a quiz, part 1

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Miriam (fauxklore  on Dreamwidth) posted a set of prompts - what I usually call a quiz - and I always used to like doing these back in the Livejournal days so I thought I would tackle them. There were more than this, but this is as far as I've gotten. If I get further later there will be more!

(Note that I made the font color gray because my Dreamwidth journal has a black background. If you can't read it, try changing the font color.)

1. Have you ever been caught outdoors away from shelter during a thunderstorm?

Hmm. I want to say yes, but I don’t remember ever being seriously afraid of being struck by lightning, if that’s what this is meant to be asking about. Just getting wet was common enough that I took it for granted.

2. Did you ever build furniture forts as a child?

I remember using the dining room table as some kind of fort, but moving furniture around to make a fort? Not that I recall. I don’t think my mom would have let us. (We were two girls. We didn’t have boys around the house to come up with really serious troublemaking.) 

3. Do you use any medicines daily?

Of course. I’m 61 and I am a cancer survivor, among other issues. I have one of those AM/PM pill things and I use it.

4. When was the last time you used a disposable camera? 

Long ago. I think maybe the last time was at somebody’s wedding, long enough ago that their children are now teenagers.

5. When was the last time you flew on a plane?

I’m honestly not sure, but it was some years ago, 2014, maybe? I just decided at some point around then that I wasn’t going to fly any more. I’m claustrophobic and flying just has gotten too triggery for me. Back in the old days when It wasn’t a cattle car I could deal with it, but not any more. My husband flies to Ohio once a year or so and I just make the reservations for him and wave goodbye.

6. How many first cousins do you have?

I’m counting my parents' siblings and their children - my dad grew up in a fairly big family, that's the issue - and I come up with six first cousins (3 of whom were adopted, not that that makes any real difference. Family is family).

7. What’s the longest period of time you’ve gone without sleep?

I’m not sure. More than 24 hours, for sure. But at some point I just pass out, even though I’m a bad sleeper in general.

8. Did the house you grew up in have a big yard?

Well, we moved around a good bit when I was a kid, but the house we lived in longest was a suburban corner lot that’s far bigger than most houses have nowadays. My sister's new house has a tiny back yard, and the front yard isn't much bigger.

9. What has been the most difficult class you’ve ever taken?

I had issues with math as a teenager, algebra in particular. I think it was mostly that I didn’t have the patience to sit and work it all out. I think now that I had undiagnosed ADD, because I never had a lot of trouble with anything I was interested in. (I also think nobody ever bothered to explain what algebra was actually good for.)

10. What’s something that’s much more difficult than a lot of people realize?

I can’t think of anything in particular, although I don’t think most people are very good judges of things like that. I think they tend to overestimate or underestimate. (“Well, I did it so you should be able to, too!”)