I've been tagged
Sep. 11th, 2010 07:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sereneI was tagged by Jane at Life @ Number 8 to do this survey. I'm gonna tag three of you at the end, but I'd love to see all of your answers, and I certainly won't mind if the tagged folks don't feel like doing it.
what song reminds you of a childhood memory?
Every time I hear "Easy", by the Commodores, I think of junior-high dances.
Are you a night owl or an early bird
Neither. I tend to adjust my sleep schedule to whenever I have to get up the next day.
Give us a snapshot of the high school you.
This or that: rain or snow
I like both.
Favourite movie quote:
"Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."
what colour is your underwear
When I wear it, which is seldom, it's mostly red or pink.
What was your dream job (as in what did you want to be when you grew up)
Singer. I did that. Now my dream job is the one I'm doing: meaningful, part-time work where I feel useful and still get to have a home life.
If you could tell your 13-year-old self anything what would it be.
If she would listen, I'd tell her it actually will make her future life happier if she bothers to take high school seriously and turn in her homework.
What disturbs you most?
When children are in peril and there's no one to protect them. I can't handle it, in real life or in fiction.
My addition:
What was the best part about grade school?
Workbooks. I just loved (and still love) workbooks.
Ok, now add your question and pass it on to some fellow bloggers/journallers.
snippy
firecat
hobbitbabe
what song reminds you of a childhood memory?
Every time I hear "Easy", by the Commodores, I think of junior-high dances.
Are you a night owl or an early bird
Neither. I tend to adjust my sleep schedule to whenever I have to get up the next day.
Give us a snapshot of the high school you.
This or that: rain or snow
I like both.
Favourite movie quote:
"Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."
what colour is your underwear
When I wear it, which is seldom, it's mostly red or pink.
What was your dream job (as in what did you want to be when you grew up)
Singer. I did that. Now my dream job is the one I'm doing: meaningful, part-time work where I feel useful and still get to have a home life.
If you could tell your 13-year-old self anything what would it be.
If she would listen, I'd tell her it actually will make her future life happier if she bothers to take high school seriously and turn in her homework.
What disturbs you most?
When children are in peril and there's no one to protect them. I can't handle it, in real life or in fiction.
My addition:
What was the best part about grade school?
Workbooks. I just loved (and still love) workbooks.
Ok, now add your question and pass it on to some fellow bloggers/journallers.
snippyfirecathobbitbabe
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Date: 2010-09-11 09:45 pm (UTC)Childhood: CCR, Lookin' Out My Back Door sadly because all the adults were doing drugs and acting freaky.
Are you a night owl or an early bird
I am a moderate early bird--not too early but at my best in the mornings.
Give us a snapshot of the high school you.
I don't have one handy or I would.
This or that: rain or snow
I like rain. Good thing, too, given where I live. Snow is supposed to stay in the mountains, except for once or twice a year a light dusting is very pretty.
Favourite movie quote:
I don't think I have one. I'm more likely to sing a song from a movie than quote lines.
what colour is your underwear
I buy beige, always.
What was your dream job (as in what did you want to be when you grew up)
Hmm, childhood me wanted to be a pilot like my father.
If you could tell your 13-year-old self anything what would it be.
Your parents will never love you, so pick something you actually control to fix your happiness and self-worth on.
What disturbs you most?
I'm stealing your answer: When children are in peril and there's no one to protect them. I can't handle it, in real life or in fiction.
and adding: and when people use that for entertainment! Gaaaahhhh.
What was the best part about grade school?
Being allowed to read as much as I wanted once I convinced the teacher I really was that far ahead of the rest of the class.
No, I think it was singing. I was always in choir in every one of the dozen or so elementary schools I attended, and I sang (and still remember to sing) so many American folk songs, Christmas carols, patriotic songs, etc. Seems like nobody sings them these days.
My addition:
What mundane thing do you appreciate most today?
I appreciate my covered rubber band, which holds my hair out of my face (and hence eyes and mouth). My hair's gotten really long since last we met; when it's wet and the curl all pulled out, it's longer than down to my waist in the back. It's been quite a trick learning how to live with long hair! It used to get trapped under my arms in my sleep, but now I stick it all up over the pillow like a troll doll. :)
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Date: 2010-09-13 09:08 pm (UTC)And yes, I loved singing. I was always in choir (and/or other singing groups) throughout school. It was all I really cared about a lot of the time.)
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Date: 2010-09-13 11:05 pm (UTC)I miss singing and cinnamon rolls the most from school. I still sing all the time, in my head and aloud, but I miss working together to master a piece of music and then to produce that beautiful sound of choir voices.
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Date: 2010-09-13 09:01 am (UTC)"Rocky Raccoon" by the Beatles reminds me of being in Mr. Strang's 3d grade classroom. I loved Mr. Strang but he was sort of a nonschooling kind of school teacher, and I needed more structure than that.
Are you a night owl or an early bird
Extreme night owl. I started becoming more extreme in about 2001 when I did Nanowrimo and the only time I had to write my wordcount was after midnight. But I haven't done Nano for years and the 2am-3am bedtime hasn't gone back to the way it was before.
Give us a snapshot of the high school you.
This or that: rain or snow
If I have to go somewhere in it, I prefer rain. If I can stay home and watch it, I prefer snow. Living in Northern California, I worship the first rain after the dry season (I go out and stand in it). I used to live in Michigan and Connecticut where I saw some snow; I have seen very little snow since moving to the SF Bay Area. A few years after moving here, I found myself obsessively reading books about people who ran the Iditarod.
Favourite movie quote:
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
what colour is your underwear
Today it's green. I made a vow once never to buy white underwear again.
What was your dream job (as in what did you want to be when you grew up)
I wanted to be a paleoanthropologist.
If you could tell your 13-year-old self anything what would it be.
"I know you think you're too ugly to wear shorts and sleeveless tops, but really you're not."
What disturbs you most?
How helpless I am to prevent other people's suffering.
What was the best part about grade school?
I was good at "school stuff."
My addition:
Two hundred years after your birth, people are celebrating your life because you did something memorable. What did you do?
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Date: 2010-09-13 09:06 pm (UTC)I'd also like to see your answer to your addition. Me, I don't aspire to (or expect myself to) be remembered 150 years from now, but maybe I'll write some cookbook that people still read or something.
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Date: 2010-09-13 11:05 pm (UTC)I don't aspire either, and I don't have an answer. Whatever it is, either they'll have to discover it by accident or I'll have to do it sometime in the future.