10 years MEME

Gacked from chaeche cuz it's lunchtime :-)

10 years ago, it was 1996. Take this survey, post the results, and see how many things have changed since then.


1) How old were you?
THEN: 27
NOW : 37

2) Where did you go to school?
THEN: University of Pennsylvania (MSW program)
NOW : Fordham University (PhD program)

3) Where did you work?
THEN: telemarketing company
NOW : Assistant Director of a homeless shelter and adjunct professor

4) Where did you live?
THEN: New York NY
NOW : New York NY

5) How was your hairstyle?
THEN: long and wild, dark
NOW : long and wild, red

6) Did you wear braces?
THEN: No
NOW : No

7) Did you wear contacts?
THEN: No
NOW : No

8) Did you wear glasses?
THEN: Yes
NOW : Yes

9) Who was your best friend?
THEN: Maritza or Joe
NOW : Madelyn

10) Which of your pets were still alive?
THEN: Wicca and Faberge
NOW : Faberge and Nymphadora (but Wicca's ghost still visits now and again)

11) Who was your boyfriend/girlfriend?
THEN: Andrew
NOW : No one; in slow warm pursuit

12) Who was your celebrity crush?
THEN: Brad Pitt
NOW : Alan Rickman as Snape and Ewan McGregor

13) Who was your regular-person crush?
THEN: My teacher Michael
NOW : ditto, I suppose. I hold a torch for him buried deep inside somewhere

14) How many piercings did you have?
THEN: six
NOW : five. One migrated and had to be removed

15) How many tattoos did you have?
THEN: One
NOW : Four

16) What was your favorite band/singer?
THEN: oh man, loads of 80s stuff, rock and roll, a wide gamut. Can't recall who was popular in 1996 that I might have liked.
NOW : Meh, tastes haven't changed. I still have very varied tastes.

17) Had you smoked cigarettes?
THEN: Yes, but I quit before then
NOW : Still don't smoke

18) Had you gotten drunk?
THEN: Yes
NOW : Yes

19) Had you DRIVEN?
THEN: Um, sort of
NOW : Do bumper cars count?

20) If so which car?
THEN: n/a
NOW : n/a

21) Looking back, are you where you thought you would be in 2006?
Yes and no. I am where I thought I'd be professionally. But I also thought I'd be in a long-term relationship at this point Severus Snape excepting. That's ok. I'm well beyond the point of worrying about what I thought 'should have' been and focus on what's right for me now. Oh, don't want to forget that I was in the Xena fandom then, and am in the HP - Snape fandom now.

SQUEEEE!!!!

I got an A in Advanced Statistics! :squee:

Oh, and I played hand holder and photographer to gryffin_claw's latest tattoo adventure tonight. And I found out there's a new Apple store in NYC at 5th Ave and 59th St.! You know where I'll be going tomorrow after I finish teaching...