This or that – so it must be Tuesday, then.
1. Do you prefer silence or do you like background sound (music, TV, etc)?
Depends on what I’m doing. For reading at home I tend to prefer silence, unless it’s something I need to really concentrate on – in which case I’ll choose music that I know so well it doesn’t really demand attention, which stops my mind from wandering away while I read. I hate reading rooms, at uni I sat in the refectory to study. For anything else there tends to be music in the background. Not the radio, though, and if it’s the TV it’s VH1 with all music. Speech doesn’t work as background noise for me.
2. Bathe/shower in morning or evening?
Evening, if I get around to it.
3. Sleeping in complete darkness, or with a nightlight on?
Darkness nowadays. I used to need a nightlight until I was about 15, I was really scared of the dark as a kid (still am, to some extent, but not in the same way and a nightlight doesn’t help – it only makes the shadows seem darker).
4. Lay out clothes the night before, or just grab what’s closest in the morning?
Lay out clothes the night before? People actually do that?
5. Hang up/fold clothes neatly, or just toss them wherever?
Instinct is to toss them wherever. I sometimes make an effort, especially with clothes that don’t take too kindly to being bunched up (the bunad, silk dresses and such).
6. Work out at a gym, or at home on your own (or do you not bother with exercise)?
Karate. I hate gyms, I’d never get around to working out at home even if I had the space and equipment. I need a form of exercise that has a purpose beyond just being exercise and that has set times so that I can’t just think “oh, well, I’ll go tomorrow instead”.
7. Talk on the phone, or via IM/e-mail?
Depends who to. Very close friends/family it’s phone. Anyone else I prefer e-mail.
8. Are you usually on time, or late?
Usually early. Sometimes ridiculously so (I was once 6 hours early for a flight, as the next possible train would have gotten me there “just in time” which is way too stressful for me – what if the train’s late?).
9. Spendthrift or frugal?
Uhm. The former.
10. Thought-Provoking Question of the Week: You work with someone who is not in the habit of bathing regularly. The smell seems to be getting worse and worse! Would you: 1. try to do something about it, or 2. try to grin and bear it? If you said 1, what would you do?
What could you do? Give them shower gel for their birthday?