this is courtesy of william and kat:
Full name: ester sarah bloom
Name of school: swarthmore college
How often do you check your email: like five times a day.
Color of eyes: someone once said honey
Hair: auburn. this is very important to me. it makes baby jesus cry when someone dismisses my hair as brown.
Height: 5'1.5"
Zodiac sign: cancer but close enuf to leo that i don't make any sense (the two are opposites) **is this ridiculous stuff important to me? clearly, yes.

Have you ever...
Gotten drunk: yup
Gone out wearing your PJ's: yup -- spent a whole day in them once in cty. horrified becca, i'm sure.
Missed school because of rain: my mom believed in mental health days. and senior year, i didn't even need a reason
Kept a secret from everyone: yup. on the other hand, yesterday i was praised for my "emotional honesty".
Had a crush on a teacher: kind of. my face turned red when i spoke in his class and he appeared in my dreams sometimes. he also seemed particularly awkward around me. at the end of the year, i gave him a rutabaga wrapped in purple ribbon.
Been on stage: hell yes. i've gotten much more timid in my old age, but i used to get a thrill like nothing else walking out in front of an audience.

Favorites:
Shampoo + conditioner: herbal essences (despite the warning someone gave recently that it makes one's hair fall out) (??)
Town to chill: amsterdam
Cereal: kellogs 19s. the box alone serves as a comfort object.
TV shows: simpsons, sopranos
Movies: gaa, too broad. pulp fiction, fight club, being john malkovich, all that jazz, high fidelity, terms of endearment, chinatown, shawshank redemption, empire records ...
Scent: french vanilla; hazelnut
Musicians: ani, tori, alanis, bjork, joni, aimee, jill (it's like listing smurfs!)
Favorite person to talk to online: michael
First crush: noel airman
What is on your walls: pictures of my friends; sentimentalia; a cool collage my oldest friend's little sister's friend made
Ever been skinny dipping: yup
Worst feeling: depression + headache + nausea
Best feeling: having great recent memories and continuing to do things that will produce more
Word or phrase overuse: bite me; your mom. i'm such a kid.
Get along with parents: really well
What are you wearing right now: dark blue shirt from mustard seed over magenta express tank top; jeans; poland socks; docs; my hair down
Are you lonely: oddly, never when i'm blogging

Last 24 Hours...
Been mean: probably. i'm in the process of testing limits w/ people. also i was w/ liz h. this morning
Been sarcastic: see above
Met someone new: kinda --
First thing you thought this morning: i violently didn't want to wake up, which doesn't often happen to me

In the future...
Where do you see yourself in 10 years: hopefully in some small-but-cool city on the east coast, writing, w/ a close group of friends, a decent amount of optomism, a college degree, a job, and perhaps a PLTSO
Future son's name: jake or zev
Future daughter's name: eleanor, dorothy, morgan, lily, or daria
Where do you want to live when you get married: in a small-but-cool city on the east coast somewhere near my parents

When was the last time you...
Went to the beach at night: in n. carolina w/ lana this past summer
Spent some quality time with yourself: lunch. i finally caught up w/ my real notebook -- i hadn't written substantially in a couple days.
Read a book for fun: stayed up til 2:30 last nite rereading Goblet of Fire
Believed in yourself: oh for god's sake

there was more sappy stuff that i edited out but that last i just had to leave in. happy new week, everybody.
happy november 19 geoff, if you're reading this. happy wednesday-before-thanksgiving, ben, if you're reading this. gee, what a historically significant week this is for me ...