1. I have become less liberal over the years, but I think am still left of center of the rest of the midwest.

2. If I could live anywhere, it'd be somewhere with lots of sun and 70 degree weather.

3. I really covet a house, with a yard.

4. I don't speak to my father.

5. I miss my dog Obie; it still makes me cry when I think of him.

6. I have an inexplicable fascination for Titanic memorabilia and history.

7. I regret that I didn't start law school sooner, but I probably would not have been able to finish had I started sooner.

8. I am one of the laziest people I know.

9. I prefer bad blues music to good rap music.

10. I have very little patience with everyday irritants, but I actually think I'm getting more tolerant in my later years.

11. My mother was an addict, had a nervous breakdown, and spent time in a mental institution, and yet she's accomplished more in her life and has more to be proud of than my father, who had none of those problems.

12. I want to sky dive once in my life.

13. I was on the speech team in high school.

14. I watch way too much Discovery channel.

15. I curse the day Cupid was cancelled, bastard ABC programmers!

16. I have a lucky ribbiting frog that I credit for most of my passing grades in law school.

17. My living room is a reflection of my time with Bronzers: it is full of loki, eiddy, kitcat, willa and lunec gifts (not all of them nsync-themed either!).

18. I want to work in a liberal-leaning think tank as a researcher and columnist.

19. I think I am beginning to prefer road tripping by myself, so that I can turn up the radio really really loud and sing, stop whenever I want, and take detours at will.

20. I played the violin all throughout grade, junior high and some high school.

21. I wanted to play the cello, but couldn't reach the strings and bow at the same time.

22. My hands are too small to reach a full octave on the piano.

23. The nail polish I have on today is quite possibly flourescent.

24. I am really very incredibly horribly very bad at any and all math concepts, and in fact anything that involves spatial relationships.

35. I got a 620 verbal score on my SATs, however.

36. I am actually considering taking another bar exam at some point in my life. I think this means I am insane.

37. I think watermelon is the world's most perfect food.

38. I love bad puns and Henny Youngman one-liners.

39. My favorite movies are the old black and white noir or comedies, which I feel compelled to watch when I'm really down.

40. I am a news junkie.

41. I could never commute more than a few miles to work at a time, or there would be a nasty road rage incident with me in traffic.

42. I am interested in Buddishm.

43. Plants hate me. I kill them without even trying.

44. I have suffered chronic depression all my life. I will probably be on antidepressants forever.

45. I hope science does not discover some kind of long-term bad effect from antidepressants.

46. I am a smart ass, without even trying.

47. I fear my biological clock is winding down.

48. My mother tells me my father "broke" my brother and I and that's the reason we never married.

49. My uncle the state representative is one of the most honorable people I know, and I want to be like him when I grow up.

50. I think most tv news is biased and shades the truth, if not outright misleads the public.

51. I have difficulty maintaining focus for any length of time.

52. I think I am getting tired of the red in my hair. It may be time for a change.

53. I am extremely critical of myself.

54. I wish I had been a better friend to some of my high school friends.

55. I never went to a prom.

56. I will never attend any high school reunion.

57. I graduated with around 800 people, and probably wouldn't recognize anyone if I did go to a reunion.

58. I wish I had written for my high school or college newspaper.

59. I have an unhealthy love for Veggie Tales silly songs, even though the show is unabashed propaganda.

60. I have considered running for office.

61. I have a fixation on dimes. I love dimes.

62. I read approximately two paperbacks a week.

63. My favorite tv programs are forensic reality reenactment shows.

64. I have not visited nearly enough Civil War sites.

65. If I ever won the lottery, which is unlikely since I never play, I wouldn't know how to be rich.

66. I don't know if it's that I am inherently lazy, or that I get bored too easily, or that I fear challenge, but about a year into a job I always start to hate it.

67. I always get the exact same sandwich at Subway ­ Spicy Italian on white, with lettuce, tomato, onion and green pepper, and just salt and pepper for dressing.

68. Sometimes I get pretzels instead of chips, though, because I like to mix it up.

69. I have an geeky love for Michael Biehn, though he has made the worst career choices ever, and is really not that good an actor.

70. I wish I could convince my friend Mable to get a livejournal.

71. The Indiana University law degree is really embarrassingly large compared to everyone else's. I think they have an inferiority complex since Bobby Knight left.

72. Mutts is a great comic, but it is no Calvin & Hobbes.

73. I want a second dog, and later, a kitty too.

74. If I could travel anywhere regardless of cost, it'd be Australia and New Zealand.

75. If I could travel anywhere and be guaranteed safety, it'd be Egypt.

76. One day before I turn 40 I will buy a bed frame and headboard.

77. I have no living grandparents.

78. I crave privacy but will isolate myself to the point of loneliness if I'm not careful.

79. I loathe crowds.

80. I will probably buy the Two Towers DVD as soon as it's available, even though the super-dupery edition will be out a few months after that, and I'll have to buy that one too.

81. I think George Lucas is a lousy director, and he has harmed the Science Fiction genre with his overuse of CGI.

82. When I turned 30, I found out that I am allergic to my own dog.

83. I used to watch "The Little Rascals," "The Brady Bunch" and "The Andy Griffith Show" religiously as soon as I got home from school when I was a kid.

84. I still think my brother and I are the only ones who remember "The Hudson Brothers TV Show."

85. I have moved a total of 13 times since I graduated college 14 years ago.

86. I have still not unpacked my dishes from my last move nearly two years ago.

87. I cannot remember the last time I cooked anything in or on a stove.

88. I have an unhealthy love of PEEPS.

89. I have never known to the penny how much money I have in the bank at any one time.

90. I despise cooked mushrooms, although I have to admit that Portabellos have begun to grow on me. But not literally.

91. If there isn't pepperoni on it, it's not pizza.

92. I used to see many more movies in the theater than I do now. I'm lucky if I see two or there a year now.

93. I could see having a family with the boy. He would have them singing all the time. Probably show tunes.

94. I have worn the Claddaugh I got in Galway continuously since 1987.

95. I have way too much gray in my hair, which I color, because I am too vain to let it go gray.

96. If I could change anything about my appearance, it would be to have better skin.

97. I split the skin on my chin open to the bone, twice in the exact same spot, exactly three months apart.

98. I miss being a kid at the state fair and the circus. These things aren't the same as adults.

99. I'd rather be wise than smart.

100. I don't really care for felt tip pens.