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• 34: Talk about the worst physical pain you’ve endured.

Before I had surgery in 2008 I suffered for years with ulcerative colitis. Every day was a slog through severe abdominal pain and anywhere from 20 to 50 trips to the bathroom. The pain was not only terrible but it was nearly constant both day and night. I found that pressing down on my lower abdomen would relieve the pain slightly and for a long time would get work done by standing at my desk and leaning forward so that my weight would press my stomach into the edge of the desk and I would hunch down and type or work with samples that way for hours at a time. 

• 36: Talk about your guilty pleasures.

I love those stupid time-waster games on facebook. I usually play about two or three of them at a time. I’ll keep a window open in my browser while I’m at work and every time I have downtime or a break I’ll go back and check on them. After a few months I’ll get bored and delete a game but then I’ll end up finding a new one to play. I’ve been doing this since mafia wars first came on the scene. I know that they’re vapid, pointless and primarily designed to suck you in and make you pay for in-game items but I play them anyways.