7 Things you may not know...

1. I was my school spelling bee champ 3 yrs in a row.
I think my last year I was 15th or so in the regional bee. I don't remember what word knocked me out the first time - the second and third were merganser and hostel.

2. Not only can I touch my toes, I can usually lay my palms flat on the ground.
I'm weirdly flexible. I can't do splits (box or side), but my hammies for some reason are sorta slack. It's puzzled more than one md, pt, and massage therapist!

3. Even if I get married, I'll keep J as my last initial.
It's the name that will be on my diploma and any papers that get published with my grad work (unless anything happens between now and May). I kinda like it anyway :)

4. I've been featured in a comic strip.
Really - it was PhD Comics! I got to eat dinner with Jorge too, as a reward for postering campus about his talk. Hey, it worked!

5. I don't have a middle name.
Really, it's so I could take my maiden name as a middle name upon marrying. See#3 for how this has backfired. Mom doesn't have a middle name either, and she didn't take her maiden name as a middle name...that'd be a mouthful!

6. I screwed up the 'order' in my family.
Mom, Dad, Michael and I all graduated from Lowell High. Mom, Dad, and Michael all graduated from MCC...with Michael and Dad in the same program. Thus, I have screwed up royally by going to UML and RPI! I joke that maybe I'll go back for a fun degree, but to keep the 'order' I'd have to go for radiologic technology like Ma! Hmm...

7. I have closet 'girly' traits.
I have a large collection of bath/shower goodies, fair share of makeup considering I don't wear it on a daily basis, and a decent nailpolish collection. Ironically, that's about the extent of it.