100 things about me: Part 2

[ailbhe]

34. If I have had my hair trimmed more than an inch in the past six months, I feel like it's "short". The fact that it's usually hanging somewhere between my shoulder blades and my waist doesn't affect this much.
35. Sometimes I dye my hair reddish with henna. I aim for the colour it used to be when I had free time to spend outdoors.
36. I get very jealous when I perceive other people as working less than I do, especially if I have to pick up their slack.
37. I try to apologise when I believe I have done wrong by action or inaction. I don't apologise unless I believe that.
38. I am usually very reliable, but this is probably more true at work than in social situations.
39. The burden of guilt placed on me by having to earn money is very great. I am aware that most people do not feel this burden. I believe that a great many people do not actually earn their salaries.
40. I feel guilty for not giving more of my untaxed income to the jobless and homeless.
41. I am a pinko hippie commie treehugging organic-food-buying fluffmonster. And so's my mother.
42. My mother is possibly the most wonderful person on Earth. I haven't met everyone yet, though, so there might be someone out there who is better.
43. I know a bunch of people who run her a close second.
44. It is wonderful to be friends with my sisters.
45. I am one of five sisters. We have no brothers. I don't miss them.
46. My mother never ever ever told me to be ladylike. Sometimes she told me to behave like a civilised Christian. She is agnostic but believes in civility.
47. I like purple and blue. I used to like purple a whole lot more. Now it represents a particular phase of adolescence to me, and I wear it to remember that phase. I am trying to imbue it with new meaning.
48. I have wanted a pair of black silk trousers since I was 14.
49. I look great in harem pants.
50. Sometimes I wonder whether I am as honest as I like to think I am.
51. My bedroom walls are yellow. So is the kitchen and the bathroom. I find it helps to cheer me up in the winter.
52. My biggest fear is hunger.
53. My second biggest fear is homelessness.
54. I would endure hunger to stave off homelessness for a short time.
55. I have a great pantry and buy some really good food.
56. I have always wanted to own a house with a library.
57. Now I do. It even has a sheepskin rug.
58. My conscience doesn't let me buy first-hand books at full price. It has to be a bargain or a gift.
59. I got a gift voucher for Christmas and bought three books.
60. I own three small torches especially for reading. And a miner's lamp.
61. I hate handbags and prefer pockets and beltloops.
62. My good skirts don't have beltloops much.
63. This doesn't bother me.
64. I often do things because other people think I should.
65. I rarely do things which I believe to be wrong at the behest of other people.
66. I have a photograph on my desk of a boy I knew 8 or 9 years ago. His name is Mike Mettler and I think he might be in California somewhere.