About A Girl

I did this once on my old blog and thought I would do it again. Weird things about me:

Date of Birth: January 2, 1970
Place of Birth: Hunter Air Base, Savannah, Georgia
Elementary Schools: Goldsmith and Jeffersontown Elementaries in Louisville, Kentucky
Middle School: Jefferson County Traditional Middle School, Louisville, Kentucky
High Schools: Louisville Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky and Countrtyside High School (Class of 1988) in Clearwater, Florida.
Undergraduate: University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (Class of 1992). B.A. History
Graduate School: University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (Class of 2003). M.A. Special Education, Graduated first in class.
Rank I: University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (Class of 2004). Autism and Assistive Technology.
States I've Lived In: Florida, Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado and Alaska (8)
States I've Visited: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Alaska and the District of Columbia. (27)
Favorite States: West Virginia, Alaska and Kentucky.
Canadian Provinces I've Visited: Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. (3)
Countries I've Visited: United States, Canada and England. (3)
Airports I've Flown Into: Tampa, St. Petersburg, Atlanta, Charlotte, Greensboro, Washington Dulles, New York Laguardia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati, Lexington, Louisville, Chicago O'Hare, Chicago Midway, Dallas-Ft. Worth, St. Louis, Seattle, Anchorage, Calgary, Toronto and London Gatwick. (21)
Five States I've Never Visited That I Most Want To: California, Wyoming, Montana, Maine and Hawaii.
Five States That I've Never Visited That I Never Want To Go To: Oklahoma, Arizona, Delaware, North Dakota and Connecticut.
Five Countries I've Never Been To That I Most Want To Go To: Russia, Australia, Peru, Japan and Kenya.
Five Favorite Big Cities That I've Visited: London, Chicago, New York, Seattle and Atlanta.
Five Ski Resorts I Want To Ski At The Most: Whistler-Blackcomb, Jackson Hole, Crested Butte, Taos and Mt. Baker Washington.
One Thing I'd Love To Do In My Life: Climb Mt. Everest.
Favorite Mountains: Appalachians.
Favorite Ocean: Well, I've only seen the Atlantic so I guess that's it though I'm partial to the Gulf of Mexico.
Five Favorite Sports: College football, Indy Car Racing, College Basketball, Formula One and Baseball.
Apple of PC: Hello, I'm a Mac!
Favorite Meal: Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuits and gravy and a cold coke.
Favorite Fast Food: White Castle.
Favorite Ethnic Food: Mexican.
Favorite Action Movies: Saving Private Ryan, Die Hard, Thin Red Line, Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now.
Favorite Sci-Fi Movies: Blade Runner, Empire Strikes Back, Terminator, The Matrix and Minority Report
Favorite Comedy Movies: Raising Arizona, Clerks, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Blazing Saddles and Animal House.
Favorite Chick Flicks: Imagine Me and You, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, 13 Going on 30 and Titantic.
Favorite Classic Movies: Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, To Kill A Mockingbird, Rebecca and Rear Window.
Other Favorite Movies: Dazed and Confused, O' Brother Where Art Thou, The Big Lebowski and Heat.
Favorite Television Shows: Lost, Northern Exposure, Seinfeld, Cheers and Frasier.
Favorite Fiction Books: 1984, To Kill A Mockingbird, Rebecca, Gone With The Wind and Frankenstein.
Favorite Non-Fiction Books: A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer and Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.
Pets: Three dogs- Sammy (Border Collie), River (Border Collie) and Shadow (Lab Mix). All are rescue dogs.
Favorite Sounds: Thunder, wind blowing in the trees, music, dogs barking and the sound of silence that can only be found in the woods.