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Because I do everything that Alison does.

1) Name the last 4 things you bought:
1. electric candles for the windows.
2. Tanqueray gin.
3. garlic stuffed olives for my martini
4. Jumbo Blo-Pops, grape and cherry

2) name four drinks you regularly drink :
1. fizzy water
2. coffee
3. dry gin martinis
4. apple cider

3) last time you cried? A few days ago when I broke some of Mom's china.

4) what’s in your cd player? Soul Coughing, William Ackerman, Sonia Dada.

5) what’s under your bed? Erasers from my bed-time crossword pencils and perhaps a few empty bottles of fizzy water.

6) what time did you wake up today? 8:15. Why? Is there a train to catch?

7) current hair? Long virgin dishwater blond with white streaks - it's all the rage!

8) current clothes? Eddie Bauer knit shirts that my sister gave me, denims, dead New Balance walking shoes, gym socks. The usual.

9) current desktop picture? Me and Mike, AKA convention, Jacksonville, FL. 199? At the Fly-Mart. I think we were stoned.

10) current worry? Putting away Mom's china.

11) current hate? The suffering of friends.

12) favorite places to be? Rye Cheer. (right here, get it?)

13) least favorite place? Any shopping mall. Name one.

14) if you could play an instrument? The violin I've had for 17 years. Or the piano I know how to play, and own, but don't sit down to.

15) favorite color(s)? Purple and green. Together.

16) how tall are you? 5'8". One of the shorter ones in my family.

17) favorite expression? "I have infinite faith in your ability to cope."

18) one person from your past you wish you could talk to: Daddy.

19) favorite day(s)? Today.

20) where would you like to go? On a solo wilderness retreat. Say, a cabin somewhere in the Brooks Range. For a few months. I could so give up my broadband connection!

21) where do you want to live when you get married? Uh, with my husband?

22) favorite food? Roasted red peppers and sourdough pretzels.

23) color of most clothes you own: Solid earth tones or denim.

24) number of pillows you sleep with? Two, but one's just to keep from banging my head on the headboard.

25) what do you wear when you go to sleep: My birthday suit. I cannot wear clothing in bed. Remember this when I'm your houseguest. I do, however, keep a sleep shirt nearby while traveling in case of late-night bathroom trips.

26) what were you doing 12am last night: A cryptic crossword puzzle from Games Magazine.

27) how old will you be in 10 years: 57. This is also the year I was born.

28) what do you think you’ll be doing in 10 years: Gazing at the Pacific Ocean from my retirement house on the Washington coast, and holding hands with my hobbitt.

29) do you have braces? Not now, not ever. Unless we're talking about suspenders. Then I'd have to say yes, and they're blue, and they work like magic.

30) are you paranoid?! Probably. Why? Shouldn't I be? What do you know that I don't?

31) do you burn or tan? Oh, I sure do! And thanks for asking. I get a savage semi-golden tan by the end of the summer. Only another natural blond would notice.

32) what is the brand of your wallet? Eagle Creek. It's also my purse. It carries any money I might have, an emery board, a comb, and my Un-Petroleum lip gunk. And my passport. And my American Express Card. I don't need anything else that I know of.

33) first piercing/tattoo? Piercings - ears only. Mom took me and my sister when we were teenagers, and she got her ears pierce then, too. I have five or six tattoos for the alignment lasers for radiation treatment, but they're nothing more than small blue dots. Do they count?

34) first enemy? It depended on what neighborhood boy called me Joe Namath that day. Was it my fault that I had broad shoulders and a dead accurate spiral pass?

35) last person you yelled at? Other than while driving, probably my mother. A deep regret.

36) last crush? hobbitt. No doubt about it.

37) last thing you ate? A jumbo Blo-Pop. Grape. My mouth is still blue.

38) the last time you had sex it was? What, like in a bed? Or does on the floor of the foyer count? How about in the garage? Back of my Volvo? Please be more specific.