a chocotini with a side of trivia

i was planning on having a quick drink at a local watering hole for a chocotini, catching up with a friend, but it ended up so differently. at the door, we were told that we couldn't participate in trivia night because there were too many teams, which we shrugged. as we grabbed a drink and stood looking for tables, a group of four asked if we wanted to join their group for trivia night. i recognized one of them from gross anatomy (she is in charge of the body donation program, and made an appearance for the neuroanatomy class I'm TA-ing for) and apparently they all work together - in the morgue. two of them are forensic entomologists - they can tell the time of death of a person by looking at insect larvae on a cadaver. fascinating! anyways - apparently all the teams were mostly hard core trivia teams, and since it was my friend and i's first time there for trivia night, it was such a new experience. i didn't know anything about 80's music, sports, or the population density of singapore per square mile, but i guessed the first woman director to gross over $100 million (guess who? it was her), an answer worth three points. what i really contributed to was the category, "sex and the city". no one else on my team knew anything from SATC! Questions and answers:

• which newspaper does carrie write for? and which day of the week is her column published? (i guess wednesday, and got it right ;)
  
• to whom is carrie's book dedicated? (charlotte, and optimists everywhere)
  
• how many abortions did samantha have? (i missed this one, and for a bonus point: what was the name of the guy that carrie got pregnant with, and had to have an abortion?)
  
• when samantha wants a birkin bag and finds out that the waiting list is a few years long, whose name does she drop in order to get at the top of the waiting list? (i knew this answer as soon as they said "birkin bag": lucy liu)
  

and we won first place! :) the first place prize was $50 gift certificate.

such a random night. the chocotini was good. ;)

my crazy weekend is extended til tonight - was b's bachelorette party this past weekend! i think i need to go into hiding for a few days and sleep and do nothing, i can't seem to be able to do it at home.