we-blaze-away asked: 40, 41 and 56.

40.  I’m a native English speaker, and can speak decent Japanese and just enough French to amuse elderly Quebecois hikers.

41.  Not any more – I used to get the London Review of Books, but that was a birthday present from my parents and I never really read it.  ^^;  I am continually meaning to save for a subscription to Bitch and Mother Jones, though.

56.  MARINE BIOLOGIST.  Basically as soon as I found out there was a word for a person who studied seals all day, that was what I wanted to be until about age 12, when writing entered the picture.  (And I used to visit/write to the Marine Mammal Center enough that the volunteers knew me, and worked extra-hard on math and science because they had told me that was what you had to do).