Fun Five: Author Jessica Leader

Apr 16, 2010 by shanyn

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1. Spoon or fork?
Spoon. Because yogurt on a fork is really unpleasant.

2. What is your favorite movie snack?
Bin candy! Malt balls, Hot Tamales, sour peachies and Raisinettes. One dose of this and I’m set for a year.

3. How long is the longest car ride you’ve been on?
The one that was the longest, or the one that seemed the longest?

In 6th grade, I went on another school’s ski trip with a few of my friends. I have no idea why, since it wasn’t like I knew anyone who went to that school, but maybe my mom wanted to get me out of the house. Anyway, it was me in a freezing cheese bus for approximately fifteen hundred hours with just my walkman and the Phil Collins Invisible Touch album. (Yeah, You can probably figure out how old I am now.) But of course the batteries ran out about two hours in, so we were stuck listening to some weird mix tape that only had about three songs on it, over and over and over. I later learned that it was Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and while I listened to them a bit in college, hardly anything holds up to twenty-eight repetitions. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard the song, “Suite Judy Blue Eyes,” but every time we got to the doo-doo-doot-doot-doot, I seriously thought I was going to hurl myself into a snow bank. If there is a hell, mine will be a lot like that bus ride.

4. What is your favorite fast food place?
Sbarros! Don’t even get me started on their ziti. Mmm.

5. If you could be a bird, which would you choose to be?
None. I think birds are annoying. (Sorry.)