Like everyone else here on OS, I've probably revealed more than I should about myself in my posts. But, I guess there are a few things still under the rug left to be revealed. Here's a real hodge-podge of facts and figures.

1. I'm a registered dietitan. I always liked nutrition, but discovered I hated listening to people whine about their diets. Didn't last long as a hospital dietitian. Ended up writing about nutrition from a more comfortable distance.

2. When I was in my twenties, I owned a motorcycle. A fact that confounds my kids and has me sometimes questioning the accuracy of my own memories.

 3. I have a Ph.D. in nutrition with a minor in biochemistry. Always feels like I'm talking about someone else when I say that. It was a long time ago. I went straight through undergraduate and graduate school, pausing only for a year of said hospital work, which was doomed from the start.

4. I have a secret obsession with the movie Jumper, about a guy who possesses the power to transport himself anywhere in the world, anytime, in the blink of an eye. I find the possibilities deliciously intriguing. I've watched it more times than I can count on HBO on Demand. My kids walk in and roll their eyes, "Mom, are you watching THAT again?"

5. I used to smoke. A lot. Marlboro Lites. A pack or so a day. Quit over 20 years ago, but I still love the smell of someone lighting up.

6. Some of my favorites on my iPod right now: White Fences by Alpha Rev; Dear Agony by Breaking Benjamin; West Coast by Coconut Records; Swim Until You Can't See Land by Frightened Rabbit; Better Together by Jack Johnson; Wide Eyes by Local Natives; Speck by Matt Pond PA; In the Next Room by Neon Trees; The Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script; Sweet Disposition by Temper Trap. Most embarrassing song on my iPod? It's Raining Men by the Weather Girls.

7. Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) on Friends is my favorite television character of all time. I watch reruns in syndication and know most of the characters' lines by heart, but I have a real soft spot in my heart for Chandler. If Monica hadn't married him, I would have.

8. I love my husband. I kvetch about him. A lot. But even after 25 years I still sometimes look at him and wonder why he chose me.

9. I broke my wrist once walking to the subway from work in NYC. It had been raining, I was wearing heels and I slipped and fell on the handicap ramp at the street crossing. My skirt hiked up, my briefcase went flying and I was paralyzed in pain. Don't ever let people convince you that New Yorkers are heartless. People came to my rescue. One man helped me and my briefcase into a cab so I could get to Brooklyn, where I lived. At the ER, the nurse was concerned it might be a case of domestic abuse and was peppering me with questions for a while, before I realized the point of the interrogation. All in all, I was well cared for by New Yorkers.

10. My family and I were caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Israel a few years ago, while leaving my sister-in-law's, who lives in a suburb of Jerusalem. We were headed back into the city at night. A teenage friend of my niece's had been shot and killed just a short distance from their home. Barracades were quickly erected. Traffic was stopped. Soldiers and guns were everywhere. And we were stuck. I've never felt so exposed or been so frightened in my life. It was just a taste of what it's like living under the constant threat.

11. I can't swim. I took lots of lessons as a kid--at the city pool, at the high school, even private. They just never took me.

12. I went to Catholic school from kindergarten to the middle of 6th grade. The nuns wore flowing black robes, black orthopedic shoes and had rosaries that hung from their waistbands. To my child's eye, they seemed to have magical powers. They whacked us with rulers when we misbehaved. My father, who was Baptist, hated them. Just to aggravate my mother, he used to say, "Any friend of Zoro's is a friend of mine." (You know....the black robes.) I converted to Judaism when I met my husband. I've got the guilt thing down pat.

P.S. About the song: If you watch Hung on HBO, you'll recognize the theme song. But it's a great song by a great group.