{"id":867,"date":"2011-11-28T22:13:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T06:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2011-11-28T22:13:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T06:13:43","slug":"100-things-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"100 Things About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

This, Dear Readers, just happens to be my 100th post, and I thought it would be fun to give you a list of 100 things about me that you may not have known before.<\/p>\n

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  1. I’m a Gemini<\/li>\n
  2. I don’t believe in astrology, unless it says good things about me<\/li>\n
  3. I am amazing at procrastination<\/li>\n
  4. Even though I always hate the rush and stress of doing something right up against the deadline I never seem to learn to plan ahead in any meaningful way<\/li>\n
  5. I love doing home improvement<\/li>\n
  6. Home improvement always takes at least 3 times longer and costs twice as much as I thought it would<\/li>\n
  7. I still believe that I could reasonably knit a sweater in a weekend given enough downtime<\/li>\n
  8. I love cooking, especially for large groups of people<\/li>\n
  9. I prefer doing things by hand rather than using a machine in the kitchen<\/li>\n
  10. My dream life involves a house with a yard, several fruit trees, and plenty of time to garden, cook, and knit – not necessarily in that order<\/li>\n
  11. I’m going to start canning things soon<\/li>\n
  12. I’ve vowed not to own sheep unless there is a massive spike in the price of wool<\/li>\n
  13. Ditto for alpacas and any other fiber animal<\/li>\n
  14. I have not ruled out fiber producing plants however<\/li>\n
  15. I also dream of having a garden of dye plants<\/li>\n
  16. I’m worse at sticking to my yarn diet when there are people with me on my trip to the store (even if they’re not enabling me)<\/li>\n
  17. I think the Kinect<\/a> is a viable gym membership replacement<\/li>\n
  18. Based on how winded I get after playing a few rounds I’m not in great shape<\/li>\n
  19. I love to ski<\/li>\n
  20. When I started 20 years ago I hated skiing and tried to quit for a few years<\/li>\n
  21. I had the same response to knitting when I first started at 5<\/li>\n
  22. When I picked up knitting again when I was 12, I couldn’t remember how to cast on so I just tied a slip knot for each stitch<\/li>\n
  23. I also didn’t cast on enough stitches or knit long enough before decreasing so that project (which was supposed to be a hat) became a hot pink mottled yarmulke<\/li>\n
  24. I still do not know anyone who wants a hot pink mottled yarmulke<\/li>\n
  25. I used to know every line in Romeo and Juliet<\/li>\n
  26. That was because I was in love with Leonardo di Caprio and I watched the Baz Luhrmann movie<\/a> more than was strictly healthy<\/li>\n
  27. I also had a period where I watched She’s All That<\/a> every day<\/li>\n
  28. I hate it when movies or books have sad endings and often rewrite them for myself<\/li>\n
  29. When I watch Moulin Rouge<\/a> I stop the movie when the theater curtain goes down on their performance and tell myself that she gets better and they both live long and happy lives together<\/li>\n
  30. I’m totally fine with twisting someone else’s artistic vision with my own interpretation if it makes me happier<\/li>\n
  31. When I graduated high school, I was convinced that I was going to be a famous actress, to the point that I moved to LA for a year<\/li>\n
  32. While in LA, I didn’t actually do much to get “noticed”, although I did get “scouted” once<\/li>\n
  33. By the time I left LA to come home to the Seattle area, I had decided that I was going to be a chemist instead<\/li>\n
  34. A random elective class at the end of my third year of college convinced me to double major in computer science as well<\/li>\n
  35. It only took me an extra year to graduate with the two degrees, one in CS and one in American Cancer Society certified chemistry<\/li>\n
  36. I can’t talk about what a chemist can do with 3 oz of liquid, especially while I’m waiting in line to go through security at the airport<\/li>\n
  37. I went to college at the University of Washington<\/a>, but I’ve never attended a Husky game<\/li>\n
  38. In high school, I did work concessions at a couple Husky games to raise money for the Speech and Debate team<\/li>\n
  39. You would not believe how incredibly gross your hands smell after working concessions at a football game for a few hours.\u00a0 Don’t even get me started on cleaning out the hotdog cooker.<\/li>\n
  40. In my life, I’ve been vegetarian for three separate periods of varying lengths.\u00a0 The last period was my senior year of high school, and only ended when I ran out of money to pay for college and the Korean restaurant I worked at gave me a bowl of something to eat.\u00a0 I didn’t ask questions about what was in it, and I don’t think they would have understood me if I’d tried anyway.<\/li>\n
  41. I still feel morally superior if I choose not to eat meat at a particular meal<\/li>\n
  42. This is complicated by the fact that I think steak, bacon, and corned beef are the best things ever<\/li>\n
  43. My favorite color is green (which you probably did know), and I’ve memorized the hex code for my particular shade: #7dd01a<\/li>\n
  44. I’ve never actually knit a pattern without changing something<\/li>\n
  45. Someday I want to write knitting patterns<\/li>\n
  46. I worry that people will change them<\/li>\n
  47. I nicknamed the kitties Monkey Kitty and Bear Kitty because I think they resemble those animals.\u00a0 At some angles I also sometimes think that Bear Kitty looks like a snake or a dinosaur.\u00a0 It rarely occurs to me that they’re just cats.<\/li>\n
  48. I drink a lot of water in the average day – usually around 4-5 liters<\/li>\n
  49. I don’t like drinking soda at all – the bubbles hurt<\/li>\n
  50. If I have to drink a soda, I’ll try to “flatten” it first – this habit made a few of my college professors very nervous when I did it in a lecture with a bottle of Pepsi<\/li>\n
  51. I consider caffeine to be a medicinal drug, at least when I’m using it.\u00a0 Nothing else is as effective at getting rid of my headaches.<\/li>\n
  52. If I have caffeine without having a headache, I act like I’ve just had crack<\/li>\n
  53. I swear a lot and I’m somewhat vulgar when I’m bored<\/li>\n
  54. When I was a kid, I was the person my friends’ parents said they should try to emulate<\/li>\n
  55. I thought that was a good sign that parents had no idea what was really going on<\/li>\n
  56. I once tried to spin cat hair<\/a> (note: not a great idea, although I still think it would totally work actually)<\/li>\n
  57. At one point in college I had a bad bout of insomnia and ended up unable to sleep for three nights<\/li>\n
  58. By the end of the fourth day with no sleep, I started imagining that there was something scritching on the inside of my backpack.\u00a0 The only coherent thought I could string together about it was, “That can’t possibly be real, but I’m not going to check because that’s how horror movies start.”<\/li>\n
  59. That was the point that I decided I was no longer capable of taking care of myself and went to a friend’s house to have them babysit me<\/li>\n
  60. They waited until I fell asleep watching a movie and then tricked me into thinking I’d slept past the departure time for my flight in the morning.\u00a0 I was halfway out the door before they stopped laughing enough to stop me from running into the street.<\/li>\n
  61. I like practical jokes, but I’m not very good at playing them<\/li>\n
  62. I hate getting up in the morning, but I do my best work before 10AM<\/li>\n
  63. In college I would wake up at 3AM to write my papers, because I couldn’t focus at any other time<\/li>\n
  64. When I was very little, I used to wake up before anyone else and fill the morning hours where I was alone with “experiments”<\/li>\n
  65. Those “experiments” directly led to me stapling my own finger and cutting the webbing between my fingers with a pair of safety scissors, within a couple weeks of each other, on purpose, to “see if it would do it”<\/li>\n
  66. I’m willing to sacrifice a lot in the pursuit of science<\/li>\n
  67. Sometimes I find myself over-thinking things in dangerous ways, like when I think that I’ll pour the noodle water through a strainer back into the same pot because it’s exactly the right size to hold the water after the noodles are in the strainer and that way I don’t need to get another pot dirty.\u00a0 There’s really only one problem with that plan, though…<\/li>\n
  68. I also dabble with the idea that someday I’ll be a writer of books of fiction.\u00a0 This is somewhat hampered by my habit of starting a story because I’ve got an idea for a really good scene without having much of a feeling for how the plot will tie itself up.<\/li>\n
  69. I have finished one novel-length manuscript, but it was terrible and I’m glad no one actually published it<\/li>\n
  70. That particular book was started as a way to “fix” the ending of a series that my then-favorite author LJ Smith<\/a> had written where the guy sacrifices himself in the end to save the girl (see #30), but it veered off in its own direction pretty quickly<\/li>\n
  71. There have been three aborted attempts to re-write that book, but I never seem to get past the 30% mark before I decide it’s not good enough and start over again<\/li>\n
  72. In my head, there are also three sequels to that book with relatively fleshed out plots (or, at least, they used to be fleshed out…now they’re a little fuzzy)<\/li>\n
  73. I tend to do laundry every 3-4 weeks, which means I own a lot of underwear and socks (and various other clothing)<\/li>\n
  74. Once I started doing the Blanket Thief’s<\/a> laundry, it was clear that we needed to buy him more clothes, since what he had really couldn’t last more than a week and a half without running out of something<\/li>\n
  75. Washing and folding 4 weeks worth of laundry gives me a big sense of accomplishment, like I’ve personally battled entropy and won<\/li>\n
  76. I really love chemistry jokes, and I think Chemistry Cat is the awesomest thing ever since it’s LOLcats + using my chemistry degree.\u00a0 The Blanket Thief was super impressed when I predicted the punch line to this one<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  77. If you want to get on my good side, ask me something that I can answer with chemistry<\/li>\n
  78. I get a huge kick out of helping people and generally doing “good”, but I think altruism is a bad practice<\/li>\n
  79. I used to be a bit of a Randroid, but have since decided that the system isn’t fair enough to just say everyone is on their own<\/li>\n
  80. I’ve never affiliated with a particular political party<\/li>\n
  81. I like to calculate how many stitches are in a project<\/a>, but I’ve discovered that most other people don’t want me to tell them that information<\/li>\n
  82. I always sleep on my stomach, face turned to the right, left arm under my sternum and right arm curled around me and locking the blankets in place<\/li>\n
  83. Now that I’ve learned to lock the blankets in place, the Blanket Thief is much less likely to be successful when attempting to steal the covers.\u00a0 I have, however, woken up a few times to have him tugging at them hard enough to partially roll me over.<\/li>\n
  84. I almost never move in my sleep, although I will toss around a lot trying to get to sleep<\/li>\n
  85. I’m not sure why I move so much trying to find a comfortable position to sleep in, when there’s only one position I ever do sleep in<\/li>\n
  86. My thought processes aren’t great when tired.\u00a0 My response to being told to go to bed late at night is usually, “No!\u00a0 I’m too tired to go to bed!”<\/li>\n
  87. It’s almost impossible for me to fall asleep when I’m reading a book, and I get sucked into books really easily.\u00a0 This has caused me to see the wrong side of the sunrise on more than one occasion.<\/li>\n
  88. I like to think that I’m a go-getter and that I need purpose in my life, but I have a sneaky suspicion that if I had #s 10, 11, 14, and 15 that I would not actually need anything else to fill my time<\/li>\n
  89. I avoid “queue”ing programs (Ravelry<\/a>, Netflix<\/a>) because I’ve realized that the world can produce things I want to do faster than I can do them, and if I have a list of things I know I’ll never finish it just stresses me out<\/li>\n
  90. I like closure and completing things<\/li>\n
  91. The number of unfinished objects in my house and the length of time they’ve been in that state seem to be a direct contradiction to #90, but I still stand by it<\/li>\n
  92. I believe life is easier if you recognize that there are a lot of situations where you can be right, or you can get what you want, but you can’t have both<\/li>\n
  93. Sometimes, though, what I want is to be right, so it’s win-win for me<\/li>\n
  94. I’ve put a moratorium on acquiring new hobbies and largely stuck to it, despite being exposed to hand quilting, tatting, and glassblowing all in the last couple months<\/li>\n
  95. I can sing along to almost anything, even if I haven’t heard it before<\/li>\n
  96. That makes me top pick for vocals when playing Rock Band<\/a> with a bunch of my friends<\/li>\n
  97. On the other hand, being a high soprano makes singing rock music somewhat difficult, as most of it is in an alto-tenor range<\/li>\n
  98. Right now, I’m really looking forward to knitting myself some lacy scarves and maybe a sweater or three<\/li>\n
  99. I still have to finish the Wedding Blanket II and the cARGHdigan before doing so, which means I don’t think I’ll be getting woolies for myself anytime soon (socks don’t count)<\/li>\n
  100. The last person for whom I would knit a blanket just got engaged, so we’re going to be looking at Wedding Blanket III soon…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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