Because I'm a sheep too
(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
✓ I miss somebody right now.
✓ I don't watch much TV these days.
✓ I own lots of books.
* * * * *
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.
× I love to play video games. ("Love" is slightly too strong a word. I do like them, though.)
✓ I've tried marijuana. (Not for [thinks...] 5 or 6 years though)
✓ I've watched porn movies. (The same as for the marijuana question... I'm a reformed character!)
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes. (Yes, but only non-religious cusses)
✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.
× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
× I have broken someone's bones. (I guess we're meant to exclude our own?)
✓ I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal. (Doesn't every-one?)
× I hate the rain.
✓ I'm paranoid at times.
✓ I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
✓ I need/want money right now. (Only the want... lucky I get paid in a few days)
× I love sushi.
× I talk really, really fast.
× I have fresh breath in the morning. (I have no idea... I'll have to ask someone to smell it)
× I have long hair. (Used to, but it's been pretty short for the last nine years)
× I have lost money in Las Vegas.
✓ I have at least one sibling.
✓ I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
× I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
✓ I like the way that I look.
× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.
× I am usually pessimistic.
✓ I have a lot of mood swings.
× I think prostitution should be legalized. (I'd have to think about this one more)
× I slept with a roommate.
× I have a hidden talent. (If so, it's hidden to me too)
× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.
✓ I have a lot of friends. (I've never been quite sure who to count as a friend (not as in I'm not sure how I feel about people, just whether "friend" is an appropriate word to describe some of them))
✓ I have pecked someone of the same sex. ("Pecked" means "kissed on the cheek", yes?)
× I enjoy talking on the phone.
× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
× I love to shop and/or window shop.
× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.
× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone. (Two, actually)
× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.
× I've rejected someone before.
✓ I currently like/love someone. (Not in the romantic sense, though)
× I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (I have some idea... but there are lots of details missing. Definately not 100% about being an academic.)
✓ I want to have children in the future. (In an ideal world.)
× I have changed a diaper before.
× I've called the cops on a friend before.
× I'm not allergic to anything. (Kiwi fruit, persimmons and red bananas at last count.)
✓ I have a lot to learn.
✓ I am shy around the opposite sex. (I'm shy around anyone I don't know well)
× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.
✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before.
× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
× I own the "South Park" movie.
✓ I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.
✓ I enjoy some country music.
✓ I would die for my best friends.
✓ I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist. (Only sometimes)
× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
× I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.
× I have dated a close friend's ex.
✓ I am happy at this moment.
× I'm obsessed with guys.
✓ Democrat. (I actually find it much easier to decide between the two(main) US parties than between the three (main) UK ones. I've already voted for all three in different elections (Conservatives just in locals where party affiliation isn't as important, though))
× Republican.
× I don't even know what I am.
× I am punk rockish.
✓ I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
✓ I study for tests most of the time. (Depends what the quantification's over. I don't spend most of my time studying for tests, but I do study for most tests I take)
× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.
✓ I can work on a car. (Only in the literal sense, though (as in, reading a book whilst sitting atop one))
✓ I love my job(s). (Teaching: yes. Being a mathematician: I like it, don't know about love.)
✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now.
× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.
× I have jumped off a bridge.
× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.
✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.
✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument. (Only barely: piano.)
× I hate office jobs.
✓ I went to college out of state. (I'm attending graduate school outside of my home nation state if that counts?)
× I am adopted.
× I am a pyro.
× I have thrown up from crying too much.
× I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.
× I adore bright colours.
× I usually like covers better than originals.
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.
× I can pick up things with my toes.
× I can't whistle.
✓ I have ridden/owned a horse.
× I still have every journal I've ever written in.
× I talk in my sleep.
× I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.
× I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.
× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.
× I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.
× I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.
× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.
× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
✓ I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.
× I'm an artist.
× I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.
✓ If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony. (The having to see other people naked isn't a huge problem. It's more nudist colonies not having great demands for people to teach calculus.)
× I have terrible teeth.
✓ I hate my toes. (Feet in general, actually. They're my least favourite body part.)
✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.
× I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
× I have lived in either three different states or countries.
× I am extremely flexible.
✓ I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business.
× I smoke. (Gave up nearly 6 years ago.)
× I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
× Nobody has ever said I'm normal.
× Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.
× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.
✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.
× I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
✓ I have played strip poker with someone else before.
✓ I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.
× I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
× I can't stand being alone. (Sometimes I can't stand being alone, sometimes I crave solitude. Fickle, me.)
✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time. (Not sure what it is at the moment, though.)
× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.
× I'm a judgmental asshole.
× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
× I have travelled on more than one continent.
× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.
✓ I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am. (Not sure about "need" but it definitely helps.)
× I am a Libertarian.
✓ I can speak more than one language. (French, just about, though I really need to keep it up. I've been watching French movies recently to try.)
× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
× I would rather read than watch TV.
× I like reading fact more than fiction.
× I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. (I can't work nights. I have gotten up very early to do something.)
× I have no piercings.
✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place. (King's Cross, London (though the station shuts over night, so it was actually a case of leaving club at 3, spending an hour walking there and then waiting outside till 6 when it opens).)
× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.
× There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.
× I like most animals better than most people. (There are exceptions (mainly cats and horses) but I don't generically like animals.)
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.
× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.
× I have hit someone with a dead fish.
× I am compulsively honest.
× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.
✓ I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers. (But I guess this is saying a lot less as a guy.)
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.
× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.
× I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.
× I dislike milk.
× I obsessively wash my hands.
× I always carry something significant around with me.
× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.
✓ I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.
✓ I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document. (Well, no, some-one else wrote a meme thing, but I normally do.)
✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird. (As Erin pointed out, math definately counts.)
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.
× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.
× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.
× I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.
✓ I don't like to chew gum.
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.
× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car. (This is a lot easier to not do when you don't have a car.)
✓ I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years. (17-19, which can be a pretty destructive time to have it)
× I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.
× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.
✓ I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.
× I have a custom-built computer.
× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.
× I've gone skinny-dipping.
× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.
× I'm Irish and loving it.
× I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!
× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.
× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
× I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.
× I sleep more than 12 hours a day. (I wish!)
× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
× I need more time to myself.
× I wish I was more open-minded.
× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet. (But I pay for them all!)
× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.
× I say random things to freak people out.
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.
× I love playing Truth or Dare.
× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
✓ Music helps me remember that I am not alone. (It can do, especially singing a Magnifat at night)
✓ Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems. (Working out isn't quite a sport, but it does. Ah, endorphins how do I love thee, let me count the ways...)
✓ I think this survey is particularly long.
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones. (The only people who I talk to on LJ are people I know IRL)
× I can only hate someone that I love.
× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.
✓ I miss somebody right now.
✓ I don't watch much TV these days.
✓ I own lots of books.
* * * * *
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.
× I love to play video games. ("Love" is slightly too strong a word. I do like them, though.)
✓ I've tried marijuana. (Not for [thinks...] 5 or 6 years though)
✓ I've watched porn movies. (The same as for the marijuana question... I'm a reformed character!)
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes. (Yes, but only non-religious cusses)
✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.
× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
× I have broken someone's bones. (I guess we're meant to exclude our own?)
✓ I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal. (Doesn't every-one?)
× I hate the rain.
✓ I'm paranoid at times.
✓ I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
✓ I need/want money right now. (Only the want... lucky I get paid in a few days)
× I love sushi.
× I talk really, really fast.
× I have fresh breath in the morning. (I have no idea... I'll have to ask someone to smell it)
× I have long hair. (Used to, but it's been pretty short for the last nine years)
× I have lost money in Las Vegas.
✓ I have at least one sibling.
✓ I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
× I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
✓ I like the way that I look.
× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.
× I am usually pessimistic.
✓ I have a lot of mood swings.
× I think prostitution should be legalized. (I'd have to think about this one more)
× I slept with a roommate.
× I have a hidden talent. (If so, it's hidden to me too)
× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.
✓ I have a lot of friends. (I've never been quite sure who to count as a friend (not as in I'm not sure how I feel about people, just whether "friend" is an appropriate word to describe some of them))
✓ I have pecked someone of the same sex. ("Pecked" means "kissed on the cheek", yes?)
× I enjoy talking on the phone.
× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
× I love to shop and/or window shop.
× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.
× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone. (Two, actually)
× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.
× I've rejected someone before.
✓ I currently like/love someone. (Not in the romantic sense, though)
× I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (I have some idea... but there are lots of details missing. Definately not 100% about being an academic.)
✓ I want to have children in the future. (In an ideal world.)
× I have changed a diaper before.
× I've called the cops on a friend before.
× I'm not allergic to anything. (Kiwi fruit, persimmons and red bananas at last count.)
✓ I have a lot to learn.
✓ I am shy around the opposite sex. (I'm shy around anyone I don't know well)
× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.
✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before.
× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
× I own the "South Park" movie.
✓ I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.
✓ I enjoy some country music.
✓ I would die for my best friends.
✓ I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist. (Only sometimes)
× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
× I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.
× I have dated a close friend's ex.
✓ I am happy at this moment.
× I'm obsessed with guys.
✓ Democrat. (I actually find it much easier to decide between the two(main) US parties than between the three (main) UK ones. I've already voted for all three in different elections (Conservatives just in locals where party affiliation isn't as important, though))
× Republican.
× I don't even know what I am.
× I am punk rockish.
✓ I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
✓ I study for tests most of the time. (Depends what the quantification's over. I don't spend most of my time studying for tests, but I do study for most tests I take)
× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.
✓ I can work on a car. (Only in the literal sense, though (as in, reading a book whilst sitting atop one))
✓ I love my job(s). (Teaching: yes. Being a mathematician: I like it, don't know about love.)
✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now.
× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.
× I have jumped off a bridge.
× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.
✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.
✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument. (Only barely: piano.)
× I hate office jobs.
✓ I went to college out of state. (I'm attending graduate school outside of my home nation state if that counts?)
× I am adopted.
× I am a pyro.
× I have thrown up from crying too much.
× I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.
× I adore bright colours.
× I usually like covers better than originals.
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.
× I can pick up things with my toes.
× I can't whistle.
✓ I have ridden/owned a horse.
× I still have every journal I've ever written in.
× I talk in my sleep.
× I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.
× I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.
× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.
× I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.
× I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.
× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.
× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
✓ I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.
× I'm an artist.
× I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.
✓ If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony. (The having to see other people naked isn't a huge problem. It's more nudist colonies not having great demands for people to teach calculus.)
× I have terrible teeth.
✓ I hate my toes. (Feet in general, actually. They're my least favourite body part.)
✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.
× I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
× I have lived in either three different states or countries.
× I am extremely flexible.
✓ I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business.
× I smoke. (Gave up nearly 6 years ago.)
× I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
× Nobody has ever said I'm normal.
× Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.
× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.
✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.
× I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
✓ I have played strip poker with someone else before.
✓ I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.
× I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
× I can't stand being alone. (Sometimes I can't stand being alone, sometimes I crave solitude. Fickle, me.)
✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time. (Not sure what it is at the moment, though.)
× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.
× I'm a judgmental asshole.
× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
× I have travelled on more than one continent.
× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.
✓ I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am. (Not sure about "need" but it definitely helps.)
× I am a Libertarian.
✓ I can speak more than one language. (French, just about, though I really need to keep it up. I've been watching French movies recently to try.)
× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
× I would rather read than watch TV.
× I like reading fact more than fiction.
× I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. (I can't work nights. I have gotten up very early to do something.)
× I have no piercings.
✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place. (King's Cross, London (though the station shuts over night, so it was actually a case of leaving club at 3, spending an hour walking there and then waiting outside till 6 when it opens).)
× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.
× There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.
× I like most animals better than most people. (There are exceptions (mainly cats and horses) but I don't generically like animals.)
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.
× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.
× I have hit someone with a dead fish.
× I am compulsively honest.
× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.
✓ I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers. (But I guess this is saying a lot less as a guy.)
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.
× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.
× I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.
× I dislike milk.
× I obsessively wash my hands.
× I always carry something significant around with me.
× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.
✓ I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.
✓ I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document. (Well, no, some-one else wrote a meme thing, but I normally do.)
✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird. (As Erin pointed out, math definately counts.)
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.
× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.
× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.
× I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.
✓ I don't like to chew gum.
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.
× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car. (This is a lot easier to not do when you don't have a car.)
✓ I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years. (17-19, which can be a pretty destructive time to have it)
× I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.
× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.
✓ I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.
× I have a custom-built computer.
× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.
× I've gone skinny-dipping.
× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.
× I'm Irish and loving it.
× I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!
× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.
× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
× I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.
× I sleep more than 12 hours a day. (I wish!)
× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
× I need more time to myself.
× I wish I was more open-minded.
× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet. (But I pay for them all!)
× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.
× I say random things to freak people out.
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.
× I love playing Truth or Dare.
× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
✓ Music helps me remember that I am not alone. (It can do, especially singing a Magnifat at night)
✓ Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems. (Working out isn't quite a sport, but it does. Ah, endorphins how do I love thee, let me count the ways...)
✓ I think this survey is particularly long.
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones. (The only people who I talk to on LJ are people I know IRL)
× I can only hate someone that I love.
× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.