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Oh, yes! I would have hand-crafted one, including a corny sonnet with iambic pentameter and a smiley face.
I'd have been delighted to reply!

Do you hand-make (or send at all) greeting cards?

I'm not artistic in that sense....though I do send greeting cards out from time to time.

This is where a knowledge of calligraphy would have come in handy.


Would you respond more to a message written in calligraphy than one written in chicken scratch?

No. I'd prefer humble scratches and awkward words. I vote for cberg to proceed

Do you whistle while you work?

I can't whistle, really. I especially can't do that four-fingered whistle favored by so many New Yorkers.

Same question.

I can do the four fingered whistle. I remember learning how to regular-whistle, and how to amp it up with fingers. For some reason it was very important that I learn these skills in order to "fit in". I don't whistle frequently, although I do a lot of tongue clicks especially when I'm happy. (click click!)

Did you ever babysit children?

1. I babysat for a little boy who was psychic, and he had an entire tin of black crayons. He insisted he was cursing me to the devil and putting spells on me.

2. I babysat in a home overnight. A man appeared in the parlour with a hunting gun around midnight. He was a lodger downstairs in the house but I had no idea he was there until he walked in. The parents neglected to inform me.

3. I babysat for two children I knew, but the parents neglected to inform me there was a third child (an infant), asleep in a back room. I didn't have any inkling of the third child's existence until the parents came home and carried her out for a feeding, at which point I grinned and played along.

4. I once put a family's plastic cutting board in the oven by mistake (whilst heating a frozen pizza they left on the counter -- I thought I was supposed to put the cutting board in as well). I hid the melted cutting board in my bag and spent the evening cleaning their range so I wouldn't be embarrassed by the gaffe.

Nope...never babysat at all. It was thought that I needed to be babysat even at a relatively old age (though I never had a babysitter after age 8.

If one of these is a lie, I pick #1.

Did you get a sense of security when you were babysat for (No, I never felt "secure.")

1 was my lie. I babysat a girl with a tin of black crayons and she was psychic, but she didn't curse me

2, 3 and 4 are true, quite regrettably.

I'm sorry I wrote all that in the wrong thread.

I seldom had a babysitter. The one I recall is the one who destroyed my belief in Santa Claus. It was traumatic.
Prior to that incident I thought having a babysitter was fun, because it was a rare event.

Do you wish you could time travel?

I used to more than I do now. I dreamt once that I was in 1963---but as a junior high student.

Do you feel an affinity towards Sylvia Plath? I sense, in some manner, that you're a much nicer version of her. Though I sense you really don't have as much of a need to present a "poised exterior."

Interesting. Sometimes I swear you read my mind, Kortie. I was just wondering last evening if there are any WP members named "BellJar". I was thinking about Sylvia Plath. Yes, I do like her although I prefer Virginia Woolf (I associate the two). I gave up on the poised exterior quite some time ago. It was always doubted, anyhow.

Have you read any Victor Hugo?

I really should—but I haven’t.

I like people like Balzac and Flaubert.

Do you find “War and Peace” to be an epic soap opera?

I like the dark. I was afraid of it last when I was 7.

Same question.

No, I too like the dark, and can't recall ever being very afraid of it. I slept with my bedroom light on when I was a kid just because I was too lazy to get up and turn it off, and having it on didn't bother me at all

I'll just pass the same question on so I feel less like I'm interrupting.

I love the dark and can navigate much like a cat. I'm more afraid of daylight, which gives me headaches but also agoraphobia.

Have you ever been stuck in a lift / elevator?

A few times. It irritates me

Do you like Dostoyevsky?

I'm not familiar with his works, so I have no opinion.

Same question.