self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is

1. If you could spend a day in someone else's shoes, who would it be and why?

• I would like to be a guy, just to know what it is like to do what they do. Not any one person in particular, just a representative of the species.

2. Which celebrity gets on your nerves the most, and why?

• anyone who is famous for being famous, and keeps getting more and more attention for it

3. If you were going to bury a time capsule, what would you put in it?

• books, some movies (on DVD and VHS), popcorn, and a journal

4. What is your saddest memory?

• not sure whether this is it, but it is certainly among them. After watching H performing in a play, D&R and I went back to their house. I had noticed that day that Chris had been tagged a lot on FB, but that was not too unusual; he went long periods with no play on there, but would occasionally be very everywhere at once. I had been busy most of the day and so was not going out of my way to check things out. As my friends and I were talking over the play, though, I got a text from another friend. It changed my life. Actually, it stopped my life right there. 

"Do you know about Chris?"

Before I even knew what she meant - I knew.

5. Would you rather be in your pajamas or a suit all day?

• pajamas, hands-down. Business clothes are the devil's work.

6. What's the strangest place you've ever gone potty?

• behind my car, on the river road, on the way to Econo Foods. I was riding out with my then-boyfriend and his roommate to buy Bloody Mary ingredients.

7. How old were you when you had your first kiss?

• 13? I think?

8. Do you have any strange or unique phobias?

• apart from dogs and heights, I have no phobias. Those two are pretty normal - among the ten most common phobias.

9. If you could bring back one toy from your childhood, what would it be?

• lawn darts. I can imagine so many uses.

10. If you could be any Disney villain, which would you be?

• Kaa, from The Jungle Book

11. If you life was a novel, what would the title be?

• "I've Been Thinking..."

12. What do you need more of in your life?

• long weekends

13. What are your top 3 quotes?

• today, I will pick these:

--"Their relationship consisted 

In discussing if it existed."

[Thom Gunn, 'Jamesian']

--"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."

[François Mauriac]

--"Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust."

[Henry S. Haskins]

14. What do you want people to remember about you?

• whatever it is that they like about me now. My life is not about just one thing. "I contain multitudes."

15. What's the biggest mistake you've ever made?

• I wish that I had pursued an MLIS when I was doing the job. Having that degree could have made a big difference in the last couple of years. I think about doing it now, but I am probably past the point of acquiring that sort of education.

[from here; the title quotation is by Isaac Asimov]