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Best and Worst "Literature"
Best books I've read: Doc, Fatal Vision, Everybody Needs a Rock, Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am? Best book I had to read: In Cold Blood Best author I had to read: St.Exupery (Wind, Sand, and Stars; etc.) Best play I had to read: The Misanthrope Best playwright: Moliere Worst book I had to read: Wuthering Heights by Bronte or Knots by RD Laing Worst play I had to read: anything by Eugene Ionesco Book I've read (uh, er, looked through) in the most languages: The Little Prince Best book I've been meaning to read: The Path of the Everyday Hero (by my friend)

Best books I've read: Doc, Fatal Vision, Everybody Needs a Rock, Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?
Best book I had to read: In Cold Blood
Best author I had to read: St.Exupery (Wind, Sand, and Stars; etc.)
Best play I had to read: The Misanthrope
Best playwright: Moliere
Worst book I had to read: Wuthering Heights by Bronte or Knots by RD Laing
Worst play I had to read: anything by Eugene Ionesco
Book I've read (uh, er, looked through) in the most languages: The Little Prince
Best book I've been meaning to read: The Path of the Everyday Hero (by my friend)

A Few of My Favorite Things
COLOR: brown SMELLS: freshly cut lawn grass, freshly baked bread FOODS: banana cream pie, sushi, leg of lamb, Pariserwafier cookies, shortbread, milk SUSHI: fresh salmon, unagi (eel), California roll, salmon-skin handroll FLAVORS: banana, lemon, root beer VIDEO GAME: Bust-A-Move WEATHER: bright, sunny, warm, windless, low-humidity TV SHOW (CURRENT): The Gilmore Girls TV SHOW (OFF THE AIR): Star Trek: The Next Generation; the Mary Tyler Moore Show ANIMALS: my Cockers, dolphins, moose SPORTS (to do): golf, table tennis, snorkeling, shooting GAMES: bridge, Life, Clue, anything trivia-oriented WELL-KNOWN TOURIST ATTRACTION: the Colloseum (Rome), the Roman ruins, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Mt. Rushmore, the Grand Tetons LITTLE-KNOWN TOURIST ATTRACTION: The Corn Palace (Mitchell, SD) MOVIES: The Chalk Garden, The Trial of Billy Jack, Mahogany, Meet Joe Black, Heaven Can Wait MUSICIANS: Yanni, Enya, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Will Ackerman, Melissa Etheridge, Cris Williamson and Tret Fure

COLOR: brown
SMELLS: freshly cut lawn grass, freshly baked bread
FOODS: banana cream pie, sushi, leg of lamb, Pariserwafier cookies, shortbread, milk
SUSHI: fresh salmon, unagi (eel), California roll, salmon-skin handroll
FLAVORS: banana, lemon, root beer
VIDEO GAME: Bust-A-Move
WEATHER: bright, sunny, warm, windless, low-humidity
TV SHOW (CURRENT): The Gilmore Girls
TV SHOW (OFF THE AIR): Star Trek: The Next Generation; the Mary Tyler Moore Show
ANIMALS: my Cockers, dolphins, moose
SPORTS (to do): golf, table tennis, snorkeling, shooting
GAMES: bridge, Life, Clue, anything trivia-oriented
WELL-KNOWN TOURIST ATTRACTION: the Colloseum (Rome), the Roman ruins, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Mt. Rushmore, the Grand Tetons
LITTLE-KNOWN TOURIST ATTRACTION: The Corn Palace (Mitchell, SD)
MOVIES: The Chalk Garden, The Trial of Billy Jack, Mahogany, Meet Joe Black, Heaven Can Wait
MUSICIANS: Yanni, Enya, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Will Ackerman, Melissa Etheridge, Cris Williamson and Tret Fure

Some Little-Known Tidbits about Me
I lived in Wyoming for over 20 years but I've never been to neighbors Idaho nor Montana. I have an invention I created and started to market with one of those invention-submission firms back in 1977, but have never pursued it. To this day, I still think it would sell. I lived in snowy climates for most of my life, but I am terrified (now) of snow and ice. Cottage cheese and liver are the only foods I've tried that I cannot stand. I own hundreds of books I've never read and dozens of software packages I've never used. I have thirteen autographs of famous celebrities, but I've only gotten one of those in person. (For example, Elizabeth Taylor wrote me a letter after I wrote her a letter.) I didn't take my first plane ride until I was 18, but now I've flown well over 100 times. I've only been in love once. I've never gotten a traffic ticket nor even been stopped by the cops. I've never even tried pot. I've entered song lyrics in the American Song Festival competitions. My corneas are too thin for LASIK eye surgery. I had the same pair of hard contact lenses for 19 years and this pair of gas permeable lenses for ten years (i.e., I've never lost one). No one asked me to any high school Proms. And get this: one therapist actually told me I'm not all that unique!

I lived in Wyoming for over 20 years but I've never been to neighbors Idaho nor Montana.
I have an invention I created and started to market with one of those invention-submission firms back in 1977, but have never pursued it. To this day, I still think it would sell.
I lived in snowy climates for most of my life, but I am terrified (now) of snow and ice.
Cottage cheese and liver are the only foods I've tried that I cannot stand.
I own hundreds of books I've never read and dozens of software packages I've never used.
I have thirteen autographs of famous celebrities, but I've only gotten one of those in person. (For example, Elizabeth Taylor wrote me a letter after I wrote her a letter.)
I didn't take my first plane ride until I was 18, but now I've flown well over 100 times.
I've only been in love once.
I've never gotten a traffic ticket nor even been stopped by the cops.
I've never even tried pot.
I've entered song lyrics in the American Song Festival competitions.
My corneas are too thin for LASIK eye surgery.
I had the same pair of hard contact lenses for 19 years and this pair of gas permeable lenses for ten years (i.e., I've never lost one).
No one asked me to any high school Proms.
And get this: one therapist actually told me I'm not all that unique!

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE: the cruise, 1989 WORST YEAR(S): 1977, 1990-91, 1999 BEST FEELING: unbridled passion, love, and interest in a new, true love WORST FEELING(S): being fat, being abandoned, being terrified BEST LIVING SITUATION: now WORST: with psychotic, suicidal, self-maiming, alcoholic roommate in graduate school BEST MULTI-YEAR PERIOD: high school WORST: the University of Wyoming and graduate school in Monterey BEST VACATION: the cruise (of course) or Treasure Island with my sister WORST: the Bahamas in 1991(hurricane) BEST PLACE I'VE LIVED: Temecula, CA WORST: Brussels, Belgium BEST TALENT: wit WORST: singing (I can't carry a tune) BEST GIFT TO GIVE ME: anything brown WORST: something to read

BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE: the cruise, 1989
WORST YEAR(S): 1977, 1990-91, 1999
BEST FEELING: unbridled passion, love, and interest in a new, true love
WORST FEELING(S): being fat, being abandoned, being terrified
BEST LIVING SITUATION: now
WORST: with psychotic, suicidal, self-maiming, alcoholic roommate in graduate school
BEST MULTI-YEAR PERIOD: high school
WORST: the University of Wyoming and graduate school in Monterey
BEST VACATION: the cruise (of course) or Treasure Island with my sister
WORST: the Bahamas in 1991(hurricane)
BEST PLACE I'VE LIVED: Temecula, CA
WORST: Brussels, Belgium
BEST TALENT: wit
WORST: singing (I can't carry a tune)
BEST GIFT TO GIVE ME: anything brown
WORST: something to read