I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

2. What did you learn a little too late?  boundaries

3. What are you too hard on yourself for?  not being flexible

4. How often do you feel utterly worn down?  ironically, less lately than before

5. If money was no object, where would you live?  house by the river, new, secluded

7. What were the last two books that you read?  The Tradition by Jericho Brown and The Family Man by Elinor Lipman

8. What habits do you have that annoy other people?  depends which other people you ask, since some find me unbearably annoying and others only moderately so

9. What makes you nervous?  job interviews, cops, and windstorms

10. What makes you angrier than it should?  petty corporate BS

11. What movie was so sad that you will never watch it again?  I like sad movies

12. What are the two biggest lessons you’ve learned from previous relationships?  

    A. No one can read minds—including me

    B. Everyone has baggage, so to think you're the only one is just ego

14. What habit do you have that you think not many other people have?  this sounds like an invitation to share an obsession or compulsion...

15. What do most people overestimate or underestimate about you?  overestimate: my patience; underestimate: my creativity

16. What is something you probably should do, but will never do?  make a budget

17. What was the best thing about how your parents raised you?  they chose to raise us in the country, where there was time and space to be a little kid for a good long time

18. What do you most look forward to about getting old?  feeling less

19. What is the biggest sign of weakness in a person?  selfishness

20. What’s something you tried really hard to like but just couldn’t?  cherry tomatoes

[cut from here; the title quotation is by F. Scott Fitzgerald, from This Side of Paradise]