25 Random Things

This is something that's been passing around Facebook. I'm not posting it there, but it does get to live here.

1. My big toes are double-jointed.

2. I am obsessed about very few things ... one of them is music. I would almost always rather be listening to music than watching television.

3. My three favorite books, in no particular order, are: A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole; the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (although if I have to choose just one of those, it's definitely Deathly Hallows); and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

4. I have a post office box because my house is too close to the post office to get mail. (Seriously.)

5. I don't have a dishwasher ... and I prefer doing dishes by hand, anyway.

6. I can bake a mean pie.

7. And a mean cheesecake.

8. I use clinical-strength deodorant, which you have to put on before you go to sleep. But I forget pretty frequently and have to use my husband's deodorant.

9. Bikram yoga is one of my favorite things in this world, ever.

10. My can't-miss radio shows are a 9:30 a.m. Tuesday slot by Alan Watts and the 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday slot, "Reggae Bloodlines." Both on KGNU. 88.5 FM Boulder, 1390 AM Denver.

11. The podcasts I subscribe to are "This Week in Science," "APM Weekend America" and "Savage Love."

12. I am an avid advice-column reader. Savage Love, Dear Abby, Annie's Mailbox, Classic Ann Landers, the Advice Goddess, Dear Margo, Dear Prudence, Carry Tennis, Amy Dickinson and Carolyn Hax are the columns I read weekly.

13. When I was four years old, an anaconda bit me. True story.

14. I had a dream this morning wherein I was lying in bed, unable to fall asleep. I didn't realize I was asleep until my cat jumped on me.

15. My favorite band/musical group is Blackalicious. However, if I could only listen to one genre of music, it would be trip-hop/downtempo. (Although I would see if I could also squeeze drum and bass in ... the syncopated rhythm argument? Think it would fly?)

16. When I get my master's degree, my GPA in grad school will have been 4.0. First time I did that since elementary school!

17. When I sing along with Bradley Nowell (from Sublime), he makes my voice sound really good.

18. I sing regularly to my dog -- usually freestyle lyrics to a song stuck in my head or something playing about Marshall and what he's doing.

19. I bite my nails. I've been able to get them long and beautiful more than once, but something always caves and I bite them off. I don't know what it is. (They are in a long and beautiful phase right now.)

20. I don't drink alcohol regularly, but I really like making drinks.

21. I weigh myself every day.

22. I make my bed every day. (Well. Almost.)

23. I can type 120 words per minute.

24. I have a mild obsession with stationery.

25. I proudly own an authentic set of Russian nesting dolls.