1. It's possible to fit me and five other teenagers, a bottle of Martini, two bottles of Reef and an amusing toy duck into a tiny student car without anyone's arms having to go out the window. (Legs, yes. But arms? No.)

2. I'm studying American politics purely to understand The West Wing

3. It's working

4. I'm also doing Biology, English Literature and German

5. Studying German is a brilliant excuse to go out -- ostensibly to German films, to show German exchange students around, etc. -- and have fun on weeknights, as the people who get my giggly text messages can attest.

6. I've been playing piano since I was eight and I now teach it to tiny people.

7. I get £160 a month for doing three hours of work a week. When you're 17 and still living at home, this is a jackpot.

8. My favourite place to be on a Thursday or Friday night is Auntie Annie's upstairs in the middle of town.

9. I lived in London for six months when I was five.

10. I've achieved the highest possible grades in every national exam I've ever taken. I think this represents a fundamental flaw in the exam system.

11. I have a new kitten named Koshka who's the cutest thing ever

12. Ever!

13. She does suicide leaps out of 20-ft trees. I've tried speaking to her about these urges, but she tends to looked startled and run backwards in a door.

14. Occasionally she decides the place is too messy and tidies herself away.

15. Then someone says "Where's the kitten?" and we can't find her until we notice the cupboard door moving.

16. I also have a goldfish named Goldie (thrill at my staggering originality!) who's coming up on 11.

17. We have a theory this is because we only feed her about once a week when we remember -- she's giving new meaning to the phrase "thriving on neglect".

18. Apparently my middle sister looks like me, only blonde

19. I wouldn't suit blonde, though. I haven't the colouring.

20. I'm growing my hair to waist-length, but before it gets there I may well get sick of it and chop it back up to my shoulders.

21. Because my hair is the thickest hair ever, bar none.

22. When it rains, small animals get lost in the ensuing cloud of frizz

23. We still haven't found that ferretŠ

24. When I was 15 my favourite occupation was staying overnight in our local park with my two best friends. 4am would find us cackling manically through the rosebeds, picking rose petals like drunken kleptomaniac hobgoblins.

25. I really like cheese. It's good stuff.

26. I tidy my room about once a year. It's the traditional teenage health hazard.

27. But I keep my notes organised because I fear the consequences if I don't.

28. I am in the school play, Guys and Dolls

29. I play a nun

30. As a friend remarked through gales of laughter, "Casting at its best."

31. I like gallavanting around the country on my own. This terrifies people.

32. I need a lot more sleep that I get.

33. I have the best friends ever.

34. When having a bad patch, I tend to read The Virgin Suicides and Terry Pratchett over and over and over. And over.

35. I have a newfound grudging respect for Justin Timberlake since the incident at the MTV awards where he won over Johnny Cash. The word "travesty" left his lips only a little while after it left mine.

36. I reeeeeally like pizza. There was once a whole week where I ate literally nothing but pizza. It was great.

37. Pineapple pizza is the best.

38. Every time I get a PM I'm not expecting I'm a tiny bit afraid it's going to be someone yelling at me.

39. This stems from a bad experience in the Camp's early days.

40. I still love getting PM's.

41. I bloody hate people who won't read the Harry Potter series or watch the LotR movies purely "because of the hype"

42. Do they realise the hype comes from an awful lot of people thinking they're really good?

43. And if they still choose not to participate, whatever, but could they PLEASE stop kidding themselves that this decision makes them in some way culturally superior to us lesser beings. Ugh.

44. I resent having to do Social RE classes. I have only four half-hour frees in the week. I could do with another.

45. My mother being from Derry means that I give too many one-syllable words a two-syllable pronunciation.

46. Words like "cold", "world" and "power" I can't not pronounce with the two.

47. My friends take the piss out of it -- "Say 'cold', Catriona." "Co-ald?" "Hee!"

48. I live in the country in the middle of a pile of fields

49. We have a roundabout in our back garden

50. Not a traffic roundabout -- a merry-go-round type thing. This confused PDR greatly on the phone.

51. My aunt bought it and gave it to us to hang on to for her because she was still building the house she was moving to soon

52. Nine years later, she still hasn't taken it back. We keep offering to buy it off her but she won't let us.

53. Nine years! It's ours, goddammit. And it's cemented into the ground -- if she wants to try to take it away, good luck to her.

54. I really want to learn to swing dance.

55. I wish I had perfect pitch.

56. I don't have anywhere near enough CDs.

57. I'm going to see Fleetwood Mac in December!!!!!!!

58. Standing tickets!!!

59. The exclamation marks do not even express my joy.

60. I sing in two choirs. I sing pretty well. We were on School Choir of the Year!

61. I didn't sing at all well at first -- I joined the Youth Chorale in February of Fifth Year and only actually learned to sing by about November.

62. I mimed my first two concerts.

63. We are to sing at the Duke of Edinburgh awards ceremony in Belfast City Hall. It's pretty cool.

64. I was a fire cadet for three years. I learned fuck all, but it was brilliant craic.

65. I am obsessive about languages. Especially Russian.

66. People were speaking Russian behind us on the bus from Heathrow to Seska's.

67. I nearly had fits of joy.

68. I probably won't learn Russian at uni though, because Spanish is more useful and it sounds gorgeous too, so.

69. I stay on MSN much, much longer than I should.

70. I bought the piano music to All That Jazz, and now plan to get together a jazz ensemble and my friend Cathy (who can sing like nothing you've ever heard) and do it at the school musical evening. Best thing ever.

71. I remember one day some random girl went on the Bronze and started posting in great detail about how she and her boyfriend had done a 69 the night before. And someone (possibly Narrator?) posted to her along the lines of, "That's nice dear, really, but family board." Made me giggle.

72. I adore pineapple. I get through two or three tins of it a day.

73. Mmmmm pineapple.

74. I preach the gospel of Cadbury's Dairy Milk to anyone who will listen.

75. I converted our new language assistant yesterday. She'll thank me someday.

76. My memory appears to be broken beyond repair, except in certain specialised areas e.g. exam notes I've just crammed.

77. I'm so glad I found the Bronze.

78. I love going out dancing.

79. I can shake my eyeballs. Remind me to do this if I ever meet you. It doesn't half freak people out.

80. I can also still do a perfect cartwheel.

81. I did gymnastics for ten years -- this is why. I used to be able to do the splits along the beam.

82. I can still walk the whole length of our two-inch-wide fence, too.

83. I want to get my ears pierced again (making twice).

84. My skin annoys me, all the time. One of the few things I don't like about my body.

85. But I really like my hands and arms.

86. I really like hands and arms in general. I tend to notice them about people.

87. If I'm sufficiently drunk, I will commandeer people's limbs and just stare at them for a while.

88. To be honest, I sometimes do it while sober.

89. I love sitting around swapping drinking stories with people. They tend to be absolutely hilarious.

90. I can't stand unstable heights. I went to the Sears Tower viewing floor -- no problem. But put me somewhere where there's even the tiniest chance that I could fall, and I will freeze.

91. I was climbing the steps on the Eiffel Tower on a windy day and the stairs started to shake. Wow, was that unpleasant.

92. I also can't stand ants, due to past traumatic experiences.

93. I don't understand how the first person to do a plait thought of so doing. "Hmm, I wonder what would happen if I took these three strands of hair and randomly twisted them together?" ? Odd.

94. I've been to Walt Disney World 4 times.

95. I would love to go again.

96. I also want to go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, and New York for St. Patrick's Day.

97. I've never been in a bar in Ireland when the Irish football team are playing. During the last World Cup it would've been incredible. Next time!

98. I didn't complete this assignment 'til weeks and weeks after it was due. That's pretty much par for the course with me.

99. I've started stealing hairstyles from Lord of the Rings. But they suit me, so where's the harm?

100. I am 5'4", but not short. No really. Shut up.

101. I sing to myself all the time. If I'm not doing it out loud, I am in my head.

And I'm finished! Hurrah.