100 Facts About Laetiçia

Because it's been months since my last post and catch up posts aren't that much fun, I give you this list of 100 facts I bet you didn't know about me. You can all thank Melanism for inspiring it. Here we go...

1. I have identical birthmarks on my tongue and on my belly.
2. I plan my days around my meals.
3. I'm also very protective of my food.
4. I understand French and Creole, but in conversation, I will only answer you in English.
5. I was born in Brussels and at one point in my life I was fluent in Vlaamsche.
6. I have very little faith in people.
7. I've an general phobia of horror films and their advertisements.
8. My bunions are genetic and are not caused by many years studying ballet.
9. My favorite movie of all time is "The Wiz".
10. I lack sympathy for anorexics but I do feel pity for the morbidly obese.
11. If I had it my way, I would have music playing all the time.
12. After visiting Haiti, I feel even less compassion for beggars and anorexics here in the States.
13. Lists give me a boner.
14. I rely heavily on the zodiac when interacting with people I don't get (which is generally everyone outside my tight little circle). It's a silly habit and it's only accurate about a third of the time, but it gets me through my days, so I continue to let it guide me.
15. I'm good at feigning calm in nerve rattling situations.
16. When I ask for the truth, that's exactly what I mean. I'm a proponent of tough, honest love and I'm truly attracted to people of the same opinion.
17. I have my septum pierced, but I usually keep the ring tucked in, for work, for dance and cause I like keeping secrets.
18. I used to have my left nipple pierced.
19. I’m allergic to Tylenol.
20. My right foot is a half size larger than my left.
21. My younger sister and I were treated like twins until about age 10 when she had a growth spurt.
22. I’m a Cancer-Leo cuspian.
23. I was born nearly two months premature.
24. I collect black hair products.
25. When I’m taking the stairs, I've started counting them in polonaise.
26. I performed naked in an empty pool located in the heart of Hipsterville, Brooklyn every night for the entire month of September in 2006.
27. I own all five studio albums and every single released by *N SYNC.
28. I’m a chronic knuckle popper.
29. There aren’t too many foods that don’t give me the wind.
30. I’ve never had a boyfriend.
31. I cracked one of my buck teeth in half when I was six.
32. I like to chew two pieces of gum at once, on separate sides of my mouth, that way I can't bit my tongue when switching.
33. I was a cheerleader once.
34. It was in a freak cheerleading accident (the fault of a severely incompetent fool!) that I lost the entire nail on my ring finger, ripped clean from its bed, leaving raw high yellow flesh in its absence. Good times.
35. I could listen to Jamiroquai's "Canned Heat" all day, every day.
36. I don't hold liquor well and I hate the taste of alcohol.
37. When I was a fragile adolescent, I did everything in my power to hide my muscular arms. It was Angela Basset who inspired me to get over myself.
38. I'm a cat person. Dogs are okay, but cats get me, you know?
39. Growing up, I suffered from regular episodes of hypnagogic paralysis.
40. When I was very young, my cousins sat on me and made me watch "Poltergeist" and "Puppet Master. It wasn't until sometime in my teen years that I stopped cocooning myself in bed sheets and hiding a flashlight under my pillow.
41. I've never tried drugs.
42. It takes me a long time to get through an entire album. I sort of skim for the standout tracks and listen to them ad nauseam.
43. My current job's title and what I actually do from 10a-6p are pretty much unrelated.
44. My second ear piercings are stretched to 0g.
45. Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" gets me every time.
46. I have a vintage shop.
47. The few friends that I have are very close to me and I love them dearly.
48. I have a fine talent for seeing the worst in people immediately. This little party trick helps me keep my circle of friends very tight.
49. I don't eat beef and pork. Not because of any religious affiliation, I'm simply not a fan of the texture or taste of either.
50. Particularly with music, I'm a compulsive completist. I like to buy all the albums of one artist irregardless of the quality said album. For example, Michael Jackson hasn't created a worthwhile studio album since "Bad", but I purchased the last four albums he's put out since because a collection isn't quite a collection until it's complete.
51. Sunflowers are my favorite flowers. Orchid come in second by a nose hair.
52. I don't put that much value in words. I'm good at deciphering body language and the mess in between the language.
53. My best body part is my back.
54. My younger sister is about a head and a half taller and at least two dress sizes smaller. Bitch.
55. I took my sister and her friend to Roosevelt Field one day with the intent to shoplift. We got caught. Security took us to a back room and called our parents. After meeting our moms (very loud, easily angered large Caribbean women dragged from their hateful jobs all the way in BROOKLYN to find their daughters sitting tearful, speechless and terrified of the wrath coming our way), security felt for us and let us go without punishment.
56. The first record I ever bought with my own money was the self titled album by Deep Forest. I was just discovering the avant-garde and, back then, this totally blew my prepubescent mind.
57. I used to hate my name because no one ever said it right and growing up suburban, it gave me a certain... air that I could never live up to.
58. I'm represented by the same agency that represents this lady and this lady.
59. I don't know how to swim.
60. My voice raises a couple of octaves when I'm on the phone. People say I sound like a little girl, but I do it so as not to reveal my normally salty demeanor.
61. Back when BET was all glitter and mirrors, Aaliyah was totally my style icon.
62. I'm more trusting of women and children then I am of men.
63. I was an editor on my high school's year book. I rejected at least half of the pictures submitted by cheerleaders, guidos, cool kids and jocks (white people), then replaced them with pictures of my friends and random nerds (everyone else).
64. In my opinion, ice cream and hot chocolate are good anytime of the year.
65. I chew my cuticles when I'm hungry.
66. I also have a habit of chewing ice.
67. People have said I have a great smile. I wouldn't say so.
68. Performing and traveling are my two greatest passions. If I could have it my way, I'd be doing both for a living.
69. When you ask me if you look fat, ugly, stupid, etc. in that outfit, I will always say yes.
70. I love my breasts.
71. I also love my hair.
72. I like to sleep on my back or on my tummy with no pillows.
73. Men's colon makes me want to vomit... violently.
74. I have trouble with tone when writing emails.
75. I hate wimpy huggers... you know those people who just drape themselves all over you or the other kind, who sort of circle you with their arms and pat your back. Assholes. Why bother!
74. I want a big family with lots and lots of children.
75. I met my great-grandmother when she was 105 years old. She was totally lucid and energetic. She inspires me to live longer than she did.
76. I wonder if my lack of a decent male prospects has any correlation to the effect I have on lesbians.
77. I don't trust people who talk too much. I think its generally the case that those are the kind of people who don't actually have anything important to say and so they just make it all up.
78. I have a healthy sweet tooth. I could eat an entire jar of honey in one sitting.
79. I don't have a drivers license or a permit and I never learned how to drive.
80. I will look at you in the eye when you're talking to me. I don't trust people who can't do the same.
81. Throughout my childhood, we had five pet cats. My mom named them all Mimi.
82. I'm annoyed by the color "nude".
83. I half snore in my sleep.
84. I was a tomboy growing up.
85. In a rare act of sheer rage, I pushed this white lady on a crowded train because she was being mean to a fellow immigrant. After she told me to "go back to the ghetto", I summoned my voodoo ancestors and put a hex on her miserable little life.
86. I would never get plastic surgery, but I wonder what botulism in my face would actually feel like.
87. I'm pretty good at keeping my anger and misery locked up. People who cry in public or curse outloud in a stalled train sicken me.
88. My performance resume says I'm an amateur sax and harmonica player, but I actually can't play either very well.
89. The last physical CD I purchased was Outkast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"... to complete the collection.
90. My undergraduate education was a complete waste of money.
91. I don't really have a favorite color.
92. I love Yukimi Nagano the way most people love Esthero.
93. During recess in kindergarten, this grown-ass Amazonian third grader fell on me and broke my ankle. My mom would later add this event to a long list entitled "Do You Know How Rich We Would Be If I Wasn't Such A Good Person?"
94. I'm not too big on movies.
95. I can fall asleep anywhere.
96. I'm terrible at kissing asses and stroking egos.
97. It's difficult for me to warm up. I'd rather be too hot than chilly.
98. When I hear parents complain about how bad their children are, I want to tell them that they made their children that way, but saying so would be mean and I'm working on being nicer.
99. I'm fascinated by the story of the Amazon warriors.
100. The gap in my smile is from my mother's side.

And there you have it. 100 things you didn't need to know about me.
Have a happy Wednesday.

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