1. You have 10 bucks and need to buy snacks at a gas station, what do you get?
Cheddar Chex Mix, water and possibly a coke if I need the caffeine.

2. If you had to be reincarnated as some sort of sea dwelling creature, what would you be?
Dolphin. They’re smart, well-respected, and are one of the few mammals besides humans that have sex for fun as well as procreation.

3. Who's your favorite redhead?
Joss Whedon. Honorable mention goes to Jason Flemyng. Rowr.

4. What do you order when you're at a IHOP?
Lingonberry crepes.

5. Last book you read?
Currently reading Preacher vol. 7.

6. Have you made out with anyone on your friend's list?
Yep.

7. Describe your favorite pair of underwear?
Superman skivvies.

8. Describe the last time you were injured.
As a gimp, I’m technically injured all the time. But my last additional injury was a big drunken bump on my head.

9. Of all your friends, with whom would you want to be stuck in the middle of a jungle with?
Dom the boy scout.

10. Are there any odd things that make you feel uncomfortable?
The word “panties”.

11. Are there any weird things that turn you on?
Apparently, body hair and soft tummies are weird to like.

12. What is the wallpaper on your cell phone?
My true love, Optimus Prime.

13. Soda?
Sure. Ta.

14. Flavor of pudding?
Rice.

15. What type of shirt are you wearing?
No shirt. Dress.

16. Prescription medication?
The pill that keeps me baby free.

17. If you could use only one form of transportation for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Teleportation.

18. How many people are on your friends list?
This is a myspace meme, by the way. And I don’t feel like logging on to check. But I think it’s somewhere around 100.

19. How many people on your list do you know in real life?
Damn you, myspace meme. Leave me be. I’m going to guess it’s about 70%, the rest being bands, cities, or fictional characters.

20. What are you listening to right now?
Indie 103.1

21. Most recent movie you've watched?
Dead and Breakfast. Blech.

22. Most useless class you have ever taken:
A “feel guilty for being white” class I took in college that was disguised as a Sociology core class.

24. Name a teacher you had the hots for?
Wade Williams.

25. What is a saying that you use a lot?
”That’s cool.” (As oppose to “no worries”, which I can’t bring myself to say without feeling fake.)

27. What is your favorite part of the chicken?
The whole thing alive and in my lap.

28. What's your favorite town/city?
Seattle, WA.

29. Favorite kind of cake?
This caramel cake my mom used to make. She called it Torta Chilena.

30. What's the first word that comes to mind right now?
Cake. Thanks, question #29.

32. What makes you feel like puking?
Red Bull. The mere thought of it.

33. Who got you to join myspace?
Frank.

34. What did you have for dinner?
Haven’t had it yet. But I expect to indulge in a bevy of cheeses and cocktails at my work cocktail party.

35. How long have you been at your current job?
2 and a half years too long.

36. Is Tom on your friends list?
I don’t remember if I bothered to delete him or not.

37. What's the last thing you said out loud?
Ok. Thanks.

38. Look to your left, what do you see?
My purple unicorn.

39. Who is the last person who spent $100 on you?
My mom, actually. She’s REALLY worried about me going back to living alone for some reason..

40. Who's your favorite villain?
Rufus Sewell.

41. What’s the last piece of clothing you borrowed from someone?
I can’t remember. Hardly ever happens.

42. What's the last piece of clothing you bought?
New underpants to replace the ones with the holes.

43. What phrase makes you laugh no matter where, when or how?
Snack Pack.

44. Go into your text message log on your phone…what is the last text you sent?
I don’t know, actually. I just deleted my outbox this morning because it was getting full. Probably something about plans.

45. If you could be alone with anyone and a bottle of baby-oil right now who would it be?
Ew. They should rephrase this question to be “if you HAD to be alone with a bottle of baby oil and another person”.

46. What keeps you up at night?
Stress.

47. What’s to your right?
Glass of water and a picture of Tobe.

48. What was the subject of the last person who posted this?
I can’t remember.

49. If you were extraordinarily good at one thing, what would it be?
I AM extraordinarily good at a couple of things. But if I could pick something I’m currently bad at and become extraordinarily good at it, it would have to be playing music. I’m very jealous of all my talented musician friends.

50. Yes or no?
Yes?

April 27, 2006
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Happy Friday. This meme was pilfered from Ahe’s myspace and contains some original (albeit somewhat strange) questions for once.

1. Would you make a fool out of yourself in public if it meant you were making your partner laugh?
Might as well get SOMETHING good out of being a fool.

2. Would you prefer the lights on or off during sex?
Dimly lit or daylight with closed curtains.

3. Do you judge people solely by their musical preferences?
Not SOLELY.

4. If you could 'take back' your virginity from your first partner, would you?
Nope. I was dying to lose it at that point.

5. Do you need to know everything about someone's past?
Only the things that are relevant to me.

6. Is it more worthwhile and satisfying to improve the world or appreciate the world?
Can’t we do both?

7. Do you feel you have a purpose or calling in life?
I’ll leave the callings to Tru.

8. Do you believe that dreams can be messages from a “higher level”?
Only if I go to sleep baked.

9. Would you rather have a great friend you could share Everything with or a great lover you can't really talk to?
Friend.

10. Is the male or female body the closest to perfection?
Looks-wise, I’d say female. Functionally, male.

11. Should a child who's caught masturbating be punished?
Of course not.

12. Do you like kissing in public?
Sometimes.

13. Do you have a fetish that you would like to employ in your next relationship?
Yep.

14. Did America really put a man on the moon?
Duh.

15. Would you date someone significantly (9 years or under) younger?
At my current age, that would just be weird.

16. Generally, in life, what makes you happy?
People. Of course, they can make me equally UNhappy.

17. How do you handle criticism?
Initial offense followed by concurrence.

18. Would you like to date someone a lot purer than you?
I have.

19. When fooling around with someone, do you sometimes have sexual fantasies about other people?
When I’m fooling around with someone, it’s usually because I want to be with THEM.

21. Is it possible for Big Bellied Men to be equally attractive as Thin Men?
If not more so.

22. Do you think the family of a murder victim should have any say in what punishment is given to the murderer?
To a point. I still don’t believe in capital punishment.

23. Would you have a “Happy Button” installed on your body, connected to your brain, which would instantly make you very happy?
You mean, like, drugs?

24. Would you rather know everything about your mate, or be regularly surprised?
I like good surprises. Not like, “my sister is my mother” surprises.

25. We are all human, do you judge someone for a past indiscretion?
The way this question is phrased makes me feel like they are looking for a “correct” answer. However, since we are all human, I think it’s as normal to judge people by past indiscretions as it is to HAVE then.

26. What is sexiest on a woman or a man?
Woman: curves. Man: furriness.

27. Would you rather have your dream job or your soul mate for the rest of your life?
Dream job. I agree with Ahe that soul mates are a myth.

28. Do you consider yourself sexually open minded?
Yes.

29. Should your mate also become your best friend?
It would be nice. I wish you wouldn’t keep saying “mate” though. What are we? Wolves?

30. Would you rather marry a virgin or someone experienced?
There is no chain of events that I could possibly experience which would lead me to find myself at an alter with a virgin. I don’t care how cute “The 40-Year Old Virgin” was.

31. How do you attract the opposite sex?
”I’m SOOOOOO drunk…”

32. Have you ever posed as a nude model?
Not for anyone I didn’t know. Well.

33. Would you prefer if good things happened, or interesting things?
I don’t understand this question.

34. Is it better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all?
There's a lesson in everything, but mostly it sucks.

April 21, 2006
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Happy Good Friday. I will commemorate Jesus’ death in a way that I believe he would appreciate: by doing a meme that appears to be predominantly about the secret debauchery of my youth. This meme actually has some interesting questions. And by interesting, I mean, they haven’t been asked 1000 times before in a meme. Anywhosel…

FIRSTS

1. Who was your first kiss and when?
My first kiss was during a game of spin the bottle. I kissed a guy named Daniel. Neither of us was too pleased about it. A few days later, a guy I DID like, named Robert, kissed me on his own volition. I would like to count that as my first kiss, if I may. Oh, and I was 13.

2. Who was your first prom date?
I find it funny that this meme assumes most people had multiple prom dates. I didn’t get asked to prom and the only person I would have gone with didn’t like me “in that way”. It wasn’t too big of a deal though (despite the general heartbreak of that crush). I spent the evening at a punk rock show and had a much better time than I would have had with a room full of people I didn’t like.

3. Who was your first roommate?
I roomed with THREE other girls my freshman year in college. A bio major, an aspiring aerobics instructor, and a funny girl named Jessica who had a drawer full of dildos.

4. What alcoholic beverage did you drink when you got drunk the first time?
Red wine. So goth.

5. Who was your first sexual partner?
My first boyfriend. He was a high school dropout and kind of a trouble maker. I really did live the movie cliché high school existence.

6. What was your first job?
Apart from babysitting, I had a summer job as a day camp counselor.

7. What was your first car?
1982 blue Volvo Station Wagon.

8. When did you go to your first funeral?
Some kids in my neighborhood died in a car accident when I was in middle school.

9. How old were you when you first moved away from your hometown?
I was 17 when I went off to college.

10. Who was your first grade teacher?
Some lady. Actually, several ladies. I think I switched schools that year.

11. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane?
Moved to Oregon from Richardson, Texas (g-g-g-ghosts!) when I was 2.

12. Where did you go for your first date and who was it with?
I went to a high school play with my first boyfriend, after which we hung out in the parking lot with his friends. Super romantic.

13. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who was it with?
My first boyfriend. That was clearly the height of my teenage rebellion.

14. Who was your first Best Friend in elementary and are you still friends with them?
I moved around quite a bit back then so I had a few best friends during that time. I think the first one was a German kid named Joe who I liked because he had ALL the Leggos. I’m not still friends with most of them, but I did reconnect with one of them in Seattle last year. Weird, considering we met in Huntsville, AL.

15. Who was the first person to send you flowers, or who was the first person that you sent flowers to?
Sent me flowers: I’m pretty sure it was my dad in middle school who sent me flowers to make me feel better about not being popular. He signed them “A secret admirer”. I think it might have actually made me feel worse knowing they were from my dad.
Sent flowers to: Probably a sympathy bouquet to a friend.

16. Where did you live the first time you moved out of your parents house?
The lovely Anderson/Langdon dorms.

17. Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day?
Whoever I think would be sympathetic to that particular plight.

18. Who's wedding were you in the first time you were a bridesmaid/groomsmen?
My friend Kristie’s.

19. What is the first thing you do in the morning?
Look at the clock and groan. Seriously. Every morning I do that unwittingly.

20. What was the first concert you ever went to?
Cool Answer: Anthrax/White Zombie/Quicksand
Uncool Answer: New Kids on the Block/Tiffany

21. What was your first major surgery?
Knee Surgery.

22. First tattoo or piercing?
I reluctantly got my ears pierced when I was 10. They’re pretty much all closed up now.

23. First celebrity sighting?
I saw Jeff Foxworthy in Richmond once. He was sitting in traffic.

24. First celebrity crush?
Han Solo.

April 14, 2006
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1) What is the most useless thing you have in your wallet?
My LOOOONG expired international student ID which I just keep around because I like the picture.

2) If you were sent on assignment to rate the ten best small towns in America, what particular criterion would be most important to you?
No racism and the presence of a nice dive bar.

3) You've been invited to mud wrestle anyone in the world. Who are you going to wrestle? And who will win?
Angela Bassett circa “Strange Days”. And I would LET her win.

4) You're working on a national advertising campaign to get people to eat more ice cream. What will your campaign slogan be?
Fuck Ice Cream!

5) If something other than a cuckoo could pop out of a clock to announce the time, what would you want it to be?
Dildo.

6) Speaking of whistles, can you whistle?
Occasionally, I make an accidental whistling noise but it is in no way melodic.

7) Sometimes whistles blow to warn us or get our attention. When would you most like to have a whistle blow to alert you?
When some asshole in an SUV is going to run through the crosswalk rather than let me go.

8) We're all familiar with frequent flyer programs. Suppose there was a similar program to reward you for something else you do frequently in your life. What would it be?
Frequent Karaoke.

9) If the temperature had to be the same on every day of the year, what would you want it to be?
80. But specifically Northwest 80, meaning it would be cool in the shade and not humid unless it was actually raining.

10) Do you ever check the payphone, or vending machines, for change in the return slot?
Nope.

11) Would you be happier if your teeth were whiter? Have you ever used, do you use, those white strips?
I don't think I would necessarily be HAPPIER if they were whiter. But yes, I do use a whitening system and whitening toothpaste. My teeth are tea-stained.

12) What is the most memorable April Fool's joke that either you've ever played on someone, or someone has played on you?
I hate April Fools. It's a pointless day. No one has ever played a joke on my that was in any way clever or memorable on this day. My co-workers like to play silly tricks on each other throughout the year, but thankfully I am not privvy to such things.

13) How many times have you locked your keys in the car, and the car was running?
Never.

14) Let's say that you've just been photographed right at this very moment. Take a look around you, and tell us what 'easter egg' is in the photograph that is the most subtle clue, yet will give us the most information about you, when we find it of course.
My Godzilla calendar?

April 6, 2006
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