Via Average Jane

50 Random Questions

1. What color is your toothbrush?

I tend to get Orange and Blue even though I left Chambana four (!!) years ago (almost to the day, damn).

2. Name one person who made you smile today:

Mentos.

3. What were you doing at 8am this morning?

I was on the train talking to a girl who lives in my apartment building about how I switched my Fall travel plans from Hawaii to India (Rajasthan, Shimla & Dharamshala if anyone is interested). She’s Indian, recently migrated, and finds me fascinating from an anthropological perspective (I think).

4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago?

Working on a series of contracts, reading on the internet and planning my healthcare committee (B-School App stuff is ramping up, y’all).

5. What is your favorite candy bar?

Cadbury’s with Fruit and Nuts.

6. Have you ever been to a strip club?

Yes, a long time ago.

7. What is the last thing you said aloud?

[Insert Agency Name] gave me clearance on that deal so I think I’m going to go ahead and schedule the closing on Monday.

8. What is your favorite ice cream?

Saffron or Mango

9. What was the last thing you had to drink?

PG Tips Tea, which I drink by the gallonful during the workday.

10. Do you like your wallet?

Yes! It’s new.

11 What was the last thing you ate?

A mini mars bar. I feel ill from it, actually.

12. Have you bought any new clothing items this week?

No, and I’ve even quit stalking the Banana Republic website because I decided travelling was more important than clothes and I’m getting a completely new wardrobe next year anyway.

13. The last sporting event you watched?

*blank stare*

14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn?

I don’t like popcorn. I spent most of my adolescence in orthodontics.

15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to?

*blank stare*

16. Ever go camping?

Yes. Not a big fan.

17. Do you take vitamins daily?

Yup.

18. Do you go to church every Sunday?

Nope.

19. Do you have a tan?

I got one in Belize but it’s been fading away. I’m usually a shade or two lighter than I am in California when I live in the Northeast.

20. Do you prefer Chinese food over pizza?

Yes.

21. Do you drink your soda with a straw?

No, straight from the can.

22. What did your last text message say?

*blank stare*

23. What are you doing tomorrow?

Studying. I think I might go see the new Sam Raimi movie with my dad.

25. Look to your left, what do you see?

My phone and a stack of contracts.

26. What color is your watch?

I rarely wear it-but my sister’s in-laws gave me a Coach watch with a maroon/tan logo band and silver watchface during the gift exchange that comprises an Indian wedding.

27. What do you think of when you hear Australia?

Crocodile Dundee, scaling bridges in Sydney, kangaroos, koalas, Outback, Barrier Reef

29. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru?

I don’t really eat fast food except for Zankou Chicken and they do not have a drive through.

30. What is your favorite number?

8

31. Who’s the last person you talked to on the phone?

My boss.

33. How many states have you lived in?

Plenty.

34. Biggest annoyance right now?

I wish it were next year and I was in school already.

35. Last song listened to?

Magdalenha by Sergio Mendez.

36.Can you say the alphabet backwards?

No, I didn’t catch that episode of Sesame Street.

37. Do you have a maid service clean your house?

Yes, twice a month. Paradoxically, it has turned me into a neat freak.

38. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time?

Clarks Mary Janes.

39. Are you jealous of anyone?

I use it to motivate myself to change my own life-so it isn’t as much a deep seated envy as a fleeting desire to get what they have.

40. Is anyone jealous of you?

Who knows?

41. Do you love anyone?

Yes.

42. Do any of your friends have children?

I have colleagues with children but a goodly portion of my friends fall into the thirty-something-professionals-who-aren’t-even-married-yet category.

43. What do you usually do during the day?

Discuss the giving away of money.

44. Do you hate anyone that you know right now?

No because I am the ultimate low attention span a-hole-I don’t care enough about other people long enough to really get a good long-term hatred going. I am usually temporarily highly irritated by people but I find that when they exit my life I stop thinking about them entirely.  

45. Do you use the word ‘hello’ daily?

Yes, but my sister and I both pronounce it “hallo” or “hullo”. Also, I pronounce the word pronounce as “PRO-nounce”. It’s possibly the only Canadian inflection I have left.

46. What color is your car?

White. Ugly I know but I cared so little when I was picking it out on the lot that I just pointed to the first Civic I saw.

47. Do you like cats?

I’ll have to think about that one…I mean…I’ve owned several.

48. Are you thinking about someone right now?

No, I’m thinking about my headache and how I’ve been squinting more.

49. Have you ever been to Six Flags?

Yes.

50. How did you get your worst scar?

Smallpox vaccination.