tavie.com

I am a follower. I loved reading Serra's and Nicole's lists so much. I didn't think I would enjoy reading so many facts about someone else, but they were both really interesting. So I made my own. It was really fun:

100 Things About Tavie:

1. My sister and I were born 2 months premature. She weighed 3 lbs 2 oz, I weighed 3 lbs 14 ozs. I have always been the heavy one.
2. I have been to one baseball game in my life, with my church, when I was 10. It was Mets vs. Yankees. I don't remember who won.
3. My father is Jewish and my mother is agnostic. I was Lutheran until I was 11.
4. I am an agnostic.
5. I have a long-hair fetish. My goal has been hair I can sit on since I read Judy Blume's Blubber at age 7.
6. I have attained that goal.
7. I have gone on the internet almost every day since March 1993.
8. Eight is my favourite number because of the meaning of my name.
9. I am a synaesthete; I taste words.
10. "Octavia" tastes like scrambled eggs.
11. I hated scrambled eggs when I was little and now I like them.
12. Kofi Annan used to live in my building.
13. Al Lewis lives in my building.
14. Everyone calls him "Grandpa".
15. I've never known either of my grandfathers.
16. I really, really want a dog. I've never had one.
17. I have a turtle and a cat.
18. It still hurts to say "a cat" instead of "two cats".
19. When I was little I desperately wanted a long-eared, floppy-eared, black rabbit named Shadrach.
20. I've never had stitches or broken a bone.
21. Except my little toes, which don't count. But I got to wear slippers to school.
22. I was on honour roll every year until high school.
23. I consider myself to have peaked at age 7.
24. From age 4 to age 10 I took violin lessons. I can't play the violin.
25. From age 5 to age 11 I took piano lessons. I can't play the piano.
26. Sometimes I like to play with my violin and my piano anyway.
27. When I was younger I was sure I would be a Disney animator when I grew up.
28. I know almost nothing about animation.
29. I've been to Disney World 22 times.
30. EPCOT is my favourite place in the whole world.
31. I have been on two dates in my life: one when I was eight with my friend Adam, and once last year, which I didn't know was a date until after.
32. According to TheSpark.com I am 99% undateable.
33. I am the only person in my family who doesn't adore Shakespeare.
34. I used to be very proud of the fact that I was the best student in grade school from kindergarten until fifth grade. Now I find that pride very saddening.
35. I am horribly afraid of tree sloths.
36. I used to think my dad was a wizard.
37. My dad's favourite ice cream is mint chocolate chip. I still associate wizards with mint chocolate chip ice cream.
38. My favourite colour is yellow because when I was very little we had a yellow-and-white bath towel that I loved.
39. I wanna be a Care Bear.
40. I didn't get drunk until I was 20 years old.
41. I have almost no sense of smell.
42. I am missing a molar that I never got around to replacing. It broke on a crunchy Chinese noodle and was wrenched out by my friendly dentist.
43. The Kids in the Hall have had a bigger influence on my life than all of high school and most of grade school put together.
44. I can't roll my r's.
45. I said the word "shit" until I was three years old because no one had bothered to teach me baby euphemisms for excrement until then.
46. I wish I could be a singin', dancin' Broadway star, but I haven't the skills.
47. I walk around singing showtunes all the time, anyway.
48. In grade 3 I was in the group of kids who weren't allowed to write in cursive yet.
49. I used to know all the books of the Bible in order; now I only know the New Testament.
50. I find Jesus Christ incredibly sexy.
51. I have to look up words in the dictionary a lot.
52. I do my crosswords in ink, too.
53. I'm a snob about this fact, even though I often mess up and have to write over letters.
54. The last time I threw up was when I drank a great quantity of gin alone in my home one night last year.
55. The time before that was food poisoning in Australia in 1998.
56. Before that I hadn't thrown up in eleven years.
57. My middle toes are longer than the rest of my toes.
58. Once, in the Bahamas, a monkey sat in my lap for 10 minutes. It was really cute.
59. When I was in eighth grade my friend Amy and I wrote a skit for Social Studies class that was picked to be performed at a show in a theatre called "Symphony Space". The laughter one of my lines got is one of my all-time favourite moments in life.
60. The actress who played "Tavie" had very short hair and this displeased me.
61. When my sixth grade class was in the audience of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?", I was the only one who didn't get up and dance at the end.
62. I can't dance.
63. I used to like Genesis, during the "I Can't Dance" era.
64. I am widely considered to have highly impressionable taste in music. This makes me popular with people who wish to mold me to their own tastes.
65. I am very malleable.
66. I am much more popular online than I ever was in real life.
67. I think I have pretty feet.
68. If I ever write a book, it will be called Novembodentity, after a word I dreamed in junior high.
69. I've had many flying dreams. I love them and wish I could have them on purpose.
70. I hate most roller coasters.
71. A famous and respected singer-songwriter once wrote a song for me. It was released under a different name but I will always know it to be The Song Formerly Known as "Tavie".
72. I care too much about what others think.
73. My mother taught me to read when I was three. It was the best thing she ever gave me.
74. My family is very small; it consists of five or six people total, including extended family.
75. I used to be obsessed with pie-throwing, steel-tipped boots and the movie Newsies. I'm over them now.
76. I used to find beards creepy but lately I've been finding them attractive.
77. I hated "Star Trek" until my friend Ade forced me to watch an episode of The Next Generation. Now I am an avid and unapologetic TNG fan.
78. I find "Star Wars" boring.
79. My dad is a big geek who used to attend science fiction conventions regularly.
80. I am wary of conventions and most science fiction fans, but I love geeks.
81. Despite being born and raised in Brooklyn and Manhattan, I have been told I have no New York accent.
82. Neither do my parents, both b-and-b NY'ers.
83. I can belch on cue.
84. I think I'm attracted to gay men because they're unattainable.
85. I need therapy.
86. I hate Martin Short with a passion you could not begin to imagine.
87. Yet I loved Clifford, a truly awful movie.
88. I have been on five different antidepressants since I was 10.
89. I didn't watch M*A*S*H until spring of 2002, when I became obsessed, although my mother insists she made us watch it at 11 p.m. nightly as babies so that we'd be too tired to wake her up at 5:30 in the morning.
90. I am a Canadiophile.
91. I don't know that much about Canada.
92. When I was 7 I took gymnastics class and was quite good at the uneven bars.
93. When we were 6 my sister and I took jazz-and-tap lessons which culminated in a pageant where we all danced to Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time". We all had to wear pink sequins, including my friend Adam.
94. Adam and I got married every day when we were 5.
95. I can't remember how to multiply fractions.
96. I used to be very, very afraid of Steve Martin.
97. In grade 8 I used to come home from school every day and drink large quantities of water while watching Barney and Friends. I do not know why I did this.
98. I'm bad in an emergency.
99. My first woman crush was on Isabella Rossellini, because she looked like Dave Foley in drag.
100. I never tasted canned peas until I met my friend Gina.

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