No, I haven’t finished typing up chapter seventeen yet though I’m probably about a third of the way through. I ended up spending a lot of time figuring out where I want the chapter to end, and that resulted in about an hour’s worth of trying to figure out where I want all the other chapters to end. I finally decided to work my way backwards to determine chapter beginnings and endings, and the way it looks now (though it’s likely to change) is that there’ll be a total of twenty-two chapters in my first novel. Madness.

I periodically check my MySpace and Facebook pages (as in two or three times a year), and I’m always amazed at the number of people who seem interested in finding out what I’m doing. HOWEVER, they never bother to come to WiG (or if they do, they don’t comment) despite the obvious and frequent places where I expliciitly scream that I don’t check those sites but rarely and therefore they should come HERE. I’m slightly agitated about the whole thing, I suppose, and while I would love to keep in contact with more of these people, I just can’t bring myself to become addicted to sites whose very interface is irritating and non-conducive to the way I like to handle my life. Regardless. In looking at those sites, I realized that there was more that needed to be updated on my own page, so I added a paragraph to my About page and decided to once more update my list of 100 things about me. It is as follows and is obtainable via the “More” link because otherwise it will take up the entire first page of my site. I had to update only a handful of lines, so it’s pretty similar to the previous one. Enjoy!

1. My favorite color is green.
2. My favorite food is lettuce; I can eat an entire head of iceberg lettuce like an apple.
3. If I were stranded on a desert island, the one CD I would want would be Tori Amos’ “Little Earthquakes.” Then I would want a CD player with infinite batteries.
4. I can speak fluent French and know bits and pieces of several other languages.
5. I have visited nearly a dozen different castles.
6. I dislike dogs except for beagles.
7. My favorite flower is the hyacinth.
8. My Master’s thesis was on French pejorative suffixes.
9. I used to play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends every weekend.
10. I’m afraid of suffocation and can’t stand to have anything blocking my mouth or nose.
11. I graduated high school as salutatorian instead of valedictorian because of a B+ in one class: economics.
12. I crochet excessively and often come up with my own patterns.
13. I can’t drive a stick.
14. I hate shopping except for crafts stuff and shoes.
15. One of my ancestors was the first president of the Continental Congress.
16. I played the Wicked Witch of the West my senior year of high school.
17. I like boring toothpaste.
18. I’m very nervous when in a car, either driving or as a passenger.
19. I don’t like roller coasters.
20. What I miss the most about France is the food.
21. I hate washing dishes without rubber gloves on.
22. I’ve been to four other countries: Canada, Mexico, France, and Germany.
23. I don’t have cable and I am perfectly fine with that.
24. I am very necrophobic and was sick for a week when my Grandma Nolan died.
25. My favorite author is Robert Lynn Asprin who wrote the Myth series, the basis of my own novels.
26. I like cemeteries but do not want to be buried in one; I’d rather be donated to science.
27. I hate getting up early in the morning.
28. I like making my own cross stitch patterns.
29. I passed a kidney stone one day while at work.
30. I’m not embarrassed that I have to close my eyes during parts of certain movies.
31. I’m very anxious talking to people I don’t know.
32. I am a Sartrian Existentialist.
33. I don’t know how to put make-up on.
34. I have climbed a mountain in Vermont.
35. I love burning candles.
36. I enjoy writing my own HTML.
37. I am allergic to perfume, oatmeal, clarinet reeds, and plastic watch bands.
38. I studied at a French university for a semester.
39. My computers are named Bob, Brigid, Brannagh, and Buster.
40. My favorite French word is désœuvrement ‘for lack of anything better to do.’
41. I hate it when people spell my name “Aaron.” I am not a boy nor will I ever be.
42. I love Kermit the Frog and Ernie too.
43. My favorite movie is Jim Henson’s The Frog Prince followed closely by Cyrano de Bergerac.
44. I donated ten inches of my hair to charity twice and will likely do so again in a few months.
45. I want to live to be 86 to celebrate the 1000 year anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.
46. I love forests and would love to live in a house surrounded by them.
47. I love coins and like collecting foreign ones.
48. I have arthritis and have had since I was eighteen.
49. I was in the third grade when I got chicken pox.
50. I can swim but not very well.
51. I graduated with my Bachelor’s summa cum laude.
52. I’m writing a series of novels, but I don’t really care if it never gets published.
53. I’m scared of doctors of all types.
54. I love mint.
55. I hate coconut.
56. My sister has the cutest kids.
57. I want to get my Doctorate, and then my initials will be Dr. EAD.
58. I think Sharpee markers are awesome for just about everything.
59. I’m afraid of spiders and all insects.
60. My favorite ice cream is peppermint.
61. I have a dent in my forehead from when my sister ran a van into the back of a stationary school bus.
62. I refer to Ace bandages as goat wrap. Long story.
63. I was in a car accident in high school and bit clear through my tongue.
64. I can play five instruments: clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, double horn, and mellophone.
65. I can’t tell the difference between albacore and tuna.
66. I have no tolerance for stupidity.
67. I love having a couple dozen varieties of tea in my kitchen.
68. I get hives on my arms when I’m really stressed out, kind of like a natural mood ring.
69. My favorite Little Debbie cake is the swiss cake roll.
70. I hate having to always wear clothes.
71. I love the feel of my husband’s chest hair against my cheek as he sleeps.
72. One of my favorite poets is Edna St. Vincent Milay.
73. I love collecting quotes.
74. I enjoy drawing and painting though I’m not very good at either.
75. I have over fifty first cousins.
76. I have over a dozen dictionaries of a half dozen different languages.
77. I don’t think that sports have any part in academia and should be removed from public schools as a school-affiliated program. If people want to play sports, they should play intramural.
78. I don’t have any tatoos.
79. I had only four boyfriends before marrying my fifth.
80. I love my pet snail Buì.
81. I love the feel of fresh laundry from the dryer.
82. I love cross stitching and embroidery.
83. I enjoy cooking but prefer my husband’s cooking.
84. My older sister taught me to read when I was three.
85. I am distantly related to Molly Ringwald and Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who set John Wilkes Booth’s leg.
86. I was a first soprano in high school madrigals.
87. I hate having to call people on the telephone.
88. I really like putting stickers on people.
89. I like making dream catchers for people.
90. I like ramen noodles.
91. When I was little, everyone said I had Bette Davis eyes.
92. My cat Kitty is a Mackerel Tabby.
93. I’m deeply afraid of ladders and don’t like stairs much either.
94. Halloween is my favorite holiday followed by St. Patrick’s Day because of all the “Erin Go Braugh” stuff.
95. One of my nicknames in junior high was “The Great Erando.”
96. I have worked in two different libraries and volunteer in a third.
97. I don’t like Fall, Winter or Spring.
98. I don’t have a green thumb. “Black” is a better color to describe it.
99. I enjoy wrapping presents with aluminum foil and duct tape.
100. I love the fact that I’m so close to my siblings and can talk to them about anything.