101

Seriously, we're not even commenting on my posting infrequency. But here's a "101," just to be cool like everybody else.

1. I wish I blogged regularly.
2. I am in a doctoral psychology program.
3. #2 pretty much makes #1 impossible.
4. In my psychology program, I am getting a PsyD. (Doctorate of Psychology) rather than a PhD.
5. I am insecure about this.
6. The smell of oranges makes me nasceous.
7. So does the smell of coca-cola.
8. My favorite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
9. I first read it when I was just turned 13.
10. I've been in love with it ever since.
11. I am Horrible at keeping up with friends I do not see frequently.
12. I feel very guilty about this.
13. I Love coffee yogurt.
14. I love coffee.
15. My favorite colors are purple and green.
16. I would never, ever want a room decorated in purple.
17. I do not wear pants when I sleep, only undies and a shirt.
18. I hate it when I share a room with someone and thus have to wear pants.
19. I have backpacked through the Rocky Mountians in Colorado twice.
20. The first time I was anorexic.
21. I have been both anorexic and a binge eater.
22. I have never been bulimic, thank God.
23. I can trace the disordered eating in my family back through five generations of women.
24. I'm hoping my kids will be free of this.
25. I spent the second semester of my sophomore year of college studying abroad in Rome.
26. It's one of the best things I ever did.
27. I desperately wish I could live there again.
28. I also really want to live in England.
29. I don't think either of those things are going to happen.
30. I really love history.
31. One of my proudest moments was when I received the "Gold Medal" for history my junior year in high school.
32. I also had a huge crush on my history teacher at that time.
33. I am the least musical person in my family.
34. I am obsessed with the Holocaust.
35. I am always looking for new books about it.
36. Someday I hope to figure out why I am so obsessed with the holocaust, and genocide in general.
37. I think Middle Eastern men are hot.
38. I would love to visit the Middle East, but I'm not all that interested in the "Holy Land."
39. Don't tell that to my mother, she'd freak.
40. When I was in high school, I was flashed once by some greasy guy outside a cloth store.
41. Don't tell that to my mother, either.
42. I am very anti-abortion.
43. I am very anti-death penalty.
44. I am not Catholic.
45. Sometimes I wish I was.
46. I was blonde when I was a little girl.
47. Now I am most decidedly brunette.
48. My only sibling was born when I was eleven years old.
49. I can still close my eyes and feel the weight of carrying him in my hands like I picked him up five minutes ago.
50. I wish we were closer now.
51. I have wanted to go to Greece ever since I did a project on it in sixth grade.
52. For the project, I dressed up in a chiton, the outfit ancient Greek women wore. I thought I was super sexy. But I obviously didn't tell anyone that.
53. My ancestors owned slaves on a plantation.
54. I feel like I should somehow make restitution for that, but I'm not sure how.
55. I also really love the South, but feel guilty for all it represents.
56. I have never dyed my hair.
57. I secretly wish to have a nose ring.
58. I love dogs.
59. No, seriously people, I Love dogs. Like, almost pathologically. (Still trying to figure that one out, too.)
60. When I was little, I had a best friend with the same name as me.
61. Now she lives in Florida and I haven't talked to her in years. I wonder about her sometimes.
62. I had another close friend in college with the same name.
63. I do not have a common name.
64. I want to have five children.
65. I often worry I won't be able to have any.
66. I am convinced I am going to die of Alzheimer's.
67. Seeing my grandma die of it convinced me it is Not a good way to go.
68. I'm pretty sure my grandpa cheated on my grandma while she was dying.
69. I hate sandwiches.
70. I love squash.
71. When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a mountain climber and I chemist when I grew up.
72. Now, I am afraid of heights and in high school, I hated chemistry with a passion.
73. I used to have dreams where I showed up places with no clothes on all the time. It was awful!
74. I still have weird dreams, but usually I am fully clothed.
75. I am very cynical about politicians and politics in general.
76. I do not claim any particular political party, and may not even vote in the next election.
77. This feels quite blasphemous to me, considering my patriotic upbringing.
78. You couldn't pay me any amount of money to teach school, at least not above kindergarten or below the univeristy level.
79. People who manage to be good teachers utterly amaze me.
80. I am very suspiscious of police officers in real life.
81. However, I love watching them on CSI and Law and Order.
82. I Love the movies - seriously, take me to the movies, and I'm happy. Espescially independent films.
83. And not horror.
84. My mother labeled my first radio with the two stations I was allowed to listen to: classical and Christian.
85. My mother and I have still not discussed my disobeidiance of listening to 'secular' music when I began driving.
86. I am 23 years old and I have only been to one New Years party in my whole life.
87. I have never been drunk.
88. This year, I hope to remedy the former, but keep the latter.
89. I am also very suspiscious of milatry personel and do not always have very good oppinions of them. I feel very guilty about this.
90. While men in uniforms are attractive, I would not want to marry one.
91. Peonies are my favorite flower, but I almost never get them.
92. Actually, I almost never get flowers at all; I certainly can't afford them.
93. One year my best friend got me flowers, along with something else, for my birthday. I think that was the best birthday present I ever got.
94. She also gave me a perfume bottle she painted herself. She was a wonderful best friend.
95. I think she's in med school now. I haven't talked to her in a year and a half.
96. I feel very guilty about that too.
97. I do not really want to be famous or write books.
98. I do want to be a good therapist who helps her clients.
99. I cannot think of a greater honor or privilege than that.
100. I also want to be a good mother and grandmother.
101. I want to die happy.