- I did this to see if I could, and also because I like talking about myself a whole lot more than I actually like myself.
- I met my wife (and by wife I mean "oldest, dearest friend") on Neopets. It's a kids' site that, like everything else, used to be cooler than it is now.
- Novels have tropes; poets have tropes; I have tropes. One of them is flying. I'm addicted to images and metaphors of flight. I found this picture in an art magazine of an astronaut being held up by strings tied to a flock of birds. I tore it out and stuck it to my wall, but it's not as inspiring there as it was in the magazine.
- Another one of my tropes is home and family. I'm nostalgic for my childhood. I want someplace to feel safe.
- I like painting. It's the only thing that I know I'm not very good at but still do proudly.
- I'm not good at practicing. I like to be good at things right off the bat or else I just give up.
- I miss my cat, but I'm glad he died before I went off to college. I would not have liked to leave him.
- I make up love stories about things that my future husband will do for me that no one else is likely to ever come up with, but that wouldn't be romantic if I told him to.
- I like cooking, and doing dishes, and laundry.
- I love getting into a bed when it's been made, but I think making the bed is a waste of time.
- I hate loud noises.
- I startle too easily. It's embarrassing.
- I wish I didn't want to be beautiful as much as I do.
- I'm addicted to feminist everything, even though it's started to sap the pleasure out of going to the movies.
- I never really "got" church. I equated Communion with snack time. I could not master the art of hymnals. This is probably why I'm an atheist.
- I believe in reincarnation because I don't know where else a soul could go after death, and I don't want to think to believe that there is no such thing as a soul. It's not dying I'm worried about, but if my body is all there is to me, I'd like to request a better one.
- I think "Atomic Ranch" is a terrifying name for a Home and Gardens magazine.
- Swear words still shock me. I startle a little bit every time I hear one, even though I swear myself.
- I want a boyfriend so that someone in the world has to put up with me all the time, but I question the validity of any sort of romantic commitment.
- I think it would be immoral for me to have children, given the lifestyle I desire, but I desperately want children nevertheless.
- I think tattoos and piercings are stupid. I want them.
- My best friend is the perfect person.
- Whenever I start to believe that someone actually loves me, I can't believe my luck.
- I wish I didn't smile as much as I do, and that I was good at keeping secrets, and that I knew how to be popular, whatever that means.
- I wish I was the sort of person who pays attention to what she wears, does her hair and make up, and can make her skin be clear every once in a while. I'm not.
- I believe that peppermint is the embodiment of everything good in the world.
- I hold my breath when I walk in the cold.
- I want a small house filled with big, brightly-colored mugs that don't match and a fat yellow cat named Theodore Roosevelt.
- There are people I pick arguments with just to make them keep talking to me.
- I'm pretty sure it gets a little harder for me to trust people every single day.
nov 21 2010 ∞
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