100 Facts About Me:
1) I dye my hair purple on occasion.
2) I tend to like girls. A lot.
3) I have been alive for eighteen years.
4) I have been been "offically" writing fanfiction for eight of them.
5) I have seen the broadway musical RENT over seventy times as of the date of this list (10.9.03). I'm not proud of this.
6) Many of my best friends I met through RENT or my other online fandoms.
7) I have an unnatural fear of moths.
8) In fact, I hate most bugs in general.
9) I have a brother who is two years younger than me. We get along very well, as of late.
10) My whole family is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, even my mother, although she's not as hardcore.
11) My cousin Nicole and I have been incredibly close since birth and now attend school together.
12) Cookie Monster came to my sixth birthday and I was afraid of him.
13) I am the youngest of my group of close friends, for the most part.
14) I accidently started the Mark/Roger pairing in the RENT fandom.
15) I rarely ship het couples, but when I do I do it when a vengance.
16) My first slash couple was Race Bannon/Dr. Benton Quest. I was eleven years old when I wrote my first slashfic.
17) I can say the alphabet backwards rather quickly.
18) I have Adult ADD, though I have never been offically diagnosed.
19) I have been in love, completely and totally with all my soul exactly two times in my life. I do not expect it to happen again and am content with having these two experiances.
20) I have never kissed a boy.
21) But that doesn't mean I don't want to.
22) I "marry" just about everyone who has ever made me happy. Some people I marry multiple times. It's a sign of affection ^_^;;
23) I love politics. I have been to two model congresses, one model UN, and participated in one mock election and one set of mock trials.
24) All of that was made possible by a wonderful program in New Jersey called IPLE (Institute for Political and Legal Education). It's a two period, two credit senior elective in my high school. It's highly competative.
25) When I graduated the two instructors told me I had come into the program knowing the most and left having learned the most. I cried.
26) I don't cry very easily in real life situations, but a good story, movie, or teevee show will have me in tears in an instant.
27) Twenty-seven is my favourite number.
28) I have a horrible memory. I can remember random events from ten years ago, but not what I had for breakfast or whether or not I have told certian people about important events.
29) I alternate between telling really good stories and really bad stories.
30) I have produced three plays, acted in three, and written one.
31) I talk loudly without meaning to.
32) When he was in first grade, I gave my brother a haircut. He thought it looked really good until my mother saw him and screamed.
33) I can't sing, but I wish I could.
34) My algebra ii teacher made me cry almost every day my junior year of high school.
35) Thus, I will never take another algebra class if I can help it.
36) My grandfather was exactly fifty years older than me and my grandmother is exactly fifty years older than my brother.
37) My mother has three sisters. Each has two children between the ages of eleven and seven. They all live within about fifteen/twenty minutes driving distance of each other, so right now I am the member of the "immediate" family that lives farthest away.
38) My parents met while they were both working at McDonalds.
39) I work at Michael's Arts and Crafts store, despite the fact I am in no way artsy or craftsy.
40) However, I did make my own jewelery for my senior prom.
41) I went to two proms my senior year, mine and my cousin Nicole's. I had waaaaay more fun at Nicole's and they played better music and served better food.
42) I have a very addictive personality. I have since I was a child. Thus my many obsessions and fandoms.
43) When I was six or seven I composed stories in my head about being best friends with Penny from Inspector Gadget.
44) I have only been grounded twice in my life. The first time was for something stupid, the second time for something stupider. The first time my parents took my internet away for five days. The second time they took away all methods of communication with the outside world away for five months.
45) There are two people I consider my best friends. My best friends have come in twos my entire life. Strangely enough, they're never friends with each other.
46) The Land of Make Believe in Hope, NJ was my favourite theme park up until I was about fourteen years old. I used to go there every summer with my best friend, Heather, who was the daughter of my mother's best friend, Jan. We would go with our moms and brothers and have fun, even when we were too big for the rides.
47) I have a stuffed dog named Wishbone who, although I haven't had him since birth, I have not parted with since I received him.
48) Wishbone has been to more b'way shows than many people I went to high school with.
49) I'm a registered democrat, for the time being, although I keep insisting that I did it solely to vote for Howard Dean in the upcoming presidential primary.
50) Obi-Wan Kenobi was my favourite Star Wars character before he was played by Ewan McGregor.
51) I took two and a half-ish years of Latin and loved it so much I wanted to minor in it.
52) My name was almost Emily Elizabeth, just like the girl in the Clifford books. This is even more amusing if you take into account that my grandmother's maiden name was Clifford.
53) I did not realize that my Grandfather on my father's side was actually my step-grandfather until I was in fourth grade, despite the fact that he had a different last name.
54) I was too shy to tell my kindergarden teacher that I prefered "Kaity" or "Kait" to my full name, "Kaitlyn" and was called "Kaitlyn" by my teachers up until the day I graduated high school.
55) If I really connected with a teacher, I let them call me Kait.
56) I'd rather be too cold than two hot and have serious trouble sleeping in the summer without air conditioning.
57) I sleep more than anyone I know. I stay up late, sleep all day, and take naps. It got so bad that my parents had me see a doctor and a therapist, figuring the sleep might have to do with depression.
58) The doctors claimed that it did and I believed them for a year and a half before I just realized that it had more to do with the wonky hours of school than my angst-ridden mind.
59) When my brother and I were little, my parents told us that when we lied our tongues turned purple. When we tried to look, they explained that only mommies and daddies could see it. We believed them, but it didn't stop us from lying.
60) I used to have a pet rabbit, an English Lop named "Buster", although we called him Bunnicula. He was white with black spots and black floppy ears.
61) When he died my father made me realize for the first time that my parents didn't know me well at all. He came downstairs, saw that I was online, and asked me why I wasn't sad. I glanced back and forth between him and the angst-ridden e-mail I was typing, blinked, and turned away.
62) The first book I read out loud was a Minnie'n'Me book that I picked up in Toys R Us and randomly began to read. My mother was so proud she almost started to cry.
63) She really DID cry when my brother got out of his first grade class knowing how to read at a third grade level after going in with no reading abilities whatsoever.
64) When my mother calls for me she usually goes through all of her sisters' names first. "Beth, Carole, Maureen, whatever the hell your name is!"
65) My parents never really cared that I liked girls. My brother is not bothered by it either. I consider myself lucky.
66) I have a bad habit of constructing senarios in my mind before they actually happen. Nine times out of ten this leads to complete disappointment.
67) The last time I really cried hard in public I was clutching a guy that means the world to me who was crying just as hard. His mother patted us both on the back, told my friends that what we had was "real love" and then randomly offered everyone mints. We laughed into each other's shoulders but didn't let go. It was one of the best moments of my life.
68) I had a Mickey Mouse border in the room I shared with my brother as a child. It was painted aqua and yellow and the only room on the third floor of our house. When Brendan and I moved into separate rooms and my parents moved up there, they were actually able to find an aqua and yellow bedspread.
69) I have never lived a summer without a pool.
70) That being said, the year I was in eighth grade we moved from my childhood home to my aunt's house to an apartment to my new house. We closed on my old house in November and did not move into the new one until June.
71) My father gave my mother two kittens before Brendan and I were born, despite the fact that he is allergic to them. One died when I was two. I still remember walking in on my mother crying over it. The other, Leah, lived until I was in ninth grade. She was nineteen years old when she died.
72) My first real concert was Barenaked Ladies at PNC Bank Arts Center the summer after eighth grade.
73) I have a bad oral fixation. I bite my nails, my cuticles, and my lips and I chew on the inside of my mouth.
74) When I used to get really upset in algebra ii my junior year of high school I would chew on my lip until it bled and use it as an excuse to go to the nurse.
75) I was only ever written up for one thing in high school. It was a cut and I didn't even really cut. I was supposed to serve three office detentions for it, but the advisor let us leave after two minutes for two of them.
76) I had a crazy orange juice obsession for a long time. My parents would buy six or seven cartons whenever it was on sale and they would be gone within a week.
77) I have a very sensitive scalp and often find myself crying in pain when I go to get my haircut.
78) I waited until I had already turned seventeen to get my driver's permit.
79) When I was younger I named every single stuffed animal that I had and some nights slept with all of them at once because I was sure they all had feelings and didn't want any of them to feel left out.
80) I've never done my own makeup.
81) I was obsessed with Minnie Mouse as a child. I wanted everything Minnie'n'Me.
82) I talk to myself a lot and my roommate thinks I'm talking to her.
83) I tend to get stuck on words and use them over and over again both in speech and in writing.
84) I first got the writing bug in second grade. When we finished our work early, our teacher gave us little books in the shape of various things and told us to write a story and illustrate it.
85) I took an art class every year of my public school eduation up until my senior year.
86) When I was little, because of my sensitive scalp, I wouldn't let my mother brush my hair. I didn't do a very good job of it by myself, so I had to go to the hair salon on more than one occasion to have the knots cut out of it.
87) I was born with curly hair, it was straight for most of my childhood, and went I hit puberty it started to get frizzy. It was very nice and curly for two years before settling on this in-the-middle-stage it's in now.
88) I have been known to pay my brother to kill bugs I find in my room.
89) I love horror movies.
90) I'm a really, really horrible packrat. I have boxes and boxes of things I'm too "fond of" to throw away or give away. One entire box is dedicated to my writing from eighth grade to present. It is full.
91) I used to win goldfish at the Boonton fair a lot.
92) My grandfather on my mother's side was a firefighter in Newark, NJ. My dad is a fire captian in Bloomfield, NJ. My uncle is a firefighter on the FDNY. My other uncle is a volunteer firefighter in Randolph, NJ. The third uncle on my mother's side is, alas, a cop.
93) For some reason my father came home from a fishing trip in British Columbia with a very nice jacket from the BC Ambulance squad. I have stolen it and wear it constantly, but am asked continuously if I am a volunteer EMT.
94) I am a very picky eater.
95) My brother and I like to play a game called, "Fight to the Death." You pick two random characters, make up a set of circumstances, and debate who would win in a fight to the death. Example: Gandalf and Old Obi-Wan. Gandalf doesn't have his staff or sword, Obi-Wan doesn't have a lightsaber. Who would win in a fight to the death? We used to play this in church. It annoyed my parents.
96) I was brought up Roman Catholic and confirmed. Although I still go to church with my family, I'm not very religious, as you can probably tell from the fact that this is all the way down here on the list. I made up my own religion in ninth grade called "Carterism" where practioners worshiped creative geniuses of their choosing.
97) I think faith is key in life, but religion is inconsequential.
98) I used to play with my brother's action figures when I was little, even though I had many barbies. I would tear the Barbie's heads off and eat their feet.
99) I was never good at making friends. I was painfully shy as a child and I'm still very antisocial even now.
100) It's 4AM and I've probably made more typos on this thing than I care to count.