Reposted from ye olde Facebook:
1. I was afraid of toilets from age three to age twelve. Potty, wash hands, open the door, turn off the light, flush and RUN!
2. In the last issue of my high school newspaper, I said my goals were to be a writer and learn to play the accordion.
3. One of my front teeth is fake. The real one was lost to a sliding board mishap in 1984.
4. My dog, Jamie, is also a form of caller ID: she howls whenever a friend or family member calls, but ignores telemarketers.
5. I once served shrimp scampi to Jason Alexander.
6. I weigh twenty pounds less than I did in high school.
7. I have never seen Casablanca or Citizen Kane.
8. Instruments in my house: seven guitars, three accordions, piano, jaw harp, antique zither.
9. I have moved twenty-four times across seven states and D.C., only to settle three miles from where I was born.
10. I have never had a friendship end in a fight. People just drift in and out of my life.
11. I have the same birthday as Hitler.
12. In February of fifth grade, I was the student of the month. The category was “most creative.”
13. I skipped my college graduation to go on a cross-country train trip by myself.
14. I wore a tuxedo to my senior prom.
15. When I moved into my very first apartment in college, my dad’s friend sent a housewarming basket with a bottle of wine. I decided to save the wine for a special occasion, but never figured out what the occasion should be. Fourteen years later, it’s still sitting in my wine rack.
16. My dining room chairs were purchased for two dollars a piece from an exotic dance studio that was going out of business.
17. I do not own any leather shoes, except for a pair of purple Birkenstocks I bought in 1992 that I refuse to part with.
18. Alan Parsons bought me a corn muffin.
19. Ten years ago I got into one of the best fiction MFA programs in the country and decided not to go. I don’t have any regrets.
20. The last time I was in an amusement park was a family trip to Disneyworld in 1988.
21. I rarely carry a purse.
22. I have complete dexterity in the little toe on my right foot.
23. The first record album I ever bought for myself was Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual.” First tape was Def Leppard’s “Hysteria,” and first CD was “Staring at the Sea” by The Cure.
24. I never, ever get bored.
25. I have made my own laundry soap for years.
