36 Questions for You You You

[womzilla]

esmeraldus_neo posted this under the ever-useful title "enabling my friends to avoid work since forever" and I'm finally getting around to answering. Feel free to give your own responses in comments, or on your own lj addressed to me, or in writing using a #2 pencil on college-rule paper only. Spelling counts. This will go down on your permanent record. My own answers to the generic questions will be posted in a comment.


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01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
31) Biggest pet peeve?
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
34) Favourite and least favourite food?
35) Do you believe in God?
36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

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[womzilla.livejournal.com]

01) Yes--many of them, but the type the question means is probably "romantic/sexual", for which the answer is still "yes".
02) To be a doctor. (By "dream" I assume it means "aspiration", not "showing up for a final exam in a class you forgot you were enrolled in, only you're naked and the teacher is really Venus and the classroom is the Red October Tractor Factory in Stalingrad and the final exam is in Urdu". I mean, what six-year-old doesn't dream that?)
03) I can think of three among which I would be hard-pressed to choose one: the ability to learn languages quickly, to play at least one musical instrument, and to be able to draw at least at the level of a simple cartoon.
04) Non-alcoholic. Cranberry and lime juice mixed is good.
05) Broccoli. Potatoes I don't think of as vegetables anymore, but potatoes too.
06) Scott Plagenhoef's Belle and Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister, part of the 33-1/3 series
07) Metastasis.
08) No, but I do have some abdominal mesh under my umbilicus.
09) Again, a toss-up: procrastination, disorganization, and dilettantism,all of which feed into each other.
10) [asker-specific]
11) To watch? Baseball. To play? Ultimate Frisbee, though it has been literally decades.
12) It varies situationally. Professionally, I am a pessimist who has to eventually succumb to optimism.
13) [asker-specific]
14) Spending three years depressed and unemployed after Sept. 11 while the whole world was depressed and unemployed; my brother died during that interval, making that day probably the worst of my life so far.
15) I keep written lists of every comic book I've read.
16) A colony of the cutest rats in the world. Ten, currently.
17) [asker-specific]
18) [asker-specific]
19) It depends on the clown. Pennywise, scary. Knockers, cute.
20) I don't enjoy going bald.
21) [asker-specific]
22) Brown.
23) Not formally, though in high school my group of friends were hauled in to UNC campus security because we were being a nuisance in a classroom building.
24) Bottles are good.
25) Probably just put it in savings. If you mean "if you could blow $10000 today with no regrets", I'd buy a bunch of TV shows on DVD that I've been putting off and then use the rest to travel somewhere.
27) The homes of friends.
28) No. And I don't think they believe in me, either.
29) Enjoyable thing I enjoy the most: have sex. Enjoyable thing I do the most: play on the computer.
30) Define "a fucking lot".
31) People who think that complex matter can be reduced to a single element, whether it be "this simple fact caused this complex event" or "this question of aesthetics can be reduced to a single 'favorite'".
32) Dilettante.
33) Yes. I'd like to think it believes in me.
34) Most: There are a bunch of different ways to answer that question. I think my favorite cuisine is east Indian, and my favorite single dish is probably lamb curry. Least: toss-up between "all cheeses" and "all cooked fish". My single least-favorite dish would probably be a tuna melt.
35) I'm a devout ex-Catholic atheist: There is no God, and Mary is His mother.
36) [asker-specific]

[washa-way.livejournal.com]

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
*It's fairly silly at times, but it's committed.

02) What was your dream growing up?
*To be a writer/biologist/cartoonist. One out of three so far.

03) What talent do you wish you had?
*I wish I were meticulous enough to be a good scientist.

04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
*Odds are it'd be coffee.

05) Favorite vegetable?
&Green peppers. Carrots a close second.

06) What was the last book you read?
*I just finished the new Fables collection, War and Pieces.

07) What zodiac sign are you?
*Pisces.

08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
*No, unless you want to count the results of my Jewish ancestry.

09) Worst Habit?
*Sloth.

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
*Depends. Do I know you?

11) What is your favorite sport?
*To watch: UNC basketball, with NFL football second. To participate: hiking first, rock climbing second, basketball and soccer third.

12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
*Optimistic, but extremely pragmatic.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
*Ask you if you had a tool kit.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
*Discovering the body of a drowned co-worker at camp when I was 16.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
*I've met Martha Stewart, Karen Berger, AND Robyn Hitchcock.

16) Do you have any pets?
*A lunkheaded hound dog.

17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
*Is this a threat?

18) What was your first impression of me?
*That you ask a lot of questions.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
*Scarier than cute.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
*I'd lose thirty-some pounds.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
*Conscience. It's usually less work.

22) What color eyes do you have?
*Brown.

23) Ever been arrested?
*"I proceeded to tell him the story of Alice's Restaurant Massacree with full orchestration and five-part harmony..."

24) Bottle or can soda?
*Bottle.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
*Pay off credit card debts and save the rest for college.

27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
*Where I am.

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
*Not really, but I don't dismiss the idea out of hand.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
*Spare time?

30) Do you swear a lot?
*You shouldn't say fuck, no you shouldn't say fuck, fuck no!

31) Biggest pet peeve?
*People forwarding emails without making even a rudimentary effort to find out if they're true.

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
*Spoooooon!

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
*Oh, mais oui!

34) Favourite and least favourite food?
*Ice cream is probably #1, though fresh bread is also pretty awesome. Least favorite would be an eggplant-and-brussels-sprouts combo of some sort.

35) Do you believe in God?
*I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
*Maybe later.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?

Married for 30 years.

02) What was your dream growing up?

I had two: Astronaut and deepsea diver. Inner ear problems destroyed both.

03) What talent do you wish you had?

Drawing.

04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?

Probably a mojito.

05) Favorite vegetable?

Green beans.

06) What was the last book you read?

Just finished "Making Money" by Terry Pratchett.

07) What zodiac sign are you?

Carcinoma.

08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.

None.

09) Worst Habit?

Knucklecracking. Drives Spousal Overunit crazy.

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?

To play: Bowling. To watch: Baseball.

12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?

No.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?

Try to keep us both calm and use the emergency call system.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?

Getting fired from my job in 2005.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.

I am engaged in a lifelong quest for the perfect spaghetti sauce.

16) Do you have any pets?

Four cats, one Rottweiler.

17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?

Once I established who you are you'd be welcomed with good cheer.

18) What was your first impression of me?

Can't remember.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?

No.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?

My eyes are too small.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?

Depends on the crime.

22) What color eyes do you have?

That shifting green-to-brown thing called hazel.

23) Ever been arrested?

Yes.

24) Bottle or can soda?

Fountain by choice. Bottle then can.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?

Invest it in the stock market. It's nearing the bottom.

27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?

The Other Change of Hobbit used to be. I don't really have a hangout these days.

28) Do you believe in ghosts?

No. Belief is for when you don't have evidence.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?

Hang out with friends for good craic.

30) Do you swear a lot?

Less than I used to, more than I want to.

31) Biggest pet peeve?

Broccoli.

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?

Fat.

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?

See above re: ghosts.

34) Favourite and least favourite food?

Does anybody really have a favorite food? But my least favorite is unquestionably canned beets.

35) Do you believe in God?

See above re: ghosts.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

Probably.