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THE APPLICATION:
Basics
1. Name, nicknames, what you’d like to be called: elisabeth, betsy.
2. Age, birthday: 20, 3/26/85
3. What color is your aura? i've never had my aura read!
4. Describe yourself in meteorlogical terms, i.e. "Partly sunny with a chance of rain." party cloudy with a chance of showers.
Favourites
5. Five favourite/personally important songs, moviesand books and why you chose them:
- anything by elliott smith. he's my all-time favorite.
- "hedwig and the angry inch," because it's all about finding yourself, and that's what i feel like i'm doing right now.
- "sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs," by chuck klosterman, because it's the funniest thing you will ever read!
- the television show "my so-called life," 'cos it reminds me of how i was in high school.
- "the bad seed," just because it's a brilliant book/movie.
6. Five hobbies: playing bass, playing guitar, collecting things, writing songs, and hanging out with friends.
7. Favorite crayola color: dandelion yellow
8. What's on your favorite T-shirt? my favorite t-shirt is yellow, and has the words "euclid records" and a guitar on it. euclid records is my uncle's record store, in st. louis, missouri.
9. Which is your favourite Disney Princess? it's a tie between belle and ariel.
10. What is your favorite poem and/or poet of all time? i'm not usually one for poetry, but i love the lyrics of elliott smith.
11. What was your favorite television show as a child? as a young child, i watched "sesame street." as an older child, i loved "saved by the bell!"
12. Who is your favorite artist (painter, sculptor, etc)? i really like junko mizuno's work.
Random Questions
13. What do you want your tombstone to say?: i don't know... what do they usually say?
14. One interesting fact about you: i have over 10,000 kool-aid points.
15. Tell us some of your favorite arbitrary (some might say “random”) items: gumby bank, entire collection of mint "rocky horror picture show" trading cards, lots of stuffed animals.
16. What is the one thing you can't take someone criticizing about you? choices i make.
17. What are you shy about?/What topics do you consider "off-limits" in a conversation? i guess it depends on the relationship i have with the person i'm having the conversation with! but with someone i am just meeting, i stay away from the big three: sex, politics, and religion.
18. Tell us a joke. what do you call a black guy flying a plane? ... a pilot, you racist!
19. What do you think about: Karl Rove (and why Bush still hasn’t kicked him out of office)? i don't want to sound stupid, but to tell you the truth, i don't really understand what's going on with all that.
20. What do you think the word "tzusuj" would mean? that noise people make with their armpits!
21. Choose one:
a.) If you had the blood of 13 virgins, what would you do with it? boring answer, but i'd dispose of it.
b.) If you had the blood of 13 virgins, how do you think you got it?
22. Choose one:
a.) Why is a raven like a writing desk? i thought about it, and i'm still not sure.
b.) What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
23. Choose one: Pick four people (celebrities, fictional character, whatever) that you'd invite to:
a.) a dinner party and what food would you serve (describe in course detail)
b.) A cocktail party and what mini foods would you serve gosh, this is a hard question... i would love to meet all four of the red hot chili peppers. i'm a big fan of theirs. i would serve little cocktail weiners on toothpicks!
c.) A lightswitch rave?. what is a lightswitch rave?
And explain why you chose the aforementioned people.
24. If we hate you and end up ripping you a new asshole, how will you handle this? Anger? Sadness? Indifference? What? Please explain. i might be a little angry at first, but i'm sure i would move on. :o)
25. The pope, the leader of your country and you are in a plane. The pilot and co pilot tell you the plane is going down and there are only 4 parachutes. They take two and jump out. What do you do? (Please identify said country leader). the leader of the country i live in is george bush. i would have to say that i would take one of the parachutes, and leave the pope and dubya to argue over the last one.
26. Animals in people clothes Yes/No. Please explain your answer. yes! i have a little puppy named pee-wee, and he looks so cute dressed in little sweaters and things! if you saw a picture, you would agree!
27. A train leaves New York for London at a speed of 45 miles per hour. London is 3,470 miles away and at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Do you believe anyone dumb enough to board this train deserves to drown? no.
28. Who's hotter Charles Darwin or Jesus H. Christ? darwin's my boy, but as far as hotness goes, i'd have to go with jesus... that loincloth? oh, baby!
29. If you were stuck in a windowless, white room for a whole day with no means of occupying yourself, what would you do to keep busy? i would probably end up singing songs to myself.
30. So, the Earth is going to be destroyed next week. What city would you absolutely have to see before it boiled into space? tokyo, japan!
31. Would you ever join the Italian Mafia? What about the Russian one? well, i am part russian... but i think it might interfere with my teaching career. ^_^
32. If you could run away and join the circus, what would you do there and why? well, i definitely wouldn't want to be a lion tamer, 'cos i'm afraid of lions and tigers... and i wouldn't want to be a tightrope walker... maybe i'd be a fire swallower!
33. Which muppet you would be and why? i think i would be ralph or dr. teeth, because we both have a passion for music.
34. What languages do you know? And why? i know english very well, and i know a little bit of spanish, because i took it for three years in middle/high school. i'd like to re-learn it, actually.
35. What piece of literature do you absolutely want to douse with gasoline, gleefully burn, and then scatter the ashes the crossroads? "the old man and the sea." i had to read it in ninth grade, and boy oh boy, was it boring!
36. If you are intending on having children, what would you name your children? / If you already have them, what are their names? / If you don't intend on having children, please explain why. i would like to name a boy joseph elliott or elliott joseph, and a girl adeline or "addy" for short.
37. Fill in the blank:
A good roommate should never _____. leave their stuff lying around.
What is a BETTER ending to these cliches?:
A watched pot never ____. clean.
Always look on the ____. dark side.
38. What's your deepest, darkest sexual secret? honestly, i don't really have any deep, dark secrets. ummm... i have naked pictures of myself.
39. Pick any of the following items and explain your choice: a red christmas tree, a rotten turkey, or a bag of candy that tasted like sand. a red christmas tree. i have never seen one before!
40. PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SAY SOMETHING INTERESTING:
norwegians drink 10.7 kilograms of coffee per person annually. they also lead the globe in anxiety disorders... time to switch to herbal tea?
41. Your photo here:
42. a.) (choose one of the following)
i.) A picture/photo of anything else:
ii.) Draw a self-portrait using only MSpaint (or a similar program).
sometimes i wear contacts
b.) Blank space. (Post something random. A picture, a link, whatever, to make us laugh and keep us amused. Or if you’re stuck, five websites that you go to regularly (excepting email servers, Livejournal.com and search engines)
okcupid
suicide girls
ljdrama
eric conveys an emotion
bmezine
Basics
1. Name, nicknames, what you’d like to be called: elisabeth, betsy.
2. Age, birthday: 20, 3/26/85
3. What color is your aura? i've never had my aura read!
4. Describe yourself in meteorlogical terms, i.e. "Partly sunny with a chance of rain." party cloudy with a chance of showers.
Favourites
5. Five favourite/personally important songs, moviesand books and why you chose them:
- anything by elliott smith. he's my all-time favorite.
- "hedwig and the angry inch," because it's all about finding yourself, and that's what i feel like i'm doing right now.
- "sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs," by chuck klosterman, because it's the funniest thing you will ever read!
- the television show "my so-called life," 'cos it reminds me of how i was in high school.
- "the bad seed," just because it's a brilliant book/movie.
6. Five hobbies: playing bass, playing guitar, collecting things, writing songs, and hanging out with friends.
7. Favorite crayola color: dandelion yellow
8. What's on your favorite T-shirt? my favorite t-shirt is yellow, and has the words "euclid records" and a guitar on it. euclid records is my uncle's record store, in st. louis, missouri.
9. Which is your favourite Disney Princess? it's a tie between belle and ariel.
10. What is your favorite poem and/or poet of all time? i'm not usually one for poetry, but i love the lyrics of elliott smith.
11. What was your favorite television show as a child? as a young child, i watched "sesame street." as an older child, i loved "saved by the bell!"
12. Who is your favorite artist (painter, sculptor, etc)? i really like junko mizuno's work.
Random Questions
13. What do you want your tombstone to say?: i don't know... what do they usually say?
14. One interesting fact about you: i have over 10,000 kool-aid points.
15. Tell us some of your favorite arbitrary (some might say “random”) items: gumby bank, entire collection of mint "rocky horror picture show" trading cards, lots of stuffed animals.
16. What is the one thing you can't take someone criticizing about you? choices i make.
17. What are you shy about?/What topics do you consider "off-limits" in a conversation? i guess it depends on the relationship i have with the person i'm having the conversation with! but with someone i am just meeting, i stay away from the big three: sex, politics, and religion.
18. Tell us a joke. what do you call a black guy flying a plane? ... a pilot, you racist!
19. What do you think about: Karl Rove (and why Bush still hasn’t kicked him out of office)? i don't want to sound stupid, but to tell you the truth, i don't really understand what's going on with all that.
20. What do you think the word "tzusuj" would mean? that noise people make with their armpits!
21. Choose one:
a.) If you had the blood of 13 virgins, what would you do with it? boring answer, but i'd dispose of it.
b.) If you had the blood of 13 virgins, how do you think you got it?
22. Choose one:
a.) Why is a raven like a writing desk? i thought about it, and i'm still not sure.
b.) What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
23. Choose one: Pick four people (celebrities, fictional character, whatever) that you'd invite to:
a.) a dinner party and what food would you serve (describe in course detail)
b.) A cocktail party and what mini foods would you serve gosh, this is a hard question... i would love to meet all four of the red hot chili peppers. i'm a big fan of theirs. i would serve little cocktail weiners on toothpicks!
c.) A lightswitch rave?. what is a lightswitch rave?
And explain why you chose the aforementioned people.
24. If we hate you and end up ripping you a new asshole, how will you handle this? Anger? Sadness? Indifference? What? Please explain. i might be a little angry at first, but i'm sure i would move on. :o)
25. The pope, the leader of your country and you are in a plane. The pilot and co pilot tell you the plane is going down and there are only 4 parachutes. They take two and jump out. What do you do? (Please identify said country leader). the leader of the country i live in is george bush. i would have to say that i would take one of the parachutes, and leave the pope and dubya to argue over the last one.
26. Animals in people clothes Yes/No. Please explain your answer. yes! i have a little puppy named pee-wee, and he looks so cute dressed in little sweaters and things! if you saw a picture, you would agree!
27. A train leaves New York for London at a speed of 45 miles per hour. London is 3,470 miles away and at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Do you believe anyone dumb enough to board this train deserves to drown? no.
28. Who's hotter Charles Darwin or Jesus H. Christ? darwin's my boy, but as far as hotness goes, i'd have to go with jesus... that loincloth? oh, baby!
29. If you were stuck in a windowless, white room for a whole day with no means of occupying yourself, what would you do to keep busy? i would probably end up singing songs to myself.
30. So, the Earth is going to be destroyed next week. What city would you absolutely have to see before it boiled into space? tokyo, japan!
31. Would you ever join the Italian Mafia? What about the Russian one? well, i am part russian... but i think it might interfere with my teaching career. ^_^
32. If you could run away and join the circus, what would you do there and why? well, i definitely wouldn't want to be a lion tamer, 'cos i'm afraid of lions and tigers... and i wouldn't want to be a tightrope walker... maybe i'd be a fire swallower!
33. Which muppet you would be and why? i think i would be ralph or dr. teeth, because we both have a passion for music.
34. What languages do you know? And why? i know english very well, and i know a little bit of spanish, because i took it for three years in middle/high school. i'd like to re-learn it, actually.
35. What piece of literature do you absolutely want to douse with gasoline, gleefully burn, and then scatter the ashes the crossroads? "the old man and the sea." i had to read it in ninth grade, and boy oh boy, was it boring!
36. If you are intending on having children, what would you name your children? / If you already have them, what are their names? / If you don't intend on having children, please explain why. i would like to name a boy joseph elliott or elliott joseph, and a girl adeline or "addy" for short.
37. Fill in the blank:
A good roommate should never _____. leave their stuff lying around.
What is a BETTER ending to these cliches?:
A watched pot never ____. clean.
Always look on the ____. dark side.
38. What's your deepest, darkest sexual secret? honestly, i don't really have any deep, dark secrets. ummm... i have naked pictures of myself.
39. Pick any of the following items and explain your choice: a red christmas tree, a rotten turkey, or a bag of candy that tasted like sand. a red christmas tree. i have never seen one before!
40. PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SAY SOMETHING INTERESTING:
norwegians drink 10.7 kilograms of coffee per person annually. they also lead the globe in anxiety disorders... time to switch to herbal tea?
41. Your photo here:
42. a.) (choose one of the following)
i.) A picture/photo of anything else:
ii.) Draw a self-portrait using only MSpaint (or a similar program).
sometimes i wear contacts
b.) Blank space. (Post something random. A picture, a link, whatever, to make us laugh and keep us amused. Or if you’re stuck, five websites that you go to regularly (excepting email servers, Livejournal.com and search engines)
okcupid
suicide girls
ljdrama
eric conveys an emotion
bmezine