… checking it twice.

1. When I was about 2-3 years old, I tried to eat a slug. I say “tried” because they’re sticky and very hard to swallow.
2. Because I was born April 2, I’m an Aries. Because I was born in 1980, I’m a Monkey.
3. I’m convinced this gives me incredible super-powers.
4. I was born in Port Townsend, Washington.
5. The nearest doctor when I was born was on the other end of the phone-line, talking my dad through the process.
6. My name is Ahniwa Dawn Ferrari.
7. I used to hate my name. It’s hard to be different.
8. Now I like it. It’s fun to be different.
9. My name comes from a conversation my father had with a cloud.
10. He used to tell me that it means “Man of Peace.”
11. I went to the Evergreen State College, where I got my BA with a major in Comparative Literature and a minor in Francophone Studies.
12. It amuses me that most people don’t know what “francophone studies” means.
13. I feel a little guilty that that amuses me.
14. During High School, my best friends would always date my ex-girlfriends immediately after they broke up with me.
15. Strangely enough, this didn’t give me a complex. Nor did it ever affect my friendships.
16. I’m better at video games than you are.
17. I first started playing video games at the Bowling Alley in Port Townsend, long before I was tall enough to see the screen. I stood on plastic crates.
18. Teenagers would stand around me, as I stood on this crate, and “ooh” and “ahh” at how awesome I was at Super Mario Brothers.
19. I feel no guilt or shame in saying that video games have been and are an important part of my life.
20. I think that the benefit of video games is often overlooked.
21. I’ve always owned a Volkswagen. Well, you know, since I was 16.
22. I had an ‘84 VW Rabbit from ‘96 ’til ‘01. I’ve had a ‘93 VW Fox from ‘01 to the present.
23. If I bought a new car, it’d be a Toyota Prius.
24. Though I’d feel I had betrayed my beloved Volkswagens.
25. I’m confident, but I’ve no idea how that happened.
26. I used to be incredibly, incontrovertibly shy. I think I still am, deep down inside.
27. I’m an existentialist. You can figure out what that means to you.
28. I like to write poetry and I’m perfectly happy with the idea that I’ll never publish a single scrap of it.
29. Arthur Rimbaud is my decadent hero.
30. Albert Camus is my existential hero.
31. Dostoevsky is my russian hero; Gogol too.
32. Erik Satie plays piano in my living room; or I wish he did.
33. Growing up I had huge crushes on female rockstars, particularly Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
34. One day I’ll write a novel. Maybe tomorrow.
35. November is national write-a-novel month, so maybe I’ll do it then.
36. If you want to get technical, I have five half-siblings.
37. If you ask me, I’ll say I have a brother and a sister.
38. They’re both awesome people in completely different ways.
39. I look up to Theo.
40. Unless I’m standing on a chair. He’s really tall.
41. I love games, video and non. I’m particularly fond of Pinochle and Canasta.
42. I miss my friend, Kas.
43. I work in libraries, and I love it.
44. I plan on getting my Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS).
45. One day, I’d like to be the director of a small-town public library.
46. Or head librarian in an academic library. Both sound fun.
47. I’ve kissed a guy (kissed though, not made out with).
48. I get crushes easily. I rarely act on them.
49. I’m very calm. Sometimes this annoys people.
50. I’m stream-lined for the new millenium.
51. Actually, I have an italian belly that I really need to work off.
52. I had long hair for a long time, then I cut it off in Ohio.
53. I think I’m growing it back out again.
54. I’m convinced that Washington is quite simply the best state there is.
55. I’m easily annoyed by falsity, particularly in people.
56. I tend to automatically follow ideas through to their logical conclusion. This tends to annoy people also.
57. I’m very honest, though not so brutally as I once was. I’m trying to treat the world more gently.
58. I think I may be incapable of experiencing regret.
59. I like swing-dancing, and I’m good at it.
60. I’m a bit out of practice, though.
61. In general, I’m patient. I’m trying to be moreso with people that annoy me.
62. I prefer naive faith to practical cynicism; well, maybe.
63. I lost my virginity at 19, and at 24 I’ve only had sex with two different people. This seems about right to me.
64. I’m an agnostic; because I think it’s arrogant to say that God does or does not exist.
65. I haven’t read more than 30 pages of Douglas Adams, though I’d like to.
66. The favorite quotes I can think of off the top of my head are by Henry Miller, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
67. I think that makes me an obvious literary dork.
68. I spent three months in France.
69. I promised a friend that while I was in France I would kiss a beautiful French girl on the Pont Neuf.
70. I never did, and despite the fact that it was sort of out of my control, I’ve always felt a little guilty about it.
71. Eddie Izzard is my absolute favorite stand-up comedian.
72. I like mimes, particularly when they’re a little creepy.
73. I don’t sing in the shower. Not usually.
74. I don’t get bored easily, except when people try to talk to me.
75. I speak an absolutely tiny amount of Russian. It’s a very cool language, though.
76. I’d really like to be able to speak like 10 different languages, but I’m too lazy to think that’ll ever happen.
77. I don’t feel depressed often. When I do it’s from a sense of overwhelming loneliness.
78. I believe that all experiences can be good experiences.
79. I hate being judged, and especially misjudged.
80. I’ve got a spare smile for a stranger.
81. Cowboy Bebop changed my life. I can’t explain how.
82. I’ve a pet, stuffed lizard whose name is Crookshanx. He’s awesome.
83. I love the rain.
84. I’m scared of the ocean, despite having lived by it my whole life.
85. It’s almost killed me twice.
86. I would like to learn how to draw, and particularly how to sketch people.
87. I would also like to learn how to play the guitar, better.
88. I’ve an incredibly over-active imagination.
89. I’ve written children’s stories, and I’d like to publish them one day.
90. I’ve got all the time in the world.
91. I prefer a small group of good friends.
92. I’ll try anything once, and most things twice; hardcore drugs are the exception.
93. I think it’s more important to feel great things than it is to do great things.
94. I would die for my friends.
95. I don’t think anything can justify war.
96. I don’t even think anything can justify violence.
97. I’ve never been in a fight, even though Joe Kirby really wanted to fight in the middle of the highway after the closing night of the play.
98. I’m slowly getting better at keeping in touch with my friends.
99. I believe in loving freely, and forgiveness, and that everything’s a choice.
100. I’ve got a hankering for cheesecake.