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[serene]

1. What time did you get up this morning?
11:30 or so, but I didn't get to sleep until 7:30am.

2. How do you like your steak?
I don't often eat steak but when I do I like it tender, which usually means rare, but I'm not married to that

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Daybreakers, with stonebender. We liked it, even though it had the normal cheesy vampire-movie plot holes.

4. What is your favorite TV show?
Of all time? The West Wing, hands down. Currently? Doctor Who and Torchwood are usually in a dead heat, with competition from MI-5/Spooks.

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
Right here.

6. What did you have for breakfast?
Leftover Ethiopian food from last night. (Well, I guess I should say "Ethiopian-style". I buy injera and make some genuine Ethiopian dishes and some just in that general vein and serve it family style.)

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
Ooh, no way I could pick. Japanese? Ethiopian/Eritrean? Southern Spanish? Italian? Country French? Thai?

8. What foods do you dislike?
Brussels sprouts, cumin, cinnamon, fresh papaya (canned, frozen and dried are fine), caraway seeds, chocolate when it's mixed with fruit, peanuts, chocolate when it's mixed with hazelnuts or coconut, alcoholic drinks or food cooked with alcohol, kippered herring snacks, black-eyed peas, lima beans, tangerines of any variety... Gosh, I have a lot of food dislikes. None of them are hates, though, but they used to be. I think my tastes are mellowing.

9. Favorite place to eat?
Sushi Ko in Berkeley if I have to choose, but my mood changes for stuff like that.

10. Favorite dressing?
I don't have a favorite. I do like homemade over bottled, though, and will go with just olive oil and salt, or a homemade vinaigrette, before I'll grab a bottle.

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
I usually take the bus, but tomorrow I'm renting a Zipcar (Prius) for a couple hours.

12. What are your favorite clothes?
Slinky skirts with soft girl-tee-shirts.

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Wherever my loved ones (family and friends) are, but being the homebody I am, I'd just as soon they visit me.

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
It's both. They're equivalent, literally speaking. If we're talking metaphorically, I tend to see the fullness before I see the emptiness, but I'm not ignoring the emptiness -- it just isn't where I focus.

15. Where would you want to retire?
Here. Right here.

16. Favorite time of day?
The few hours between when I get home from work and when I go to bed. I love the evening.

17. Where were you born?
Somewhere on the East Coast

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
Baseball, hands down.

[questions 19 through 21 were meta-questions, and I'm making up new ones. as always, I try to make the questions before I give myself a chance to think of answers]

19. If you could say one sentence to the leader of your country, what would it be?
Grow a spine and do what you promised to do, because we were and still are counting on you.

20. What percentage of the time would you, ideally, like to be alone versus in the presence of other people?
Hmm. 80?

21. Choose a parental figure (you don't have to say which parent you're choosing) and name three qualities of yours that you attribute to that parent (either because zie taught it to you, modeled it, or provided a bad example, etc.).
Independence; a preference for peace over excitement; detachment.

22. Bird watcher?
Not at all. That's the kind of hobby that I just don't understand the appeal of.

23. Are you a morning person or a night person?
I'm pretty flexible. It usually depends on when I have to get up for paid work.

24. Do you have any pets?
Nope.

25. Anything new or exciting you would like to share?
Oh, y'all are probably sick of hearing about the kid-in-college stuff, but that's my excitement lately.

26. What did you want to be when you were little?
A singer. Never anything else.

27. What is your best childhood memory?
Quiet evenings at home in Spain, each reading or doing puzzles or playing board games, while dad either played his guitar and sang for us, or played folk music for us on his reel-to-reel, quadrophonic stereo system.

28. Are you a cat or dog person?
Cat person.

29. Are you married?
Yes, kinda, but not legally.

30. Always wear your seat belt?
Well, not when I'm not in the car. ;-)

31. Been in a car accident?
A few.

32. Any pet peeves?
Fewer than I used to, and I mostly keep them to myself, though once in a while I think I will write a post with all of them listed.

33. Favorite pizza toppings?
I'm pretty easy. I don't like ham or pineapple on pizza, generally, but there's no pizza topping I refuse to eat.

34. Favorite flower?
I don't have a favorite, but I like gerber daisies a lot.

35. Favorite ice cream?
I don't have strong ice cream preferences. If I'm left to my own devices I usually pick coffee, mango, or heath bar crunch.

36. Favorite fast food restaurant?
I usually like one or two things at each one: tacos and eggrolls at Jack in the Box; cole slaw at KFC; sausage mcgriddle at McD's, etc. The only thing I ever crave, though, is the KFC cole slaw.

37. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
I passed the test on my first try, on my 16th birthday. (We didn't live in Detroit, as firecat did, but I was in college and needed to drive to get to school/work, so I was highly motivated.)

38. From whom did you get your last email?
Last personal email was from wild_irises.

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
I don't have a credit card, but I would love to let the kid go crazy in an art-supply store.

40. Do anything spontaneous lately?
I don't plan my days to the minute so I do a few small spontaeous things most days, but nothing major. This weekend, I basically tossed all my plans, stayed home, and puttered.

41. Like your job?
Love it, love it, love it.

42. Like broccoli?
A lot, but I prefer it cooked to raw, and I like it more cooked than tender-crisp, which seems to be too soft for a lot of people.

Comments

[jae]

Cumin? Really? Does that mean you don't like Indian food?

-J

[serene]

It means that given an Indian curry and a Thai one, I'll almost always choose the Thai one, yes. The majority of Indian food has too much cumin for me. I feel like a lot of it, I would love if the cumin were removed.