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[lillibet]

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1. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the five questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

Interviewed by schmoomom

1. Would you ever cut your hair short, like above your shoulders?

I might. I had Mom cut sixteen inches off in May of 2003--that took it up to right at my shoulders. About half of that has grown back and I'm much happier now that it's long enough to braid again. I'm starting to really go grey and I'm kind of excited about having a waist-length grey braid. I can imagine deciding I don't like it or that it's inconvenient, but it's unlikely...I can't be bothered to do maintenance cuts, and my hair has no body, so when I get it cut short it tends to end up hanging in my eyes all the time.

2. Why did you get a Mini?

Because I wanted to have mini-adventures! Seriously, because I fell in love with them when they rolled out in England and then Jason got to pick our first car for various reasons, so when it became clear that we needed a second car I got to pick!

3. What did you learn from living in London?

That I don't really want to run a b&b. That I really need to live in a place where I have a community. Those are the big ones. I also learned a lot about the culture there and a great deal of English history and vast amounts about art and theatre.

4. How did you interest in theater start?

Well, I had to perform at church as a child, so that's probably where I learned that I enjoyed it. My first directorial effort was organizing my third-grade class to do an updated version of The Night Before Christmas that I wrote. That was a huge amount of work and I swore then that I wouldn't direct again until I was twenty, which was forever away at age eight. I actually failed to keep my vow--I got dragged into directing A Little Night Music at MIT the summer that I was nineteen.

5. Where did you have the best meal of your life, and what was it?

Guy Savoy in Paris. We ordered five courses, each of which was punctuated by an amuse bouche, so our meal included all of the following:
- crostini with duck liver pate
- watermelon and radish salad
- grilled tuna skewers
- tomato & squid skewers
- carrot soup with star anise
- grilled mussels with morel mushrooms in butter sauce
- cream of artichoke soup with shaved black truffles and parmesan cheese accompanied by a mushroom-stuffed brioche with truffle butter
- roast lamb over greens with bacon, accompanied by a cheesy spinach and mushroom side
- pigeon, poached and then grilled, drizzled with a sherry vinaigrette, accompanied by pureed peas and spinach and a napoleon of pigeon gizzards and beet chips
- petit fours
- caramel crisp encrusted with macadamia nuts and pink praline
- millefeuille (layers of puff pastry filled with vanilla cream) with berries on the side
- a sliver of apple tart
- a tiny taste of Earl Gray sorbet
...all washed down with Champagne, Meursault, and Bordeaux.

I've had a number of other excellent meals, some of which I've even cooked, but that has to be the best...so far.