25 Random Things About Maha

Fell free to make your own (the list doesn’t have to compiled of 25)…

.1. I count things; all things as I compete with myself to count them before I walk / drive / cycle past them without slowing down.

.2. I write things out with my toes. I’ll be thinking of something and then I’ll spell it out with my toes (I don’t hold a pen or anything…I just write it out with…my toes…).

.3. My books are in order first by genre, second by biographical info (my own).

.4. When it comes to emotional fight or flight, I choose the later…extremely. For all of my openness, I shut down and out when I perceive a threat to my emotional well-being.

.5. I am the not-pack-rat; I throw everything out.

.6. My favourite olive is a green olive stuffed with one tooth of garlic.

.7. Post grad school, I decided to become an artist. So I did. With one art show that sold out. But then I got bored.

.8. I get bored very easily.

.9. I am writing a book.

.10. The first game I ever learned to play was chess at the age of 3.

.11. I don’t need to have the last word if I am confident that my actions were the proper actions in that situation.

.12. My favourite food is watermelon accompanied by a feta cheese sandwich.

.13. I am at my most peaceful when I am near water (not, like, a toilette…but a real body of water).

.14. I have hundreds of acquaintances and count, at most, 10 as ‘friends’.

.15. It’s only when I write about something – map it out with a pen – that I understand it and then can tuck it away.

.16. My lowest math grade in high school was 98%. Until I did grade 13 calculus, which was taught by our high school’s football coach. He gave me an additional 2% so that I could pass the fkn class.

.17. I cry during sport movies; all of them. They are my favourite genre of film.

.18. I can’t read only one book at a time; often, I am toggling between 8 – 10 books so as to keep my attention (see # 8 above).

.19. Literally, I don’t get it. I don’t really understand the difference between $1,000 or $100,000. The concept of money is entirely lost on me. I am an economist’s worst nightmare.

.20. I prefer letter writing to email.

.21. I have zero desire to go to any part of East Asia. Not even for free, can you get me there. (I don’t understand it, either).

.22. I throw a killer left hook; one that split a bag recently.

.23. I hate all forms of instructions (on boxes, on bags, on people…).

.24. I love and trust immediately.

.25. But can walk away just as easily.