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"How long a time lies in one little word?" - Shakespeare
1. What's your favorite word? My favorite word? I've never really thought about it. I've always preferred images, since that's how I think.
2. Who's your favorite author? I hate it when people make me narrow it down. I like Caroline B. Cooney's style, John Grisham's stories, Jeff Shaara's character development, J.K. Rowling's humor, and Thomas Hardy's description and method of writing sorrow.
3. What's your favorite book? Honestly, I could read Susan Cooper any time, and of her books The Dark Is Rising is my favorite. But seriously...I read many, many things over and over.
4. One sentence or one word that best sums up who you are is: Love drives me.
5. Three adjectives to describe your day today are: triumphant, semi-lazy, comfortable.
6. If you were to write a poem, what would the first line be?
7. If there were a short story about your life, what would the title be? Streams of Consciousness
8. One verb to describe your perfect mate is: laugh
9. If you could tell the world just one thing it would be: Every person needs to find their own personal truth.
"Logic is the anatomy of thought" - John Locke
1. What is your date of birth? 9/22/1986
2. What is your favorite number? generally 22
3. You're planning to go to an amusement park. Do you take the bus for $25 and a three hour trip or a car for $50 and an hour and a half trip time? There are so many factors involved here. I'd like to get my money's worth out of the park, so I'd probably go the fastest way.
4. What is your favorite numerical sequence or mathematical equation? I have no idea. I'm not really that interested in numbers.
5. Do you think that they will ever find an end to pi? Why or why not? I think that, since it is infinite, the odds of that are not very high.
6. If all hos are rude and all bitches are rude, are all hos bitches? Are you? That's totally a logical fallacy. I can be a bitch, but it takes a bit to get me there.
7. Do two negatives ever equal a positive? Only in grammar.
8. If Tommy is Susie's brother and Susie is Wilma's daughter, can Tommy hook up with Wilma's niece? That'd be just a bit strange, but I think he can in some states. And in multiple countries around the world. It's all a cultural thing.
9. Is there any logic to life? Yes. There are just different fields of logic, which seems to really mess people up.
"Without music life would be a mistake" - Nietzsche
1. What is your favorite style of music? I'm a fan of the singer-songwriter culture. I'm not really sure if that qualifies as a genre of music, but that's where most of my interest seems to lie.
2. What is your favorite song right at this moment? Lifehouse "Trying" is a perennial favorite.
3. Do you play any instruments? I can pass at piano and flute (with the former being the better) and I like to play tinwhistles. I also learned a little bit about playing the trumpet when I was younger, and used to know how to play "Hot crossed buns" on the clarinet. I can occasionally remember a guitar chord. My goal is to learn as many instruments as I can.
4. If you could play any instrument what would you play? I would really like to learn the guitar, but I'm also intrigued by various cultural flutes and percussion instruments. I've always wanted to play drumset, but I didn't really have the opportunity.
5. If you had to choose a theme song for today what would it be? I'm not sure today's deserving of its own song, since nothing has really happened.
6. What is your least favorite song? I'm really not a fan of "Who Let the Dogs Out." At all.
7. What is your favorite song to dance to? I like to put on "Elevation" by U2 and rock out when there's no one else in my house:)
8. What song would best represent the person that sent this to you? Sheesh. One song? But there are so many choices... I'll have to go with Carbon Leaf "Life Less Ordinary," even though that's a Gerd song for her.
9. What is your angry music? Garbage, Godsmack, the like - what I refer to as "laid-back, kick-your-ass music."
"Nothing is more revealing than movement." - Graham
1. What is your absolute favorite thing to do? I love to lay on my bed with light streaming in the window and surround myself with music.
2. What is your favorite exercise? I like riding my bike, and going swimming (even though I don't do it too well).
3. What sport(s) do you play? I played basketball until I was in 9th grade, played volleyball from 7th-10th grade, played softball most of my life, and have known how to bowl for as long as I can remember. I know that kind of makes me sound like a jock, but I'm definitely more of the lazy ass type.
4. What is your best physical feature? Well, my hair is the only part of me at the moment that isn't fat. Therefore, at the moment, it is my best physical feature.
5. What feature do you look for in a potential partner? I've always liked someone who appreciates my quirks, and who isn't afraid to let me know if they disagree with something I do or with some opinion I hold. I like a girl who makes me think:)
6. If you could learn one type of dance, what would it be? I've always wanted to learn swing.
7. Can you do anything abnormal with your body? My tongue is contortable in strange ways, and I have some interesting scars.
8. Would you like me to do something abnormal with your body? Nah.
9. What's the craziest sex position you've ever done? I really don't have much experience with crazy sex positions.
"I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form." - Kapoor
1. Where in your room is your bed? Against the short wall, so that there's nearly room for all of my stuff. Nearly.
2. What's your favorite place to sit in a restaurant? I like to be in a booth, generally away from where the sunlight will give me a headache.
3. If you could visit anywhere in Eurasia, where would you go? I have a list. Mainly: Ireland, Wales, Italy, Greece, Japan, Sweden...there were others too, but I don't remember them.
4. When you're trying to remember something, where do you look? I look where I was last, to see if I can continue that train of thought.
5. Which side of your desk do you keep your computer on? Why? The drawers are on the left, but my chair is huge so Jackson sits pretty much dead center.
6. If you have a bookshelf, how do you organize your books? Generally they're alphabetical by author within their genres.
7. How is your refrigerator organized? It's not, really, at the moment. It just has some produce and beer in it, since it's tiny. My parents' fridge is not much more organized.
8. If you were to sit on a couch, where would you sit: right, left, or center? Generally on the side that's furthest away from a wall, and if there are walls on both sides, I think I generally sit on the left.
9. Where is your favorite place to sit? I like the corner of my sofa set...the part that joins the couch to the recliners.
"Nature is an infinite sphere in which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." - Pascal
1. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it? I have no pets of my own anymore, but in my house at the moment there are three dogs (a Brittany named Beau, an English Springer named Maize, and a mutt named Yetti), a cat named TC, a few fish, and a rabbit named Cocoa. Other than that, I hear my parents are looking to buy my little sister a horse. My calico Chloe will have to wait until grad school, at the earliest.
2. Describe your happy place. The branches of a willow tree that cradle me in the early fall, when leaves are just starting to turn but it isn't cold yet. Generally, this is by a pond of some sort. Alas, my own willow is not yet large enough to hold me, so I have to wait a while.
3. If you were an animal what would you be? Why? If it has to be a real, existing animal, I'd say a cat. If I were a cat, I would be cool. However, my first choice would be the fictional phoenix, for its abilities to heal any wound and be reborn of its own ashes. It seems to me that it's one strong, beautiful bird.
4. Where is the most beautiful place you have ever been? There's this little waterfall a couple of miles up a trail in Rocky Mountain National Park, CO. It's a very private little place, and you can climb the rocks there and look out at the sky and the aspen and hear the water crashing while the wind envelops you. It's the most gorgeous place I have in my memory.
5. Do you have any plants in your living place? Several. My oldest plant is also my oldest friend. His name is Mr. Green, and he is at least as old as I am, and has suffered a bit of surgery in his life from deciding to grow around the rope holding him up. Also, I have a small cactus that was broken off of my and my sister's larger cactus. The cactus baby is named Moe.
6. If you were to plant a garden, what would you plant? I'd plant several fruit trees, some herbs (basil, etc.), snow peas, zucchinni, and some flowers...probably some lilies and sunflowers and flox or something.
7. Have you ever ingested any illegal plant or plant product? Not that I know of.
8. If you were left alone in the woods for a week, could you survive? Possibly. It would depend on whether or not I had my knife with me.
9. Lakes: icky or nifty? I want to live on a lake, if that tells you anything.
"Don't believe what others tell you. You believe in what you believe; there is nothing better." - Hernandez
1. What is your life philosophy? Life's a lot more complicated than we give it credit for, but in general, do what you love and act out of love and it'll turn out okay.
2. Are you a pessimist, optimist, or realist? That depends. Generally, I'm an optimist who only thinks something won't happen if I really want it. I don't know what that is.
3. What religion, if any, do you claim? I'm a Quaker.
4. What is your biggest insecurity? I seem to be paranoid about whether or not people care about me.
5. What are you truly an expert at? I'm not really an expert at anything, though I hear I'm very good at being condescending when I don't mean to.
6. What is your best personality trait? I tend to be willing to do anything that someone I care about needs me to do.
7. What social issue do you feel most strongly about? Well, they're all wrapped up in one: people are way too willing to judge the lives of other people.
8. Who do you think you are? I'm a very strange young woman who is trying to figure herself out and manage to live well at the same time.
9. How have you changed in the past nine months? Where do you see yourself in nine years? I don't know if I've changed or not. I'm heavier than I was, and I'm also a lot more sure about the path I'm taking with my life - both in my personal life and my occupation. Nine years from now...I want to be teaching somewhere, hopefully giving music lessons on the side. I want to have Chloe. I want to be married (or at least committed to) my girlfriend and living in a decent house, with a nice kitchen.
"A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could." - Ziglar
1. Who do you look up to? My mother.
2. Who looks up to you? I have no idea.
3. What is the nicest thing you have done in the past nine days? I went to Hitler Woman's house for dinner and was pleasant, even friendly.
4. What is the meanest thing you have done in the past nine days? Probably bullying Laina. That seems to be pretty constant.
5. Have you ever done any volunteer work? Yup. One serve trip, and about 175 hours of community service as was required by my high school to graduate. I want to do some more, but I haven't really looked into it.
6. What personalities are you drawn to? I tend to like quirky people who are really intelligent and outgoing. I think I'm attracted to outgoing people because it's a trait I really don't possess. I also tend to be drawn towards people who need a shoulder to cry on and towards people who are rejected by some parts of society.
7. Are you able to see beyond your friends' happy faces? Generally. Meg's eyes reveal a lot.
8. Which of your friends can see beyond your happy face? I don't know. Kathy, maybe. I tried to make myself invisible.
9. Which family member are you closest to? Which are you the least close to? Why? I'm probably closest to either my mother or Torre. I was closer to Torre when I was little, but she doesn't live with me anymore, so I've become closer to my mother. I don't really tell my father much of anything. I'm not really sure why. I think it's because he never really listened when I tried to tell him anyway.
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance." - Sarte
1. How did life begin? I believe life was created.
2. What happens after death? You figure out what kind of life you led.
3. What is the purpose of living? That depends on who you are.
4. Is there life anywhere else in the universe? There might be.
5. Is there a higher being? Explain. I'm not going to explain my theology, because that would take days.
6. Does time exist? Yes, and we exist within it.
7. Are you afraid of death? I'm afraid of the act of dying...like, I'm afraid of what it will feel like to die. However, I'm not afraid of no longer being alive on earth. If that makes any sense at all...
8. Does life always go back to where it started? What?
9. Given the chance for immortality, would you take it? Why or why not? I wouldn't want to be immortal alone. If I was given the gift of immortality, I'd rather have someone to share it with.