1: grab the book nearest to you. turn to page 18, find line 4. write down here what it says: "The neighbor snapped at me insultingly, 'Your own father, you poor thing.'" Direct from "Paradise of the Blind", a really interesting Vietnamese novel for my Asian Families course.
2: stretch your left arm out as far as you can. what do you touch first?: A handful of air halfway to the closet door. That's the one with the wine stains still on it. Bill sits in front of it and cries sometimes.
3: what is the last thing you watched on TV?: Benny and Joon, my new favorite movie! Jonny Depp is muy bien, como siempre.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is: 5:15 pm
5: now look at the clock, what is the actual time?: 5:03 pm. Damn, I'm almost good.
6: with the exception of the computer, what can you hear?: the fridge/endtable shaking as it turns off. it makes the plant with the tips chewed off shake too.
7: when did you last step outside? what were you doing?: when I went to drop some mail in Sarah's box next door, because the mailman got confused. Fer serious, there's only three Sarahs altogether between her apartment and ours. Not confusing in the slightest!
8: before you came to this website, what did you look at?: the approximately 118 messages left on my IM by Tovin while I was away house sitting. Damn you, Tovin! *shakes fist*
9: what are you wearing?: My favorite jeans, a tank top, and my black fleece jacket, como siempre. Perhaps I should vary my wardrobe someday. No, you say?
10: did you dream last night? what about?: I did, and the little bit of it I can remember involved a prolonged fight scene between me and someone unknown. I woke up for a few and remember thinking how odd it was that I was completely relaxed. I was actually curious why my muscles weren't tensed. Then I fell back into the dream, and it's all hazy from there on.
11: when did you last laugh? why?: This morning as the bikers went by (see #13). The one at the tail of the pack straggled behind, and had a brightly-colored striped blanket on his bike. He reminded me of the runt of a litter.
12: what is on the walls of the room you are in?: Some pictures by Da Vinci, a few posters of the Earth, a framed xerox of Saralita, some glow-in-the-dark stars, origami cranes, some maps...
13: seen anything weird lately?: Yeah...a pack of 40 bikers riding past as I waited to cross 8th Ave NW to the bus stop. What the hell were they doing in Ballard?
14: what do you think of this quiz?: It's like a real post, but only requires half the thought!
15: what is the last film you saw?: Benny and Joon. Hilariously excellent.
16: if you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?: another $1.25 sandwich from that one shop on 12th and Jackson in the I-D. So delicious!
17: tell me something about you that I don't know: If I could only press rewind...I want to come to the point where I will say everything and anything, knowing that the wrong eyes will read it, and put it down nonetheless. I'm not there yet.
18: if you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?: Free higher education. It needs to be freed.
19: do you like to dance?: Hehe. By myself to the radio, always. With other people, yikes.
20: George Bush: bemuses me.
21: imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?: Lauren?
22: imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?: hmm... Pablo Fernando Calvo?
23: would you ever consider living abroad?: I did for a few weeks, and I'd go back for another visit, but I couldn't imagine living in Ghana for an extended period of time. Maybe Norway, or New Zealand. Other countries starting with N? Nepal...err, nope.
24: will you pass on this survey?: No! I foresee you having to copy and paste it yourself.