This is an awesome way to pretend I have nothing better to do. The things in bold are things I have in common with nypizzas2 (who by the way, has an awesome HomestarRunner banner in rotation). The things we don't have in common, I've erased and replaced with my own things.

So if you're superawesome, you'll copy and paste this into your diary, bold the things we have in common, and replace the others... Blah blah, you get it. Simple. Woo!

1. Mountain Dew is gross. Coke is much better than Pepsi. (Coke in the Netherlands is not the same as Coke in the States; it's really sweet and disgusting. Though currently I am drinking a Cherry Coke — illegal in the lab though it may be.)

2. I think the best sound in the world is the sound of a loved one's laugh. That's a pretty good sound. I also love the sound of birds singing.

3. I like to read. Probably the only thing that keeps me from dying of boredom sometimes.

4. I am content with my life for the time being. Yes. This is true. But what is my problem? A month ago I was saying I'd never been happier, never more sure of myself. Now I'm all, but contentment is evil! In being happy I've lost the ability to feel! Oh, shut me up. I really am ridiculous sometimes. Yes, I am happy.

5. I don’t judge people by their appearances but what's inside. This is true, but I will admit to making dumb snap judgments before I really get to know what's inside. I don't see how this is avoidable.

6. My mom and I now have a great relationship. But then we always have. My mom told me the other day that I'm her best friend. Aww!

7. I am not afraid of much. Or at least, I'm much less fearful than I once was. I'm less afraid of death, mostly not afraid of insects. Alone in Europe, sometimes on dark streets, I've developed a stronger fear of being attacked/raped, but sadly all woman has to live with that fear. Overall, I'm pretty secure.

8. I've never held the same job for more than a year. (Unless you count work study. This summer I'll be a temp.)

9. I really hate cereal. Yes! I thought there was no one else. Rice crispies are good, but I hate all the frosted sugary kinds, and all the healthy kinds. Blech.

10. I like cats.

11. I played the clarinet. I miss band!

12. I live to write. Ehm, sort of. I wish this were true. But all my attempts just sort of... suck.

13. I've never been to Bermuda. Not really interested in going either. Yeah, beachy vacations aren't my thing.

14. I don't have a favorite color; I like the way certain combinations of colors look together. Like indigo and pastel yellow.

15. I would like to drop out of school right now and see what the world offers and then consider going back when I'm more prepared for it. Crap, that sounds exactly like me. Yes, at the moment I think it's best I don't go directly to grad school. I do want to always have the option. But maybe by next fall I'll be over this questioning phase.

16. I'm pretty picky with music. Adult alternative and classic rock. Everything on the radio blows.

17. I like to spend a lot of time by myself. Yes, I need my solitude and space. After two hours in public I need to be alone again.

18. My happiest place is in a public park. I don't mind being among people, I just want them to leave me alone. Four walls do get suffocating.

19. I want to travel the world. There's no place I don't want to see. Even Bermuda, though it wouldn't be my first choice. I haven't put a dent in the things I want to see in Europe here.

20. I’m klutzy.

21. I don't know much about my heritage. Irish, Scottish and English predominantly, but I don't know a thing about my family tree.

22. I'm not a very picky eater. There are hardly any fruits or vegetables I don't like.

23. I’ve never been in jail.

24. I thought I wanted to be a screenwriter at one point.

25. I vote Democratic! For purely practical reasons. Ideologically, the party impresses me less and less.

26. I can be spontaneous at times, but I wouldn't consider myself really spontaneous. I make snap decisions, but they're always within my comfort zone.

27. I'm my own worst critic.

28. I do not see much of my extended family. Yeah, it's been years since I've seen my aunts and uncles on my dad's side. Once a year on my mom's. Grandparents all gone.

29. I am a total slob. No, really disgusting. I do the laundry only when I run out of underwear. Don't eat anything in my fridge unless I tell you it's safe.

30. I judge books by reputation. Primarily I read the classics, or things that win Prizes, or at least things that intelligent people have recommended me. Yes I suppose I am an elitist.

31. I don't believe in psychic ability. Or anything supernatural, for that matter.

32. I love baby animals. Who doesn't?

33. I have no use for ignorant people. Who does?

34. I hate modern times and spend 90% of my daydreaming time wishing I could live sometime in the past. Yes, I think I'd feel most at home in the early 20th century, Progressive Era, or during the Age of Reason in France or England.

35. I don't tolerate bigotry, racism, or those who are mean. Well, I don't necessarily mind mean people, if they're mean about the right things. I can be mean.

36. I'm mostly attracted to older men — as far as celebrity crushes go.

37. Not only would I rather be poor and happy than rich and bored, I think I'd rather be poor and happy than anything. I can't imagine myself having more money than I need.

38. I am the type to totally cut a person out of my life if he or she hurts me in some way. In my eyes? They don't exist. It's harsh, I know. Yes, although truthfully I rarely form deep enough attachments that it would look cold if I did this. Which is cold in and of itself, I suppose.

39. I’ve been stung by a bee on my ass. Swear to God. I totally have too, in my bed last summer!

40. I want to own a bookstore someday.

41. I really enjoy thoughtful gifts, even if they cost nothing. Maybe especially if they cost nothing. I am the least thoughtful person I know, though I was accused of it twice this week.

42. I live for Conversation.

43. I wouldn't call myself "tough," but I'm self-sufficient.

44. I've lived in the same state, pretty much the same town, for my entire life. It's time for that to stop being true.

45. I need to have more patience with others.

46. I love mayo. The Dutch put it on everything and I am not complaining.

47. I believe ignorance is NOT bliss. Though knowing the truth is usually not bliss, either.

48. I have read all the 56 original Nancy Drew books.

49. I have a lust for learning. This I can do (and perhaps better) outside of an institutionalized learning environment.

50. I love to drive. Goddamn I miss my 'Tang baby.

51. I love to surround myself with people smarter than me, so I can learn from them. Although I will often get intimidated by them. People I feel are my intellectual superiors are the only people who intimidate me, and I usually prefer to surround myself with my intellectual equals.

52. I am agnostic but lean closer to atheist. Still something in me longs to believe in some deistic Creator being.

53. I don't know my IQ. I've never been tested, but online tests give ridiculous numbers in the 150 range I'd like to believe. But I don't think the test proves anything anyway.

54. I procrastinate a lot. A lot=always. Hence this list.

55. I’m obsessive-compulsive. Hence cataloguing my album collection and all those other "projects" I create for myself.

56. I am okay with being alone for the rest of my life. In fact I think I'd prefer it. I've realized that sex is meaningless for me and my friends are amazing. Romantic love is another thing altogether, but I can live without it.

57. The first cds I ever owned were Billy Joel and Alanis Morissette. The first records, Carly Simon and Wilson Phillips. (Yes, I had records.)

58. Though I am a pretty casual person in general, the smallest things can stress me out.

59. I am a virgin and I'd like to stay that way. Hands off. Thank you.

60. I love alcohol. I'm sorry, it's true. I get very touchy when I'm drunk — apparently I tried to make out with Lani last time, and I know I kept licking her. My god, what is my problem.

61. I finished high school, and it was one of the coolest days of my life. I was so glad it was over. Honestly, high school blew. Those were so not the four best years of my life.

62. I don't think I'm very strong morally or ethically, but I suppose I've never done anything too bad. It's just that I wonder what I'm capable of, selfish as I am.

63. I overreact about things sometimes. Yes. When people don't put ! and :)s in their emails I think they're mad at me. I'm so weird.

64. I surround myself with really great people. (Even if that means I'm alone sometimes). All or nothing. That's right.

65. I hardly ever remember my dreams, and always wake up with the sense that I had a really good one. This is endlessly frustrating.

66. I don't really like chocolate. Except mint chocolate.

67. I like silly people. There is a difference between silly and annoying.

68. I hate snow!

69. I have 2 brothers and a sister.

70. I have not smoked pot. I think I would try it, in the right company and environment, but I've been in the Netherlands for four months without having the urge to. It's not a priority.

71. I am so not a jewelry person. I don't own any jewelry. Don't buy me anything nice; I will lose it. My ears aren't pierced. The only nice thing I want is a siver claddagh ring, perhaps with an emerald stone.

72. I don't get everyone's obsession with candles.

73. I can't keep up online friendships. I think I have to know people in real life.

74. I have no work ethic whatsoever. I am the laziest and least ambitious person I've ever met.

75. I don't take the time to hate or purposefully hurt others. I can stop caring, but it's a waste of my energy to lash out.

76. I have a good relationship with my teachers. This is the best thing about going to a small school. I count a lot of professors as, well not friends, but we're tight.

77. There are days when I have an issue with needing approval and wanting to be liked. Other days, I say fuck them all.

78. I don’t define who I am by my job or my education. I used to, which is I'm afraid the only reason I wanted to earn a PhD at all: ego. I've finally realized there's more to life than what you do with it 8 hours a day. Whatever I end up doing, my own life will be very full independent of it.

79. I am so not one of those people that can learn how to do almost anything. Absolutely nothing mechanical or spatial comes easily to me. Also languages are difficult for me, though I know I've never given them serious effort.

80. I love my friends more than anything. The family I love I count as friends. Family doesn't mean anything to me, in and of itself.

81. I certainly do NOT own a vibrator. I don't own a vibrator, but I'm not opposed to owning one. It's just that I've never, well, needed one.

82. I can easily pick up and leave somewhere and never look back. I consider this one of my most useful (if heartless) skills. But I want to always be on the move and doing different things — this is very important to me.

83. I don't really "get" a lot of art. I think this is my biggest failing as an educated person. Also most art deeply disturbs me.

84. I want to be artistic and make my house awesome like Charleston. But I'm so not.

85. I am a compulsive picture-taker. I mean to take my camera everywhere I go.

86. I daydream sometimes. But mostly before I go to sleep — it takes me forever to drift off, what else would I do?

87. Most poetry is boring…there are very few poets I can stomach. I wouldn't go that far, but I've never really gotten into a lot of poetry. I'm sure I would if I read it, it's just never something I select for myself.

88. I have not been spanked by a lover. This is true, and will remain true my entire life. My lord, even if I could psych myself up for sex, none of that, please.

89. I once considered myself bi-sexual. I kept saying "theoretically bisexual" for about a year like I was trying to be PC or a good gender studies disciple, but the truth is I am asexual... perhaps interested in romantic relationships with either sex.

90. I am easily annoyed.

91. I am easily amused.

92. I like this list thing. I am obsessed with listy/survey-type things.

93. I never have "crushes." Seriously, in my whole life, maybe I've had two. And then, there's a fair chance I was only forcing myself to.

94. I have a lot of people I'm friendly with, but I have few true friends. Yes — I am a friendly person, and for the most part this is genuine (though I say all people annoy me, individually I find everyone fascinating). But true friendship takes a lot of work and I've only taken the time to cultivate it with a few extraordinary people.

95. I have a lot of CDs. Haha, oh man, probably 300. I think that's a lot. I'm currently making a dorkalicious "album guide"... because, to steal from Lani, I lose.

96. I always appreciate honesty, even if the truth sometimes hurts. Honesty and freedom, honesty and freedom. All there is.

97. I like to help people. In the abstract, yes, this is a true thing, but I don't think I often do anything about this urge.

98. I had horrible experiences with pets as a child. My lhasa apso Spanky bit my grandma and had to be sent away. The black cat, Silky, I picked out lived in the basement and never emerged. I sucked at selecting pets.

99. I like baking soda toothpaste.

100. I wish this wasn't done! I know, I could talk about myself in list format all day.