A break from the heavy shit

[vvvexation]

What the hell, this'll probably help take my mind off things. Ask me any three questions and I'll try to answer them honestly. It just may take a while.

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[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

What is that that you are leaning against in your icon?
I've always wondered.

What is your favorite fruit? 2 or 3 favorites if you can't decide.

Where were you born and raised?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one who's asked me that first question. It's my friend's arm; I'm kneeling on the floor and she's standing with her arms around the neck of a fellow who's also kneeling. Heck, I'd post the original photo right here, but I don't have access to it at the moment. I like apples an awful lot, and love almost anything apple-flavored as well, and I was born in Long Island but raised in Redlands, CA ('bout seventy miles from LA.)

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

aah! haha, thanks, mystery solved. I kind of thought it was an arm, but I thought it would have to be a giantic person so that didn't make sense. haha I love apples too. I love Fuji apples the best!

[7patches.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the snout of a horse.

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

That was my other possibility! ha

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've had those. My apple experiences have been somewhat limited.

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

1. How long have you been going to the Plough? (This is becoming one of my standard questions, I guess.)

2. Can you picture yourself having a job that involves doing math?

3. How long have you been wearing mostly black clothing, and why do you? (I do because I guess I'm a follower in some sense. And it's easy.)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

1. I've been going to the Plough since a week before my 20th birthday, which makes it--yow!--three years this July.

2. Right now I'm kinda burned out on math, but I still can imagine enjoying a job that involves sitting around doing number theory all day, or perhaps linear algebra. I could also, I think, be fairly happy crunching numbers--not as a career, but as a for-the-time-being sort of job.

3. I've been wearing almost all black since sometime during junior year of high school, and the reasons have kept changing. At the time I was starting to hang out with the goth crowd at my school and found that I rather identified with the goth aesthetic--plus, I admit, it was fun weirding people out. When I got to Berkeley, though, I wasn't that weird any more, but I kept up the gothness more or less out of habit, and because it is indeed easier not to have to think about coordinating. Also, it's easier to keep from spending too much on clothes when I'm not tempted to buy things that aren't black. But also, I've found that black has become a comfort thing, in some ways akin to a suit of armor; I feel sort of undressed if I'm wearing some other color. I'm not sure if that's entirely healthy, but I figure at this point in my life perhaps I need to feel armored.

[ocicat.livejournal.com]

1. If you had the choice to be able to turn invisible at will or to have the power of flight, which would you choose?

2. What is your favorite type of dancing, and why?

3. Which is cuter, a wombat or a fruitbat?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

1. I spend way too much time pondering questions like this and never finding a satisfactory answer. Flight would save me money on transportation and thus help my social life; on the other hand, being invisible would probably, if I were dedicated enough, allow me to sneak into offices, fuck with records, and game the system so that I wouldn't have to worry so much about all the administrative crap this school puts me through. That's probably more important in the long run.

2. I don't do enough types of dancing to really have what I consider a worthwhile opinion. I do absolutely love a good waltz, though.

3. Fruit bat, just 'cause I think smaller aminals are generally cuter.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

2. Four out of five of those boil down to "vintage ballroom."

[ocicat.livejournal.com]

1. I went to school for a physics degree. I think I really learned a lot more about dealing with bureaucrats and red tape. But it's a good life skill.

2. So let's see... your interests include ballroom dancing, friday night waltz, irish dance, victorian ballroom, and vintage dance, but you don't do enough styles to have what you consider a worthwhile opinion. Gotcha. :-)

3.

[noirem.livejournal.com]

2: yes, but those are mostly the same things. It's not like she does Irish and vintage ballroom and modern ballroom and swing and ballet and modern and jazz and latin dances and line-dancing. Those are all different -types- of dancing.

ballroom = ballroom
FNW = mostly vintage ballroom
Irish dancing = ceili and vintage ballroom
victorian ballroom = vintage ballroom
vintage dance = well, you get the idea.

Is anyone surprised that V loves to waltz?

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

1) What's your most recent small triumph - one that probably didn't merit an LJ post, but made you feel good anyway?

2) Who's your favorite musician that would probably surprise even your good friends that you like them? Egads, that's an awkward sentence.

3) What do you do so well that you make it look easy?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

1. Ooh, good one. I do keep feeling that somehow the good things don't really merit posts as much as the bad things do. Well, just now I ran into an old roommate who I'd been meaning to get in touch with about paying back some bills he owes me, and we did in fact get that worked out, though the amount didn't come to as much as I'd figured. The bad news is, he doesn't think our other roommate will be willing to pay me back.

Gah. That's the problem with my small triumhs lately; they almost all have "buts" attached. I have been on some very good dates lately, but those aren't so much triumphs to my mind as they don't involve accomplishment on my part. Also I feel as if I'll jinx my love life if I write about it....no, that's not it. It's more that I don't want to write something good and then have to recant it when it doesn't stay good.

2. I think a lot of my friends would be surprised, and some of them probably scandalized, that I like Aqua.

3. Mental arithmetic. And perhaps slinging puns, though I know a few people who can match me in that.

Oh, and at least one person lately would apparently tell me to add waltzing to that list. That certainly wasn't true two years ago. Go me.

[tigman.livejournal.com]

1. What is a guilty pleasure of yours?

2. What came first, the chicken or the egg? ;)

3. If you could invent the next "big" drink craze, what would the drink be?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

1. The occasional romance novel. Usually ones with fairly interesting premises, at least.

2. The egg. I mean, before there were chickens there were still birds, right? ;)

3. Some kinda fruit juice, just 'cause it'd be nice if more places served anything other than soda. Milk would also be good.

[akienm.livejournal.com]

1. Did you get my last scheduling email?

2. Who are your siblings (if any)

3. What is the most luxurious thing you like to do/have done to you

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

1. Eep. Apparently I didn't.

2. None. That was easy.

3. Hmmm. Full-body massage comes to mind, but then there's also fine dining. Guess it depends on whether or not I'm hungry. :-)

[akienm.livejournal.com]

1. Resent

3. Can do... I am the AND guy, so maybe we can arrange both things to happen.

[noirem.livejournal.com]

1) What is your real first name? (okay, I know wht it is, I'm just being a punk)

2) What's the coolest thing that's happened (to you) in the last 6 months to a year?

3) Are thursday nights generally free for knitting?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

1. You dirty rat. Okay, I've stripped two letters from it and that's all I'll say here. This is, after all, a public post.

2. The single coolest thing? Not sure. I've met some really awesome people, and some of those first meetings were themselves really awesome, but my perception of them is colored by the events that have happened since, and since some of them are Things That Are Still Happening, it's hard to say which one qualifies as the coolest. In general, I can say that the year as a whole has been an amazing one for Making New Connections, and that that overall counts as a very cool thing. (And yes, I'm being vague again. See my reply to tsgeisel for why.

3. Yes, amazingly enough.