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And another of those long, 100 question surveys, stolen fromtadiera.
1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?
I'm not sure if it counts as a scar, but the tip of my right middle finger has the tip of a pencil lodged in just under the skin (right on the seam on the inner finger where the joint is). I've mentioned it before. It's visible, but I don't feel a thing when I try to touch it.
I got it playing D&D at the house of a friend of my brother's. I was reaching for some dice in the couch cushions, and accidentally jabbed myself with a pencil that was lurking in wait. I don't think I mentioned it to anybody, but it didn't get infected or anything and so I just have this nifty little reminder.
2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?
Paint. A D&D poster with a big red dragon I Thought was cool. A cloth wall hanging of a big lion head. A weird collection of colored glass balls strung together in a string-netlike thing. An X2 poster. Ducttape (mostly holding up a big extension cord that runs over the door). That's it (I'm not counting things on the doors as being 'on the walls', so you'll just have to wonder what's on the doors.
3. WHAT DOES YOUR CELL PHONE LOOK LIKE?
Ask the other quiz.
4. WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LIKE TO LISTEN TO?
I don't listen to music, other than whatever's incidental, like on commercials, tv theme songs, etc.
5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN?
The late 70s.
6. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW?
Powers beyond those of mortal men.
7. WHAT DO YOU MISS?
High school. Not so much for itself, but for the whole 'enforced community' thing, with people you have to regularly interact with, groups of regular friends and people you encounter regularly not being friends and the chance that that sort of thing can change. Since leaving high school my nonline life's been pretty stagnant, I barely interact with people outside of my family. (University isn't quite the same thing what with so much of it being solitary unless you make a specific effort for it to be otherwise, which I'm not good at)
8. WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION?
I don't really prize possessions. I guess either my computer, because it connects me to the world, or my books, because they let me escape from it.
9. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SMELL?
Good food that's going to be eaten by me. Not good food that is going to someone else, that smell sucks.
10. DO YOU GET CLAUSTROPHOBIC?
I don't think so. Granted, I haven't actually tried being in a confined place for very long, but it doesn't sound like me. My room's pretty cramped and I'm fine with it. I think if I had to, I could hide in a confined place for an extended period of time while ninjas ransack the area looking for me.
11. DO YOU GET SCARED IN THE DARK?
No. The dark is like a warm blanket.
12. ARE YOU SCARED OF BUGS?
Not scared so much (although I have an instinctive 'gaaaah' reaction if one's actually on me). I don't like them generally, except Spiders, which are just cool.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOGNE / PERFUME?
I'm not terribly big on them.
14. WHAT KIND OF HAIR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Longish. Doesn't have to be super-long, but I'm not a big fan of the super-short boyish cut either. As to color, generally brown or black is very good - some people can pull off red excellently, but some just can't. Blondes aren't terribly impressive. Very few women I've known who had blonde hair and then had darker hair did not look at least 5 times better with the darker hair, and many people who stick with blonde hair I'd imagine looking better if I imagine them with dark hair.
Not that blonde hair's bad, but it's just too... I don't know.
15. WHERE CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF BEING PROPOSED TO AT?
I don't see myself being proposed to. I don't see myself proposing either, but I'd imagine somewhere outdoors with natural beauty, maybe starlight, if I was going to.
I could see myself being propositioned in one of the seedier areas of town, but even that I've not experienced so far.
16. COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINKS?
Neither.
17. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING?
I don't consider cheese or pepperoni or such to be a pizza topping. If it doesn't have those things, it's not a pizza.
No, shut up. It's not. I'm sorry. It's pizza-like. Pizza-esque. But it is not pizza.
Anyway, narrowing the list down to those ingredients that you can put on top of the basic 'pizza'... I don't know. They're all so good. Maybe onions or mushrooms though.
18. IF YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Gyros with onion rings.
19. WHO IS THE LAST PERSON YOU MADE MAD?
I don't know. Probably someone online and I wasn't even aware of it. If it was you, give me hell!
20. DO YOU SPEAK A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE?
Different from what?
21. WHAT WAS THE FIRST GIFT SOMEONE EVER GAVE YOU (OF THE OPPOSITE SEX)?
Discounting technical ones (where relatives or non-romantic acquaintences gave me a gift for whatever reason), I don't think I can recall any.
22. DEFINE LOVE IN YOUR OWN WORDS?
No. I'm going to use someone else's words, but they do it better than I can. "Love is the condition in which someone else's happiness is essential to your own" (Robert A. Heinlein).
23. DO YOU BELIEVE IN SOUL MATES?
Yes, but not in an 'eternal we were meant together from the dawn of time' way. Partly because I don't believe in 'souls' except as an abstraction. Soulmating is a continuous process and has to be worked at.
24. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO GET OVER SOMEONE?
I'd say two months if it's a more or less total cut off of contact. It extends if I'm still in regular contact.
For varying definitions of 'get over' that is... I still idly think about people I had crushes on from many years back. Mostly in a wistful nostalgia sense.
25. GIVEN THE CHOICE, IS THERE ANYONE WHO YOU ONCE LOVED THAT YOU WOULD NOW
PREFER TO WIPE COMPLETELY OUT OF ALL YOUR MEMORIES (A LA THAT JIM CARREY MOVIE)?
Can't say as there is.
26. COULD YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE WITH COMPLETELY DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS?
I think so, but there are some combinations that obviously won't work out too well (a satan worshipper and a fundamentalist Christian).
27. DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE TO MEET A PERSON IN PERSON TO LOVE THEM (ROMANTICALLY)?
Not strictly, but it's a different style of romantic love, and I do believe that if you fall in love with someone before meeting then, and then meet them, it can change the whole dynamic and sour both. I don't think it makes the pre-meeting love 'not love at all', it's just that the styles don't always work out.
Again, strictly speaking, I don't think the 'other person' has to be of the preferred sex, or even human (assuming aliens or artificial intelligences were out there... they have to be intelligent enough to carry on a meaningful conversation), but again, it might not work at all as an 'in person' thing, and not everyone is flexible enough for it, and, of course, if deception is involved, that can ruin the whole thing from the getgo.
28. WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE KNOWING THAT THE PERSON IS LEAVING?
Liketadiera said, I don't think you can really control
falling in love. Well, not completely anyway... I do think with
concerted effort you can try to stop yourself, but it's not guaranteed
and isn't something you can just say 'not gonna do it' and don't.
That said, I'd probably try to stop myself, unless I knew the other person felt the same way, in which case I might let it happen and who knows, maybe
something would change.
29. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO TELL SOMEONE HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU?
Well my usual method is not mention it and let them assume whatever they want. Although I admit it's not really the best of ways. So I'd go with words.
30. SAY A NUMBER FROM ONE TO A HUNDRED:
tadiera pre-empted my flip answer, so I'll just go with: 6.
31. BLONDES OR BRUNETTES?
See question #14.
32. WHAT IS THE ONE NUMBER YOU CALL OFTEN?
You know... I don't think I've dialed a single phone number in at least 3 months. Maybe my grandmother at some point before that.
33. WHAT ANNOYS YOU MOST?
Intolerance towards groups based on irrational prejudices.
34. HAVE YOU BEEN OUT OF THE U.S.?
Yeah. In fact, I'm mostly out of the US. I have been to the US, and then left again, but mostly I'm just not there at all. But I've also gone to Europe.
35. YOUR WEAKNESSES?
Too many to really go into there. Those who know me know most of them.
36. IF MONEY WAS NOT AN ISSUE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE?
Take a few university classes every year to keep me busy, hang out online and generally do what I'm doing now. Maybe some travelling.
37. FIRST JOB?
The one I'm at now, actually.
38. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL?
Yeah, when I was little. Giggled too much.
39. WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE YOU FILLED OUT THIS SURVEY?
The general reading websites, refreshing, and chatting on XET thing I usually do.
40. IF YOU COULD GET PLASTIC SURGERY WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Complete face transplant. And pointed ears. Elf-like, not spock-like. Just because.
Really, not too much. I'm not too fond of my nose, maybe that could be tweaked a bit.
41. WHY DID YOU FILL OUT THIS SURVEY?
Boredom, and can't resist a new survey.
42. WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT MOST?
Can't think of anything. But then I tend to slough off compliments anyway.
43. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF ALCOHOL BECAME ILLEGAL?
Make money selling alcohol illegally. I don't drink, so it actually wouldn't bother me personally, but hey, if bootlegging is good enough to make gangsters rich, it's good enough for me!
44. WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY?
Whatever. Money.
45. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT?
I don't expect to have any.
46. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
My first name was after a saint, as is tradition for my general family line. My first middle name (which was almost my first name before tradition won out at the last minute) was after a certain Star Trek captain. My other middle name was after my paternal grandfather.
47. DO YOU WISH ON STARS?
No, but I wish about them.
48. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE FINGER?
My opposable thumb. Shut up. Yes it is a finger. It fings with the best of them. And it is what separates me from the monkey armies, therefore it is my favorite.
49. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY?
When the monkey armies captured me and tortured me. Luckily, their non-opposable thumbs were unable to lock the cage properly and I was able to escape. Go opposable thumbs!
Seriously though, I can't recall.
50. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
It could be more legibile. But I don't really think about it much.
51. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Goes back and forth. Right now, corned beef. But only good corned beef.
52. ANY BAD HABITS?
Yep.
53. WHAT IS YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING CD ON THE SHELF?
I don't have any CDs on any shelves.
54. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
Depends on what kind of other person I am. Probably not, though, I'm too hard to get to know. Maybe an online friend.
55. IF YOU FOUND OUT YOU HAD AN EXACT DOUBLE, BOTH IN LOOKS AND PERSONALITY, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
If I ever found anyone too much like me, I think I'd have to kill them, if for no other reason than that if they were that much like me, they'd be trying to kill me back first.
56. DO LOOKS MATTER?
Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes not.
57. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER?
I just try not to let it build up.
58. WHERE IS YOUR SECOND HOME?
I guess, if I had any, it'd be my Grandmother's house. I lived there for a number of years, so it's one of the few places that if I'm there, I feel comfortable just wandering around (not going into any private rooms or anything, but like the basement, the backyard, etc).
59. DO YOU TRUST OTHERS EASILY?
To a point.
60. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?
The computer.
61. FAVORITE BOARD GAME?
I can't remember the title of it (Dungeon maybe?), but there was one that was sort of like a D&D style RPG, except it was all a board game, with cards, etc. That was kind of cool.
Oh, and Fireball Island. That was nifty - I added my own caves, and then when I got board with that I turned it upside down and drew squares on the other side and turned it into a whole game 'escape from the ice valley of doom'.
62. FAVORITE WORD?
Quixotic.
63. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
Never.
64. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A MOSH PIT?
Yes. But it was a bad experience. It involved the monkey armies. I don't want to talk about it.
65. WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL?
Connection.
66. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES?
6. 6ie. Sothy (rarely anymore). Hyp. Hercules (by one person I work with).
67. IF YOU WERE TRAPPED ON A DESERTED ISLAND, WHAT THREE BOOKS, MOVIES, AND CDS WOULD YOU BRING?
Books: The SAS Survival Handbook, The Stand, Ender's Game.
Might have chosen 'Jumper', but I think if I was trapped on a deserted island, I'd get depressed reading about a person who could teleport anywhere they want.
Movies: The Princess Bride, LotR (I'm counting it all as one big movie because I'm not taking any CDs. If you don't like it, screw you), Serenity.
CDs: None.
68. DO YOU UN-TIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Nope.
69. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
It depends. Right now I'm kinda grooving on some no name granola type. But I like different kinds. And sweet cereals are always good.
70. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?
Generally, for regular purposes, Mint chocolate chip. But if I've had it recently I'll usually prefer something else.
71. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SONG?
Not sure I have one. Maybe 'Imagine', just for the lyrics.
72. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE COLORS?
Black, grey.
73. HOW MANY WISDOM TEETH DO YOU HAVE?
I think I have two.
74. WHO/WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST RIGHT NOW?
You already asked this.
75. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
Yes. Everyone. In the whole damn world.
76. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
The end of The Price is Right
77. LAST THING YOU ATE?
English muffin with butter and raspberry jam.
78. LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
My dad, I think.
79. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX?
As I've answered many times before, the general fact that they are the opposite sex.
80. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
A military base in British Columbia.
81. SCARIEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?
Can't think of one off-hand.
82. FAVORITE DRINK?
Water.
83. FAVORITE JOKE?
Can't say I have a favorite joke. So I'll just post the last joke I remember finding and giving:
A guy joins a monastery and takes a vow of silence: He's allowed to say two words every seven years. After the first seven years, the elders bring him in and ask for his two words. "Cold floors," he says. They nod and send him away. Seven more years pass. They bring him back in and ask for his two words. He clears his throat and says, "Bad food." They nod and send him away. Seven more years pass. They bring him in for his two words. "I quit," he says. "That's not surprising," the elders say. "You've done nothing but complain since you got here."
84. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SPORT?
I'm not a big sportsman. The only sport I recall playing and enjoying was soccer.
85. HAIR COLOR?
Brownish.
86. EYE COLOR?
Brown.
87. DO YOU WEAR GLASSES?
No. Probably should.
88. SIBLINGS?
One real, 4 step.
89. FAVORITE MONTH?
March, cause my half-birthday's in March, and it's usually between being too cold and too warm.
90. YOU LIKE SUSHI?
Not really.
91. LAST THING YOU WATCHED?
Price is Right. Well, really I didn't 'watch' it so much as 'have the TV on while it was on'. I think the last thing I 'watched' was Grey's Anatomy.
92. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR?
Daylight Savings Time day. The 'fall back' one, with the extra hour of sleep.
93. ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK SOMEONE OUT?
Absolutely.
94. SUMMER OR WINTER?
Spring. Summer and Winter are about equal in pain. If I have good air conditioning, Summer.
95. KISSES OR HUGS?
Shrug?
96. RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE-NIGHT STANDS
Relationship.
97. WHO DO YOU SECRETLY LOVE?
It wouldn't be a secret if I answered this question.
98. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU MACKED IT WITH IN THE PAST YEAR?
I don't believe I've 'macked it' with anybody.
No, once again, I don't want to talk about my time as a prisoner of the monkey army. Shut up.
99. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING?
Right now, Mirror Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold (a Miles Vorkosigan adventure)
100. WHERE DO YOU WORK?
Tim Horton's, unloading a delivery truck.
Oh, in other news, I finally broke down and got AIM.
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And another of those long, 100 question surveys, stolen from
tadiera.1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?
I'm not sure if it counts as a scar, but the tip of my right middle finger has the tip of a pencil lodged in just under the skin (right on the seam on the inner finger where the joint is). I've mentioned it before. It's visible, but I don't feel a thing when I try to touch it.
I got it playing D&D at the house of a friend of my brother's. I was reaching for some dice in the couch cushions, and accidentally jabbed myself with a pencil that was lurking in wait. I don't think I mentioned it to anybody, but it didn't get infected or anything and so I just have this nifty little reminder.
2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?
Paint. A D&D poster with a big red dragon I Thought was cool. A cloth wall hanging of a big lion head. A weird collection of colored glass balls strung together in a string-netlike thing. An X2 poster. Ducttape (mostly holding up a big extension cord that runs over the door). That's it (I'm not counting things on the doors as being 'on the walls', so you'll just have to wonder what's on the doors.
3. WHAT DOES YOUR CELL PHONE LOOK LIKE?
Ask the other quiz.
4. WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LIKE TO LISTEN TO?
I don't listen to music, other than whatever's incidental, like on commercials, tv theme songs, etc.
5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN?
The late 70s.
6. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW?
Powers beyond those of mortal men.
7. WHAT DO YOU MISS?
High school. Not so much for itself, but for the whole 'enforced community' thing, with people you have to regularly interact with, groups of regular friends and people you encounter regularly not being friends and the chance that that sort of thing can change. Since leaving high school my nonline life's been pretty stagnant, I barely interact with people outside of my family. (University isn't quite the same thing what with so much of it being solitary unless you make a specific effort for it to be otherwise, which I'm not good at)
8. WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION?
I don't really prize possessions. I guess either my computer, because it connects me to the world, or my books, because they let me escape from it.
9. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SMELL?
Good food that's going to be eaten by me. Not good food that is going to someone else, that smell sucks.
10. DO YOU GET CLAUSTROPHOBIC?
I don't think so. Granted, I haven't actually tried being in a confined place for very long, but it doesn't sound like me. My room's pretty cramped and I'm fine with it. I think if I had to, I could hide in a confined place for an extended period of time while ninjas ransack the area looking for me.
11. DO YOU GET SCARED IN THE DARK?
No. The dark is like a warm blanket.
12. ARE YOU SCARED OF BUGS?
Not scared so much (although I have an instinctive 'gaaaah' reaction if one's actually on me). I don't like them generally, except Spiders, which are just cool.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOGNE / PERFUME?
I'm not terribly big on them.
14. WHAT KIND OF HAIR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Longish. Doesn't have to be super-long, but I'm not a big fan of the super-short boyish cut either. As to color, generally brown or black is very good - some people can pull off red excellently, but some just can't. Blondes aren't terribly impressive. Very few women I've known who had blonde hair and then had darker hair did not look at least 5 times better with the darker hair, and many people who stick with blonde hair I'd imagine looking better if I imagine them with dark hair.
Not that blonde hair's bad, but it's just too... I don't know.
15. WHERE CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF BEING PROPOSED TO AT?
I don't see myself being proposed to. I don't see myself proposing either, but I'd imagine somewhere outdoors with natural beauty, maybe starlight, if I was going to.
I could see myself being propositioned in one of the seedier areas of town, but even that I've not experienced so far.
16. COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINKS?
Neither.
17. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING?
I don't consider cheese or pepperoni or such to be a pizza topping. If it doesn't have those things, it's not a pizza.
No, shut up. It's not. I'm sorry. It's pizza-like. Pizza-esque. But it is not pizza.
Anyway, narrowing the list down to those ingredients that you can put on top of the basic 'pizza'... I don't know. They're all so good. Maybe onions or mushrooms though.
18. IF YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Gyros with onion rings.
19. WHO IS THE LAST PERSON YOU MADE MAD?
I don't know. Probably someone online and I wasn't even aware of it. If it was you, give me hell!
20. DO YOU SPEAK A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE?
Different from what?
21. WHAT WAS THE FIRST GIFT SOMEONE EVER GAVE YOU (OF THE OPPOSITE SEX)?
Discounting technical ones (where relatives or non-romantic acquaintences gave me a gift for whatever reason), I don't think I can recall any.
22. DEFINE LOVE IN YOUR OWN WORDS?
No. I'm going to use someone else's words, but they do it better than I can. "Love is the condition in which someone else's happiness is essential to your own" (Robert A. Heinlein).
23. DO YOU BELIEVE IN SOUL MATES?
Yes, but not in an 'eternal we were meant together from the dawn of time' way. Partly because I don't believe in 'souls' except as an abstraction. Soulmating is a continuous process and has to be worked at.
24. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO GET OVER SOMEONE?
I'd say two months if it's a more or less total cut off of contact. It extends if I'm still in regular contact.
For varying definitions of 'get over' that is... I still idly think about people I had crushes on from many years back. Mostly in a wistful nostalgia sense.
25. GIVEN THE CHOICE, IS THERE ANYONE WHO YOU ONCE LOVED THAT YOU WOULD NOW
PREFER TO WIPE COMPLETELY OUT OF ALL YOUR MEMORIES (A LA THAT JIM CARREY MOVIE)?
Can't say as there is.
26. COULD YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE WITH COMPLETELY DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS?
I think so, but there are some combinations that obviously won't work out too well (a satan worshipper and a fundamentalist Christian).
27. DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE TO MEET A PERSON IN PERSON TO LOVE THEM (ROMANTICALLY)?
Not strictly, but it's a different style of romantic love, and I do believe that if you fall in love with someone before meeting then, and then meet them, it can change the whole dynamic and sour both. I don't think it makes the pre-meeting love 'not love at all', it's just that the styles don't always work out.
Again, strictly speaking, I don't think the 'other person' has to be of the preferred sex, or even human (assuming aliens or artificial intelligences were out there... they have to be intelligent enough to carry on a meaningful conversation), but again, it might not work at all as an 'in person' thing, and not everyone is flexible enough for it, and, of course, if deception is involved, that can ruin the whole thing from the getgo.
28. WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE KNOWING THAT THE PERSON IS LEAVING?
Like
tadiera said, I don't think you can really control falling in love. Well, not completely anyway... I do think with
concerted effort you can try to stop yourself, but it's not guaranteed
and isn't something you can just say 'not gonna do it' and don't.
That said, I'd probably try to stop myself, unless I knew the other person felt the same way, in which case I might let it happen and who knows, maybe
something would change.
29. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO TELL SOMEONE HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU?
Well my usual method is not mention it and let them assume whatever they want. Although I admit it's not really the best of ways. So I'd go with words.
30. SAY A NUMBER FROM ONE TO A HUNDRED:
tadiera pre-empted my flip answer, so I'll just go with: 6.31. BLONDES OR BRUNETTES?
See question #14.
32. WHAT IS THE ONE NUMBER YOU CALL OFTEN?
You know... I don't think I've dialed a single phone number in at least 3 months. Maybe my grandmother at some point before that.
33. WHAT ANNOYS YOU MOST?
Intolerance towards groups based on irrational prejudices.
34. HAVE YOU BEEN OUT OF THE U.S.?
Yeah. In fact, I'm mostly out of the US. I have been to the US, and then left again, but mostly I'm just not there at all. But I've also gone to Europe.
35. YOUR WEAKNESSES?
Too many to really go into there. Those who know me know most of them.
36. IF MONEY WAS NOT AN ISSUE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE?
Take a few university classes every year to keep me busy, hang out online and generally do what I'm doing now. Maybe some travelling.
37. FIRST JOB?
The one I'm at now, actually.
38. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL?
Yeah, when I was little. Giggled too much.
39. WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE YOU FILLED OUT THIS SURVEY?
The general reading websites, refreshing, and chatting on XET thing I usually do.
40. IF YOU COULD GET PLASTIC SURGERY WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Complete face transplant. And pointed ears. Elf-like, not spock-like. Just because.
Really, not too much. I'm not too fond of my nose, maybe that could be tweaked a bit.
41. WHY DID YOU FILL OUT THIS SURVEY?
Boredom, and can't resist a new survey.
42. WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT MOST?
Can't think of anything. But then I tend to slough off compliments anyway.
43. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF ALCOHOL BECAME ILLEGAL?
Make money selling alcohol illegally. I don't drink, so it actually wouldn't bother me personally, but hey, if bootlegging is good enough to make gangsters rich, it's good enough for me!
44. WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY?
Whatever. Money.
45. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT?
I don't expect to have any.
46. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
My first name was after a saint, as is tradition for my general family line. My first middle name (which was almost my first name before tradition won out at the last minute) was after a certain Star Trek captain. My other middle name was after my paternal grandfather.
47. DO YOU WISH ON STARS?
No, but I wish about them.
48. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE FINGER?
My opposable thumb. Shut up. Yes it is a finger. It fings with the best of them. And it is what separates me from the monkey armies, therefore it is my favorite.
49. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY?
When the monkey armies captured me and tortured me. Luckily, their non-opposable thumbs were unable to lock the cage properly and I was able to escape. Go opposable thumbs!
Seriously though, I can't recall.
50. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
It could be more legibile. But I don't really think about it much.
51. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Goes back and forth. Right now, corned beef. But only good corned beef.
52. ANY BAD HABITS?
Yep.
53. WHAT IS YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING CD ON THE SHELF?
I don't have any CDs on any shelves.
54. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
Depends on what kind of other person I am. Probably not, though, I'm too hard to get to know. Maybe an online friend.
55. IF YOU FOUND OUT YOU HAD AN EXACT DOUBLE, BOTH IN LOOKS AND PERSONALITY, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
If I ever found anyone too much like me, I think I'd have to kill them, if for no other reason than that if they were that much like me, they'd be trying to kill me back first.
56. DO LOOKS MATTER?
Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes not.
57. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER?
I just try not to let it build up.
58. WHERE IS YOUR SECOND HOME?
I guess, if I had any, it'd be my Grandmother's house. I lived there for a number of years, so it's one of the few places that if I'm there, I feel comfortable just wandering around (not going into any private rooms or anything, but like the basement, the backyard, etc).
59. DO YOU TRUST OTHERS EASILY?
To a point.
60. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?
The computer.
61. FAVORITE BOARD GAME?
I can't remember the title of it (Dungeon maybe?), but there was one that was sort of like a D&D style RPG, except it was all a board game, with cards, etc. That was kind of cool.
Oh, and Fireball Island. That was nifty - I added my own caves, and then when I got board with that I turned it upside down and drew squares on the other side and turned it into a whole game 'escape from the ice valley of doom'.
62. FAVORITE WORD?
Quixotic.
63. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
Never.
64. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A MOSH PIT?
Yes. But it was a bad experience. It involved the monkey armies. I don't want to talk about it.
65. WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL?
Connection.
66. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES?
6. 6ie. Sothy (rarely anymore). Hyp. Hercules (by one person I work with).
67. IF YOU WERE TRAPPED ON A DESERTED ISLAND, WHAT THREE BOOKS, MOVIES, AND CDS WOULD YOU BRING?
Books: The SAS Survival Handbook, The Stand, Ender's Game.
Might have chosen 'Jumper', but I think if I was trapped on a deserted island, I'd get depressed reading about a person who could teleport anywhere they want.
Movies: The Princess Bride, LotR (I'm counting it all as one big movie because I'm not taking any CDs. If you don't like it, screw you), Serenity.
CDs: None.
68. DO YOU UN-TIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Nope.
69. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
It depends. Right now I'm kinda grooving on some no name granola type. But I like different kinds. And sweet cereals are always good.
70. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?
Generally, for regular purposes, Mint chocolate chip. But if I've had it recently I'll usually prefer something else.
71. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SONG?
Not sure I have one. Maybe 'Imagine', just for the lyrics.
72. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE COLORS?
Black, grey.
73. HOW MANY WISDOM TEETH DO YOU HAVE?
I think I have two.
74. WHO/WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST RIGHT NOW?
You already asked this.
75. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
Yes. Everyone. In the whole damn world.
76. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
The end of The Price is Right
77. LAST THING YOU ATE?
English muffin with butter and raspberry jam.
78. LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
My dad, I think.
79. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX?
As I've answered many times before, the general fact that they are the opposite sex.
80. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
A military base in British Columbia.
81. SCARIEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?
Can't think of one off-hand.
82. FAVORITE DRINK?
Water.
83. FAVORITE JOKE?
Can't say I have a favorite joke. So I'll just post the last joke I remember finding and giving:
A guy joins a monastery and takes a vow of silence: He's allowed to say two words every seven years. After the first seven years, the elders bring him in and ask for his two words. "Cold floors," he says. They nod and send him away. Seven more years pass. They bring him back in and ask for his two words. He clears his throat and says, "Bad food." They nod and send him away. Seven more years pass. They bring him in for his two words. "I quit," he says. "That's not surprising," the elders say. "You've done nothing but complain since you got here."
84. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SPORT?
I'm not a big sportsman. The only sport I recall playing and enjoying was soccer.
85. HAIR COLOR?
Brownish.
86. EYE COLOR?
Brown.
87. DO YOU WEAR GLASSES?
No. Probably should.
88. SIBLINGS?
One real, 4 step.
89. FAVORITE MONTH?
March, cause my half-birthday's in March, and it's usually between being too cold and too warm.
90. YOU LIKE SUSHI?
Not really.
91. LAST THING YOU WATCHED?
Price is Right. Well, really I didn't 'watch' it so much as 'have the TV on while it was on'. I think the last thing I 'watched' was Grey's Anatomy.
92. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR?
Daylight Savings Time day. The 'fall back' one, with the extra hour of sleep.
93. ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK SOMEONE OUT?
Absolutely.
94. SUMMER OR WINTER?
Spring. Summer and Winter are about equal in pain. If I have good air conditioning, Summer.
95. KISSES OR HUGS?
Shrug?
96. RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE-NIGHT STANDS
Relationship.
97. WHO DO YOU SECRETLY LOVE?
It wouldn't be a secret if I answered this question.
98. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU MACKED IT WITH IN THE PAST YEAR?
I don't believe I've 'macked it' with anybody.
No, once again, I don't want to talk about my time as a prisoner of the monkey army. Shut up.
99. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING?
Right now, Mirror Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold (a Miles Vorkosigan adventure)
100. WHERE DO YOU WORK?
Tim Horton's, unloading a delivery truck.
Oh, in other news, I finally broke down and got AIM.
