I’m KAT!
1) I am one of the new interns at 826LA West.
2) I have the coolest last name in the world: Fatland. fat-land. jealous?
3)I hail from Des Moines, Iowa (how did I manage to find my way out of the cornfields to LA??)
4) I go to college at Drake University. We have an annual track meet called the Drake Relays- this is just about the only thing we are known for. But anyone who goes to Drake will tell you we are also locally known for our terrible dining halls, and the interestingly dangerous neighborhood we reside in. I particularly love the place because we have oak trees upon oak trees upon oak trees, and each tree is filled to the top (practically) with crazy squirrels. The Drake Squirrels are out of control, but they are friendly nonetheless.
5) I went to high school with SHAWN JOHNSON! The gymnast! Remember her? I saw her one time in the bathroom. she was short and she was talking on her cell phone. a teacher came in and got her in trouble. It was a memorable bathroom experience.
6) When I was in 5th grade, I dyed my hair red. I have naturally blonde hair, so the red did not come out as red, it came out as pink. It was an interesting time.
7) Then I tested fate and tried dying my hair again freshman year. This time: orange. Once again- interesting.
8) As they say, three’s a charm- I tried one more time senior year of high school. It turned out red, this time, Ron Weasley Red- Pippy Longstockings Red- the reddest red you can imagine. So I wore headbands, scarves and hats for roughly a month straight until it turned back to that unnatural pink color it was in the 5th grade. Three is not a charm and pink is not a good color for my skin tone.
9) I have a hair thing- clearly. Sophomore year of college, I realized that red just wasn’t going to work. So I dyed it brown. I have since then conceded the point that blondes do have more fun.
10) Enough about my hair. You now have more than enough info about one of the least important parts of me. I have slightly more fascinating things than hair to talk about.
Like….
11) I skydived last summer. I liked it because when I opened mouth as I was freefalling, my cheecks expanded like a balloon and my mouth got incredibly dry, and all I could picture was myself looking like a cartoon character with a grin 5x the size of the rest of her face. I also felt like I had googly eyes because they too were dry and open as wide as I could get them.
12) I slept in the middle of a Costa Rican rainforest, under the stars- doesn’t that sound slightly cliché, but also nice? It was very nice. I awoke to the sound of a pack of raging toucans- they were not really raging, but it sort of sounded like it. Those were some loud toucans!
13) On that same Costa Rican adventure, I accidentally ate a plateful of cow intestine- tripe, they call it, thinking it was fish. A delicious mistake.
14) I went to india for a month and met a shopkeeper named Shabir. One night he cooked me authentic Kashmiri food that was incredibly delicious, but also incredibly spicy. So spicy that I broke a sweat, a big sweat, in 50 degree weather. I also drank all of his water. Whoops again. Luckily my mouth never quite burst into flames, but it was a close call.
15) I ran a marathon once- it was fun until the 22nd mile, when I started hating the world more than I ever hated it before. A man tried to take my picture, one of those pictures I could buy later on the internet. He told me to smile. I gave him the finger.
16) I bikeride a lot and have a bad habit of lip syncing songs that I am listening to at the moment, and then embarrassing myself when someone bikes past.
17) I drive a lot and have a bad habit of singing, quite loudly, songs that I am listening to at the moment, and then embarrassing myself when someone drives past.
18) I have a singing problem.
19) I also like to whistle to myself.
20) I was at Trader Joes the other day, picking up peanut butter (Trader Joes has AMAZING peanut butter!) I was looking for the cheapest kind, apparently furrowing my brow while doing so. I found it (it’s the creamy, salted version, FYI), and went to check out. A man asked me what I was staring at so vehemently in the peanut butter aisle. He said I looked like I had seen a cockroach or a dead body. This is not a one time occurance. I make involuntary silly faces on a regular basis. I am trying to fix this. I have bad posture too- another thing I am trying to fix.
