27. what's your favorite bubblegum flavor?i don't actually chew gum very often! i used to a bit more in high school, but a few times i was chewing gum and it melted in my mouth and it was really super gross and awful. i was never too big on it in the first place, so after the fourth time or so i just gave it up completely. i remember frequently getting some kind of orange mint, though? ORANGE, BIG SURPRISE
28. sunrise or sunset?i love sunrises, probably because it's much rarer that i'm awake for them, so they feel more special to me. THOUGH I GUESS HISTORICALLY most of my sunrises have been after pulling all-nighters which you'd think would be an unpleasant association, but at school i would spend a lot of my all-nighters at the observatory where i worked. at sunrise i'd climb up to the rooftop for a bit and there's a moment of stillness, when the day is just beginning and people are just starting to wake up -- the streets are relatively empty and the morning mist is coming in, and everything feels really quiet and pensive but slowly it all starts to come alive, and the world feels very precious and fragile. staying up or waking up for the sunrise feels more intentional, too -- i've seen plenty of sunsets in passing, but there's something nice about, "hey, let's go watch the sunrise."
29. what's something really cute that one of your friends does and is totally endearing?THIS IS REALLY HARD... oh no... all of my friends are super cute and endearing... i like when they laugh at silly things, like their own jokes, or like this one time ismet started crying because he laughed for ten minutes about the david duchovny "what are frogs" video
i like when my friends ramble excitedly about things they love, whether or not it's something i know much about! now that i think about it i feel like i apologize a lot for rambling but i honestly love being rambled at -- i love when my friends are super excited about something or when they have a lot to say! i like hearing you talk :)
30. think of it: have you ever been truly scared?what is "truly" scared... please define your terms... WHAT IS... TRUTH...... i am often existentially afraid, have experienced intense physiological symptoms of fear, and i've been legitimately scared of various situations and possibilities, but as far as i can remember i've never been genuinely and viscerally afraid for my immediate mortal life or anything, if that's what this is asking.
31. what is your opinion of socks? do you like wearing weird socks? do you sleep with socks? do you confine yourself to white sock hell? really, just talk about socks.OHHH BOY! OH BOY! OHH BOY!! SOCKS!! I LOVE GREAT SOCKS!!! i have a lot of fun socks and am always on the lookout for more!!! i'm not sure what my favorite pair is, but i have a set of several owl socks that i think are really cute, and a bunch of cute patterned socks that i got this past winter in taiwan, featuring such classics as: neko atsume, totoro, batman, the little prince, robots, gudetama, etc. i have this one pair of socks depicting some kind of animal (a hippo? a shark? nobody can seem to agree), with the sole being its mouth, so i can shove my foot onto people and pretend to eat them hehEHEhehe. one time i sent a bunch of pictures of my feet to this person on OKC that i wasn't interested in otherwise but they clearly had a raging foot fetish and i honestly just wanted to show off all my cool socks