100 Things About Me

1. I was born in Alabama, but spent the formative years in Arkansas and Louisiana. I'm not sure why I don't sound like someone on HeeHaw.
2. I never met my father. My mother only knew him briefly. I have no idea what his real name is.
3. I knew I was gay at a very young age.
4. I don't remember very much about my childhood before the age of 5. Although I have some pretty vivid memories of a beach in Montgomery.
5. I am deathly afraid of snakes and spiders, but I can watch them on TV (unlike my mother).
6. I wanted braces all of my life, until I got them.
7. I never ever think I'm the smartest person in the room.
8. I wanted to be a drummer when I was a kid. My hero was Roger Taylor from Queen.
9. I bought a book on breakdancing after seeing some cool video on television. I failed miserably but I never stopped admiring people who could do it.
10. I lived in the projects until the age of 13.
11. I attended a predominantly black middle school and was one of 6 white kids.
12. I never had to study very much in middle and high school. College was a big shock and I thought I would flunk out.
13. I thought I was going to be a mathematician when I was in grade school. Then I was run over by algebra.
14. I had a paper route in the 4th grade and delivered them in the afternoon every day after school. When the schedule required that they be delivered in the morning before school, I quit.
15. I spent all of my paper route earnings on comic books and candy. I never saved a cent.
    
16. I was more of a DC than Marvel fan.
17. I was on the tennis team in High School. I went to state in mixed doubles but lost in the first round. I threw up right before the match. Thus ended my career in athletics.
18. I secretly hoped my father would show up and take me away from all the poverty and racism of the south.
19. My mother was raised a pentecostal and I went to church with her exactly one time. There were people crying and speaking in tongues. I never went with her after that.
20. I went to a baptist church and sunday school with friends from my high school.
21. I have never thought very much about organized religion. I think it causes more problems than solves. I believe everyone has god in them.
22. I did, however, pray for the "organizing force" to make me straight.
23. I had crushes on Grizzly Adams, Charles Ingalls, and Steve Austin. I still do.
24. I almost learned to play the clarinet. I did choir instead but I can't read music.
25. I am a very lazy person.
26. I am a very germ phobic.
27. Number 25 and 26 are always fighting for dominance.
28. I LOVE coffee and chocolate. Mochas are my idea of heaven.
29. I'm much more of an upper person than a downer one.
30. I thought I was the only person in my town who knew Kraftwerk, Joy Division and Cabaret Voltaire.
31. I wanted to be a New Romantic.
32. I'm currently obsessed with knitting. Previous obsessions have been succulents, electronic music and typography.
33. I used to watch a lot of TV. Now I don't own one.
    
34. I watch a LOT of DVDs. We have a pretty big library.
35. I took a lot of drugs as a undergraduate. Not quite as many in grad school. But then I made up for it when I moved to San Francisco.
36. I used to work for a Global Apparel Manufacturer that is commonly known as an American Icon. I worked in the Publicity department.
37. I met Lauryn Hill, Air, Basement Jaxx, Esthero, Black Eyed Peas, Jamiroquai, Phantom Planet, Massive Attack, Sasha. Digweed and a host of other DJs and celebutantes.
38. I've always had a facility for language, but I'm usually too embarrassed to strike up a conversation in another language.
39. I have an addictive personality.
40. I have hazel eyes.
41. I used to lay on our roof and try to get tan. I'm so shocked that I never developed any skin cancers.
42. I graduated valedictorian of my high school.
43. I almost flunked college managerial accounting. My mother was an accountant.
44. I met my partner in a rock and roll bar. He was the bartender and assistant talent booker.
45. We've been together for 5 years.
46. I have a list of all the people I've ever slept with.
47. My first boyfriend was twice my age.
48. My grandmother taught me to crochet and knit as a child. I picked up the needles again about 2 years ago when my friend Moreno was working on socks and I made him show me how.
49. I've never been to the Far East.
50. I studied abroad my Junior year in college. Actually it was the Spring Semester and a portion of the summer. It was in Angers, France.
51. I would like to live in another country for a while. Maybe France or Northern England, but I'd be happy with Canada or Mexico.
52. My partner suffered an aneurysm during our 3rd year together. He is now a paraplegic. We are both hopeful that one day he can walk again.
53. My mother died at the age of 52.
54. My older brother, my younger sister and I all have different fathers.
55. My brother lived with my great-grandparents in Arkansas until he was 16. Then he came to live with us in Louisiana.
56. My very first musical purchase was the 45 rpm single of "Take A Chance" on Me by Abba.
57. I think a war on anything solves nothing.
58. I'm still friends with my best friends in college but I don't speak to any of my friends from high school.
59. I've had LASIK surgery to correct my vision.
60. The hair on my neck grows very fast and I have to have touch ups in between proper haircuts.
61. I hate to drive.
62. I can fall asleep in the back of a moving car in 5 minutes.
63. I'd prefer to wash the dishes over cooking.
64. Fresh breath is a priority in my life.
65. I prefer thrift and vintage to brand new... except when it comes to shoes.
66. I am quick to anger.
67. I'm bad at admitting I'm wrong.
68. I prefer to pee sitting down.
69. I cannot poo in public stalls. I'm okay with a private room.
70. My stress dream is usually about missing a final exam or about realizing at the end of the semester that I forgot to drop a class.
71. I worry that I'm not enjoying my youth.
72. I worry that I'm not growing up fast enough.
73. My sister and her husband have two children and a dog. My brother and his wife have 2 donkeys and a goat.
74. My brother is 6 years older than me and my sister is 6 years younger than me.
75. I went back to graduate school at the age of 37 and finished my Master's Degree.
76. We had a Peekapoo named Tigger when I was a teenager. He had epilepsy.
77. I kept a diary for a brief period in high school and wrote in it backwards. I thought perhaps I would turn into Leonardo Da Vinci if I did this. I don't think it worked.
78. I have a serious yarn monkey on my back.
79. I used to think that wool was hideous but I have since learned that it comes in many fabulous forms.
80. I prefer the knit stitch to the purl. I prefer stocking stitch to garter stitch. I prefer Fair Isle to Intarsia.
81. I worship at the altar of Elizabeth Zimmerman.
82. I love dry gardening.
83. I prefer non-spiny succulents to cactus but I pretty much love them all.
84. I prefer dry and hot to cold and wet but the worst is hot and humid.
85. I am afraid of the dark.
86. I love maple trees in the fall.
87. I love the smell of peppermint and sandalwood.
88. I can't eat fresh tomatoes but I could drink salsa. Bloody Mary's make me gag.
89. I tried to be vegetarian when I lived in Austin. I couldn't do it. I blame the Salt Lick.
90. I used to collect Swatch Watches. I still have my collection.
91. My absolute all-time favorite groups are the Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, The Magnetic Fields, Abba, Kraftwerk, New Order and the Smiths.
92. I love jellyfish, octopus and squid/cuttlefish. If I had an aquarium, It would be filed with only these animals.
93. If I could have a super power, I'd love to have chromatophores.
94. I could eat breakfast food for every meal. I adore pancakes.
95. I could watch Absolutely Fabulous/French & Saunders, Stranger With Candy and the Sopranos on a loop... and I do.
96. I love a good horror film or thriller.
97. I hate most action and war films.
98. My favorite drinks are a lemon drop, closely followed by a filthy martini (3 olives) and finally a cosmopolitan made with a bit more cranberry and a little less Cointreau.
99. I can't sleep in pajamas nor can I sleep in the nude.
100. I prefer stout beer and I like it chilled.