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Questions provided by Siercia:

1. What do plan to do with your graduate degree, once you've made it into and through school?

Take the American Translators Association accreditation exam, come back to Boston and (hopefully) get hired again. There are companies that specialize in translations. Otherwise, try to get freelance work from the French Library, or the Boston Language Institute.

2. Where would you have moved after college if you hadn't been friends with Liz and moved to Boston?

I'd probably still be in Boston, but I wouldn't know anybody.

3. What's your favorite thing to do in Boston?

That depends on the season. In the winter I like to go lose myself in bookstores on weekends. In more clement weather, I like to go walking around and figure out how various places connect up to places I know already.

4. Who would you most like to be stranded on a desert island with?

Ooh, tough one. If we're talking about somebody I could actually talk to, my Japanese History professor from college. If we're talking about "stranded on a desert island with a hot guy", I don't know.

5. What's one thing you've done that you wish you could take back?

In high school, somebody I was interested in dating asked me to go out with him. Every time before that, when somebody had asked me out, they had been kidding, so I didn't trust anybody. I wish I had said yes.


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Questions from Scirocco

1: Where did your fear of creepy-crawlies come from?

When I was about five years old, I was lying in bed one night looking at the ceiling and a spider walked across it, throwing a distorted shadow about the size of my head. Ever since then I can't stand spiders, mostly because of how they move.

2: What's the best part of rock-climbing for you?

It's exercise I'm not competing with anybody for. I suck at competitive sports and team sports. The only person I have to compete with when I'm climbing is me. Although I have noticed that when I climb with you, I get more daring about what I climb.

3: How did you get started with the French language?

My father is fluent in French, and when I had to pick a language to take in high school, I figured I could at least get help if I sucked at French (as opposed to Spanish, which Dad doesn't speak). As it turns out, I don't suck at it.

4: What's the one thing you would have changed in your high school life?

Knowing what I know now, I would have worked harder at being myself and distinguishing who I was. I somehow ended up being "the other Deschenes kid" even though my sister is younger than me.

5: Just how many corsets DO you own, anyway?

Just one. The one I own is black and silver brocade. The LJ pictures you're hosting are of me at King Richard's Faire, being a clothes horse for a corset vendor.