Ninety One Things About Me
Saturday, Jan. 06, 2007
Ninety-One Things About Me 1. I used to weigh four hundred pounds. 2. Now I weigh 186 pounds. 3. I lived in Tokyo and 4. worked in Ginza. 5. I've never had sex with a man from my same ethnic background but 6. I was married to a homosexual 7. for one year. 8. I have two college degrees, one in biology, one in English. 9. I worked as a researcher in a biochemistry lab. 10. I grew up very poor 11. in a family of five. 12. We lived in three rooms. 13. I was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 14. August 4, 1971. 15. I began drinking when I was thirteen, 16. smoked pot at fourteen, 17. the same year I lost my virginity. 18. I am unemployed and 19. live with my ex-husband. 20. I have had sex with eleven men, 21. two of whom have admitted to having sex with prostitutes. 22. I once dated a former stripper and prostitute. 23. I have suffered from depression since I was about twelve or thirteen years old, 24. spent seven years in therapy, 25. and about two years on antidepressants. 26. I inhereted the depression from my alcoholic, abusive, depressive father. 27. I haven't spoken to him in sixteen years. 28. I skipped a couple of grades in elementary school, and 29. graduated from high school when I was sixteen. 30. My first job out of high school was as a waitress, 31. a job I was hired for after my friend, who was a waiter at the same place, commited suicide. 32. I worked in restaurants for ten years, 33. was a waitress, manager, and cook. 34. My cats are named Groucho and Alberdine. 35. I have visited five foreign countries, but generally 36. I have little interest in travel. 37. I was once a gallery-represented ceramist, 38. worked in a communal studio, and 39. entered juried art shows. 40. I haven't worked as an artist in two years or more. 41. As an artist, I made masks of about sixty people. 42. I am not very interested in music, 43. though I played the cello for about sixteen years. 44. I have had black, blonde, brown, and purple hair. 45. I used to wear a nose ring. 46. I once attended a conference on the writings of John Milton 47. and, the same year, a conference to increase minority participation in the sciences. 48. I ride a motorcycle, a red Kawasaki Ninja. 49. I am afraid of motorcycles 50. and guns. 51. I learned how to shoot in my twenties, but 52. I have never owned a gun. 53. I have never broken a bone, 54. never had major surgery, and 55. had my wisdom teeth out when I was twenty-eight years old. 56. I have two tattoos, done five years apart. 57. One tattoo is of the feminine hand of god, 58. the other is the sign for woman. 59. I don't wear perfume. 60. I am very vain about my hair and lips. 61. I don't have, and never will have, children. 62. I don't have, and never will have, dogs. 63. My favorite food is menudo. 64. I love the name Paula. 65. I have an addictive personality, and, in the past, have been addicted to many things including sex and sugar. 66. It has often seemed that my body is a stranger to me. 67. I am more familiar with my mind. 68. I hate team sports (most sports, actually), 69. but I have tried swimming, running, yoga, weight lifting, NIA dance, Feldenkrais, and martial arts. 70. I learned how to salsa dance from a Japanese man. 71. I never wear a watch. 72. My favorite shoes are my nine-hole Doc Marten boots, which are about six years old. 73. I am the only girl in my family and 74. the middle child. 75. My IQ has been tested at 140, which I don't consider to be very high. 76. I don't like movie theaters, though 77. I like movies a lot. 78. I don't watch television. 79. My favorite color is green. 80. I am named after a once popular singer who was a favorite of my godmother. 81. I hate people who brag about themselves, 82. people who can't commit, 84. people who can't think for themselves. 85. I am not impressed by wealth. 86. I got pregnant when I was seventeen, and 87. had an abortion a month later, when I was eighteen. 88. I was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon when I was twenty four years old. 89. I love transvestites. 90. I have been keeping journals and diaries and blogs since I was eleven years old.
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