(stolen from frogblog)
1. Who was your first prom date? A boy named after a city. Who was head over heels in love with my best friend.
2. Who was your first roommate(s)? A girl named Sherry, who got drunk-dialed every weekend, even though she never came home on the weekends. Once, I had to chase her down because she was drunk sleepwalking. Very annoying.
3. What alcoholic beverage did you drink the first time you got drunk? I was doing shots. In Rome. Designer shots, like "dirty girl scouts" and "B52s".
4. What was your first job? I worked as a library page. Said I never wanted to work in a library again after that, and here I am today. Working in a library.
5. What was your first car? A brand-new, bluish-gray Toyota Carolla, which earned the nickname the P-mobile. I loved that car like crazy.
6. When did you go to your first funeral? I think one of my grandma's sisters died when I was very young, and I went to that. But I can't be sure. I might have made that up. And then, there were no funerals or wakes until I was 19, when my dad's dad died.
7. How old were you when you first moved away from your hometown? Well. I don't know. We moved when I was 13 or 14 to a new town. Which one was my hometown? Probably the second, in which case I was 18 when I left for college. But oh ho, I came back.
8. Who was your first grade teacher? I do not remember her name. I only remember Mrs. Reynolds, who was the enrichment/gifted teacher. I went to her classroom once a day? Twice a week? Something like that. I looooved her.
9. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane? I was a baby. My parents took me to Arizona (I think before my first birthday.), and consequently, I cannot remember that trip. I've been on airplanes pretty steadily since--to Florida and Arizona, and then later to places farther flung.
10. When did you sneak out of your house for the first time, who was it with? I never had to sneak out! Ha, and I wasn't the type of kid who would have, anyway. I don't think I've ever been grounded, even. I was too good. I was a goody-two-shoes, all the way through high school.
11. Who was your first Best Friend and are you still friends with them? I don't know. I'm not sure I really had one that was distinct. I mean, I was really close with my cousins Bee, Sketch and J, who grew up a block away, and then there were also the Hess kids--Christian and Christiana (not their real names). We were close for a long time, until their family whacked out on evangelical Christianity. At least, that's how I remember it.
12. Where did you live the first time you moved out of your parents’ house? Holy Cross Hall.
13. Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day? I don't have to call anyone. I come home from work and bawl it all out to S.
14. Whose wedding were you in the first time you were a bridesmaid/groomsman? Haven't been one, ever. I suppose it will be my sister's wedding, whenever that shall happen.
15. What is the first thing you do in the morning? Get in the shower. Really. I stumble out of bed and straight into the shower. (I suppose, technically, I make a pit stop at the toilet first.)
16. What was the first concert you ever went to? R.E.M. The Monster tour. So good.
17. First tattoo or piercing? No tattoos. I don't know how old I was when I got my ears pierced, but I was 20 when I had them doubled, and then I tripled one when I turned 21 or 22. Now I'm back down to one in each ear. And of course, I got my nose pierced in April '99, so I was 19, soon to be 20.
18. First celebrity crush? I can't pinpoint one. Maybe Luke Skywalker. (Emphatically NOT Mark Hamill. I don't remember ever thinking HE was cute. Only Luke.)
19. Age of first kiss? Too embarrassing to tell. Really, really embarrassing.
20. First crush? Hmm. I remember in 2nd grade I liked this boy named Mike, who had silly fuzzy spiked blonde hair. And after that, it was one boy after another.
21. First time you did drugs? I had a bender in college. A weeklong spring break bender that took place at my parents' (at the time) home in FL. I was with my cousin J, and two girls from school, Lucia and Kitty (not her real name, though Lucia's name really is Lucia). I barely knew Lucia (she was a friend of my girlfriend--in the same major), and Kitty was a girl in my major. We became close, though I would not say we were particularly close at the time. Still, we went to FL, partied like animals (the recipe for a Mano party like animals is liquor, something else that I want to be oblique about, and Euchre. And a pool and a blow-up, rideable Shamu. I hasten to add, however, that I never rode the whale while drunk. That was sincerely the GREATEST spring break EVER, and it will never be eclipsed in my memory. Oh, and there was skinny-dipping. Skinny-dipping into a hot tub, which isn't quite the same as other sorts of skinny-dipping. Also, there was an incident with spoons. Frozen spoons, which sounds more gross than it was. There's a rumor that spoons will make hickeys look less red, which is all I'll say, or my cousin J will KILL me. Except that I must add that I did not have the hickeys on me, and I had nothing to do with giving the hickeys. I was the emergency go-to person for making the acquired hickeys disappear. Now he really is going to kill me. I know it.) and had a LOT of fun. We drove down, too, and my cousin and I did the majority of the driving (from South Bend IN all the way into FL) and well, that's probably all I need to say about it. Finis.
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