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1. Rice or potatoes?
Frankly, I don't eat either often, but I'll def go with rice bc I would crawl five miles through broken glass for a bowl of Choolaah. Their dal makhani owns my soul.

2. Fish or red meat?

Red meat. Recently, I've gotten sick and tired of even my most favorite salmon dishes. I mostly eat chicken bc it's so versatile, but I can't give up the umami savoriness of meat. Oh, but sashimi... Oh no. I love raw fish ;_; UH NEXT QUESTION!!

3. Salad or cooked vegetables?

Can't stand most salads. In the summer I sometimes make a bed of arugula with lemon juice dressing and sliced strawberries, but that's the extent of my tolerance. Roasted, grilled, or blanched vegetables, on the other hand... YUM.

4. Cake or ice cream?

Oooo, toughie! I guess cake bc it's more versatile and I prefer a solid dessert with a morning coffee. Love a fluffy butter cake with Swiss meringue buttercream, or an olive oil cake with bitter blood oranges, you know? Or like a hearty fruitcake pickled up the wazoo in brandy. But when the ice cream cravings start, man, say goodbye to that entire pint container. Now you see it, now you don't.

5. Water, soft drink, wine, beer, or hard alcohol?

Well, I do need plenty of water to survive and thrive as a functioning mammal. But otherwise, hard alcohol. I like a Manhattan, old fashioned, or negroni etc etc with my appetizers and cheese plates. Lambic-style or bourbon barrel quad beers are the only possible contenders. I mostly only drink wine if it's bubbly, if it's for brunch, and even then, I prefer it in a Campari spritz or French 75. Wine/bubbly is hangover city and I want a full day to rehydrate and metabolize it before bedtime. Alcohol in general gives me bad insomnia so it's always water or my mocktail inventions for me after 7pm, thanks. I can be a VERY disappointing bar companion for someone who, uh, clearly likes drinking as much as I do.

Can you tell I'm fasting? I could talk for hours about rich and decadent foods I love. Only 19.5 days until Taurus season.
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What is the first TV show you remember watching?
I watched a lot of random cartoons as a kid while I was being dressed for daycare, and when I say random, I mean random. One of our three (?) channels played imported cartoons during that time slot, I'm assuming specifically for parents like mine who were struggling to keep their kids awake in the pre-dawn Moscow winter, and it showed things like Sailor Moon, Speed Racer, Gargoyles, and He-Man, without any particular order or way of knowing which one you'll get that day.

What is the first “grown up” TV show you watched?
Uh.. Lexx, in elementary school. Which is appalling, I suppose. That show wasn't "grown up," it was straight up adult, and incredibly titillating. I rewatched it in college and my jaw dropped. It's otherwise a fun irreverent scifi romp!

Have you ever been in a wedding bridal party? What was your role? What did your outfit look like that you wore for the day?
I was a groomsman for two very dear friends a few years ago. Outfit was nothing to write home about - we wore very traditional black tuxedos. BUT for the rehearsal dinner, I finally went out and bought a suit, and it's a fantastic dark-green wool suit that I have since worn to other weddings and just whenever I felt like wearing green pants.

What is your ethnic background that you’re aware of?
Russian, Russian, and look! More Russian.

What was the last hotel you stayed in and where? Did you like it?
It was an AirBnB in Pasadena/Los Angeles for the 2019 Lightbox Expo. It was a nice, quiet, and comfortable place, though I don't think their A/C was keeping up with the humidity bc the towels smelled pretty mildewy. But I'd only packed a small backpack for four days, so I had no other towel options. I stopped trying to smell the funky towels and survived just fine. The forty minute walk to and from the expo center was wonderful with a fantastic view of the mountains and a great cafe I stopped at for breakfast each morning. I stuffed myself as much as I could each time and still think about their food sometimes.

The other bedroom was also booked by a professional artist/expo attendee, but we didn't find this out until we both stumbled in late Saturday night after apparently snagging invites to the same secret afterparty. She had flown in all the way from Norway!

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