one day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful

66. Have you ever in your life thought, “never again”? What was it about? 

    online dating, eating sushi in the real Midwest, and perming my hair

67. Do people around you see you as you really are? 

    the person I'm around at this moment sees the real me. He may even see more than I can comprehend.

    Others, though, are variations of 'somewhat'.

68. Do you have any regrets? 

    yes

70. What’s the best thing about your life right now? 

    anticipation

71. If you could magically change one thing in your life, what would it be? 

    the job

72. If you’ve always been completely honest with someone, and you had to lie to them to save their life, would you find it hard to do? 

    I'm not a big believer in absolutes, like completely honest. To save someone I'm close to, though, I could do just about anything.

74. How would you prefer to die? 

    quick and quiet, in my sleep

75. What do you think is the meaning of life? 

    "pet the kitties"

76. What was the most difficult “goodbye” in your life?  

    moving out of the house on R. Drive

77. What’s your best memory? 

    there are too many to count, so many different best. Opening the envelope from IARDC to find out that I'd passed the bar is right up there. Finding the black cat after she escaped the new apartment. A [first] night of Facebook messaging with someone who would go on to [help] change my life. Seeing the ocean.

78. What’s your worst memory?  

    finding out about Chris

79. When was the last time you cried? 

    watching Sense & Sensibility. It's one of those movies that always got to me, but especially since Alan Rickman died.

80. What do you struggle with the most? 

    eating right

81. Do you feel like a part of society? 

    what a strange question. I'm not sure that I've ever thought of it. 

    I am part of society, somewhat reluctantly. There are aspects of life that require human interaction. Human interaction is, to some extent, uncomfortable for me. When it's worth it, though, I do it gladly.

82. What kind of role does religion play in your life? 

    it's internal

83. What do you think about using population control to prevent overcrowding our planet? 

    wouldn't it be nice if it were so simple? The one child experiment in China didn't prevent overcrowding—and it didn't really work. Overcrowding is a function of many things that are not directly connected to newly-created children, such as the size and layout of various population centers, governmental programs, logistics, religion and culture, education levels, and so on.

84. If a genie could tell you a truth you’d like to know about yourself, what would you want to know? 

    am I a fool to believe?

85. Who’s your favorite family member? 

    of my extended family, that would be my cousin Becky

86. What’s something you’d like to tell your parents that you would never dare to? 

    there's nothing I can think of. Plenty of my life is not-for-parental-viewing. What is, they know.

87. What’s something you’d do if you know you’d get away with it and no one would never know that it was you?    

    come up with a lot of money right now, and a decent amount of money ongoing—including lifetime health insurance

[from here; the title quotation is from Sigmund Freud]