1. Your main trait: Curiosity.
2. The quality you like best in a man: Kindness/open-heartedness.
3. The quality you like best in a woman: Empathy.
4. Your main flaw: Impatience.
5. Last time you cried: Well, tears, last night when I saw the play War Horse on Broadway, because of the creativity involved in the play and more deeply, because of war, and innocent animals dying alongside innocent soldiers. As for a real cry, I guess 2006 when I was told I had cancer.
6. Ideal job: Author of a series of novels.
7. Scent of a place: The lilacs in my garden in Pocantico Hills, New York. How I miss the fragrance of spring.
8. Beloved movie: Groundhog Day, Two for the Road.
9. Book on the nightstand: Southern African Beautiful Deserts. I travel light and do most of my reading on the web.
10. First and best kiss: I was 13, he was called “Buttons,” and I couldn’t believe he opened his mouth. Best: on the floor after I surprised him his door, wearing nothing under my raincoat.
11. You couldn’t do without: The people I love. My computer. Hope.
12. How you would like to die: Without pain or suffering, in three digits, surrounded by loved ones, hearing the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh.
13. Song you sing in the shower: Bob-Seger-type, bluesy rock.
14. Your deadly sin: Gluttony. And not unhappy about it.
15. Your not-so-deadly sin: Wanting to be alone, alot.
16. Your motto: Keep moving.
17. Ideal first date: He listens as much as talks, and when he talks I want to hear even more. He makes me laugh. His smile tells me he’s tingling too. He contacts me before I go to sleep. (Never had a great date that didn’t have a second, immediate contact.)
18. Favorite present: A good scan.
19. In the train: So many memories, so many places. Mountains and lakes. Real flatware and china and a white tablecloth. A sink in my compartment. A stranger knee-to-knee through Poland. This is a separate post.
20. Something you’d change in your body: The southerly direction.
21. Your addiction: Reality tv. I’ve written about it and am getting better.
22. Now on your left: Luggage. I’m in a hotel room in NYC.
23. Now on your right: An air-conditioning unit.
24. Now in front of you: A flat-screen tv. Luggage. (My room is tiny.)
25. Now behind you: Pillows.
26. Names for your children: Randall Arthur and Cary Stephan.
27. 3 things in your purse: Everything but the kitchen sink, but always hand sanitizer. Wrote about this, too.
28. 3 places that fascinate you: They are on Bill’s body.
29. 3 people you’d like to meet: I’ll keep it male and visceral --Anthony Bourdain, George Clooney, and Rush Limbaugh (to kick him in the balls and paint graffiti on his head).
30. 3 traits you hate in people: Intolerance, being judgmental, talking rather than listening, boredom (same as At-Home-Pilgrim’s; bet I’d like him).
31. Values inherited from your parents: Sense of humor, resourcefulness, risk-taking.
32. In your past life your were: Don’t believe in it and find it odd that people usually remember being kings and queens rather than servants to kings and queens.
33. In your future life you’ll be: Don’t believe in this either. That’s why I keep moving (see # 16). And that’s why I live in the now.
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Comments
There's something about reading these identity memes when you're not a participant. It's like being a peeping tom with a vip pass. I feel slightly perverted and lucky at the same time.
Sometimes I need to go off and do things without him - even though one of the reasons we get along so well is that he is exactly the same except (and this is big) he likes to have me around, when he's being "alone". And I'm okay with that. He's an engineer and his internal process isn't so different from that of being an artist.
But when I want alone, I want to be entirely ALONE.
Lea, I enjoyed your list. You're a terrific writer and a solitary woman who has seen the world. I admire you very much for following all your dreams with such courage.
HUGGGGGGGGG
I really like #18- I imagine that would be the best gift you could get.
Enjoy your time in New York, and safe travel home. Too bad you won't be there for next Thursday's meet-up.....
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