friday 5

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1. Where would you suggest meeting a friend you’ve been out of touch with for a very long time, for reestablishing connection and catching up?
2. When it was your turn to highlight what your life’s been like, what would be the main talking points?
3. What would the friend be most surprised by?
4. What events in your life might you specifically avoid?
5. What would be the most encouraging sign, early in the conversation, that you might have a good friendship moving forward?

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1. When did you last light a candle?
2. When did you memorably burn your bridges?
3. When were your pants most recently on fire?
4. Which of your possessions has recently sparked joy?
5. In which of the Inferno‘s nine circles of hell will you someday feel most at home?

Thanks for participating, and may someone light your fire this weekend!

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1. What is your history with cats?
2. Where did you first pay rent, and what was the space like?
3. When did you most recently go into the woods?
4. What do you know about Oklahoma?
5. Where have you been that might be described as a little shop of horrors?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend somewhere that’s green!

1. What’s your favorite rolled food?
2. What’s your favorite layered food?
3. What’s your favorite messy food?
4. What’s your favorite blended beverage?
5. What’s your favorite skewered food?

Thanks for participating, and have a delicious weekend!

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1. How well do you draw?
2. When were you last called upon to draw or sketch something?
3. Among visual arts assignments you worked on in school, which do you remember most fondly?
4. Which painting by one of the masters do you most appreciate?
5. Your new summer home (congratulations!) has a courtyard perfect for a sculpture garden. What kind of sculpture will you commission to be its centerpiece?

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These questions are inspired by real stuff that happened to me or my friends.

1. You’re at the beginning of an extended vacation in some unfamiliar big city in a faraway country. On the street, you strike up a friendly conversation with someone attractive, around your age, and in line with your sexual preference, someone from this city. There is a brief lull, and they ask you to sing them a song. What do you say and what song do you sing?
2. Someone much younger than you (but not a child) who knows and respects you asks for one piece of advice for the rest of their life. What is your advice to this person?
3. You’re alone at work when a woman bursts in and says urgently, “You have to hide me!” Then a police officer runs in with his weapon drawn. The woman points at you and says, “Thank God, officer! Please get them out of here!” The officer doesn’t know which of you belongs here and which he has been chasing, but his weapon is aimed at you now. What do you say?
4. You get into a taxi in another big city you’re visiting for the first time, a city known for a certain cuisine you love. When you tell the driver the name of the restaurant you want to be driven to, they say, “Listen. Everyone loves this place and it’s okay, but it’s overpriced and overhyped. I know a place run by a small family with the same cuisine, but the food is much better and much more reasonably priced! If you like this cuisine you will love this place! Let me take you there instead!” What do you do?
5. Someone you’ve been verrrrrry attracted to for ten years is suddenly single. As they go through this life transition with all its complications (new living arrangements, legal stuff, therapy, that kind of thing), they ask if you’d like to be in a transitional romantic relationship. It will be short — less than a year — and when they’re ready to get back into dating, you won’t be considered. Do you agree to this arrangement?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend!

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1. What has recently reinforced your belief in the goodness of people?
2. Who has recently made you feel good about who you are and what you’re doing?
3. What’s a good excuse for not doing something you should recently have done?
4. Who inspires you to be the best version of yourself?
5. How will you practice self-care this weekend?

Thanks for participating, and have a you-tastic weekend!

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1. How was this week extraordinary?
2. When did you last do something extravagant for yourself?
3. What do you think of the film ET: The Extraterrestrial?
4. What might lead someone to believe you’re an extravert?
5. What would you like to extract from your body or mind?

Thanks for participating, and may your weekend last an extra-extra-extra long time!

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1. What makes you self-conscious?
2. What have you learned about self-defense?
3. When did you recently exercise self-discipline?
4. What do you do to maintain a positive self-image?
5. What are you self-taught in?

Thanks for participating, and have a self-explanatory, self-aware, self-esteem-boosting weekend!

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I almost titled this I’ve got a bad feeling about this, but I caught myself in time, remembering I already used it for a 5 unrelated to this one.

1. How closely do you pay attention to weather forecasts, and how important are they to you?
2. When did you memorably have a feeling something bad was going to happen and nothing bad happened?
3. How are you tempting fate* today?
4. How do you avoid (or when have you recently avoided) jinxing yourself, whether you believe in jinxes or not?
5. When did you memorably have a feeling something bad was going to happen and something bad did happen?

Thanks for participating, and have a good-mojo kind of weekend!

* Yeah, yeah. I know this is not how fate works, but you know what I mean.