About Me

100 Hundred Things About Me (Like You Really Wanted to Know) : In Progress

1. I teach high school English at my old high school

2. I have lived in Maine, Oregon, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New York, but my roots are now settled back in Maine.

3. I have never read War and Peace and don’t know if I ever will

4. I once melted the skin on my leg off by placing my leg directly on a motorcycle’s exhaust pipe (not on purpose, mind you)

5. I didn’t learn to ride a bike until I was in sixth grade

6. I still don’t really know how to snap

7. I am hopelessly addicted to Lost

8. Prairie Home Companion makes a weekend complete for me

9. Even though I stand in front of high school students all day on show, I sometimes still am very shy and get nervous when I have to present to an audience

10. I played a game of catch with my father at Fenway Park, on the field

11. When I was six years old I met The Beav (from Leave it to Beaver)

12. My father is Catholic, my mother is Jewish and I just am

13. I want to go to Spain

14. I hope to someday have kids of my own

15. I want to paint the walls in my house but just can’t commit to a color scheme

16. I don’t know how to change a flat tire, but do know how to call someone who does

17. Someday I will own a bookstore

18. I wish I could play a musical instrument

19. I used to be a ballet dancer

20. I also was a cheerleader

21. I know cued speech and a little bit of sign language

22. I love cross country skiing even though I am not very good at it

23. I have two dogs who I love more than anything in the world

24. I broke my wrist on the monkey bars when I was six years old and now am scared to death of them

25. I am also scared of snapping turtles when I go swimming

26. I drink way too much coffee

27. I am equally happy camping in the woods or in a coffee shop in a city

28. I share a birthday with George Michael

29. I think leg warmers are cool

30. I love a boy/man in converse all-star sneakers

31. My mother grew up in Beverly Hills and I was born in Leeds, Maine…. how does that happen?

32. I have been to the Corn Palace

33. I once drove an RV for 22 straight hours

34. I really want to be a roller derby chic (mostly because of the cool outfits)

35. I was caught shoplifting as a teenager and now have to put that on my job applications (humiliating, note to all, don’t steal, it is not worth it)

36. I don’t always “get” poetry

37. I am secretly obsessed with celebrity gossip

38. I steered a gondola in Venice, Italy while Italian men blew me kisses

39. I climbed the nine hundred and something steps to get to the top of the Duomo.

40. I will never be a skinny girl

41. I have driven cross country by myself

42. Pineapple is my favorite fruit

43. I miss living with boys who played guitars.

44. I have a crooked smile.

45. Some people say I look like Sandra Bullock, which annoys me because I find her so annoying and also rather plain.

46. I absolutely hate the sound of someone filing their nails.

47. I have a spot in my right eyebrow where no hair grows as a result of walking straight into a bookshelf.

48. My favorite color changes on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis.

49. I love sushi, but still can’t really master chopsticks.

50. The next class I take will be a photography class.

51. My favorite time of day is dusk when the mountains are just silhouettes in the sky.

52. I miss the smell of my mother’s pot roast wafting through the house on a Sunday afternoon.

52. I played Dorothy in my fifth grade production of The Wizard of Oz.

53. I was the sixth grade spelling bee champion, but lost in the district competition because I didn’t know how to spell separate.

54. I am left-handed, which I think makes me kind of cool.

55. I had a Cabbage Patch Kid named Darrell Buddy.

56. I actually had ten Cabbage Patch Kids, but Darrell was my favorite.

57. I still don’t understand geometry.

58. I lived in a house with seven people and five dogs when I was in college.

59.  The next animal I want to adopt is a pygmy goat.  Oh, how I want a pygmy goat.

60.  Desolation Row by Bob Dylan just may be my favorite song ever.

61.  As a kid, I always wanted to be in a club, and started several different one, but they never lived up to my expectations.

62.  When I was young, I always wanted to be named Chrystal and now whenever I meet a Chrystal I think we have something in common.

63.  I believe that hair is an accessory and treat mine accordingly.

64.  For reason above, I also really like wigs.

65.  I don’t understand why people who live in Maine complain about snow and cold weather. You live in Maine, deal with it!

66.  A not so secret part of me thinks I may someday live in New Mexico.

67.  I have always wanted to teach on a reservation.

68.  Nobody can make me laugh like my mom and sister can.

69.  My niece Haley is probably the coolest six year old ever.  And the prettiest.

70.  I really wish I was handy, in terms of building things.

71.  I am completely tone deaf, but that doesn’t stop me from daydreaming about singing in a bar to a mesmerized crowd.

72.  I am embarrassed by my lack of biblical knowledge.

73.  I took a class called “The Bible” and still know nothing about the Bible.

74.  I have only owned four cars in my life:  a Ford Escort, Honda Civic, Subaru Forester and now my Legacy.

75.  In high school I was hit by a drunk driver who told the judge that me and my three high school friends were all ex-girlfriends of his who were out to “get him”.  Needless to say, she didn’t buy his story.

76.  I think that crow’s feet on a man are a sign of much laughter in someone’s life and find that extremely appealing.

77.  I got three tattoos in high school and I regret them all.

78.  I love the smell of fall.

79.  When I was little my friends’ parents referred to me as “the giggle monster”.

80.  When I was twelve I painted my room lavendar and had a a canopy bed, just like the princess I thought I was.

81.  In high school I wrote an autobiography stating that I was really the daughter of a Jamaican princess.  My mother hung it on the fridge.

82. I jumped out of an airplane once, hurling my body towards the ground at an insanely fast speed, but I refuse to jump off of any sort of cliffs or rope swings into water.

83.  Jim Rice was my first crush ever.

84.  I still say that “You Shouldn’t Have to Say Good-bye” is one of the saddest books ever.

85.   I have never really liked my handwriting.

86.  I know all the words to my school’s alma mater.

87.  Whenever I eat chicken noodle soup, I think of staying home sick with my father and watching The Price is Right.

88.  I was not a very good student in high school.

89.  My sister is five years older than I am, yet people often think I am older.  I used to think this was really cool, not so much anymore.

90.  I do the crossword puzzle in ink.

91.  I have a hard time reading non-fiction.

92.  I talk to myself all the time.  It helps me get things done.

93.  I wish I lived in Jane Austen’s era, if only for the dresses and the dances.

94.  Speaking of which, I would marry Mr. Darcy.

95.  I hate Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is such a sap

96.  I have a serious purse addiction.

97.  Next to the smell of fall, the smell of a bookstore is my favorite.

98.  I organize everything….. its an issue of mine.

99.  I LOVE making lists.

100.  My chickens are named after Shakespeare’s leading ladies.