1. What is your favorite time of year? Fall: Auburn football. Scarves. My birthday. Windows down, John Mayer loud. Sweatpants. Changing leaves on country roads.
2. What makes you laugh? My family. My fiance. My kids at school. And crazy people.
3. What was the last movie you saw at the cinema? It's sad that I'm having to think so hard about this... I know that it was an afternoon show because it's cheaper that way... And I was worried that I might miss the previews... Oh my gosh. I really can't remember.
4. What's the one thing you couldn't live without? iPhone. I hate to admit it, but anyone in my life would call me out if I said anything else. But I could stop anytime I wanted to...
5. If you had extra time to do one thing, what would you do? Sleep. All I want in this world is to sleep. No wedding planing, no grad school, no internship, no studying for life-changing tests... just unadulterated, stress-free sleep.
7. If you could go on holiday anywhere tomorrow where would you go? Right now, the only place I want to be is on a beach listening to the crashing waves drown out the world... But in the interest of being more exciting, I would love to visit Lauren's parents in Australia.
8. What inspires you? The kids I work with. Corny, I know. But counseling is a calling, and it's something I grow more passionate about daily... I can promise you it's not the paycheck that's calling my name.
9. What's your guilty pleasure? Reality television. It's trash, and I love it. I'm not even going to try to defend myself. Sookie Stackhouse novels... any book with a magical world, really: Percy Jackson series, Harry Potter, etc. And cream cheese. Good gracious, I could eat an entire block.
10. What's the best advice or wisdom that has been passed down to you? Maybe it's just the field that I'm in, but I've had lots of conversations with lots of very wise people about the importance of making someone feel like their story is important to you, like you're hanging on their every word. Maybe I just saw that in the life of my friend Daniel Helton, but it's something I think about a lot. You should see the way a child lights up when they feel like you care about their story, whether it's about learning to ride a bicycle or what they had for breakfast. Everyone wants to feel important. Taken seriously. Loved.
11. What's your current obsession? Draw Something. The most trivial, mindless Pictionary app on iPhone. I just discovered it this week, and I'm, like, mad if people don't play me back immediately.
12. What is your favorite place you have visited? Stockholm. I love it.
13. If you could name only one favorite band who would it be? Oh, please don't make me do this. Music takes me places. In one mood, I can be a bad's biggest fan. The next day, not care at all. Nickel Creek. Taylor Swift. John Mayer. Avett Brothers. Beach Boys. Elvis. The Beatles. And oh my gosh, show tunes.
14. What's sitting on your nightstand right now? A coffee table book about Audrey Hepburn, a picture of my daddy and me, a picture of Chasley and me, a lamp, nail polish, a couple of candles from the power outage this weekend, a pen, and a ponytail holder.
15. Name one tv show you love and one you can't stand. LOVE Once Upon a Time. CAN'T STAND Jersey Shore. I know I love reality television, but I've seriously never been able to watch a full episode of Jersey Shore. When the Snooki jokes get started, this girl can't even relate.
16. What's the most adventuresome thing you've done on your own? I spent a semester in Italy. I didn't exactly go alone, but I didn't know anyone on the trip either. And in a foreign country, that can feel a lot like alone.
17. If you had the chance to rename yourself what name would you choose and why? Reagan. It was my almost-name, and anyone I've told that to immediately responds with, "Oh my gosh, you look like a Reagan!" You can believe there's a Reagan Ruggles in my future somewhere.
18. What is your dream job? To play Galinda the Good Witch. To own a gift shoppe. To be a florist. Lots of things that don't require a billion years of schooling. In all seriousness, I'd like to be a principal someday... and play Galinda in Wicked and maybe have a gift shoppe too... :)
19. What's your favorite workout? I love a good 5-mile run on the elliptical. When it comes to weights, I stick with Tony and p90x or Jillian and the 30-Day Shred.
20. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? This really has a lot to do with if I could speak any language in the world. If language wasn't a barrier, I really fell in love with the sea-village feel of Chile. And we've already talked about my love for Stockholm, Sweden. Really, I want to be where my family is... or at least close enough for a weekend visit. Charleston, Savannah, Nashville. Somewhere round-about here.
21. What do you picture yourself doing 20 years from now? In 20 years, I'll be 44, which seems close and forever away all at the same time. By then, Reagan Ruggles will have entered the world in one gender or another, and maybe a couple more will follow. Maybe I'll be a principal or a counselor, or maybe I'll be doing the mom-thing. I could really get into being a wife and mommy, I think... and that's a far cry from who I was last year... so who knows what I'll say in 20 years. Maybe I'll be Galinda the Middle-Aged Good Witch in some community theater version of Wicked. 20 years is about the amount of time it'll take for me to work up the courage to walk out on stage. So that sounds about right.
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