I've seen a lot of these, and some of them helped me learn really interesting things about the people I share my life with, so I decided to do one too. I wrote it a little while ago, found it again today, and decided to post it.

1. I'm honestly not sure if I can find 25 things to say about myself as interesting and revealing as I've learned from reading other people's notes like this. No really.

2. Hanging around with my friends exacerbates my massive inferiority complex. They (you) are all just so ridiculously smart, interesting, and well-rounded, and good scientists and hard workers and caring friends to boot. It makes me leery of demonstrating my composing and my poetry and other such things around them, because I always feel like it sucks afterwards.

3. My friends are the most important things in my life, hands-down. I consider it amongst the highest honors I could give to call someone my friend - it's why I consider it more important that my sister is my friend, not just my sister. It's also why I get really pissed when someone claims my friendship who hasn't earned it.

4. Last night I dreamed that I was a fugitive in a sub-tropical Muslim country, and I was caught and going to be decapitated my a sword that resembled a larger version of my athame. It hurt in the dream, but apparently in that universe, as long as you head didn't get knocked off after it was severed, you could still walk around, and talk, and even fly back home, all of which I did.

5. I often wonder if I'll ever feel truly comfortable in a group without having to work at it.

6. Seeing female couples makes something inside my heart warm up a little, and brings a smile to my face.

7. I was never myself in high school; I didn't even know who I was. I'm still trying to figure some of that out.

8. The absolute sexiest thing I've ever heard while making out is "Thou art Goddess" - and only because she really meant it.
(Corollary: I prefer being with pagans, because who else would ever say that and mean it? And how can anyone fail to realize that making out, having sex, is inherently sacred?)

9. Most of you probably know this, but for six months after discovering that I liked girls, I could not make myself say the word lesbian. I had to use a term from Mercedes Lackey - I wasn't a lesbian, I was shaych.

10. I am Hawk, woman, pagan, lesbian, and student; I am a friend, a composer, a musician, a cellist, a nerd or geek, a molecular biologist, a researcher, an occasional poet, a bookworm, a jester, an archer, and a seeker, amongst the many titles I could claim. But, at the same time, I am more than any of these things, because I am more than a label.

11. I miss fall; I miss the turning of the leaves, the crisp bite in the air, and the faint, clean scent in the air that hints of rest. I miss the rolling hills in reds and gold, and I miss the scent of apples and apple pie and football watching with my dad on Sundays. I miss the land going to rest, going to sleep.
(Corollary: I miss the amazing feeling in spring when all the land's waking, and the absolute joy of life returning. There is no spring as glad as that after a long winter.)

12. It is incredibly difficult for me to be attracted to people to be girlfriends - I can find friends, I can find attractive women, but the combination of those two and the special something which makes me want to stand at their side in that way is incredibly rare. This makes dating interesting.

13. I have only ever been on one date, and it was awkward as hell. It was also amazing and a lot of fun.

14. I don't believe that there is a higher power, something greater than humanity, greater than nature, greater than the sum of all things; I know that there is. And I've come to my conclusions through experiential evidence.

15. I am easily distractible, quite ridiculous, and can be bouncy as hell. I'm also serious and pensive. And I love bad puns.

16. I am an Ellis fangirl, and I really hope I get to see SJ Tucker live sometime. Preferably soon. ^^

17. I don't really like watching movies, unless there's a peanut gallery going on of commentary. Some TV shows are OK, but movies are just too long unless I'm doing something else too.

18. I am striving to become the capable, confident, skilled woman I know I can be, and I have no clue how far I have to go.

19. I tend to repeat the same old stories and jokes, because I forget who I've told what, and I still find them funny. This can annoy the everliving crud out of people.

20. I love just diving into a good book and not surfacing for a long, long while; and, in my spare time, I prefer not to read things that I have to think overmuch about. I like thinking, but I need a break, too. Sometimes I feel that this makes me look stupid to my family and friends.

21. I am not deliberately out to my non-immediate family, but I think some of them might have figured it out from facebook. I wish that I told them first; I want people to know from in person, not from a website.

22. I am normally ridiculously healthy, so my knee and wrist issues last year terrified me. I'm not used to my body hurting or doing anything less than being well.

23. Even though I've always done well in school, I've always felt that I should have tried harder and worked more, even if I get the best of grades.

24. "An it harm none, do what ye will" includes more than just people, or animals, or living things; it extends to rocks and the ocean and viruses. And everything must kill to live - to eat, or to compete, or to not get ill. These are not mutually exclusive.

25. There is a part of me, that I really like, that believes in the inherent goodness of humanity and the world. I want to keep this part of me alive and well.