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25 Things About Me

I was tagged with this on Facebook and tried to come up with some good answers.  Here it goes:

1. I’ve read every book by Charles Dickens.
2. I have The Breakfast Club memorized from beginning to end.
3. Wool gives me hives.
4. I desperately want to live abroad but I’m scared that NY is really the only place in the world for me.
5. I have a recurring dream that Jermaine from Flight of the Concords is my boyfriend.  Sometimes it’s a musical and sometimes we fight because of his short attention span.
6. I love trivia.
7. I wish Gloria Naylor would write another book.
8. I don't think regrets are that big a deal. They teach you things.
9. I hold grudges.
10.  I am obsessed with gentrification.
11. I am bad at returning phone calls.
12.  I love rocking chairs.
13. I refused to eat white rice for most of my childhood, much to the frustration of my Mom.
14. I don’t think I’ll ever love hip-hop the way I did in the 90s.
15. I wish I had a British accent.  (Actually I think I just want to be Zadie Smith.)
16. I would eat breakfast foods every meal if I could.
17. I make a mean spinach/feta omelet.
18. I want to write a book someday.
19. I have an addiction to bad VH1 shows.
20. I want to be truly green but I’m not sure I can make enough sacrifices. (I think about this all the time.)
21. Our Town is my favorite play.
22. Lately I just don’t get the appeal of chicken.
23. I stopped making tuna fish sandwiches because I can’t make them the same way Isha did when we were kids.
24. I say a prayer for every person that I’ve lost every night before I go to bed. It takes a long time.
25. I don’t think I am living up to my potential … yet.

My Favorite Photo

What else is there to say?

Live Your Life

I have some great entries in my journal.  They'll be up on this blog in the next week or so.  One of my resolutions (and of course I have some) is to blog more but, more importantly, to not write entries that basically consist of me talking about my needing to write more. So this is the last time I will mention this in 2009.  Moving on. 

Rihanna kind of gets on my nerves.  It's not really rational.  It's just how I feel.  (Though she has great style -- or rather a great stylist.)  But I love love love T.I.  So when their duet, Live Your Life, came out, I had mixed feelings.  Oh, who am I kidding?  I just love this song.  I sing it in the shower.  It's so catchy and I feel so badass when I sing it. 

Now, I won't get into how I am over the "It's so hard to be rich and keep your soul" song.  (Poor T.I.  He is so virtuous even while the rap game is changing into a shallow pool of money and drugs.)  Still, I think this is my anthem of 2009, contradictions and all.  What is your anthem for 2009?

One last thing, though T.I. is cute, this video is pretty bad.  Feel free to clean your house or dance around in your underwear while it is playing.  That's what I do.