Hello, people. I've been busy lately, so sorry I haven't updated. I'll tell you more about why I've been busy next Thursday or Friday. I don't want to jinx it. Baka maudlot.

Randomness. Actually, the more I go through my asnwers, the more I'm surprised by how honest my answers are. Not a single attempt at snideness or sarcasm. Whoop dee doo.

Seven things that scare you:
1. RATS
2. Other RODENTS (although I'm learning to tolerate squirrels)
3. become an UTTER and COMPLETE Failure
4. Extreme Poverty
5. Turning into a petty, shallow, materialistic bitch
6. Becoming STUPID
7. dying unfulfilled, thereby making my life pointless (at least to me).

Seven things you like the most:
1. Books.
2. being in a really, really good class (NERD!)
3. nice, picturesque Pinoy beach in early or late summer (and bikinis)
4. handmade/homemade/creative gifts.
5. spontaneous weekend trips with my family (I've got the most delicious little memories)
6. spontaneous inuman/bonding sessions with friends (hay, all those midnight texts)
7. boisterous, noisy, chaotic get-togethers. Especially the ones that involve scrumptious dinners.

Seven important things in your room:
1. computer (and printer)
2. collection of other writerly paraphernalia (#10 enevelopes, stamps, checks, reams of paper, lots of ink cartridges, stapler, soft binders/slide folders, boxes, manila and priority mail envelopes, pens, pencils, dictionary...)
3. book of the moment
4. comforter
5. lamp
6. clothes
7. mirror

Seven random facts about you:
1. I prefer taking the stairs over the elevator if I can help it
2. I have a bikini collection
3. I'm messy.
4. I have two birthmarks on my back (their kind of fading though)
5. My zodiac sign is Aquarius
6. I don't eat olives
7. I'm the oldest of four kids

Seven things you can do:
1. Wiggle my ears
2. proofread
3. bake a cheesecake
4. walk from Chelsea in Manhattan to Astoria in Queens (did it during the blackout)
5. spend a whole day doing asbolutely zilch
6. drive a stick
7. drink more liquid (water, soda, juice, etc) than most people I know

Seven Things You Can't Do:
1. splits, back handsprings, headstands...
2. live in a cave by myself
3. touch a rat
4. arrange my hair in anything more elaborate than a standard ponytail
5. live in any dinky little town in Vermont for an extended period of time -- anything over 10 days
6. be a runway model
7. be a New York City cop

Seven songs you've been listening to this week:
1. Awake by Dashboard Confessional
2. 32 Flavors by Ani Difranco (more for the girls, I guess)
3. Superhero by Ani Difranco
4. Tonight and the rest of my life by Nina Gordon
5. Comfort in your Strangess by Cynthia Alexander
6. Thorn in my Pride by Black Crowes
7. some hiphoppy songs (streets, subway)

Seven things you make a note of when you're on a date/crushing on someone
1. height (yeah, I'm petty that way, I know)
2. brains
3. how he dreses (again, shallowness)
4. music/books he's into
5. how he speaks/expresses himself
6. what he orders from the bar
7. how often he asks for my opinion

Seven things you say the most:
1. Hay naku John - obviously only to John
2. You're such a butt/puet - mostly just to John
3. you know what I'm saying?
4. Are you serious?/Seriously
5. I don't care either way/it's up to you/whatever you want (in Manila this would have been "bahala ka")
6. Stupid stupid.
7. dumbass.