because I lack creativity...

... here is another survey!

1. Is your second toe bigger than your first?
Yes. Way.

2. Do you have a favorite type of pen?
RSVP Medium, black ink is preferable.

3. Look at your planner for December 8, what are you doing?
Auditioning for ISF

4. What is the last thing you bought at the store?
Brown rice and kale. I'm detoxing. Though I admit I like to eat that stuff anyway.

5. What is the last thing you highlighted?
Lines for Real Thing

6. What color are your bedroom curtains?
I don't have any, but my levelors are white.

7. What color are the seats in your car?
Gray plush.

8. Have you ever had a black and white cat?
I AM a black and white cat.

9. What is the last thing you put a stamp on?
Headshot submission

10. Do you know anyone who lives in Wisconsin?
Yes, many many.

11. Why did you withdraw cash from the ATM the last time?
For to have money.

12. Who is the last baby that you held?
My nephew Zachary, baby of joy.

13. Do you know of any twins with rhyming names?
Nope.

14. Do you like Cinnamon toothpaste?
I've never tried it. But if I can handle the peroxide and baking soda, girl please. Bring it on.

15. What kind of car were you driving a year ago?
A 1987 Honda Accord. Almost exactly a year ago, a moron ran a stop sign and killed it. Then I was carless for a while, and now I drive a 1996 Ford Crown Vic.

16. Pick one: Florida State Seminoles, Miami Hurricanes or Florida Gators?
I'm not going to pretend to know what they are. Is this college football? Basketball? I'm not a sports-person, but I don't judge you if you are!

17. Last time you went to Six Flags?
I think I was thirteen. And this is a travesty, because I love rollercoasters, and I like crap like cotton candy and all that.

18. Do you have any wallpaper in your house?
Nope.

19. Closest thing to you that is yellow:
Knitting for Dummies is yellow.

20. Last person to give you a business card?
My friend gave me the card of her hairstylist yesterday. Does that count?

21. Who is the last person you wrote a check to?
My roommate (to give to the landlord)

22. Closest framed picture to you?
My mom, and then there's one of me and my friend Dan

23. Last time you did homework?
I'm always in a perpetual state of memorization. I think that counts.

24. Last shampoo you used?
Tresemme cheap crap.

25. How many e-mails do you have?
One, but then I have myspace and facebook accounts too.

26. Last time you received flowers?
I haven't gotten them in years!

27. Who is the governor of your state?
Rod Blagojevich

28. Do you think the sanctity of marriage is meant for only a man
and woman?
Girl, please. I am so completely for civil unions for everyone. Except myself, of course.

29. Where do you get your myspace layouts from?
I just use the plain one.

30. What is the smallest key on your key ring for?
My house, oddly.

31. Do you have any Willow Tree figurines?
I don't know what a Willow Tree figurine is

32. What was your high school's rival mascot?
I never paid attention.

33. Last person you spoke to from high school?
My friend Nicole, I was just at her wedding and we talk on e-mail all the time. Though Trish and I e-mailed more recently, I think... either Trish or Nicole. I'm not totally sure.

34. Last time you used hand sanitizer?
I haven't in ages, but I am a big handwasher since I started using the CTA

35. Have you ever worn camoflage?
No, except in a play.

36. What color are the blinds in your living room?
White levelors (they're all over the house)

37. What is in your inbox at work?
A bunch of phone calls to make. Oy.

38. Last thing you read in the newspaper?
I never read it! I always listen to the radio. NPR.

39. What was the last pageant you attended?
I haven't been to one, actually. And that's o.k. with me.

40. What is the last place you bought pizza from?
Trader Joe's frozen kind.

41. Have you ever worn a crown?
No.

42. What is the last thing you stapled?
Lead sheets at work. Oy.

43. Did you ever drink Crystal Pepsi?
I think I tried it once, and it was weird.

44. Ever had an ingrown toenail?
No

45. Last time you saw fireworks?
On the fourth of July. Unless those aren't the kind you mean, tee hee! In which case, I don't remember.

46. Last time you had a Krispy Kreme doughnut?
Eeeeh... four months, I think? Long time ago.

47. Who is the last person that left you a message & you actually returned their call?
My mommy.

48. Last time you parked under a carport?
Never

49. Do you have a black dog?
No, but I would if I could!

50. Do you have any gourds?
That's too personal.

51. Are you an Aunt or Uncle?
Yes.

52. Who has the prettiest eyes that you know of?
I don't know... I guess I'm not much of an eye-conniseur.

53. Last time you saw a semi truck?
Yesterday. I live on Montrose and they drive by all the time.

54. Do you remember Ugly Kid Joe?
Yes, that was a sad time for music.

55. Do you have a little black dress?
No, but I have way cooler dresses than that. In a sea of little black dresses, I'm sporting the vintage Gunne Sax. Snap!

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I am getting so stinking healthy it's stoopid. I am detoxifying my bad self. It's actually easier to list the things that I am eating than the things I'm not eating, but I have this horrible fear that I am about to find out that I am allergic to gluten. Which will piss my shit off, because I'm already allergic to milk and I don't like meat, so this leaves me with a very limited spectrum of foodstuffs, which I am really starting to chafe against, because here I am at the top of the food chain and look what I'm eating! Brown rice and brussels sprouts (I love them, but still). A new food substance needs to be invented for me. Or I'm going to have to walk around dragging an IV-pole with me.

I have a ga-billion auditions coming up. Wish me some luck! I keep having the thing happen where you go into the audition and they love you and then they never call you. Which makes me think that I just need to get more memorable. Or I just need YOU to get off your ass and wish me some luck. DO IT NOW!

I love you all.
Love, Cats

happiness is sure to find you!

Talk about thankful Thursday! I am thankful for so many things. I just spent the day with my mommy and had SUCH a good time cooking and eating and talking and all that. She is feeling really good and looking really healthy and I think everything's going to be o.k. And I made a Tourtiere on the fly and it came out SO GOOD, it was CRAZY.

I am also thankful for Yerma, for the experience of it because I learned so much, and for it being all done because even when it's the best show ever, it's still fun to be done.

Hmmm... what else?
I'm thankful that so many of my friends came to see Yerma. I was so touched by that. There were road trips taken for just to see the cat! That's amazing. Cats is weally yucky. I even had a student come on the last weekend, a young man who was in my acting class last year! And he loved it, which was crazy. Didn't like Jacques, loved Yerma. Did he learn anything from me?

Still love the el. And I love living right by it and hearing it at night. It's not loud enough to be intrusive, it's just loud enough to be nice.

I love that I can get some hours in at work tomorrow so I won't be totally poor this month.

I love that I'm understudying and that I got a compliment on my Popular London (I have to say it is really darn good stuff. I knew I was addicted to Britcoms for a reason).

I love my red blankets on my bed. I think they attract positive vibrations.

I love my family members, immediate and extended. I love that I really seem to come from somewhere. I was talking to my cousin the other day (he lives in Chicago now) and I was like, wow. I share so many characteristics with this person and we grew up a thousand miles apart. I just love the feeling of my identity being so rooted in this family structure that is popping up around me (because I never had that growing up, it was just me and my sister and my parents).

I am thankful for a lot more things that I just can't think of right at this minute. But believe me, I'm thankful!
Meee-YOW!

mao!

I have had such a huge amount of fun lately that I have to use bulletpoints:

*My friends Flossie and Matt came to town to see me the weekend after Conrad came. They are friends of mine from undergrad in Wisconsin. We went to Frontera Grill for lunch and drank fancy drinks, then we went to the Art Institute (I'm getting a membership now that I live here, it's just silly not to), and then they saw the play.

*My friend Courtney from overgrad came to see the play on the same night and we all went to dinner at Clarke's afterward and it was totally great. I love it when friends from different eras of my life meet each other and totally get along! It makes me feel happy and like I am maintaining a consistent level of friend-quality.

*I love the El. I've always been fascinated by trains, so riding them is wonderful for me even when they're just commuter trains. I'm especially happy when it's nighttime and I can just stare out the window and see into people's houses. I don't want to see them, if I saw a person I'd look away, I just want to see how they decorated their places. I love the look of a really cozy kitchen. And I love looking at all the rooftop gardens.

*I had some auditions that went really well, and an offer to understudy at a theatre that I would very much like to work at in the future, so I took it.

*I've always been a library person, and last week I went to the Harold Washington Public Library and had a religious experience. It is AMAZING. I LOVE it there. Go if you can, it's superb. The Sultzer, which is the branch by my house, is great, but the HWPB ROCKS.

*My FWENS came and visited me from Iowa and we had the BEST TIME EVER and there was so much laughing and eating and talking and some shopping and walking around, and they came and saw the play, too. I think the tastiest was when we cooked at home, followed closely by how great it was at Pauline's.

*I'm totally addicted to refried beans.

*Now my friend Andy is coming to see me, and Kevin and I are going to see Borat this week. And the play I'm in closes this week, on the same day that the play I'm understudying in opens, so it's all very exciting!

Although of course, the thing that is most exciting is the fact that the democrats swept the elections. I am walking on AIR! I feel like I live in a country that has the potential to make sense again someday. A mao!