Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. Herbed Extra Virgin Olive Oil w/ Balsamic Vinger - um, or just lemons.

Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. None, but if I HAD to pick I could choke down some crap from Taco Bell.

Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A. Hana Hou! YUM!

Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. 20%

Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
A. Thai Food

Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. none, no pizza - blecchh! allegric to most of it (cheese, crust, you-name-it).

Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A. Jam, Brown Sugar w/ Pure Mexican Vanilla, Cinnamon & Nutmeg

TECHNOLOGY

Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A. Whatever Chuck puts there

Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. 1

Q. What color is your iPod?
A. Don't have one. Don't want one. I guess I'm just not a Pod Person.

BIOLOGY

Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. Right (mostly, except for hand percssion instruments.)

Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. yes..... a few things, actually.

Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. 3 years ago... about...... tend to block that stuff out I guess.

Q. What is the last heavy item you lifted?
A. A box of Tribal Bibles, the book I wrote. Or was it my suitcase aafter Taiwan? Hhhmmm..... whenever I travel they're overweight these days. I mean, c'mon 50 lb. limiit for overseas, too??? Gee!

Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. yes. It's not fun.

RANDOMOLOGY, pt 1

Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. No - I try to live each as if it could be last and I wouldn't want *anyting* to change my zeal.

Q. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
A. Already have and I continue to do so. I've had many names.. since about age 4 or 5 I began asking my parents to call me by various names and friends, too. Then came my career as a writer for punk rock zines, when I could really play with psuedonyms. My most common one I wrote under in those days was Pandora S. Box. Then came my first husband, whose last mundane name was better than my "given" one, so I still have that for the mundanes. Then came bellydance - with a couple "starter" names. Then my "real" name, Kajira Djoumahna developed. Now I have other names as well for various aspects of my personality, the most common new one being Black for my Goth Self. (I think of it as yin-yang, dark and light now.)
It never entered my mind that I "couldn't" change my name. In those early years at age 4 asking my folks to call me "Bluebird" and later, "Pony" after a horse movie I saw, they told me I could change my name whenever I wanted, esp. after I was 18, even legally.
So I guess that was never an issue with me, thanks to my open-minded parents and my own extremely vivid imagination.

Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. Black

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. yes.... as a little kid I ate banana slugs and flies. I put everything in my mouth. That my parents were not happy with and had to teach me to be less "Renfield-like." = ;-)<
Oh, but it wasn't by mistake - sorry!

Q. Have you ever saved someone's life?
A. I'm sure that I have had a hand in some people's, they tell me so - but it is really the other person who has to do it, though I love teahcing them how to and giving them tools. After all, my own life was saved by several things that happened at once that made huge differences to me: becoming a caregiver for my parents while they were in Hospice care, going on methadone maintenance and moving out of SF and back to Sonoma Co., meeting Chuck shortly thereafter who is straight as an arrow (almost) and then finding Jazzersize which led me to BellyDance, all of contributed to saving y life. So I have tools I pass on to others who wish them, maybe not directly like this, but through my workshops and Teacher Trainings.
I also helped a panicky lady in from the ocean awhile back while swimming. Guess that counts!

Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Yes, Chuck and Bellydance and everything above.

DAREOLOGY

Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. I'd kiss them for free, but the $100.00 wouldn't hurt. = :-)

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. Fu*k yeah! Is that before taxes?

Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A.I'm so clueless I don't know that I am blogging now!... But yes I would take the money and leave this to Chuck gladly!

Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. YEAH!!! Absofrickinlutly!!

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. Yes - I love a good endorphin rush and buy the hottest stuff I can find already. Where's the contest?

Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. No! ( I wouldn't do it for "God and country" either.) The ONLY exception to this would be to *save my own life.* Like, duh.


DUMBOLOGY

Q: What is in your left pocket?
A: I avoid pockets, I carry a purse or some sort of bag.

Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A. No!!! It sucks! It's sooooooooo stoooopid I cannot imagine what ppl see in it. Talk about boring!

Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A: Both

Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: Stand. Unless I'm washing the Maui Red Dirt off my feet, then I sit daintily on our marble shower ledge to scrub dem doggies!

Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: Yes - but only one at a time. Currently it is Chuck.
Though there could be leeway depending upon the size of the mansion and if they had their own bathroom, kitchen and door.

Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: 5... I think. Maybe less. You know, it's Hawai`i. BTW, we call 'em "slippahs."

Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: 2 years ago, I didn't get a ticket! but i did just get the most horrendous parking ticket ever last week. Cop must not have liked my bumper stickers!

Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: The culmination of my life experiences.

Q: Who is number 1 on your top 8?
A: Chuck!! Like, duh.......


LASTOLOGY

Q: Friend you talked to?
A: Sarala

Q: Last person to call you?
A: Someone about a workshop.

Q: Person you hugged?
A: Leela of Salome Jihad of LA... but maybe it was Chuck!

FAVORITOLOGY

Q: Number?
A: It's a tie between 5, 7, 9 and 13 um, and 11 is good too.

Q: Season?
A: Winter, because that is when the whales are here. If in CA still, definitely fall.

Q: Book?
A: That's really hard, there are so many good books! Anything by Anne Rice, Stephen King, all 3 Conversations With God and Voltaire (the living guy, not the dead one).

Q. Website?
A. www.blacksheepbellydance.com kinda self serving isn't it? LOL - but you know I don't look at it or anyone else's if I can help it.

Q. Month?
A. Oct 15 - Nov 15th... :-) and Feb. 'cause of whales! Gee, I'm a baaad questionnaire answerer! But entertaining!

Q. Alcohol?
A. I far prefer the kind that I smoke. = ;-) But if that is not available, a glass of red wine or one of Chuck's soon-to-be-famous coconut rum-lilikoi shooters!

CURRENTOLOGY

Q: Missing someone?
A: Always, where the hell did they go?

Q: Mood?
A: Manic or depressed, very little lingering in between. In case you think I'm kidding, I have the medical records to prove it.

Q: Listening to?
A: In current playlist: Siouxsie & The Banshees, Blondie, Ramones, The Cure, Jill Tracy, Collide (but not Vortex- yuk!) and that Solace one w/ Melo and Sa'Elayssa on the cover. Oh, and strangely, perhaps to some, Fathiem's latest World Fusion CD she gave me on the Arabian Nights at Sea Cruise. It's pretty cool - she's more multi-talented than many give her credit for.

Q: Watching?
A. The computer screen & the ocean.... OK and I have a stack of DVDs I have to watch of bellydancers. I have DVDs for years with shrink wrap still on 'em. Oh well. I also watch mind-numbing TV starting at 6 p.m. most nights unless travelling or gigging. By then all I wanna do is watch stuff that doesn't matter if I remember it or not. Faves are: Bones, any CSI, NCIS (love the sorrta perky Goth chick played by Paulie Perrette or something like that), anything "spooky", Heroes, the 4400, things where ppl get "abilities." Abilities are cool. Oh, cannot forget South Park.

Q: Worrying about?
A: Nothing, all is as it should be... OK I lied like a rug. Nothing and everything as usual.

RANDOMOLOGY, pt 2

Q: First place you went this morning?
A: bathroom

Q: What can you not wait to do?
A. To perform Odissi tonight with my teacher Sarala and Vishnu Tattva Das & to attend Gothla US.

Q: What's the last movie you saw?
A: Blacksheep: The Revenge.. I think it was called... mutant sheep running amok!

Q: Do you smile often?
A: Yes - unless I'm in Black mode.

Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: Generally, unless you're an asshole.

Q: Someone you wish you never met?
A. No, I'm glad I met them so I now know to stay away! And, I hit my head on that tree more than once, too. What an idiot!