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[fox]

Past:

1) First grade teacher's name: Ms. Weibusch. It may have been Wiebusch, but it was definitely pronounced "wy".

2) Last word you said: "Thanks."

3) Last song you sang: Moxy Fruvous, "King of Spain."

4) Last person you hugged: I don't get nearly enough hugs. This is because I live alone and haven't been in town very long. I expect the last time I hugged someone was Saturday, and it was probably E.

5) Last thing you laughed at: res's answers to the survey.

6) Last time you said 'I love you': On the phone with my parents, um, Sunday evening.

7) Last time you cried: It's been a while. I'm probably due up.

Present:

8) What's in your CD player: In the car, nothing, because I took out my slightly bootleg DS vol 2 soundtrack and didn't put anything else in for so short a trip. At the computer, nothing, because I'm just playing mp3's these days. Over in the stereo, probably nothing, because I took everything out when I moved and haven't plugged the thing in since I'm out of outlets. (Now that it's chilly, though, I could unplug the AC and plug in the stereo. Good plan.)

9) What color socks are you wearing: Grey.

10) What's under your bed: Boxes full of random stuff I can't actually get rid of but didn't have any place else to put away.

11) What time did you wake up today: About 7:45, from a dream in which I hadn't been able to get to sleep, with the result that I felt like I hadn't slept at all. Called work -- where I wasn't due until 10 -- told them I'd be late, reset the alarm for 9:30, and turned over to actually get some rest.

12) Current taste: Wendy's chicken nuggets with honey.

13) Current hair: Mid-back length, straight straight straight, growing out a cut administered by a stylist who didn't believe me when I said "face-framing layers", dark with red highlights -- all natural, which hasn't always been the case.

14) Current clothes: Blue jeans, t-shirt, above-mentioned grey socks. I'm thinking of trading them for my special toes-are-cold socks.

15) Current annoyance: My own work ethic. Why am I here doing this survey instead of working on the 30-page paper that's going to count for 30 percent of my grade?

16) Current longing: The closer I get to my friend's wedding, the more I wish I weren't still alone. I don't think there's any stigma attached to being single -- but it's not what I want, and more and more I'm regretting that I can't change that.

17) Current desktop picture: Autumn trees, one-lane road with split-rail fence.

18) Current worry: That I will actually not get my work done.

19) Current hate: being "stateless," a grad student without a department, and thus ineligible for (apparently) any TA gigs anywhere in the university.

20) Story behind your LJ username: My handle is "fox," because it's my name. By the time I got to LJ, it was, predictably, already taken. And since I got my code from darthhellokitty, adopting the prefix seemed to be the thing to do.

21) Current favorite article of clothing: Oh, I don't know. I still adore my boots. Howzat? :-)

22) Favorite physical feature of the opposite sex: Shoulders or a stubbly jaw? Too close to call.

23) Last CD that you bought: Sarah McLachlan, "Surfacing."

24) Favorite place to be: In my comfy chair.

25) Least favorite place: On hold.

26) Time you wake up in the morning: Usually about 8:45. Disgusting, I know.

27) If you could play an instrument, what would it be: I can, and it's the piano. I used to be okay on the violin, too, but not so much any more. Instruments I wish I played better: highland bagpipes. (Yes, I've had training!) Instruments I wish I played at all: guitar, saxophone.

28) Favorite color: This dusty dark blue.

29) Do you believe in an afterlife: I'm on the fence. Mostly I prefer to think that those of us who do believe will get one, and those that don't, won't.

30) How tall are you: A shade over 5'4".

31) Current favorite word/saying: When I'm in the left, or passing, lane, and the person in front of me is going 30 miles an hour, I tend to yell "It's the pedal on the right, sir!"

32) Favorite book: The last book I remember being actually slack-jawed-impressed by was Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. He won the Pulitzer for it, though, which (according to one of the English teachers at my high school) means we'll never hear from him again.

33) Favorite season: Fall. Especially, as res said, fall in the midwest.

34) One person from your past you wish you could go back and talk to: Ah. The camp counselor who stole my heart.

35) Favorite day: Friday. Duh.

36) Where do you want to go: Edinburgh. I miss it terribly.

37) What is your career going to be like: Ill-paid, very likely.

38) How many kids do you want: Three or four. Two would also be okay. Five is too many, and while I've known only children who have turned out fine, those among my friends almost invariably had unhappier adolescences than the rest of us.

39) What kind of car will you have: When? I do have a car. It's a '99 VW Jetta. One of these days I'll rate a classic -- something like Mr. Chris Cutter's '66 Impala -- and it will be awesome.

Random:

40) Type a line you remember from any book: "The blink of an eye is nothing. The eye that blinks, that is something." (The Chosen, by Chaim Potok.)

41) A random lyric: "Il voit un frère où n'est qu'un esclave," which is from "O Holy Night," my favorite Christmas carol, and which I like much better in French than in English. The above line, translated, means "He sees a brother where there is no one but a slave"; the English version of the carol says "Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother".

42) Identify some things surrounding your computer: There's so much crap on my desk, you don't even know. Remote controls. Bunch of hair rubberbands. Junk mail I haven't thrown away. Coaster. Two glasses. Two kinds of lotion; two kinds of chapstick. Tape measure. A ream of printer paper. Printer. Scotch tape. A little box with two doo-dad drawers -- one has stamps, pens, batteries, ink for my fountain pen; the other has drill bits and screwdrivers. Three quarters of a box of blank CDs. Couple of catalogs. Palm Pilot. Swiss army knife. Nasal spray. Kitchen timer. Empty prescription bottle that used to have allergy meds in it. Wrist brace. Box of kleenex. Picture hanging hardware. Spare car key. Box with CD labelling software and blank labels. Two or three actual school books. Thermometer. Couple of pens. Card-holder with keyring. Stuck to the monitor are a post-it note reminding me of a meeting with a professor; an "I voted" sticker left over from election day; a "be nice to me, I gave blood today" sticker left over from the last time I gave blood, which was years ago (before I had this computer, in fact; the sticker is a relic); and an "I support gay rights" sticker with the HRC logo on it left over from a day when the Pride kids were handing them out on the lawn.

And that's just my desk.

43) What's up: I really do have to hit the books.