50% of 100 things about me

Heads up, people.  There’s a role in this for you.

We’ve all seen the 100 Things About Me meme.  I found the beginning of my list buried in my drafts folder. I am not satisfied with providing you with lame Things About Me such as the color of my eyes (bonus! brown) or my sign (bonus! Sagittarius).  Therefore, I only came up with 53 things about me.  I could leave it at that, but I thought, hey — maybe there are things my readers lay awake at night wondering about me.  Okay, that’s hard to imagine, but perhaps some of you had a fleeting curiosity about…something About Me.

So here are 53 things about me.  Your job is to read them, see which ones answered your burning questions About Me, and then post your own unanswered questions to me in the comments.  I’ll  compile my answers into another Things About Me post.  No essay questions, please.  Adult content permitted, but I reserve the right not to incriminate myself.

Ready?  Go…

1.  I have never been able to do a somersault.
2.  My middle toe is shorter than the toes on either side of it. (That makes it sound like I have only one foot.  You know what I mean.)
3.  I like to dunk potato chips in milk.
4.  Hockey is my favorite sport.
5.  I can be very antisocial.
6.  I love sushi.  Also lamb chops and Oreos.
7.  I once had a poem published in Rolling Stone.  (If I receive enough requests, I’ll reprint it here.  Fair warning: it was from my Richard Brautigan phase.)
8.  My first job was at a Waffle House.  Before I waited tables, I was very introverted.
9.  One of my few non-natural history hobbies is genealogy.  My mother is a direct descendant of one of the original French settlers of Canada, Mathurin Dube.
10. I have a really crappy sense of balance, and I can’t even stand on a curb and look through binoculars at the same time.
11. I’ve never wanted to have children.
12. I talk too fast and interrupt too much.
13. I am not superstitious.
14. I get frequent headaches.
15. I have never broken a bone or stayed overnight in a hospital.
16. I need a lot of sleep.
17. This is my second marriage.
18. I’ve spent time in therapy, and recommend it to most people.
19. I dislike more people than I like.
20. The first concert I went to was the band Boston.  The last was Sade.
21. I’ve had three nose operations to try to correct a deviated septum.  Only semi-successful.
22. I hate being cold.
23. I love lying in bed listening to the rain.
24. I worked for awhile in the banking industry.
25. I went to four colleges.
26. My parents were both 42 when I was born.
27. I love to see new places, but am anxiety-ridden about travel until I finally get on the plane.  Then I quit thinking about all the other things I should be doing besides jetting off somewhere.
28. I am extremely organized.  Okay, anal.
29. I have been a voracious reader ever since I was a young child.
30. I was raised Catholic, gave up on church as a teenager, studied world religions, and am now an atheist.
31. Most unusual pet: a pair of Flying Squirrels I rescued from a 5-gallon aquarium in a pet store.  I gave them an entire spare bedroom to themselves, and they slept in the curtain hems.
32. I’m really sarcastic.
33. I hate being late, or not knowing what time it is.
34. I make a lot of lists.
35. There is a constant running dialog in my head.
36. I won a regional young author’s award in grade school.
37. I love mysteries, especially British mysteries.
38. I am extremely introspective and self-analytical.
39. I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 18.
40. I never go to movies.
41. I just got my first, very minuscule, cavity last year.
42. I hate to exercise.
43. I’ve owned three Camaros.  Now I don’t care about cars except for fuel efficiency and low emissions, and I drive a hybrid.
44. I have a large vocabulary, but I swear a lot.  Too much.
45. I hate the color orange.  My favorite colors are blue and green.
46. I don’t care for dogs.
47. I  won’t drink carbonated beverages.

48. I stink at math.
49. My first aspiration as a child was to be a marine biologist.
50. I can’t swim.
51. In my world, the toilet paper should roll from the top.
52. I minored in sociology.
53. I live in an historic neighborhood.