1. I hate that whenever a curly-haired woman gets a makeover on television they insist on straightening her hair. Then for special occasions like weddings everyone insists on curling their hair.
2. I’m a hypocrite; I’ve been straightening my hair since 2002. Japanese hair straightening is a gift to the world.
3. I happen to enjoy paperwork. Filing, filling out forms, labeling, color-coding, sending out correspondence, stationary, Post-it notes—I love it all.
4. One of my favorite punctuation marks is the dash. It annoys me that most people use the dash and hyphen interchangeably (a dash is two hyphens). I'm also annoyed when people don't place the required comma in compound and complex sentences. I believe in the Oxford comma.
5. I have never seen Star Wars. I’ve been told that not doing so is un-American.
6. I enjoy pulling out my hair. There's an art to it.
7. My car’s name is Steve.
8. I have a birthmark on my right underarm. I was embarrassed by it as a child so I always raised my left hand instead of my dominant right.
9. I like to tell people that I was named “Elisha” (Alicia with an E) because my mom’s name is “Emy” (Amy with an E). The truth is, my parents first saw the name in one of my cousin Kuya Chester’s open houses in elementary school. They noticed she had good grades so they thought it was a good pick.
10. I’ve been sent to the principal/dean’s office three times. (1) In elementary school I was asked to verify this girl’s claim that another girl called her stupid. It was me, I said she was stupid. I guess I was right because she never suspected me. (2) I can’t remember exactly why, but I remember being there in middle school. (3) In tenth grade I was sent to the dean because my friends and I were apparently too rough during a basketball game in P.E. If we were boys, no teacher would have given it a second thought. The next day in P.E. we were lectured about how to act like mature, young ladies. Apparently mature, young ladies don’t play basketball.
11. When I was in 3rd grade, I wanted to be a nurse practitioner (yes, I specified nurse practitioner). In college at UCLA, I considered a number of different majors: physiological science, biology, psychobiology, psychology, English, sociology, and anthropology. Somehow I ended up in women's studies; my dual concentration was health care policy and psychology. Turns out I had it right in the beginning because I still want to be a nurse practitioner.
12. I can’t live without Q-tips.
13. I was once addicted to lip balm. My favorites are Aquaphor by Eucerin and Lip Medex by Blistex (the blue pot).
14. I’m obsessed with eyebrows.
15. I once cared for more than a dozen chickens in my backyard.
16. I can harmlessly put birds to sleep (think lullaby, not euthanasia). So far I’ve done this with chickens, doves, and parakeets.
17. I’m terrified of Green Fruit Beetles, Cotinus mutabilis (http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/coleopt/Cotinus.htm). As a kid I incorrectly identified them as Japanese Beetles, Popillia japonica. Very similar in appearance, both have a shiny, metallic green color. I’ve been attacked by these giant beetles on many occasions. In the worst encounter to date, a particularly clever little bastard flew into my car through my sunroof while I was driving. I’m convinced the green fruit beetles are conspiring against me for revenge. When I was a child, my dad taught me to catch them and tie strings under their wings to fly them on “leashes."
18. I hate ordering food, especially on the phone. It's ironic because I used to work at Starbucks where I took drink orders for many hours a day. I also ordered our store supplies on the phone. But I have never ordered a pizza on the phone. Thank goodness for online ordering.
19. Andrew and I met during summer school in 1999. We had cultural awareness and driver’s education together. In cultural awareness we were assigned a group project on the Philippines. I was in charge of compiling everyone’s research into our written report. His “research” was a tiny plagiarized paragraph from an encyclopedia. I was offended by the plagiarism—he didn’t even cite his source.
20. I like to write out the alphabet over and over again, cursive and printing, to evaluate my handwriting. I also practice writing my signature when I’m bored.
21. I like looking at people’s big toes to see what celebrities they resemble. Try it, it’s fun.
22. If I can’t give exact change when paying with cash, I try to make it so that I get quarters back. For example, if my total is $18.83, I’ll hand the cashier $20.08 to get $1.25. Andrew hates it.
23. I think it's ridiculous that the United States insists on remaining on the Imperial system instead of SI/Metric. At the same time, I have no concept of how long a kilometer is (but I'd be willing to learn). I also think we should switch to a 24-hour clock. I wonder if school-age children in other countries have to learn how to convert metric to imperial...
24. I love chocolate chip cookies sans chocolate chips.
25. My sleeping schedule is terribly screwed up. I used to work the opening shift at 3:30 a.m.; consequently, if I can't fall asleep before 2:00 a.m., I'm doomed to stay awake until 7 or 8 a.m. Sometimes I wake up at 2:30 a.m. terrified that I'm late for work. That's why I'm doing this instead of sleeping right now.
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