Miscellaneous Trivial Facts about Me:

I'm not a natural redhead. (I inherited my father's tendency for early greying.)

My ears are double pierced.

Nothing else on my body is pierced.

I grew up in a trailer (albeit a very nice one.)

I have one sister and one half-brother.

I get along with the half-brother a thousand times better than I do with the sister.

I adore cats.

I tolerate dogs.

I know how to shoot just every type of firearm there is, and have. (No large artillery though.)

I broke my little toes about 5 times each, fractured my right tibia, cracked my right fifth metacarpal, bruised ribs, had a black eye, and tore muscles in my right shoulder . . . all in martial arts. (Not all at the same time though.)

Outside of martial arts I've had my right heel almost completely cut off (20 stitches), my forehead laid open (50 stitches), broke my left thumb and dislocated my right. (The last three were all at the same time due to a car accident.)

My pupils are sometimes uneven due to the head injury associated with aforementioned car accident, which sometimes freaks doctors out.

I had a cat scan once due to one of those aforementioned freaked out doctors.

I wear my hair over my forehead to hide scar from aforementioned head injury.

I went to parochial schools up through 8th grade.

Fifth through Eighth grade was a catholic school.

I'm not catholic.

I wasn't even raised Catholic.

I was raised Episcopalian.

I'm not Episcopalian.

I didn't hit puberty until I was 14.

My body made up for lost time.

My first computer was a Commodore Vic20 with an extra 5K of memory.

My present desktop system is a Gateway Pentium Pro 180 with 32MB of memory.

I took Russian in college.

I remember about three sentences.

I scored a 1310 on the SATs.

(1600 is a perfect score.)

When I took the GRE I scored an 800 on the Analytical section, 780 on the Math section, and 740 on the Verbal.

(800 per section is a perfect score.)

I save letters from ex-boyfriends/husbands.

I played the flute in high-school band.

I don't remember how to play it anymore.

I do not presently play an instrument.

I took singing lessons all through high school.

I sing along with the radio in the car.

I graduated from college with a 2.0 average.

It took me four tries to pass Complex Analysis.

I couldn't do an integral now to save my life.

I got married in 1993.

I'm getting divorced in 1998.

I learned how to swim when I was 2.

I learned how to read when I was 3.

I still can't do my taxes by myself.

I can sew anything.

I buy my clothing off the rack.

I drive a 1993 Isuzu pickup truck.

Three months after I bought it I rear-ended someone and smashed up the front end. (No damage to the other car.)

I still haven't gotten the damage fixed.

I wear contacts.

I drink CDM coffee, with lots of cream and sugar.

I hate the taste of plain milk.

I hate brussel sprouts.

I hate liver.

I used to hide the liver and brussel sprouts that my mother cooked for dinner between the cushions of my seat.

One day my mother found them.

I'm still alive.