#theinsanityofitall

I MISS YOU TOO LADY! (Pssst--I'll be back in the area around Christmas time :D)

65-Weird things you do when you’re alone:

SO MANY.  I sing songs to my dog constantly?  She has her good morning song (Which is...HIGHLY original and is the 'Good Morning' song from Singing in the Rain hahah) and her goodnight song ('So Long, Farewell' from the Sound of Music) Uh, and then all other songs I normally take and insert her name into in random places basically all day long?  So like, it's always a musical in Beth's apartment, with my pup as the star.  I'm such a weirdo.  O_____O 

74-What are your favorite books?

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell by far is my absolute favorite novel BY FAR.  Other than that, other books that I will never get rid of are Ovid's Metamorphoses, (because of it's highly symbolic nature in my own life, or at least, what it meant to me at the time I read it) and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, which was by far my favorite book in high school.  Also, the ineffable brilliance of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is something that I aspire to one day come close to, but will never, ever achieve, and still love all the same. Also, like, the ACD Sherlock canon, for sure, for sure (Three Garridebs is my favorite, I love me some hurt comfort uggghhhgggh)  Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.  Wuthering Heights because Bronte fearlessly was the first to turn gender stereotypes WAY upside down.  Uh, Pride and Prejudice because I love Austen's witty prose.  Basically anything written by Baudelaire because of his vivid imagery.  Academically, No Party Now by Adam Smith and American Colonies by Alan Taylor.  Even though it's sliiiightly historically inaccurate, Shaara's Killer Angels is a great read as well.  And, holy crap, I'm sure that I'm forgetting a billion others but I'll just end here--I just love books, yo.  Love them all. 

109-Do you have someone you can be your complete self around?

Yes, yes, yes!  I am so incredibly lucky to have absolutely amazing friends in my life, and something that I've really learned over the last couple years is that it's far easier to be yourself and liked for who you actually are, rather than try to be someone who you're not and just...eugh.  Therefore, I think basically all of my friends fall into this category because I'm just too lazy to pretend to be anyone else at this point in my life?  Again, I have to admit, this is really just laziness on my part, FOR REAL. 

195-If you could be any character, from any literary work, who would you choose to be?