To begin.
Most everybody I know at C.C. has a talent that they mastered and took really far; then they got tired of it and stopped several years ago and never looked back.
Mine was tap dancing.
When I was thirteen I took a solo to Dance U.S.A. where I tapped for the first half, then sat down in the middle of it to take off my shoes so I could do jazz for the rest of it. My teacher, Shannon Steen, was a 5-year Laker girl/choreographer and professor of dance at Berkeley.
I was born in Fullerton, California on January 5th, 1989, the same day as the first lawsuit between Apple and Microsoft. As it so happens, my mother was the computer technology reporter for the Orange County Register, right at the birth of the Internet.
My love affair with Claude Monet started when I was seven years old. I finally got to see his garden when I was seventeen.
When I was in 4th grade I was televised reciting the rosary at the Međugorje Peace Conference.
I babysat two Miss Californias: 2003 Miss California Jr. Pre-Teen, and 2005 Miss California Jr. Pre-Teen/2006 Miss California Pre-Teen.
I have legitimately pole vaulted 12 feet (which would have won me a state title). It was inside a basketball gym. My coach, Paul Wilson, was the first high schooler in the world to do 16 feet, and he held the world record for a year and four months in the sixties.
I hold the female record for JUGs (detentions) at my high school.
My dad was growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, during Remember the Titans.
1985-1986 my mother was working in Sweden, writing the English news. She quit, probably because it wasn't very exciting, right before February 28, when Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead on his way home from the cinema.
I'm a ChaCha guide.
I know more than 50 old-fashioned nursery rhymes by heart.
I have been in two (or three) major car accidents, and the airbags never deployed.
I can bellydance, wiggle my ears, and play the ocarina. That's about as far as my useless talents go.
Sixteen of my HS classmates got NCAA Division 1 scholarships.
I have broken all of my best race times during tempo runs.
My friend Allison's mom was the reporter in the "I Like Turtles" youtube vid.
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Hmm, I didn't know you held the girls' JUG record: how did you verify that one?
I was freelancing in Sweden and got offered a stringer job with the Associated Press but my Swedish boyfriend dumped me, I was there on an expired tourist visa, I had no $$$, so I had to come home. Three months later Palme's assassination - outside the same Stockholm movie theater where I'd gone to catch American movies with my friend Helene - was front page news all over the world. Talk about your bad timing.
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