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Feb. 18th, 2009 01:11 pm1. Who was your first prom date?
The guy who's still my oldest friend, RM, the gorgeous and too-mysterious-for-his-own-good Transylvanian boy.
2. Do you still talk to your first love?
That's him in #1. Once in a while, we exchange e-mails. I still think he's awesome.
3. What was your first alcoholic drink?
I took sips of my parents' beer and wine as far back as I can remember. Probably had my first full drink at one of their parties in my mid teens.
4. What was your first job?
I was a cashier at K-Mart at the Lincoln Mall, like many of my friends. Of course, they didn't put me on the same shift as any of them.
5. What was your first car?
My grandfather's Nissan Sentra. When he passed away, my sister and I inherited it. It was also my last car.
6. Who was the first person to text you today?
No one has.
7. Who is the first person you thought of this morning?
The boy next to me,
8. Who was your first grade teacher?
Miss Matthewson. I adored her.
9. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane?
I don't remember. It was a small plane my uncle rented--he's got a pilot's license. He brought my mom, my sister, and me up in the air somewhere. Around RI, naturally. My first flight on a jet was to go down to DC, where I attended college orientation.
10. Who was your first best friend & do you still talk?
Probably Jessica Tabak. No, we haven't talked in over half a lifetime. Pity. She was very bright and we had a lot of fun as kids. I do wonder what she's up to these days.
11. Where was your first sleep over?
Either at my place or a cousin's, most likely.
12. Who was the first person you talked to today?
13. Whose wedding were you in the first time?
As a participant rather than just watching? I think it was
14. What was the first thing you did this morning?
After REALLY getting up, not the reset-alarm-and-fall-asleep-again bit? Put on bathrobe and slippers, hit the bathroom, and then went to check the weather online. Weighed myself. Got dressed, did makeup, etc.
15. What was the first concert you ever went to?
I went to various Fall Festivals and stuff that had bands playing as a kid. Lots of folksy stuff like Bill Staines.
16. First tattoo?
My knotwork circle with triple crescents, also my only one.
17. First piercing?
My earlobes. I think I was 5 or 6.
18. First foreign country you've been to?
Canada. I went in eighth grade.
19. First movie you remember seeing?
In the theater? I think it was Follow That Bird.
20. When was your first detention?
I think I got detention only once, because the whole class did indiscriminately. It was maybe fifth grade. They let us go after maybe ten minutes with a strict talking-to.
21. What was the first state you lived in?
Rhode Island. I lived there for my entire childhood.
22. Who was your first roommate?
In freshman year at college, I roomed with three other girls: Melanie, Liz, and Nanya. Oh gods, it took me a while to remember those names. Melanie was half-German, half-Egyptian, had lived in Germany but went to a snobby private school in VA. Foxcroft. Liz was part Syrian, from Florida. Nanya was half-Japanese, from California, with family in Hawaii.
huh, I have fun answers to some of these...
Date: 2009-02-19 12:23 am (UTC)My last prom date. It wasn't my prom. And neither of us were in high school anymore.
2. Do you still talk to your first love?
We're on each others' LJ friends lists, and I recently went to her wedding.
3. What was your first alcoholic drink?
When I was about 5, one day I asked what that stuff my father was drinking was, so they let me try a sip of beer I asked what bad thing he had done that he had to drink this stuff as punishment? I think I was being sincere when I asked that. I've hated beer my whole life since then.
4. What was your first job?
A couple of one-off babysitting gigs, I think.
My first "job" was washing boats at Community Boating, when they take them out of the water gradually over the fall for winter storage.
My first contract work was programing for a physical engineer working in a Navy contract studying carbon fiber materials for use in airplane wings. I think that and the boat washing job were at about the same time.
5. What was your first car?
A used 1982 splotchy gray Toyota Corolla-Tercel named Shelby, that I bought for $250 from
6. Who was the first person to text you today?
Facebook :)
7. Who is the first person you thought of this morning?
Probably a figment of my dream who I don't remember because all my dreams of last night have faded away by now.
8. Who was your first grade teacher?
Ms. Harris, who became Mrs. Severino by the next year, which made all the kids want to call her "missis submarine"
9. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane?
Kampala, Uganda, at age 5 weeks.
10. Who was your first best friend & do you still talk?
Alexi was my best friend from about 2nd grade until about 6th grade. I don't remember who my best friends were before first grade. I'm not in contact with her - I messed up our friendship in 6th grade by falling to the social pressure that boys must not hang out with girls, then she spent a year away, and when she came back in 8th grade she got a different set of friends.
11. Where was your first sleep over?
No idea.
12. Who was the first person you talked to today?
Molly or Valerie. They were in the kitchen.
13. Whose wedding were you in the first time?
I've never been a member of an official wedding party, though I have been at some weddings that didn't have an official wedding party - such as my parents'.
14. What was the first thing you did this morning?
Read a bunch of Girl, Interrupted and the latest Atlantic while petting the cat.
15. What was the first concert you ever went to?
No idea. Not even a hint. I might even remember the concert that was the first one I went to, but I don't know that it was my first.
16. First tattoo?
None.
17. First piercing?
None.
18. First foreign country you've been to?
I was born in a foreign country: Israel.
You might say that if I was born there, it wasn't foreign to me, but my family was actually living in Uganda at the time, and I spent my first year and a half living there. Even though we visited Israel a few times, all of my first memories are from Uganda, and by the time we moved "back" to Israel, it was probably foreign to me. So it was also the first foreign country I ever went to, in that sense.
19. First movie you remember seeing?
Similar answer as with concerts.
20. When was your first detention?
Staying after school in class sometime during elementary school, but I don't think I remember.
21. What was the first state you lived in?
Massachusetts is the only (US) state I've ever lived in.
22. Who was your first roommate?
My little brother :)
My first long-term roommate outside of family was my freshman year college roommate, a Libertarian/AynRandian Jew from Long Island named David. And his girlfriend Halley, who had a weird relationship with her roommate and stayed in our room a lot, and was a better roommate than David.
My first "real world" roommate, in an apartment where I paid rent, was my sorta-boss Diane who I had a huge crush on that I never did anything about, and her friend Kendra.