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so this guy, milton, who i met last christmas sent me a 'do you hate surveys?' survey. . .. this is what i sent back to him. . . if you wanna you can copy, paste, and put your own replies in and send them to my email. . . . .

have a nice weekend!


Name:
erika

What your friends call you:
erika. . . some call me toto sometimes :)

What people who aren't your friends call you:
i don't know . . . i don't associate with them. . . i guess if they don't know me they may refer to me as 'that short girl'

What did your mom called you as a little ittle baby:
don't know. . . . but '1/2 pint' and 'pumpkin' were my dad's favorites

Who da man?
mikey. . .. he's so money!

Where you born?
canton potsdam hospital in northern ny

Where were your parents born?
somewhere on long island for my mom. . . and somewhere in westchester county for my day

What country would you feel most attatched to?
i guess the US. . . only other attachments are friends in prague, england, south korea. . . and canada.

Is Bush an idiot?

Sorry I meant to say, "Bush is an idiot." agreed!

What are your dreams?
to be a decent person, and work at something i care about, and be close to friends and family

What are you doing to achieve them?
trying to figure it all out. . . . but i do work at what i enjoy and care about. i'm close with people i care for through email and phone calls. . .. but wish i could physically visit more often

Where would you rather be right now?
making pit-stops at friends and family. . . don't care where they are!

What's on your mind when the alarm clock rings?
usually i'm carefully calculating how long it takes me to get ready and what part of my morning routine i can shorten or cut in order to get another 9 minutes of sleep.

What's on your mind during your way to work?
sometimes what i'm looking forward to at work. . . sometimes what npr is serving up on the news. . . sometimes what will be in my latest blog.

What's on your mind around 5pm?
what's for dinner

Where will you be Thanksgiving?
probably in my apartment with my roommate and my brother in santa fe.

Should Turkeys be thankful for giving themselves?
well, the domesticated ones probably don't spend much time thinking about it. . . they are dumb enough to stare up watching it rain with an open mouth and slowly drown. . . the wild ones are really smart. . . so they don't have to worry as much about being served up. . . . i don't exactly think that they should be thankful. . . . but i usually am!

What is one thing that separates you from most other people?
my friends and family. . and the times we've spend together

What are you proud of about yourself?
mmmmm. . . .i feel really proud when i'm with friends and we're laughing. . . and when a friend of mine visited me this summer and hurt her back. . . . i was really proud to have friends out here that offered to looked after her and keep her company when i had to be at work.

Who do you admire?
dammit . .. lots of people. . . usually people who inspire me. . . .artists, designers, writers, people who react amazingly to difficult situations, people who are strong in and aren't afraid to speak up. . . .


Who makes your day better?
anyone who sends me an email and lets me know how things are with them

Who do you learn a lot from?
if i'm paying attention. .. anyone i encounter

Who let the dogs out?
someone rather annoying

What is your favorite movie?
damn these 'favorite' questions. . .. the mood! it all depends on my mood. . . but i guess one movie that i've never gotten tired of is 'real genius'

What kind of music do you like?
big band/swing is what is playing right now. . . but i like funky folk, industrial, techno, 80's, classical. . . and others too probably

What hobbies do you have?
playing piano, artsycraftsy stuff life friendship bracelets, used to crochet. . . but the needles and yarn are in storage, draw, read. . . . movies. . . . that's kinda it i guess. . .

What do you look forward to during the cold-ass winters?
warm blankets

Would you laugh when someone accidently staples their lips together?
probably not. .. unless it was a cartoon

I think that guy would laugh too, except he...well...can't. Ouch!

Who makes you laugh?
these two gods named matt stone and trey parker

Which of your friends knows you the best?
hmmmmm. . . . a group of my friends got me pretty good when they threw me a surprise iron chef birthday party. . . . .but i'm always amazed by people from places like highschool. . . who know me better than i'd think. . . given the time that has past.

Who taught you to ride a bike?
i guess my parents. . . but i don't particularly remember learning. . . not like you see in commercials where the parent takes off the training wheels in the almost ceremonious gesture and pushes the back of the seat and the kid yells, 'look mom/dad. . . i can do it!'. . . i think the training wheels just came off one day. . . .

Are you a good driver?
yeah. . pretty cautious

Can you weave in and out of traffic like my grandma weaves?
probably not

What do you do when you're bored?
sometimes i clean in the hopes of coming across something i hadn't thought of in a while that will occupy my time. . . sometimes i scroll through the list of people and numbers on my cell and randomly choose a few to try. . . . sometimes i find lame tv and watch it for hours. .. .sometimes i go to the gym

What do you do to cheer yourself up?
look through pictures, or notes people have given me that remind me how things have been better. . . .and will get better again

What crazy thing do you want to do?
win the lottery rent an apt or something and spend a couple of months in south korea with my friend and invite and pay for my other friends to visit us.

What is the most embarrassing thing you won't tell anyone! (but will tell people you forward this to)
last summer when i got food poisoning on the opening night of the first opera of the summer, i was sooooooo sick. . . and i accidently squeezed out a bit of diarrhea into my underwear. . . . i booked it to the bathroom, relieved myself completely. . removed the stained underwear (thank god it was only the underwear!), chucked it into the wastebasket. . . and ran the rest of the show commando style. . . .


When someone hands you a flier on the street, what do you do?
read it real briefly, then usually chuck it, unless i think i know someone else will find it interesting

When a homeless guy asks if you have change what do you do?
if i have change. . . but no quarters. . . in my front pocket, i'll drop it in. . . otherwise, i usually don't have much change on me.

When a hot chick on the side of a road shows you leg and it's in the middle of nowhere and wants a ride from you, what do you NOT do?
pick her up. . . . sorry no hot lesbian action here

Do you remember phone numbers now that you have a cell phone? (don't tell me you don't have a cell phone!)((no I didn't buy Nokia stocks!))
not nearly as many. . . . i used to be walking talking phone book in highschool. . . now i'm lucky if i can tell you what number speed dial they are on.

In how many different languages can you say, "hi"?
bonjour-french
saigo (sp?)- mohawk
co-nichiwa (sp?)-japanese
moshi-moshi- (for phone)japanese
hola- (spanish)
namaste- indian (i think . . . . )


In how many different languages can you swear?
some french. . . . i think that's it
and i call call someone 'stupid' in japanese. .but i think that's it
maybe some hebrew though. . . .
and i can call someone annoying in korean (oddly enough 'annoying' in korean and hebrew are fairly similar. . . . meecheeganay (sp?)-korean. . . meshuganuh (sp?) hebrew. . . at least i think that's what it means in hebrew. . . . )

How many United States presidents can you name?
bush
clinton
the other bush
reagan
ford
roosevelt
the other roosevelt
kennedy
washington
madison
addams
(wasn't there a second addams too?)
taft
wilson
lincoln
mckinley


Was the number of different languages you can swear greater than the number of United States presidents you can name? (that's so sad if you said, "yes.")
HA!. . . it wasn't

Where have you traveled?
cross country twice. . .
eastern seaboard
ottawa
montreal
virginia to ohio and back many times
ohio to new mexico 3 times
all over ny
stayed a week in paris
stayed a week in washington dc
vegas a couple of times
orlando a couple of times
osh-kosh wisconsin for a weekend
dc for a different weekend
nyc many times
mobile alabama for a weekend



Have you thought about having kids?
yeah. . . and don't hold your breath

What would their name(s) be?
that was half the problem oddly enough. . . back in grade school when kids talk about getting married and having kids and everyone was trying to come up with nifty names, i came up with jazzmin. . . for a girl. . . but then i lost fervor in it. . . so i figured it wasn't what i was looking for.

Since my last name is, "Yu," would it sound cool if I had a daughter, and her name was, "Mi-Anne"?
i knew another kid with the last name yu. . .. his father's name was pei-wen. . .. . i'm not into scarring a kid's childhood with a name. . . . there's too many other things they'll have to face

Would she kill me?
no. . . but seek therapy?. . probably.

How long can you do this at work and not get in trouble?
so far so good

What kinds of things do you do when you hang out with friends?
movies. . . cook. . talk about work. . . . talk about movies. . talk about books... . cards. . . . board games. . . .

What's up this weekend?
a few phone calls. . . gym. . . planning for thanksgiving. . .. cleaning. . . . pay bills. . . .maybe a movie

Thanks a bunch for filling this out and sending it back to me. I might just learn something about you...potty mouth!






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