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It is one of those days, where everything drags.  Even the fact that the clock says 3:37pm currently just taunts me.  How is it only 3:37?  With a lack of anything else to do, I am going to show two hours late to the “25 Things About Me” party.

1. I’m very weird about going to the bathroom at work.  I have a particular stall that I like, and if it’s occupied, I’ll come back later to use it.  I don’t know why.  I guess it’s just a certain degree of comfort and familiarity I’ve come to know and love.
2. Having written scathing commentary against the iPhone and going in favor of the Blackberry instead, I ended up going up with neither.  After coming close to throwing my Blackberry against a wall, I now have a Samsung Omnia.  It’s pretty, although I still find myself Twittering incomplete tweets, as I am still a bit fumbly with a touchscreen keyboard.  In spite of that, however, I love my phone.  All you iPhone and Blackberry people, be damned!
3. For those who don’t know me in person, I am a freakish six feet tall.  Yes, I can reach the high-up shelves, but I have to pay extra for longer pants.
4. I love Woody Allen movies, although I am a bit worried about Vicky Christy Barcelona.  While I love Sex and the City, like any female, I prefer his Gershwin, sometimes 70s/80s version of New York.
5. I have this tendency, even though I have matured in recent years, to continue to read blogs and other online materials by those I do not like.  It’s this weird fascination.  Am I hoping they fail at something?  Is it the non-ghost equivalent of unfinished business?  Who knows, but I still keep reading.
6. My ring size is 9, and my shoe size is 10.  Those are both below average sizes for my height. 
7. I’ve shared this fact in abundance recently with close friends, but I love WETA, the local DC area PBS station.  Seriously, I have had weekends where, unless I turned on the DVD player, my TV did not deviate from that channel.  Every time I go to change the channel, something else awesome comes on. Antiques Roadshow (don’t judge me!), or History Detectives, or Inside Washington… I can’t seem to get away!
8. I have been blogging since I was eighteen years old.  I started with ye olde LiveJournal.  In fact, I still have an account on that site that I use somewhat regularly.
9. I once worked as an assistant in a bail bonds office, and answered phone calls daily from inmates to help get them bonded out of jail.  It was a glamorous lifestyle, for sure.
10. When no one is awake or at home, I like to put on music and sing and dance around while doing other things.  It’s my little release and exercise I like to do late at night, sometimes.
11. My favorite musical is A Chorus Line, and I’m sad that I will probably not get to see it, when it comes to the National Theater in the next couple of weeks. 
12. The longest adult relationship I’ve had is 2.5 years.  Once I reach that I point, my shelf-life seems to expire.  Even though we’re getting married in November, I will be most pleased when Patrick and I pass that mark.  
13. I do not find George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Brady, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Hugh Jackman, or any of those guys attractive.  Don’t get me wrong, I like their movies, but they’re not my cup of tea.
14. Aaron Eckhart and Matthew Fox, however… feel free to call me anytime.
15. I overuse the word “frankly” in everyday speech.  If I’m making a point, and I use that more than twice (which is likely), feel free to smack me.
16. I don’t think I have ever been out on a real date.  I don’t think I’ve ever just dated.  It’s weird.  Usually I transition from hanging out as friends to “hello, lover” seamlessly.  Plus, I don’t think I have ever really dated anyone who I wasn’t friends with first.
17. I love Mozart’s operas, my favorite being Don Giovanni.  One day I will see it on stage.
18. My favorite colors are brown and grass green.
19. I was born in Oakland, California, but I don’t remember it.  We were back in DC before I even turned two.  It’s a running joke in my family, because everyone else is from here, and I’m the black sheep.
20. One of my ears is lower than the other, so I have to have glasses specially fitted to my face, so they don’t look crooked.
21. One of my biggest pet peeves (perhaps after years of customer service) is when people are unable to spit out what they say.  There’s a particular tone to it.  Lots of “ums” and “uhs”.  Heavy sighs.  Slowly undulating monotone voice.  It takes all my will power not to smother people like that.  Just spit it out!
22. I am addicted to hosting little house parties.  I don’t know why, but I just love having people over.  I didn’t used to be that way.  At all.  I still can be a bit socially neurotic, however.  Around new people I tend to freeze up and ramble quite a bit.  Or if I don’t, I get stuck in my head over-analyzing everything that comes out of my mouth.  
23. I am not a terribly girly person, but I wear Coco Mademoiselle by Chanel as my perfume.  It’s just my little thing.  Well, that and bags from Target.
24. I do not know how to ride a bike.  I grew up in an apartment building near Pentagon City.  So sue me.
25. I do not like olives, but I try them every two or three months to see if I still don’t like them.  We’ll see again in two to three months.

That’s about it.  Thank goodness it’s almost time to go.  Poor Patrick has to drive the truck back out to Maryland.  It’s the one we borrowed to use for the move.  He’s been run ragged the past few days.  Tonight I’ll be cleaning up the apartment more, as a couple more boxes of stuff has emerged.  Really, we’re rock gods; our lives are in constant hyperdrive.

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