smileyjess

have you ever tried to think of 100 things about yourself that you actually feel like sharing with another person? it's quite a daunting task.

1. i hate change.
2. i sing, even though i can't and therefore shouldn't for the sake of others.
3. skittles and coke zero are my equivalents of cocaine and heroin. basically, i can't start my day without either, and literally experience severe cravings and awful symptoms of withdrawal when deprived of them for extended periods of time (i.e. - two, two and a half hours).
4. pretty much too much of my life is devoted to grey's anatomy.
5. all i want is everything.
6. when i grow up i want to be a hybrid of audrey hepburn and marilyn munroe.
7. maybe i could be like george clinton once in awhile. just to spice things up. it'd be interesting to actually believe i was abducted by aliens. and subsist solely on drugs.
8. i know all the words to baby got back. and routinely get them inappropriately stuck in my head. all. the fricking. time.
9. someday i want to be kissed in the same way the woman is in robert doisneau's the kiss by the hotel deville or gustav klimt's the kiss.
10. my favourite colour is hot pink.
11. yes, i use u's solely because, yes, i'm that pretentious. scoff if you will, see if i stop, though.
12. listening to the dalai lama speak - no joke - turned my life around. it's trite, but true.
13. this is my favourite number. at least that's what i've been saying for whatever reason since 6th grade and it was cc's basketball jersey. pathetic!
14. im terribly cynical and scathingly realistic
15. but if you really know me, you know that deep down i'm also a perpetually optimistic hopeless romantic at heart.
16. probably, though, if you think you know me, then you don't. ("you think you know, but you have no idea..." excellent show - my personal fav is the one on missy elliot. damn, she's been through so much!!! who knew!!! answer: NO ONE!!!)
17. obvious stuff: i go to providence college.
18. i have a compulsion to craft to-do lists solely so that i may cross things off and feel productive. crossed off obviously mundane tasks such as "brush teeth" and "remember wallet" - in other words - things i would never actually forget to do and therefore can write them down just to later eliminate them. yeah. im weird.
19. i HATE change. i know i already said this one, but its reiteration was necessary.
20. im a vegetarian because the summer before my sophomore year i had to read fast food nation and animal liberation, which is more than enough to convince even the most redneck, spare-ribs-loving, cow-killing human alive to not ever permit meat to touch his lips again.
21. i love alexander hamilton. jon wall and i used to fight over who would marry him were we endowed with the capability to go back in time. i usually won because gay people didn't exist in the 18th century; it's a fact, feel free to quote me on it.
22. wind chimes make me smile.
23. i have a love/hate relationship with rhode island, in that i love it in the summer and hate it the rest of the time.
24. i'm positively addicted to iced raspberry lattes with soy from seattle's best.
25. if i'm having a bad day, i'll order two.
26. all other times you see me drinking coffee, it is a necessary evil - i hate it, but it comes with the territory of being a biology major.
27. everyone i know is always leaving.
28. my thesaurus is my bible.
29. i can listen to george winston's december in july.
30. there is nothing better than a car with a sunroof. except maybe, like, a convertible.
31. my favourite song of all time is - without a doubt - fool in the rain by led zeppelin.
32. followed extremely closely by beast of burden by the stones.
33. i wanted to be a beatnik poet for halloween when i was nine. black turtleneck and beret, long cigarette holder in hand, this is how i imagined allen ginsberg led his daily life.
34. i wish i could write like jack kerouac.
35. i wish i could travel like jack kerouac.
36. i'm solar powered - sunlight is necessary for me to run.
37. my accountant father taught me math by red sox statistics starting at the tender age of, oh, three.
38. i'm the firstborn of two daughters; my sister is five years younger and the love of my life.
39. i often wear the same pair of jeans for several days in a row, and only will switch because they need to be washed. on laundry day i traipse around in pj's until they are dry.
40. the way into my heart is through jewelry - the more outrageous, the better.
41. my goal is to fill several passports' worth with stamps from my worldly travels. so far i've got france, england, spain, ireland, germany, austria, mexico, and the czech republic.
42. ryan and i are going to travel the world together. we've been planning it since middle school. we'd unroll a projector map of the world in his driveway, anchor its corners with small pebbles, and circle in sidewalk chalk all the cities we'd visit. by the time we're done, i'll be dead broke but so rich in experience that nothing else will matter. i cannot wait.
42. currently he's studying abroad in vienna and i'm positively dying here missing him.
43. if i were a homewrecker, i'd be chris martin's mistress.
44. my first concert was rod stewart when i was four at great woods in massachusetts. lawn. good thing, too, because i had mono... and fell asleep. my parents said it was a great show, though.
45. everything bagels are my favourite; don't be fooled by the way i always eat wheat ones.
46. le petit prince by antoine de st. exupery is one of the two most amazing things ever written.
47. wasted by marya hornbacher is the other.
48. close to amazing authors include augusten burroughs and joan didion.
49. i can recite every word to fight club.
50. i can recite every word to baz luhrmann's 1997 remake of romeo + juliet.
51. i have a wide spectrum of interests, yes.
52. i can never make up my mind. about anything. ever. i am not a good "decider."
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damn it.
this is difficult.
maybe i'll try again tomorrow.