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1. Name: Lynnea
2. Age: 16
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? Well England has always had a draw for me. Ive got this ideal of this dreary weather that I love, of English boys with accents, of intelligent people (our generation's Shakespeare or Freud), and meeting my friend James who's had such a huge influence on me. But in the end I'm a homebody and I couldn't imagine leaving good old California where I've grown up and lived all my life, where all my friends are, where all my family is. England is still definitely on my 'To Do' list though.
4. What would your Room of Requirement look like? It differs on a day-to-day basis. To combine everything I'd ever want though, I would need two giant leather, footed, wing-back chairs in a deep red. My mother and I have been looking for ages to find the perfect chairs, and if I ever find the perfect one, theres very little that would stop me from buying it. Let's seee...I'm a musician, I play trumpet and I would love to walk into a room all my own with my fabulous, beautiful Bach Stradivarius horn (that I spent my life savings to buy) sitting there in front of a giant music stand that has every peice of music I'd ever want. A room all my own to play as loud as I want, I'm so nervous about practicing at my house, because all my family are musicians and every time I practice I get my brother or somebody coming upstairs to tell me how to improve and it gives me this idea that I sound bad. As long as we're being extravagent, I'd love a bookshelf full of great books, especially really really good romance novels, because I'm a sucker for 'best guy friend falls for girl whos completely in love with the wrong guy and then when she finds out he's not the one, the best friend pulls some great romantic scene and they live happily ever after'. Oh man, thats my weak spot. Oh and it'd need chocolate. And Cheez-Its.
5. Who is your least favorite Harry Potter character? I've never really considered it. There are few people that I dont like, mainly because I feel (in real life at least) that everybody has some worth. Back to the question! Sorry, I'm infamous among my friends for my tangents. I guess I'm not particularly fond of Percy, and his loss of perspective. I know its not a particularly original answer but I'd want somebody to slap me if I ever pushed aside family and friends just in order to advance myself. I guess it makes him happy though, and I guess to each his own, I can't force my ideals on him.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full? Half full. Life is pretty freaking great. I'm healthy, I have a talent, I have great friends, I'm intellegent, my parents are together and happy, my brother just got a job, the list goes on. Even though I may have my problems and my drama and everything, it's one little thing in this great expanse of fabulous things in my life.
7. Give us a quotation (Can be from a famous person, a song, or even a poem-whatever you want) you feel represents your life or personality. We may not be as happy as you always dreamed we would be, but for the first time let's just allow ourselves to be whatever it is we are and that will be better - Andrew Largeman/Zach Braff
If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you like - Sam/Natalie Portman
Yeeeeeah I just watched Garden State. Its a freaking beautiful movie though. Anyways.
8. In your life, who comes first: family or friends? Aaaah well truthfully, friends. I feel bad for saying it though. Family seems like it SHOULD come first, but I'm honestly not seeing any reason why. Your family is people you got stuck with. Friends are people I've invested time in, and personally I think it's more meaningful if people spend time with you because they LIKE you and not because they're OBLIGED to. I'd much rather have spent Thanksgiving with my friends rather than going to my sister's house. I spent Thanksgiving with people I didnt know too well, half-cousins-in-law and people that have no interest in me whatsoever except to know my name and make it look like we're a big happy family. It annoys me when my big sister's husbands brother comes up and tries to start a conversation by asking a closed-ended question and then thinks he's done his family duty by asking me a yes-or-no question. I'd much rather have been at McDonalds even, with a few friends just laughing and having a good time with people I like instead of people I feel I have to pretend to like.
9. What is your favorite childhood memory? Anything with my mom, pretty much. We just put up Christmas decorations so my mind is jumping back to when I was little in my footie pajamas at my old house sitting in my mom's lap trying not to fall asleep as I waited for Santa Claus, and fighting my eyes drooping, which was proving difficult in front of the warm fire and my mom singing to me. My mom used to sing me this one lullaby that always made me feel so safe.
Another not-so-childhood memory but its still a memory that makes me feel really safe is when my brother, my dad, my sister and I used to pile into our van and take a road trip and drive a few hours to the desert and visit my uncle. My dad and my brother played one album nonstop. Even now when I hear it I turn the lights off and imagine falling asleep on the way back, driving through the desert on the 2-lane highway, the gentle bump of the road, and listening to U2's Joshua Tree album.
10. What would you say is your biggest flaw? I can be really manipulative and I hate it about myself sometimes. Like if I meet somebody I really like and really want to get to know more, I'll slip into defensive mode and pretend I dont like them, dont care about them. I'll make them think they're not important and wont let on to how freaking awesome I think they are. It makes me feel powerful sometimes, like I'm in control of the relationship but it bothers the HELL out of me. I feel so not-genuine, so fake when I do that. But I've never been able to not analyze a relationship I have with somebody, I can't just look at them and tell myself "hey, they're cool. Id like to hang out with them more"
11. If you had been at Hogwarts during Harry’s fifth year, do you think that you would have joined the D.A.? I'd probably have loved to but wouldn't have. The idea excites me a lot but I would have likely latched onto some friend or another and would want to have as much free time as I could. If a friend joined with me, sure. I'm REALLY dependant on my friends. Like I said, I've invested so much time in them, and they've become so important to me. I don't like being alone. I like knowing that if I wanted I could call up Sean or Aleey and hang out at 5 minutes notice.
12. Describe how you react to difficult or stressful situations. I usually downplay them, pretend they aren't that important. "Oh I'm only failing AP European History, but you know it's an AP class, it's hard, the teacher's bad, I dont REALLY want to go to a good college, nah, I'm cool going to a Community College, yup. Totally cool." Either that or I let it attack me inside and out. I dont have a comfortable medium where I can displace my stress somewhere, when I took the SAT I broke down crying the night before because I was so stressed and I went "Oh my god I haven't studied as much as I could and I'm going to fail and never go to college and never get a job and never get married and have kids and never..." and it was bad.
13. Which do you value more: compassion or justice? Aiiee. Um, hmm. You can't have just a polar spectrum, there needs to be some intermediate. Justice appeals to me, but I hate the idea of Justice without compassion. I'm going to have to say compassion because if we dealt with crime by compassion, and people were open, we could make people understand both sides of the argument, and that somebody was stealing because their family needed the money and if everybody had or was open to showing a bit more compassion, the world would be a more understanding, better place.
14. Would you say that you’re a child at heart, or that you have an old soul? Child at heart. Hands down, 100 percent. I sit in my room and color in coloring books, I spent an hour last week blowing bubbles, crayons are my favorite coloring medium, I have Play-Dough on my desk, I get kids meals at Burger King and play with the toys for hours, movies still fascinate me, I still love Spaghetti O's and no matter how much you can try to convince me that the box of Cheez-Its with the picture of C-3PO on it is JUST the same as the box of Cheez-Its WITHOUT him, and 2 bucks cheaper, I have to have the C-3PO box. Yes, my friends, I am a child of capitalism and advertising. The thing that would make me say I have an old soul is that I'm a very compassionate person and whenever one of my friends has a problem I absorb it completely. Their problems are my problems and if they feel horrible, I feel horrible. My friends and their happiness is really important to me. If Jamie breaks up with Sean, she might as well have broken my heart too, if Aleey's grandmother got in a car accident and was in the hospital, they might as well have taken Aleey with them because I'll fret just the same as if my best friend were in the hospital. But that sortof makes me a child at heart too because I care about what happens to the ladybug when you let it go into the garden.
15. Which Hogwarts House do you think that the Sorting Hat would place you in? I've never been able to figure this out. I tend to place myself in Slytherin because I have the capability of being such a bitch, I mean I insult my best friends every day. But recently Ive wondered if the fact that its the one thing I hate about myself the most cancels it out. I could be a Ravenclaw because I'm really smart, but I dont think being smart automatically makes you a Ravenclaw, but it's your thirst for knowledge. I could be a Gryffindor because I can be hot-headed and ballsy, and I could be a Hufflepuff because I care so much about my friends. I really dont know.
16. If you have a picture of yourself and feel comfortable posting it, please do so! Pictures are fun!
:) Narcissism is a fabulous thing.
Wow, have fun.