1. The number assigned to each of these items holds no importance other than being the order that I thought things up.

2. I hate the auto formatting that Word sometimes inflicts on me. Having to figure out how to undo formatting that I didn't choose to begin with is not a time saver.

3. I hate money.

4. I also hate not having money.

5. My personality is well suited to being a lottery winner. Unfortunately I don't play the lottery. Can I still win?

6. As an alternative to playing the lottery, is there anyone out there who just wants to give me a whole lot money with no strings attached?

7. I don't particularly like alcohol.

8. I often have ambitious weekend projects like taking out the trash. I frequently don't accomplish my ambitious weekend projects.

9. I'm very slothful. My idea of a good weekend tends to include a lot of naptime.

10. I know that I've never been cool. The fact that I bought a Jim Brickman CD a couple of weeks ago and for the most part enjoy it probably emphasizes that I have no chance of ever being cool.

11. I have a crush on Professor Lupin from the Harry Potter series.

12. Harry Potter #6 better take less time to write and publish than Harry Potter #5 did.

13. I take Harry Potter much too seriously.

14. The great thing about living alone is that I have sole ownership of the remote control.

15. I can also hit the snooze button as many times as I like. It's usually 6-10 times on any given morning.

16. The downside is that I sometimes wonder how long it would be before I was discovered if I happened to die in horrible freak accident while at home.

17. The floor of my apartment really needs to be vacuumed.

18. My birthday is on the anniversary of a president's assassination.

19. I still don't know what I want to do/be when I grow up.

20. I love going to movies. Even if I don't really like the movie, I love being in the theater with my popcorn and soft drink.

21. Unfortunately I don't get to movies very often. (See #4 of my list) (See also #6)

22. I don't like Reality television during the television season, but it's ok for summer tv viewing.

23. I've developed a strange, inexplicable fascination with Paradise Hotel. (Another quality offering from the Fox television network.)

24. I like donuts.

25. Mmmm, donuts.

26. If I wait long enough between reading and rereading a mystery novel, I often forget whodunnit from one time to the next. This might indicate that a career of crime solving is not in my future.

27. I think Forensic Files on CourtTV is fascinating.

28. I've often found CSI uninteresting when I've watched it.

29. I own a very, very cute dog.

30. My cute dog has lots and lots of fur. Much of it on my living room floor. (See item #17.)

31. Deep down, I'm a fit and athletic person.

32. Unfortunately, my fitness and athleticism is somewhat hidden and impeded by my pudginess and fast food diet.

33. There are some people that have to be given novocain shots in slightly different than the standard way in order for them to be effective. I'm one of those people. We learned that when I was in junior high and getting teeth pulled for braces. I'm here to tell you that the sharp pain of feeling a tooth come out will bring you down from a pleasant nitrous oxide buzz like that. Within a half minute or so the nitrous oxide helps you get over it.

34. I have a second life that I live out in my head.

35. In the imaginary life I live in my head I'm fun, funny, fearless, and never at a loss for words.

36. In real life, I'm afraid of many things and frequently at a loss for words.

37. I've also discovered that sometimes words sound different when they come out of my mouth than they did when I was hearing them in my head.

38. Death is scary to me. But not as scary as they idea of getting the Ted Williams after death treatment-the one where your head is separated from your body and then both the head and body are cryogenically frozen in liquid. Eeeew. And I'm also curious: years and years down the road when science cures you of what killed you, do they sew your head back on to your body? Or will they only reanimate the head portion and then carry it around like what I've seen on Futurama? Will they reanimate both and will the bodies be running around like chickens with their heads cut off? Either way, the whole thing looks very unappealing.

39. I consider myself for the most part to be "fair and balanced."

40. In light of item #39, I'm now worried that Fox News Channel's lawyers will be contacting me. I'm confident, though, that all discussions with them will be fair and balanced.

41. I sometimes wilt under the pressure to be interesting.

42. Good Grief, I'm only on #42?!

43. I really do love television.

44. Unfortunately, I think by and large television executives have mismanaged things. If I were placed in charge of all things network television-related and all my decrees were carried out, I think most people would be pleased with the results. Maybe not the executives.

45. I think that The Famous Teddy Z-a blink and you missed it sitcom of the 80s-was one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. I'm still sad that it was cancelled.

46. I also haven't quite gotten over the cancellations of Cupid (not the reality show) and Freaks and Geeks.

47. It's possible that I also take television a little too seriously.

48. Generally speaking, I don't particularly enjoy speaking on the phone. Yet somehow I often seem to wind up with job duties that require it.

49. Many times when I've been on the phone at work, I've thought that it's a good thing that telephones don't have a video component. Sometimes the effort of looking polite and interested in addition to sounding polite and interested is just too much.

50. I only own/wear 4 different pairs of shoes.

51. One of the pairs of shoes (the loafers) that I wear regularly has holes in the soles. I hate spending money on shoes so I'm putting up with the holes for the time being and when I wear them I step carefully around puddles. I think once it snows, I'll probably have to give in and buy new shoes.

52. In fact the majority of the clothes in my wardrobe are several-and by several, I mean a lot-of years old. This is from the combined influence of being cash poor, hating to shop, and being one the most style unconscious people on the planet.

53. I work for a scholarly book publisher. One of my duties is to take various requests for free copies of books. I've often commented that not only do people want their free books, but they want their free books right now. It's surprising to me how many people think that being absolutely obnoxious while asking me to do something that's basically a courtesy to them is the way to go. Being appreciative and nice will always get better results from me than trying to run over me.

54. The downside of having hair that grows fast is that when you have a short hairstyle you have to get your hair cut more frequently than when your hair is long. Or you should get your hair cut more frequently.

55. I need a haircut.

56. Every time I've been water skiing I've had fun-in spite of the fact that what happens on water skiing excursions is that everyone else skis beautifully and I just fall down a lot and get dragged by the boat.

57. I've never been snow skiing. I'd like to learn how someday.

58. Popcorn makes for a perfectly good supper.

59. So does ice cream for that matter.

60. Speaking of ice cream, it took me five minutes to get the lid off of the jar of hot fudge sauce last night. If it had been something healthier I probably would have given up after two minutes.

61. I think that every weekend should be a three-day weekend.

62. I like plants. I don't keep any though, because apparently, I unfortunately failed to inherit the "keeping plants alive" gene. And an apartment full of dead plants is not particularly uplifting.

63. I can procrastinate with the best of them.

64. I once compiled a good sized list of bad opening lines for the Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest. (See www.bulwer-lytton.com ) In keeping with the procrastination theme, I never got around to submitting them. But coming up with them was a lot of fun.

65. I'd forgotten how much fun it is when your baseball team is contention for a division title. Go Royals!

66. The best thing about having an actual office at work as opposed to being out in the middle of everything? It's much more comfortable to netsurf on the job or work on little side projects like this one.

67. The worst thing about no longer having a desk in the middle of everything? I'm not as up on all the gossip as I used to be.

68. I don't think of myself as a gossip. I don't necessarily feel compelled to pass gossip on or use it against people. I just like having the knowledge. I'm a studious sort of person, you see.

69. I love big thunderstorms. Unfortunately my poor dog does not.

70. I haven't balanced my checkbook in years. I just scan my bank statement each month to make sure I recognize all the charges and see if they show a balance in roughly the same neighborhood as the balance that I show. So far, so good.

71. I have very little relationship experience to draw from (see item #16). In spite of, or maybe because of that, I think I give pretty good relationship advice.

72. Of course it's entirely possible that I, in fact, give terrible relationship advice and have an over-inflated sense of my own wisdom.

73. I can do a right handed cartwheel but not a left handed one.

74. I didn't like dark chocolate when I was younger. Now I prefer it to milk chocolate.

75. I think coconut is just about the most repellent food on the face of the planet. Other than food that's still wriggling when you try to eat it, that is.

76. I find that there are many good things that are made even better by peanut butter. Chocolate and ice cream are examples that spring immediately to mind.

77. I wonder if the day will ever come when I'll feel like a real grownup instead just a pretend one.

78. I think that Deep Space 9 is far and away the best of all the Star Trek series.

79. I was really surprised at how badly I took it when I started noticing that I had some gray hairs. Someone had told me that red hair grays later than other hair colors. I'm here to tell you that that's a big fat lie. Unless by "later" she meant age 30. My definition of "later" would be age 57.

80. Actually the gray in my hair is kind of pretty. It's a nice silver and blends nicely in my blondish-red hair. My hair person had to confirm for me that it was gray and not just bleached out like I was hoping. At any rate, even though I think it looks kind of neat, I still don't want any more of it. My hair doesn't seem to be getting with the non-gray program though.

81. When I was a little kid, I guess I got really used to people commenting on my red hair. Because if people didn't "notice" it, after awhile I would come out and say "I have red hair." Ah, the idiotic, "look at me" things you can get away with saying when you're three years old.....

82. I think I'm the only one I know who watched Johnny Sako after school. I have fond memories of it. It was a Japanese show with the English badly dubbed in. Johnny communicated with Giant Robot through a special watch. They saved the day many, many times. Truly classic television. I don't know why TVLand hasn't picked it up yet.

83. I find Diamond Mine to be a hypnotic and addictive game.

84. I think left-handedness is sexy.

85. I bought the Grateful Dead's American Beauty CD based on enjoying the way it was used in the final episode of Freaks and Geeks.

86. Did I mention that I still haven't gotten over the cancellation of Freaks and Geeks?

87. If I wanted to, I could probably recite all of the dialogue in The Princess Bride along with the actors when I watch the movie.

88. I remember reading 101 Dalmations as a young child and the impression it had. After reading the book, I distinctly remember wondering what information was being exchanged along the twilight bark when I would hear dogs barking in the evening.

89. I grew up and went to college in a town that is crazy about basketball. As a student at the University of Kansas you can buy season tickets, but seating is first come, first get. I spent many nights in college camping out at Allen Fieldhouse the night before games in order get a prime seat in the floor area. Those were good times.

90. I love amazon.com. Any book, dvd, or cd that I'm interested in is available and easy to order with one click of the mouse. That's why I also hate amazon.com.

91. For the longest time, I thought the first line of "Brown Eyed Girl" was Hey Roderigo. It's a much different song with that lyric.

92. As a child I used to wonder why the British used the tune for "My Country Œtis of Thee" for "God Save the Queen."

93. When I lived in the dorm in college, almost any time you got off the elevator on my floor, there would be a game of Spades going. I kind of miss that.

94. A coworker was talking one day about how she was visiting her nephew at his dorm, when somebody in the lobby suggested playing some computer game or another. With that, several of them jumped up and went to their individual rooms so they could log onto their computers and play. I'm hopelessly old-fashioned, but I find something kind of isolating about that. It's one thing to play games over the computer with someone who is in another location far away. It's another to create that distance with someone who was standing next to you two minutes ago.

95. In light of item #94, clearly I'm approaching-if I haven't already reached-the stage of being a cranky "well in my day" sort of person.

96. Just the other day I was remembering that once upon a time video rental stores had VHS and Beta section. Then Beta died a brutal death. Now video is starting to be phased out altogether for dvd. Technology advances with dizzying speed these days.

97. I really love it when dvds have commentaries to go along with the movie.

98. No matter how many times I see it, the episode of WKRP in Cincinnati that involved Mr. Carlson and Herb flinging live turkeys out of a helicopter as a Thanksgiving Day promotion makes me laugh. In fact, just thinking about it makes me laugh. "As God is my witness. I thought turkeys could fly."

99. Retirement must be great. You get to sleep late everyday and do whatever you want. It's like summer vacation that never ends. I'm counting down the decades until I get to retire.

100. Seriously. Isn't there someone out there that just wants to give me a large pile of cash?