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Age: 29. 30 in May!!

Booze: Red, red wine. Preferably pinor noir. Or a nice cold pinot gris in the summer. A tanqueray and tonic does the trick too.

Career: Um, former criminal defence lawyer, currently unemployed, seeking to make a transition to film/TV production. Stop laughing.

Dogs: no dog, only cats. All dead now, though.

Essentials: blistex herbal lip therapy, my tea thermos, credit card, gmail, and these boards, of course!

Favorite song right now: Hmm. Nothing sticks out. But really digging the new Strokes CD - especially that song that goes "the heart beats in its cage.." And god love Madonna. Ya, you better be "Sorry". I wore jelly bracelets because of you.

Games: The usual. Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary. Also this wierdly addictive card game called Set.

Hometown: Vancouver, Canada! Too beautiful for words. Why I am moving to Toronto, again?

Instruments: Piano. Only I quit about 20 years ago.
Jam: Oooh, a tough one. A dead heat between raspberry and blackberry. On toast with almond butter, yum!

Kids: None yet. 2 or 3, ideally.

Last kiss: Oh, here we go. New Year's, at a bar in Whistler, in a shameless public makeout with some Brazilian dude. Armando? Arnesto? Oh this is humiliating.

Most admired trait: Good listeners score big points with me. It's not easy to do but means so much.

Name of my crush: I can't say his name on the internet!! Although he has the SEXIEST name. He is a former colleague. With long, lushious eyelashes. And a wonderful, gorgeous girlfriend. As for celebrity crushes: Does anyone else find Donnie Deutsh delectable? (PS who are Terry Sharp and Trevor Webb. Should I know them?)

Overnight hospital stays: none so far! Knock on wood.

Phobias: Not a big fan of heights. Also: never finding a job I love - or a man I love. And of course all those niggly little IBS-related fears, like being bloated on my wedding day.

Quotes: What if doing the hokey-pokey IS what it's all about?

Regret: Anorexia and bulimia. I'm still paying the price.

Sweets: You nailed it: chocolate chip cookies. Fresh and warm from the oven. Ecstasy. Or hot pie 'n cold vanilla ice cream. Not that I've had either, lately. Gluten-free fig newton, anyone?

Time I wake up: Since I'm not working (see career, above), 8:30 or 9.

Underwear: depends on the outerwear - either a g-string or a boy-cut brief. And I am a lifelong devotee of the underwire.

Vegetable I love: Oh, too hard. All the ones I miss because I'm too scared to eat them!! And, yes, asparagus is very nice.

Worst habit: Being too hard on myself and on others. Seeing the glass half-empty. Squeezing my pores.
X-rays: Just that small bowel follow-through where you swallow white liquid and they watch as it exits your stomach into your intestines (or, in my case, sits in your stomach for an eternity while you sit cramped up and crying in a freezing examining room)

Zodiac: I'm right on the cusp - Taurus and Gemini. I consider myself a Gemini though, as I am definitely twin-like in nature. I.e. criminal law/random bar makeouts - need I say more?

This was fun, thanks Shannon

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IBS-C, lots of spasm and trapped gas.

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