1.I was named after a Barry Manilow song.

2. When I was little, I had a diabetic German shepherd named Napoleon.

3. We called him Poly for short.

4. He loved me so much that I would sit next to him in my diaper and hit him in the head with a stick, and he wouldn't bite me.

5. One time, I let him off his leash and set him on a neighborhood boy who had made me mad.

6. Poly pinned him against our shed and would not let him leave until my dad got home from work and called him off an hour or two later.

7. The first song I knew all the words to was "Morning Train (9 to 5)" by Sheena Easton.

8. I used to hang upside down from my swingset and sing it with my babysitter.

9. Her name was Kimberly.

10. She lived next door.

11. I was the best girl rollerskater in my elementary school.

12. When I grew into them, my mom gave me her white boot skates with big, black yarn pom-poms.

13. My feet were the same size as hers when I was in the 4th grade.

14. My mother is 5'4.

15. My father is 5'9.

16. My grandmother is 5'11.

17. My grandfather was 6'3.

18. I am just a hair under 5'9.

19. My mother and I lived with her parents for almost a year when I was in the 6th grade.

20. My maternal grandfather died in 1987.

21. He was 54.

22. He died the day I came home from Camp Fire camp.

23. I spent a long time being mad at him for dying before I could tell him about my horseriding adventures.

24. I did not cry at his funeral because I wanted to be strong for my mother and grandmother.

25. Two years later I cried for an entire night because I missed him so much.

26. My stepfather used to be a saddle-bronc rider.

27. My first car was a 1975 MGB, red, with a black top and interior.

28. The engine was in such rough shape that my stepfather and I rebuilt it from scratch.

29. I know how to bleed brakes.

30. My first make-out session was with a boy named Leslie in the 7th grade.

31. He had braces that cut my lips.

32. My first boyfriend went to state three years in a row in debate.

33. His name was Greg.

34. His little sister was named Rachel Elizabeth.

35. My little sister's name is also Rachel Elizabeth.

36. I dated a skater-boy named Brian who cried a lot.

37. I used to request "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order at high school dances.

38. Even though I was not one of the popular kids in high school, I was involved in everything.

39. My junior year I was in Student Council.

40. My senior year I was president of the debate club, president of the drama club, and the editor of the school newspaper.

41. I was voted Most Likely to Succeed and Most Likely to Be President.

42. I was in concert choir and sang in small groups.

43. During my senior year I had pneumonia and spent two whole weeks in the hospital.

44. I was supposed to be in the royal court during that year's madrigal performance, and cried because I was in the hospital hooked up to oxygen instead.

45. I have performed and/or worked crew in The King and I, the Music Man, the Sound of Music, Come Blow Your Horn, Greater Tuna, Big River and Cabaret.

46. I worked at the local college radio station for three years.

47. The bass player for Social Distortion tried to pick me up when I was 17.

48. I was in love with Glen Phillips from Toad the Wet Sprocket, though.

49. I once got to eat Chinese food with Toad, but Glen was already married.

50. I have only smoked marijuana once.

51. I have never done any other illegal drugs.

52. The first time I had sex I was 15.

53. That was too young for me to have sex.

54. I didn't have an orgasm, not even once, with the first boy I had sex with.

55. We were together two years but he was never my official boyfriend.

56. Thinking about him makes me angry even now.

57. When I graduated from high school my hair was down to my waist.

58. I cut it to chin-length when I was a sophomore in college and it has never been longer than shoulder-length since.

59. In college I was the assistant news editor, features editor and then editor-in-chief of my university newspaper.

60. I was a member of the English Society, went to poetry readings and tutored at the on-campus Writing Center.

61. My husband was the university newspaper photo editor when I met him.

62. When I was a high school senior I dated a boy who was one of my husband's best friends growing up, and who ended up living with my brother-in-law and telling him that I had the body of a Playboy Playmate.

63. My husband and I drove to St. Louis to see Sarah McLachlan in concert, before we were dating.

64. I talked about how I wanted to go on tour with her and braid her hair the entire way home.

65. He spent the night.

66. He never spent another night at his parent's house again ­ except the night before our wedding.

67. Two weeks after we started dating, I told him that I wanted to marry him.

68. We used to make out in the darkroom.

69. My senior year of college I got sued for libel.

70. It was not my fault.

71. The Student Press Law Association assigned me a lawyer out of Kansas City.

72. The story was on the front page of local and regional newspapers, and the top story on the local nightly news for a week.

73. Reporters camped outside my office for three days.

74. The lawsuit dragged on from October to June before it was dropped.

75. That year I had 21 hours of class, was working 40 hours a week, and had to deal with the lawsuit.

76. My wedding anniversary is December 20, 1997.

77. Lance Bass's sister has the exact same anniversary.

78. The first boy named Brad I ever dated was born on May 4.

79. Lance Bass has the same birthday.

80. I never dated or fooled around with a boy who was not an artist, writer or musician.

81. I do not talk to anyone I went to high school with.

82. I only talk with four people from college, including my husband.

83. All of my local friends are people I met on the Internet.

84. Over half of them are Bronzers (Buffy fandom).

85. The rest of them are from the *NSYNC slash fandom.

86. The first time I met people from the Internet, the mister and I drove nine hours from Kansas City to Chicago for the first Chicagopalooza (Buffy fandom).

87. I have no sociology academic training, yet I have spoken on a panel at a sociology conference and been published in a community sociology journal.

88. I have lived in Springfield, Mo., Kansas City, Mo., Raleigh, NC, Walnut Creek, Ca., and El Cerrito, Ca.

89. I get at least one piece of email a month from people who have flip-flop fetishes, because of an article I wrote for popgurls.

90. I don't actually have a flip-flop fetish, but I do own about ten pair.

91. Aside from flip-flops and sneakers, I don't own a pair of shoes with a heel shorter than three inches.

92. I really want to run a marathon, but every time I start to train I sprain some part of my body.

93. Consequently, the farthest I have ever run at once is a little over five miles.

94. I have not seen my father, stepmother, half-brother or half-sister in over two years.

95. I can't even imagine what any of them look like now.

96. The only one I care about is my sister.

97. Scary religious experiences from my childhood have led me to denounce organized religion today.

98. I am probably borderline OCD and often line things up at 90-degree angles.

99. I count everything, sometimes without realizing that I'm doing it until I'm in the hundreds (number of steps, number of motorcycles that pass me on the road, number of pens in a jar, etc.).

100. I can remember tiny details about things that happened a long time ago, such as what color shirt my husband was wearing on a certain date in college, and what road sign I was passing the last time I heard a certain song in the car.