for christmas, many more things than you ever wanted to know about me.

100. i wear mens shoes almost all of the time.
99. i hate doing dishes.
98. green is my favorite color.
97. i went to macalester college in st. paul.
96. i recently bought many pair of e.g. smith socklings and now i wear them all the time.
95. i think that one's medical history is a perfectly reasonable thing to discuss on a date and am baffled when i meet people who think otherwise.
94. speaking of medical history, i have rheumatoid arthritis....
93. ...which i've had surgery for once. descriptions available upon request, but it makes some people queasy.
92. i like rpgs, but am not good at remembering the rules to them.
91. my shadowrun characters always have a monofilament whip.
90. i am chairing, for the second year in a row, a convention named supercon.
89. i am an internet addict. addict, i tell you.
88. .. but not in the committing crimes to afford my net connection sense.
87. i like pink wine best.
86. i also like single-malt scotch, just so you don't think i'm a complete heathen.
85. i am, however, pagan. discordian to be precise. but mostly lapsed.
84. i own lots of books. but not as many as i'd like to own.
83. first person shooters make me seasick.
82. i get labyrinthitis a lot.
81. i had food poisoning for the first time ever this year!
80. i run a bulletin board named l-space.
79. despite the name, i don't read pratchett.
78. i don't like most things that try to be funny.
77. i like neil gaiman's comic book writing, but not his novels.
76. the first robert heinlein book i was exposed to was _podkayne of mars_. the second was _friday_. i was nine.
75. nathan and i own a duplex.
74. i like being a home owner even though it's a pain.
73. my family moved around a lot before i was seven, and then after that we stayed in the same town, although in three different locations.
72. i went to montessori school when i was a kid.
71. my first elementary school ran on the 45/15 system, which i thought and still think is the most reasonable system for such things.
70. i have owned guinea pigs in the past. my most recent piggie was named trent.
69. i am allergic to guinea pigs, which is why i don't own them any more.
68. i'm also allergic to cats.
67. i am not at all allergic to small yappy dogs named pirate.
66. i think that dog drool is one of the six most disgusting substances on the planet.
65. i singlehandedly doubled the diet coke consumption of akademgorodok for a week this summer.
64. i crochet, but not very well.
63. my friends heidi and matt call their not-yet-born baby the name i suggested and i feel very proud of that.
62. the first sf convention that i went to was minicon, i believe minicon 24. the zen of fan maintenance, i do believe.
61. i don't like being touched while i'm trying to get to sleep.
60. i've had both short hair and long hair and like short hair better.
59. i'm cribbing many of these points from hobbitbabe.
58. i learned to read when i was two. my mother says it's because of all of the sesame street that i watched while she was doing bedrest while pregnant with my sister.
57. i was planning on being six feet tall when i grew up.
56. i have had six grandparents. (all right, two of them were step-grandparents.)
55. i was born in new york city.
54. i live in the twin cities on purpose. i like living in minneapolis, but i've also been happy living in st. paul.
53. i have very wide but very shallow taste in food.
52. i occasionally think of starting an all dumplings all the time restaurant.
51. i like lotus notes.
50. larn is my favorite of all the nethackoid games.
49. i used to belong to mensa.
48. and i could apparently join triple nine society if i wanted to, which i don't.
47. i used to spend enough time out at the minnesota renaissance festival so that people who worked there thought i worked there too.
46. i started calling bulletin boards when i was about fifteen.
45. i bugged my college sysadmin to hurry up and get usenet news installed on our vax.
44. i like celery. a lot.
43. when i was in high school, my family went to disneyworld.
42. i got cucumber smelling lotion there and liked it a lot. i haven't been able to find good cucumber smelling things since.
41. my ears currently have five holes in them.
40. i forget to wear earrings most of the time.
39. on my desk at work, i have a tiny stuffed gargoyle, gir, and a beanie baby lemur.
38. i am a member of the secret feminist cabal.
37. as such, i go to wiscon over us memorial day.
36. i like books better than i like people, on the whole.
35. my ex's cat hates me, because i told the ex that he could either sleep with me or the cat, since i was allergic.
34. i can't remember the details of books i've read very well.
33. i used to plan to run away and live under the merrygoround at my elementary school.
32. i don't remember anything about living in arlington virginia.
31. when i was four, we moved to milford, michigan, to a little pink house.
30. i have a livejournal account, but i never post there and am assiduously avoiding learning how.
29. i like the way my dog smells, even when she needs a bath.
28. the next time that i totally hate my entire life and need to move to get away from it, i plan to move to boston.
27. i don't expect that i ever will totally hate my entire life again.
26. i don't like the taste of most alcohol, but also don't like girly drinks.
25. i like drugstore generic bandaids better than i like bandaid brand.
24. i chew on my fingers when i get tense, and therefore have a near-professional opinion on bandaids.
23. i don't wear a bra unless i'm seriously dressing up and whatever i'm wearing won't hang right without one.
22. my degree is in anthropology, and yet here i am working in computers.
21. i feel weird that too many of these start with the word "i".
20. my car is a toyota prius, brilliant blue pearl, 2002, with the fancy gps system.
19. i recycle.
18. after i win the lottery, i plan to go to grad school in public health.
17. i don't like dishes that have an irregular texture. they squick me out.
16. i'm scared of bugs.
15. i skipped from the first half of kindergarten to the second half of first grade, and then repeated third grade.
14. we have people come in and clean our house. i feel some guilty about this, but much more grateful.
13. cherry flavored things remind me of cough syrup, and i don't like them.
12. i have been to siberia.
11. mint is my favorite set of flavors.
10. i don't like heights much because they call to me to jump from them.
9. this week, lasagna is my favorite food. earlier in the year, it was mock duck laab from pad thai grand cafe.
8. i like mocha flavored things a lot, but i don't like coffee.
7. i have a funny purple scar on my knee.
6. i don't like arguing politics with people.
5. i wear the same size pants as my father who is a foot taller than i am.
4. my coworkers have accused me of being a visitor from another planet. but they were kidding.
3. at different points in my life, i have wanted to have the same career as each of my parents has/had.
2. i worked at plasma alliance taking needles out of people's arms for a few months. (they wouldn't let me put the needles in yet, before i quit.)
1. my hair is half light brown and half bleached blonde at the moment. time to rebleach it.

i'll be mostly away from the computer until the 26th, so i thought i'd give you something long to read. have fun.