More on this country later, just for fun, here's a survey I just filled out...

1. What is the one single thing that you probably think about most in any given day?

The funny way I feel when the coaches at my gym straddle me while I am benchpressing weights, and whether I am sinning against nature.

Actually, it's probably a toss up between obsessing over how much my roommate sucks, updating my web page, my friends and fam, dunking a basketball, remembering to turn the heat off, wondering if my nose ring is poking through my nostril, trying to remember who I should be writing and e-mailing to, and dangling prepositions.

2. What soap in currently in your shower?

"Natural & Beauty" Aloe Soap: E-Mart's finest

3. If you HAD to legally change your name, what would you change it to?

Malik El-Hadj San Fran Andy Shabbaz

Probably Andre, which is what I was going to be named until my Mommy had a change of heart.

4. What is something you HEARD this week that made you laugh?

My sketchy boss with her fucked up grill offering me a pear and asking me if I liked peppers. Also, that incomprehensible e-mail that my Tae Kwon Do teacher sent me, which concluded with this: "Friday day see that much and bitterly the palace! Joyful one day toy route!"

5. What is something you SAW this week that made you laugh?

The latest episode of the Simpsons was mildly entertaining.
My Tae Kwon Do instructors trying to keep a straight face while trying to teach me roundhouse kicks.

6. What is in your CD player right now and what's your favorite track on it?

Alas, my cd player is broken right now, much to my absolute dismay, but lately I have been listening to eric clapton, george harrison, daft punk and mobb deep, and the new roots cd. My two tracks of choice: Drink Away the Pain (Situations) by Mobb Deep, and The Seed 2.0 by The Roots and Cody Chestnutt.

7. What is your ultimate favorite song line?

Anything from Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8r Boy”

Not my ultimate favorite, but right up there:
“Punch that O for operator baby its a love sonnet
I been stylin abstract since loose leafs was the shit
Catch me breathin on planes where the gangstas are outdated
Fuck being hard posdnous is complicated”
-Posdanous (Plug 1) of De La Soul from the song, “In The Woods”

8. What are 3 things you cannot live without?

My TI 82 graphing calculator, my moleskine notebook, and a clean pair of Underoos .

9. The one thing you would NEVER catch me wearing?

A condom. Just kidding. A whale bone corset. (Never again)

10. What did you have for lunch?

A three-egg omelette with sharp cheddar cheese, mushrooms and onions, and a cigarette.

11. What the one show you could watch over and over again and never get tired of?

Webster. I think Mr. Papadopolous was hot, and Emmanuelle Lewis never gets old. Literally.

Mr. Show, The Simpsons

12. When was the last time you had chills/ goosebumps?

When I recall my escapade in the sauna, as well as everytime my roommate answers the door in just his boxers and whenever my roommate tries to speak Korean.

13. What's on your bed right now?

Me, a big plastic bucket, a white notebook from my junior year of college, and a bunch of used tissue paper. Draw your own conclusions.

(I have a cold)

14. Say something nice to the person who sent this to you:

Asma, I didn’t know the Hindis of India burnt incense.