Checklist thing
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garran(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
| × I miss somebody right now. | × I don't watch much TV these days. (I watch a lot of TV for me, but that's basically just the Daily Show, and sometimes stuff on DVD.) | ✓ I own lots of books. (Considerably more than I have read.) |
| × I wear glasses or contact lenses. (But I think I look good in them.) | ✓ I love to play video games. (Anyway, historically it has brought me a lot of joy.) | × I've tried marijuana. (Though I've been around it.) |
| × I've watched porn movies. | × I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. | ✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy. (And so I am not a utilitarian!) |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. (But generally only mildly, or in the grip of strong emotion.) | × I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. | × I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. |
| × I have broken someone's bones. | ✓ I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal. (Um. Probably? (Andy wishes for a question mark: part 1)) | × I hate the rain. (Only standing in it, sometimes.) |
| × I'm paranoid at times. | × I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free. (But that would be a neat future.) | ✓ I need/want money right now. (x.x) |
| × I love sushi. (But it turns out I like sashimi!) | × I talk really, really fast. (If I try to talk fast, I stammer.) | × I have fresh breath in the morning. (Probably not.) |
| ✓ I have long hair. (*preens*) | × I have lost money in Las Vegas. | ✓ I have at least one sibling. (I can hear her talking on her cell phone right now.) |
| ✓ I was born in a country outside of the U.S. (I'm mildly offended by the assumptions of this option. Yes, the internet is actually international, thanks.) | × I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past. (I'm pretty sure no.) | × I couldn't survive without Caller I.D. (However, it is useful.) |
| ✓ I like the way that I look. (Except I need to trim my beard.) | × I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months. (I hope not!) | × I am usually pessimistic. |
| × I have a lot of mood swings. (Well, I have a lot of moods...) | ✓ I think prostitution should be legalized. (Probably.) | × I slept with a roommate. (Only literally.) |
| × I have a hidden talent. (Hard for me to judge,) | × I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have. | ✓ I have a lot of friends. (But I'd be willing to have more!) |
| × I have pecked someone of the same sex. (Andy wishes for a question mark: part 2. It doesn't seem impossible.) | ✓ I enjoy talking on the phone. (Provided a good conversation partner, yeah.) | ✓ I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants. (And yet do not wear them to bed! Is this... Irony?) |
| ✓ I love to shop and/or window shop. (Within a very narrow range, specifically for books or for music.) | × I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal. (Mildly.) | × I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother. |
| × I have a mobile phone. (I will be the last person in Vancouver.) | × I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months. (But someone on the Japan trip totally did, after that sip of sake, which was their first experience of alcohol.) | ✓ I've rejected someone before. |
| × I currently like/love someone. (I'm going to give this the benefit of the doubt and assume that it precludes the platonic, in which case I am mostly between someones.) | ✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (Or anyway, all my ideas are too vague to be practical.) | ✓ I want to have children in the future. (At least one daughter, I hope.) |
| × I have changed a diaper before. (Unlike everybody who doesn't click the previous one. Hrm.) | × I've called the cops on a friend before. | ✓ I'm not allergic to anything. (That I know of.) |
| ✓ I have a lot to learn. | × I am shy around the opposite sex. (s/the opposite sex/most strangers, some acquaintances.) | × I'm online 24/7, even as an away message. |
| × I have at least 5 away messages saved. (Ha ha, you kids and your 'instant messaging'.) | × I have tried alcohol or drugs before. (I have tasted sips of: beer, wine, sake. That probably doesn't count for this question's purposes.) | × I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past. (I am pretty much incapable of developing an interest in someone who is that obviously unattainable. It's interesting.) |
| × I own the "South Park" movie. | ✓ I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal. (Probably, anyway.) | ✓ I enjoy some country music. (Neko Case, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash...) |
| × I would die for my best friends. (Possible. Hard to know until I'm in such a situation.) | ✓ I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist. (/This/ is the way that I obsess over my livejournal.) | × I have used my sexuality to advance my career. |
| × I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy. (Well, it was awesome for that reason back when I did. And thank you VERY MUCH for bringing up such a PAINFUL SUBJECT!) | × I have dated a close friend's ex. | ✓ I am happy at this moment. (I'm feeling okay.) |
| × I'm obsessed with guys. (I really have the weirdest impulse to click this.) | × Democrat. | × Republican. |
| × I don't even know what I am. (*stares at his webbed fingers in something like horror*) | × I am punk rockish. | × I go for older guys/girls, not younger. (It doesn't seem to be much of a consideration.) |
| ✓ I study for tests most of the time. (But not very much.) | × I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met. | × I can work on a car. (But I can sit on one!) |
| × I love my job(s). (Heh, heh, heh.) | ✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now. (As long as I don't stay here.) | × I have more than just my ears pierced. (I have less!) |
| × I walk barefoot wherever I can. | × I have jumped off a bridge. (Andy wishes for a question mark: part 3.) | ✓ I love sea turtles. (My favourite part about this choice is how so many people obviously come to it having not previously thought much about the subject and go, "...Yeah! Sea turtles are awesome!" The clincher for me is how they live for centuries.) |
| × I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup. | ✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream. (Do people have major goals they don't plan on achieving?) | × I am proficient on a musical instrument. (Alas, no!) |
| × I hate office jobs. (But I hope I always look at them as a foreigner.) | × I went to college out of state. | × I am adopted. ("So, you see, it's all right that we're cousins...") |
| × I am a pyro. | × I have thrown up from crying too much. | ✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved. (It happens.) |
| × I fall for the worst people. ("CELEBRITY CRUSH: Hitler.") | ✓ I adore bright colours. (Some more than others!) | × I usually like covers better than originals. (I usually don't.) |
| × I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays. | ✓ I can pick up things with my toes. (I totally thought this was universal.) | × I can't whistle. (Maybe five years ago, I could have clicked this with a clean conscience.) |
| ✓ I have ridden/owned a horse. (But not very often.) | × I still have every journal I've ever written in. | ✓ I talk in my sleep. (Apparently. I should totally put a bounty on the report of what I actually say.) |
| × I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century. (Actually, I've often thought that I was born in the only century so far in which I stand a reasonable chance of being happy.) | × I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions. (Hmm. In very limited circumstances, like if I'm waiting for a reply to something it's stressful to have said. Other than that I tend to brood.) | × I wear a toe ring. |
| × I have a tattoo. | × I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with. | × I am a caffeine junkie. |
| × I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all. (I don't know the word for the kind of spiritual I sometimes am, but I suspect this isn't it.) | × If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder. (I hope not!) | × I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better. |
| × I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner. (And yet, I'm the one with the bottle.) | ✓ I'm an artist. (*takes a long drag on his nonexistent cigarette, speaks in a german accent*) | × I am ambidextrous. |
| × I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed. (That was my sister.) | × If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony. (Actually, I'm much more comfortable seeing other people naked than being seen myself. I'm getting better about that.) | × I have terrible teeth. (I have inexplicably excellent teeth.) |
| × I hate my toes. (They're okay.) | ✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me. (Meaningless!) | × I have more friends on the internet than in real life. (This has sometimes been true. Right now I think that I am not going to count.) |
| × I have lived in either three different states or countries. (I haven't even lived in more than one district.) | × I am extremely flexible. (I do not think so.) | × I love hugs more than kisses. (Insufficient data! However, I love hugs.) |
| × I want to own my own business. | × I smoke. | × I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else. (This sentence was not grammatical.) |
| × Nobody has ever said I'm normal. (Somebody probably has.) | ✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then. (Occasionally. Sometimes. You know, a /manly/ trickle.) | × I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons. |
| ✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits. (Yes, I do.) | ✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me. (So please everybody be pleased with me from now on okay thanks.) | ✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds. |
| × I have played strip poker with someone else before. | ✓ I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help. (Although by the time that I was seeking, I really already felt better.) | × I believe in ghosts and the paranormal. |
| × I can't stand being alone. (I can stand being alone okay so long as there are alternatives available.) | × I have at least one obsession at any given time. | × I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again. |
| × I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment. | × I'm a judgmental asshole. ("What the...? Who /wrote/ this?") | × I'm a HUGE drama-queen. |
| ✓ I have travelled on more than one continent. (Yayyy.) | × I sometimes wish my father would just disappear. | × I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am. (Hmmm. This is hard to judge; it is an important component.) |
| × I am a Libertarian. ("...treats people as being much less connected than they actually are...") | × I can speak more than one language. (Working on it.) | × I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be. (Depends a lot on my mood.) |
| ✓ I would rather read than watch TV. (But it depends on how I'm feeling, and what I have available to read and to watch.) | × I like reading fact more than fiction. (I like reading stories; the other thing is not so important.) | ✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. (Probably.) |
| ✓ I have no piercings. (So it's impossible to click everything without contradicting oneself. That's interesting.) | × I have spent the night in a train station or other public place. (But it's occasionally been a near thing.) | × I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried. |
| × I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night. (My parents were better at communicating than this!) | × There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it. (This sort of 'why' is actually not a question that bothers me, most of the time.) | × I like most animals better than most people. (No, I tend to like people better. However my dog is awesome.) |
| × I own a collection of retro games consoles. (A 'collection'? I have an NES, and an SNES, and a Genesis. And an original Game Boy.) | × The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver. | × I have hit someone with a dead fish. |
| × I am compulsively honest. (I don't know how to answer this. It's something that I've had to work at and train in myself, and part of what I've trained myself to do is to look at what I'm saying or have said and see if I've slipped into a not-quite-honesty, so I think it's probably not compulsive.) | × I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired. | × I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers. (Strangers? No. (Also not 'dozens'. Also, I'm talking about DDR, rather than actual dancing.)) |
| × I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex. | × I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders. (Sorry, boys!) | × I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to. (My body is way too used to having its demands met to put up with that.) |
| × I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on. (I'm not sure I've ever tried it with.) | ✓ I dislike milk. (Though not as much as some other dairy products.) | × I obsessively wash my hands. |
| × I always carry something significant around with me. (My wallet? I often carry a book, but not the same one for too long.) | × Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair. | ✓ I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others. (Yes, this is one of the things I try to achieve and maintain.) |
| × Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother. | × I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document. (Obviously I /would/ have.) | ✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird. (I'm sure, though an example isn't leaping to mind.) |
| × I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time. (o/~ Have you not been told of Lazarus? He fought the icy grip. Brought back by morphine drip, he told the Captain this... o/~) |
× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed. | × I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won. |
| × I do not 'get' most comedy acts. | ✓ I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing. (Well, I like to think the best of people. I don't know much about this particular subject.) | ✓ I don't like to chew gum. (Because when I chew on things I want to swallow them.) |
| × I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it. (That's right! When I say that I am obsessed with history, what I actually mean is that I yearn to DESTROY MY TIMELINE.) | × I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car. | ✓ I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years. (Well, I was depressed, and at least mildly melodramatic, so sure.) |
| ✓ I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other. (But a lot of the people I know are already pretty good on this score.) | × I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly. (Not since my DM moved away.) | ✓ I love to sing. (More than anybody loves to listen to me, I suspect.) |
| × I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up. (No, I just do.) | × I have a custom-built computer. (Not at the moment.) | × I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it. (I like 'create'. Very mad scientist.) |
| × I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human. (That is not the sense in which I lilke my dog.) | ✓ I've gone skinny-dipping. (If the Japanese public baths count.) | ✓ I've performed in three plays. (Exactly three, actually.) |
| × I enjoy burritos. | × I'm Irish and loving it. (I am totally English, to my knowledge, though that hardly precludes Irish blood.) | ✓ I have a thing for redheads. |
| × I am a twin! | × Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'. (I don't know where the line is. I guess I can enjoy reading or whatever if I'm on my own, but whether I'll enjoy something like camping depends a lot on my company...) | × Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else. (Ha, ha, ha, no.) |
| × I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes. | × I sleep more than 12 hours a day. (Only sometimes.) | × I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough. (This is a false dichotomy. I am fairly proud of what I've accomplished, /and/ it's not enough.) |
| × I need more time to myself. | × I wish I was more open-minded. | × I hope that I go really prematurely grey. (It can come when it needs to. I hope that I survive to have a grey beard, though, because that will be awesome.) |
| ✓ I download songs from the internet. (I totally live in the future, man!) | × I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend. | × I say random things to freak people out. (This was me at 14.) |
| × I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note. | × I love playing Truth or Dare. (I have actually never played it. Because of this, and because it shows up in fiction so often, I am fascinated by it and would be very interested to try it; mostly, I want to know what people would ask me.) | × I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it. |
| × Music helps me remember that I am not alone. (People help me remember that I am not alone. Music usually does something else. (Although certainly there have been times when certain songs reflected and clarified feelings I've had.)) | × Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems. | ✓ I think this survey is particularly long. (Though I didn't think so before I did it.) |
| × I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones. | × I can only hate someone that I love. (I CAN ONLY HATE SOMEONE THAT I'M MARRIED TO uh, I mean, no.) | × I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks. |
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Date: 2006-08-02 12:36 am (UTC)That is a dirty lie! ... *_*
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Date: 2006-08-02 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-02 04:20 am (UTC)On the other hand, it would be good (bad?) for my fanboyism in that the rest of you lot are all wonderful.
I'd also like to note that there is not a next time of meeting that includes both we, but rather a first time!
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Date: 2006-08-02 01:37 pm (UTC)I would like very much if we all got together around a tiny stage, with all our bright faces shining out of the dim lights, and Jay read a poem. WoK could draw portraits on the people she was drawing for once. (that's how you're supposed to do it) Garran and Sorcy could sing, _Quinn could shoot someone (I mean... a volunteer) and I could do my Naga laugh. What I'm trying to say is that, in a sense, we all have talents. And by "we" I mean me.
We could have a talent show on the Internet. I guess that would be the worst talent show ever.
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Date: 2006-08-02 05:56 pm (UTC)