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Stanley, please, for the love of God, don't call my phone and bitch me out. I'll get to it when I get to it.
What would a description of your *exact opposite* be like?
Hm. Black gentile woman from the third-world with a husband and eight children. Toby had this factoid on a laminate piece of paper that he used to tape to every desk he's ever sat at during the time I've known him. It's about 100 people on an island, and how many would be what and where-- it's also totally outdated. (Sam and I got bored and did the math on the campaign bus once.)
Neverless, Toby keeps it around because he says the math doesn't matter, so much as the message, that there are many people in this world who have been left behind, and the opportunities I have been handed are far from average.
Describe your funniest childhood memory.
Well, Joanie once roped me into directing a talent show for her and her friends. I don't know. I have a lot of good memories, I really do, I just-- they're all kind of wistful and melancholic, now. Not really the stuff of rolling on the floor laughter. And I'm ashamed to admit, there's stuff I'm never going to be able to remember. I pushed it all away and tried to move on, and I lost some important things when I did that.
What's the furthest away you've ever been from the place you were born/created? How did you get there? Why did you go? Did you return or even want to come back to where you came from?
Well, I was born in Westport, Connecticut. I used to work for the President of the United States, and now I'm working for a man who I think should be the next President. I've visited all 50 states, and will do it again over the next two years. Despite that, there's a lot of places on the planet I haven't been. China. Israel. Fiji.
I left Connecticut to go to Harvard. Go Boston! And then I went back, to go to Yale. After that, I moved to DC and didn't look back often enough. I should have spent more time with my father, I should spend more time with my mother. I thought I would have time, after 2006. I thought I'd have time for a lot of things. Although, the way this primary is going, I should never say never.
Describe what your "happily ever after" would be like.
I used to believe in happily ever afters, but recently I've been informed that nothing ends happily, because nothing ever ends. It keeps going.
There was this point in my life where I think maybe I tricked myself into thinking I had gotten there, that I had more than I actually did. If you had asked me, in 2002, I would have said that right there, with my friends is exactly where I wanted to be, and that we had fought our battles already. We won re-election against impossible odds, and Rosslyn was long behind us. And she was going to be there for me, by my side. Then, recently, I started to think about after the White House-- I had come up with these plans, things I wanted to do. Stuff like spending more time with my mother...
Anyway, like I said, I have recently been informed that things don't end, they keep going. Besides, I'm not sure I deserve happily ever after.
What would a description of your *exact opposite* be like?
Hm. Black gentile woman from the third-world with a husband and eight children. Toby had this factoid on a laminate piece of paper that he used to tape to every desk he's ever sat at during the time I've known him. It's about 100 people on an island, and how many would be what and where-- it's also totally outdated. (Sam and I got bored and did the math on the campaign bus once.)
Neverless, Toby keeps it around because he says the math doesn't matter, so much as the message, that there are many people in this world who have been left behind, and the opportunities I have been handed are far from average.
Describe your funniest childhood memory.
Well, Joanie once roped me into directing a talent show for her and her friends. I don't know. I have a lot of good memories, I really do, I just-- they're all kind of wistful and melancholic, now. Not really the stuff of rolling on the floor laughter. And I'm ashamed to admit, there's stuff I'm never going to be able to remember. I pushed it all away and tried to move on, and I lost some important things when I did that.
What's the furthest away you've ever been from the place you were born/created? How did you get there? Why did you go? Did you return or even want to come back to where you came from?
Well, I was born in Westport, Connecticut. I used to work for the President of the United States, and now I'm working for a man who I think should be the next President. I've visited all 50 states, and will do it again over the next two years. Despite that, there's a lot of places on the planet I haven't been. China. Israel. Fiji.
I left Connecticut to go to Harvard. Go Boston! And then I went back, to go to Yale. After that, I moved to DC and didn't look back often enough. I should have spent more time with my father, I should spend more time with my mother. I thought I would have time, after 2006. I thought I'd have time for a lot of things. Although, the way this primary is going, I should never say never.
Describe what your "happily ever after" would be like.
I used to believe in happily ever afters, but recently I've been informed that nothing ends happily, because nothing ever ends. It keeps going.
There was this point in my life where I think maybe I tricked myself into thinking I had gotten there, that I had more than I actually did. If you had asked me, in 2002, I would have said that right there, with my friends is exactly where I wanted to be, and that we had fought our battles already. We won re-election against impossible odds, and Rosslyn was long behind us. And she was going to be there for me, by my side. Then, recently, I started to think about after the White House-- I had come up with these plans, things I wanted to do. Stuff like spending more time with my mother...
Anyway, like I said, I have recently been informed that things don't end, they keep going. Besides, I'm not sure I deserve happily ever after.