Another totally ripped off meme (as I am a blogging lemming!) My friend Eric has compiled the "101 Things About Me" list, and while this might be a daunting task, I can't help but see the "101" part as a veiled Depeche Mode reference, and a sign that I should do the same.

So, for your complete and total boredom, here's 101 things about me!

1. I was born in Wyoming
2. I fled to Denver when I was 28
3. Or was it 27? I'm bad at dates.
4. I loved Denver, and still do.
5. I find SoCal to be a completely different country.
6. The weather here is nice.
7. The pollution, sprawl and overpopulation is not.
8. I drive 90 miles round-trip every day to go to school.
9. It beats paying rent.
10. And I can have my "kids" here.
11. I share my life with the best man in the universe.
12. He's silly, smart, and sings Depeche Mode songs to me.
13. He also thinks I'm beautiful.
14. I think he needs glasses.
15. He's also drop-dead gorgeous.
16. I know this because my advisor at school told me so.
17. All my co-workers at the hospital back home thought so too.
18. When we go grocery shopping together, women give me dirty looks.
19. All I can say to that is "Score 1 for the fat girls of the universe!"
20. I love clothes and shoes and handbags and jewelry.
21. I hate that designers think fat girls want to wear ugly stuff.
22. However, out here, I have plenty of cool places to shop, and can still find a nice pair of jeans that fit.
23. The people at Ross here in our town know us on sight.
24. The lady at the Chinese take out place does too.
25. I love to cook, but don't have much time to do so.
26. My stove broke last week, so we're down to take-out and microwaveable crap.
27. When I buy a house, it's going to have a huge kitchen.
28. I've already started buying things to put in the future kitchen.
29. My most prized kitchen piece is a huge ceramic bowl with handpainted crabs on it.
30. Guess what my "horror"-scope is!
31. I can say I have two of the greatest parents in the world.
32. I hate being so far away from them.
33. I miss them, and actually get homesick on occasion.
34. I'm sentimental and sappy about them.
35. I'm also sentimental and sappy about my childhood.
36. I think it's because my mom sang "Baby of Mine" from Dumbo to me one too many times.
37. I cry at movies.
38. I also cry at Disneyland.
39. Again, it's a sappy about my childhood thing.
40. It's my goal to get through school and start a semi-lucritive practice so I can take care of my parents.
41. I believe that people have rights.
42. Among them education, healthcare, free speech, and privacy.
43. I believe that a society is only as strong as it's weakest link.
44. Some people would call me a liberal.
45. I prefer to think of it as I'm a nice person.
46. I'd still be a doctor and make only $60K a year if everyone I saw had health insurance.
47. It would be nice if my school loans would be written off.
48. By the time I am done with school, I will have close to $250K in loan debt.
49. People joke that once you start medical school you can't turn back as you can't afford to quit.
50. It's not a joke.
51. I think I might have adult attention deficit disorder.
52. Or I'm a procrastinating lazy-ass.
53. I'm great at diagnosing people's illnesses.
54. I'm horrible at diagnosing myself.
55. Patients love me.
56. The bulk of my fellow classmates think I have the plague.
57. I just might - anything is possible when dealing with microbes.
58. I have a love/hate relationship with bacteria.
59. I worked in the analytical laboratory of a meat processing company.
60. We had live cultures of Salmonella, Listeria and E. coli O157H in the fridge.
61. They didn't scare me.
62. Salmonella from chicken poop scares me.
63. I also fear no chemical.
64. I have put my hands in pure bleach, handled multiple carcinogenic reagents, and smelly organic compounds.
65. I know the best ways to feed bacteria - in the lab and in the world.
66. Aynde lives to send me articles about bacteria.
67. Thanks to her, I don't want to get sodas from fast food resturants anymore.
68. I can't drink regular sodas.
69. I live for diet Mountain Dew.
70. I love food.
71. Food doesn't love me.
72. The only thing I can eat and know I won't get sick from is bread.
73. That makes for a boring life.
74. Again, the lady at the local Chinese take-out place knows me on sight.
75. My guts are just mad because I don't have a gallbladder anymore.
76. They took it out because I had one big stone the size of a small olive.
77. I begged the surgeon to give me a spinal block and let me watch them work.
78. She wouldn't let me.
79. However, she did save the stone for me.
80. It's in a jar, on my bookcase, next to all of the micro slides I made in undergrad.
81. I am a big science nerd.
82. I'd rather be smart than beautiful and thin.
83. Fortunately for me, that's what I got.
84. I think it's all downhill after 28.
85. I was thinner and looked much younger than my age before I went back to school.
86. As I got smarter as my looks when to pot.
87. Again, I got my wish.
88. Be careful of what you wish for!
89. We have two dogs and one cat.
90. We also care for future mother-in-laws pets.
91. I'm a total sucker for animals.
92. I get all sappy over animals, too.
93. I wish I could give every animal a home.
94. And every homeless child, too.
95. I'm a sucker for kids.
96. We don't have any, so we spoil everyone else's.
97. I hate most current music.
98. I love synth stuff, and really love 80s music.
99. The boys were prettier then.
100. Now everyone is old.
101. I'm suprised I came up with 101 things about myself!

(and I bet some of you thought I'd post 101 things about Depeche Mode... hrm... that's a thought... *MUAHHAHAH!* I'd probably need Eric and T.'s help with it, though....)