"I'm not vain and narcissistic; I'm just self involved." Edie Sedgwick

Fifty facts about me...

 

1.  I have never had the chicken pox.

2.  I am fluent in Sign Language.

3.  I grew up on an Island (without a bridge).

4.  I have red hair and blue eyes.

5.  I have been to 25 of the 50 states.

6.  My Grandfather built his own airplane.

7.  I once sat across from Adam Sandler at Canter's Deli in LA.

8.  My least favorite food is pumpkin pie. 

9.  I lived in Alaska for a summer.

10.  My middle name is Rose.

11.  I have flown to NYC twice to see The Magnetic Fields.

12.  I saw part of an episode of the television show Northern Exposure being filmed (it was filmed in Roslyn, Washington).

13.  I have slept in a Tepee.

14.  I sang on a tape of Children's songs for the musician Tom Hunter in 1985 (I was 8).

15.  I took ballet from Teo Morca.

16.  My Dad is Deaf.

17.  I took a road trip through every state in New England.

18.  I have flown first class twice.

19.  I lived in an apartment where the bathroom wallpaper was made from The New Yorker magazine covers.

20.  I had Blood poisoning (septicemia) as a child and almost died.

21.  I convinced my Senior English class to write letters of protest in regard to the planned cancellation of the television show My So-Called Life in 1995. 

22.  I grew up with the grandchildren of David Packard (he put the Packard in Hewlett-Packard).

23.  I saw Rachel Ashwell buying coffee at a coffee shop in Santa Monica.

24.  I have ridden a horse on the beach.

25.  I know someone who married her husband for the sole purpose of supplying him with a green card.

26.  I know someone else who had an arranged marriage and did not meet her husband until a week before the wedding.

27.   The first movie I saw was Star Wars in 1977.  My Mom claims I slept through most of it. 

28.  I walked past Steven Spielberg at the MoMA in NYC.

29.  I know someone who appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

30.  I have written down every book that I have read since September 12, 1992.

31.  I have read 400 books since 1992.

32.  I read an average of 30.7 books a year.

33.  I read 2.5 books a month.

34.  The longest book that I have read is The Andy Warhol Diaries.  It is 807 pages long.  I read it in 20 days.

35.  I took piano, violin and viola lessons.

36.  I am 5'3.

37.  I have lived in 2 states, Washington and California.

38.  My first job was at a Bed and Breakfast.

39.  A Room With A View is my favorite film.

40.  I have 2 half brothers and 1 half sister.

41.  I had to take a bus, a ferry, and another bus everyday to Middle School.

42.  There were three students (including me) in the entire 6th grade at my Elementary School.

43.  Croquet is my favorite sport.

44.  I have eaten at Chez Panisse twice.

45.  I was born at home, not in a hospital.

46.  I paid off all my student loans.

47.  I've had high tea at The Plaza.

48.  I wore head gear (but only at night!).

49.  I named my cat after a member of The Smiths.

50.  I know the lyrics to every song from The Sound of Music.