Post by EVELYN AUTUMN BANDUCCI on Apr 17, 2013 13:40:37 GMT -8
| [atrb=style,width: 420px; background-color: efefef; background-image: url(http://i.imgur.com/6jh1H.png); padding: 5px, bTable] EVELYN A. BANDUCCI 26 | HETEROSEXUAL | DENTIST | LOCAL | EMILIA CLARKE THE INTERVIEW HELLO. THANKS FOR COMING IN TODAY. SHALL WE START WITH YOUR NAME? Hi! Yeah, sure thing. I don’t know why you’d want… what’s this for again? Never mind. I’m Evie, or Eve, or… I don’t know, whatever you can get out of Evelyn. (laughs) Um, the full name is Evelyn Autumn Kennedy – uh, oh, no, Evelyn Autumn Banducci. I’m married now. I keep forgetting. Well, no! No, not forgetting. Obviously. I just keep… forgetting my name is… different, now. Um. Yeah. We’re off to a great start already, huh? THAT'S A NICE NAME. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? Thank you! Um, for a living, I’m a dentist. I know, it’s not super exciting, but I’m happy. When I was a kid, I used to pretend to give my dolls fillings. Which was pretty weird because they didn’t even have open mouths. Oh, oh, oh, and when I was about ten, I tried to perform impromptu dental surgery on my little sister – I guess she must have been, what? Two? Oh boy, mom and dad weren’t impressed. (laughs) Um, but yeah. So I guess you could say that even if it’s not super exciting, it’s pretty much my calling in life. I was born to put my hands in other people’s mouths. (deadpans… then laughs) Don’t look at me like that. I’m fucking with you. No. I… I don’t know. Why do you interview people for a living? Oh, right. Pays well. Yeah, well dentistry pays pretty well, between you and me. So there’s that. INTERESTING. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN? I told you – stick my fingers in other people’s mouths. Okay. Okay. I’ll stop saying it if it’s gonna make you keep looking at me weird. For fun, I… do a lot of stuff. I’m a bit of a home body, I always have been, so I prefer to just hang out around the house in my pyjamas all weekend. I’m so boring, I swear. You won’t catch me out of the house after 8pm, especially on a school night. God. Work night. Whatever. Um. I like to sit around and watch t.v. I like movies and music and books. I like painting my nails. That’s fun. I like to do that. Sometimes I try and bake but Gio – my husband – he’ll tell you first hand that never turns out well. I’m not exactly a domestic goddess. But, I do tinker. Yep. I’ve always been a tinkerer. I see something that has different parts to it and I can’t just leave it in one piece. In tact appliances are like a challenge to me. I took a lot of science classes when I was an undergrad – obviously, ‘cos, y’know, the dentistry – but there were a couple of semesters where I got stuck in mechanical engineering. It was pretty fun. I love taking stuff apart and then almost putting it back together right. Trying to find a work surface at home that isn’t covered with circuit boards can be a bit of a challenge, because I just get bored and decide to try dismantling things… and sometimes I put them back together. Sometimes not. Yeah, I guess I’m maybe not the easiest person to live with… (pauses, biting her lip) Um. What else? Oh God, my mind is totally blank. I don’t do anything. I just like to have fun for fun… um. Yeah. WOULD YOU SAY THOSE ACTIVITIES REFLECT WHO YOU ARE? So, um, who am I? That’s the million dollar question, am I right? That’s what you’re asking. (laughs) Well, um, I love life. That is my favourite thing about myself. No one can tell me that I’m not vivacious. I’m an optimist – I always see the best in other people, and in the world in general. There are so many wondrous things out there if you just take the time to look. You sit back and think for a sec, and there’s silver linings to everything. I get excited about that. About everything, really. I’m pretty bubbly and lively and… I just get excited really easily by the simplest of things. I know that makes me look and sound like a moron – which incidentally I am not, at all – but I don’t care. Yeah, that’s who I am as well. I don’t give a flying fuck what anybody thinks about me, or my choices, or my life. I guess I’m sure enough in my self to be okay with the person I am, so that’s pretty cool, right? What else? Oh, I’m endlessly curious. I’m like a kid. You know like when kids are at that stage where they’re just crawling around and sticking things in their mouth to see what happens? That is my life. (laughs) Things that are unfamiliar intrigue me. I can’t stand unanswered questions. None of this smoke and mirrors bullshit. I like things to be plain and simple and illuminated. I like to know how things work. I like to meet a person and just have them lay all their cards on the table. I’m like that. I don’t hold back. But most people aren’t. Everyone plays with their hands held close to their chest nowadays – you ever notice that? That bothers me. Let’s just be open. Let’s dispense with the great mysteries and just be like… honest with each other, y’know? Like when you ask someone how they are and they’re just like ‘Oh, I’m fine’. No, dude. No. Just tell me how you actually are. If I didn’t want to know I wouldn’t have asked. Y’know what I mean? I think the world would be a better place if people just said what the fuck they wanted to say, y’know? It’s my mission in life to liberate people from stuffy social conventions… even if they don’t want to be liberated. I can be kinda bossy and controlling like that, I guess. Like I always think I’m right. I’m pretty sure I am right about ninety percent of the time… but then again, I would be pretty sure of that, right? (grins, shakes head) Anyway … I feel like I just got off topic. That happens a lot. I have chronic verbal diarrhoea. It’s a serious problem. I never know when to shut my mouth. Half the time my brain doesn’t engage before I speak. I just talk and talk and talk and say whatever comes into my head. Sometimes people get offended by that, but like I said: like I give a flying fuck. Mostly what comes into my head isn’t even that bad. Like, I’m not a colossal bitch or anything, I swear. I’m not saying I’m some kind of saint here or anything, but I just generally don’t have mean thoughts about people? Like, I just like people. I get enthusiastic about things. So there’s really not a lot in my head to be offended by, you see what I’m saying? I think I annoy people more than anything, to be honest with you. Because I talk a lot and sometimes I do or say things that are… weird or not socially acceptable? I guess I missed the meeting where everyone sat down and decided “this is how we’re all going to act in polite conversation”. I showed up fifteen minutes late with Starbucks to that meeting, and I’ve apparently been trolling everybody ever since. It was first bought to my attention that I could be annoying as fuck when I was like… a sophomore in high school? My best friend at the time called me out on it. Like, just “OH MY GOD EVIE, can you just shut up and stop being so weird, you’re EMBARRASSING ME”. (laughs) Since then I took it as a personal challenge to be weird and annoying and embarrassing. If I don’t make someone feel awkward at least once before lunch, it’s a wasted day. COOL BEANS. THEY SAY YOUR FAMILY SHAPES WHO YOU ARE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURS? Oh. Y’know. My family’s pretty great. I have okay parents. They’ve always supported me in what I wanted to do. They’ve always had my back one hundred percent. You know, we’re not super close. Like, we don’t live in each other’s pockets or anything. I was away for college for close to eight years, so you kinda… get used to not being around your parents. We kinda drifted, I guess. Don’t get me wrong, I love my mom and daddy. But they’re not… as big a part of my life as they were. My sister, though. My Sav. Things never change with her. There’s eight years between us. She was just a kid when I left for college, but… I dunno. When I’d come back for holidays and stuff, it’d be like I’d never left. She came out to visit me in New York a couple of times. That was pretty fun. Anyway, we’re really close, her and me. She’s my best friend, one of my favourite people in the entire world, and I couldn’t imagine not having her around. I wouldn’t want to. (smiles) Oh! And Gio. He’s my family now, right? That’s a thing that happens when you get married? Yeah? Yeah. Then Gio as well. Obviously we’re pretty tight, because of the whole… wedding thing, but yeah, y’know. OH! And pets as well, right? They’re family. We have Gio’s husky. Ghost. He’s pretty lovely. And my two cats, Ben and Jerry. Jerry was my roommate’s, but we decided both the cats were going to come with me and Gio when we moved to Brunswick, because she was staying in New York and going to live in some weird Third Reich run apartment block where they don’t let you have animals or joy, so… Oh, and my roommate counts as well. I lived with her eight years, all throughout college and dental school, so she’s basically my sister from another mister. Ugh, sorry, I’ll never say that again. But she is. Her name’s Alice. I miss her like you wouldn’t believe. Like, I have separation anxiety if we don’t talk every day. It’s not even funny. Okay, maybe it’s a little funny. I’m ridiculous and sentimental, don’t judge me. AND YOUR LIFE? TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PAST. I'M EAGER TO HEAR. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sure. My life… um. Fairly normal childhood. I told you, my parents were nice people. Nice little middle class family. I was born and raised here in Brunswick, so you can kinda imagine the slow, sleepy quality of my childhood. When I was eight, my little sister was born. That was pretty weird – going from being an only child to having a baby in the house. Apparently I used to kick up quite the fuss about it – which culminated in the attempted teeth pulling episode I already told you about… Yeah, mom and dad tore me a new one, and I was pretty good to Sav from there on out, I can tell ya. Oh Christ, that makes me sound like a psychopath. I wasn’t trying to pull her teeth out because I hated her, okay? Like, it was a game. Playing dentists. Oh God, you made me sound like a loony. (laughs) I loved my sister even then, okay? I just also wanted to test out vocational skills on her. Oh, boy. So what else? Yeah, pretty much your run of the mill childhood. Everything was pretty great. I got good grades and I never got in trouble and y’know. Yeah. When it came time to go to college, I was pretty set on New York. I don’t know why. I just thought it’d be exciting. And uh, it was. Yeah. Yeah, pretty exciting. So I ended up majoring in biology, and taking all these other interesting little sciencey courses so that was nice. Um, in my sophomore year, when I was nineteen, well, that was when I met Danny. (frowns, starts to fidget with her hands) That was pretty exciting too. At first. Like I’d had boyfriends before, but… in high school. And when you’re dating someone in college and there’s no parents waiting up to ask you how your date went it starts to feel a bit more grown up, y’know? Yeah, y’know. You know what I’m saying. But yeah, that didn’t end well. Like at all. (pause) Like really badly, actually. To the point where I – oh God, I know it’s melodramatic – but um, y’know, my heart was so busted up, I was like… well, never gonna love again. Don’t judge me. I was nineteen. It felt like the end of the world, okay? Never gonna love again. But apparently that wasn’t allowed to happen. I had a pretty close knit group of friends in college. Especially as an undergrad. All the girls in my hall of residence, we just used to get together all the time. And you know what it’s like when you’re that one friend without a boyfriend – large groups of girls take that as a challenge. (laughs) I don’t know how many times they tried to set me up with people. How many blind dates I went on. God, I hated every minute of it. But yeah, so one day, Alice, she tried to set me up with a friend of a friend of hers. I was supposed to meet him in this little coffee shop in Brooklyn. (laughs, shaking her head) But I step inside that shop and instead of this guy I’m supposed to be meeting, the first thing I see is – there’s this guy. This huge, frazzled, completely confused European guy, and he can barely speak a word of English, but God bless him he is trying so hard to talk to the barista but… (laughs again) That’s how I met Gio. There were all these people just looking at him, and I felt freakin’ awful for the guy, so I went over to see if I couldn’t help him communicate. Dumbest idea. I didn’t know what language he was speaking and I didn’t speak anything but English anyway, so I don’t know what I planned on doing, but… uh… yeah. I guess we found a way. We kinda managed to work each other out. And we ended up talking – or trying to – I still think he was just smiling and nodding at me, but um… I dunno. I dunno what happened. I ended up dragging him on a walking tour of New York. (grins) Gio, he’s something pretty special. I don’t know what drew me to him, but I’m glad it did. I’m glad I ended up walking around New York until the early hours of the morning with an Italian stranger, rather than making awkward small talk with a friend of a friend of my roommate in that stupid little coffee shop. Because I was wrong, I guess. I was wrong about life after Danny, because I did love again. I do love now. I love Gio. I didn’t know that at first. How can you love someone that you can barely talk to? But, it got easier. Communicating. His English got better. I’ve been learning a little Italian, but he’s much better with languages than I am. And you know how these things go. One day you’re friends, and the next you’re performing an impromptu dental exam with your tongue. Yes, dental euphemisms for kissing, I got ‘em. I got ‘em for other things too, but I feel like I’ve made you awkward enough at this point, so I just… won’t go there. (laughs) Anyway, we’d been living in New York while I finished college. Then we stayed while I started dental school and then finished that as well. He was very patient, what can I say? Um. So after I graduated with my DMD, me and Gio, we got hitched. (grins) Yeah, that was good. That was pretty good. For, um, all of twelve hours anyway. Uh. (starts biting her lip again, twisting her hands together nervously) There’s a lot of things that I love about my husband. I… he’s a very g-good man, but he has the worst sense of timing that you ever… You can’t imagine it. I don’t know why he thought that our wedding night would be a good time to… confess to… You don’t even want to know, and I couldn’t tell you. It’s not my secret to tell. But he kept something very big from me, and then he told me on the wedding night, and… It hasn’t exactly made being a newly wed very easy. Still, we… well, we tried. Because, um, call me old fashioned but I believe when you marry, it’s something you should do for life. I couldn’t kick him out after less than a day of wedded bliss, right? So we kept to our plans. Moved back here to Brunswick. I got a job. He got a job. Uh, and we’ve been, um, we’ve been coping. Surviving. It’s not how I thought being a newly wed would be. I pictured a lot more happiness. Rather than um, awkward silence and my husband sleeping on the floor. But things’ll pick up. Things always pick up. Right? What about a secret? Everyone has a secret. Oh boy. Well, when I said things ended badly with Danny, that was an understatement. They ended… because I got pregnant, and he decided to leave me high and dry. The fucking asshole. Basically, I was a poor college student. I couldn’t afford a baby. I couldn’t have dealt with one on my own. I didn’t want one, at that time in my life. So I made the decision to terminate. Call me a selfish bitch if you want, but it wasn’t a decision I made lightly. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. That’s not the secret. I mean, I don’t spread it around, because even I can tell there are some things people just don’t want to know. I mean, I never told my parents. Because… my mom wants grandkids, so she would have been devastated. But Sav knows. My friends who were there with me at college know. Gio knows. You know, now. (laughs) It’s not exactly a huge secret. It’s just what happened afterwards… See, apparently it’s not all that uncommon for some foetal tissue or bone fragments to be left… after an abortion. I know that’s gross, but you asked, so I’m not sorry for sharing. And if they leave this gunk in your womb, you can get an infection. And I got an infection, and it pretty much fucked up my insides. Like I’m not a doctor – dentist, remember – so I’m not gonna get into the hows and whys and wherefores because I don’t fucking know. All I know is that they told me I wouldn’t be able to have children. That part I may have kept to myself. I didn’t want to break my mom’s heart – God can you imagine telling your mom that? “Hey, sorry, I know you want grandkids before you’re fifty but I kinda fucked up my womb with that abortion I never told you about, so you might have to start messing with Sav’s birth control if you’re that desperate.” Yeah, right. And I didn’t want all the slightly judgey stares I was getting from my friends to turn into pitying or – God forbid – ‘well, we told you so’ looks. Like, if one person mentioned ‘karmic justice’ to me I would have fucking brained them. And Gio doesn’t know that either. I would have told him. I will tell him. If it ever comes up. Having kids. Which at this point is nowhere near a thing that is on the table. Because… of how things are between us right now. And that’s another secret, but it isn’t mine to tell, so you won’t get a word out of me about it. ALRIGHT. TIME'S ALMOST UP. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DREAMS. QUICK! Why the mad rush, dude!? Did I overtalk? I’m sorry! Dreams, dreams, ah! Don’t rush me! Um. Pretty much most of my dreams have come true at this point. I finished school and I have my dream job and I have a comfortable house and an amazing husba – Okay. That’s what I want. I want things to be okay between me and Gio again. I want things to be like they were before I… knew. AND THAT'S A WRAP. IT WAS NICE GETTING TO KNOW YOU. Aw, thanks! You’re a sweetheart. Can I hug you goodbye? Are we there yet? I think we’re there. Come on, let’s hug it out. BEHIND THE MASK PUNSTA | TWENTY | GMT | I’M A HUFFLEPUFF | LIAM, JOHN AND LUKE  BRING THEM TO ME AND I MAY GIFT YOU WITH AN RP SAMPLE |
