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M&L: Surveys and sillies and memes, oh my!
May. 9th, 2005 10:08 pmLook for meatier content later in the week.
very cool questionnaire from![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
firecat
1) My uncle: and my father (fraternal twins) spent so much time looking at each other in the crib that they developed serious vision problems.
2) Never in my life: In my life? That was so long ago, how can you expect me to remember?
3) When I was five: I already carried a burden I couldn’t lay down.
4) High School was: A. thirty years ago, B. not as bad as it could have been, C. insufficiently academically challenging, D. all of the above.
5) I will never forget: too many things. Unfortunately, rarely do I remember some useful things. (Where were those keys again? How about my glasses?)
6) I once met: Kathy Acker, author of Blood and Guts in High School.
7) There’s this girl I know who: only seems to value what she can’t do, and doesn’t value what she can. (In fact, I know a few of you.[Oh hell. It’s quite a few of us, isn’t it?])
8) Once, at a bar: I swapped war stories with a friend. He was living on the street, last I heard—another Vietnam vet wrecked by PTSD. And given that my last contact with him was 20 years ago, he’s probably dead now. (Sorry this is not an upbeat story, but I don’t often go to bars.)
9) By noon I’m usually: eating lunch these days
10) Last night: I dreamed about throwing my ex-husband out of my hotel room
11) If I only had: A. world enough and time, B. known then what I know now, or C. a brain, preferably functional.
12) Next time I go to church, I: will take Communion with gratitude
13) Terry Schiavo: needed something she didn’t get and looked for it in the numbers on her bathroom scale
14) What worries me most: the fear of wasting my life
15) When I turn my head left, I see: random magnetic poetry about coffee and copywriting
16) When I turn my head right, I see: a telephone, a three-inch-thick binder of documents I have to rewrite, and an assortment of buttons, including the one from Computerworld I’ve had over my desk since 1983: Garbage in, gospel out.
17) You know I’m lying when: Good question. I don’t need to lie much these days. “Liberty is the right not to lie,” as Camus said.
18) What I miss most about the eighties: Not much, really. Although I loved the apartment I had in 1984. Lots of built-in bookcases, purple walls, knotty-pine kitchen.
19) If I was a character written by Shakespeare, I’d be: Sir John Falstaff, or possibly one of the Merry Wives of Windsor. The one Shakespearean character I’ve played was the title character in the Scottish play (yes, I have that superstition). We did a reading of it in my senior-year English class. I’m also particularly fond of Richard II, who was a lousy king but quite eloquent.
20) By this time next year: I plan to have finished the first draft of the New England book.
21) This entry is missing because: we all deserve not to be questioned about that night at the Chinese restaurant.
22) I have a hard time understanding: that night at the Chinese restaurant, certain kinds of spoken instructions, what Jessica Simpson is famous for
23) If I ever go back to school I’ll: be teaching, unless I’m studying for a psych degree
24) You know I like you if: I say so. (There are often other clues, but that's one you can count on.) Sensible answer swiped fromfirecat
25) If I won an award, the first person I’d thank would be: my partners, my family, Johann Sebastian Bach
26) Darwin, Mozart, Slim Pickens, & Geraldine Ferraro: are a hot new barbershop quartet at Callahan’s Cross-Time Saloon
27) Take my advice, never: ski on a banana. Or a banana slug.
28) My ideal breakfast is: served several hours after I wake up.
29) A song I love, but do not have is: Joan Jett, "I Love Rock and Roll." Plus lots of old Baptist hymns.
30) If you visit my hometown, I'd suggest: that you’re probably lost. If you’re looking for the Mormon monument on Rte 171, you got off 81 too early or too late, depending on which way you were headed. Oh, and do get an ice cream cone at the Penn Can Dairy Bar, just off 81 on Rte. 92.
31) Tulips, character flaws, microchips, and track stars: can all cause devastating crashes, financial or otherwise.
32) Why won't anyone: tell me why
33) If you spend the night at my house, don't: be surprised if a cat joins you in bed.
34) I'd stop mywedding marriage for: years of destructive interaction and no way to end or change them.
35) The world could do without: child abusers
36) I'd rather lick the belly of a cockroach than: its ass.
37) My favorite blonde is: Any of my niblings.
38) Paperclips are more useful than: soggy paper plates
39) If I do anything well it's: baking bread
40) And by the way: I know some other excellent bakers
41) The last time I was drunk, I: was several decades younger.
( cut because even I don't care what office supply I am; you certainly can't be expected to )
very cool questionnaire from
firecat1) My uncle: and my father (fraternal twins) spent so much time looking at each other in the crib that they developed serious vision problems.
2) Never in my life: In my life? That was so long ago, how can you expect me to remember?
3) When I was five: I already carried a burden I couldn’t lay down.
4) High School was: A. thirty years ago, B. not as bad as it could have been, C. insufficiently academically challenging, D. all of the above.
5) I will never forget: too many things. Unfortunately, rarely do I remember some useful things. (Where were those keys again? How about my glasses?)
6) I once met: Kathy Acker, author of Blood and Guts in High School.
7) There’s this girl I know who: only seems to value what she can’t do, and doesn’t value what she can. (In fact, I know a few of you.[Oh hell. It’s quite a few of us, isn’t it?])
8) Once, at a bar: I swapped war stories with a friend. He was living on the street, last I heard—another Vietnam vet wrecked by PTSD. And given that my last contact with him was 20 years ago, he’s probably dead now. (Sorry this is not an upbeat story, but I don’t often go to bars.)
9) By noon I’m usually: eating lunch these days
10) Last night: I dreamed about throwing my ex-husband out of my hotel room
11) If I only had: A. world enough and time, B. known then what I know now, or C. a brain, preferably functional.
12) Next time I go to church, I: will take Communion with gratitude
13) Terry Schiavo: needed something she didn’t get and looked for it in the numbers on her bathroom scale
14) What worries me most: the fear of wasting my life
15) When I turn my head left, I see: random magnetic poetry about coffee and copywriting
16) When I turn my head right, I see: a telephone, a three-inch-thick binder of documents I have to rewrite, and an assortment of buttons, including the one from Computerworld I’ve had over my desk since 1983: Garbage in, gospel out.
17) You know I’m lying when: Good question. I don’t need to lie much these days. “Liberty is the right not to lie,” as Camus said.
18) What I miss most about the eighties: Not much, really. Although I loved the apartment I had in 1984. Lots of built-in bookcases, purple walls, knotty-pine kitchen.
19) If I was a character written by Shakespeare, I’d be: Sir John Falstaff, or possibly one of the Merry Wives of Windsor. The one Shakespearean character I’ve played was the title character in the Scottish play (yes, I have that superstition). We did a reading of it in my senior-year English class. I’m also particularly fond of Richard II, who was a lousy king but quite eloquent.
20) By this time next year: I plan to have finished the first draft of the New England book.
21) This entry is missing because: we all deserve not to be questioned about that night at the Chinese restaurant.
22) I have a hard time understanding: that night at the Chinese restaurant, certain kinds of spoken instructions, what Jessica Simpson is famous for
23) If I ever go back to school I’ll: be teaching, unless I’m studying for a psych degree
24) You know I like you if: I say so. (There are often other clues, but that's one you can count on.) Sensible answer swiped from
firecat25) If I won an award, the first person I’d thank would be: my partners, my family, Johann Sebastian Bach
26) Darwin, Mozart, Slim Pickens, & Geraldine Ferraro: are a hot new barbershop quartet at Callahan’s Cross-Time Saloon
27) Take my advice, never: ski on a banana. Or a banana slug.
28) My ideal breakfast is: served several hours after I wake up.
29) A song I love, but do not have is: Joan Jett, "I Love Rock and Roll." Plus lots of old Baptist hymns.
30) If you visit my hometown, I'd suggest: that you’re probably lost. If you’re looking for the Mormon monument on Rte 171, you got off 81 too early or too late, depending on which way you were headed. Oh, and do get an ice cream cone at the Penn Can Dairy Bar, just off 81 on Rte. 92.
31) Tulips, character flaws, microchips, and track stars: can all cause devastating crashes, financial or otherwise.
32) Why won't anyone: tell me why
33) If you spend the night at my house, don't: be surprised if a cat joins you in bed.
34) I'd stop my
35) The world could do without: child abusers
36) I'd rather lick the belly of a cockroach than: its ass.
37) My favorite blonde is: Any of my niblings.
38) Paperclips are more useful than: soggy paper plates
39) If I do anything well it's: baking bread
40) And by the way: I know some other excellent bakers
41) The last time I was drunk, I: was several decades younger.
( cut because even I don't care what office supply I am; you certainly can't be expected to )