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March Prompts - Part 2
Apr. 28th, 2022 04:57 pm1. Is there a holiday you don’t like? As a Jew, I find the Christmas season oppressive. I don’t care what other people celebrate, but I am offended by being expected to participate in holidays that are counter to my beliefs.
2. Which color tends to appear most in your wardrobe? Black, which is technically not a color. I do also have quite a lot of red.
3. Are you good at giving directions? I am surprisingly good at giving directions, given how often I get lost myself.
4. If your phone started ringing, who would you hope is calling? Any friend I haven’t talked with in a while.
5. Have you ever had a pet escape and run away? I think that Rosie, the pet mouse I had as a child, got out of her cage a few times, until Mom put the cage inside a deep cardboard box.
6. What is something you are behind on? Cleaning and organizing things at home.
7. Do you prefer sleeping in complete silence or with background noise? I am fine with either complete silence or with some natural sounds, e.g. bird song or the sound of crashing ocean waves.
8. What is your favorite collaboration between two different musicians? Talking Timbuktu by Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure. I also love it that Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have done two albums together.
9. If you wear makeup, what are your preferred brands? I like Revlon’s classic red lipstick. I also like several products from Urban Decay and Nars.
10. Are you a person that enjoys re-reading books? There are some books I have read more than a dozen times. For example, I reread Alice in Wonderland at least annually.
11. Do you have a gym membership? Does having access to the gym in my condo complex count?
12. Were you in any extracurricular activities or clubs in high school? I was in Science Club and Math Club and Grade Council (like Student Council but just for your class). I also participated in a number of intramural sports, including tennis, badminton, and archery. Oh, and modern dance club.
13. Do you think books are better adapted as movies or TV series? There are fairly few books that can sustain a TV series.
14. Favorite kind of bean? Chick peas, aka garbanzo beans.
15. How long have you known the last person you text messaged? Several years, but I can’t remember how long.
16. When was the last time you turned down an invitation to go somewhere? Within the past week, due to a schedule conflict.
17. What's the worst thing you've ever done to your own hair? Cutting it myself. It was very short and uneven. Fortunately, hair grows out.
18. What's your most used mode of transportation? A combination of the metro and shank’s mare.
19. When was the last time you spoke in front of a large group of people? A little over a month ago, at the Women’s Storytelling Festival.
20. Do you like people more or less when they have similar tastes to you? Whether I like people or not has to do with their values, not their tastes. But I am more likely to spend time with people who share interests with me.
21. Do your parents still live in the same house they raised you in? My father died in 1985 and my mother in 2014 and neither of them was the type to haunt a suburban split level ranch.
22. The last city you were in: Where was it and do you like it there? I go into “the city” (i.e. Washington, D.C.) fairly frequently (most recently Tuesday night) and like it quite a bit. If you are talking about places I don’t live in the suburbs of, I was in New York City at the beginning of the month, which is always enjoyable.
23. What bad habit have you had the longest? Eating junk food.
24. What good habit have you had the longest? Flossing.
25. Do you dog ear pages in books? No! What kind of monster do you think I am?
26. What kinds of little things make you happy? Playing with yarn, reading poetry, listening to music, walking through an interesting area, the smell of the ocean.
27. Do you keep notes, drawings or letters that people give you? Sometimes, if I think they are interesting and/or well written.
28. What are you always losing? My mind? Seriously, I spent an absurd amount of time looking for pens, usually when they are right in front of me.
29. How often do you do laundry? On average, every two weeks.
30. What is something you were scared of as a kid? Heights. And I still am.
31. When was the last time you were in a waiting room? Do you count the waiting room at a train station? In which case, earlier this month (at Moynihan Train Hall in New York).
2. Which color tends to appear most in your wardrobe? Black, which is technically not a color. I do also have quite a lot of red.
3. Are you good at giving directions? I am surprisingly good at giving directions, given how often I get lost myself.
4. If your phone started ringing, who would you hope is calling? Any friend I haven’t talked with in a while.
5. Have you ever had a pet escape and run away? I think that Rosie, the pet mouse I had as a child, got out of her cage a few times, until Mom put the cage inside a deep cardboard box.
6. What is something you are behind on? Cleaning and organizing things at home.
7. Do you prefer sleeping in complete silence or with background noise? I am fine with either complete silence or with some natural sounds, e.g. bird song or the sound of crashing ocean waves.
8. What is your favorite collaboration between two different musicians? Talking Timbuktu by Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure. I also love it that Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have done two albums together.
9. If you wear makeup, what are your preferred brands? I like Revlon’s classic red lipstick. I also like several products from Urban Decay and Nars.
10. Are you a person that enjoys re-reading books? There are some books I have read more than a dozen times. For example, I reread Alice in Wonderland at least annually.
11. Do you have a gym membership? Does having access to the gym in my condo complex count?
12. Were you in any extracurricular activities or clubs in high school? I was in Science Club and Math Club and Grade Council (like Student Council but just for your class). I also participated in a number of intramural sports, including tennis, badminton, and archery. Oh, and modern dance club.
13. Do you think books are better adapted as movies or TV series? There are fairly few books that can sustain a TV series.
14. Favorite kind of bean? Chick peas, aka garbanzo beans.
15. How long have you known the last person you text messaged? Several years, but I can’t remember how long.
16. When was the last time you turned down an invitation to go somewhere? Within the past week, due to a schedule conflict.
17. What's the worst thing you've ever done to your own hair? Cutting it myself. It was very short and uneven. Fortunately, hair grows out.
18. What's your most used mode of transportation? A combination of the metro and shank’s mare.
19. When was the last time you spoke in front of a large group of people? A little over a month ago, at the Women’s Storytelling Festival.
20. Do you like people more or less when they have similar tastes to you? Whether I like people or not has to do with their values, not their tastes. But I am more likely to spend time with people who share interests with me.
21. Do your parents still live in the same house they raised you in? My father died in 1985 and my mother in 2014 and neither of them was the type to haunt a suburban split level ranch.
22. The last city you were in: Where was it and do you like it there? I go into “the city” (i.e. Washington, D.C.) fairly frequently (most recently Tuesday night) and like it quite a bit. If you are talking about places I don’t live in the suburbs of, I was in New York City at the beginning of the month, which is always enjoyable.
23. What bad habit have you had the longest? Eating junk food.
24. What good habit have you had the longest? Flossing.
25. Do you dog ear pages in books? No! What kind of monster do you think I am?
26. What kinds of little things make you happy? Playing with yarn, reading poetry, listening to music, walking through an interesting area, the smell of the ocean.
27. Do you keep notes, drawings or letters that people give you? Sometimes, if I think they are interesting and/or well written.
28. What are you always losing? My mind? Seriously, I spent an absurd amount of time looking for pens, usually when they are right in front of me.
29. How often do you do laundry? On average, every two weeks.
30. What is something you were scared of as a kid? Heights. And I still am.
31. When was the last time you were in a waiting room? Do you count the waiting room at a train station? In which case, earlier this month (at Moynihan Train Hall in New York).
