[in the shadowlands]

FIFTY-FIVE THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT ME
Inspired by Christin

1. I am the oldest of four children.
2. I am the only one who enjoys reading.
3. I am also the only one who never served as student body president.

4. I was a finalist for the oldest undergraduate scholarship in the United States.
5. I was not chosen.

6. I realized I was reformed when I was reading at a Southern Baptist seminary.
7. This seminary is the old campus of Wake Forest University.
8. Mike asked me to marry him there.

9. My longest career aspiration was to serve as a congressional correspondent for the CBS Evening News.
10. The closest I got was anchoring a syndicated children's news show.
11. My mother still has the VHS to prove it.

12. In high school I refereed soccer games.
13. Soccer parents can get violent.
14. I had grounds to have one charged with assault more than once.
15. Their children were always on an under-10 recreational team.

16. I have no rhythm.
17. My siblings do impressions of me trying to dance.

18. I have never gotten a speeding ticket.
19. I do not consider myself to be a good driver.

20. In high school I also worked for a car dealership.
21. I did several different jobs: file clerk, receptionist, customer service assistant manager and parts runner.
22. I still don't know much about cars.

23. I took four semesters of classical Greek in college.
24. I failed one.
25. My college GPA would be .2 higher without Greek.
26. I am still glad I took it.

27. I got in-school suspension in fifth grade.
28. I beat up the girl, my first and only fight.
29. She tried to sit at my lunch table and I wouldn't let her.
30. So she threw her salad with italian dressing on my hair.
31. Her parents sent her to Christian school after that.

32. My parents were dead heads when I was a kid.
33. I have a Jerry Garcia cabbage patch doll.
34. I'm not above selling it on ebay.
35. I also had tie-dyed onesies.

36. I interned for Christianity.com after my freshman year of college.
37. This was before the internet bust.
38. We had lots of free food in the fridge.
39. I didn't know it at the time I got hired, but Pat Robertson owned most of the company.
40. We shared office space with CBN.
41. I thought it was weird.

42. I can knit.
43. I really want to get a sewing machine.
44. I have big aspirations of being crafty.

45. I have never coloured my hair.
46. Or gotten artificially tan.

47. I have the names of my first child, male or female, already picked out.
48. Mike helped, more than a little.
49. Now they are a secret.

50. I think my handwriting is my best quality.

51. I never cried in middle school or high school.
52. Now everyone thinks I am overemotional.

53. I want to write a book.
54. I'm not sure what about, exactly.
55. I just like to write.