101 things about me.

1) I hate my name.

2) I really wanted to name Katherine Caitlin but I let Michael bully me out of it. I wish I hadn't.

3) I have been married for almost 9 years.

4) I am not living up to my potential, according to the feminist movement.

5) I have lived in Illinois, Mississippi, Nebraska and Adana, Turkey.

6) I used to be fluent in French. I wish I still was.

7) I have lots of freckles. Not in a Sissy-Spacek type of way, though.

8) I think being a mom rocks.

9) I am really flexible for a fat chick. I can put my feet behind my ears, quite comfortably. Much to my husband's delight.

10) I want very much to practice criminal law. Someday.

11) I have never been to Paris. But I want very much to go.

12) My home page is Yahoo!

13) I currently have three active email accounts.

14) My daughter and I have identical birthmarks on our right thighs.

15) I am a worrier. If worrying was a competative sport, I would be World Champion.

16) I am extremely competative.

17) I used to be a gymnast. My favorite event was the uneven bars, but I was always best at vaults. I had to give it up because my parents thought I was getting too serious and they worried that I wouldn't have time to be a kid. Which is BS. They were too cheap to pay for lessons.

18) I also used to play volleyball. I loved it. I stopped in high school because I had to get a job, and I wasn't allowed to play sports anymore. As if working at A&W was more important to my education than team sports.

19) I believe that soccer for 3 year olds is a waste of time and human effort.

20) I dislike people who wear their intellegence (or lack thereof) as a badge of honor. Being smart doesn't make you better than anyone, and believing that you are stupid doesn't excuse you from being an adult. Deal with it.

21) I really hate it when women make excuses for staying with abusive husbands. Especially if they have kids. I don't care if he's beating you physically or emotionally: to subject yourself to that treatment is one thing, to allow your children to be subjected to it is inexcuseable.

22) I do not consider myself a feminist. See #4.

23) I used to want to be an actress. It was my greatest ambition in life.

24) I am a really loyal friend. Almost to a fault.

25) I do not trust people easily. At all.

26) Money makes me horny.

27) I have never once tried any illegal or illicit drugs. Not even pot. Not once.

28) I really love to use swear words. As if you couldn't fucking tell.

29) My husband says I make awesome cookies. He also made a number of comments that were sexual in nature and not fit for public consumption.

30) I actually own a copy of Britney Spears' first album.

31) My first rock concert was Bon Jovi in 1989.

32) I love to sing.

33) I am painfully shy.

34) I do in fact believe in my heart that daycare is bad for children.

35) I also believe in my heart that formula is bad for children. I hate that I was formula fed.

36) I have a king sized bed.

37) I am hungry right now.

38) I really like South Park.

39) In fact, I identify with Cartman.

40) I can sing every single word of Evita.

41) My favorite color is purple.

42) I have made 217 entries in this diary, over 343 days. Not including this entry.

43) I average 79 views per day.

44) I am incredibly stubborn.

45) I am a registered Democrat.

46) I love politics. My major in college was political science. If/when I go back it will still be poli sci.

47) My dream of dreams would be to go to Harvard Law. I'd settle for the University of Chicago.

48) I did not realize what a project this would be.

49) I love fast food french fries, but ever since reading Fast Food Nation, I cannot bring myself to eat them.

50) I attended a Clinton - Gore rally in Chicago in 1992 and had the best time. We were right up front and the enthusiasm of the crowd was just overwhelming. It was really a powerful feeling.

51) My husband and I met on a blind date, which we went to go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

52) I come from a family of 10 kids, plus two half brothers.

53) One is a paranoid schitzophrenic.

54) I had surgery on my left index finger when I was 8 years old, to remove a cavernous hemangioma birth mark.

55) It grew back when I was pregnant with Katherine.

56) Gretchen Nord would not shake my hand in kindergarten because of it.

57) I think popcorn is a wonderful thing. Hot salty buttery popcorn made in a pan on top of the stove. None of that micro-shit.

58) I have never been to New York.

59) I have been to Los Angeles. And I loved it.

60) I get migraines quite frequently.

61) I used to have a crush on David Bowie. Before I realized how totally and completely gay he is. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

62) I was president of the drama club in high school.

63) I was also editor of the newspaper.

64) I was robbed at gunpoint via the drivethru window of the taco joint where I worked when I was 16.

65) I had a planned homebirth in 1996.

66) I spent 10 days in Lanstuhl, Germany in 1997. It was wonderful.

67) I love, love, love my Handspring.

68) I have never used AOL.

69) I got so very drunk at a frat party at Bradley University when I was 15. I consumed roughly 12 8 oz. cups of tequila. I was sick all night, but had no hangover. I have never been drunk since.

70) At the same event, I also made out with some 40 year old alumni who was pouring the tequila. He had a mustache.

71) I graduated from high school almost 10 years ago.

72) I have no tattoos or piercings.

73) I am really just a nerd at heart.

74) I do not think it's possible for me to be any more sexually satisfied.

75) I am keeping an obsessive list of my Google hits.

76) I have never been Quoted.

77) I am a teribul spellur.

78) I am so homesick for Chicago it isn't even funny.

79) I just got totally sidetracked looking at real estate back home.

80) The only reason I can consider moving home is because my mother is dead.

81) Which is really sad and pathetic.

82) I watched Robert DeNiro and Uma Thurman filming Mad Dog and Glory in Lincoln Park in 1992.

83) I didn't see the movie.

84) I got kind of a thing for Robert DeNiro. But I don't like it when I hear people referr to him as Bob.

85) The song stuck in my head right now is The Youth of the Nation.

86) I very rarely paint my fingernails.

87) I used to smoke Kool Menthols in high school.

88) I still get cravings every once in a while.

89) I wore a cute little yellow rayon pants outfit to my wedding.

90) No one attend the ceremony except myself, Michael, and the judge.

91) Our marraige certificate is from Harrison County, Mississippi and is really very pretty.

92) I do not miss not having had "The Big Wedding".

93) I love it when my husband kisses me on the forehead.

94) I have to be really careful to get enough fiber in my diet.

95) I have three earring holes in my left ear and two in my right.

96) But I don't wear any earrings.

97) I attended DePaul University for exactly one semester. Go Blue Demons!

98) I got an A in my religion class and I didn't crack a single book.

99) I told my professor in that class that I had a doctor's appointment and had to leave class early just so that I could get to the Clinton rally on time. See #50. Sorry Dr. Carlson.

100) I survived a minute long, 7.2 earthquake in a third world country. We lived without power for three days. In a 120* heat.

101) I am such a bad ass.

Whew.