Rules: tag (10) people you want to get to know better.The lovely @simpleanddestructivechemistry...

Rules:  tag (10) people you want to get to know better.

The lovely @simpleanddestructivechemistry tagged me in this. I think I just did one very similar recently, so apologies if this bores you. 

Birthday: Capricorn, like my beloved Sherlock. 

Eye colour:  Green. Sometimes blue, depending on my mood. Blue when I cry. Green when I’m happy. 

Hair colour: Dark blond. Lighter in summer, darker in winter. 

Relationship status: I’d take one if someone offered. A good someone, that is. 

Siblings:  One younger brother. We have a Mycroft/Sherlock type relationship, except he’s Mycroft and not quite as smart. He has embraced a life of working for The Man and being Establishment and as vanilla as humanly possible and thinks that I’m an idiot for having chosen kind of anything but that. First I went into theology, then opera singing, spent years and years in school and then travelling and moving around all the time because of the opera career, etc, then moved to a city where everyone speaks French and became an ESL prof. I have no husband, kids, property, car, savings, RRSPs, etc. He disapproves hard. He has all of those things (wife, not husband, plus 1.5 children and a dog) and doesn’t appear to be super happy, but as far as he’s concerned, he’s checked off all the boxes of Becoming An Adult, and I have not, so I’m a failure in his eyes. Never mind any of my own rather significant accomplishments, which we don’t need to get into, but he doesn’t recognise those. We have, shall we say, a difficult relationship. 

Pets: My parents have a dog that I still refer to as “my dog” although he lives in a different city. I love him so much it hurts and when he dies it will tear me apart. Let’s not talk about it. He is a black, smooth-haired miniature dachshund (a wiener dog!) and the cutest beast on the planet. I could never get another dog while he’s still around. He would know I had cheated, and besides my heart is unwaveringly his. 

Wake Up Times: By choice or by necessity? By necessity, around 6am for 8am classes or 7am for 9am classes. These days I teach at 8am on Mondays and Wednesdays and 9am the other days. By choice, not before noon. I’m a night owl. 

Lemonade or Sweet Tea: Tea. Why are those the only choices? Why not sweet tea vs non-sweet tea? (Am I back in Georgia?)

Cats or dogs: Dogs. 

Coke or Pepsi: Coke zero or diet Pepsi. 

Text or Call: I prefer to text. 

Met a Celebrity: Well, this doesn’t count because I didn’t actually meet them, but I found out that Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones were at the Mozart Requiem that I was the soprano soloist for last month! Michael emailed the concert organisers after to congratulate us on it! Apart from that, my best celebrity story is that Stephen Colbert sang and danced at my personal request one time when I was in the audience at the Colbert Report. :)

Chapstick or Lipstick: Both. Why choose? 

Last Song I Listened To: Probably something by Imagine Dragons. That, or something from the Rachmaninoff Vespers, as I’m planning music for the year for the choir that I conduct. :)

Tagging: @practicefortheheart, @the-7-percent-solution, @cricketcat9, @usako90, @savage-pineapples, @mianmaru, @khorazir, @wtgilsa, @mphelmsman9, and @allonsy-sk. Based on recent activity, as usual. :) Only if you feel like it.