Sexuality Happens

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1. I’m in my 20s.
2. I like using 10 point words; all the time.
3. I have two cats, Kinsey and Athena.
4. I treat them like my kids.
5. I never want human kids.
6. My hair changes colors with my mood (when I’m not job hunting).
7. I currently have 4 tattoos and 7 piercings (I had 8, took one out).
8. I’m a Colorado native, born and bred.
9. My first word was “puter,” short for computer
10. I’ve worked for a feminist porn company.
11. I work freelance for a sex positive sex toy company.
12. I used to be a Community Outreach Coordinator.
13. I love the number 13; I don’t think it is unlucky at all.
14. My all time favorite number is 129, because it’s my birthday.
15. I have a lingerie fetish; I own tons of negligees and bustiers and corsets, and…
16. I wish I had the opportunity to wear them more often.
17. I was (and am still!) a theatre nerd in HS and college.
18. I worked for a theatrical costumer and make-up shop.
19. I’ve performed as Magenta in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
20. I had the starring role (Bilbo) in The Hobbit.
21. I was hit on the bridge of my nose with a boomerang (in a synagogue chapel) when I was 3 years old, and got three stitches.
22. When I was 10, I caught my foot in an exercise bike, and nearly tore it in half.
23. I fell (while on crutches) in a hotel shower in New Mexico, and got a concussion.
24. At my second EVER baseball game (my class went), I was hit in the head with a foul ball.
25. I was the youngest in my HS graduating class (16).
26. I wasn’t the youngest in my college graduating class (20) by 3 months.
27. I had blue hair, and wore matching Bedtime Bear (Care Bear) PJ and slippers when I walked at my college graduation.
28. I was a National Merit Commended Student. And got a dictionary for such.
29. I’m Jewish. And Agnostic. Gotta love that.
30. I’ve had three knee surgeries.
31. I figure skated for 12 years (and competed and did well).
32. I rode Western (horses) for 5 years, and killed at poles and showmanship.
33. I danced tap, jazz and ballet for 12 years, and pointe for 2.
34. I used to teach swing dancing classes.
35. I’m allergic to pink. Hate it. Have 1 pink sex toy, and a purse with some pink on it, but only because it says “Fuck You.”
36. I have a coin purse that looks like a vulva.
37. I own a LoveSac (soon to have a leopard print cover!)
38. I lived in Germany for 6 months in college, and miss it.
39. I’m relatively fluent in German.
40. I can understand some Hebrew and Yiddish, but wish I knew more.
41. I have 9 living relatives.
42. 5 of those 9 live in Israel.
43. My senior prom dress cost me $6. I still have it.
44. I don’t ever want to get married.
45. I don’t like the movies Fight Club or Napoleon Dynamite. Ergo, people think I have poor taste. I think they do.
46. I am more upset (usually) about animals dying than people.
47. I am messy, but never dirty.
48. I alphabetize my books by author’s last name, and title within multiple listings. And I section them out by genre as well.
49. I drink tea. Tons of it. Not coffee.
50. I do have a coffee maker for guests.
51. I have a pasta machine, and like to make my own pasta, fresh.
52. My favorite alcoholic drink is a Grasshopper.
53. My favorite shot is a Buttery Nipple (or Sambuca, because you light it on fire!)
54. My favorite non-alcoholic drink is Oregon Chai, cold.
55. I don’t drink milk unless it is in Chai (or other tea). Ever.
56. I’ve been a vegetarian for 16 years. Not kidding.
57. I dislike onions, scallions and raw tomatoes.
58. I really like cute underwear.
59. I hate the words “panties,” “undies” and “moist.”
60. My only TV is 12″.
61. I have more books than anyone I know (other than professors and librarians).
62. I wear glasses. I can’t wear contacts, and am ok with that. Although I really wanted cat’s eye contacts when in college.
63. I love pumpkin ANYTHING; bread, smoothies, pancakes, soup, lattes, etc. Or just out of the can if I have to.
64. I dislike bananas, cherries, peaches and sweet apples. Weird, I know.
65. I cannot remember what it feels like to live without chronic pain.
66. In college, I played left wing for the Women’s Club Ice Hockey team.
67. I was the captain of Die Neurotische Schildkroeten (the neurotic turtles) Inner Tube Water-Polo team for 3 years.
68. I used to play roller derby. Now, I am a derby referee.
69. I am addicted to leopard print. A lot.
70. I don’t drink red wine, only white.
71. I don’t like beer, except this one kind I had at a little restaurant on the Lueneburger Heide.
72. I love dark chocolate.
73. My bachelor’s is in Sociology and German.
74. I had to write a full thesis (80 pages plus transcripts) to graduate undergrad.
75. My Master’s of Human Sexuality Education will be conferred in August.
76. I’ve been to England, Poland, Germany, Mexico, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria, France, Sweden, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, St. Maarten and Jamaica, but I’ve never been to Canada.
77. I’ve swam with both dolphins and sting rays.
78. In 8th grade, I spent a week on a boat, tagging and tracking Orca whales.
79. I’m CPR, first aid, and fire extinguisher certified (I kid you not).
80. I’m a published author, in multiple medias and genres.
81. I wore PJs to class almost every day my first year of college.
82. I model.
83. I wish I never had to take pills. However, I take a minimum of 8 pills a day (including a vitamin) to prevent migraines, deal with pain and swelling in my knee, for allergies, etc. I feel like a walking pharmacy.
84. I had a deviated septum (from aforementioned boomerang incident), and had surgery to fix it.
85. I type 60+ WPM (without looking at the keyboard), yet I “hunt and peck” rather than using QWERTY style typing. Hey, it works, right?
86. My dad was a computer scientist (and geologist), and I had my first computer at age 5.
87. I can shoot a bow and arrow, a .22, a Henry rifle, a shotgun, and a tommy sub machine gun (and have done so).
88. I like to knit and sew, but a) don’t have my machine here, b) don’t have anyone to make stuff for, and c) rarely have the time.
89. I try to rock the occasional 50′s/rockabilly style. I’m not very good at it, yet.
90. My favorite scents are ginger, vanilla, jasmine, cherry blossoms, and most importantly, the smell of rain (real rain, not the bottled “rain scent”).
91. I enjoy flying, riding the train, driving, etc. Travel gives me joy.
92. When I become friends with someone, I will go out of my way to make their life as good as I can get it for them.
93. I have a list of about 5 or 6 bio boys that I’d definitely sleep with. Johnny Depp tops the list.
94. My favorite flowers are Sterling Roses (the purple ones) and Stargazer Lillies. I like black roses too, but they are near to impossible to find.
95. Deep down inside, as much as I hate to admit it, I want someone to really love me. But I’ve built up a wall, because I’m scared of it (and more so, of it never happening), which keeps me from pursuing this. Instead, I have friends with benefits, one nighters, and short (yet meaningful) relationships. Maybe this is for the best.
96. Intelligence and wit turn me on more than almost anything, ever.
97. I sleep on the left side of the bed.
98. I’m terrified of heights, spiders, and being alone forever.
99. I don’t smoke pot, or do any drugs, or really drink that much, or that often. I didn’t in college either (probably the only kid at my awesome hippie school that didn’t). I’m odd and (hopefully) fun enough sober; I make an fool of myself all on my own.
100. I’m like a shark; I always have to be moving, doing something, etc. I never want to stay still.