stuck a pistol through the open driver's window right at my head and pulled the trigger. It went click. The guy ran off laughing. I still have nightmares about that.
7. I wish I was a professional recording engineer. I was on my way to being one in Chicago in 1998-99, but life threw me a curve ball.
8. I will never be able to drink like a German.
9. Although I don't consider myself as having a beard, sometimes I look in the mirror and am surprised to see one.
10. Ich bin ein Rock & Roll Übermensch.

I have been on TV twice.

I used to want to cut my head off and freeze it.

I have an ecumenical radical view of religion that tends to piss people off.

I can fix tiny bits of jewelry with my bare hands.

One of my favourite rare-occasion snacks is to take some cheddar or leicester, slice it on a plate, nuke it for 2 or three minutes, drain the fat off, and eat the resulting crunchy-chewy cheese thing with pepper. nom.

My cat Rosemary has small crusty scabs we don't know the cause of but seems unbothered.

I like weird electronic music.

I am singing in a thing that may turn into a band.

I was vegetarian for four years until I smelt some fried chicken.

Of all the things of America, the thing I miss most is proper Mexican food.

7. I was once an extra in Xena

*swoons*

01. I don't believe that self-reported information is very accurate.
10. I tend to count in binary.

EJ: I don't think so. Bayliss was my favorite character, and I asked if Steve was in any of his scenes. I know it was in a laundromat (which was around the corner from the first place I lived in Bmore) and I think in the.... 5th season, but that's all I know.

1. I'm not good at remembering names.
2. I love spas and beauty treatments and cabbage roses and all things girl.
3. I think I'm attractive until I see a picture of myself.
4. I wish I were more spiritual. I have no problems with admiring and appreciating nature, but wish I were a more "spiritual" or "earthy" person.
5. I love people that have a zest for life. I tend to think that a lot of things are stupid. It's a shortcoming. I'll roll my eyes at the yearly Christmas Letters, or families that wear matching tie-dyed T-shirts on trips to Disney, but hey, at least they are enjoying themselves and are having more fun than I am.
6. I'll read about really successful people and question my accomplishments and contributions. Who am I? What have I done? My accomplishments are minuscule, but I don't do much to further myself.
7. I'm currently obsessed with YouTube. I never had much interest until now.
8. I recently read Revolutionary Road. It is by far the best book I have ever read. The writing is beautiful. Now I'm on a mission to read more beauty.
9. My favorite show is Curb Your Enthusiasm. When is it coming back?
10. My lawn is dead from some freezing weather we had. It tends to bother me more than it should.

:)

1. I teach high school English in the Bronx. Death to all teenagers.
2. I love TV. I can happily watch 12 hours at a time, especially tennis tournaments or CSI marathons.
3. I once marched in the Disney World parade. Did you know Mickey's a girl?
4. I'm a law school dropout.
5. I never could take my bathing suit off to shower at the J.C.C.; I've since been to nude beaches.
6. Cupcakes make me happy.
7. I'm a really good kisser.
8. I have two mothers (one living, one not).
9. I never think anyone really likes me.
10. I saw my father die.

welcome back LoriFLA, missed ya!

thanks, special-k!

1. I have two dogs: a border collie and a BC-greyhound mix.
2. Like mygothlaundry, I talk to my dogs. They listen. They tell me what they want to do when I ask them.
3. My neighbors think I'm crazy. Probably because they hear me talking to the dogs.
4. I never thought I'd get this old. I thought I'd die romantically of consumption in my thirties, surrounded by lovers.
5. I'm a vegetarian who doesn't seem to eat many vegetables.
6. Like mdonley, I've never killed anything bigger than a fly.
7. My grandmother kept chickens. But she couldn't bring herself to kill any of them. They all died of old age.
8. I sometimes want to eviscerate my boss. But I'm a vegetarian and it doesn't seem right ... :-)
9. I'm a geek who swore that she would never work with computers. I became a techy by accident.
10. I came to the US on impulse. I saw a job advertised and just went for it. It was my version of the hippy-campervan thing. I've been here for 10 years and I love it.

... Oh and Pips - I am so with you on the death-to-all-teenagers thing ...

I can steal Pip's number 10. And it was within a few weeks of you too, Pips, I remember when you posted about the 10 year anniversary, cos mine was about a week away.

for 2-10 see below.
2.I developed X-Rays before I ever took a photo - (and I took a photo at 6)
3.I have a tattoo of Le Chat Noir on my back, it reminds me of the following things: My dad, My cat Bastian, The guy I was in love with, a lost friend, my first trip to Paris (where I got it), and moving on with things.
4.I want to become a writer, but I get bored with my stories before too long, and give up. So I write tiny stories instead. At least they hold my attention for long enough for them to get written.
5.I found out about 2 years ago that my Grandfather abused my mum when she was about 14. I don't know how to reconcile this with my relationship with him.
6.I am convinced I'm getting nerdier as I get older.
7.I hate having to call people for work.
8.I'm saving for a house, but don't feel like I'm getting anywhere with it.
9.I love reading romance novels, but try to deny it if anyone asks.
10.I worry that I'll never fully get over the man I loved, and that I will never fall in love again.

1. I get giggly over the silliest things. Such as a hubcap rolling through an intersection, with no cars missing a hubcap anywhere nearby.
2. I really hate talking on the phone. I am an email/comment fiend though.
3. I work in a warehouse. I love my job, even if there are minor things that piss me off.
4. I hate laptops. More specifically, laptop keyboards.
5. I don't date or have sex.
6. I am almost always picking at myself.
7. I like to plan things and figure out the best way to do things, but I usually never get around to doing them.
8. I really hate being rushed or having to rush around when things need to be done.
9. I have fascinations with little kits of things. (Those all-in-one makeup palette things at Sephora? *grabbyhands*)
10. Ever since I was wee, I've wanted to be a writer, but I know my stuff is no good, so I've changed my life plan and now hope to become a real librarian one day.

1) chalk me up as someone else who's been avoiding this on Facebook
2) I scoffed at facebook and FB users up until about six months ago and now I'm deeply down that rabbithole :P
3) I taught Boss and Boss' boss (the site prez) how to use the Wayback machine today. They both "got" it which was way too cool toexplain why here.
4) both Boss and BB have recently converted to being home Macusers, partly (well mostly) from the influence of playing with my shiny toys. I have carved out a little slice of hipster heaven in the leather-bound stodginess that is Corporate Legal.
5) My friends constantly yoink my iPhone to play with it. I see it less than they do.
6) Jesus, ten things? You know how hard it is typing this on an iPhone?
7) I sometimes secretly wish I could go back to my old shitty campus job where I could roll into work wearing sweatpants and slack on MeFi half the day... no wait, actually I don't. Most of those folks were assholes, truth be told.
8) I bought a car two weeks ago. It makes me feel like a total sellout.
9) working on photo and bike projects with the mister is pure unadulturated joy. It scares me how well we get on sometimes.
10) I somehow made it to the age of 40 without learning to drive manual, to my everlasting shame. The mister began teaching me last week, and surprisingly, this has not even strained our relationship- he's an even more patient teacher than I am.

Extra Credit: I adore teenagers and college kids. They're the demographic I get most in my moonlighting gig as cycling coach. Being around all that energy gives me a zest for life- even when they're at their angst-ridden, irrational worst.

One of my favourite rare-occasion snacks is to take some cheddar or leicester, slice it on a plate, nuke it for 2 or three minutes, drain the fat off, and eat the resulting crunchy-chewy cheese thing with pepper. nom.

I totally do this with extra sharp cheddar. So so good.

1. My tongue rarely leaves my cheek, even when also I'm being completely serious. There are few categories of things which I don't find humorous, but I keep that to myself most of the time. Self-deprecation is almost a compulsion.
2. Despite being a somewhat half-competent actress (in the starring in university and community theatre sense), I have no skill for recounting my own stories, only other people's.
3. Similarly, despite lurking for some time and joining more recently, I don't have sufficient confidence to make a proper Mefi post. It's not that I'm afraid of being torn apart in the comments per se, it's that I'm afraid of deserving such a response.
4. I'm far enough along now to be able to say "I write romance novels" rather than "I want to write romance novels", and will be able to afford to submit my first entries to contests (the finals of which are judged by acquiring editors/assistants) in March. Based on whatever feedback I get from that, I can begin planning to find an agent.
5. But I'm not depending upon making a living as a writer, and will be starting courses for a nursing degree this summer. It seems like the best choice, but part of me is afraid that I might somehow be trapping myself into a life that's only financially better than my current one.
6. I have a habit of dropping off the face of the earth where friends and acquaintances are concerned because (rather like Pips) I don't believe that people like me or my company. Given that my closest friend hasn't lived in the same state for years and the second closest has just gone to start a career overseas, and months are likely to pass before meaningful communication with either, I do not as of this moment have a single friend in any usual sense.
7. If you ran into me in the street, you'd probably not be able to guess that due to the traces of debutante and sorority girl that still linger around me.
8. Although I question the instrument itself, I test as and identify with the INTP type on the MBTI, embodying its supposed characteristics to an almost laughable extent.
9. Even on days when parts of my mind try to convince me to throw myself over the side of a bridge as it has an innate tendency to do, I consider myself in general to be a blessed and fortunate person.
10. My dream is to live on a small, self-sustaining farm. My even less likely aspiration is to start a small, self-sustaining intentional community, and these days it takes the form of being likely made up of people hurt by the current economy. I find it interesting to think about, anyway.
11. Brevity is not my specialty.

1. I hate talking on the phone and absolutely refuse to answer it at home.
2. I never went to visit my grandfather when he was dying in hospital because I couldn't bear to see what the strong, independent man he was had become. I may never forgive myself for this.
3. I hate having air blowing on my face, especially from fans.
4. I never call friends or talk to them unless I have a specific reason to do so.
5. Number 4 applies to family also.
6. Number 5 was cheating.
7. Many people who know me consider me an extrovert, but I'm not.
8. I once watched a man I had known for 20 years die in front of me and "felt" him "go away" (don't know how to explain it better).
9. People tend to not like me when they first meet me, because I seem rude. After a while, they realise that I just calls 'em as I sees 'em.
10. I recently found out that, often, people will ask me technical questions at work when they need an answer quickly. It's not because I'm smart, it's because I will always give an answer, even if it turns out not to be correct. I'm not sure how to feel about that.