1.  I grew up in Olympia, WA.

 

2.  I graduated from the University of Washington in 2004 with a B.A. in Drama.

 

3.  I play Magic:  the Gathering.

 

4.  I've seen 34 of Shakespeare's 37 plays (not Antony and Cleopatra, Merry Wives of Windsor, or Pericles).

 

5.  I design tabletop games to play with my friends and family.

 

6.  I directed Mother Courage and Her Children my senior year in high school for my graduation project.

 

7.  I know how to sew. 

 

8.  I didn't drink alcohol until I was 25 years old. 

 

9.  After a year of playing it, I finally beat XCOM:  Enemy Unknown.  

 

10.  I have a 3-D 50-inch HDTV that I enjoy watching movies on in Blu-Ray.

 

11.  I worked for eight summers at a summer theater camp called Artist's Institute at Friends Academy in Glen Cove, NY, where I taught classes, directed, designed lights, built sets, and wrote plays. 

 

12.  I currently work at Transcripts Associates as a transcriber.

 

13.  When I lived in New York City, I once walked from my apartment on 171st down Broadway to Battery Park (11-plus miles) because I was angry over a breakup. 

 

14.  I currently live in Seattle. 

 

15.  I survived the International 3-Day Novel Contest in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.  

 

16.  The most ironic first date I've ever been on was seeing The Vagina Monologues at my college (with a guy, of course, which is what makes it ironic). 

 

17.  The best movie I've seen this year so far was The Lego Movie. 

 

18.  I have the coolest family on the planet, and frequently drive down in my 2009 Honda Fit to visit them in Olympia.   

 

19.  I'm a Libra.

 

20.  I wish I went camping more often.

 

21.  I wear boxers and briefs.  Whoa. 

 

22.  I completed the Landmark Education Curriculum for Living and transformed myself and my life from something given to me by my past and my circumstances into something I create daily.

 

23.  I know that irregardless isn't a word, irregardless of the fact that people use it, which in a way does make it a word, if a redundant one, because it would (theoretically) mean the same fucking thing as regardless. 

 

24.  I'm in love with Brett Wiseman.

 

25.  Is anyone still reading this? 

 

26.  I've been told I make a mean latte.

 

27.  McSweeney's looks really great on my bookshelf.

 

28.  I'm as old as this list is long.