I am a leaf on the wind.
Obligatory Questions
01. Name: Maya
02. Age: 16
03. Gender: Female
04. Location: Albuquerque, NM
05. Likes: Frosting, cats, singing, Converse, funny movies, licorice, books, music, broadway, macs, thai food, accents, summer, writing.
06. Dislikes: Homophobes/racists, general conservatism, taffy, olive green, lousy grades, really really long nails.
07. Hobbies and/or Talents: Reading, writing, watching horribly large amounts of TV, such as House, Scrubs, and Pushing Dasies, being a general band nerd.
08. Strengths: I like arguing, especially when it's something I've got an opinion about, which means essentially everything; I read obsessively and really fast; and I bake well.
09. Weaknesses: I'm extremely selfish, I can be very shortsighted, and I can't clean worth a damn.
Favourite
01. Colour: Blue.
02. Movies: The Incredibles, Lion King, Rat Race, The Matrix, Notting Hill, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Juno, Sweeney Todd, Serenity, Love Actually, Thank You for Smoking, Dead Poet's Society.
03. Books: Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Emma Bull, Eoin Colfer, Roald Dahl, Jasper Fforde, Neil Gaiman, Mark Gatiss, Charles de Lint, J.D. Salinger, Gregory Maguire, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Artemis Fowl books, the Bartimaeus trilogy, Harry Potter, Crown Duel, Abhorsen Trilogy, Twilight, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Catch-22, His Dark Materials, The Sparrow.
04. Music: ABBA, The Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Benny Goodman, Da Vinci's Notebook, Dresden Dolls, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis, The Format, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor, Rufus Wainwright, System of a Down, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, [Title of Show], Avenue Q, Tick, Tick...BOOM!, Chicago, Sweeney Todd, The Last Five Years, The Lion King, Cats, Spamalot, Wicked.
This or That
01. Leader or follower? Leader.
02. Brains or brawn? Brains.
03. Fight or run? Fight, though as I'm about 110 pounds, it wouldn't last very long.
04. Psychological warfare, or a good ol' fashioned ass-kickin'? Psychological warfare FTW.
05. Dreamer or realist? Realist.
06. Win at all costs, or honour until the end? Win at all costs.
07. Paper or plastic? Paper! *peace*
Random
01. How to do react to stressful situations? Usually I stomp around cursing a lot, then sit down and think for awhile until I figure out what to do about it.
02. Who is your least favourite person in the universe, fictional or not? Can I go for most of the Bush administration? Excuse me whilst I vent.
03. The eternal question. You find a wallet full of money, credit cards, etc. What do you do with it? I'd return it, using the name on the credit cards. Conscience > wealth.
04. How well do you take an insult? It depends on the situation, but usually, not at all well. I'm one of those people that comes up with a PERFECT comeback about...four hours after the fact.
05. Pick a weapon. Hippopotamus. Point it in the right direction and run.
06. You're sending a capsule into space, to educate any alien races who might find it on human culture. Remember, you have to impress them, or else they'll think we're stupid and blow us up. What do you put in the capsule? Lots and lots of pictures of famous architecture from around the world--Greece, Florence, China, Mexico; complete collections of Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, and Pablo Neruda, along with the respective language dictionaries; a Calculus textbook; and chocolate. You can't blow up a race that's developed chocolate.