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9:33 p.m. - 2007-05-16 The last question in my interview she answers by beginning with "this isn't that much of a mystery" and she's right. To us, the lasting nature of our friendship is no mystery, no big deal...just kind of "duh." I've had some rough times with some really really wonderful people, though. So sometimes, I just kind of revel in the fact that my friendship with Kels hasn't had any major bumps or even any "stalls." She's just there in a very important way, the way you expect your morning paper or, say, the toilet, to just be there when you need it and even when you don't. I love Kelly because we are kind of like yin and yang, with a little bit of important overlap. I am an after school special, Kelly is "Fresh Air on NPR." I am hair products. She is Gardening tools. I am red. She is light blue. I am a movie. She is the book. But the overlaps are suprprising to the unfamiliar eye, and many. Kelly and Matt have pretty much defined the term "successful relationship" to me and have truly become what i imagine having siblings you get along with feels like. Kelly is going to be such a fantstic mother. I can't wait to meet this kid. The DNA is in her favor. Oh, and she copy/pasted the questions and answered them in such a way that I didn't have to add any spaces or anything. You really are the best. Ok, drum roll.... 1. What is it like being over 7 months pregnant? incredible. i love it every day. she's moving all over right now 2. How do you like living in Athens? eighty-five percent (don't start a sentence with numerals) of the 3. Name the top five events in your life in the last three years. finishing grad school, buying a house, going to france, finding out i 4. If you won the lottery what would you do? you're asking this to embarrass me. the honest answer is, i would 5. You are forced to own three pets that cannot be kept solely in ugh. i have no idea. i do not like pets of any kind. i'd be willing 6. Is it hard to not drink wine or coffee and such whilst making a not really. i think that beverages such as those enhance life to a 7. What is the next purchase over 100 dollars you are likely to make? we just bought a new laptop, so likely nothing for awhile. 8. What are you going to name the baby? (ha ha, sneaky I is) if you keep this up, i'm not telling you until she's five. 9. If you could never read or listen to music or garden again, what car detailing, oration, and d&d. 10. Cyndi Lauper. Discuss. awesome. i nearly wore out "she's so unusual" in elementary school 11. What do you look for in a friend? in old friends: willingness to hang around for the long-term, 12. Last song you listened to? um, i don't know. the last album i listened to was laura veirs. 13. Last instrument you played? guitar with sarah filipiak a couple of months ago. we were on a good 14. Describe the perfect road trip...to where, with who, for how i think about this every day. matt and me in northern california 15. Best Invention of the last ten years. my initial response is "nothing." the old ways are nearly always 16. If you had to have a bumper sticker on your car what would it say? well, there is one on there that says "social workers for strickland." 17. Your three best qualities? 18. Worst? these were on the last interview/survey you had me do. they're 19. Can you name three professional football players (current)? ha ha! this is making me laugh out loud. no. i can't name one. oh, 20. How have we gotten so successfully through 10+ years of friendship? oh, i don't think it's that much of a mystery. i think we are both |