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100 Things about Genevieve

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  1. When I was little my mom would take away ketchup when I was bad and I would scream and holler at the site of a plain burger.
  2. My twin sister is dating a guy named George.
  3. We have a brother named George.
  4. We think this is kinda creepy.
  5. I have done over 3,576 babysitting jobs in my life.
  6. My biggest goal in life for the next ten years is to be on Oprah.
  7. I met Dan, my love of four years, on Match.com.
  8. I am a former Big Bird and Cookie Monster.
  9. I am an opera singer.
  10. I am the oldest of seven kids and two sets of twins.
  11. My mother is also named Genevieve Thiers.
  12. My great-great-great-great grandfather was the President of France.
  13. I have an aunt that is a nun and an uncle that is a priest.
  14. I have spent over $100,000 in my lifetime training to be an opera singer.
  15. I have made $11,490 in my lifetime so far from being an opera singer.
  16. I currently have $34,590 in college loans.
  17. I love hotels because I can strew my things all over the place.
  18. I am anal-retentively organized.
  19. I studied like a demon in college and it got me nowhere.
  20. I run an opera company in Chicago called OperaModa that performs three operas a year.
  21. I have a Web site with sexy pictures and sound clips! Go hear me sing!
  22. My father gave me his credit card to buy Sittercity's domain in 2000, because I was in college and broke.
  23. My mother reminds me of Miss Piggy. My father reminds me of Kermit.
  24. I have shared a room with someone my entire life, except for one year.
  25. My favorite food is chips with lettuce, coleslaw, and ketchup on top, from Hassan's chips cart on High Street in Oxford, England.
  26. My favorite moment alone was watching a sunrise spill into a Magdalen field, standing on Magdalen bridge in Oxford after an all-nighter writing a paper.
  27. The stupidest guy I ever dated was named Tom, although Ben was pretty dumb too.
  28. My brother George addresses all packages to me in the mail to "Bozo."
  29. I've never had a cavity.
  30. I've never had a speeding ticket.
  31. I've never cheated on anyone and yes, I've had the chance.
  32. The bravest thing I ever did was tell my mother and father that I was living with Dan.
  33. I graduated in 2000 from Boston College.
  34. My major was English.
  35. My minor was Music.
  36. I also have a degree in Opera Performance from Northwestern University.
  37. I spent 1999 in Oxford University, at Mansfield College, studying literature and opera.
  38. I am someone that disapproves of education higher than college.
  39. Yet, I have a master's in opera.
  40. So that makes me a hypocrite.
  41. I have not had a TV that works for four years.
  42. I briefly became obsessed with America's Next Top Model watching TV at my gym.
  43. I can bellydance.
  44. I can tango.
  45. I wrote a senior thesis that was 50,001 words, for a project that had a 50,000 word deadline.
  46. I kept my roommate Jenny up all night writing it.
  47. I desperately someday want to sing at the Chicago Lyric Opera.
  48. I also desperately want a villa in Italy.
  49. My best friend in the world is named Mark Cox.
  50. I once made a to-do list that had 178 things on it (and completed it within two weeks).
  51. My favorite drink is an amaretto sour.
  52. My favorite Starbucks beverage is a white chocolate mocha.
  53. I don't tell anyone my IQ.
  54. I've won three singing awards.
  55. I've won one business award.
  56. I own five suits.
  57. I own seven gowns.
  58. I own seven pairs of shoes.
  59. I love the number system 1-3-5-8-10, onwards from there with each tenth forward being of lesser importance (although 18 is very important for some reason).
  60. My little sister Elizabeth is a singer.
  61. My twin sister Katharine is a pianist.
  62. My brother George went to Princeton and is a trapeze artist.
  63. My brother Christopher is really great at sports.
  64. My little sister Madeline is an Irish dancer and artist.
  65. My little brother Gerry is the cutest little brother in the world.
  66. I LOVE massages and body scrubs.
  67. My favorite hotel on the planet is the Mandarin Oriental in Miami.
  68. I love it when Dan scratches my back.
  69. I secretly want a kid when I am 37, but don't admit it.
  70. I am a yellow-belt black stripe in Jiu-Jitsu.
  71. I hate pop music.
  72. My favorite opera is Suor Angelica by Puccini.
  73. I can also enact a mean death scene while driving a car.
  74. I will perform a death scene before the public in the 1000-seat Athenaeum Theater in downtown Chicago as Beth in the opera Little Women on October 21-23, 2005, should anyone care to come and see me.
  75. The most gruesome death scene I ever did was onstage in The Dialogues of the Carmelites, as a large single-file row of nuns (I was second to last, playing Sister Constance) was guillotined, at Chicago's Cultural Center.
  76. I am really proud that I was second to last to go, especially under the world's largest Tiffany glass dome. That's class.
  77. The person I hate most in the world is named Cara.
  78. I have seven scars on my right knee and four scars on my left knee.
  79. I once owned IBM stock and felt really important while I had it.
  80. I also worked for IBM for a year and a half.
  81. I have a list of things to do before I am 30.
  82. I have a list of things to do before I die.
  83. I have been to Prague, Vienna, Paris, Scotland, Dublin, Oxford, London and Puerto Rico.
  84. I would like to go to Spain, Provence, Germany, Holland, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Mexico and Buenos Aires.
  85. I love blue drinks.
  86. I've been married on stage five times.
  87. I've never been married in real life.
  88. I had my first kiss at the age of 19.
  89. I am still searching for an old friend of mine named William Harwood that was awesome. He went to Boston College from 1997-2001. If anyone knows where or who he is, tell the clever rogue to email me. I miss him.
  90. My favorite role to date was Dorine in the opera Tartuffe.
  91. I never tell anyone that I run two companies at the same time. It's too complicated.
  92. I've been on TV 72 times in my life so far.
  93. I own something that has real diamonds in it.
  94. I once hosted a luau party that went until 4 in the morning and brought in over 110 people.
  95. I read really fast and take three books onto airplanes with me since one never lasts long enough.
  96. I love to fly and request window seats, then smash my head against the window to look out.
  97. When I was five, I stole two huge pocketfuls of candy and a Strawberry Shortcake shampoo from a Pathmark near my home in New Jersey, and then told my mother that I stole them from a friend's house.
  98. This was totally embarrassing because my mother then made me apologize to my friend's mother, who had no clue what we were talking about.
  99. I feel incredibly guilty when I drive other people's cars.
  100. I have immense road rage.
  101. I love really, really bad pizza, and have a nose like a bloodhound for it.
  102. I like to make lists.