Randomosity

I had a street light outside my bedroom window as a child. To this day, the hum of a street light in a dark quiet street gives me goosebumps in a good way.

My dreams oftentimes involve secret passageways, crawl spaces, and hidden doorways.

Both times that my brother took me fishing when I was little, I dropped the pole into the water when I got a bite. I still don't know why, but I felt terrible.

I had an tree house club when I was little. We all pretended to be Indians and my name was Running Water

I get restless leg syndrome at night and on long road trips.

My mom used to have a routine of having my brother and I lay on our backs, put our feet in her lap and have splinters taken out of our feet with a needle... I didn't like to keep my shoes on outside...

I am really good at keeping secrets... my own and other people's

I believe in class conflict, am a socialist, and an idealist.

My Dad's side of my family gets together at my grandmothers (we call her Oma) every Friday to play pinochle. It's good German food, about 6-12 people, wine, beer, and political arguments. I miss it!

At some point in my life I was able to recite, from memory, every line of the movie Aliens. It drove my brother insane.

My nose has been broken three times. I fell down the stairs as a baby, was hit in the face with a rotary phone, and was in a bad skiing accident (I fell down a mountain in Montana) I'd like a nose job.

I would rather listen to NPR than music... All Things Considered, A Prairie Home Companion, Science Friday, The Diane Rehm Show, Fresh Air, Writers Almanac, and Talk of the Nation.

I graduated with Highest Distinction... 3.94 GPA and love school and especially writing research papers.

I love the sound of train whistles at night.

I didn't have cable growing up and played outside everyday until past dark... almost none of my childhood memories include the indoors.

My mom had an 8 pm rule until high school: come inside, bathe, and either read or sleep. Because of that I have a deep love of reading and often have more than one book going at a time.

I have a great love of bon fires, cool nights, clear skies, guitar music and good friends... there is hardly a scenario I love more.