1. I want two tattoos: a back piece that looks like the line of ocean water as a wave comes up the shoreline, and a half-sleeve of a sunrise. Both in full color and stylistically like...pastels. (also, I can't describe tattoos especially well.) I also want my left lower helix pierced with a tiny silver hoop.
2. I skipped kindergarten. I've been a year younger than my classmates since I was five. I was also third in my high school class of almost 500. Numba three does not get any recognition.
3. Facing the challenge of coming out was the best thing that could have happened to me when I was 17 and 18. I learned to stand up for myself.
4. I love the ocean: the colors, the waves, the sun, the shapes, the plants.
5. I've tried rugby, crew, badminton, tennis and jogging, and given up on most of them. I did play soccer for 10 years, though, and I want to try hockey.
6. I tend to go for androgynous-ish people, and girls with curves.
7. I love jewelry and accessories more than anyone really should. I could look at little silver earrings all day.
8. I feel lonely almost all of the time that I'm by myself.
9. Spiders, centipedes, roaches, and most other icky bugs squick me out. Ants and moths are just fine, though.
10. Speaking of being squicked-out, the worst thing for me is mutant fruit. Colossal multi-lobed strawberries? Double grapes? fruit-inside-fruit? EWWWWWWWWWWWW. words cannot describe.
11. I love desserts involving apple or pumpkin. I'm not a huge chocolate fan, but I crave milk chocolate on occasion.
12. I have a ridiculously fast metabolism. It slowed down briefly when I was about 15 or 16, but besides those few months, I've been like a small furry animal. I eat every couple of hours. Like, as kids we used to have "morning snack" in the four-hour period between breakfast and lunch. If I miss a meal, I become a lethargic, grouchy, sad mess. I have never technically weighed enough to donate blood.
13. My lucky number is supposed to be three. I remember this in conjunction with the number 13 because when we got soccer jerseys every season, my friend was always excited for 13, but I would hope for three. Don't ask.
14. I still use the Oxford comma. My weirdest pet peeve is when college-educated people don't know the difference between affect and effect.
15. I like the most stereotypical lesbian music ever. but I honestly love it.
16. Singing in the car is my favorite form of stress relief. Belting early 2000's Tegan and Sara is a private and entirely necessary activity.
17. I'm addicted to caffeine.
18. I had a teacher in high school who went out of her way to show that she believed in me, and it still means a lot to me. She wrote me a letter when I graduated, and I still have it.
19. Heights make me dizzy, but I love roller-coasters.
20. I'm a feminist, and you should be too.
21. I get sick in cars and buses, but planes are fine.
22. I was directionally challenged until I was eighteen, and now I'm fairly competent. Gluten or maturity?
23. As a little kid, I had a yellow security blanket with red stitching on my favorite spot on the lining. I took it everywhere, and my mom eventually cut it so that it was small enough to carry around. I slept with "Blankie" until the middle of high school. Oh, and when I was like four, Blankie married Puffy, who was an orange teddy bear. They were both girls.
24. Ab exercises and a gluten-free diet have kept me safe from my old eating disorder and compulsive exercise. Staying out of malls and away from magazines helps too.
25. I love smooth, bold pens. I like nice highlighters and Sharpies for the same reason. One of my life's dreams is to find the perfect set of fine-tipped markers in a rainbow of colors.
26. I've bought and read Harry Potter #4, 5, and 6 in Spanish.
27. After watching Disney movies as a kid, I used to imagine myself as the knight-in-shining-armor human superhero type who saves the pretty girl with my wits and brawn. I never imagined myself as a guy...just as someone really tough. (So...Erica...from the little mermaid.) I feel like I'm still trying so hard to be that strong, and sometimes it works.
28. Once upon a time, I loved someone and didn't tell her. I vowed never to do that again. I've kept my word.
29. My favorite flowers are red hibiscuses. I also like daylilies, roses, and tulips--anything with overly large petals.
30. I like converse shoes.
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