25 things

1: Just got suckered into responding to one of those email forward friend surveys that you are supposed to fill out and send to 25 of your closest friends so you can have good luck and help cancer patients and orphans.
2: Don't know what I want to do when I grow up.
3: Ran for student body president in the 5th grade. I dressed up as Dorothy and carried around my little dog Lucy. My speach went something like this, "I went to the wizard, and he gave me a brain, to make the right decisions, a heart to care about the people, the nerve to change things." Move over Obama speech writer...
4: Loved Ireland. Loved the pubs instead of coffee shops. Loved the Puck fair, this small-town Gypsy Bazzar with a horse trade...the oldest fair in Ireland. Loved Hurling, and the Hunt Chase. Loved Bike Messenger World Championships. Loved Irish Men, the idea of James Joyce (havent read him yet) and John Banville. Loved wandering into a pub and hearing a two man band playing folk music.
5: I also loved Naples, Italy. It had a mafia charm, and was totally gritty yet distinguished. The most amazing piece of art I have ever seen, "The Veiled Christ" is in this backally chapel. The streets smell like fish.
6: I have the greatest friends. I have a BHFF, BCFF, BACFF, BBFF, BRFF, BPFF, and BMFF.
7: I would like to meet some hot guy to hike the whole Great Wall of China with me (its a 10 month commitment...anyone? Christie and Jimmy Beasley--don't worry about it--I am not asking you!)
8: Love Pirates. At least the idea of them. I want to be one as long as it doesn't entail killing people and stealing stuff. Just give me a hook hand and I am all set adventures on the high seas--only I get really sea sick. Maybe it would be ok to steal from bad guys.
9: Have often said something like, "You can never have too much/many (cumin, chocolate, garlic, arugula, vacation time, wool, self-help books, exercise, therapy, almond butter, fiber, vitamins etc) most of the statements have since been revised.
10: Really want to hop a train before I die.
11: That same dog Lucy did my paper route with me. She sat on a basket on the front of my bike. I crashed a lot so she learned to bail.
12: Really like not having a car--it feals like I am bucking the system--like I am able to get by without something most people need--also I feal like "Jamie Bond" because I am good at changing really quick from wierd bike messenger polyester to sophisticated school teacher (maybe sophisticated is stretching it :) ).
13: Want to be a writer--at least as far as I can imagine the writing life.
14: Launched a campaign in third grade to educate the public on elephant poaching. I made campaign buttons that said, "Help Lusk Save the Tusks"
15: Wrote Bob Dylan a few years ago and asked him out for Coffee. I decorated his letter with a mini pink boa and gave it to the local promotor who was hosting him in Denver (he was a client of mine when I was a bike messenger). Bob Dylan DID NOT have coffee with me. Whats up with that?
16: Love the papasan chair that my friends got me a few years ago...its my happy place.
17: My mom still knows before I do when I am tired, need to go to the bathroom, or am about to have my period.
18: Love going into the trees when I am snowboarding--even though nearly every run I run into a tree and all the snow falls off the tree into my jacket, or I fall down into the tree well.
19: Have the best Church. Even though the singing is the worst, its still decorated with cheep garland, our nativity scene is from Big Lots, and has a plastic dragon in it, the service is filled with old hippies and homless crazy people, and 12-steppers. Its home! And my pastor is the best mentor ever.
20: Have a terrible event memory. People are always asking, "Remember when..." I don't. Even big stuff. "Remember when we went to Boston together for a weekend?" No. "Remember when you were in my wedding?" No. Sorry.
21: Had to go to the Disneyland Jail for jumping off "Pirates of the Carribean" and impersonating a mechanical pirate while playing, "Hey didly dee, a pirates' life for me" on my harmonica.
22: Definitely like a greater percentage (65%?) Of seventh graders than adults (50%?)
23: Tried to find a spot on the nearby river for an "eternal swimming pool." You know, a place with the perfect current to swim against for as long as I wanted? I lasted about 10 min before I realized that I found the "eternal panic attack."
24: Got made fun of in High School Spanish class for my terrible Japanese-sounding Spanish pronounciations.
25: Participated in Daily aerobics class during OIF in an air-conditioned (think 100 degrees instead of 120) tent, using MRE boxes as our step.