Cabin Fever

RunninFool Revealed

1. I love to sleep
2. I often wear earplugs to bed
3. Green onions upset me something terribly
4. Secretly, I've always wanted to become a nun
5. As a child in Denver, Colorado, my neighborhood friends and I were given promotional materials for a *brand new* show called Sesame Street
6. I remember being sent home from Cure D'Ars Catholic school the day Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Was assassinated
7. Once I gave an impromptu comedy performance in front of my third grade class
8. My grandfather was a black firefighter in Denver, Colorado from the 1930s to the 1960s
9. The smell of garlic makes me feel nauseous
10. I've had four poems published
11. I started college at age 35 after flunking out at 17
12. For the past 20+ years I have had a chronic, incurable disease called HS (or Acne Inversa)
13. I spoke at my high school graduation without being (a) a graduate and (b) Valedictorian
14. I'm wild about Alfred Hitchcock
15. I teach Film Noir
16. Watching tele-Cheez-evangelist Jack Van Impe's Sunday night show is my guilty pleasure
17. For two years, I had recurring dreams of running -- so I started running three weeks ago
18. I have a cousin who went to prison in Missouri for 15+ years. He was paroled and about a year later was sent back to prison for another 32 years. He'll be 72 when he finally gets out.
19. I struggle with whether or not I believe in Jesus as the son of God
20. It jolts me when people say that "over the telephone, [they] can't tell [I'm] black."
21. One of my siblings has lived in Frankfurt, Germany for nearly 20 years
22. A maternal aunt of mine lived in Frankfurt, Germany for nearly 30 years
23. I was once in an exercise video entitled "Big and Better" (or something like that)
24. When my mother caught me smoking cigarettes at 12 years of age, she made me smoke an entire pack
25. I began smoking cigarettes in earnest at 16
26. I still remember the Dewey Decimal System
27. When I was younger, I played "pretend" school while pretending to be Sister Mary Christine (of the Dominican Order, no less)
28. I have had three partial vulvectomies (yep, that's what it says)
29. My childhood nickname was Kissy
30. I've never watched the movie E.T.
31. I invented the word erotico-religious for a paper on Eliot's Love Song of St. Sebastian
32. I'm not sure I'm really a feminist
33. I laugh in my sleep
34. My favorite place in the world is the Canary Islands
35. One place I never want to see again is Mountain Home, Idaho
36. I love Eggo Homestyle Waffles more than just about anything
37. I never go out with Libra men
38. I have learned that teaching is an original performance art
39. I don't know what the fuss is about James Joyce
40. Seinfeld still makes me roll with laughter
41. I swear because I like the way the words feel when they escape my mouth
42. I'm a graduate student -- a teaching fellow and doctoral candidate
43. Chocolate, coffee and inordinate amounts of citrus fruit give me abscesses
44. Cigarettes give me abscesses
45. Television news is worse than soap operas
46. Both my brothers were born in Germany
47. River Phoenix was born on my birthday
48. Gone With the Wind is one of my all-time stay-at-home-and-veg movies
49. I once went mountain climbing in Wales
50. I have gained and lost 100 pounds at least once in my life
51. My Mother wears a size 12 shoe
52. I gave my first solo poetry reading at Mother Kali's Books in Eugene, Oregon
53. I once had dinner with Martin Sheen's brother (who is quite gracious and lovely)
54. I can cluck the "Star-Spangled Banner"
55. I do a flawless impression of Elmo
56. At one point, my undergraduate GPA was 4.2
57. I received my GED the day before I left for college (the first time)
58. A man once mistook me for a prostitute in Berlin
59. I cried when I saw the Mona Lisa at the Louvre
60. I still cry when I watch the movie Ryan's Daughter
61. People constantly give me teddy bears as gifts even though I never ask for them
62. When I eat pizza, I eat the toppings and cheese first and the crust afterward
63. I have never been married and have no children
64. My students do not call me by my first name
65. In the 5 years I have taught at my present university, I have had a total of 3 black students
66. Secretly, I want to be a comic
67. I have recorded books for the blind
68. My father died of prostate cancer in 2003 as a result of Agent Orange exposure 30 years earlier in Vietnam
69. Once, I ran into the actor who played "Ben Walton" handing out customer satisfaction surveys at a department store in Sherman Oaks (brown suit, peach shirt, brown tie)
70. I refuse to dye my hair regardless of how gray it gets
71. I really do enjoy driving a Hyundai
72. I don't trust women who wear skirts over jeans
73. I am a lifelong Democrat for some odd reason
74. I currently have a fibroid the size of a tennis ball growing in my uterus
75. I am related to no one famous -- except maybe my cousin who made a sex-date with a 14 year-old girl and was subsequently arrested when he showed up
76. I am an herbal tea junkie
77. I never pay full price for a movie ticket
78. I prefer paper to plastic
79. I listen to "oldies" more than I care to admit
80. In my experience, academics have lower self-esteem than a good portion of the population
81. I am an opera-lover even though I've never been
82. My dream job is at a community college
83. My dream hair is that of Miss Diana Ross
84. Deli turkey grosses me out
85. I have no pets
86. I have no plants
87. I have a weakness for buying underwear
88. 99.9% of my socks are white anklet-style
89. I own only two items of blue clothing
90. I have a phobia about taking baths -- showers only for me
91. I would vote for Oprah -- if she would have me on her show
92. I firmly back Oregon's assisted suicide law
93. I believe in medical marijuana
94. I believe feminine hygiene products should be subsidized by the government
95. I can flip my eyelids inside out
96. I laugh when I'm being chased
97. I laugh during sex
98. I have found it impossible to learn to play chess
99. My best friend and I were born on the same day -- 8 years apart -- she's a Leo, I'm a Virgo
100. I believe that love matters