The survey!
Aug. 11th, 2007 01:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneIn the words of Thomas Dolby, "Tell me more about your childhood..." If you feel like wasting some time, feel free to respond and repost. I filled it out here.
Q. Can you cook?
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Q. What was your dream growing up?
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Q. What talent do you wish you had?
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Q. If I bought you a drink what would it be?
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Q. Favorite vegetable?
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Q. What was the last book you read?
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Q. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
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Q. Worst Habit?
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Q. If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
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Q. What is your favorite sport?
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Q. Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
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Q. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
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Q. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
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Q. Tell me one weird fact about you:
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Q. Do you have any pets?
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Q. What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
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Q. What was your first impression of me?
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Q. Do you think clowns are scary?
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Q. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
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Q. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
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Q. What color eyes do you have?
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Q. Ever been arrested?
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Q. Bottle or Draft?
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Q. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
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Q. Would you date me?
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Q. What's your favorite place to hang out at?
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Q. Do you believe in ghosts?
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Q. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
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Q. Do you swear a lot?
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Q. Biggest pet peeve?
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Q. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
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Q. Middle Name?
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Q. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same?
A.
Q. Can you cook?
A.
Q. What was your dream growing up?
A.
Q. What talent do you wish you had?
A.
Q. If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A.
Q. Favorite vegetable?
A.
Q. What was the last book you read?
A.
Q. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
A.
Q. Worst Habit?
A.
Q. If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A.
Q. What is your favorite sport?
A.
Q. Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
A.
Q. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A.
Q. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A.
Q. Tell me one weird fact about you:
A.
Q. Do you have any pets?
A.
Q. What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A.
Q. What was your first impression of me?
A.
Q. Do you think clowns are scary?
A.
Q. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A.
Q. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A.
Q. What color eyes do you have?
A.
Q. Ever been arrested?
A.
Q. Bottle or Draft?
A.
Q. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
A.
Q. Would you date me?
A.
Q. What's your favorite place to hang out at?
A.
Q. Do you believe in ghosts?
A.
Q. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A.
Q. Do you swear a lot?
A.
Q. Biggest pet peeve?
A.
Q. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A.
Q. Middle Name?
A.
Q. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same?
A.
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Date: 2007-08-11 12:35 pm (UTC)A. I can when I try, but I generally find having to eat an annoying disruption of other things I'm doing, and tend to live on coffee and things I can grab without preparation (protein bars, fresh fruit, etc.)
Q. What was your dream growing up?
A. All the usual boring things: writer, veterinarian, paleontologist.
Q. What talent do you wish you had?
A. l33t haxx0r 5k1llz
Q. If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. vodka tonic. simple, inexpensive, does the job
Q. Favorite vegetable?
A. butterbeans
Q. What was the last book you read?
A. um . . . all the way through? er . . . I started some Dr. Who novel that I downloaded on my Zire last month. I mainly read short non-fiction articles and stories my friends write. A few months back I did entirely read Podcasting for Dummies.
Q. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
A. No
Q. Worst Habit?
A. Staring at attractive parts of people's bodies when they're talking to me. Have I mentioned I'm not a very good listener? :D
Q. If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. Of course.
Q. What is your favorite sport?
A. I'm not sure Demolition Derby qualifies as a sport, so I'll go with Pro Football.
Q. Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
A. Optimistic. There are plenty of other people out to bring me down. I don't need to do it to myself.
Q. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Probably start reciting, "Still no sign of land. How long is it? . . ."
Q. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Iz secrit.
Q. Tell me one weird fact about you:
A. I was born with a defect of shriveled tissue around the optic nerve in my left eye.
Q. Do you have any pets?
A. 3 cats
Q. What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. Come on in, but leave the dog outside.
Q. What was your first impression of me?
A. Honestly, I don't remember. It was far too many years ago.
Q. Do you think clowns are scary?
A. No.
Q. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. The wrinkles and gray hair gotta go, NOW.
Q. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. What's my cut?
Q. What color eyes do you have?
A. I can never answer this. They're a mess of speckly colors. I usually write down Hazel if I have to state one.
Q. Ever been arrested?
A. No, I am at large. :D
Q. Bottle or Draft?
A. I almost always drink beer at home or at someone else's home, so bottle.
Q. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
A. Re-landscape our front yard.
Q. Would you date me?
A. I've gone out with you already.
Q. What's your favorite place to hang out at?
A. DragonCon!
Q. Do you believe in ghosts?
A. Undecided, disinterested.
Q. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Anything creative. Write, sew, woodwork, crafts, podcast.
Q. Do you swear a lot?
A. Some would say so.
Q. Biggest pet peeve?
A. People who feel they must lecture me on social issues.
Q. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Random.
Q. Middle Name?
A. Lee
Q. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same?
A. No. I read yours from the link.
no subject
Date: 2007-08-11 04:23 pm (UTC)It's so nice having so many insane friends! Makes one feel almost normal. The word 'almost' is quite key there.
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Date: 2007-08-11 08:14 pm (UTC)A. Heh. This answer changes every day. Illusion, by Paula Volsky. A sort of French Revolution set in a country where some of the nobility had magic. (For some reason, the descriptions all compare it to the Russian Revolution, which may cover the fact that there's serfs but in most other respects it maps French.)
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Date: 2007-08-11 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-12 02:43 am (UTC)A. No.
Q. What was your dream growing up?
A. To grow up.
Q. What talent do you wish you had?
A. All of them.
Q. If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Stella Artois
Q. Favorite vegetable?
A. N/A
Q. What was the last book you read?
A. Lamb, The Gospel according to Christ's best friend Biff, by Christopher Moore
Q. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
A. no
Q. Worst Habit?
A. Depends on who you ask, probably interupting people when they're talking.
Q. If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. yes
Q. What is your favorite sport?
A. Basketball
Q. Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
A. yes
Q. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. talk
Q. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. My mother's death by mysterious curcumstances
Q. Tell me one weird fact about you:
A. I can blow air out of my right eye socket
Q. Do you have any pets?
A. yes
Q. What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. I'd be annoyed, but would let you in anyway.
Q. What was your first impression of me?
A. You needed a beard trimer
Q. Do you think clowns are scary?
A. no
Q. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. I'd lose some weight
Q. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. conscience
Q. What color eyes do you have?
A. Bluish-green
Q. Ever been arrested?
A. I've been read my rights and ticketed, but never hand-cuffed and placed in a ssquad car.
Q. Bottle or Draft?
A. draft (what a dumb question)
Q. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
A. bank it
Q. Would you date me?
A. Dude, I'm straight. I hope there's no offense taken.
Q. What's your favorite place to hang out at?
A. looking for one, but not too hard. I've got kids.
Q. Do you believe in ghosts?
A. no
Q. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. figure out a way to get more spare time
Q. Do you swear a lot?
A. Fuckin' A
Q. Biggest pet peeve?
A. there are a lot that fall into that category. How about dishonesty
Q. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. couldn't
Q. Middle Name?
A. M.
Q. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same?
A. probably not
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Date: 2007-08-14 01:15 am (UTC)A. Give me a microwave and all is well.
Q. What was your dream growing up?
A. You mean the one with dangling from the mouth of a T-Rex by my fingers or where I wanted to be a spy?
Q. What talent do you wish you had?
A. To play music.
Q. If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Non-alcoholic, probably soda or tea. Maybe hot cider? Alcoholic: something to get me giggly quick. ;)
Q. Favorite vegetable?
A. Corn, probably.
Q. What was the last book you read?
A. Five collected volumes of Megatokyo. Non-comic related...uhhh... I'd have to get back to you on that. It was more than 10 days ago.
Q. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
A. Nope. Let the ear-holes close up, even.
Q. Worst Habit?
A. Verbosity?
Q. If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. Er, are you creepy looking and do you tell people, "Smile! It makes your day better!" at random? If not, then maybe.
Q. What is your favorite sport?
A. I like to watch the fistfights in hockey. And the puck zooming around on the TV. Whee!
Q. Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
A. I prefer pragmatic.
Q. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. T'ai Chi. Gotta keep myself from panicking somehow, yanno?
Q. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Today, I'm going to say those couple of days in the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005 where I was stuck in Arizona with a pair of loser gamer boys who were ignoring me.
Q. Tell me one weird fact about you:
A. Just one? Um. I can wiggle one piece of my lower lip, but at the same time this piece of my upper lip puckers. Even my sister can't replicate it.
Q. Do you have any pets?
A. Mainly digital ones these days.
Q. What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. Eh heh...we'd have to go elsewhere. It's not my house, eh?
Q. What was your first impression of me?
A. "An editor-type who likes old commputers? Yay!"
Q. Do you think clowns are scary?
A. Are they chopped upand left in clown suits on people's porches? Nope.
Q. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. More muscle, less fat.
Q. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. How good of a crime partner are ya?
Q. What color eyes do you have?
A. Blue, with some grey or something.
Q. Ever been arrested?
A. Nope.
Q. Bottle or Draft?
A. Err...I don't drink beer.
Q. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
A. Pay off my student loans and invest the rest ASAP so I wouldn't blow it on books.
Q. Would you date me?
A. Considering you're married and I'm in a long-term relationship...nopers.
Q. What's your favorite place to hang out at?
A. Indoors where it's not too hot and not too cold. Preferably with Internet.
Q. Do you believe in ghosts?
A. I'm beginning to wonder. I've awakened at night, certain someone was standing over me. I've seen an odd shadow in a chair with my eyes closed (it was a T'ai Chi thing) in a supposedly haunted apartment.
Q. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Internets. Lots of.
Q. Do you swear a lot?
A. Like a sailor, unless I'm at work, talking to minors, or around my parents.
Q. Biggest pet peeve?
A. Stupid people.
Q. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Muffins.
Q. Middle Name?
A. It's pronounced British-style (thanks, Mom and Dad) and was mispronounced at my high school graduation, to my annoyance.
Q. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same?
A. You said you already did.