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1. I wore hazel-colored contacts during my sophomore && junior years of high school. I stopped wearing colored lenses when I suffered from a case of corneal abrasion towards the end of my junior year. I ended up in the ER because of it. 
2. I was unable to ride a bike until I was six years old. I then learned how to ride all in one day.
3. Most likely I’m allergic to something in chocolate pudding because whenever I try to eat it I gag and my throat restricts.
4. I am a first-generation American. My mother is from Colombia and my father is from Iran.
5. I didn’t have my first crush until 6th grade, but my 17-year-old brother has been in love with the same girl for nine years.  
6. I’ve been dying my hair the same $4 hair color since summer of 2008. I use colorsilk brown black #20. I took a six month reprieve from spring 2011 until winter 2011, but in January 2012 I resumed my routine.
7. I was classified as a gifted kid in elementary school and junior high. I always felt really insecure being in a class with other gifted children, though.
8. Lemon Lavender by Yankee Candle is my favorite candle scent. My second favorite is Starry Night by Armadilla Wax Works.
9. I played the role of Earth in my third grade’s class play on the solar system. 
10. I go through foreign phases where I become interested in certain places, people, and things.
11. I’m usually over-prepared and what you could call a compulsive planner.
12. Rabbits and Tigers are my favorite animals.
13. I wear my hair in pig tails for luck.
14. I don’t really like the beach that much. I love bodies of water, but not beaches themselves.
15. I’m the only introvert in my family. It sucks. 
16. I visited the principal’s office at least once a year for improper conduct from age 6 until age 17. 
17. I used to hate the idea of traveling. I outgrew that by joining tumblr during my first year of college.
18. Integrity is my defining trait. 
19. My goal was to graduate summa cum laude. I came really close, but didn’t make it, instead graduating magna cum laude 3.90.
20. I respect atheists/agnostics, but I don’t think I would want to marry one.
21. I was nearly held back kindergarten due to “emotional immaturity”
22. I played the clarinet in elementary school.
23. Purple is my favorite color. 
24. I failed my driver’s test three times because I didn’t know how to parallel park.
25. Freshman year of high school, my friends and I called our group the “beach clique”
26. I don’t like anything in extremes.
27. I’m afraid of conflict, affection, and risky situations.
28. A lot of my friends are gay or lesbian. 
29. My hair is naturally wavy. I straighten it 90% of the time and pull it back the rest.
30. My last year of college I lived with my best friends.
31. My least favorite subject is biology.
32. If I’m not in class/outside, I am always in pajamas.
33. A first impression is important to me, but a continuing impression is more important. If you are rude to me more than twice, there is a 99% chance I will never respect or like you again.
34. I volunteered for the Association for Supportive Child Care during Summer 2011. It was one the greatest experiences I’ve ever had. 
35. I am told often that I ask too many questions.
36. When I was a kid, I loved to watch all of those “straight-to-vhs” Mary-Kate and Ashley movies, like ‘Switching Goals,’ ‘Billboard Dad,’ and ‘Passport to Paris’
37. I don’t like plain chocolate. I prefer brownies, almond dream, and cookie dough. 
38. I had my ears pierced a second time the day after my 18th birthday. My 2nd piercing always has earrings, even if the front pair don’t.
39. My favorite food is vegan lasagna.
40. Grapes are my favorite fruit. 
41. The two most expensive things I’ve ever purchased were my car and my laptop. Yes, I paid for both. 
42. I would rather die in ice than in fire.
43. My mom and I have been watching Desperate Housewives together since the 2004.
44. Craft stores give me a sense of peace.
45. My middle name is ‘Malek,’ which is Persian for ‘King’ 
46. I am big believer in personal space.
47. Lilo and Stitch is my favorite Disney film. 
48. Irresponsibility is a huge turn-off.
49. Doing these random factlets about me has helped me learn roman numerals.
50. In third grade, my school offered to let me skip a grade. I declined.  
51. The only time I really cry is when I don’t know what to say or I’ve read/watched a good book/film.
52. I find slut-shaming to be absolutely appalling. Do not use the word “whore” or “slut” around me to demean people. It will not bode well for our friendship.
53. Let’s not ever engage in political discussion. 
54. I fear letting others down more than almost anything.
55. When I worked in high school, I would donate financially each month to charity. Nowadays, I’m broke so I donate my time.
56. Don’t try to surprise me. I DO NOT like surprises.
57. The summer between high school and my first year of college I wrote an entire chapter-by-chapter commentary of Twilight. I hated it that much. 
58. This past semester was the first time I’d ever had coffee.
59. I registered with tumblr in July of 2009. I didn’t begin utilizing my account until April 2010, because I couldn’t understand the original interface.
60. I became a vegetarian on February 19th, 2009. On January 10th, 2012, I became a vegan.
61. During my last year of college, I was a victim advocate intern with Victim/Witness Services for Coconino County. 
62. When I’m bored of my last.fm station, I play a radio station with the tags ‘happy’ and ‘fun’
63. I had three cups of coffee in two hours the night I finished my social work term paper. It was 37 pages. 
64. I have an allergy to cats. Similarly, I don’t like cats. Neither does my mother. Maybe I inherited it from her. 
65. Stars are my symbol as Roxanne means “bright star”
66. I was the president of NAU’s Criminal Justice Honor Society. I was also the Social and Field Trip Chair. 
67. I always cry at the end of Gran Torino.
68. My favorite textbook is Marriages & Families by Nijole Benokraitis. 
69. Most people have never heard me yell before.
70. I used to live next door (in the same building) to where Kathy the (NAU) Ghost killed herself. 
71. I’ve never smoked marijuana before and I’ve had way too many opportunities.
72. Looking back, my high school was incredibly “average”
73. My mom bought me S-Kun in 1999.
74. I clean my room multiple times a week.
75. I rarely finish tumblr challenges because I either get bored, irritated, or too busy to finish them. 
76. I never use calculators unless the problem absolutely requires it.
77. My mom bought me a camera for my 18th birthday. To date I’ve taken over 5000 pictures with it. 
78. Getting stains on my clothing is a huge pet peeve. Even if no one else can see them, I get irritated. 
79. I am not into “bad boys” and much more prefer nice guys with a sense of humor. I generally dislike anyone who uses their fists to resolve personal conflict. 
80. My friends joke that I’m the “team mom” and that I worry too much. It’s true.
81. I rarely ever hug my father or my brother. None of us are sentimental, so it works out well.
82. Gratitude is important to me.
83. I go through cyclical obsessions: Harry Potter > Digimon > Charmed > Dragon Ball Z > Whatever new fandom I’m into.
84. College was my life and I loved [almost] every second of it.
85. My parents want me to be a lawyer. I don’t. 
86. I’m contemplating grad school, but not for at least a year or two. 
87. I hate to let people see me cry. Also, I barely ever cry.
88. Close to finals I either binge or don’t eat at all. People think it’s weird, but they have to understand that I struggled with bulimia in high school and still have occasional episodes.
89. PEOPLE WHO TYPE IN ALL CAPS PISS ME OFF. I think it has to do with the fact that it reminds me of shouting and I don’t like people who shout.
90. I have a two tone wardrobe - a lot of pink/red and a lot of blue/black.
91. I associate sunshine with happiness, naivety, and openness  and associate cloudiness/drizzle with stability, thoughtfulness, and curiosity.
92. My fifth grade teacher described me as “persistent”
93. I’m a morning person. 
94. Overzealous religious fanatics, atheists, feminists, or animal rights activists bother me. I understand standing up for your beliefs, but if your beliefs are endangering the civil liberties of another then they need to be revised. 
95. I cannot stand Family Guy.
96. I used to read the newspaper every day.
97. I can’t sleep in a warm room.
98. I would never know the date if I didn’t have page-a-day calendars since 2009.
99. Summer of 2010, I reread the first five Animorph books. They’re actually very good books. 
100. I lived alone most of my college experience. 
101. I am extremely possessive and protective of my friends. It’s one of my greatest character flaws.
102. I bite my tongue when I think I’m going to cry.
103. I take watercolors with me to college every year for stress relief.
104. I’m pretty sure I’m going to get my nose pierced over Thanksgiving break.
105. Using guilt to manipulate me into doing things for you will go nowhere.
106. Sincere compliments mean a lot to me. I can run on one for hours.
107.  I do not retain heat well.
108. Until my last semester of college, I had a 4.0 in my major.
109. Before going vegan, goldfish were one of my favorite snacks.
110. I hate cynicism without a cause.
111. Everyone is 100 times worse in my head than they are in real life.
112. I only wear red nail polish.
113. My dad has this closet in our backyard that he spends time in when he wants to avoid people. It’s full of lists of things to do, pictures of my brother and I from childhood, and nasty notes to himself that he’s a failure. It freaks me out that I’m pretty much the same way: pictures of people I treasure, my calendar of things to do, and notes that I need to try harder/be a better person/be more aware.
114. I don’t like oriental food.
115. I check my student email a hundred times a day (well, it seems like it).  
116. When I see something spectacular or breathtaking, my brain tends to murmur ‘kirei’ (which is Japanese for beautiful). I really don’t know why this is. The only way I can explain it is that I must have latched onto the word when I went through my anime nostalgia stage during the summer before high school.
117. My curls are never the same way twice.
118. Every time I light a votive, I inevitably end up staining the paint on my window sill.
119. I take a lot of bubble baths.
120. I have a lot of art supplies for someone who doesn’t like art. This includes markers, scissors, crayons, water colors, an ink pad, and more.
121. I think red velvet cake is gross. I didn’t even think about it until I made one myself last August.
122. I like sporking things like Secret Life, Glee, and other terribly written shows.
123. I gave up drinking milk when I began college in 2009.
124. My friends feel like my siblings and I treat them as such.
125. I still have a set of photobooth pictures I took with Andrew in 2005.
126. When I was a kid, my best friend Michael and I had a secret code for writing notes. It was the alphabet inverted, so than N=M and A=Z.
127. I gained a crush on James Dean after watching East of Eden when I was sixteen.
128. I have a bad habit of trying to “fix” my guy friends, which usually ends in disappointment. Andrew is the exception to the rule, because he’s already perfect.
129. I worked on my 17th birthday because I didn’t want a repeat of the drama of my surprise 16th birthday party.
130. For the first half of my senior year of college, I slept on the left side of my full-size bed. I noticed this and ended up sleeping on the right side for the second half of the year.
131. Until I got braces, I used to use my left middle and index finger as a pacifier to get to sleep. When I got braces, I was unable to do this and broke the habit, but it makes me wonder how I developed the habit in the first place.
132. The girls in my bible study last semester said that I’m someone who doesn’t take things at face value and that I tend to question things. I had never really thought about it, but I’m sure they’re right.
133. I did my high school senior thesis on internet safety.
134.  I did my college thesis on mentally-ill individuals as victims and perpetrators of crime.
135. One of my biggest pet peeves is aggressive SUV drivers.
136. I try to avoid finding men younger than me attractive because when I date I want to date someone who is at the same point in their life as I am.
137. When I was in fifth grade, I jumped fully-clothed into my best friend’s pool in the middle of December.
138. About two weeks post 9/11 I got really ticked off that the media was still talking about the attacks and made some nasty remarks. I was only ten back then, but even today I hate 9/11 news content.
139. I knew Severus Snape was innocent after Half Blood Prince. Andrew didn’t think so.
140. After I read Little Women in fourth grade, I thought it was the most boring book I’d ever spent time on. 
141. I really like globes.
142. There’s a huge bougainvillaea plant in front of my window. When I was in high school, I used to cut the pieces with scissors and sneak out.
143.  My high school mascot was the sabercat. I used to always call it the sabergato.
144. I have about 25 incomplete notebooks just laying around my room.
145. When I was in high school, I wanted to write a book about the various people I’d met in my life.
146. Stroking my hair is the most comforting thing people can do for me, but I only let a very small group of individuals do it because I have comfort issues with people being too close to me.
147. Before I went vegan, shortbread cookies were one of my favorite desserts.
148. I usually wear tank tops and sweat pants to the gym. In high school, I used to wear t-shirts and shorts.
149. My birthday is on a Tuesday this year.
150. I moved to Scottsdale in 1993.
151. Although I’m a vegan, I really don’t like tofu. My only exception is tofu hot dogs, which have several other ingredients.
152. I love going on the swings.
153. My mom always says my smile seems fake, but it’s not my fault that the only way I know how to smile is with all my teeth.
154. When I worked at Walgreens in high school, I earned several customer service stars.
155. As a little girl, I used to watch Sailor Moon, but most of my friends were guys. So when they’d come over home after school, I’d pretend to go to the bathroom and would watch parts of Sailor Moon on tv instead.
156. I lost 35 pounds my last semester of college, reaching my lowest college weight ever.
157. I’m pretty sure I’m obsessed with chocolate granola.
158. Once Andrew and I put our boys and girls club membership into a vending machine and it accepted it as 20 dollars.
159. Even though I don’t feel it, photos show that my face has gotten a lot thinner this year.
160. I want to become fluent in Spanish, but I’m not sure how to do it naturally. My mom is from Colombia, so that helps a little.
161. Lie detector tests scare the crap out of me.
162. I don’t like lemon flavored candies.
163. I hate it when hair sticks out of my hairbuns.
164. This is the darkest skin tone I’ve probably ever had.
165. I tend to buy a lot of books I never read.
166. I have a heart necklace I received for graduation that has “reach for the stars” engraved on the front and stars engraved on the back. I always wear it unless I’m working out (My skin has an allergic reaction to jewelry when wet)
167. Despite wanting to know everything, I feel uncomfortable knowing personal details about people’s lives.
168. I am CPR and First Aid certified.
169. I adore Shakira. She’s a talented singer and a wonderful philanthropist.
170. When I get married, I want a husband who is malleable enough to run through amusement parks with me, but also be able to analyze books with me.
171. I hated guacamole as a kid and love it as an adult. I’m picky, though. I like it to have a thick consistency.
172. I have a major phobia of high-fat foods, because I associate high-fat foods with fat bodies. I’m working to overcome this, because I tend lose more weight on a healthy fat diet than a high carb one.
173. I realized I was an introvert in 8th grade. Nothing made sense before that.
174. I don’t like romantic comedies because I have a problem with the movie timeline. IE- If Sally and Bob are engaged after one week, I’m not feeling it.
175. If you saw the inside of my house, you would know I’m from Arizona. Our house is so desert-landscaped that it’s a bit ridiculous.
176. I always have stubby nails.
177. I don’t know how to roller skate.
178.  Doing behavioral therapy with Phalen made me realize that I am competent and I could be a good case manager. In fact, even though it was only for four weeks, my job as a programming facilitator gave me a lot of confidence I’d been lacking.
179. Wiz Khalifa is one of my favorites.
180. There’s pretty much only three eye shadow colors I use: beige, purple, and green.
181. I hated summer camp when I was a kid. Hated with the burning passion of a thousand years.
182. The Little Rascals and The Parent Trap are my favorite live-action films from childhood.
183. My car is really, really dirty and I need to clean it.
184. I had a snowball from the first snow in my freezer all last year.
185. I would love to be moved out of my parent’s house by Thanksgiving.
186. I like driving alone.
187. I started watching Degrassi in 10th grade. I’d watch it in between the time I got off school and when I went to work at Fiddlesticks.
188. I hate working out in the morning, but I’m still going to today.
189. I’m trying to decide whether to get my masters degree in non-profit studies, criminal justice, or social work.
190. Both Ke$ha and The All-American Rejects had free concerts at my university. I didn’t attend either.
191. I’m currently interested in learning about child development and sexual abuse. I’ve taken a few classes on both topics, but I want to know even more.
192. I created and moderate an advice blog for students that attend or want to attend the university I graduated from. It’s called life-as-a-lumberjack and it’s been my project for nearly two years.
193. One of my bad habits is capitalizing words that shouldn’t be, like Marijuana and North.
194. I’m always wondering if I’ll ever get married because even if I lose weight, I’m still going to be a lazy workaholic, not at all interested in clubbing.
195. More than anything, I want to live in a New England town with autumn bloom and holiday spirit.
196. I don’t like coconut.
197. One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when a guy breaks up with his girlfriend to protect her.
198. When I was fifteen, I worked at an amusement park.
199. I’ve seen the Vagina Monologues three times.
200. Public speaking is my Achilles’s heel.0