it's interesting to me to read other people's answers to this set of questions. in our supposedly egalitarian country, i have a fairly good intuition about whether my friends and acquaintances are higher or lower on the class scale than i. just talking to you has always given me the sense that you're from a much better-educated, more literate family than mine (aside from any monetary consideration). your answers here prove me right. not that it matters, exactly, but i like having my intuition corroborated. *s*