25 "Things" About Me

I am going to be extremely redundant, because I already posted these 25 "things" on Facebook, so for those of you who don't have a Facebook account, enjoy:

1) I am inherently suspicious of sharing things about myself....like it might come back to bite me in the butt!
2) I met Scott, my husband, when we lived as next door neighbors and ironically had an email address at the time: neighborgirl3713.
3) Starting in the 8th grade, I have sprained and/or fractured my ankles at least 10 times. The most ridiculous was when I stepped on a pinecone = fracture; the most recent was stepping on the edge of a manhole = sprain.
4) I hate snakes, rats, and spiders - when I see them I want to stab them in their faces!
5) While serving as a missionary in Argentina, my companion and I, Laura Schiess (Astle), were mugged in broad daylight - we lost our money, our books, our bags, and our dignity - the perpetrators didn't even have guns.
6) When I was in junior high I thought I wanted to be a prime time News Anchor until I did a 3-day stint at the local news channel and hated every minute of it.
7) Excluding pre-college years, I have never lived in the same house/apartment for more than two years at a stretch - I get restless very easily.
8) The place I would most like to visit is Greece.
9) I am almost obscenely curious about Regency England - think Jane Austen - and the role of women in the society, especially how conduct literature was utilized in the class/gender structure.
10) I wrote a series of papers in college on the influence of the Amazons in Greek mythology on the modern feminist movement; it was very difficult to find research materials in the BYU library.
11) My hair is my "safety blanket", so to speak - aside from one slight misjudgment in letting a friend cut my hair in the 8th grade, I have never had hair shorter than my shoulders.
12) My dream would be to have the kind of singing voice that could handle a Duettino Sull Aria from the Marriage of Figaro (think Shawshank Redemption).
13) Although I play the piano, I have to work at it, and in order to accompany someone like my husband when he sings, I have to practice, practice, practice.
14) I was hired once to play at someone's wedding: the Wedding March, the Recessional, and to accompany a vocalist on the cheesiest wedding song ever titled, "Longer" - then the bride stiffed me.
15) In 4-6th grades I took private cello lessons from Lance Johnson, who I thought was really "hot" (he was 17), and I played in the Tacoma Junior Youth Symphony.
16) When I was two years in to my college experience, majoring in the Humanities, my parents and four younger siblings took a trip to Europe two weeks before I finished my finals - I was sooooo pissed!
17) I contracted a parasite while living in South America that has completely 'jacked' my intestinal "devices" and makes digestion a real "treat".
18) My first college roommate, Heather Rudy, was the daughter of my mom's best friend all growing up, who converted to the LDS faith while they were college students. Missy, Heather's mom, transferred colleges to attend BYU and she and my mom were college roommates for a few years. Heather and I had never met prior to being roommates, but we hit it off smashingly.
19) I worked as a secretary at the Women's Research Institute for 2.5 years while attending BYU, the only job at the 'Y' where you could be suspected of having feminist-sympathies.
20) While teaching Senior College English, at Sumner High School for two years, at least 5 seniors failed my class making them ineligible for graduation. I'm not on anyone's hit list, as far as I know.
21) I consider myself obsessed with anything "small" or "miniature": horses, dogs, especially monkeys - I have toyed with the idea of creating a "miniature zoo".
22) Currently half-time I work with juvenile offenders doing family therapy with them and their families, in their homes; I have seen kids arrested for: Domestic Violence, Prostitution, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Residential Burglarly, Trespassing, Possession of a Controlled Substance, to name a few....
23) I used to consider marriage to be something that "other people" do, until I got married myself; now I consider having children something "other people" do....maybe I'll have to eat those words some day.
24) In high school I ran for ASB president against another kid from my church who had asked a boy from the junior class to be his campaign manager - so I asked that kid's girlfriend to be my campaign manager. Guess who won?
25) I plan to return to university within the next 5 years to pursue my PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy....in the mean time, I am working on writing and getting published in a scholarly publication.