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[lagilman]

THEN: May 1996
NOW: May 2006

1) How old were you?
THEN: 28
NOW: 38

2) Where did you work?
THEN: Putnam-Berkley, about two months away from leaving for Penguin USA
NOW: freelance

3) Where did you live?
THEN: New Jersey
NOW: Connecticut

4) How was your hair style?
THEN: Shoulder-length, straight
NOW: Shoulder-length, straight (but it got very short and very long, the years in-between)

5) Did you wear contacts?
THEN: Yes
NOW: Not very often

6) Did you wear glasses?
THEN: Yes
NOW: Yes (more now, obviously)

7) Who was your best friend?
THEN: kradical, peggin
NOW: much the same, although I have a number of new best-beloveds who're close up on the scale.

8) Who were your pets?
THEN: Indiana
NOW: Pandora and Boomerang

9) Who was your partner/romantic interest?
THEN: PRL
NOW: agamisu

11) Who was your celebrity crush?
THEN: Harrison Ford, probably.
NOW: None.

12) Who was your regular-person crush?
THEN: none
NOW: none (I don't crush as such, really. Never have.)

13) How many piercings did you have?
THEN: One in each ear
NOW: Three, all in ears.

14) How many tattoos did you have?
THEN: None
NOW: None

15) What was your favorite band/singer?
THEN: Springsteen
NOW: You can take the girl out of Jersey, but...

16) Had you smoked a cigarette?
THEN: Yes
NOW: Gave 'em up to be a Good Example.

17) Had you gotten drunk?
THEN: Yes.
NOW: Yes.

18) Looking back at your decade-ago self, are you where you thought you would be in 2006?

*hysterical laughter* Um. No. I think it's safe to say that my life is not at all what I thought that it would be in May 1996. Neither better nor worse than what I'd planned, but not at all as I'd planned.

But then, isn't that life, active tense, in a nutshell?

Comments

[thecityofdis.livejournal.com]

NOW: You can take the girl out of Jersey, but...

HAHAHA. Seeing as I lived in Princeton for 10 years and just moved out of Jersey a year ago, I so totally appreciated that.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

THEN: Springsteen
NOW: You can take the girl out of Jersey, but...

Does this mean you're a Stephanie Plum fan?

[lagilman]

Does this mean you're a Stephanie Plum fan?


Surprisingly, no. Perhaps for the same reason I don't watch The Sopranos. Been there, babysat for that family (no, really).

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Been there, babysat for that family (no, really).

Oh, dear...I must admit I would not want to know them in person....