cosas, veinte y cinco

JK: "The world's one big orgasm! I thought, if anyone would agree, it'd be Tony. I thought, look, finally, here's a kid with spirit!"

It's the final countdown.

1. I love the smell of clean sheets.
2. My feet squeak as I walk. I cringe at the sound.
3. I have the dirtiest fingernails of nearly anyone you'll ever meet. And it's usually from food.
4. I've seen every episode of The OC. At least twice. And I not-so-secretly take pride in the fact that I draw comparisons to Taylor Townsend.
5. I'm awkward and pathetic and terribly disheveled. Constantly. And a part of me finds joy in my disaster.
6. I can barely handle the taste of alcohol.
7. I want to be Anna Quindlen.
8. Nudity makes me severely uncomfortable. I think this roots in the fact that I am completely uncomfortable with my body.
9. I'm a romantic idealist, but I'm a realist. I prefer reason to the emotional shitshow of being an eighteen-year-old girl.
10. I used to be an optimist.
11. I am innately a motherly figure. I worry. About everything. All the time.
12. Chuck Klosterman changed my life. Andy Greenwald made the dream life real.
13. I never thought I'd be a sorority girl, but I'm quite contentedly sporting the silver and bordeaux.
14. I have never been comfortable in my own skin. I fear I never will be.
15. I often love antagonizing people. In a way, it's my attempt to make someone prove that they care.
16. I love riding the L. I love riding the L backwards. I love riding the L backwards and watching the people and gazing at the world as it drifts past.
17. I love love, I love being in love.
18. Whenever I'm feeling down and out, I don my jacket (it is February in Chicago) and Chucks, headphones in, dancing silently and observing the world as the tunes pound in my ears. It brings a sense of adventure and adds a soundtrack to monotony.
19. I get excited when record shopping.
20. I'm a procrastinating perfectionist. It's a terrible combination.
21. I have an incredibly weak stomach. When I was small, I used to vomit at the stench of public restrooms. My sister used to taunt, "Don't you throw up! Don't you throw up!" I still start to wretch.
22. I am a pesca-/pollo-tarian. I have a (likely) allergic reaction to red meat. And I can't eat lamb, due to the Simpsons episode with Lisa and the lamb. "Liiiiiiiiisa, don't eat me!"
23. I want to be more Jew-ish, but I frankly don't have the time. I think God forgives me.
24. I set my alarm for times so that the sum of the digits is a multiple of ten.
25. I'm proud of my writing to the point that it's become a vice. I'm only a little ashamed of that.