100

The "100 things about me" appears to be a fixture on blogs, so I thought I might as well do one, seeing how I love lists anyhow. As if I don't reveal enough about myself already, hahaha.

100 Things About Me
1. I do not have a middle name. Pretty common for Thais.
2. My fave drink is water and my fave ice cream flavor is vanilla. Sometimes, I'm just drowning in averageness.
3. I would gladly sacrifice a kidney for any member of my family.
4. Okay, I admit it - I watched the pilot episode of Beverly Hills 90210. I was just old enough.
5. Nooks and crannies fascinate me. God knows why.
6. I only have like five good pictures of myself (rest are a bust).
7. Kids called me Anna Banana when I was little. Now you know: I didn't go to a school for the gifted.
8. I love the word defenestrate.
9. Least favorite food has got to be liver.
10. I can think myself into vomiting. Yes, that's as gross as it sounds.
11. Still have trouble with analog time displays.
12. My favorite salad dressing is blue cheese. My grandmother thinks it smells like rotten coconut milk.
13. I will most likely die an X-Phile.
14. I couldn't leave the house without tissue. I just couldn't.
15. So, fine, I read the first Harry Potter book, but I have no idea what all the fuss is about.
16. I once laughed at a guy for breaking his foot. But he deserved it, coz you know how he did it? He put these heavy dumbbells on top of a cabinet and forgot they were there and they rolled off and smashed one of his feet. It's funny.
17. Red pens are the best! What's all this new-agey stuff about calming kids down with purple? Sissy markers!
18. I own every single Sidney Sheldon novel ever written.
19. I find it hard to make small talk.
20. My brother's nickname for me is "Chunky"; I call him "Monkey".
21. Fried chicken is the reason why I will never be a vegetarian.
22. As a kid, I used to like to the dance to the I Dream of Jeannie theme. Seriously.
23. I like being first to do a presentation. Lets me set the bar as low as I want.
24. One time, I picked up a shell from the beach and brought it home. The next day, I discovered a teeny-tiny crab was living in it. I've always felt guilty for that, and still feel bad when people buy me shell-related products.
25. I hate it when people confuse lose and loose.
26. My dad taught me how to read in both Thai and English. I'll always be grateful to him for that.
27. The only CSI I watch is CSI: New York.
28. I love it super-dark when I sleep.
29. Have never smoked or tried drugs, and don't plan to.
30. I have hands and feet that are almost identical to my mom's.
31. Can barely walk in high heels. Stilettos? Forget about it.
32. I'm pro-choice, pro-birth control and pro-same-sex marriage. They're all personal rights, in my opinion.
33. Not that crazy about sushi.
34. Yeah, I suck up to my boss. But I like to think I do it subtly.
35. Of the Greek gods and goddesses, Artemis is my favorite. She's just cool.
36. Completely uncreative with my confirmation name - just used Anna.
37. Get extreme motion sickness on all matter of transport.
38. I don't get lost easily in relatively well-defined spaces, like malls or parking lots. Nature boggles me, though.
39. I love lingerie. Totally.
40. I cry more easily than I'd wish.
41. I just can't resist going into stationery shops. That stuff is great.
42. If you can personalize it, I will.
43. The Lonely Goatherd is my favorite song of all the Sound of Music tunes.
44. I like using keyboard shortcuts on the computer.
45. I can't not multi-task. I know, I know, it makes you less efficient. I'm working on it...along with a word search and replies to a bunch of emails.
46. Confession: I've made personal calls on my office phone.
47. I know what slash means in the context of fanfiction.
48. Have lived through a coup. It wasn't bloody and we had a national holiday the next day.
49. I love green tea, but it's gotta be sweetened.
50. Wrote X-Files fanfiction for a time. Loved it.
51. I think I might be a candidate for anger management.
52. I'd wear all-black all the time if my mom would let me.
53. I hate math with a vengeance. Geometry the most. Probability comes a close second.
54. Yes, I have a blacklist of people who've crossed me.
55. Have contemplated giving my future kids off-the-wall names ala celebrities. For a girl - Prism. For a boy - City. And twins? River and Rain. Yes, I'm probably better off not having offspring.
56. I was born in April, the cruelest month, and boy, am I.
57. Can only do the standard hair braid and it kills me.
58. Am a total media baby. Couldn't go a day without watching TV or cruising the internet, or both. Just couldn't.
59. I will seriously save a document every two minutes. I'm paranoid that way.
60. I like lots of butter on my popcorn.
61. Candyshop, by 50 Cent. Smack That, Akon. Beep, Pussycat Dolls. Love them. There, I said it, don't hate me!
62. I have no qualms about angling my fork into other people's food, if I'm close to them.
63. Ants really tick me off.
64. Got tons of gold stars as a kid. Uh huh, I was a goody-two-shoes.
65. I've been known to the read the labels on things when I'm without proper reading material.
66. I let my students be ten minutes late.
67. I had caviar once and to tell you the truth, it didn't do anything for me.
68. Being late panics me.
69. Sneakers, I love my sneakers!
70. I have the hardest time remembering people. It's not that I don't care, but if someone doesn't make some sort of impression, they just disappear from my mind. I've had people come up to me and say they've been in so-and-so class with me or met me somewhere, and I will just blank. It's horrible, but true.
71. Can't stand to have the Num Lock on.
72. Making lists really floats my boat.
73. I liked the B story of Wedding Crashers (you know, the crazy redhead and Vince Vaughn) more than the A story (that totally bogus romance between Rachel McAdams and Owen Wilson). I like romance to have a little color.
74. Loved the Captain Planet cartoon as a kid. Always got a kick out of them doing the whole "Let our powers combine!" bit.
75. I transported over thirty kilograms of books from the States to Thailand all by myself with only two pieces of luggage and a backpack.
76. I like fortune cookies.
77. I can't crack my knuckles. Scares the tar out of me.
78. Silver jewelry is more my style than gold. But I wouldn't say no to the latter.
79. It's corny, but my parents are my role models. I'd like to be just like them someday.
80. Yes, it's true, part of the reason I love Supernatural is because Dean and Sam are super-hot. Sue me.
81. Misplaced the key to my diary once and picked the lock with a bobby pin. Made me feel like a freakin' spy.
82. Have a sneaking suspicion I work much too closely with white-out, but it's an occupational hazard.
83. I would not mind having a pet name.
84. Have not watched any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Will never.
85. My favorite send-off is "Have fun!"
86. I won my high school's poetry competition one year with a piece I literally dashed off in one minute. I didn't even make a copy of my winning work, a decision I rue to this day.
87. I know the periodic table of elements up to the ninth element - oxygen.
89. Water rings on tables drive me nuts. Use a coaster, please.
90. I have the Barbie and Ken as Mulder and Scully gift set and I'm proud of it.
91. I actually stopped and reread some sentences a few dozen times in Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask because the prose was so breathtaking.
92. I don't think I can ever kick my nail-biting habit.
93. Yes, I read my horoscope.
94. I was punched once as a kid. Right in the face.
95. When I go clubbing, I'm the girl who has to explain to the bartender how to make a virgin Cosmoplitan.
96. I'll read random articles on Wikipedia for fun.
97. I hate the picture of myself on my citizen ID. I look like I just rolled out of bed.
98. I love my backpack. It's a green Jansport with about three different compartments and I will break down and cry when it goes out of commission.
99. Unlike a lot of kids, I didn't want to grow up. I loved being babied.
100. This was fun, but then again a) I love lists and b) I'm more than a little weird.

Final thought: I'm an open book.