Fifty facts about me...
1. I have never had the chicken pox.
2. I am fluent in Sign Language.
3. I grew up on an Island (without a bridge).
4. I have red hair and blue eyes.
5. I have been to 33 of the 50 states (updated June 2015).
6. My Grandfather built his own airplane.
7. I once sat across from Adam Sandler at Canter's Deli in LA.
8. My least favorite food is pumpkin pie.
9. I lived in Alaska for a summer.
10. My middle name is Rose.
11. I have flown to NYC twice to see The Magnetic Fields.
12. I saw part of an episode of the television show Northern Exposure being filmed (it was filmed in Roslyn, Washington).
13. I have slept in a Tepee.
14. I sang on a tape of Children's songs for the musician Tom Hunter in 1985.
15. I took ballet from Teo Morca.
16. My Dad is Deaf.
17. I took a road trip through every state in New England.
18. I have flown first class three times: SEA -> NYC, LA -> SEA, SAV -> ATL (updated January 2014).
19. I lived in an apartment where the bathroom wallpaper was made from The New Yorker magazine covers.
20. I had blood poisoning (septicemia) as a child and almost died.
21. I convinced my English class to write letters of protest in regard to the planned cancellation of the television show My So-Called Life in 1995.
22. I grew up with the grandchildren of David Packard (he put the Packard in Hewlett-Packard).
23. I am left handed.
24. I have ridden a horse on the beach.
25. I know someone who married her husband for the sole purpose of supplying him with a green card.
26. I know someone else who had an arranged marriage and did not meet her husband until a week before the wedding.
27. The first movie I saw was Star Wars in 1977 at the drive in. My Mom claims I slept through most of it.
28. I walked past Steven Spielberg at the MoMA in NYC.
29. I witnessed a partially submerged submarine go past my house.
30. I have written down every book that I have read since September 12, 1992.
31. I have read 400 books between 1992 and 2005 (when I first wrote this list).
32. I read an average of 30.7 books a year.
33. I read 2.5 books a month.
34. The longest book that I have read is The Andy Warhol Diaries. It is 807 pages long. I read it in 20 days.
35. I took piano, violin and viola lessons.
36. I am 5'3 and 1/2.
37. I have lived in 3 states: Washington, California and Georgia (updated January 2014).
38. My first job was at a Bed & Breakfast.
39. A Room With A View is my favorite film.
40. I have 2 half brothers and 1 half sister.
41. I had to take a bus, a ferry, and another bus everyday to Middle School.
42. There were three students (including me) in the entire 6th grade at my Elementary School.
43. Croquet is my favorite sport.
44. I have eaten at Chez Panisse twice.
45. I was born at home, not in a hospital.
46. I paid off all of my student loans.
47. I've had high tea at The Plaza. The Plaza was also the first place I tasted caviar.
48. I wore head gear (but only at night!).
49. I named my cat after a member of The Smiths.
50. I know the lyrics to every song from The Sound of Music.
Written September 25th, 2005, updated most recently on October 20th 2014
