Ok, I never do these things, NEVER, but so many cool people seemed to want to know about me that I had to do it. I must give the public what they want. This was originally on Facebook.
1. I created a Star Trek fan club when I was in 6th grade in 1985. I created flyers and everything, including a club song. I have attached the flyer on Facebook.
2. My husband and I were on the front page of the Greenville News in January 2004 because we were willing to talk about being Democrats. Seriously! I was most angry at the reporter when he referred to the setting of our interview in our downtown bungalow (under renovation at the time) as "a makeshift table in a half-remodeled home." It pissed me off.
3. As a child I wanted Princess Diana and Prince Charles to adopt me. I cried like a baby from the time I found out she was dead until the week later at her funeral. I watched the funeral while crying into Peggy Hamrick's dog Frodo's fur.
4. I once tried to fly a homemade kite made from a trash bag and a coat hanger. The Canadian neighbors next door bought me a kite for my next birthday.
5. Although I have always been jealous of my sister in many ways, and we fought like, well, sisters as children, I now consider her one of my best friends and would kill for her. Or at least maim.
6. My husband broke up with me in 10th grade because I was ready to have sex and he was not.
7. When I finally did have sex at 17 (ahem, not with him) for the first time, I planned the event for about 4 months ahead of time. And it was perfect, absolutely perfect. I feel like it set the standard for my expectations of sex for the rest of my single life. I believe teens are responsible enough to choose when to have sex.
8. Although I am ardently pro-choice, I believe technology will change enough where fetuses can be transplanted. That WILL change things, in my eyes.
9. I have never understood what people's looks have to do with their sex appeal. I have found many "unattractive" people very sexy, and many "hot" guys unappealing.
10. I weigh 251 pounds, and have not weighed under 200 in about 15 years. And I am mostly ok with that! Dr. Miles can suck it!
11. I once dreamed that a man would look past my frumpy appearance, my oppositional demeanor, and my constant sobriety to find me a fascinating, sexy, minx of a woman. About two years ago, I realized that one had – my husband.
12. Although I am not an alcoholic, I don't drink at all. The last time I drank was in 1997, before my friend Laura McGeorge's wedding, and I ended the night throwing up on myself in my bushes. I never got buzzed when I did drink, I went straight from sober to fucked up beyond belief. With the family history of alcoholism, I decided not to mess with it.
13. I am secretly judgemental of all those who drink and/or use drugs. I feel superior to them.
14. I have never had sex drunk.
15. I spend about 5 hours per week 80 hours per week on my actual job, and still manage to get everything done.
16. Although I am fat and funny, I am not jolly at all. I am one of the most angry people you will ever meet. If I am not pissed off, just talk to me about Dr. Sears, John Rosemond, or Joel Osteen. You will then see the anger.
17. I am bisexual – but have never even kissed a girl. This does not make me a poser, it makes me monogamous. I knew this the first time I saw Catherine Deneauve and Susan Sarandon in the Hunger.
18. I have had a massive crush on Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller for about three years now, and I don't really like magic at all. His NPR This I Believe was literally life changing for me, and helped me come to grips with my atheism. I am terrified of meeting him.
19. If I could afford it, I would hire a housekeeper/cook in a heartbeat. I hate the majority of traditional female roles, other than pregnancy and breastfeeding. I often resent my husband for the freedoms our society gives men in regards to parenting.
20. Even before I worked in my current field of domestic violence/sexual assault, people have always disclosed their abuse to me. I once had a woman disclose her sexual abuse to me while I was being interviewed by a group for a job. She had never told her co-workers until the interview.
21. I wrote awful, awful, awful, vampire porn when I was in high school, and I used some of the "popular" guys by name in the story. To top it off, the high school girl who was the main character vampire lost tons of weight after becoming a vampire. Mary Sue much???? And yet it was probably still better than Twilight.
22. I love Bollywood movies and their soundtracks.
23. I fall down alot – about two or three times per month.
24. I have my own bedroom. It has been hard for me to sleep in the room with anyone else for about 20 years.
25. My female friendships have caused me more heartache, betrayal, and drama in my life than anything with men ever has.
