Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Everyone's doing it, so here goes:

1 - I was born in, at the time, the poorest town in France.
2 - I am deathly afraid of free falling yet I have no fear of heights.
3 - I have two cats which I love dearly.
4 - I have flown 16 times over the Atlantic and still think it takes way too long.
5 - At 6 month old, I broke my leg falling from the changing table. The cast I wore afterwards got my Mom disapproving glances from passers by.
6 - I am madly in love with my nephew and my niece.
7 - I dislike other people's children.
8 - I've been around the block.
9 - In school, until age 15, I was consistently either completely ignored, or ostracized.
10 - I spent 5 years in a 350-year-old Catholic school, 2 of which in its boarding school.

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11 - I have never "been" with a girl and don't plan on ever be with one.
12 - I once flew a small plane myself (for 10 minutes).
13 - My extracurricular in school was fencing.
14 - Even though she could, my mother would never buy expensive brand clothing, because it would be too frivolous.
15 - I was named after Dustin Hoffman's character in the Graduate and a hot boy living next door.
16 - Around age 10, I fell from a tree and almost got killed by a piece of wood scraping my skull 1 inch from my temple.
17 - My Mom slapped me only once, for faking her signature on a report card.
18 - I secretly wish I was some sort of royalty.
19 - I'm very bad at lying, even to strangers.
20 - If I let my guard down, I can be a snob.
21 - I can shoot a gun.
22 - I'm a very careful driver.
23 - In DC, I got punched in the face by a thug for no apparent reason.
24 - For the life of me, I can't throw/catch a ball.
25 - My all-time favorites are Paul Walker and Ryan Reynolds.
26 - I can't stand to watch an animal/insect suffer.
27 - I am not a vegetarian.
28 - I've only had surgery once, for an appendectomy. It is one of my best memories.
29 - I know my way around a sailboat.
30 - I've been to Africa, but to a resort town, so it doesn't count.
31 - I would love to work for the UN or the Red Cross.
32 - I am typically pretty zen.
33 - When I try to fix stuff around the house, I usually fuck up.
34 - I am very good at assembling IKEA furniture.
35 - I am a neat freak.
36 - I love to cook.
37 - I have little patience.
38 - I once went on a humanitarian trip to the Ukraine.
39 - I have two post-graduate degrees, neither having anything to do with my current job.
40 - Tuition for my entire education would not cover the costs of one year at Northwestern.
41 - I kinda got kicked out of the Queen once.
42 - I have had the most stable and loving family life.
43 - I like to top or bottom almost equally.
44 - I love to read.
45 - My current apartment is the 15th place I have ever lived in.
46 - I once worked as a construction worker for 2 months on a very tough building project.
47 - The day I got my Green Card is one of the best of my life.
48 - I love Physics and have always liked Math.
49 - The weirdest place I fooled around with someone was in the emergency staircase at the Hilton during a black tie charity event.
50 - My dad's family, for at least the past 300 years, comes from Belgium.

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