• Besides having a really bad case of jaundice when I was born that made me look like a pale china doll with burnt ears, I also had to lay in the incubator with cast one both my feet because I had clubbed feet.
• I have sandy brown hair with natural red highlights and my hair almost turns fire red in the summer. Kinda unusual for an african american
• I come from a huge family... I am the only child on my moms side, but shes from a family of 11 and my grandfather on her side comes from 8 and grandma from 2. All aunts and uncles generally have 2+ kids. On my father's side (who i really dont speak with too often) I have about 14 half brothers and sisters and was an aunt when I was born. Father also comes from a family of 5.
• I have a fear of Pigeons and Seagulls (can hear snickering...shut it ). When I was little and walking home from daycare with my mom, we stopped in a doughnut shop and on the way to the house she went to give me one. A seagull swoops from nowehere and litterally takes it out my moms hand and pretty much chases us home. Tramatizing to a 4 year old. I have a fear of heights which comes and goes.
• I went to pre-k 2x because we moved to a different city and they didnt have my records yet. So I actualy could have graduated HS at 16 and college at 20.
• I went to a school for advanced shildren at age 3
• my dad was a golden glove boxer in the amateur or light weight division
• The late Lewis Billups who played for the Cincinnati Bengals was my 2nd or 3rd cousin. And I have a cousin who played D-1 college basketball and made it to the Final Four.
• The first sweatshirt I ever got to pick out at the age of 8 was a Harvard Law School one
• I failed my road test 3x in HS and havent taken it since. Not because im scared it just always gets put off and I didnt need a car in college.
• I never visited my college until I went down for Orientation
• My friends say and to a point I agree, that I am an exhibitionist. I have been known to change clothing in passenger seats on thruways and on street corners and not care. Sometimes you do what ya gotta do.
• My swim team nickname was "Killer" and I shaved the most time of a 50yd than anyone my coach coached.
• I have never had a boyfriend or been on a date. Date parties dont count, cuz I took my best guy friend. And no nothing is wrong with me, just too busy for one generally.
• I was the only senior in my sorority
• I can make one eyebrow go up while the other goes down repeatitivly
• I can snort a Beethoven symphony
• I have a guys mentality...which can be pretty fun at times
• I am the only one of my close female friends who knows ANYTHING about sports...even the simplest things like who many points a touchdown is.
• At parties I have been known to dance on anything from fireplaces, bars, to a stairbanister. And the last one was kinda tricky
• Beginning at age 9, my bestfirend and Iwrote tons of books to keep ourslevs entertained and Ive been known to write novels here and there.
• Supposedly I had been committing Fraud for the 21 years of my life. I had to replace my SS card when my wallet was stolen last spring. I went to the office and my middle name on my SS card was not how I was raised to spell it and the guy questioned me abou that. When I was born my mom wanted my middle name to be spelled Nicole, but the nurse got it wrong on my birth cert. and spelled it Nichol. My mom saw the error and told them to change it. Turned out 21 years later, they never did