WHEE! I'm so glad this isn't the same list of questions I normally get; I was getting tired of "What's your favorite flavor of ice cream" and "Sprite or 7-up?" I must've answered that quizlet about a zillion times. Never did this one before, though. This should be fun! Lori, you're used to this by now; TsuKata and Bruce, prepare yourselfs to be shocked. *evil grin*
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Please do this and send it back.
This isn't as hard as it sounds. And it's great when you start to get people's answers back. Copy (not forward) this entire e-mail and paste it onto a new e-mail that you will send. Change all of the answers so that they apply to you. Then, send this to a whole bunch of people you know INCLUDING the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little known facts about your friends. It is fun and easy. REMEMBER TO SEND IT BACK TO THE PERSON WHO SENT IT TO YOU.
1. Living arrangement?
Well, I suppose that's the same as everyone else... I have a finite number of years to walk around this earth and try not to mess up too horrifically. Oh, you mean HOUSING arrangements? That would be a comfy two-bedroom condo in a quiet suburb of Chicago, decorated in the New Millenium Cluttered(tm) look.
2. What book are you reading now?
Well, right now I'm not actually reading a book since I'm typing merrily away on the computer. But I just finished reading Kay Hooper's Touching Evil and will likely read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire next, unless I decide to read an Anita Blake novel. I never know what I'm going to read from day to day. Sometimes I start a book only to put it down and start reading something else. I really really REALLY would love to read a Buffy script that was written by Joss Whedon, but a new script book hasn't come out yet and I've already read all the ones online.
3. What's on your mouse pad?
I don't use one as it is normally lost underneath the New Millenium Clutter on my desk. But it's an Amazon.com mousepad with that Groucho Marx quote: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." I love that quote.
4. Favorite board game?
Well, if you count bulletin boards, then it is MAFIA! I haven't actually played it, but I've been really addicted to reading the MAFIA! games going on at Hatrack. I may just have to play one of these days. For my favorite traditional board game I'd have to say Acquire since the last time I played I BEAT RYAN! WOOHOO!
5. Favorite magazine?
Cosmo for the articles on sex. *GRIN* Hey, it's the closest I get to sex these days. Though I also like Discover, which strangely enough, has also featured articles on sex. Actually, couldn't Discover be considered as sex for the mind as it has all these REALLY INTERESTING AND PLEASING TO READ articles in it? And an issue never lasts as long as I would like. (What, you didn't think an innocent little thing like me would admit she reads Cosmo for the articles on sex? You thought someone like me wouldn't talk about sex so openly? Well I do, you know. SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX. So there.)
6a. Babies?
Just my inner child, who is a big crybaby and a brat and causes all sorts of problems in my life. I think my inner child needs a spanking (which sounds very kinky coming after the above answer).
6b. Least favorite smell?
Dead fish and vomit. Nothing funny about unfavorite smells, sorry.
(update 032902: just noticed that the previous two questions are actually a two-part question. Are they implying that babies smell bad?)
7. Favorite sound?
When I was a kid my favorite sound was the washing machine! I used to make a little bed out of pillows and chairs and lay there listening to the spin cycle... lub-lub-lub... and the water gushing into the tub... ahh, heaven. Nowadays I love any watery sound. Rain, thunderstorms, rivers, waterfalls, showers... I love it all.
8a. Worst feeling in the world:
When you're so caught up in depression and insanity that you feel like nobody in the world loves you, that you're all alone, that life has no meaning and you'd be better off dead and you're terrified that you're even having suicidal thoughts and you collapse on the floor in great heaving sobs, wishing someone would call at that moment or that your neighbors would hear you and come to check up on you... but they don't.
8b. Best feeling in the world:
That moment on the phone when you're talking to your best friend and one of you says something that would not normally be considered funny but it strikes you both as being really hilarious and you laugh and laugh and laugh and you realize how lucky you are to have a friend who understands you so well and accepts all your faults, especially your inappropiate laughter at something that would not normally be funny at all.
9. What is the first thing that you think of when you wake up in the morning?
"DON'T WARN THE TADPOLES!" Okay, no, not really, but that's a Buffy quote and I just HAVE to sneak Buffy quotes in whenever I can 'cuz I love them so much. Truthfully, what I think about when I first wake up is whatever dream I'm having, which usually involves a shopping center or a hotel or a bathroom or driving down the expressway or (unfortunately, very very infrequently) some hot guy. Once I become awake enough to realize I'm awake then usually my first thought is "Do I HAFTA get up? I'd much rather lay here and dream about driving down the expressway on my way to the shopping mall to pick up some bath oils to use in the bathroom of the hotel with the hot guy I'm currently dreaming about." This explains why I am late to work so often.
10. Favorite color?
Well, I was gonna take the cheap way out and say red because I look good in it. But truthfully, it's the brilliant blue of the cloudless fall sky when you've just stepped out of the house to take a walk to clear your head 'cause your life is so crappy. Something about that brilliant blue is just so calming.
11. How many rings before you answer the phone?
Three, usually, because I have to trip over all the New Millenium Clutter(tm) on the floor and find the phone buried under the New Millenium Clutter(tm) on the couch before I can answer it.
12. Future child's name?
This is assuming I HAVE children, and I'm not too sure I want kids. But if I did have a kid, I'd name her Ananda, from Madeleine L'Engle's "A Swiftly Twilting Planet", which I MUST reread. It's Sanskrit and means "that joy of living without with the universe would fall apart and collapse." On second, thought, that's way too much of a burden for any kid and I'm not sure she'd appreciate being named after a fictional dog, so I'll probably just name her something boring like Sue (and then she could be teased for being named after the T. Rex at the Field Museum. You just can't win with naming kids.)
13. What's most important in life?
DYING WITH THE MOST TOYS! No, seriously... what's most important in life is living it. Ain't that profound? *grin*
14. Favorite foods?
An honest-to-goodness REAL Rainbow ice cream cone that's eaten on a warm summer night while sitting on the park benches with your family, kicking the stones in the parking lot at your sisters' feet.
15. Chocolate or vanilla?
DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! This quiz DID have the ice cream question in it! WHY in God's name do quizmakers insist on including this question? Can't they be more ORIGINAL? Geesh! Okay, fine, I'll answer your stupid question. Choconilla. And all my complaining in this question sounds really cheesy given my answer to the previous question, but I wrote this answer long before I wrote the previous question's answer and I don't feel like changing either answer so you're stuck with it.
16. Do you like to drive fast?
Hell yeah... 'cuz I'm a wild one, baby (am I scaring you yet?)
17. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
For many years I did. I slept with my favorite koala bear. Yes, I did not have teddy bears as a kid; I had koalas. This is likely why I have fantasies of living in the Outback with a hot Australian stud. They have the best accents I think (the hot Australian studs, not the Koala bears.)
18. Storms -- cool or scary?
Both. I've been in too many bad bad storms NOT to be scared of them. But I think that's why they're so cool. A storm has passion to it. It's so ALIVE that even though it might hurt you, it still feels very, very good. Storms rule.
19. What type was your first car?
That I drove? Oh geez... I think it was the Citation (which is a very very stupid name, now that I think of it). I had a love/hate relationship with a Ford Tempo and a Caprice Classic, but they have since left me for new partners (THANK GOD). I now am happily involved with a Saturn SL2, but I fear that relationship is coming to an end as well.
20. If you could meet one person dead or alive, who would it be?
The alive one, definitely. Because the dead one would likely smell bad and be all icky looking and might try to eat me, which would NOT be fun. Okay, seriously, the one person I would like to meet is Joss Whedon (who, coincidentally enough, is also alive). More on Joss below.
21. Favorite alcoholic drink?
The white russian that Marty cajoled me into drinking at the dance club we go to sometimes after work right after he told me he was also a writer and that marriage wasn't what he thought it would be. I am so glad he no longer works here as he was awfully nice to crush on and way way way too tempting.
22. What is your Zodiac sign?
Oh, what a boring question. How else can I answer it besides just saying my sign? I'm a Virgo. The name fits me I think, but I'm not really too similar to the standard Virgo. You wanna know me? Read the description of the INFP personality type on the MBTI or the Kersey Temperment sorter. THAT'S me.
23. Do you eat the stems of broccoli?
Sometimes, not always. Can't explain why. Move along, move along, nothing funny here as well. This was a stupid question.
24. If you could have any job you wanted, what would it be?
Personal slave to Joss Whedon so I can acquire all his writing talents through osmosis. But I'm much much MUCH too bashful for that kind of job as I'd probably faint on the spot if I ever met him, so I will have to say writing a TV criticism column so I can say all these wonderful things about Joss Whedon and not have my friends tease me about it.
25. If you dyed your hair, what color would you choose?
Currently it's got strawberry blond highlights. I think my inner self is a raging redhead, but my outer self is definitely a mousy brown. Strawberry blond highlights seem to be a good balance between the two.
26. Ever been in love?
Oh God, I hope not, because if it WAS love then love really sucks.
27. Is the glass half empty or half full?
There is no glass. (TsuKata already said my favorite answer to this question, which is "The glass is too big", which leaves me with a lame Matrix joke. Ah well, such is life).
28. Favorite movies:
DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! Another question that HAS to appear on every quizzical. *sigh* FINE. Here we goooooooo! Star Wars, because it was the first movie I really really loved, and I can't stop loving it even if in my old age I've come to believe it's kind of cheesy. Goonies, 'cause I can recite the first twenty minutes and have lots of fond memories of watching it with my sisters, the younger of which had a crush on Sean Astin who is in the Lord of the Rings movies and OH MY GOD I'm excited to see them! The Princess Bride because it's so quotable and unique. The Matrix because it's so... so... COOL. The Lion King, which I loved long before it hit the theaters.
29. Do you type with your fingers on the right keys?
No... you gotta a problem with that? I mean, does it really matter HOW I type as long as I effectively communicate with others?
30. What's under your bed?
More New Millenium Clutter(tm). It's pretty much taken over the whole house.
31. What's your favorite number?
Twenty-three. I used to have a crush on Robin Ventura back when he played for the White Sox... him of the holey sweatshirt... Around this time Michael Jordan was racking up championships with the Bulls, and he wore twenty-three as well! So it became my favorite number. Besides, it rolls off the tongue nicely.
32. Favorite sports to watch?
I don't do sports anymore. I used to be really into golf, but not so much anymore. Ditto basketball and hockey. Never really liked watching baseball on TV, even when I was crushing on Robin Ventura.
33. Say one nice thing about the person who sent this to you:
She's a damned good road rallye partner with a wicked sense of humor.
34. Person you sent this to who is most likely to respond?
ME! Cause you know I *LOVE* to talk to myself. Okay, actually I'd say Lori because she's answered these before and thus would be likely to answer one again.
35. Person you sent this to who is least likely to respond?
Well, I only sent this to three people, one of which was the person who sent it to me, a second who is mentioned in the above question, which leaves Bruce as the default answer to this one. Sorry Bruce.
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