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vvvexation) wrote2005-10-06 02:34 pm
vvvexation) wrote2005-10-06 02:34 pm
Lengthy but somewhat informative meme
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mactavish's if you want the full version of this; I've left out a lot of questions to which my answers weren't interesting. Or were interesting but only passingly so. Or I just didn't feel like answering. In other words, I've left out about two thirds of them. I can be selective if I want to, dagnab it.
1. Name someone with the same birthday as you. Kevin Bacon. Too bad that doesn't count towards my Bacon number any more than sleeping withjoedecker counts toward my Erdos number.
2. Where was your first kiss? My first half-dozen or so took place at a friend's house in high school, and were with, in some order, two friends who were in a monogamous relationship and one who was a flamingly gay boy. Now that I think about it, it seems almost odd that it took years for my sex life to re-attain that level of weirdness.
4. Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex? I seem to recall going through a bit of a shin-kicking phase in junior high, but since starting college I don't think I've done any non-consensual hitting except for the occasional playful arm punch.
8. What do you order at Starbucks? Nothing, even if I did like coffee which I don't. I have, however, been known to walk into a Starbucks and hog a table for a while without ordering anything, in the hope of screwing them out of a little business.
9. What is your biggest mistake? Hard to say. There are a number of things I wish I'd done differently, but since they're mostly things I didn't do or didn't do soon enough, I can't point to any specific time when I failed to do them and say "that right there was my mistake." Mostly I just wish I'd been more aware of all the things that might've been wrong with my brain, and more motivated to do something about them.
10. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose? I've hit myself a few times when I felt stupid, or just to experiment with pain tolerance. Never tried to do myself actual damage, though.
11. Say something totally random about yourself. Sleepwalkers weird me the fuck out. Apparently, according to my amygdala, there ain't much to choose between them and zombies.
14. Did you have braces? Okay, I take that back. That is the one thing I can point to and say it was a mistake, or at least that I would choose not to do it if I could go back and change things. My bite problems are worse now than they were before the three years of metal fangs.
15. Are you comfortable with your height? Not really. I mean, I guess I'm taller than I could be, but I'm not as tall as my parents and that's messed up. I decided a long time ago that five-eight would be an ideal height, and I'm more like five-five and pretty sure I'm done growing. And it's just my luck to always find myself dating tall people.
17. When do you know it's love? Er, well, I get this little voice in my head telling me. No, seriously. Sometimes after I've been with someone for a while, the word "love" starts drifting through my head every so often when I think of them, and at first it feels kinda weird and not quite right, but over time it usually gets to feel more and more natural, and when I start to feel like I can call it love out loud without flinching, I go "well, then" and call it love. So apparently there's some mechanism in my brain that decides when it's love and informs me of the fact, without ever telling me what this decision is based on--but I'm okay with that, because really, is love ever "based on" anything you can point to?
22. Has anyone you were really close to passed away? Without getting maudlin, let's just say nineteen years is a damn long time to be half an orphan.
29. Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room? Once, after a bad car accident. It was my dad who really needed the ER, though, not me. By the time they got me there they seemed to have figured out that I didn't need them right away, and so they shoved me into a corner of the ER and suddenly deserted me, which was a little weird given that I was flat on my back with a neck brace on, and unable to see where I was or indeed anything much besides the ceiling. Fortunately, despite still being a little in shock I was mostly in control of my faculties, including my sense of humor, and I hadn't failed to get the idea that I wasn't in very bad shape and that they were just leaving me for a few minutes while they attended to more pressing matters, rather than forgetting me outright.
I did find it ludicrously tactless, however, that the neck brace turned out to have the brand name "No-Neck." But then again, that wasn't quite as brain-hurty as my discovery a couple of days later that one of the items recovered (fortunately intact) from our totaled car had been the box containing my grandfather's "Cremains."
42. What was your undergraduate major, and was it always that or did you switch? Math. Was originally going to be a double major with philosophy, but circumstances didn't work out that way. It kinda sucks that I picked math when I had to choose, because since then I've realized that philosophy is what I want to pursue a graduate degree in--but then again, the math degree makes me much more employable while I wait to be able to apply for grad school, so I suppose in some sense it was the more prudent choice.
58. What's the best present you've received in the past five years? Dang it, why are all the presents I can think of offhand sex toys? Um, can I get back to you on this one?
62. You bought tickets for a cultural event. What are you going to see? Wait, you mean I'm not participating in it? Feh, I say.
63. What's something you're hanging onto that you don't need anymore? My gods, have you seen my apartment? About half the stuff in it.
mactavish's if you want the full version of this; I've left out a lot of questions to which my answers weren't interesting. Or were interesting but only passingly so. Or I just didn't feel like answering. In other words, I've left out about two thirds of them. I can be selective if I want to, dagnab it.1. Name someone with the same birthday as you. Kevin Bacon. Too bad that doesn't count towards my Bacon number any more than sleeping with
joedecker counts toward my Erdos number.2. Where was your first kiss? My first half-dozen or so took place at a friend's house in high school, and were with, in some order, two friends who were in a monogamous relationship and one who was a flamingly gay boy. Now that I think about it, it seems almost odd that it took years for my sex life to re-attain that level of weirdness.
4. Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex? I seem to recall going through a bit of a shin-kicking phase in junior high, but since starting college I don't think I've done any non-consensual hitting except for the occasional playful arm punch.
8. What do you order at Starbucks? Nothing, even if I did like coffee which I don't. I have, however, been known to walk into a Starbucks and hog a table for a while without ordering anything, in the hope of screwing them out of a little business.
9. What is your biggest mistake? Hard to say. There are a number of things I wish I'd done differently, but since they're mostly things I didn't do or didn't do soon enough, I can't point to any specific time when I failed to do them and say "that right there was my mistake." Mostly I just wish I'd been more aware of all the things that might've been wrong with my brain, and more motivated to do something about them.
10. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose? I've hit myself a few times when I felt stupid, or just to experiment with pain tolerance. Never tried to do myself actual damage, though.
11. Say something totally random about yourself. Sleepwalkers weird me the fuck out. Apparently, according to my amygdala, there ain't much to choose between them and zombies.
14. Did you have braces? Okay, I take that back. That is the one thing I can point to and say it was a mistake, or at least that I would choose not to do it if I could go back and change things. My bite problems are worse now than they were before the three years of metal fangs.
15. Are you comfortable with your height? Not really. I mean, I guess I'm taller than I could be, but I'm not as tall as my parents and that's messed up. I decided a long time ago that five-eight would be an ideal height, and I'm more like five-five and pretty sure I'm done growing. And it's just my luck to always find myself dating tall people.
17. When do you know it's love? Er, well, I get this little voice in my head telling me. No, seriously. Sometimes after I've been with someone for a while, the word "love" starts drifting through my head every so often when I think of them, and at first it feels kinda weird and not quite right, but over time it usually gets to feel more and more natural, and when I start to feel like I can call it love out loud without flinching, I go "well, then" and call it love. So apparently there's some mechanism in my brain that decides when it's love and informs me of the fact, without ever telling me what this decision is based on--but I'm okay with that, because really, is love ever "based on" anything you can point to?
22. Has anyone you were really close to passed away? Without getting maudlin, let's just say nineteen years is a damn long time to be half an orphan.
29. Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room? Once, after a bad car accident. It was my dad who really needed the ER, though, not me. By the time they got me there they seemed to have figured out that I didn't need them right away, and so they shoved me into a corner of the ER and suddenly deserted me, which was a little weird given that I was flat on my back with a neck brace on, and unable to see where I was or indeed anything much besides the ceiling. Fortunately, despite still being a little in shock I was mostly in control of my faculties, including my sense of humor, and I hadn't failed to get the idea that I wasn't in very bad shape and that they were just leaving me for a few minutes while they attended to more pressing matters, rather than forgetting me outright.
I did find it ludicrously tactless, however, that the neck brace turned out to have the brand name "No-Neck." But then again, that wasn't quite as brain-hurty as my discovery a couple of days later that one of the items recovered (fortunately intact) from our totaled car had been the box containing my grandfather's "Cremains."
42. What was your undergraduate major, and was it always that or did you switch? Math. Was originally going to be a double major with philosophy, but circumstances didn't work out that way. It kinda sucks that I picked math when I had to choose, because since then I've realized that philosophy is what I want to pursue a graduate degree in--but then again, the math degree makes me much more employable while I wait to be able to apply for grad school, so I suppose in some sense it was the more prudent choice.
58. What's the best present you've received in the past five years? Dang it, why are all the presents I can think of offhand sex toys? Um, can I get back to you on this one?
62. You bought tickets for a cultural event. What are you going to see? Wait, you mean I'm not participating in it? Feh, I say.
63. What's something you're hanging onto that you don't need anymore? My gods, have you seen my apartment? About half the stuff in it.
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