1. Deirdre doesn't have a real "home". Bellum works for now, but it could just as easily be any other place. Her parents have never owned a house for more than a year, so she has nowhere specific to return to, and the memories of her childhood always have different settings.
2. She's still not sure how it happened, but the summer before her junior year in college when she was 20 years old, she had a crazy fling with a young man in Spain. She'd gone to visit her parents at the villa where they were staying, but they'd decided to move on just before she got there, leaving her with the empty house for the season. He lived in the town and spoke about as much English as she speaks Spanish (a mere handful of words). They spent more time together than apart, usually by the pool or the sea, and it's the only point in her entire life at which she actually acquired a (very freckly) tan. She realizes it's an awful cliche, and she's never told anyone about it.
3. She's never learned to drive.
4. She's a vegetarian, but not for any animal rights sorts of reasons. She just never really got into eating meat.
5. She once went 4 months without laughing. She wasn't trying to avoid it, there was just nothing that made her laugh. She's not even aware of this.
6. She always wears ridiculously high heels to visit clients. She hates them, but the height makes her as tall, if not taller, than the (mostly male) clients she works for, and it gives her that slightest additional advantage. At home, she's mostly barefoot. She used to wear slippers, but since she moved to Bellum, the chill of the floors doesn't bother her any more.
7. Though her parents have never been anything but American, she was conceived in Greece and born in the Netherlands.
8. She's never had a "best friend". The closest she's had was Alan, and she's realized since then that after the first few months, their relationship was often more like a business arrangement than anything else.
9. For all her traveling, she's never learned more than a few phrases in any language.
10. Her guilty snack food is Cheez-its and chocolate milk (made with Hershey's syrup).