the Answer the Question project
we’re getting dodderingly repetitive or community-buildingly interesting here at pH, depending on your perspective. every friday, the following five questions will be posted as different bloggers from the blogiverse answer them in their own unique ways. what i’m hoping, dear bloggers, is that you will read the questions and my introductory responses to them and decide to email me your five answers as well as a small picture of yourself to use as a blurb photo. you will do this because of three reasons:
1. you like me and you don’t want my little experiment to fail.
2. you’re a blogger and thus naturally self-revelatory and hopefully you find my questions interesting.
3. you secretly like having pictures of yourself on the internet, because you’re all beautiful people.
in turn, i will promise to:
1. print your answers completely unedited [please keep them at comparable lengths to mine, dan, mark, i'm looking at you.]
2. read your blog if i don’t already.
3. link to you both on the day of your post and in the sidebar referring to the ATQ project.
aren’t those good reasons? now read my answers and start thinking about your own. without further ado?
ATQ project – subject #1 – krissa, of petit hiboux:
1. What’s an embarrassing story that your family or friends could tell about you?
there are so many, it’s frightening. most of them could be told by my best friend erin, since they mostly happened in eighth grade. the one that’s her absolute favorite, however, that she never fails to tell newcomers to my life, is that in eighth grade, when my then-boyfriend david endelman went away to vail for a measly six days, I actually broke his answering machine by leaving so many messages. that’s like four hours of tape. jesus, was I lame.
2. Tell me about a time where you cried so hard you thought you were coming apart at the seams.
well, I cry a lot. but the time that stands out in recent memory as being the absolute worst crying fit I’ve had was when I was lying in my bed, talking to my mother with intense stomach cramps, and she told me to get myself to an emergency room because it sounded like appendicitis. there I was, alone with my carefully-guarded independent life, and suddenly there was no one to take me to the hospital, make sure I didn’t fall down the stairs, rub my back, or hold my hand. for ten minutes, I couldn’t do anything by lie in bed, clutch my tummy and wail like a starving hiccuping newborn. it was one of the loneliest moments of my life.
3. What or where is the most inappropriate situation or place you’ve ever been turned on? Extra points if it involves famous people or religious institutions!
This actually happens to me quite a bit – unfortunately. I get singularly turned on when I’m having an intellectual debate with someone and they’re actually trampling my logic with a 2×4. assuming they’re male and straight, of course. as egotistical as this sounds, even when I’m wrong I can usually run rhetorical circles around a lot of people, so when I meet someone that knows how to argue better than I do, it’s seriously turns me on. this doesn’t bode well for my future as a trial lawyer.
4. Tell me about your relationship with your parents or parent figures.
They say you can hurt the hardest those you know the best – that certainly holds true with my parents. but since I got over my spoiled bullheadedness of adolescence and college and realized my parents are and always will be my first and last line of defense in this world, and accepted them for the flawed but wonderful human beings they are, I’ve struck a fair balance with them. when I was a little girl, my mother was a shining goddess and my father was affectionate but often absent. now they’re both my best friends.
5. Recall a moment in your past that you remember as being absolutely perfect harmony in your life.
in may, I went to dallas to visit my brother. after a long delicious sunday brunch, my brother was doing some dishes in the kitchen. erin and I were having a smoke on the balcony, while raychul was sitting with her husband matt and chatting with us about how the three of us – erin, raychul and I – are all going to law school in sept 04. I caught my brother’s eye in the kitchen and he winked at me. I looked at the two friends I’ve had the longest – raychul’s harmonious marriage and erin’s growth into a woman I can be proud to call my best friend, and luiz’s amazing constancy as a brother. I remembered all my friends back in new york, too and I thought, friends and family really are nature’s antidote to the ills of the world. I smiled and joined back into the conversation. it was perfect.

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