{"id":37,"date":"2005-10-23T23:26:50","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T23:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/23\/me\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T05:11:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:11:19","slug":"me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/23\/me\/","title":{"rendered":"me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting to know you, getting to know me. Everyone&#8217;s making lists. I wont do the 100 things about &#8216;I&#8217; because I really don&#8217;t know myself well enough for that. But I can do 25&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. I grew up in WV.  I moved to Europe in 1998.  I haven&#8217;t left yet.<br \/>\n2. <strong> Buffy is my real name. It always has been.<\/strong><br \/>\n3. I can read Classical and Koine Greek.<br \/>\n4. I disagree with my mother just for the sake of it.<br \/>\n5. I love Steve Martin.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/i-heart-steve-martin-sincerely\/\"target=_blank>Sincerely<\/a>.<br \/>\n6. I wrote my first book when i was 9. About the Aztec and Inca Empires.<br \/>\n7. I can&#8217;t sing. At all.<br \/>\n8. <strong>My sister really gets me.<\/strong><br \/>\n9. I&#8217;m planning a trip to China. <strong>&#8211; We are now going to Dubai.<\/strong><br \/>\n10. I have a love-hate relationship with Brian Sewell. Sometimes I love him. Most of the time I hate him.<br \/>\n11. I&#8217;ve had housemates from WV, VA, NC, NY, Mexico, Brasil, Portugal, Pakistan, Libya, France, Germany, Norway, Greece, Finland, Spain, Northern Ireland and sundry towns throughout England. I got on best with the Irish girl and the communist.<br \/>\n12. I sometimes have seizures. No one knows why.<br \/>\n13. <strong>I&#8217;ve got a huge crush on Conan O&#8217;Brien. It&#8217;s huge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>14. I&#8217;m interested in the Coptic language but never know what to do with the article when a word is both noun and name. As in Isos Pi Khristos (Isoos Pi&#8217;ekhrestos).<br \/>\n15. Bunches of close-together, little-tiny circles scare me. Like frog eggs or honeycombs. Often causes #12.<br \/>\n16. <strong>I have several university degrees. I use none of them.<\/strong><br \/>\n17. My high school history teacher was Harshbarger. Bill.<br \/>\n19. I kinda sorta really did grow up around dead people.<br \/>\n20. <strong>I put myself through college on $1.35 an hour.<\/strong><br \/>\n21. I obsess about my hair and teeth.<br \/>\n22. If I could, I would spend my life as a postgraduate and do nothing but research. I&#8217;m a nerd like that.<br \/>\n23. <strong>I used to be a criminologist. Victimology was my gig.<\/strong><br \/>\n24. My pinky toe serves no purpose. It should be chopped off.<br \/>\n25.  I could wander Rome forever. <\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/09\/youve-been-eating-retard-sandwiches-again\/\">YOU KNOW,  THAT LINE FROM BEAUTIFUL GIRLS>><\/a><\/center><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/10-things\/\"><strong>TEN THINGS I HAD TO TELL MY MOTHER WHEN I MOVED ABROAD>><\/strong><\/a><\/center><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/writing-exercise\/\"><strong>WHERE I&#8217;M FROM>><\/strong><\/a><\/center><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting to know you, getting to know me. Everyone&#8217;s making lists. I wont do the 100 things about &#8216;I&#8217; because I really don&#8217;t know myself well enough for that. 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