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fabrisse1. I went to nursery school in Saigon
2. I was born in Tacoma, WA
3. I flew for the first time at 10 days old.
4. I went to drama school in London.
5. I went to first and second grades in London
6. The building where I went to first and second grades was a former POW camp with the bars still on the windows.
7. I've met Princes Philip and Andrew
8. I attended Gorillas in the Mist with Queen Fabiola of Belgium (It was a Saturday afternoon showing. She was there with two body guards.)
9. Jeremy Irons once spilled beer on me. He didn't apologize.
10. I haven't been back to Berlin since the wall fell.
11. I loved living in Mannheim. The addresses in downtown are given like chess moves. I lived at J7,20.
12. I once cooked Thanksgiving dinner for 75 people all by myself.
13. Given the choice between food or a theater ticket, I'll take the theater ticket every time.
14. I prefer dramas to musicals.
15. The only opera I've ever cried at was Porgy and Bess. It was the first time I'd seen it. The production was the one from the mid-seventies by the Houston Grand Opera Company. When Wilma Shakesnider hit the keening high notes on "My Man's Gone Now" (it's she who sings it on the recording), I was blinded by tears.
16. The only opera I've ever shouted "Brava" at was a production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Theatre de la Monnaie in 1978.
17. The only movie that made me cry was "Glory."
18. The only play that made me cry was Cyrano de Bergerac when Derek Jacobi played Cyrano.
19. I saw Kenneth Branagh in his West End debut.
20. I've seen Patrick Stewart play Henry IV and Prospero.
21. I went to boarding school for two years when I was 15.
22. I repeated fifth grade.
23. I read on a high school level when I was 7 years old.
24. I helped my father with the grammar for his Ph.D. Thesis when I was 12.
25. My father was assigned to Viet Nam the day I came home from the hospital.
26. My accent fluctuates according to whom I'm speaking with, even in foreign languages.
27. Venice is my favorite city in the world, but I couldn't live there.
28. Tivoli is more fun than Disneyland.
29. I love amusement parks.
30. I speak Dutch with a lower class Antwerp accent.
31. I tried to kill myself on January 24, 1988.
32. Most of the time, I'm happy that I didn't succeed.
33. I worked on a suicide hotline for 3 years beginning two years after my own attempt.
34. My father returned from his third tour in Viet Nam on March 25, 1975. I greeted him at the airport with, "We just heard on the radio. Da Nang fell." His response? "Then that's the end."
35. I speak French with an upper middle class Brussels accent.
36. I've never been to South America, but I want to take the old ship line from Lima to Rio via Buenos Aires before I die.
37. I didn't get to see the pyramids when I was in Egypt. But the moon was full and I understood about Isis.
38. When I've been practicing, I have a vocal range that extends from the B flat below alto low C to the F above soprano high C.
39. My favorite book is "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin.
40. The only book I consider evil is "Holy Grail and Holy Blood" because the scholarship is so poor.
41. I once saw 57 movies in 21 days and all on the big screen, too.
42. I weigh over 200 pounds.
43. For most of my 20s I was a perfect size 4: Ring, dress, glove, and shoe.
44. I miss being glamorous.
45. I was a virgin until I was 23. 20 if you count women.
46. I'm bisexual.
47. My favorite scent in nature is lilac. There is no natural lilac perfume.
48. My favorite scent in a bottle is tea olive or linden.
49. My favorite tea is lapsang souchong.
50. I think that truffles (the fungus not the sweet) taste like sex.
51. Nothing tastes better than fresh bread and cheese when eaten on a European train.
52. I love trains.
53. Some day, I want to go to India.
54. I've invented some of my own recipes. Ask me about my duck.
55. I can remember every good meal I've ever had.
56. In a pinch, I can tell you every meal I've had for the past ten days.
57. I'm allergic to strawberries.
58. I loathe bell peppers.
59. I failed at being a vegetarian. I never had any energy.
60. I love grinding my own spices and beating my own egg whites. Electric utensils just confuse me.
61. Sometimes, I think I'm a good writer.
62. I like good political humor.
63. After good sex, I tend to tell bad dirty jokes.
64. I enjoy school pageants.
65. I regret more than anything not having children of my own.
66. I have osteopena of the lower spine and left hip.
67. I love my down comforter.
68. I miss having the resident 4-year old actually in residence.
69. Hugs are more addictive than crack. I stayed with a friend who was bad for me because the hugs were good.
70. Very few people understand my taste in men.
71. I'm still a little in love with my first love even though I haven't seen him in 14 years. I wonder if he's a grandfather.
72. I'm completely gobsmacked that I'm old enough to be a grandmother.
73. I could live in either Tours or Bergamo for the rest of my life. I'd be willing to give Glasgow or Edinburgh a try, too.
74. Music contents me in ways that I can't explain.
75. Terry Pratchett is my favorite author.
76. I think "Neverwhere" is the best of Neil Gaiman's books.
77. I loved all the Sumerian stuff in "Snowcrash."
78. The best books absorb you into a new world without any establishment. My favorite opening line is from "Mirabile" by Janet Kagan, from the very beginning you're in a different world. In a similar vein is "Swordspoint" by Ellen Kushner. A very different style of writing and of book, however both the above authors pull in the reader.
79. My favorite Greek myth is Persephone, and I'm not sure why.
80. I can't sew worth a damn, but I have beautiful fabric that I want to turn into beautiful clothes.
81. I have the hearing of a five year old child. According to the doctors who tested me, five year olds hear better than any other age group.
82. My glasses prescriptions are extremely different for each eye. One eye reads, the other sees distance so I have no depth perception.
83. I hear high tones to my right and low tones to my left once I'm out of the middle range. I can't triangulate by sound.
84. I hate the fact that I'm afraid of heights.
85. In my ideal world, the train wouldn't go through my back yard.
86. My favorite color is duck-egg blue. I also like rose pinks.
87. Dutch Iris are the flower of welcome in Belgium and the only cut flowers I like in the house.
88. Roses that have no scent have no purpose.
89. I adore going to art museums, but rarely stay over 3 hours. It's like eating too much buttercream.
90. I'm a good cook, but my baking skills are average at best.
91. The Maenads frighten me.
92. I'm proud of my sister's talent as a film editor and her self-discipline as a writer.
93. I love the fact that the muses never had blood sacrifices.
94. I want to go back to England more than I want to go anywhere else.
95. I love to dance, but I know that I'm bad at it.
96. Good food with good friends is my anti-drug. Now about the weight problem it causes…
97. I love the people I've met on-line. Especially my Twistie, but there are so many others (Rhiannon, serafina, Thamiris, Kel…) who I would like to know better.
98. When I looked at the millenial lists of the world's greatest books written in English, specifically the one from The Observer, I noticed that I'd read fewer than thirty of the hundred. But when I looked at the authors who'd made the list, I'd read eighty-two of them.
99. I feel like I was put on Earth for a reason. I'd really like someone to tell me what it is.
100. I really regret never having learned a non-European language.
2. I was born in Tacoma, WA
3. I flew for the first time at 10 days old.
4. I went to drama school in London.
5. I went to first and second grades in London
6. The building where I went to first and second grades was a former POW camp with the bars still on the windows.
7. I've met Princes Philip and Andrew
8. I attended Gorillas in the Mist with Queen Fabiola of Belgium (It was a Saturday afternoon showing. She was there with two body guards.)
9. Jeremy Irons once spilled beer on me. He didn't apologize.
10. I haven't been back to Berlin since the wall fell.
11. I loved living in Mannheim. The addresses in downtown are given like chess moves. I lived at J7,20.
12. I once cooked Thanksgiving dinner for 75 people all by myself.
13. Given the choice between food or a theater ticket, I'll take the theater ticket every time.
14. I prefer dramas to musicals.
15. The only opera I've ever cried at was Porgy and Bess. It was the first time I'd seen it. The production was the one from the mid-seventies by the Houston Grand Opera Company. When Wilma Shakesnider hit the keening high notes on "My Man's Gone Now" (it's she who sings it on the recording), I was blinded by tears.
16. The only opera I've ever shouted "Brava" at was a production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Theatre de la Monnaie in 1978.
17. The only movie that made me cry was "Glory."
18. The only play that made me cry was Cyrano de Bergerac when Derek Jacobi played Cyrano.
19. I saw Kenneth Branagh in his West End debut.
20. I've seen Patrick Stewart play Henry IV and Prospero.
21. I went to boarding school for two years when I was 15.
22. I repeated fifth grade.
23. I read on a high school level when I was 7 years old.
24. I helped my father with the grammar for his Ph.D. Thesis when I was 12.
25. My father was assigned to Viet Nam the day I came home from the hospital.
26. My accent fluctuates according to whom I'm speaking with, even in foreign languages.
27. Venice is my favorite city in the world, but I couldn't live there.
28. Tivoli is more fun than Disneyland.
29. I love amusement parks.
30. I speak Dutch with a lower class Antwerp accent.
31. I tried to kill myself on January 24, 1988.
32. Most of the time, I'm happy that I didn't succeed.
33. I worked on a suicide hotline for 3 years beginning two years after my own attempt.
34. My father returned from his third tour in Viet Nam on March 25, 1975. I greeted him at the airport with, "We just heard on the radio. Da Nang fell." His response? "Then that's the end."
35. I speak French with an upper middle class Brussels accent.
36. I've never been to South America, but I want to take the old ship line from Lima to Rio via Buenos Aires before I die.
37. I didn't get to see the pyramids when I was in Egypt. But the moon was full and I understood about Isis.
38. When I've been practicing, I have a vocal range that extends from the B flat below alto low C to the F above soprano high C.
39. My favorite book is "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin.
40. The only book I consider evil is "Holy Grail and Holy Blood" because the scholarship is so poor.
41. I once saw 57 movies in 21 days and all on the big screen, too.
42. I weigh over 200 pounds.
43. For most of my 20s I was a perfect size 4: Ring, dress, glove, and shoe.
44. I miss being glamorous.
45. I was a virgin until I was 23. 20 if you count women.
46. I'm bisexual.
47. My favorite scent in nature is lilac. There is no natural lilac perfume.
48. My favorite scent in a bottle is tea olive or linden.
49. My favorite tea is lapsang souchong.
50. I think that truffles (the fungus not the sweet) taste like sex.
51. Nothing tastes better than fresh bread and cheese when eaten on a European train.
52. I love trains.
53. Some day, I want to go to India.
54. I've invented some of my own recipes. Ask me about my duck.
55. I can remember every good meal I've ever had.
56. In a pinch, I can tell you every meal I've had for the past ten days.
57. I'm allergic to strawberries.
58. I loathe bell peppers.
59. I failed at being a vegetarian. I never had any energy.
60. I love grinding my own spices and beating my own egg whites. Electric utensils just confuse me.
61. Sometimes, I think I'm a good writer.
62. I like good political humor.
63. After good sex, I tend to tell bad dirty jokes.
64. I enjoy school pageants.
65. I regret more than anything not having children of my own.
66. I have osteopena of the lower spine and left hip.
67. I love my down comforter.
68. I miss having the resident 4-year old actually in residence.
69. Hugs are more addictive than crack. I stayed with a friend who was bad for me because the hugs were good.
70. Very few people understand my taste in men.
71. I'm still a little in love with my first love even though I haven't seen him in 14 years. I wonder if he's a grandfather.
72. I'm completely gobsmacked that I'm old enough to be a grandmother.
73. I could live in either Tours or Bergamo for the rest of my life. I'd be willing to give Glasgow or Edinburgh a try, too.
74. Music contents me in ways that I can't explain.
75. Terry Pratchett is my favorite author.
76. I think "Neverwhere" is the best of Neil Gaiman's books.
77. I loved all the Sumerian stuff in "Snowcrash."
78. The best books absorb you into a new world without any establishment. My favorite opening line is from "Mirabile" by Janet Kagan, from the very beginning you're in a different world. In a similar vein is "Swordspoint" by Ellen Kushner. A very different style of writing and of book, however both the above authors pull in the reader.
79. My favorite Greek myth is Persephone, and I'm not sure why.
80. I can't sew worth a damn, but I have beautiful fabric that I want to turn into beautiful clothes.
81. I have the hearing of a five year old child. According to the doctors who tested me, five year olds hear better than any other age group.
82. My glasses prescriptions are extremely different for each eye. One eye reads, the other sees distance so I have no depth perception.
83. I hear high tones to my right and low tones to my left once I'm out of the middle range. I can't triangulate by sound.
84. I hate the fact that I'm afraid of heights.
85. In my ideal world, the train wouldn't go through my back yard.
86. My favorite color is duck-egg blue. I also like rose pinks.
87. Dutch Iris are the flower of welcome in Belgium and the only cut flowers I like in the house.
88. Roses that have no scent have no purpose.
89. I adore going to art museums, but rarely stay over 3 hours. It's like eating too much buttercream.
90. I'm a good cook, but my baking skills are average at best.
91. The Maenads frighten me.
92. I'm proud of my sister's talent as a film editor and her self-discipline as a writer.
93. I love the fact that the muses never had blood sacrifices.
94. I want to go back to England more than I want to go anywhere else.
95. I love to dance, but I know that I'm bad at it.
96. Good food with good friends is my anti-drug. Now about the weight problem it causes…
97. I love the people I've met on-line. Especially my Twistie, but there are so many others (Rhiannon, serafina, Thamiris, Kel…) who I would like to know better.
98. When I looked at the millenial lists of the world's greatest books written in English, specifically the one from The Observer, I noticed that I'd read fewer than thirty of the hundred. But when I looked at the authors who'd made the list, I'd read eighty-two of them.
99. I feel like I was put on Earth for a reason. I'd really like someone to tell me what it is.
100. I really regret never having learned a non-European language.
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Date: 2002-12-13 09:33 am (UTC)When do the students go home?
Just let me know when you're free, hon, and we can do it.
And my last exam was yesterday; it's marking hell from here until Christmas.