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Don’t worry about it haha! I’m glad you enjoy reading them because I feel like I’m rambling half the time. XD

1:Talk about the first time you watched your favorite movie

I really don’t have one favorite movie. I LOVE Tarsem Singh’s The Fall (with Lee Pace) because a) it’s visually stunning, the cinematography is mindblowing and b) I’m in love with Lee Pace but I watched that at home late at night with my cousin. One that I actually saw in theaters was Grand Budapest Hotel and I saw it at like 10 with my cousin again and I couldn’t stop thinking about it so we went again after just a week.

4: Talk about the thing you regret most so far

It’s really hard for me to talk in “mosts” so I guess I’ll just talk about my most recent regret. I mentioned a bit before how my most intense romantic crush is now my best friend. I kissed him on the cheek at prom (he asked me if I got lipstick on him and I smacked him but told him even if there was I probably wouldn’t have told him) and it was nice. I regret not kissing him one last time before he moved to Connecticut. I probably won’t see him for quite a few months.

8: Talk about the thing you are most proud of

My water color paintings and my poetry. I have always drawn since I was a kid but I had that whole artist’s curse thing where no matter how many people said I was good I always hated my work. I could never paint either. At least not with acrylics which is what I had tried a couple times before tentatively trying my hand at water colors. Turns out I’m pretty dang good at that medium. Or at least, good enough for me to actually look at my art and say “Hell yeah that’s pretty damn good.” In fact I’m so proud of them here they are. Second is my poetry. I fell in love with Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye a couple years ago and joined a spoken word poetry club about a year ago. My senior year I was co-president and organized two open mic nights and opened them. Public speaking is not my thing. I shake really badly when people are watching me. But I’m proud of myself for sharing my poems out loud with people and conquering that fear even if only for that 2 whole minutes each time.

10: Talk about the biggest fight you’ve ever had

I used to be really close with this girl I met in 7th grade. I even invited her on my family’s yearly vacation trip to WY last summer. We were looking at colleges together and promised that if we both got into this one specific one we’d just accept and go together. I was over at her house a couple days after the deadline had passed and asked her how she felt about her application and she told me she forgot about the deadline and never sent it in. Nothing was really the same after that. Ironically, we’re going to the same college.

24: Talk about something someone told you that meant a lot

Answered already! :)

32: Talk about a place you remember from your childhood

I still live in the house I grew up in so I see the same places often but I remember in this big dry patch of the central park across from the library there was an old tree (mostly dead, leafless) and people used to throw their old shoes up in the branches so that they’d hang like weird ornaments. I called it the Shoe Tree (clever, I know). And one day, maybe when I was 8 or so, it was cut down. A couple years later when I was old enough to understand I read the signs around the area and they all said that dry patch was the proposed site of a senior center. I thought this would be a nice idea - take the dead patch of land and make it into housing for the elderly so they could enjoy the park. Even then nothing actually started to be built until this year and I only THINK I saw the beginnings of an infrastructure behind the fence. I didn’t look to closely.

34: Talk about the worst physical pain you’ve endured

I’m pretty fortunate in this vein because nothing extreme has happened to me. The worst thing that happened is when I was sparring in Tae Kwon Do I got hit so hard in the chest I fell backwards and landed on my tailbone. I couldn’t breathe for a second and that was a little terrifying.

39: Talk about things you wish you’d known earlier.

Answered earlier!