100 Things About Me (Inspired by Vixen)

1) I have a sensitive sense of smell.
2) Smelling new tennis balls and tires brings me temporary joy.
3) Writing is therapeutic.
4) I live in my head too much.
5) Reality is overrated.
6) I'm slightly commitment-phobic.
7) I like unavailable men.
8) I detest the fact that unavailable men don't want me.
9) I adore traveling.
10) I thoroughly enjoy socializing and learning about people.
11) I can be extremely anti-social.
12) Definitely need my space.
13) I can't stand cats.
14) But love dogs.
15) However, they don't belong in the house.
16) I'm a SDA Christian.
17) Politically, I'm an independent.
18) I love light and colors.
19) I keep the curtains/blinds closed until a room is cleaned.
20) I can be extremely messy at times.
21) Books are my passion.
22) So are shoes.
23) I compulsively buy both.
24) I don't always read or wear either.
25) My freshmen year of college was done in Trinidad.
26) I lived in Guatemala for 2 months to learn Spanish, but just improved my English.
27) I have a Masters degree in Public Health.
28) I didn't know what public health was until 6 months before I started the program.
29) I find beauty in the outdoors.
30) I want to live in Manhattan.
31) I love the smell of rain on dirt.
32) If I don't check my email daily I feel disconnected.
33) I love Bollywood films.
34) My great-grandparents were from Delhi.
35) I grew up in SoCal.
36) I hated high school.
37) I wish I was a famous writer and public speaker.
38) I want to start a center for girls.
39) I'm not completely sure what I want to focus on.
40) I have a love/hate relationship with NYC.
41) I have a big ego - refer to # 8.
42) I'm always playing different sports.
43) I'm not particularly good at any of them.
44) If I could sing everyone would get sick of hearing me.
45) Obviously, I can't sing.
46) I enjoy driving fast.
47) Apparently, I also enjoyed getting my license suspended.
48) My laptop is a relic from the early 90s - it shuts down sporadically.
49) My parents robbed me - I only have 1 sister - they each have at least 8 siblings.
50) I went to 3 different high schools in 4 years.
51) In 2005 I lived in New York, Colorado, Guatemala and Florida.
52) I get distracted easily.
53) Most of my friends are either foreigners or children of immigrants.
54) I don't understand how some people push anti-abortion but love war.
55) Intolerance and injustice make me angry.
56) Only people I care about can make me really angry.
57) I cut off people easily.
58) One of my all time favorite characters is Elizabeth Bennet.
59) I'm still waiting for my Darcy.
60) Killing cockroaches freaks me out.
61) Snakes are interesting.
62) My sister bought me a python, but I lost it for a day and she took it back.
63) My family means the world to me.
64) I saw Thunder from Down Under in Vegas for a friends' bachelorette party (yeah)!
65) And...took pics with the guys.
66) I tend to be extremely intuitive about other people's lives.
67) For some reason, I seem to give off a special signal for foreign men.
68) I don't know if that makes sense.
69) I've smoked hookah.
70) I think smoking is not only stupid and harmful, but appallingly disgusting.
71) Most of my closest friends are almost completely opposite from me.
72) I love them to death.
73) I won my school spelling bee in 5th grade.
74) But lost district because I couldn't spell "seize".
75) Couldn't get over that "i" before "e" rule.
76) Cut me some slack - I was only 10.
77) Crunching ice used to be an addictive hobby.
78) I've finally realized that I like my teeth.
79) I wore braces for almost four years.
80) Classmates laughed at me and called me chipmunk because I had four teeth removed.
81) Come to think of it, they also called me monkey and gorilla 'cause I wasn't allowed to shave.
82) Told you high school sucked.
83) I prefer Angelina Jolie to Jennifer Aniston any day.
84) My mom never let my sister and I watch cartoons growing up.
85) We used to sneak and watch them anyway.
86) Which explains my current fascination with adult swim.
87) I was born in LBC but grew up in La Sierra.
88) I read all of Uncle Arthur's Bible Stories in two weeks.
89) What can I say? I was a nerd.
90) Hmmm....still am.
91) I'm also extremely goofy.
92) My cousins, sister and I are always making music videos where we lip sync and dance.
93) They play back up to my rendition of Aretha's "Respect".
94) Your chances of seeing it are miniscule to none.
95) I'm running out of things to say.
96) My brain's gone dead - good thing I'm almost done.
97) Oooh, I just made a bet with a friend to date a ----- boy - any takers?
98) If you didn't know it by now - I'm -----.
99) There's 100 percent ----- blood running through my veins.
100) I am completely unique and there's only one of me - so it's okay to be jealous.

Toodles!