Wednesday, June 16, 2004

100 things

I jumped on Peter's bandwagon and did my own "100 things" list. I did this in January 2005 but for obvious reasons I'll post it much earlier.


1 I’m named after my great-uncle Karl

2 My middle name is my grandmother’s name

3 I always anglicize it

4 I grew up in a single parent household

5 I have a stepfather and three stepbrothers

6 I’m cooking lunch as I write this

7 It’s chicken with tomatoes and some Romanian cheese that I bought at the corner store

8 I’m a good cook

9 I always use too much garlic and not enough salt

10 I’m fanatical about cooking chicken properly

11 Europeans leave meat out overnight. This scares me

12 Europe is my favourite place in the world

13 I’ve visited 20 countries in Europe

14 The only country capitals I haven’t visited are Berlin, Ljubljana and Zagreb

15 It pisses me off that the spell check suggests “Juliana” for Ljubljana

16 I’m of Lithuanian/Ukrainian/Polish/Russian, English and French heritage

17 My favourite countries are Portugal and Croatia

18 My favourite people are the Portuguese

19 My favourite cities are Prague for beauty, Avignon and Assisi for history, Oeiras for the people, Brussels for the food and Stockholm for the memories

20 I’m listening to bad Eurodance music

21 There is no such thing as bad Eurodance music

22 I also like bad teen dance songs

23 I take pleasure in Britney’s tabloid dramas and subsequent downfall

24 I sing out loud to 80s power ballads

25 I firmly believe that some songs should not have dance remixes made of them. Most notably Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” and Scooter’s “The Logical Song”

26 I would be dancing to the Logical Song right now if it weren’t for the fact that my neighbours can see directly into my kitchen

27 I like to put favourite songs on repeat for days

28 My neighbours must hate me for playing O-Zone’s “Despre Tine” non-stop

29 I can get addicted to certain songs

30 I’ve even contemplated skipping class so I can listen to music

31 I have naturally curly hair that looks like DNA spirals

32 Needless to say, I straighten it every day

33 Nobody recognizes me with curly hair

34 My eyes are green

35 Everyone in my family has dark hair and green eyes

36 We’re not inbred

37 My skin is so pale my own mother tells me to wear makeup

38 I am 100% satisfied with my breast size

39 I wish I were thinner but I'm not fat

40 All my lingerie is black and I have never worn a thong

41 I like strange postcards

42 And black and white scenery postcards

43 I buy a postcard from every city that I visit

44 I carry pictures with me when I travel

45 I speak more or less six languages

46 I speak fluent English and French, conversational Swedish and basic Spanish, Italian and Romanian

47 I want to study Portuguese so I can say I can speak every Romance language

48 I also want to learn a Slavic language like Serbo-Croatian or Czech

49 My favourite cuisine is Mediterranean

50 My favourite foods are paella, this weird octopus dish that I got in Bilbao, smoked salmon, hummus, burec and crème brulee

51 After an argument with a Greek classmate, I comforted myself by making Turkish food

52 I miss university

53 I unofficially ran the IR department

54 My three best friends from first year are still my best friends

55 I can make friends with anyone

56 I can also wiggle my nose and my bottom eyelids (needs to be seen to be believed)

57 I love trivia

58 I can probably kick your ass at Trivial Pursuit

59 I can’t do math to save my life

60 I still count on my fingers

61 I’m fascinated by numbers and statistics

62 I wanted to be an artist, meteorologist, music producer and architect growing up

63 Then I discovered chemistry

64 When I realized that chemistry isn’t just blowing things up, I decided science wasn’t for me

65 I love anything from the Middle Ages

66 I fell in love with a medieval man I saw in a portrait at the National Gallery

67 Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era

68 I hope someone invents a time machine in my lifetime

69 I can get horribly attached to people

70 People who are horribly attached to me piss me off

71 I don’t want to get married

72 Or have children

73 I can’t figure out if this is a form of rebellion or if it’s what I really want

74 I got my palm read and the fortune-teller said I was supposed to have twin boys and a girl

75 I’m afraid of being bored

76 I’ve been in love twice

77 I’ve always traveled alone

78 It was only recently that I realized that I get lonely when I travel alone

79 I can handle loneliness

80 If I’m passionate about something, I am a workaholic

81 If I get bored, I have to force myself to complete a project

82 I’m a procrastinator

83 Being forced to do something is one of the worst feelings

84 I am not a jealous person by nature but I get furious with myself when it happens

85 If I don’t exercise or eat vegetables every day, I get sick

86 I’m never sick (*knock on wood*)

87 I’ve had extensive dental work done, including the removal of eight teeth, braces, headgear, a positioner and retainers

88 I’m blind as a bat and have worn contacts since I was 14

89 I was a regular blood donor until I moved to Europe and became ineligible

90 I’m still on the bone marrow donor list

91 I rarely drink hard liquor

92 I abhor smoking

93 I lose respect for someone when I find out they smoke

94 I am a nurturer and protector

95 I believe in free speech as long as it does not involve hate propaganda

96 I don’t have rock star or movie star crushes

97 I still think Billy Corgan with hair is one of the sexiest men alive

98 Friends, Seinfeld, Fraser, Survivor and any other “reality show” are overrated

99 I want to kiss someone from every country in Europe. So far, I’ve got: Sweden, Denmark, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania and Spain off the list

100 I enjoy doing these surveys too much

5 Comments:

Blogger Tucike said...

another person did it...
I'm being forced to write 100 facts about myself
;))))

Why do you straighten your hair? curly hair is very cool.. I wish I had curly hair.. :(((

And I would like to know the recipe for chicken with tomatoes.
Garlic is good. Healthy.

I too feel I was born in the wrong era

I wish for twin girls and a boy

Yes, I'm gonna do this too. (100 facts)

7:06 AM, January 14, 2005  
Blogger Karla said...

I straighten my hair because it's too much work to make the curls look good. Otherwise, my hair frizzes out in a bush, which is why I always pull it back! if I straighten my hair, I can at least wear it down sometimes.

My chicken is just chicken cooked with garlic and a tomato salad with cheese on top. If you live in TM you should come over for dinner sometime!

I'm going to read your 100 facts now! And I linked back to you!

4:25 AM, January 18, 2005  
Blogger ducklet said...

ahhh! o-zone. sometimes i'll bust out with 'poate m-am purtat urit, dar sa stii ca te-am iubit' and my wife will forgive me for my sins.

well, usually.

1:13 AM, January 25, 2005  
Blogger p.p. said...

You haven't been to Ljubljana and Zagreb? Come on! You're soooo close...well sort of.

4:51 PM, January 25, 2005  
Blogger Sikhar said...

Hi Karla, this 100 things list is really cool, may be I will make it too sometime; but again I have one of your virtues too; procrastination. By the way will love to see you wiggle your nose :)

8:29 AM, July 20, 2005  

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