Took this from thegranddw's site...I don't have enough to do at work.
1. Which song lyrics capture you or an event in your life most clearly? “So you wanna be a rock superstar? And live large? Big house, five cars, you’re in charge? Goin’ up in the WORLD, don’t trust nobody, gotta look over your shoulder constantly.”
2. Sum yourself up using only one adjective. moisturizing
3. What was your best Halloween costume? WHEATIES BOX!
4. What food would you cry about having eliminated from your diet? Chicken fried rice
5. Name three thinkers/individuals that have had a profound influence on your mindset: 1) Carl Jung 2) Will Smith 3) that chick who played Blossom
6. Who was your first celebrity crush? ::mumbles something about the Power Rangers::
7. What phrases do you constantly use? “That’s so funny” (I say this when I can’t muster up a good fake laugh).
8. What behavior do you find morally objectionable (or too risky to try), but extremely tempting? I’m going to have to say…skydiving.
9. What is the BEST smell, and what does it mean to you? The smell of mold and crushed worms on a rainy day. Reminds me of Saginaw.
10. What kinds of hair products (shampoo, curling iron) do you use? Sometimes I brush it and dry it. Sometimes I straighten it. I don’t wash my hair that much, ha.
11. Build your dream house. Now describe it. My dream house is a lower Manhattan apartment with a balcony overlooking the street with lots of little plants. There is a cat.
12. What movies/books/TV shows did you act out as a kid? My friends and I often did Saved By the Bell reenactments. In high school, we pretended we were the Charlie’s Angels (like we watched it!) and ran around after school with our “guns” and like put stupid notes in people’s lockers as our “missions”.
13. If you had to throw someone off a building, who would it be? Who would this person land on? I would have to say Karl Rove, landing on my roommate. Ha ha
14. What was your best year? Why? I guess 2003 and 2004 are in competition. In 2003 I went to France and moved to New York. 2004 has just been fun.
15. What is the longest you've maintained a close-friend relationship? With whom? I’ve been friends with Anna since sophomore year…so, what, seven years?
16. Name one thing you wish you'd done differently. I sort of wish that I’d dropped out of high school and gotten my GED instead. I can’t say that I got much out of high school and the two years previous seemed to be spent actually figuring out who I was versus who my teachers and fellow students convinced me that I was.
17. What one sin should be taken off the list of Seven Deadly Sins? What should be added? Gluttony should be removed; self-hypnosis should be added
18. Sum yourself up using only one preposition. ABOVE. Ha ha, kidding
19. Name five [non-physical] qualities that draw you to a person. Confidence, enthusiasm, intelligence, ambition, authenticity
20. And five [non-physical] things about someone that turn you off. [No points off for pettiness.] falseness, ignorance, closed-mindedness, laziness, excessive negativity
21. What are your pop-culture guilty pleasures? I’d have to say small amounts Shakira and Britney Spears
22. What food category/establishment/preparer can you always count on to not disappoint? Chinese food, as long as it’s not some sketchy place
23. Share your worst airport/airline/flight experience. Um, I’d have to say my ten months as a flight attendant.
24. Pants/shorts with writing on the seat -- yay or nay? I’m gonna have to say…no. Let your bum speak for itself.
25. Think of the last roll of film/collection of digital pics you got developed from your camera. Were you in a majority, about half, or very few of the pics? OR, how many photos do you have with only you in them? Very few…I’m not one of those people who needs to see what I look like.
26. Reach out to the closest book [or similar applicable reading material]. Turn to page three. What is the first line of text? “My own power is as great as the power of money.” Ha ha, gotta love financial books.
27. Favorite non-nuclear family member to hang out with? I can’t say any of my family members have achieved nuclear proliferation so, all of them
28. Best trick/prank/joke/April Fools that you ever pulled: I told this kid I liked in sixth grade that I was moving to Oregon and he believed me and I thought this was comic GOLD.
29. If you could take a ride on one of the following, which would you choose: the Polar Express, the Hogwarts Express or the Starlight Express. Starlight express!
30. Choose one: you have to wear tapered pants for the rest of your life or you can never ride a rollercoaster again. I’d have to give up rollercoasters
31. Pick one fictional character each to do, dump, and marry. I choose Jose Arcadio Buendia the second for all three (har har har, I made a funny and no one gets it)
32. What was the last compliment/ insult someone gave to you? Some girl told me I looked sexy the other day…lol. Last insult, I guess someone told me I was cold and unemotional.
33. What is your favorite ride at Disneyworld: I’ve never been there
34. If you could eliminate three things from your life, what would they be? Boredom, bad living situations, any illnesses
35. If someone were going to portray you or your life in an artistic medium, which medium would it be and why? Mine would be best expressed as an absurd indie film starring a coked up Hilary Duff
36. Favorite dead baby joke: I only know dead toddler jokes
37. Name your troubled teen [Emo, Goth, Trenchcoat Mafia]: they’re all whiners
38. Method of execution [your own]: I would be forced to jump off a really tall building, or perhaps a mountain
39. Favorite Quality of the Platypus: it’s duck-billed-ness
40. Pants? Not required
41. Favorite Apples to Apples Card and why: huh?
42. Favorite Apples to Apples pair and why: huh?
43. What would you want to be reincarnated as? I’m going to have to say my own granddaughter, because I’m going to leave my kids a crapload of money and power
44. What dead celebrity would you want to go on a date with? Mr. Rogers
45. If you were going to be an ex-patriate, where would you do it? Paris in the 20’s. typical answer
46. Least favorite thing that you do CONSTANTLY. work
47. Where is your ideal place to live (excluding where you are now)? Here! But if it were somewhere else, I guess I’d say Toronto or Paris (although that might get old quick, the culture is so different and ambition isn’t really valued like it is here)
48. What question would you most like to see asked on these surveys? How many infections diseases do you have?
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