I was bored of reading about navaids, so, I finally got around to doing one of these:

100 Things About Me:

1. My name is Rebecca Marie Cutri-Kohart

2. It used to be Rebecca Marie Kohart. Or Rebecca Marie Christianna Cutri-Kohart if you count my confirmation name.

3. My favorite color used to be yellow.

4. I tend to pick things that are colored green, silver, maroon or sky blue.

5. I'm very outspoken

6. And therefore I often lack tact

7. I am a rocket scientist

8. I became a rocket scientist because I wanted to be an astronaut.

9. I still want to travel into space, I am just a lot more realistic about the likelihood of me becoming an astronaut in today's space program

10. In the meantime I get my thrills by sailing and flying and traveling

11. I haven't been flying in three years.

12. The most perfect moment I have ever experienced was flying alone over Atlanta in the autumn, as the sun was setting, and all the buildings turned pink and all the trees below me were shades of red and orange.

13. I've been to 21 different countries and 3 continents

14. I just put a deposit down on a trip to my fourth continent

15. My favorite country is America.

16. I'm also a big fan of Canada, Switzerland, Greece, Italy and Morocco

17. I've always wanted to go to Antarctica

18. But Antarctica is the only continent that I don't have a plan to go to

19. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania

20. I have lived in Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Switzerland, and Texas

21. Technically, I have 5 brothers and 1 sister.

22. Biologically, I have 1 full brother, 2 half-brothers, and 1 half-sister.

23. I am writing a book about my crazy family.

24. I don't expect anyone to be able to decide whether my book is fiction or autobiographical

25. I didn't realize I had a compulsion for writing until I was halfway through college

26. I read, on average, several books per week.

27. I still think I watch way too much t.v.

28. I am proud of myself for being able to run 3 miles without stopping

29. I am embarrassed that it takes me longer to run 3 miles than it takes some people to walk 3 miles.

30. Rock climbing scares the living daylights out of me

31. Yet, I still go to the rock gym when I have time

32. I've only climbed outside the rock gym once before, it was a giant quarry wall at the Outward Bound school on Hurricane Island.

33. It scared the living daylights out of me.

34. I love to snow ski

35. I am not very good at skiing considering I've been doing it for over 20 years.

36. I want to move to Vermont or New Zealand

37. I will not be moving any time soon

38. I own my house

39. Actually, technically, the mortgage company owns my house

40. I have a dog named Apache

41. Technically, right now, I have two dogs, the other one is neurotic and named Bennet

42. Homeowners associations drive me crazy

43. Other things that drive me crazy: censorship, religious zealots, shy and quiet people, girls that bring makeup and/or blowdryers on camping trips

44. I am doing this list of 40 things right now because I am bored of reading about nav aids

45. I work in Mission Control

46. I am very happy I am finally working in Mission Control after 2.5 years of doing analysis

47. I find analysis interesting, but I don't have the patience for it.

48. I work best under stress or deadline pressure

49. I have marched on Washington with a million other radical feminists

50. Professors at Georgia Tech used to call me and a few of my girlfriends the "A.E. [Aerospace Engineering] female mafia"

51. I don't think that most engineers are used to seeing female engineers acting girly.

52. I've never really been much of a tomboy.

53. Well, maybe compared to girly-girls, I'm a tomboy. But compared to most girl-engineers, I'm definitely not.

54. I love pedicures.

55. I used to have an enormous collection of Barbies and Jem dolls, much to my feminist mother's dismay

56. I can't identify any part of a car's engine that doesn't have a label

57. I can change the oil and clean the spark plugs on a Cessna 152.

58. I have long, curly hair.

59. I wish my long, curly hair looked like curly hair that you see in fashion magazines without any frizz.

60. I like to talk. A lot.

61. People still make fun of me because I went to Star Trek conventions when I was 13 years old

62. I don't drive a car. I drive a Jeep.

63. The heighest mountain I've ever skied on was Breckenridge at 13,000 ft (3800 meters).

64. The heighest altitude I've ever hiked at was Flims Laax at 3000 meters

65. The most entertaining end to a hike I've ever had was in Grindewald with Karen

66. We had to hitchhike to the bottom, riding in the back of the Jeep of an old Swiss couple and their cow bells.

67. This year, I am going on two hikes were we will have to ascend to over 4000 meters

68. The hardest hike I did was up the side of a 200 foot sand dune.

69. I didn't really discover that I liked the great outdoors until I went to college

70. I've been in love three times in my life

71. None of them worked out too well, but I'm still optimistic.

72. I think anyone close to my age with children is off their rocker.

73. I know that's narrow-minded.

74. I can't picture myself having children.

75. I can picture myself as the much-loved crazy Aunt Becca

76. I've never had a close friend get married.

77. I am good friends with several married couples but I met them all after they were married.

78. I donate money to Medecins Sans Frontieres, Planned Parenthood, Angel Flight, and the ACLU.

79. I never really considered careers outside the space program.

80. Until my senior year of college, when suddenly I discovered a closet journalist and a want-to-be-doctor inside of me.

81. Unfortunately, you can't do everything in one life.

82. My retirement plan is to own a used bookstore on the side of a mountain near a lake.

83. I think my retirement plan is very appealing because friends have offered to open up youth hostels, coffee shops, bars, resteraunts and horse stables near my book store.

84. I wonder how much key stroke monitoring the government does on my computer.

85. I spend an average of two hours per day surfing the Internet and reading e-mail.

86. It bothers me when my friends with blogs don't update every morning.

87. I think Quakers are interesting. I think Mormons are scary. My family is Roman Catholic, Episcipol, and Greek Orthodox -- I'm sure other people think the same things about those religions.

88. I feel very uneducated about the religions of the world.

89. I am also very uneducated about geography and post-World War II history.

90. I am scarily knowledgable about social contract philosophy.

91. I ranked 11th place in the nation in Lincoln-Douglas Debate my junior year of high school.

92. I really haven't received a major award since, but I'm optimistic about the future.

93. My parents used to joke about me going into politics.

94. I'm thinking about eventually getting a masters degree in Public Policy

95. Right now, I would be happy to just finish my masters degree in engineering.

96. I'm a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.

97. I have really strange taste in music.

98. I envy free spirits who are always ready for the next adventure regardless of other responsibilities.

99. Science fiction and fantasy exerted an undue influence on my formative years.

100. I have a bumper sticker that says "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and tast good with ketchup."