the revenge of 100 things about shivery, part 2

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51. shivery is caught between a crippling need for caffeine and an intense desire to cut back on its consumption.

52. today, shivery is wearing a tie.

53. shivery is absolutely sick of this ass weather.

54. shivery has blue eyes, but wishes they were green.

55. shivery has a terrible weakness for sideburns. terrible.

56. and the emo glasses. don't forget shivery's predilection towards emo glasses.

57. shivery has recently been finding herself terribly fond of pink.

58. shivery is never happier than when she's in her combat boots and jeans, though she does love dressing up.

59. shivery has come to loathe the words "quality" and "delight"

60. shivery also loathes the sound of sally sue's laugh. but you already knew that.

61. shivery has twelve pairs fo argyle socks.

62. shivery would very much like to know how to play the violin.

63. shivery has lived in texas, california, canada, england and new york.

64. shivery is every inch a downtown rat.

65. shivery prefers jfk to laguardia. mainly because of the big space-age pavilion.

66. shivery is terribly fond of words that begin with the letter "a"

67.shivery's favorite song lyric of the day is: "because you're mistletoe, because i gamble, because i told you so, my eyes are scrambled." --luna, "astronaut"

68. shivery's favorite song lyric of all time may be...nope, actually, can't touch that one.

69. shivery is inordinately fond of the poem "the wasteland" by t.s. eliot.

70. shivery keeps putting off going to the gotham book mart to see their shrine to edward gorey, even though she has wanted to go for about eight years.

71. shivery is seriously coveting the roommate's new ipod. seriously.

72. shivery is absolutely dying to take trips to the following places, in no particular order and for no particular reason: paris, vienna, hong kong, austin, the american deep south, Nebraska, Prague, Melbourne

73.shivery misses having short hair

74. even though she does like the abject girliness that comes with it being long.

75. shivery has only had one crush since the last big debacle, and it is going badly.

76. shivery is sick of being surrounded by women who constantly talk about their diets and how much weight they've lost and their husbands/boyfriends and nothing else. there's nothing wrong with talking about losing weight. there's nothing wrong with talking about your boyfriend/husband. but get some other conversation once in a while for fuck's sake!

77. according to an online quiz, if shivery were a physical characteristic of a celebrity, she's be "that face that avril lavigne feels the need to make." word.

78. shivery is prone to fits of self-loathing.

79. shivery wishes she could smoke indoors.

80. shivery wants to move to england. maybe oxford, since she can't go back to cambridge.

81. shivery's favorite ani difranco album is "not a pretty girl," though "untouchable face" may be her favorite ani song.

82. in the last six months, shivery has been told she looks like tori amos, debra messing and kirsten dunst.

83. in the last six months, shivery has been publicly groped, assaulted in an elevator, and followed home from the subway once.

84. shivery is seriously considering starting up a literal chapter of the junior anti-sex league as a result.

85. shivery is quite shivery right now (it's cold in here.)

86. shivery grinds her teeth in her sleep.

87. five of shivery's favorite movies: 10 things i hate about you; the breakfast club; freeway; north by northwest; blue velvet

88. shivery prefers vanilla soy milk to regular milk. and she can't explain why.

89. shivery is easily startled, though not easily scared.

90. shivery's previous incarnations include: punk, goth (quasi-goth), choir girl, cheerleader, drama queen (though those would argue that she still holds that title)

91. shivery adores peanut butter.

92. shivery has all the potential to be a very dangerous girl.

93. shivery wishes that president palmer were actually the leader of the free world instead of what we've got now.

94. shivery wants to leave this place, but is fairly certain that it's not finished with her yet.

95. and it's not like she knows where she'd go, anyway.

96. shivery is very much looking forward to the next step,. whatever that happens to be.

97. shivery should probably not be allowed anywhere near technology.

98. if shivery were a fruit, she'd probably be a persimmon.

99. shivery wants a cigarette. but she'll be damned if she's going outside in this shite.

100. shivery is a million different people from one day to the next, to quote the verve.