1. She speaks German proficiently and has limited knowledge of Japanese and Spanish.

2. She completed a photography class with an "A" average despite not taking the final exam.

3. As a child, Nadia played baseball with a church league and swam with a community team (the Stingrays!), proof that she isn't completely without athletic merit.

4. Nadia currently wants to be an English teacher, with a long-term goal of becoming a tugboat. In the past, she has wanted to be a Spam cannery worker, a Hare Krishna, a Civil War general, a homeless assassin, a journalist, a cocktail waitress, a ditch digger, and President Reagan.

5. She's seen as a strange hippy vegetarian child, providing the perfect foil to her sister, Cord, who is a neat-as-a-pin ROTC girl.

6. Her computer's first line of defense is her screensaver, which is password-protected.

7. Nadia has twice cut her hair at school and on one occasion put a staple through her finger while being lectured by her teacher.

8. She loves fractal geometry and theoretical mathematics. Unfortunately, she regularly makes "D"s in Math, leading her friends and acquaintances to believe she's an inferior life form. The truth is, Nadia can't multiply and divide.

9. She also has difficulty tying her shoelaces and doesn't know left from right.

10. In redeeming qualities, she averages over 110 words per minute in keyboarding.

11. While on a speech and debate trip in early 2004, Nadia stole a Dean campaign sign, the sign for Salem Missionary Baptist Church, and a round of impromptu postings.

12. While trespassing with her sisters and a neighbor in 2001, the police were sent after them and all four girls made a successful run for it. This is a bad habit of Nadia's, as a similar incident occurred involving cows and stolen oranges at Thanksgiving time the previous year.

13. At age four, Nadia assisted in splitting her sister Ronald Ann's head open on a coffee table. Ron still bears a scar over one of her eyebrows.

14. Nadia hates 90% of the Internet.

15. The week before final exams in 2003, Nadia logged into the photo lab as an administrator, set the calender forward a week, and changed the clocks to Greenwich Mean Time. This occured while she was assisting a school technician with scanner software. He was a nice guy.

There you have it. Fifteen things you might not have known about Nadia.