100 Things

I know a lot of blogs do these lists. 100 things about the blogger. My life is an open book, so I figured I’d start one, too. Though, I’m not nearly that deep or interesting, so it’s entirely possible that I won’t be able to think of 100 things. But there you have it.

So without further ado…

1. I watch entirely too much television.
2. I absolutely adore the color pink.
3. I have a fraternal twin sister. She is my only sibling.
4. I have been in love twice before, and both times, I ended up with a broken heart.
5. I once thought about going to Divinity School.
6. I lived on Water Street, five blocks from the World Trade Center, on September 11. We were evacuated from the building and lived in a hotel in midtown for about a month.
7. I am a smoker.
8. I was once a pretty good classical ballet dancer, but I was too fat for ballet and lacked the discipline to pursue it for a career as I would have liked.
9. I was born and raised in Gulfport, MS.
10. I am painfully shy and believe that I suffer from social anxiety disorder, or social phobia, though I’ve never been formally diagnosed as such.
11. I have a pet cat named Jazz, after what used to be my favorite basketball team, the Utah Jazz.
12. I have a stuffed animal cat that I have had since I was born. His name is, appropriately enough, Cat.
13. I was voted Most Intellectual by my high school senior class.
14. I won first place prizes for poetry and drama in the annual competition of the Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association in 1999.
15. I like to balance my checkbook and write budgets.
16. I would like to get a Ph.D. in something someday, but I have no idea in what.
17. I never thought I’d end up back in Mississippi, but here I am.
18. I lived in New York City for five years while I finished college and went to law school, and I probably - make that definitely - left too soon.
19. I am afraid that I will be alone the rest of my life.
20. I always harbored a secret feeling that I was somehow better than my sister; now, I am just insanely jealous of her.
21. I published a paper in my law school journal on the Free Exercise Clause.
22. I do not respond well in a crisis.
23. I was trapped in the subway in Queens during the blackout of August 2003. I got into a verbal fight with one of my fellow passengers. It took about an hour for them to come and get us out, and I had to walk home to my apartment in Manhattan across the Queensborough Bridge.
24. It was once a secret ambition of mine to be a U.S. Senator or a Supreme Court Justice.
25. I get physically ill if I eat, or even if I smell, corn.
26. I interviewed with Army JAG and really thought I had a good shot, since the likelihood of ending up in Iraq was high. I didn’t get an offer.
27. I once got lost on the way to an interview with a big NYC law firm. I told the interviewer the story (I wasn’t late), thinking it would be a good way to make small talk and to comment upon the confusion the streets of downtown Manhattan caused. He just looked at me like I was stupid.
28. I believe T.V. on DVD is one of the greatest innnovations the world has ever known.
29. I really like Elvis Costello.
30. I pick songs to download from iTunes from ads I see on television.
31. I wrote a couple of full length plays while I was in high school. All of them were absolutely terrible, but I still have them and read over them from time to time.
32. I saw the 2005 revival of Glengarry Glen Ross three times.
33. Instead of law school, I almost ended up going to grad school to study creative writing.
34. When I finished law school, I seriously considered getting an M.F.A. in Playwriting.
35. Another secret ambition of mine was, for a long time, to be an actor, but I was always too fearful to pursue this, even on a local and amateur level.
36. I cannot stand the sound of my voice recorded or looking at pictures of myself.
37. I have this recurring nightmare where I am being attacked or in some way need to scream, yet no sound will come out.
38. I have never been to a gynecologist.
39. One of my greatest fears is that I will go completely insane.
40. I used to be really fascinated with the history of WWII, particularly with Nazi Germany.
41. I cry really easily.
42. When I was in high school, I took Psychology, and when we covered psychotic disorders, I really thought that I might be in the onset of schizophrenia, so much so that I even asked my teacher about it. Turns out I wasn’t.
43. I don’t like going to lunch early at work, as it makes the rest of the day drag by.
44. I almost dropped out of St. John’s Law School in my first semester to move back closer to home and go to Tulane instead. If I’d done that, I’d have been starting my third year when Katrina hit.
45. The house I live in, with my parents, had almost six feet of flood water in it during Hurricane Katrina. My parents didn’t have flood insurance, so the house still isn’t put back together yet.
46. I have often been plagued by this fear, or just this feeling, that I am dying. It’s one of the reasons I avoid going to the doctor.
47. Many of my career desires growing up (and even in college) were based on whatever television show was my favorite at the moment.
48. I have always secretly thought I am capable of great things, yet in reality I’m too lazy to do anything to achieve any of those great things. Or else I just think I’m better than I really am.
49. I have a very good memory, which is both a blessing and a curse.
50. I fear that, even though almost everyone thinks I’m smart and capable, that it’s just a matter of time before they discover the truth: that I have been faking it all along and I don’t really belong.
51. I want a house with a red door.
52. I know the words to the first verse and the chorus of “La Marseillaise”…in French.
53. I used to have, what could be considered, by some, to be an unhealthy obsession with the sportscaster Bob Costas.
54. When my ex-boyfriend and I were still together, and things were going well and I was convinced we were going to be married someday (to each other, lest that is unclear), I signed up for an email account with my first name and his last name.
55. I once rode in a red Porche.
56. Some of my friends from law school call me Blackie.
57. I was once called the Con Law Yoda.
58. The first crush I ever remember having was on a local weatherman. I was pretty young. I guess you couldn’t really call it a crush, but I did like him. He moved to bigger and better things in Texas. His name was Frank Billingsley.
59. I have been addicted to caffeine since at least sixth grade.
60. I am deathly afraid of large dogs, having been nearly attacked by one as a small child.
61. I’m not a fan of small dogs, either, though sometimes they are very cute.
62. I’m really more of a cat person.