100 facts about molly

These are facts that have nothing to do with my professional life. They are very personal and best read by adults only. Enjoy.

1. I like to read popular thrillers and mysteries more than literature.
2. I have a number of vices. Most of them are legal.
3. I have a taste for fine wine.
4. One interpretation of the name Molly is bitter.
5. I love bitter flavors: Coffee, grapefruit, beer.
6. Unlike most women, I rarely if ever crave chocolate, even at that time.
7. A diet of meats, fish, fowl and vegetables appeals to me more than a diet of breads, dairy, fruit and pasta.
8. Despite several rumors to the contrary I am not a lesbian.
9. I have never been married.
10. I have no children and do not plan to have them.
11. I have been truly in love with two men.
12. I have had two men formally ask me to marry them. Neither of them was one of the men with whom I was in love.
13. Food is beautiful.
14. I enjoy giving oral sex, but don't particularly care about receiving it. Really.
15. Some people have told me I'm the most selfish person they've ever met.
16. Some people have said I'm the most generous person they've ever met.
17. I am both selfish and generous.
18. Forensic sciences interest me.
19. I nearly became a research virologist.
20. Every road I've ever traveled has led somewhere beautiful.
21. I know at least two people who have murdered someone in cold blood.
22. There is no doubt in my mind that I could kill other people.
23. I would give up my life to save someone I loved.
24. I prefer dark drama and darker comedy.
25. I wish Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison were still alive.
26. I love the rain. Cliche, maybe, but I live in a desert.
27. I am a good writer.
28. I am a passionate and effective teacher.
29. I'm extremely poor at math.
30. I've been told I play guitar “really well for a chick.”
31. Singing is a great joy and I try to do it every day.
32. Through long-term practice of gentle yoga I have retained a phenomenal range of motion. I can wrap my leg all the way behind my neck (but only one leg at a time, at least so far).
33. My favorite physical things to do at one time were to swim and ride horses. Now I rarely do either.
34. I often ponder why we lose touch with certain parts of ourselves as we age.
35. I have a chronic medical condition and have spent every day for the last 20 years experiencing some level of untreatable physical discomfort.
36. I spent time in a mental institution for a nervous breakdown when I was 26 years old.
37. I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, panic disorder, and post traumatic stress disorder.
38. The day I learned that my father had died was the first day since early childhood that I stopped looking over my shoulder.
39. The last words my father said to me were “I'm going to kill you.” He was removed from our home later that night and I never saw him again.
40. I sometimes feel guilty that I felt such little sorrow upon hearing about my father's death thirteen years later, because I have no doubts that he truly loved me and that I loved him. Unbeknownst to us at the time, he had and eventually died from a rare form of brain cancer. His doctors have suggested that this is a very likely cause of his degenerative personality disorder.
41. I believe I'm one of very few people in the world to have a brother named Linus.
42. I believe I'm one of very few people in the world to have a brother who is called Moses.
43. I despise gossipy people.
44. My weight tends to run 20-30 pounds over what it should be.
45. I like being chubby.
46. One boyfriend told me it was a good thing I wasn't skinny, or else I'd be a real bitch. Whatever that meant.
47. I have a tendency toward moodiness and withdrawal.
48. I will almost always provide you with a warning sign when I feel I've been pushed close to the edge.
49. If you keep pushing I might lash out viciously. Better to give me distance, I'll get over it in a day or so if you just let me be.
50. Sometimes I say horribly cruel things to people I care about.
51. I can't play 3D games because I get severe motion sickness.
52. I rarely have trouble with motion sickness on trains or boats.
53. I didn't get my driver's license until I was 30 years old.
54. I love to drive and own a fast sports car.
55. I collect figures of elephants, cats, and turtles.
56. I am very fond of elephants because they have matriarchal, advanced communities. Also because they're so big yet have a poetic, lumbering grace.
57. I am a high school dropout.
58. I never got a GED (The US form of a high school equivalency diploma).
59. I fibbed slightly on my college entry papers.
60. I now have both a BA and MA degree from two prestigious private schools.
61. I earned a 3.8 average (4.0 is perfect) in college.
62. I received an A for every single course I took during my MA degree.
63. Unless I win the lottery or die first I will be paying student loans until I'm 60 years old.
64. According to intelligence exams I am supposed to be extraordinarily bright.
65. I'm often very gullible and naive socially despite that.
66. However, I am paradoxically streetwise and understand how to take care of myself in dangerous situations.
67. I have a genuine care for people and believe they are mostly good.
68. Sometimes people are suspicious of my generosity, which makes me sad.
69. My father was a very generous, charismatic, brilliant and often outgoing person.
70. The best qualities I learned from my father are a deep passion for good living and a sense of worldliness and sophistication. My father shared with me his love of food, cooking, adventure, entertaining, great coffee, Star Trek, and opera.
71. The worst qualities I picked up from my dad were a tendency toward addictive behaviors, self-destructive behaviors, and fits of depression, alienation, and emotional instability.
72. My mother is a charismatic, brilliant, ultimately forgiving, very quirky and not very social person.
73. The best qualities I learned from my mother are social tolerance, critical analysis, the knowledge that I was capable of learning and being anything, a powerful work ethic, a very sharp wit, to not give up easily, to always learn from every experience, to be generous of spirit, and to be self-protective.
74. The worst qualities I picked up from my mother are hyper self-criticism, inability to find forgiveness of myself, that I'm a workaholic, a tendency to become aggressive when feeling threatened, and an extremely cruel and critical tongue.
75. My hair is naturally curly.
76. The color of my hair is usually not natural.
77. People say my hair and eyes are my two most above-the-fold attractive features.
78. I look like my father.
79. I possess many mannerisms of my mother.
80. Most members of my family are very loud.
81. Most members of my family are very opinionated.
82. I believe I am the least loud and opinionated member of my family.
83. I am sure someone in my family has a different opinion.
84. I have a number of strange rituals and phobias, such as always wanting to have the pillowcase opening set to the left and never leaving an empty on the toilet paper roll. Fear of direction and cardboard? Who knows.
85. When I was in my teens (now this one is a truly bizarre fact) I suffered from what I perceived to be an extreme irritation of my eyelids and eyebrows. In an effort to get relief, I ritually pulled out my eyelash and eyebrow hair. As an adult, I researched what this might be. I never found any known organic causes, but I did find a psychiatric condition, Trichotillomania. This is considered a form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), is relatively rare, and has been known to occur in people who were abused or traumatized as children. It involves the pulling out of hair (head, pubic, arm, eyelashes and/or eyebrows but not usually all at the same time) with an immediate sense of relief of perceived stress as a result. The problem resolved on its own after I was out of my teens.
86. One of my brothers had this exact condition in his teens as well, and he, too, pulled out both his eyelashes and eyebrows. I believe his problem also resolved sponteaneously after he was out of his teens.
87. I am a registered Democrat.
88. I have twice voted out of my party and both times ended up regretting my decision to do so.
89. I consider myself to be extremely patriotic.
90. I am against almost anything that threatens civil liberties and would almost consider myself a Libertarian but for the fact that the majority of them are too fanatic and inflexible for my tastes.
91. As a writer and thinker, I value freedom of speech passionately.
92. I wish we could all just get along.
93. I own a handgun.
94. I am an excellent shot.
95. I also hold an award for archery, something I haven't practiced in years.
96. I aim to please.
97. I was born in Brooklyn, New York.
98. I was raised in New Jersey.
99. I have lived in Tucson, Arizona, for over 20 years.
100. I love the desert because it is vast. There is nothing quite as spiritually soothing to me as space.