Questions Meme
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YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, and I want to know36 35 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... You're on my list, so I want to know you better!
1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
Very serious withcelticdragonfly. And also some not-so-serious relationships . . .
2) What was your dream growing up?
To become the chief engineer of a lunar base.
3) What talent do you wish you had?
Morden's "What do you want?" power for extracting someone's true desires would be very useful.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Coke. If I'm in a situation where I can have alcohol, Murphy's Stout or closest available equivalent.
5) Favorite vegetable?
Potato. What? I'm Irish.
6) What was the last book you read?
Graveyard Dust by Barbara Hambly. Strongly recommended, though start with A Free Man of Color.
7) What zodiac sign are you?
Capricorn.
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
Nah.
9) Worst Habit?
Laziness.
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
Sure.
11) What is your favorite sport?
None.
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
I try for optimistic--but my reflex is negative.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
Free-form RPGing most likely.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
Death of my father.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
Already did that meme.
16) Do you have any pets?
There's two cats in the house. The "my" and "pets" part is debatable.
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
You'd have to stand on the patio until I was done with diaper change.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
Big guy.
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
Scary.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
I've got a weight goal I'm working toward.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
Conscience.
22) What color eyes do you have?
Green.
23) Ever been arrested?
Nope. Did get read my rights once.
24) Bottle or can soda?
Either way I want to pour it into a cup with ice.
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
Send it to the nice credit card people.
27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
Used to be coffeeshops, these days home.
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
No.
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
Read. Write. Be with family.
30) Do you swear a lot?
Having a little girl who'll imitate me precisely is making me clean up my language. I'll still scandalize lip readers, though.
31) Biggest pet peeve?
Watching lots of effort go into an inherent disaster. This can also describe my day job.
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
Daddy.
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
Yes, I do. I also try to practice it.
34) If you could live anywhere in the world where would you chose?
Here's working out pretty well.
35) Do you believe in God?
To these from birth is Belief forbidden.
autographedcat:YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, and I want to know
1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
Very serious with
celticdragonfly. And also some not-so-serious relationships . . .2) What was your dream growing up?
To become the chief engineer of a lunar base.
3) What talent do you wish you had?
Morden's "What do you want?" power for extracting someone's true desires would be very useful.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Coke. If I'm in a situation where I can have alcohol, Murphy's Stout or closest available equivalent.
5) Favorite vegetable?
Potato. What? I'm Irish.
6) What was the last book you read?
Graveyard Dust by Barbara Hambly. Strongly recommended, though start with A Free Man of Color.
7) What zodiac sign are you?
Capricorn.
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
Nah.
9) Worst Habit?
Laziness.
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
Sure.
11) What is your favorite sport?
None.
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
I try for optimistic--but my reflex is negative.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
Free-form RPGing most likely.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
Death of my father.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
Already did that meme.
16) Do you have any pets?
There's two cats in the house. The "my" and "pets" part is debatable.
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
You'd have to stand on the patio until I was done with diaper change.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
Big guy.
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
Scary.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
I've got a weight goal I'm working toward.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
Conscience.
22) What color eyes do you have?
Green.
23) Ever been arrested?
Nope. Did get read my rights once.
24) Bottle or can soda?
Either way I want to pour it into a cup with ice.
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
Send it to the nice credit card people.
27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
Used to be coffeeshops, these days home.
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
No.
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
Read. Write. Be with family.
30) Do you swear a lot?
Having a little girl who'll imitate me precisely is making me clean up my language. I'll still scandalize lip readers, though.
31) Biggest pet peeve?
Watching lots of effort go into an inherent disaster. This can also describe my day job.
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
Daddy.
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
Yes, I do. I also try to practice it.
34) If you could live anywhere in the world where would you chose?
Here's working out pretty well.
35) Do you believe in God?
To these from birth is Belief forbidden.
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Date: 2008-01-31 07:39 pm (UTC)Lucky you. /dry.
1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
I'm married. That's normally considered serious.
2) What was your dream growing up?
Astronaut, ballerina, or marine biologist. This is why I don't get tatoos. I know my interests will change, because they have.
3) What talent do you wish you had?
normally I answer musical aptitude but right now, I wish I had a higher tolerance for frustration. Or the ability to function without sleep. More hours in the day would help with my frustration level. Then again, so would the ability to kneecap folks at whim.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Something frou frou and super girly, with either fruit on a skewer or a paper umbrella. But no coconut.
5) Favorite vegetable?
all of the above. But not okra. I mean really who could choose between a tomato, still warm from the garden, sliced thick and sprinkled with seasalt and sweet corn, silk still clinging or potatoes in all their versatility or beets, tart-sweet and vivacious, or snow peas, crisp and fun or carrots, made for dinnertable duelling or broccoli or ...
6) What was the last book you read?
We Save the Trees at the Park, over Bear's shoulder. My latest reading material was the Righter's seed catalog. The last actual book was the second in E. Bear's Jenny Casey trilogy.
7) What zodiac sign are you?
Crabby, it's not just a mood, it's a sign.
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
Ears
9) Worst Habit?
Procrastination. I'm highly conflict avoidant and so will delay taking what I see as unpleasant action until I must.
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
Probably, if I recognized you. If you had the kids with you and were visibly in need, absolutely, whether I recognized you or not.
11) What is your favorite sport?
I like a bunch of them a bit, but no one single sport absolutely.
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
Very carefully and deliberately optomistic
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
I don't know you well enough to redirect my anxiety, so I'd probably shut up, close my eyes, and just concentrate on not panicking.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
Is not for public consumption.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
I'm a very low level synaesthetic. Sometimes it makes life interesting.
16) Do you have any pets?
Do the dust bunnies count? How about seventy million stuffies?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
I'd be surprised but welcome you in.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
Laura's husband (sorry!) Fatherly and teddy bear-ish
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
Depends on the clown.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
The belly flap caused by the c-section.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
Conscience, probably.
22) What color eyes do you have?
Blue.
23) Ever been arrested?
No, though I've coordinated bail for two people.
24) Bottle or can soda?
bottle for beer; either for soda.
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
Most would go to pay off outstanding debt but I'd do something small and indulgent with some.
27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
These days the house is about it for hang out spots.
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
Yep.
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
Snuggle.
30) Do you swear a lot?
Not as much as I used to.
31) Biggest pet peeve?
Creating emotional strife for entertainment's sake.
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
Boring. Mainstreamed. Normalized.
And apparently, I'm in a bit of a mood today, oops.
chatty, too, since LJ cut me off. Here's the rest.
Date: 2008-01-31 07:39 pm (UTC)When it's an honest expression of affection, absolutely. But not when it's the surface show of the trappings of love with no true feeling behind it.
34) If you could live anywhere in the world where would you chose?
Is there a place that doesn't get too hot, doesn't get too cold, doens't have allergens and isn't on an island four plane hours from anywhere? There. That would be nice.
35) Do you believe in God?
Yep. I take it on faith that she believes in me, too.
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Date: 2008-01-31 08:39 pm (UTC)Yes, more than one.
2) What was your dream growing up?
That I was adopted and my real parents would rescue me from that hell.
3) What talent do you wish you had?
Wish I could sing well enough that people asked me to sing at parties.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Lemonade. (I drink alcohol, but not today.)
5) Favorite vegetable?
Hardest question on the list. Kale? Tomatoes? Beets? I love vegetables.
6) What was the last book you read?
Idlewild, by Nick Sagan.
7) What zodiac sign are you?
Cancer.
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
Standard one-each earlobe piercings. 50s pulp-style rocketship tattoo on my left breast.
9) Worst Habit?
I'm impatient.
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
If I recognized you.
11) What is your favorite sport?
Sex.
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
Mostly optimistic.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
Talk about life.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
Violent attack on me and my sibs when I was 13, by my mother's high, drug-dealer boyfriend.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
So contextual--at work I'm weird because I read SF/F. At a con I'm weird because I don't dress in costumes.
16) Do you have any pets?
Not right now.
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
We have a spare bedroom, how long do you need it?
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
Don't remember.
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
Yes.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
My skin--I wish it were smooth and soft instead of bumpy and scaly.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
Depends.
22) What color eyes do you have?
I never know how to answer this. They're green and orange and yellow and brown. I usually say hazel.
23) Ever been arrested?
Nope.
24) Bottle or can soda?
Sure.
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
Pay off part of my debt.
27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
Home!
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
Nope.
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
Read.
30) Do you swear a lot?
Yup.
31) Biggest pet peeve?
People who don't go when the light turns green.
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
Exuberant.
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
Yes.
34) If you could live anywhere in the world where would you chose?
Where I am. I love this town.
35) Do you believe in God?
It depends; maybe.
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Date: 2008-01-31 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-31 09:23 pm (UTC)Yes. I am on my second marriage
2) What was your dream growing up?
I wanted to be a lawyer and perhaps go into politics
3) What talent do you wish you had?
I wish I could sing
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Single malt scotch. Good stuff.
5) Favorite vegetable?
Asparagus
6) What was the last book you read?
Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism by P.J. O'Rourke
7) What zodiac sign are you?
Aquarius
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
Three tats, dragon ouruboros surrounding a pentagram on left shoulderblade, greenman on right bicep, Diana the Huntress on left bicep; left ear pierced.
9) Worst Habit?
Nothing that bothers me.
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
Since I have never met you, probably not.
11) What is your favorite sport?
shooting
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
Optimistic
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
Attempt to find a way to get us out
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
Death of my son
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
I used to dress with the possibility of getting pulled into an alternate universe in mind.
16) Do you have any pets?
Two cats, two dogs, lots of fish.
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
Offer you coffee and make sure you are fed.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
Don't have one. Haven't met you.
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
No opinion
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
Lose weight
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
Crime
22) What color eyes do you have?
Blue
23) Ever been arrested?
No
24) Bottle or can soda?
Neither. Don't like soda
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
Pay bills
27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
I'm a homebody
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
Paint miniature, play computer games
30) Do you swear a lot?
Fuck yeah!
31) Biggest pet peeve?
Applied ignorance and bigotry
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
Curious
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
Yes
34) If you could live anywhere in the world where would you chose?
Right where I am.
35) Do you believe in God?
Yes. Several
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