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>1). What are you most proud of in 2019?
Having made it through a couple of tough life events, both my wife and I, and seeing light on the other side.
>2). Who are you closest to in your extended family?
My cousin Jimmy, since around our college years when we partied together a bunch haha. Growing up, he and I played sports together but I always sorta viewed him as my annoying younger cousin (by only a year, but he was a small, quiet kid until high school) who just wanted to copy everything I did. So I hung out with his sister more (who's a year older than me). But he came out of his shell in HS and we got super close. Go to Patriots games together for 10+ years, etc.
>3). What is your favorite foreign film?
8 1/2. Saw it semi-recently after on reading about it on some "top 50 foreign movies" list on Buzzfeed or Complex or some shit haha.
>4). What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink?
Arizona Arnold Palmer iced tea/lemonade. I drink that like it's water.
>5). When you have a cold, what is your favorite thing to eat?
Not really sure. I don't really change my habits much typically, my colds (knock on wood) don't tend to be all that bad so beyond taking some Sudafed or something I stay my usual course most of the time. But I guess in the past if I *have* had a bad cold I've gone with like, tomato soup or chicken soup.
>6). Where were you on 9/11?
At my locker in my high school, senior year. A kid I had known for years came by and said "dude planes just flew into the WTC" and, kinda unfortunately I guess, I didn't even think anything of it. Says a lot about how numb we've always been to tragedy maybe. But I also probably didn't really understand the impact fully as I didn't even really know what the WTC was, embarrassingly. Anyway I went to my next class when our principal announced it over the intercom. Our super weird science teacher just stood in stunned silence saying "oh my god" over and over again. And my backup QB and I got up and told her we were too distraught to stay in class (lies), got a note to leave school from the school nurse who loved us, got McDonald's, and went to my house and watched the coverage.
That's when the impact truly hit me. Watching it on TV is obviously pretty jarring. Then our football coach inexplicably had us practice anyway later that afternoon so we went back to the school, and that's when the impact REALLY hit me as one of the kids on our team told us all that he thought his father had been on one of the flights. Thankfully he turned out to be wrong but that was a really tense moment.
Damn that was a crazy day. And we were assholes. LOL. Like our first thought was "we can get out of class now" smh.
>7). Do you eat breakfast each morning?
Yea yogurt.
>8). When is the last time you had a cold?
Heavy on the cold theme !? Ha. Uhhh right now, actually. Both my wife and I.
>9). What is the most vivid dream you can remember? Tell me >about it.
It was 2004, 4 years after my mom had died. And I had a dream that she and I were in a house together just searching for ... something. I don't remember what it was we were looking for, and weirdly the house was completely empty. But we just walked around laughing and joking like we always had. Searching a completely empty house. Weird but simultaneously pleasant dream since I got to hang out with my mom lol.
>10). What is your favorite syfy tv show?
Not really into SciFi.
>11). Favorite non american cuisine dish?
Kibbeh. Gibbie. Whatever it's called. My wife is Syrian/middle-eastern and her family always makes a ton of amazing Lebanese/Syrian food for holidays and get togethers. I love it all (grapeleaves, hummus, etc.) but I could eat ... kibbeh/gibbie/whateverthefuck it's called for every meal everyday forever.
>12). Have you ever used a sewing machine?
Never.
>13). Tell me about a movie that changed you/your way of >thinking?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Not really sure what it was about that movie but it really hit me in a way that no other movie ever really had or has since. I've never really been able to explain it but after seeing that movie I found better ways to manage my short temper, stress, and irritability over minor things, and helped me to compartmentalize trivial things that had previously got on my nerves or gave me anxiety.
Again I have no idea what it was about that movie that gave me this clarity, but it happened. Haha.
>14). Do you enjoy Trivia nights?
Yea - I used to do them every week, sometimes multiple times a week, in college. But haven't gone in a while. But the rare times I have gone in the last several years I've still had a lot of fun.
>15). Did you ever wear braces on your teeth?
Yes - 1.5 years from the end of 7th grade thru the very beginning of freshman year.
>16). When you we 14, what did you want to be when your grew >up?
NBA player. Delusional fuck. lol ----------------------------------------
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