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I bet you didn’t know:

• I love watching deep-sea documentaries on The Discovery Channel.
• That’s me skydiving in the masthead (with my Austrian tandem instructor, Fabian).
• My favorite high-school teacher was named James Bond.
• I’ll take popcorn over chocolate any day of the week.
• In 2005, I traveled to Paris for a week by myself. It was one of the most incredible trips of my life.
• I’m itching to go to Tokyo, Seoul, Amsterdam, London, St. Petersburg, Norway, Argentina, China, South Africa, Tanzania, Costa Rica, Mongolia, Vietnam, Egypt, Morocco, Guatemala, Cuba, Lesotho, Kenya, Ethiopia, and India.
• I hate light beer.
• And romance novels.
• And anything marketed as fat-free.
• I can’t whistle.
• I can’t waterski, either.
• In my dreams, I can almost always fly.
• My favorite musical instrument is the cello.
• My favorite dessert is a cheese plate.
• My favorite type of cheese is Delice de Bourgogne.
• My least favorite type of cheese is Swiss.
• I had 12 co-ed roommates in college.
• I keep in touch with one of them.
• I once had to go to court to testify against a roommate who was being sued by another roommate.
• That was a bad year.
• Volcanoes fascinate me.
• I think the cartoon Charlie and Lola is just about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.
• My favorite science is astronomy.
• I only write in unlined journals.
• My favorite Harry Potter characters are the Weasley twins.