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12. What is one thing nobody knows about you because nobody ever cared to ask?
Oh, I don't know. There's a lot that people don't know about me, because people only tend to know about me in terms of if they've seen me at pottery the last couple of years, they tend to know the part of me that goes to pottery. A lot of people don't know how funny/irreverant I can be because I have really toned that part of me down in public, as many people either don't get my jokes, don't get my sense of humor, or it's never the right context to open up that way. I swear like a sailor around my husband, and tone it down a lot for public consumption. I also tend to come across as kind of reserved, apparently (according to what others have said), but that's because again, I can't always be bothered to confront everyone, or air opinions, or deal with the problems that can arise from being authentic, so a lot of times I tend to just sit back and observe. In the right company, I am not reserved at all.

13. Robert Frost wrote a poem titled The Road Not Taken. Name a road you’ve always wanted to travel. Where do you hope it takes you, and what might you see on the way?
I've wanted to take most of the roads. In a metaphorical sense, I've wanted to be more of a musician, or any number of professions. I'm drawn to things like martial arts and dance, acting, many creative endeavors. In a more literal sense, I've wanted to travel to just about anywhere that is a politically stable country. It's just that we only have one life to live, and when you get lots of animals, that does tend to change your travel options unless you have some people in your life that you can truly trust with your beloved animals.

14. Name one thing you always wanted to do, but haven’t. What has prevented you from doing it? To dance, as in have training to do ballroom dancing, something like that. I really haven't been anywhere that I would have access to a proper dance studio, and then there's the simple reality of the commitment it would take, when I already have several big commitments.

15. Write about your first kiss. Was it everything you wished or hoped it would be? I don't know that I remember any more what my first kiss was like, or who it was with.

16. What was the worst mistake or decision you have ever made in life? What could you have done differently? It wouldn't really have been one mistake or decision. It would have perhaps been a cluster of actions/inactions that culminated in an outcome. Such as waiting until I was in my 30's to get my driver's licence (which wasn't even really my fault), or my terrible academic performance when I went to University for a year, leaving me with no benefits to my future but a student loan. Most of my mistakes were not easily avoidable, because we all date people that don't work out for us, we all work in shitty jobs sometimes, we all likely try more than one professional path (or end up not on a professional path at all). Many mistakes or poor decisions can only be seen as such with hindsight, and it seems like most people have to make mistakes like that.