I'M GOING FOR THE GOLD AND USING THE LAST FIVE DAYS TO TACKLE THE 100 FACT CHALLENGE ROUND TWO.

TWENTY QUALITY FACTS PER DAY, STARTING NOW.


1. I love knowing how to cook. There�s a certain gratification that comes with being able to mix up some cookies or a good sauce without consulting a recipe.

2. Also, I love cute couples. It�s different if it�s all about emotional photos or kissing wherever� what I�m talking about, here, are couples who just glow with happiness, even when they�re just walking down the street together. They give me a lot of hope.

3. I�m big on equality.

4. But I�m also still learning.

5. My favorite musical artists are Dead Man�s Bones, Bon Iver, and The Black Keys.

6. I love snail mail. There�s nothing quite as awesome as sending someone a package.

7. Much like cats with people who have allergies, children naturally gravitate towards me so strongly that I'm afraid they're going to start to maintain orbit. NO, NO PIGGYBACK RIDES okay maybe one

8. I own an obscene amount of bathing suits, partially due to the fact that I haven�t grown since fifth grade, and partially due to the fact that I love the beach and have to have several just so my other ones can have time to soak and dry.

9. I�ve been contemplating writing my own student cookbook, since I have yet to find one that is both healthy, easy, and cheap�and all of my personal recipes are healthy, easy, and cheap.

10. I love wearing other schools� t-shirts.

11. I�m more afraid of ending up with the wrong person than I am of being alone.

12. I apologize to and thank all the things I dissect in Biology lab.

13. But I still shake when making the incisions.

14. I like the idea of having nieces and nephews sleep over, when I own my own home and whatnot, but the prospect of having children of my own has never interested me.

15. People give me a hard time about that, claiming that I�m too young to understand wanting children. No, you�re too closed-minded to understand emphatically not wanting children. There�s a difference. Some people are not like you.

16. Sometimes I feel really hopeless when I sit on my perch, on campus, and listen to the conversations of people passing below.

17. I like McDonald�s.

18. I hate people who shame people who like McDonald�s. Making others feel sucky about their choices doesn�t make you look any less like something that would come out of a horse�s butt, so cheers.

19. I used the phrase �sweating my balls off� in conversation, last night, and now I�m thinking that may have been a date. This realization sent me into raucous laughter.

20. People pay for my dinner a lot without it being a date, though, so I can never tell. In related news, I�m not really sure why my friends all decide to pay for my meals. I love them and owe them.

I love snail mail too. I'm really sad that USPS is discontinuing Saturday delivery in August.
» randomjunk on 2013-02-24 01:32:19

Oh yeah, those kinds of job titles, those annoy me, too. "Female astronaut", "female pilot", etc. I think the reason that I'm usually like "meh" is because I don't feel oppressed most of the time, but when people point out all of the ways that I'm being subtly oppressed I feel angry.... and then I think, "Why am I angry? I never would have noticed that stuff... and it's clearly not stopping me from succeeding. Most of the people who are doing it aren't even doing it on purpose." Focusing on it only makes me negative and gives me external excuses for my [partially] internal failures. Whenever I go to "Women in Planetary Science" conferences it seems like all everyone does is stand around and complain about how mediocre men get to be in high positions and how that's not fair... how men get to be lazier or less qualified and they still get hired. Yes, it's not fair. Yes, those lazy men should probably be fired. But it feels to me like the women are campaigning for the right to get stuff despite their mediocrity. I'm like, "If I have to be three times better than a male candidate... then ok-- I'll do it. I'll be three times better than he is. Sure, it takes a lot of work, it's not fair, but in the end I'm the one that benefits... because I'll be legendary. Excellence is forged in the crucible of difficult circumstances, so the more difficult circumstances get thrown my way, the stronger I will become. So my contribution towards fighting gender inequality is to be so awesome that even the most chauvinistic guy in the world would have to hire me because he can't get what he wants done done without me. It's like being left-handed in a right-handed world.... there are hundreds of everyday objects that are designed for right-handed people. I am left-handed, and every time I encounter these objects it's a slight hassle. But it's been shown that left-handed people are really smart and do really well--- most of the time because their brain has to work that extra bit every single day to do everything. Anyway, flood the world with kick-ass women who are the best in their fields, and you'd better believe everyone will start listening. ps-- I also like McDonald's.
» Zanzibar on 2013-02-24 02:18:30

ps-- sorry my comment is so long.
» Zanzibar on 2013-02-24 02:22:02

I'm mostly disappointed in myself, I was really hoping to complete the challenge. Stupid personal goals!

I will purchase a copy of your cookbook, as I find cooking for two just as challenging as cooking for one.
» Amelie on 2013-02-25 01:55:14

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