beware of hungry squirrels

During my third semester of Russian, I would often sit outside before class under my favorite statue and eat my lunch, do homework, watch people, etc. One lovely day, I noticed a bold squirrel skittering around near me. Foolishly I paid it no mind as I studied dative case expressions and verbs. In my left hand I was idly holding my half eaten apple. This squirrel climbed right up to me and took my apple out of my hand. I was just watching it out of amusement not expecting it to actually yank my apple away. It then proceeded to sit down a few feet away and eat the rest of my apple. To this day, my Russian professor asks me to tell this story and laughs uncontrollably at me.

trivia piecemeal

Because I don't have the patience to answer random questions, and I should probably write things down so I can remember them at some point.
1. I graduated high school in three years at 16.
2. I almost died when I was 16.
3. I spent my 16th birthday in Paris.
4. I'll spend my 21st birthday in Prague.
5. I can speak three languages.
6. I can't stand the "look at my body but don't dare say anything about it" sort of feminism I encounter too often.
7. I know how to use a gun.
8. I know how to gut a fish.
9. As a young child, I could do backwards somersaults on a balance beam.
10. I like to eat raw fish and beef.
11. Chips and salsa make a meal.
12. I made an A in my only college math course.
13. Though I was raised to be the perfect liberal atheist, I converted to Roman Catholicism last year.
14. My first cat was an orange tabby named Tango.
15. I used to work at my college newspaper, The Daily Texan.
16. My first major film review was picked up by USA Today.
17. The first Russian novel I read was Crime and Punishment.
18. I read all those V.C. Andrews books when I was in middle school.
19. I got in trouble for taking Jean Auel's books to school.
20. There are a few hundred books in my living room.
21. My first car was a 1978 gold Chrysler LeBaron, with a working 8-track player.
22. I listened to Alice Cooper, the Eagles, Star Wars Disco and Steve Miller Band 8-tracks.
23. I can drive a stick.
24. My paternal grandmother earned a double major in English and Business in the 1940s.
25. My paternal grandfather was the used car salesman in Amarillo many years ago.
26. Many of my relatives are Masons.
27. My mother's family used to own a plantation in Alabama.
28. I come from the half of the family that got stuck with the plantation when the other half ran off with all the money.
29. My maternal grandfather was the first person in the family to go to college, where he got an accounting degree.
30. Both my grandfathers served in the military.
31. I am too short to be an astronaut.
32. I watched the Challenger disaster live in my kindergarten class.
33. My earliest political memory is of watching the Iran Contra hearings on tv.
34. I beat up a boy over the presidential race in 1988 when I was in third grade. Even then I had a bad feeling about Bush. ;)
35. I vote every chance I get.
36. My foreign policy platform when I run for President will be "Turn the entire Middle East into glass so we can stop fighting over it."
37. I have nightmares about nuclear weapons.
38. If I was more into science I would study genetics.
39. My sole goal in studying genetics would be to breed a race of dragons. ;)
40. I've been dating my fiance Patrick since 1998.
41. The only sport I've ever been good at is fencing and I miss it.
42. I once accidentally punched my Russian professor in the stomach. He deseved it though.
43. My only bloody nose came from being beaten by a group of redneck boys in highschool.
44. I own a pair of silver pvc boots that make me feel like David Bowie.
45. My prom dress makes me look like Jackie O.
46. Though I have a reputation as a pyromaniac, I've never set anything on fire.
47. I've lived in Texas my entire life.
48. I've visted Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Washington D.C., Paris, Normandy, various bits of northern French countryside, and New York City.
49. Despite having lived in Texas for 20 some years, I can't speak any Spanish.
50. Provided nothing terrible happens, I will finish my undergradute degree next spring.