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25 things about me

December 07, 2004

I’m taking a hint from the lovely Ms HeroineGirl and making a list of things you might not otherwise know about me. Some of these deserve to be written about more in depth, but I’m not sure I’m in the right time/place to do that.

  1. One time in college I wrote a 15 page paper about the The Sandlot.
  2. After being a very colorful punk kid, I was a goth for a few years in high school, until one day I was out with a goth friend, and a little kid pointed at us and said to his mom, “Look mommy, clowns. Scary clowns.”
  3. This gothness included possession and wearing of a black ankle-length cape. Homemade thanks very much.
  4. I also still own and maintain a leather jacket that I wore for many years. It has red paint on it, I sewed leopard print fabric to the back of it with dental floss and it has a bunch of pyramid studs on it.
  5. In high school I was obsessed with the younger set of British romantic writers: Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley.
  6. I wrote a paper in high school comparing Percy and Mary’s uses of the Promethean myth in their respective “Prometheus Unbound” and Frankenstein.
  7. This past summer I went on a trip to Europe by myself, with the intention of following the path of Byron and the Shelleys through Switzerland and Italy, especially with regard to the summer of 1816, when Mary Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein after several nights of ghost stories. The trip was awesome to the max.
  8. For a while last year, I had a streak of boyfriends/dates whose single syllable names all started with the same letter. They all wore Right Guard Sport anti-perspirant in Fresh scent. Also, all of their parents were still married.
  9. I started a literary magazine in high school, which I edited and contributed to. I selected a drawing of a naked woman dancing for the cover of the first issue. The school authorities were not pleased, and so we had to make it a silhouette (nipples are offensive).
  10. As a youth, I was an avid horseback rider. I’ve trained a number of horses and used to travel the country teaching riding. I miss it, but I’m poor.
  11. I loathe condiments. Ketchup, mayo… any of that stuff. Blech.
  12. I also hate pickles.
  13. I lost my virginity at 14 to a man twice my age. I was vacationing with my family in Seattle and made it with this guy Stanley in a van down by the river.
  14. I have lost count of how many sex partners I’ve had. I think it is somewhere between 40 and 50.
  15. I have only had anal sex with three of my partners. I have only “hit it raw” with two partners (after being fully tested of course).
  16. On Christmas Eve of 1994, one of my close friends killed herself. She had turned 15 five days before and had just had her second miscarriage.
  17. During my teenage years, I knew seven people who died. Most of them were not close friends. Five died of heroin overdoses. One died of a heart attack (eating disorder related). One was my friend who killed herself. I had had sex with two of them.
  18. When I was 17 I had to get a restraining order against an ex-boyfriend. He kept showing up wherever I was. One time I freaked out and hit him with my car and then drove away quickly.
  19. I have a small scar near my left eye from being hit by a (different) high school boyfriend. He later tested HIV positive and was the reason I got my first HIV test, the (negative) results of which I received on my 17th birthday.
  20. Uh, this is getting too dark. Let’s go this way: I met my first love (my ex, who I have referred to but not granted a pseudonym) at a retreat for gifted and talented high school seniors. When I saw him for the first time, I knew he was going to be a big part of my life. He was wearing a Skankin’ Pickle t-shirt.
  21. I played guitar and bass guitar when I was younger and I was in a few really terrible bands. One of them played at CBGB’s when I was 15.
  22. In 1996, I made a small sign reading: “I hereby boycott the white mugs, on the grounds that they squish my fingers” and affixed it to the inside of the cupboard that my parents keep their coffee mugs in. It is still there.
  23. I grew up on thirty acres of land. I spent a lot of time from ages 8 to 18 alone in the woods, reading and building forts.
  24. I have never been on a rollercoaster.
  25. I will be 25 this coming April. I am a Taurus, and although I totally don’t give a shit about astrology, when people ask my sign I like to make my fingers into horns and make bull noises.

Posted by Dacia at December 7, 2004 04:05 PM

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