2) I have studied 6 languages and failed to become functionally literate in any of them.
3) My lack of skill in studying language forced me to choose a study-abroad program without a focus on language. That was the first time I left the USA, and those 4 months on SIT's Tibetan Studies program had a hugely positive and life-changing impact on me.
4) I have a faded red birthmark on my neck that looked like a hickey when I was in high school, and often I left people guessing.
5) I haven't turned on the TV in my house since the Beijing Olympics.
6) I have had more than 25 different employers/jobs; my least favorite of which was waiting tables in uniform, breakfast shift at a run-down hotel.
7) I cannot muster any real or lasting interest in symbols, thus no tattoos.
8) The best car I ever owned was the first car I ever owned: a 1980 fiat spider convertible that I wrecked about 3 weeks after I turned 16.
9) Though the salary was barely enough to live on, I consider myself lucky to have been a community organizer in Chattanooga: working for a good cause (better public education), with inspiring, generous people from all walks of life, and learning so many things about my hometown.
10) I believe there are people who can see things others can't: things in the past or the future or just stuff about a person they don't know. I've met 3 people like this, and they were all women.
11) I am very bad with titles and naming things. Twice I've had a cat named Kitty.
12) When I first met my husband, he was smoking a sugared-filter clove cigarette, and I bummed one off him.
13) I am often frustrated when reading a book that I can't ctrl-F and find what I'm looking for.
14) I find pleasure in editing and always the task creeps into my job descriptions, no matter the job.
15) My paternal grandmother was an editor, and there are people in my family who believe I have inherited certain characteristics from her. Since she's a sort of tragic figure, I have always been wary of the comparison.
16) When I was a kid, I often felt that I was a curly, red-headed girl trapped in a boring, stringy-brown-haired girl's body.
17) I was once voted "most valuable chic" for my team at a coed ultimate frisbee tournament.
18) My love for coffee is only just greater than my disappointment at being part of a fad of obsessive coffee drinkers.
19) I am in a constant state of bliss when I dance, especially if it's a coordinated partner or group dance. As a child, I often used to fantasize of living in a different time when organized dance was a regular part of life.
20) I also regret not living in a time where people wear hats. I love hats.
21) In 1990, I found lasting comfort in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
22) Because I love New Orleans and my husband had attended an emergency response training in the UK with a professor who was preoccupied with what would happen to NO if a hurricane hit, we were watching hurricanes for years in anticipation of Katrina.
23) My weight increased by 42% exactly with each of my pregnancies even though I didn't change my diet much.
24) I prefer living in a place where I can wear a sundress and sandals at night.
25) I have been writing in a journal since I was 15.
5 comments:
This is the best 25 list ever!!!
Holly x
love it! I have a great picture of us dancing together at a contra. you look lovely in hats! was that wreck really only 3 weeks after your birthday? we were children!
I'm very glad you remember Community Matters as a positive experience. You certainly taught me a lot. (See my comment on my own post for my thoughts on Chattanooga!).
Its so neat to learn all these things about you after knowing you my entire life!
Absolutely beautiful and quite inspiring on it's own, Katy. I remember the wreck of the Fiat well.... As Paige said, we were such children...and thought we were so grown up!
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