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FAVORITES

[An author who has affected you] Anne Lamott
[What you most like to do on a Sunday] Swimming, watching cable TV, cooking bizarre food, talking to friends
[A monument you would like to view from your bedroom] Mount Random! What kind of a question is that?!!
[A taste that makes you melt] cashews, red wine, dark chocolate
[A hobby that occupies your time] Cable TV! Swimming! Acting (can I say that's my hobby anymore?), knitting
[The film you could watch over and over] Peyton Place, Charade, Taxi Driver, the list goes on and on
[Your motto] Don't stop believing; hold on to that feeling.

FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR
[Your approximate annual income] below the poverty level. WELL below.
[Something important on your computer desk] I should have a computer desk?
[What you would keep in a safe, if you had one] My platinum brassiere!
[Things you like to buy] Food and clothes and shelter.
[If you could afford it at this moment, you would buy:] a caftan with a matching turban.
[You collect] Junk mail. I'm just too lazy to recycle it.
[Your strangest possession] My MIND.
[Your prized possession] My MIND!
[If your house was burning and you only had time to rescue 3 things, they would be:] Geoffrey/wallet/my MIND.

MORALS
[Something forbidden you have done that might surprise even your closest friends] Define forbidden. Define surprise. Define closest.
[The appropriate age for having sex] I think we can all agree on 65? By the time you're 65, even if you're not married, dammit, have some sex!!!!
[The first time you had sex, you were how old] 23. but I felt 65.
[Your most recent lie] Probably some excuse I gave for being late to something?
[A lie you tell yourself] that the check is in the mail that the dog ate.
[A drug or alcoholic beverage you take on a regular basis] I drinks me some wine.
[If there were no side effects, you would enjoy being addicted to:] Sex, maybe?
[What would your reaction be if your spouse or partner cheated on you] Well, this actually happened to me. And I was surprisingly calm, I would go so far as to say gracious. Until he insisted on being in a play with me where he played my cheating spouse, that is. At that point, I got medieval, but tell me girls... who wouldn't??
[A time you purposely hurt someone emotionally] I said all kinds of mean things to my cheating spouse! At the tie, it felt more like retaliation, but I realize now that detachment from the situation would have been far healthier than yelling.

FAMILY
[Which of your parents do you strongly resemble] My mom.
[If you didn't know your parents, you would choose these 2 famous people to take their place] No! I like my mom and dad!
[Something your parents did that you have never forgiven] They BOTH made me all neurotic-ey about my weight. And we're all plump as partridges, every one of us!
[A trait you do not share with your siblings] Physically, my sister and I don't look related. Also, I would venture to guess that her maternal impulse is a little stronger than mine.
[Your least favorite relative] Bizarrely, my uncles on my mom's side of the family are both mean-mistreaters. Don't like them much.

FRIENDS
[Four traits you look for in a friend] A thoughtful, funny person who has a really wide bandwidth for tolerating people very different than them, i.e. eccentrics, and is also a smarty.
[The friend you have known for the longest time] Nicole! I believe we've been friends for over HALF OUR LIVES this year!
[The friend you miss the most] Nicole and all my Iowa homies.
[A friend who makes you laugh] Geoffrey
[A friend who you can tell anything] Nicole!
[A friend you can go to for advice] Again with the Nicole.
[A friend you should not have kissed] Nicole. Just kidding!! BWAAAHAAAA! I have actually had two kiss happenings over the last year that just shouldna happened. One was a feller from Iowa Summer Rep, and we're still friends, and the other is a guy from here that was just very awkward.
[A friend you may lose soon] I am worried that I won't be able to keep in touch with Danni as much as I would like to, she's an AMAZING friend I've made at ISF this year but she lives in Indiana.
[An acquaintance you would like to make a friend] I love the costume ladies here, I want them to be my friends.
[A friend to whom you have something important to say, but have not yet had the courage] I don't know!