100 things (or, okay, the first 50)

because i missed that fad when it was cool, and i'm bored.

1) i used to collect dead bees in tiny boxes. mostly because i like small boxes, but the bees were cool too
2) my dad and i drove to new hampshire for the sole purpose of getting out of the car and standing there for a couple seconds so i could say i'd been there
3) i've tried to read gulliver's travels five times and just can't make myself do it
4) i really really really want to be able to do a backflip, but i can't
5) i have only felt claustrophobic twice in my life: once in a drain pipe under a railroad track (don't ask) and once when i got stuck head first in a snowbank (again...)
6) staring at the sky almost always makes me feel better
7) the romper room woman and her magic magnifying glass found me hiding in the kitchen cabinet when i was little
8) i love grocery stores, especially ones in foreign countries
9) i can trace my disillusionment to the time i convinced my mother to buy mr. clean and he didn't appear in the floor and wave at me; it wasn't even shiny!
10) i don't like vanilla scented things, but i love vanilla extract
11) i tend to do dishes when i'm drunk
12) or sometimes i just spend the night sitting in the sink
13) i found a 4-leaf clover... and then lost it somewhere in all my moving boxes
14) children's books are mostly the best books i've ever read
15) i got my ears double pierced as a reward for being top student in my seventh grade class (oh, the depths of my dorkitude)
16) i rarely ever get bored
17) mt. rainier is my paradigm of what a mountain should be
18) the only sport i will willingly watch live is hockey -- but it's only good if they fight
19) i'm addicted to office supplies
20) but i've never stolen any
21) i will wear heels even if i'm already taller than everyone in the room, and enjoy it
22) i hate talking to people on airplanes
23) i kept my feet in lake louise for 11 seconds. try it, and you'll know why i consider this an accomplishment
24) summer is my least favorite season
25) my mother would've named me george if i had been a boy
26) i used to get beef and pork confused
27) now i just don't eat either
28) i had a poem published in a magazine when i was 12
29) i only lost 4 of my baby teeth on my own
30) i despise medium point pens
31) i collect antoine de saint-exupery's "le petit prince" from every country i visit
32) the only concert i've ever been to is ray charles, when i was six
33) i never got lost shopping with my dad when i was little because you could see his head over every aisle
34) i've always wanted an imaginary friend
35) my imaginary boyfriend bob doesn't count because i can't really see him and never really bothered to develop his character
36) neither my parents nor my grandparents have been divorced
37) the mime at sea world stole me and made me throw invisible knives at invisible balloons; i hated it
38) fire fascinates me
39) i want to see ball lightning, even though it scares me
40) the only thing i've ever been fast at in my life is math speed drills in second grade
41) animals and small children tend to like me
42) i refused to braid my hair for like six years because someone told me i looked like pipi longstocking
43) breakfast is the best meal of the day
44) i will be able to guilt trip my parents forever because they didn't buy me a little orange and yellow playskool car -- and i'm still jealous of all the little kids who have them
45) my second toe is longer than my big toe
46) i went to amsterdam and never went near a coffeeshop
47) my grandma made out with one of the boys in the "raising the flag over iwo jima" picture
48) my favorite painting is arthur hughes' "ophelia" (the 1865 one)
49) i will blush if you tell me i'm blushing. sometimes i even turn purple
50) i keep all my fortune cookie fortunes