25 random things

I’ve been trying to avoid this meme, but I’ve been tagged yet again, so here goes

1. Since I left for college, I have lived in 5 states. I have lived in 11 “urban areas”. I have had 25 addresses. In 22 years folks. I feel permanent in my new zip code, and it’s a pretty alien feeling.
2. My feelings about buying a home define ambivalence.
3. I followed the Grateful Dead for most of a decade
4. Jerry Garcia died the day I moved from California to NY for graduate school. I learned about it just west of Rochester, when I turned on the radio to check local news for my new home. I will always feel like a part of me died that day
5. I like to fantasize about knowing how to do things. I have very little patience for actually learning how to do them. I am told this is a very Pisces trait.
6. There are three hobbies I am committed to learning and taking up: belly dancing, glass blowing, and gardening
7. I am completely fascinated with Australia. I have avoided reading and learning about Australia so I wouldn’t become a weird obsessive. Instead, I’m afraid I’ve made a bit of a fetish out of it
8. I am currently saving money to go to Australia next summer for a conference, and a two week vacation touring Queensland. And I now have given myself permission to research it obsessively.
9. I have only very recently  begun enjoying children. Other people’s children. It was a huge relief to realize that I remain quite happy about having none of my own.
10. I have 13 nieces and nephews. Two more are on their way. The eldest is 8. The eldest in Chicago is in first grade. Only 2 do not live in Chicago.
11. I get very frustrated when I do not have a vocabulary for describing my thoughts. Design and sound often fall into this trap.
12. I enjoy simple cooking. I am very afraid of multi-course ‘company’ cooking
13. I don’t bake. In my family this is considered odd. But I’ve never felt the need to bake, when mom and sis and bro and cousins are all so keen to do it. I make a wide array of tasty appetizers, though
14. I’m vegetarian. Have been since 1989.
15. I stopped eating seafood on the first leg of a family trip to Cape Cod when I was 8. I got very sick in a posh seafood resteraunt, and it was very traumatic.
16. I miss the positive peer pressure of living with folks who hold me to a higher standard than I hold myself
17. I am happy being single, but I am deeply afraid of dying alone.
18. I hate arena rock
19. Even in my dotage, I remain an idealist.
20. I am working on bringing my internal forthrightness and my external conflict-avoidance into better agreement.
21. I would rather be alone than be is a bad relationship
22. I have never seen a Rocky movie, a Bond movie, or any of the Godfather films
23. My reading materials theses days are either work-related or speculative fiction. Work, or reality escape
24. Of all the forces of the universe, I feel inertia most strongly.
25. An enigma: I love sleeping in my own bed more than almost anything. And yet, I rarely go to bed early enough to get enough sleep.