Creeping 100-questions meme from tangerinpenguin

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Instructions:
1. Copy this whole list into your journal.
2. Bold the things that you have in common with me.
3. Whatever you don't bold, replace with things about you.

1. I have one younger sister.
2. I dislike people that chew with their mouths open. Technically, I dislike the behavior, not the person!
3. I like my eye color -- deep brown.
4. I have a select group of words that I just can't spell. It's sad.
5. I have seen snow before.
6. My parents have been married just over 40 years. (41.5, but I decided that was close enough.)
7. I don't know online and text-messaging abbreviation-speak as well as I feel I should.
8. I have been to Buffalo, NY.
9. I usually have money to spend.
10. I don't have a single favorite color. Depending on context and application, I like true yellow, jewel tones, earth tones, black... just about everything except olive green, pastel pink, and navy blue.
11. I have a large extended family that I mostly haven't met (nth cousins etc). My immediate family, however, is quite small.
12. I am allergic to some forms of dust and/or mold.
13. I used to be able to juggle (basic stuff only), but it's gone now.
14. I can get into writing, but can also find it frustrating when it feels like it's an obligation.
15. Some music makes me sad.
16. I'd rather be too cold than too hot.
17. I've had an unusually lucky life, all things considered.
18. My clothing of choice is jeans or cotton slacks and a T- or polo shirt.
19. I like most musical styles.
20. I like getting things in the mail.
21. I think we can change ourselves if we really want to. Nothing is fated.
22. I can see different sides of issues.
23. I try not to swear much except with really close friends or for extreme effect; I worry about how it'd make me look.
24. My parents are poster children for traditional monogamy.
25. I've taken the Internet for granted as a necessary channel of communication with my friends since college.
26. I do not use the word "God" lightly, as in certain common figures of speech.
27. I love hearing new kinds of (good) music.
28. I can be too loud. And too quiet. Usually when trying not to be the other extreme.
29. I have a small number of very good friends and a larger group with whom I'm generally friendly.
30. I didn't date in high school or college.
31. I like smart humans.
32. I don't enjoy spending time with small children.
33. I sometimes procrastinate.
34. I hated tuna as a child but learned to like it as an adult. I suspect the prominence of tuna casserole at an early age had something to do with it.
35. I have a deep and abiding passion for Indian Food.
36. I subscribe to a newspaper that is unpopular with my friends. It's not that I agree with them on everything, but that I find their editorial bias a little less offensive than that of their competition.
37. When I bought my first house, I thought it would also be my last one.
38. Except for an experimental period in college, I have always worn my hair long.
39. I always remember voices, faces slightly less and am abysmal with names.
40. My favorite holiday is probably Shavuot. Or maybe Pesach.
41. Most of my shopping is either very methodical or impulse; there's not much in between.
42. My favorite season is fall.
43. We have five computers in our two-person house, but to be fair, one of them is off most of the time because it's mostly dead.
44. I enjoy hypothetical discussions (e.g. the halacha of Shabbat times on the space station), but require a consistent system of logic. Any system, and any set of starting premises, is fine. It's also fine if P(this mattering) << P(sun going nova in my lifetime).
45. My first experience with programming was on a terminal that used paper tape. In BASIC.
46. It really frustrates me when people assume malice as motivation.
47. I can't wiggle my nose, raise just one eyebrow, touch my nose with my tongue, or probably most other such acrobatics.
48. I am naturally left-handed but trained as a rightie.
49. I love animals.
50. I am loved.
51. All my TV viewing is pre-meditated; I don't channel-surf or do background TV.
52. I prefer white wines to red ones.
53. I'm not underage.
54. I can do Hebrew calligraphy, but not well.
55. Getting a digital camera has done a lot for my previously-lacking photography skill. There's no substitute for instant feedback.
56. I drink quite a bit of diet cola and water, and also drink tea. I can't stand coffee, however.
57. I like cats AND dogs.
58. I have a queen sized bed.
59. I like to doodle, but only if no one can see the results.
60. My father is the giant of the immediate family at about 5'8".
61. I've been in love, and been in what I thought was love but wasn't. I think I know how to tell the difference.
62. I enjoy cooking but not (especially) baking.
63. I'm nervous with large groups of new people and tend to gravitate toward a corner with a few familiar folks unless I force myself to "work the room".
64. I grew up thinking that my maternal grandfather had died when my mother was a child. I was in my 30s when I found out that no, my grandparents had gotten divorced.
65. I am not photogenic in posed shots, ever. You've got to catch me unawares.
66. The number of private entries on my LJ may surprise you. [I'm not sure that this is ever untrue; how many private entries do you think I have? How many (or few) would it take to surprise you? The person next to you? Anyhow...]
67. I enjoy composing music and trying new styles, but my muse utterly refuses to stick to a schedule.
68. I have shot bows and crossbows (and was reasonably competent for a while), but I have never fired (or even held) a gun.
69. I'm no expert, but I can drive OK on snow or other low-traction conditions. I really, really wish more of my fellow drivers could.
70. I like hugs, backrubs, like that, but tend to be very tentative about such things because I worry about upsetting someone who's not touchy.
71. Toys 'R Us? Children's Palace? Hmpf. Radio Shack or Waldenbooks :-)
72. My first geek toy as a child was a chemistry set.
73. If I'm going to get Really Upset about something, it's usually after a slow burn, not immediate.
74. I've had a fast-food job but have never waited tables.
75. I've been writing in an online journal since 2001.
76. I analyze everything :-)
77. I have an odd mix of British and American spellings -- "ize" and no "u" after "o", "theatre" but "center", and "-gue" most of the time. I have no idea where this came from.
78. I have not yet left North America.
79. I am an unapologetic introvert.
80. I have never, ever, had my eyebrows waxed.
81. I am not a virgin.
82. I admire strong women. ("Strong" has nothing to do with physical strength. I admire strong men, too.)
83. I respect obligations. See, however, number 33 above.
84. I read more books than average but fewer (per unit time) than I used to.
85. I'm opinionated.
86. I don't do stuff to my hair. If it requires more than washing and combing, it's too complicated.
87. I wear whatever I like, whether it fits in a category or not.
88. I get anxious about George W. Bush. (But would have been anxious about Gore, too.)
89. I am a registered Liberatarian.
90. I wear sandals for as much of the year as is practical.
91. I am introspective.
92. I don't honestly know many of my LJ friends (even just counting people) but think they have interesting journals or are friends of friends.
93. I'm a big fan of milk chocolate and white chocolate, but don't care for dark.
94. I wish I could eat more veggies.
95. I worry too much.
96. I try very much to be organized.
97. I think too much about what other people think.
98. I have no tattoos or piercings.
99. I don't like shopping for clothes. If I find something acceptable (looks ok and fits), I am likely to buy half a dozen instances on the spot.
100. I don't like certain aspects of my personality, and continually find them a source for embarassment and frustration.