25 Random Things

Due to recent emails from my Facebook-patronizing sister, recent comments by my Facebook-patronizing employer, and recent posts on blogs I follow, I have decided to post my 25 Random Things. Enjoy! (and please forgive my long silence...)

1. I never salt or pepper my food.
2. I am very partial to kiwis and would probably consider them my favorite fruit.
3. I had no idea that my sister wanted to be a lawyer until I read her 25 Random Things.
4. I have (briefly) considered careers in politics, journalism, and history.
5. My all-time favorite school subject was Algebra 1 and my two all-time least favorite school subjects were physical science and geometry.
7. I am going to name my next two parakeets Mario and Luigi.
8. Speaking of parakeets, mine (aptly named Kiwi) does not prefer me to be within a three foot radius of him.
9. I am very mildly allergic to mold, dust, white oak trees, shrimp, cat dander, and egg whites.
10. My sister is my best friend and her hair always smells amazing.
11. My Bible is hot pink and lime green and it also smells amazing.
12. My top four favorite actors, in no particular order, are Ben Barnes, Gerard Butler, George Clooney, and Ioan Gruffudd.
13. I have the funniest feeling that I already know the person I'm someday going to marry (and this feeling has absolutely no relationship whatsoever to random thing #12).
14. I am an easily inspired, usually cheerful, very unique goal-making multi-tasker who is great at planning, great at procrastinating, and dreadful at following through.
15. I recently made an attempt at color-coding my dreadfully unorganized bookshelf, to some measure of success.
16. I am dreadful at making summaries. When asked to summarize the plot of a book, movie, or ballet, I almost always have to apologize at the end for my abysmal explanation.
17. I have now had my learner's permit for a grand total of 11 days. w00t!
18. If I had enough time, I would gladly pursue almost any field related to the arts and make it a co-career of all the other fields. Needless to say, I am a very artsy person.
19. I believe that physics and geometry are the bane of all teenage existence, particularly because they serve no practical use whatsoever in everyday civilized life. I love the fact that I have completely forgotten everything I ever learned in geometry and that it won't matter at all.
20. I enjoy experimenting with cooking. In the future, I am hoping to invent tomato chicken noodle soup, followed by raspberry crumb pie with a cream cheese drizzle for dessert.
21. I love Gmail, polynomials, knitting, and roller coasters. I am also the only person in my family who actually enjoys Earl Grey tea.
22. I am rather eccentric. I have a four-month-old miniature pumpkin on my bookshelf (never mind that it's February), a dissected and cotton-stuffed banana in my old room, a huge collection of scrap paper in two of my drawers, and three or four boxes full of old letters and mementos that I may never read again.
23. Barnes & Noble is one of my favorite places to spend a few hours.
24. I am in love with almost everything Starbucks.
25. I will eat any dessert you set in front of me. So please, be sparing.