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... before I feel guilty about how much time I'm spending on goofing off and how much writing work I'm not getting done on here:
1. What were you in your previous (hypothetical) lifetime?
a 19th century sailor
2. What would you like to be in your next (hypothetical) lifetime?
blue. Like, actually BE the color blue, as opposed to being COLORED blue.
3. What did you want to be when you grew up?
An award-winning author. Now I'll just settle for a published author. Actually my happiness would be improved by being a hobby author who actually gets her act together and writes something once in awhile.
4. Would you still do what you do for a living, if you didn't have to?
That would imply that I do something for a living right now. Oh that's right, I do have a job now. And it's the job I want if I have to make a living. But probably not otherwise. At least not right now in my life. I might volunteer in a library down the line, if I didn't need money.
5. What do you like to do when you get to choose?
That depends on how many options I actually have. Possibly curl up and read.
6. Which is more important to you, your career/job or your family/friends?
Family and friends. Witness how reluctant I am to get a job even in our poorness.
7. Do you believe in a god/gods, higher order, or a meaning of life?
All of the above. At once.
8. Which matters most, physical appearance or personality?
Personality unless you are hiring a model. To do modelling and nothing else.
9. Which is your next goal in life?
Finish the One Book Project before deadline, possibly.
10. What was the most memorable event during your childhood or adolescence?
The most memorable? In what way? I seem to remember my childhood and adolescence more strongly than the average person anyway. But possibly the week my sister died and I got chicken pox and watched Star Wars for the first time.
11. Did you like school?
Nathan pretty much had the exact same answer as me, but I went and erased it, so I guess I'll just have to say it in my own words. How annoyingly creative of me. Anyway, I liked school ITSELF, but I didn't like the social drama, nor did I like getting up to go to school, doing homework, and being forced not to daydream (or to Put That Book Away!) at boring moments. But I generally liked LEARNING, and showing off my braininess through tests and assignments (as long as they weren't homework. Or stupid). I recently decided that I'd probably be happiest as a student, rather than in any position where I have to be in charge.
12. Have you ever been bullied?
Yeah
13. Have you ever bullied anyone?
I think I occasionally attempted to when I was about five, but this generally met with extreme failure.
14. Do you like to have a lot of friends, or just a few really close ones?
Both and neither. I'm not concerned with the quantity, just that the people I like are my friends.
15. How many, if any, of your childhood friends are you still in touch with?
That depends on the definition of in touch as well as the definition of childhood. My first best friend apparently is on my emailing list for getting Sammy pictures, which I forgot, and she told her parents who told my dad who told me that she got them and they were cute and she can't believe how big he is, if that counts as "in-touch"! My NEXT oldest best friend is the only person I managed to email while in Missouri, but this is because we are exchanging baby clothes. Most of my childhood friends I know through my parents anyway so I'm not sure who's keeping in touch, us or them. But I am still in touch with the first best friend I ever made entirely on my own, who is Molly.
16. Are you still friends with your ex-lovers?
I haven't got any ex-lovers. I have a guy I used to date, whom I don't know what's up with currently, so I guess that counts as not being friends with. I'm still friends with my last Major Crush before that. I might theoretically still be friends with my high school crushes, too, if I ever saw them again, but I guess that also counts as a no.
17. Do you have children? If not, would you like to?
Yep, he's a swell dude. Except for this habit of waking up screaming an hour after he goes to bed that he's taken up in the past few days.
18. Did you ever torture insects when you were a child?
Not that I recall, especially as this might possibly involve TOUCHING an insect, and AGH! NEVER! I COULDN'T! IT WILL POISON ME BY OSMOSIS!
19. What kind of pet do you/would you like to have?
I like dogs best of all pet-type animals, but I wouldn't actually like to have one. I have enough to deal with with a husband and son.
20. What is the next big invention you would like to see realized?
"Green" products that are cheap.
21. Are you a morning or evening person?
Morning. I don't necessarily like GETTING up early in the morning, but I prefer BEING up then. I am tired and cranky in the evenings. I never last long. Just ask all my friends who attempt to socialize with me after eight. Even seven-thirty.
22. What is the most boring thing you know?
My high school geometry/trig teacher's voice.
23. What do you find most difficult to handle in others?
Intolerance of my geekish ways.
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[01] — Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] — Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] — Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.
[04] — Tagfive people everyone!
1. Star Wars- "Initial research from 20th Century Fox using the title and a brief synopsis came back with the results that only males under 25 were interested in seeing the film. Fox then deliberately marketed the film with a view to attracting older and female cinemagoers by pushing images of humans (including Princess Leia) centerstage and referring to the film in more mythic tones, rather than science fiction."
2. Return of the King-"Shelob's shriek is actually the sound of a Tasmanian devil."
3. Almost Famous-"At the party, when he is on acid, Russell Hammond cries out, "I am a Golden God!" This is a reference to Robert Plant of the band Led Zeppelin, who is purported to have said the same thing (sober) while looking over Sunset Strip from a hotel balcony." It's that parenthetical statement that makes the whole thing.
4. The Muppet Movie-"Mel Brooks's character has "Prof" written on the back of his coat. This is a tribute to his character in Blazing Saddles (1974) which has "Gov" written on the back of his coat."
5. Back to the Future-"Michael J. Fox is only ten days younger than Lea Thompson, the actress who plays his mother, and is almost three years older than his on-screen dad, Crispin Glover."
And that's all the favorite movies I feel like looking up right now, or even thinking of without straining, so ask me again sometime when I feel less guilty for websurfing. Because when you're on imbd, you can spend all day websurfing.
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MOUTHOLOGY
Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. interesting variations on Italian... or plain old Italian as a default. Though if a "house" dressing is offered, I usually take that, figuring they must really know how to make that one, then.
Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. I guess Chick-fil-a, which was the answer I just erased to replace with itself
Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A. Mmm, well, I guess Chi-Chis, but also, what'sit, that Buca di Beppo, family-style Italian place.
Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. 15%.
Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
A: Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Because when I packed a lunch I ate that every day for MONTHS ON END and didn't get sick of it.
Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. Pepperoni, hot peppers, regular peppers, and other things that contain the word "pepper."
Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A: Peanut butter and bananas
TECHNOLOGY
Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A: I had to close like seven windows to find out because I'd forgotten, but it's a screen of Pac Man that I found somewhere when I was making covers for 80s CDs. It looks really funny sitting motionless there on the monitor.
Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A: Two, though one isn't plugged in and it looks like Bethany's going to take it off our hands for awhile. At least until either Marty or Sean decide to claim it again.
BIOLOGY
Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. Right
Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. Several malformed teeth and some scary moles. And hair, usually violently.
Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. Probably earlier today. The thing is I haven't been to the dentist in about six years, and in that time went through a pregnancy (a process notorious for sucking the calcium out of ones body) so I probably have dozens but I haven't had any way to prove it.
Q. What is the last heavy item you lifted?
A. Sammy in his car seat chair. He's really too big for that thing.
Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. No, but I have almost passed out from injuries to other parts of my body.
BULLSHITTOLOGY
Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. No, I'd either be freaking out that there are still things I don't have done, or going stir-crazy because I finished everything I wanted to have done and now can't figure out what I can safely start new.
Q. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
A. Something that is just initials.
Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. You'll have to ask everyone else about that.
Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. Pretty sure I have.
Q. Have you ever saved someone's life?
A. Not that I know of. But I am a mom, though, so I might be doing so all the time.
Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Made it worth living. If I'd ever actually been on the brink of suicide, maybe, but I never actually was.
DAREOLOGY
Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. Yeah probably depending on how intense of a kiss. Well it would be depending on how intense of a kiss if it was someone of the opposite sex, too.
Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. No, but if it happened accidentally I'd gladly take the $200,000, thanks.
Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. Yeah, assuming email doesn't count.
Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. Who'd want me to? Besides Jason.
Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. How much time do I have?
Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. Nope.
DUMBOLOGY
Q: What is in your left pocket?
A: WHAT HAS IT GOT IN ITS POCKETS, PRECIOUS? I haven't got pockets at the moment. My wallet is in the left pocket of my jacket I believe.
Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A. I've never seen it, so I can't say.
Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A: Carpet.
Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: Stand. Even when I was pregnant, seriously, who sits when?
Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: I do in fact live with a roommate. And a housemate on top of that. And the housemate NEVER helps with the chores, let me tell you.
Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: I am aware of the location of one, and I seem to recall two others but I can't for the life of me figure out where they went.
Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: A few months ago when I was taking Sammy for a well-baby visit and apparently was speeding although I didn't realize it because it was a really short stretch of road; and it was a hot day and I had a baby so the cop felt sorry for me and let me get away with a warning.
Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: happy
Q: Who is number 1 on your top 8?
A: Assuming that refers to MySpace, I guess it's either Maggie or Angie
LASTOLOGY
Q: Friend you talked to?
A: Jason? If he doesn't count, then, uh... I have no clue.
Q: Last person who called you?
A: Maggie apparently, there's a message on the machine.
Q: Person you hugged?
A: Sammy, though he was being annoying and not stopping crying at the time.
FAVORITOLOGY
Q: Number?
A: 11
Q: Season?
A: Christmas
CURRENTOLOGY
Q: Missing someone?
A: No, but the "last friend talked to" question made me feel like a social loser who needs to spend less time on the computer and more time with real people.
Q: Mood?
A: tired and cranky because Sammy isn't sleeping well the past few days.
Q: Listening to?
A: the ticking of the clock and J playing playstation. I've been bad about putting music on lately. Sort of depressing.
Q: Watching?
A: My computer screen
Q: Worrying about?
A: If sammy will sleep for periods longer than two hours each tonight.
RANDOMOLOGY
Q: First place you went this morning?
A: Sammy's room
Q: What can you not wait to do?
A: I don't know. I guess that means I can wait.
Q: What's the last movie you saw?
A: Um, I think it was called "The Last Castle," and I don't know if it really counts because I just wandered in for the end of it. Before that, The Mummy, and I don't know if THAT really counts because I was only there for the FIRST half of it and anyway have seen it a billion times before. I can't think what's the last movie I saw the whole way through new. We've been watching TV shows from Netflix.
Q: Do you smile often?
A: Yes, probably too much
Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: Only in that I'm nice to people. But I'm not very outgoing.
1. What were you in your previous (hypothetical) lifetime?
a 19th century sailor
2. What would you like to be in your next (hypothetical) lifetime?
blue. Like, actually BE the color blue, as opposed to being COLORED blue.
3. What did you want to be when you grew up?
An award-winning author. Now I'll just settle for a published author. Actually my happiness would be improved by being a hobby author who actually gets her act together and writes something once in awhile.
4. Would you still do what you do for a living, if you didn't have to?
That would imply that I do something for a living right now. Oh that's right, I do have a job now. And it's the job I want if I have to make a living. But probably not otherwise. At least not right now in my life. I might volunteer in a library down the line, if I didn't need money.
5. What do you like to do when you get to choose?
That depends on how many options I actually have. Possibly curl up and read.
6. Which is more important to you, your career/job or your family/friends?
Family and friends. Witness how reluctant I am to get a job even in our poorness.
7. Do you believe in a god/gods, higher order, or a meaning of life?
All of the above. At once.
8. Which matters most, physical appearance or personality?
Personality unless you are hiring a model. To do modelling and nothing else.
9. Which is your next goal in life?
Finish the One Book Project before deadline, possibly.
10. What was the most memorable event during your childhood or adolescence?
The most memorable? In what way? I seem to remember my childhood and adolescence more strongly than the average person anyway. But possibly the week my sister died and I got chicken pox and watched Star Wars for the first time.
11. Did you like school?
Nathan pretty much had the exact same answer as me, but I went and erased it, so I guess I'll just have to say it in my own words. How annoyingly creative of me. Anyway, I liked school ITSELF, but I didn't like the social drama, nor did I like getting up to go to school, doing homework, and being forced not to daydream (or to Put That Book Away!) at boring moments. But I generally liked LEARNING, and showing off my braininess through tests and assignments (as long as they weren't homework. Or stupid). I recently decided that I'd probably be happiest as a student, rather than in any position where I have to be in charge.
12. Have you ever been bullied?
Yeah
13. Have you ever bullied anyone?
I think I occasionally attempted to when I was about five, but this generally met with extreme failure.
14. Do you like to have a lot of friends, or just a few really close ones?
Both and neither. I'm not concerned with the quantity, just that the people I like are my friends.
15. How many, if any, of your childhood friends are you still in touch with?
That depends on the definition of in touch as well as the definition of childhood. My first best friend apparently is on my emailing list for getting Sammy pictures, which I forgot, and she told her parents who told my dad who told me that she got them and they were cute and she can't believe how big he is, if that counts as "in-touch"! My NEXT oldest best friend is the only person I managed to email while in Missouri, but this is because we are exchanging baby clothes. Most of my childhood friends I know through my parents anyway so I'm not sure who's keeping in touch, us or them. But I am still in touch with the first best friend I ever made entirely on my own, who is Molly.
16. Are you still friends with your ex-lovers?
I haven't got any ex-lovers. I have a guy I used to date, whom I don't know what's up with currently, so I guess that counts as not being friends with. I'm still friends with my last Major Crush before that. I might theoretically still be friends with my high school crushes, too, if I ever saw them again, but I guess that also counts as a no.
17. Do you have children? If not, would you like to?
Yep, he's a swell dude. Except for this habit of waking up screaming an hour after he goes to bed that he's taken up in the past few days.
18. Did you ever torture insects when you were a child?
Not that I recall, especially as this might possibly involve TOUCHING an insect, and AGH! NEVER! I COULDN'T! IT WILL POISON ME BY OSMOSIS!
19. What kind of pet do you/would you like to have?
I like dogs best of all pet-type animals, but I wouldn't actually like to have one. I have enough to deal with with a husband and son.
20. What is the next big invention you would like to see realized?
"Green" products that are cheap.
21. Are you a morning or evening person?
Morning. I don't necessarily like GETTING up early in the morning, but I prefer BEING up then. I am tired and cranky in the evenings. I never last long. Just ask all my friends who attempt to socialize with me after eight. Even seven-thirty.
22. What is the most boring thing you know?
My high school geometry/trig teacher's voice.
23. What do you find most difficult to handle in others?
Intolerance of my geekish ways.
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[01] — Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] — Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] — Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.
[04] — Tag
1. Star Wars- "Initial research from 20th Century Fox using the title and a brief synopsis came back with the results that only males under 25 were interested in seeing the film. Fox then deliberately marketed the film with a view to attracting older and female cinemagoers by pushing images of humans (including Princess Leia) centerstage and referring to the film in more mythic tones, rather than science fiction."
2. Return of the King-"Shelob's shriek is actually the sound of a Tasmanian devil."
3. Almost Famous-"At the party, when he is on acid, Russell Hammond cries out, "I am a Golden God!" This is a reference to Robert Plant of the band Led Zeppelin, who is purported to have said the same thing (sober) while looking over Sunset Strip from a hotel balcony." It's that parenthetical statement that makes the whole thing.
4. The Muppet Movie-"Mel Brooks's character has "Prof" written on the back of his coat. This is a tribute to his character in Blazing Saddles (1974) which has "Gov" written on the back of his coat."
5. Back to the Future-"Michael J. Fox is only ten days younger than Lea Thompson, the actress who plays his mother, and is almost three years older than his on-screen dad, Crispin Glover."
And that's all the favorite movies I feel like looking up right now, or even thinking of without straining, so ask me again sometime when I feel less guilty for websurfing. Because when you're on imbd, you can spend all day websurfing.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MOUTHOLOGY
Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. interesting variations on Italian... or plain old Italian as a default. Though if a "house" dressing is offered, I usually take that, figuring they must really know how to make that one, then.
Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. I guess Chick-fil-a, which was the answer I just erased to replace with itself
Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A. Mmm, well, I guess Chi-Chis, but also, what'sit, that Buca di Beppo, family-style Italian place.
Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. 15%.
Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
A: Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Because when I packed a lunch I ate that every day for MONTHS ON END and didn't get sick of it.
Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. Pepperoni, hot peppers, regular peppers, and other things that contain the word "pepper."
Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A: Peanut butter and bananas
TECHNOLOGY
Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A: I had to close like seven windows to find out because I'd forgotten, but it's a screen of Pac Man that I found somewhere when I was making covers for 80s CDs. It looks really funny sitting motionless there on the monitor.
Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A: Two, though one isn't plugged in and it looks like Bethany's going to take it off our hands for awhile. At least until either Marty or Sean decide to claim it again.
BIOLOGY
Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. Right
Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. Several malformed teeth and some scary moles. And hair, usually violently.
Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. Probably earlier today. The thing is I haven't been to the dentist in about six years, and in that time went through a pregnancy (a process notorious for sucking the calcium out of ones body) so I probably have dozens but I haven't had any way to prove it.
Q. What is the last heavy item you lifted?
A. Sammy in his car seat chair. He's really too big for that thing.
Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. No, but I have almost passed out from injuries to other parts of my body.
BULLSHITTOLOGY
Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. No, I'd either be freaking out that there are still things I don't have done, or going stir-crazy because I finished everything I wanted to have done and now can't figure out what I can safely start new.
Q. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
A. Something that is just initials.
Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. You'll have to ask everyone else about that.
Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. Pretty sure I have.
Q. Have you ever saved someone's life?
A. Not that I know of. But I am a mom, though, so I might be doing so all the time.
Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Made it worth living. If I'd ever actually been on the brink of suicide, maybe, but I never actually was.
DAREOLOGY
Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. Yeah probably depending on how intense of a kiss. Well it would be depending on how intense of a kiss if it was someone of the opposite sex, too.
Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. No, but if it happened accidentally I'd gladly take the $200,000, thanks.
Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. Yeah, assuming email doesn't count.
Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. Who'd want me to? Besides Jason.
Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. How much time do I have?
Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. Nope.
DUMBOLOGY
Q: What is in your left pocket?
A: WHAT HAS IT GOT IN ITS POCKETS, PRECIOUS? I haven't got pockets at the moment. My wallet is in the left pocket of my jacket I believe.
Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A. I've never seen it, so I can't say.
Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A: Carpet.
Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: Stand. Even when I was pregnant, seriously, who sits when?
Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: I do in fact live with a roommate. And a housemate on top of that. And the housemate NEVER helps with the chores, let me tell you.
Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: I am aware of the location of one, and I seem to recall two others but I can't for the life of me figure out where they went.
Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: A few months ago when I was taking Sammy for a well-baby visit and apparently was speeding although I didn't realize it because it was a really short stretch of road; and it was a hot day and I had a baby so the cop felt sorry for me and let me get away with a warning.
Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: happy
Q: Who is number 1 on your top 8?
A: Assuming that refers to MySpace, I guess it's either Maggie or Angie
LASTOLOGY
Q: Friend you talked to?
A: Jason? If he doesn't count, then, uh... I have no clue.
Q: Last person who called you?
A: Maggie apparently, there's a message on the machine.
Q: Person you hugged?
A: Sammy, though he was being annoying and not stopping crying at the time.
FAVORITOLOGY
Q: Number?
A: 11
Q: Season?
A: Christmas
CURRENTOLOGY
Q: Missing someone?
A: No, but the "last friend talked to" question made me feel like a social loser who needs to spend less time on the computer and more time with real people.
Q: Mood?
A: tired and cranky because Sammy isn't sleeping well the past few days.
Q: Listening to?
A: the ticking of the clock and J playing playstation. I've been bad about putting music on lately. Sort of depressing.
Q: Watching?
A: My computer screen
Q: Worrying about?
A: If sammy will sleep for periods longer than two hours each tonight.
RANDOMOLOGY
Q: First place you went this morning?
A: Sammy's room
Q: What can you not wait to do?
A: I don't know. I guess that means I can wait.
Q: What's the last movie you saw?
A: Um, I think it was called "The Last Castle," and I don't know if it really counts because I just wandered in for the end of it. Before that, The Mummy, and I don't know if THAT really counts because I was only there for the FIRST half of it and anyway have seen it a billion times before. I can't think what's the last movie I saw the whole way through new. We've been watching TV shows from Netflix.
Q: Do you smile often?
A: Yes, probably too much
Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: Only in that I'm nice to people. But I'm not very outgoing.
