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Random Things About Me
1. I can gobble so authentically that I once had a
turkey gobble back at me.
2. I know I've dreamed in color at
least once, because I recall it so vividly.
3. Speaking of dreams, I once wanted
to become a sleep researcher and thought the coolest
thing in the world would be to interview Dr. William
Dement about REM sleep.
4. And speaking of dement(ed), I
will willingly spend several hours in the kitchen to
create a perfect cheesecake-including a pastry crust
with a dark chocolate lining and a fresh raspberry
topping. Oh, yeah.
5. I wore black the day Joe Montana retired.
6. As a child, I once stepped
barefooted into a bucket of red paint and then danced
all over the garage floor. When my family moved from
that house years later, we left my red footprints behind.
7. My mother once caught me looking
at one of my father's girly magazines, and I was so
embarrassed that I hid inside a zippered coat bag in
a closet for hours.
8. As a teen, I was once pinched
by an old man while walking down a winding flight of
stairs in an Italian church. I screamed. He fled the
scene of the pinch.
9. I tend to be both klutzy and quick
with my reflexes. Hard to picture, but it goes something
like this: tip over the glass, catch it before anything
spills, then bow for applause.
10. I was once in a band and, after
submitting recordings of our original work to various
Official People, we received a personal, handwritten
rejection letter from the producer of The Cure. Though
I didn't know it at the time, it would become the first
of many personal rejection letters.
11. There are two completely different
incarnations of my novel, both more than 400 pages
long.
12. I want to travel to New Zealand someday and find
the Hobbits.
13. I wish I were two inches taller.
14. I make the best popcorn in the
world. References are available to prove this claim,
and you know references never lie.
15. I don't like mushrooms, and I
wish my husband would stop trying to convince me that
I could. It only makes me more resolved to despise
them.
16. My favorite Warner Brother's character is the
orange monster, Gossamer.
17. I have trouble sleeping if my feet are cold.
18. One day, after escaping a very
boring sociology class, I discovered an original, handwritten
poem tucked under my windshield wiper. It rocked my
world. I looked around, stayed for long minutes, hoped...but
the writer never appeared. I never learned who left
that poem, but if given the chance, I'd tell the writer
that their words have often lifted me in dark moments,
and that I've kept the original paper in a red folder
labeled, "The Gift." And I am thankful.
19. I once worked as a senior research
associate for Prevention Magazine and won their "Super
Sleuth Award," which essentially
was a pen. But still, sounds good, doesn't it?
20. I own three Javanese kerises. Because.
21. I played Sarah Brown in a high
school musical rendition of Guys and Dolls, but I wished
I could have had the role of Miss Adelaide.
22. Potatoes make me sleepy.
23. I think the best works of art
in my house are the pictures my children have created.
24. I believe in fortune cookies,
frog princes and lucky pencils, and I believe-perhaps
most of all-in chocolate gelato.
25. [This spot intentionally left
blank. Because I'm a writer, and I know that my best
ideas will come later.]
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