100 Things About Me in Less Than 20 Minutes

  1. I can’t decide what my hometown is. For 34 years I knew, now I am unsure.
  2. The only place I am truly cool is Ann Arbor: 1. I was actually born there, unlike so many residents and 2. I graduated from Community High School and 3. my first job was at Zingermans
  3. I really hope you’ve lived in Ann Arbor so you can appreciate my coolness.
  4. Now I work for the state
  5. (totally, monstrously uncool but the benefits are as good as rumored)
  6. I only have 26 friends in MySpace. I feel like a total loser but not so low that I would try to friend people I don’t actually know because
  7. I have standards.
  8. I lived for 10 years in a valley near the ocean and but I don’t care much for large bodies of water.
  9. That’s why I moved to Michigan.
  10. I’m learning to like my digital camera more as time passes but I’m not cool enough to carry it with me everywhere I go
  11. I’m really, really obsessed with this coolness thing.
  12. I remember these ankle-length wool skirts I used to wear to work….
  13. I’m a librarian by trade and a Web master by trade. So far I’ve been able to keep the two together.
  14. I am awesome at the game Two Truths and a Lie with but I don’t play with many people.
  15. Crap, I’m 11 minutes in and only on #16.
  16. I love books on polygamy and convents. I’ve had trouble finding a book that covers both.
  17. I’ve lived in three co-ops and helped to found one – the Audre Lorde House Cooperative
  18. For years it was my goal to live on a commune even though I can’t grow anything.
  19. I used to be a radically feminist separatist. Now I’m run of the mill feminist. My 20-year-old self winces. My 20-year-old self was cool.
  20. I make really good brown rice
  21. I can’t barbeque chicken
  22. I have to wear a bite splint because I grind my teeth
  23. In the past two years I lost 55 lbs and then gained half of that back. You don’twant to know what I’ve spent on clothes
  24. I named my cat after a first century roman concubine. She’s cool.
  25. I watch Battlestar Galactica
  26. I love Star Trek
  27. When I was 18 my favorite color was purple. Then after college it was plum. Now I’m drifting into something in the gold family. I think.
  28. I’ve been to 7 countries in Europe and to Mexico. I really like countries where I can find people who speak English better than countries where I can’t. I wasn’t real fond of France.
  29. My husband is blind.
  30. He dresses better than me.

Published by Sonya Schryer Norris

Librarian :: Instructional Designer :: Blogger

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