1. my name is jamelah.
2. my father is from the middle east.
3. my mother is from arkansas.
4. i live in michigan.
5. this idea: paternal family + maternal family = reunion (including aunts, uncles, and cousins) gives me anxiety attacks or makes me laugh, depending on my mood.
6. i have double-jointed thumbs.
7. i lived in venice, italy once.
8. i've seen more of europe than i've seen of the united states.
9. i failed chemistry.
10. i cannot bring myself to eat a tomato, but i like ketchup. and salsa.
11. i sometimes dream in spanish.
12. i am addicted to diet coke.
13. photoshopping things makes me bizarrely happy.
14. i like to quote song lyrics.
15. sarcasm is my tool for communication, and my greatest weapon.
16. spring is my favorite season.
17. i also like fall.
18. i'm not really a big fan of winter, but i live in the wrong state to complain about it.
19. when i was a kid, in the winter, i used to pretend that my condensed breath was cigarette smoke.
20. i was raised a christian.
21. i don't feel so very christian these days.
22. i still go to church around once a month. i hate it.
23. i'm trying to stop swearing so much.
24. "fuck" is still my favorite word, because it's so versatile.
25. i have a degree in english.
26. i was a journalist for eight months.
27. i also worked for city government as a secretary. this is funny.
28. i hate people who talk on cell phones while driving. i sometimes talk on my cell phone while i'm driving and hate myself.
29. i am obsessive about teeth.
30. i had braces. twice.
31. my birthday is september 11th. this seems to fascinate people or cause them to pity me.
32. my favorite book when i was a kid was alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. i performed this book one forensics season in storytelling. i didn't win because everybody performs alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
33. i don't watch television that much, but i'm addicted to survivor and trading spaces.
34. i believe that the greatest joy in smoking is not in the actual smoking, but in opening a brand new pack of cigarettes.
35. i've been to two operas. one in venice, one in vienna. i left the one in vienna early, because my blood sugar was low, i was standing next to someone who smelled bad, and i was on the verge of passing out.
36. i forget to eat sometimes, and then i get low blood sugar. peanut butter is my salvation.
37. i think i want to move to australia.
38. i like to read newspapers. but i don't subscribe to any.
39. if i didn't live with anybody, i think i would easily be able to go for days without speaking out loud.
40. i wish i'd gone to ireland when i had the chance.
41. i've been to new york city twice, but i still haven't seen the statue of liberty.
42. i've never been to the west coast.
43. i have a tendency of developing stupid crushes on people and then not telling anyone about them.
44. i hate messy desks.
45. my desk is always messy.
46. i'm kind of sad that i never had a canopy bed.
47. i wish that people would realize that there's a difference between "your" and "you're" and "it's" and "its".
48. i mentally edit things as i read them.
49. i feel evil when i say i don't really like kids. i mean, i like kids, i just don't really like them.
50. i will never, ever, ever eat sushi. i have issues with seafood.
51. the summer i was eight, i became very afraid of germs and death so i washed my hands about 40 times a day and refused to go outside. i sat on my grandmother's living room couch and read the bible all day instead.
52. i like to kill people.
53. i was just testing to see if you're still awake.
54. i don't really like to kill people.
55. now i'm going to be paranoid that you think i like to kill people.
56. i'm a peaceful person, really, i swear.
57. you know when people pick favorite artists? i don't have one.
58. i really like art museums.
59. i have to sleep a lot, otherwise i don't function well. i cannot take naps. i wish i could take naps, but for some reason, i just can't.
60. i love sharpie pens.
61. i also love post-it notes.
62. i know that if i don't write things down, i will forget them. ialways forget to write things down.
63. i once tried risotto with this squid-ink sauce. it wasn't so good.
64. i was born two months premature.
65. i have a scar on my side from a machine i was hooked up to when i was a baby.
66. i have a scar on my knee.
67. that's from falling down and injuring myself.
68. i fall a lot.
69. i'm clumsy.
70. very good looking people make me nervous.
71. i have a tendency to talk too much.
72. i also have a tendency to be completely silent and a total non-contributor to conversation.
73. i belive that happiness is a choice.
74. i'm grumpy a lot.
75. i hate pretentious people.
76. i sometimes sarcastically say pretentious things about myself. this always causes the paralyzing fear that people don't know i'm being sarcastic and really think i'm just that big of a jerk.
77. i still don't know what i want to be when i grow up.
78. i'm only 24. i don't think i have to know yet. however, it frightens me to realize that i'm going to have to know soon.
79. right now, i really wish i had a bowl of pineapple.
80. i sometimes dream of going to grad school, but i know that i'm probably never going to go.
81. my favorite song is "summertime" from porgy & bess. i don't pretend i can sing it unless i am alone in my car.
82. i should walk more.
83. i like gardening, but i didn't keep up with it this year and so my plants look sorta bad.
84. i don't think i've ever chuckled. i either laugh or i don't.
85. i am a sentimental drunk. if i've been drinking, people need to keep me away from telephones and computers.
86. i made it to number 86.
87. my grandmother's deepest fear is that i am a lesbian because i'm not dating anybody.
88. i'm not a lesbian.
89. i have kissed a girl before. well, actually, she kissed me. and i was curious. that's pretty much that story.
90. i like potatoes. a lot. there is no food on earth that is as wonderful and versatile as the potato, and nobody will ever be able to convince me otherwise.
91. i have brown eyes and brown skin.
92. i was raised by a single mother.
93. my hands shake all the time, which is a lovely genetic quirk given to me by my father (thanks, dad).
94. i'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
95. ok, not really.
96. i speak three languages.
97. i only speak english well.
98. i used to want to be able to say "i like cheese" in every language in the world. i once knew 15, but now i can only remember about 5.
99. i hate plain m&m's.
100. i smile while i daydream.

whoo. that was fun. sorta.