1. RE: your future. What lies ahead?
How can anyone answer this question? I'm hoping a swim in my pool lies ahead on either tomorrow or Tuesday. We opened the pool yesterday and the water is still murky.

2. Listen: what can you hear?
The air system in the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility. My typing.

3. Inner peace: Do you have it?
Only sometimes. Don't forget that I'm going to perish of fits.

4. Every once in a while, someone surprises you. Who did most recently?
I guess I haven't had a whole lot of surprises lately. I can't think of any. Perhaps that's better?

5. Friends can come and go. Who has come into your life, and who has left?
Boy, this is a hard question when you're an old lady like me. I think it's meant for people just entering college.