BASICS:

FULL NAME: Sarah Davis Schneider

BIRTHDATE: 9/10/83

PLACE OF BIRTH: Summit, NJ

SIBLINGS: My younger brother Will is s a designer for BustedTees and appears in some of the Hardly Workings.

ANY PETS: Do plants count? 

SHOE SIZE: 8ish


FAVORITES:

Be warned, I am terrible at picking favorites (unless we’re talking about coworkers, then duh, Pat), but I’m gonna try really hard for you guys.

T.V. SHOW: Right off the bat, I’m going to suck at this.  Arrested Development, 30Rock, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Battlestar Galactica and Freaks and Geeks are all favorites.  Oh, and Friday Night Lights, easily the best show on television.

MOVIE: I can do this one!  Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. 

GENRE OF MUSIC: Hm.  Pass?

MUSICIAN: My favorite band is Third Eye Blind.  Please don’t hold it against me.  But I also love Stevie Wonder and anything Ben Gibbard does.  I’m on a huge Bon Iver kick right now. 

ACTOR/ACTRESS: Hoo boy.  Amy Ryan, James Franco. Love Robert Downey Jr.  Tina Fey, Kevin Spacey, Ryan Reynolds.  Kate Winslet is inspiring.  Sandra Bullock is my guilty pleasure.  This is one actor away from being just a random list of actors, I realize.  Ed Norton.  Dammit.

CHILDHOOD CARTOON CHARACTER: April O’Neil.  This was the easiest question so far.  And that includes ‘FULL NAME’.

COLOR: Blue and green are favorites.  I’m working on purple.


FIRSTS:

CELEBRITY CRUSH: Far too obvious, but Jonathan Taylor Thomas.  What can I say, I’m a sucker for acronyms.  Attractronyms.

PET: My brother and I had two rabbits named Lucky and Oreo.  They were awesome until we found out they were lesbians with each other and our mom started putting them outside.

KISS: My first kiss was a Double Dare with this boy named Bobby.  He went for the tongue right away.  It was terrifying.

CONCERT: I think my first concert was a Dave Matthews Band concert at Hershey Park.  Things were different then.  I wore hemp.

CAR: My first car was a grey 1981 Mercury Grand Marquis, which was passed down from my grandmother.  My friends and I called it ‘The Boat.’  We once fit 7 people in the trunk.  Senior year, I won the superlative for ‘Best Car’, which is a tiny step above not winning any superlatives at all and a huge step below winning a superlative that’s actually about you and not just something you own.


SCHOOL:

WHAT WERE YOU CLASSIFIED AS (NERD, JOCK, BULLY, CLOWN, ETC): I straddled a lot of groups in high school, and I don’t mean that in the way that would have made me a Popular Girl.  I’ve preferred theatre and music and writing for as long as I can remember.

FAVORITE SUBJECT: English.

LEAST FAVORITE SUBJECT: Calculus AP BC was the worst class I took in all my years of schooling.  I just gave up halfway through the year and spent the entire period writing under my textbook.

TEACHER THAT IMPACTED YOUR LIFE THE MOST: Keith Parent, my AP English teacher.  Keith, I hope you’re reading this!  (You’re not, you’re like 85 years old).

WERE YOU POPULAR OR MORE RESERVED: I had a lot of friends but I definitely wasn’t quote unquote ‘popular’.  For example, I didn’t drink until my senior year of high school, and when I finally did I got obliterated off three screwdrivers.  Pretty sure that’s not the definition of ‘popular’.  But in college I was on the Homecoming Court.  Does that count?


RANDOMS:

SHARE SOMETHING EMBARRASSING: I was the drum major of my high school’s marching band.  I wore a matador’s costume.  Please don’t go looking for pictures, you won’t find them.  I burned them all.

EVER REALLY BEEN IN LOVE: Yup, I am now.

LEAST FAVORITE CHORE GROWING UP: Ugh, the DISHES.  I still hate doing the dishes.  My new apartment has a dishwasher and the way I talk about it you’d think it was made of gold.  It’s not.

DID YOU GET AN ALLOWANCE: Nope.  I got hand-me-downs.

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR LAST MEAL ON EARTH TO BE: My mom’s lemon chicken and egg noodles.

DID YOU HAVE ANY EMBARRASSING NICKNAMES GROWING UP: My dad calls me Dweezil, after Frank Zappa’s kid Dweezil.  But my brother’s nickname was Mr. Magoodles, so it could have been much, much worse.

WHAT IS YOUR WORST HABIT: I bite my nails.  Once I tried putting on that polish that tastes gross so you learn to stop biting your nails.  You know, like a Pavlovian dog.  It worked until I went to put my contacts in and almost burned off my retina.  Needless to say, I still bite my nails.

WHO IS THE FIRST PERSON YOU CALL WHEN YOU HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM: My mom.  And she always has the answer.  Granted my serious problems usually involve laundry, but still.

WHAT IS IN YOUR POCKET RIGHT NOW: Eight dollars and two bobby-pins.

IF YOU DIDN’T WORK FOR CH, WHAT JOB COULD YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING (MEDIA FIELDS EXCLUDED): That’s a tough one.  I always wanted to be a writer or an actress, and (thankfully) haven’t yet been unsuccessful enough to rethink that plan.  For a while I thought about being a copywriter, but then I realized that a successful copywriter writes like ten words a year, so I ditched that.  My mom thought I was going to be a lawyer until I sued her for leading the witness.  That’ll show her.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR A KLONDIKE BAR: Pay the vendor $2.