Facebook x-post time, since I'm lazy and the blog has been light on posts lately. Enjoy.

1) I abhor memes. I really don't care which Beatle I am or how many lines I recognize from Princess Bride. The only reason I'm doing this one is because everyone else's answers were so interesting. And no, I'm not tagging anyone.

2) The hardest part about doing this was finding things to say about myself that don't make me sound fussy or whiny. Uh.

3) I am happier now than I have ever been in my entire life. Probably my entire life put together. I need to remember that more often.

4) The most recent movie I've seen is Pan's Labyrinth, and it just about did me in. I cried for a while afterwards because it was the bleakest thing I'd seen since Brazil. But it was also gorgeous and stunning and really well made. I wouldn't change a thing about it, but I may not ever feel strong enough to watch it again. It's also the first movie that ever made me cover my eyes and not watch a scene -- twice -- both for elements of extraordinary human violence.

5) For all the times I've tried to learn, and for all the tunes I know, I still can't read music past puzzling out treble-clef one slow note at a time, like a hunt-and-peck typist. A proper understanding of modes and key signatures still eludes me, regardless of how many times friends have explained them. I don't get it either.

6) I've never drunk a major-label domestic beer. This is due in large part to the fact that I was a teetotaler until I was 23, and when I finally did start drinking, my friends started me on really good stuff like ten-year-old port and double-bock microbrews. I have good friends.

7) I have a 12-year-old bachelor's degree from Eastern Michigan University: a double-major in literature and life drawing (which I love referring to as "a degree in drawing naked people"). The education quality was pretty crummy (with the exception of a couple amazing teachers), the degree was pretty much useless for anything but a career in making comics as a hobby, but the friends that I made there are the best friends I've ever had, and I'm still in close touch with most of them.
I wish that, instead of telling me I was a smart kid, teachers would've told me that I was a hard worker. It would have made learning difficult things easier.

9) I have a love/hate relationship with technology. I adore technology that does what I want it to, but I despise technology that intrudes on my life without my permission. Hence, I love my old-school iPod because all it does is play music, but I will probably never own a smartphone because of its constant demands on my attention. Facebook is already grating on me, but it has its purposes.

10) I am ready to stop swearing as much as I do, because I know how juvenile it sounds. However, it's a really fucking hard habit to break.

11) I heavily abuse the words "really" and "awesome". And "dude". Goto 10.

12) I met my husband at a comics convention when he reviewed my portfolio. Six years later he finally realized I liked him, but not before other people openly assumed we were already dating.

13) For as many years as I've spent making comics, I'm still caught in a perpetual spin-cycle of being amazed at how much I've accomplished on my own, while still never feeling accomplished enough to deserve a spot at the big kids' table. I need to get over this.

14) My younger twin brothers and I used to fight constantly as kids, to the point where my parents would never leave us alone together. As adults, however, we've really grown to enjoy each other's company, and I'm excessively happy about this, because my brothers are both really great people.

15) My first job, which lasted three summers, was selling peaches from a roadside stand. Ten years later, church ladies still called me "Peaches".

16) I am incapable of sneezing fewer than three times in a row. My average is seven, and my record (so far) is sixteen.

17) Glen Alt in County Sligo, Ireland is the most beautiful place I've ever seen in my life. Nothing before or since has even come close.

18) All of my favorite comfort foods are from different Asian countries: Bi bim bop, oyako don, pho, pad thai, tom yum gai. Forget mac and cheese, pass the chirashi sushi.

19) I believe strongly that every omnivore should, at some point in their life, be handed a live chicken and a hatchet and get told to make dinner. I think there would be many more vegetarians if people were forced to reckon with the realities of their diet.

20) I continually struggle with my faith. For the last ten years I've felt most at home with the Quakers and their absence of dogma, but I still have trouble with certain tenets of their system. While I'm glad that I'm constantly re-evaluating my beliefs, I wish I felt more sure of the path I was on.

21) I have a hard time respecting people that can't have a good heated debate and still come away as friends. Even if I wholeheartedly disagree with you, that doesn't mean I don't want to hear your opinion, and I hope you'll want to hear mine. I've had my mind changed many times by a rigorous discussion, and I treasure friends who challenge my opinions and force me to see the holes in my defenses.

22) I'm a thrift-store/eBay obsessive. Buying 90% of my clothing and entertainment pre-owned lets me splurge on expensive food and occasional big-ticket items (like printing graphic novels), which means a lot more to me than if my jeans are name-brand.

23) While I have reasonably good luck with my garden, I will kill just about any plant that I bring indoors. If I don't neglect it to death, the cat will inevitably eat it.

24) I don't own any makeup, with the exception of this one tube of concealer that I got from being in a wedding four years ago. I still occasionally use it if I get a nasty breakout. I have also never changed the color of my hair, with the exception of one St. Patrick's Day dare. I joke with my mother that I will have grey hair before she does.

25) When other people tell me how much time they spend just watching television or sitting around doing nothing, it makes me wish there were a way for me to purchase their idle time for my own use. Not them -- just their hours. I clearly need a clone.