16 Facts About Me
Okay, shoshin told me that I had to complete this list if she did it, so here are my 16 things.
1. I have never moved in my life. I have lived in the same house since the day I was born. Additionally, I live next door to my father’s parents.
2. I have an immune deficiency found in only 2% of all people who have immune deficiencies. Doctors peek into my room “by mistake” to ask if I’m that case they heard about. I do not remember how many times I’ve been in and out of hospitals or emergency rooms.
3. I was an award-winning Latin student. No, seriously.
4. I am a dog person. I cannot begin to convey how much I love dogs. (Keep in mind that “dog,” in my vocabulary, only applies to canines larger than a football. The entire “toy group?” Those are not dogs. They’re animated accessories.)
5. I am one of the few born and raised Southern girls you will ever meet who does not like sweet tea. Don’t ask me to explain how it happened; somehow, I just never developed a taste for it. I am also one of very few writers who does not much care for coffee.
6. In high school, I wore bracelets up each arm. Including a spoon around one wrist. Yeah, I was one of THOSE kids. The mall goths.
7. When I was little, I wanted to become a marine biologist. My dream was to train marine mammals at Sea World. I still feel that way every time I see a dolphin show or the like.
8. I name my cars. My first car was a 1994 Pontiac Sunbird called Natalie. She was a bit of a lemon, and I got rid of her a year later in favor of a car that actually ran, a 2000 Hyundai Sonata I named Meg. She’s sassy, and her sound system makes me happy.
9. My grampa–-not the one I live next to, but my mother’s father–-was a rocket scientist. No, really. An honest-to-God, literal rocket scientist. (Also, he worked on the atomic bomb.)
10. I crush on fictional characters. Shut up. (My first literary crush was definitely Tobias in the Animorphs books.)
11. No matter how old I get, I still love kids’ books. The stories I read as a kid remain favorites of mine: Bunnicula, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, A Wrinkle in Time, The Thief of Always…
12. I have hated Easter ever since second grade, when I only got two eggs in the entire class-wide Easter Egg Hunt. (I have issues. I know.)
13. I still have my childhood blankie. You know, the one you get as an infant? My mom’s mother gave it to me when I was born, and it has been with me ever since. I stopped carrying it around/sleeping with it when I was still in elementary school, but I still have it. I absolutely will not part with it. (Sadly, it’s so old it’s almost transparent. I think if I ever tried to wash it again, it would disintegrate.)
14. My dad is a train conductor. I’ve grown up on trains. Most people my age have never been on a train, it seems. I’ve grown up around them, and I’ve ridden them many, many times now.
15. I did ballet and gymnastics as a kid. Yes, I’m serious. I am the most graceless person EVER. Ballet AND gymnastics. Seriously.
16. I was put in the gifted program right after kindergarten, the earliest anyone was eligible for gifted at the time. I stayed in gifted all the way through the end of middle school, and I did honors and AP in high school. No clue what my test results were when they did the placement test… All I know is that I’ve been in gifted almost my whole life.
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