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[serene]

So I'm heading off to the dentist soon. When I come back, I want email, so
I'm gonna post one of my patent-pending "Serene is feeling social, so she
wrote a survey" surveys:



1. How many times have you moved from one city/town/state/country to
another? What was your best/happiest/easiest move?

2. Tell about someone who makes you think the world is a good place.

3. Name three things about you that are attractive to you about other
people.

4. What does the word "feminist" mean to you?

5. What is your most-recently-visited non-LJ URL today?

6. What did you eat for dinner last night?

7. Tell us a joke.

8. You have ten minutes to make a mix tape of ten songs. Don't take more
than ten minutes. Make your desert-island mix tape; ten songs you think
you could listen to over and over and over.

9. What's your first memory involving siblings? If you don't have
siblings, what's your first memory involving either cousins or childhood
friends?

10. Given four hours alone in your house, what are you likely to do?

Comments

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I'm answering, but I'm answering in my journal. :)

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

1. How many times have you moved from one city/town/state/country to
another? What was your best/happiest/easiest move?
Since you restrict it as from one city to another, that lets out my moves within St. Louis proper, which means I've only moved five times. The happiest and easiest move had to be when I first moved in with bbwoof, even though it was up a flight, because we had lots of help.


2. Tell about someone who makes you think the world is a good place.
My husband, moosl. He's a real healer, a caring person, and makes me happy to be around. He also takes great photos, and knows how to catch people at their best.

3. Name three things about you that are attractive to you about other
people.
My mind, my eyes, and my smile.

4. What does the word "feminist" mean to you?
A person who knows that women are not inferior to men in any way, who accepts them as human beings, and who thinks that they should not be defined by their wombs and genitals.

5. What is your most-recently-visited non-LJ URL today?
BBC World News.

6. What did you eat for dinner last night?
Microwave popcorn (non-butter variety) and bing cherries.

7. Tell us a joke.
Q: Why did the apple go out with a fig?

A: Because it couldn't find a date!


8. You have ten minutes to make a mix tape of ten songs. Don't take more
than ten minutes. Make your desert-island mix tape; ten songs you think
you could listen to over and over and over.

The Kid (Art Garfunkel's latest album)
Fields of Gold (as sung by firefly67)
In Your Wildest Dreams (Moody Blues)
Queen of Argyll (Silly Wizard)
The Moon and I (The Mikado)
Novus Magnificat (Constance Demby)
The Rose (Bette Midler)
Clouds-new version (Judy Collins)
Amelia-new version (Judy Collins)
Now and Then (Art Garfunkel)


9. What's your first memory involving siblings? If you don't have
siblings, what's your first memory involving either cousins or childhood
friends?
My sister Georgeanne reading to me.

10. Given four hours alone in your house, what are you likely to do?
Read.

Guess who's bored!

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

1. How many times have you moved from one city/town/state/country to
another? What was your best/happiest/easiest move?

I can't count that high. most of them were just town changes though in and around Chicago. do you mean the happiest move like the way it turned out or the happiest move like how you felt moving? I was happiest going to Austin but I've been happiest in Cleveland where I was actually not happy at all to have had to go.

2. Tell about someone who makes you think the world is a good place.
Studs Terkel. You can't help but read his books or listen to his interviews without just feeling good about folks overall. Good and a little pissed off but mostly good.


3. Name three things about you that are attractive to you about other
people.

My sense of humor, my loud footwear, my voice

4. What does the word "feminist" mean to you?

Depends who's saying it. usually it means that the conversation is about to get a lot more boring than it was a minute ago.

5. What is your most-recently-visited non-LJ URL today?
poe news

6. What did you eat for dinner last night?

Gyros

7. Tell us a joke.

Three nuns are sitting on a park bench when a flasher appears and waves his flashables at them.

the first nun was so shocked, she had a stroke

the second nun also hada stroke

but the third nun... she wouldn't touch it!

8. You have ten minutes to make a mix tape of ten songs. Don't take more
than ten minutes. Make your desert-island mix tape; ten songs you think
you could listen to over and over and over.

The girl from ipanema by Sammy Davis Jr., Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra with jobim, the original jobim/getz/gilberto version
(that's four tracks)

malaguena by Stan Kenton, Mel Torme, Brian Setzer and Maynard Feguson
(that's four more)

Soul Sauce by Cal Tjader

Mystery Train by Elvis

9. What's your first memory involving siblings? If you don't have
siblings, what's your first memory involving either cousins or childhood
friends? Running around naked with my cousin (we were very very young)

10. Given four hours alone in your house, what are you likely to do? nap, sing, eat, masturbate, read, smoke, annoy a pet.

[maestrodog.livejournal.com]

1. I don't know, I'd say about 10. Probably the easiest was when I was 3 years old moving from Pittsburgh, PA to Jacksonville, FL, don't remember it and my parents handled everything.

2. Easy. My wife, jobethfun67, check her profile if you want more info.

3. I'm not sure what exactly this is asking...the phrasing at the end is all convoluted.

4. Any woman who finds fun in man-bashing, I suppose.

5. Prius Online (www.priusonline.com)

6. Chickenburger, a bottle of water, a few dried cherries and one small chocolate chip cookie.

7. I once crossed a chicken with a silkworm, and now I got a chicken that lays eggs with panty hose inside!

8. I'd take all my songs from the Cast Recording of "Once On This Island".

9. My dad showing me that my newborn brother had no teeth.

10. Play video games, masturbate to gay or bisexual erotic stories on the computer, IM chat a little with whoever's available, do a load of laundry or dishes, and give attention to the demanding cat.

[firecat]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/firecat/349647.html

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I assume that you want answers here, if the idea is to generate things for you to read in yoru e-mail. :)

1. How many times have you moved from one city/town/state/country to
another? What was your best/happiest/easiest move?

All of my moves have been within Ontario but one, so I've only ever changed states and countries twice (once to move from Windsor, Ontario to Ann Arbor, Michigan and once to move back). A large number of my moves were also within the same town and don't qualify. If we include moves that my family made before I was generating lasting memories, I've moved from at least one city to another seven times: Ottawa -> Windsor -> Ann Arbor -> Windsor -> Kingston -> Toronto -> Kingston -> Toronto. If you include living at home for three weeks, that throws an extra move in there (a 'Windsor' stop between the first Kingston and Toronto).

The happiest doesn't fit on that list. I'd say that the best move was when I moved from my bachelor's apartment in Kingston into the three-bedroom apartment that okoshun and I got in Kingston. It was happy partly because we were getting married and moving in together, but it was happy also because it was a vey short-distance move (about five blocks) done by friends, mostly by hand. We moved the bed by squidging the mattress and box spring between two rolling office chairs, bungee cording the contraption and rolling it down the street, for example.

2. Tell about someone who makes you think the world is a good place.

Most people make me think the world is a good place, even if I disagree with them or even dislike them. Diversity is something I count as good, and the fact that the planet sustains life at all is something I find infinitely nifty. The fact that we have a breathable atmosphere is really pretty cool. The fact that people evolved at all is amazing. So yeah, pretty much anybody makes me think that the world is a good place.

One characteristic of people that I find infinitely reassuring on that front that I can think of a particularly compelling instantiation of, however, is the ability to look at people's intentions rather than their unintended effects as seen in clawfoot. She's amazingly able to say, "That hurt me, but they had no reason to believe it would and would have behaved differently had they known, so I bear them no resentment."

3. Name three things about you that are attractive to you about other
people.

I tend to be fascinated by shy people (and I'm shy). I tend to be fascinated by people who are fascinated by a lot of things (and I'm fascinated by a lot of things). I tend to like men with dark nipples (and I'm a man with relatively dark nipples -- I think? I'm stopping just short of opening my shirt at work to check).

4. What does the word "feminist" mean to you?

I have a lot of issues with the word "feminist". Clearly it refers to a movement concerned with at minimum advancing the rights and status of women. Beyond that, there seems to be some disagreement, and therein lies the rub, for me. Some people say that the movement is concerned with gender equality in general. Some people say that the movement is concerned with gender equality for women specifically on issues where women currently have a status that we would think of as less-than-equal. These are not identical statements. (Some particularly cynical people outside the movement would attribute other statements, but I don't know to what degree 'more militant' positions actually crop up among the rank and file, um, puns or bad metaphor selection aside.) That ambiguity bothers me. I would rather think of myself as an egalitarian than a feminist, because it specifies which of those positions I'm interested in, and also because the word had no in-built "us and them" gender issues. That said, most of my positions would probably be considered feminist by many, and I often get irked by being largely targeted by, "...then you're a feminist!" rhetoric. I'll pick my own labels, thank you very much.

5. What is your most-recently-visited non-LJ URL today?

Boringly, the Bentley website. They make CAD software. I was downloading the latest version of their freeware CAD file viewer, for work.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I ran out of space. Here's the rest:

6. What did you eat for dinner last night?

A veggie burger with cheese and some Doritos. Dessert was some chocolate sorbet with all-natural peanut butter melted onto it. I'm working through leftovers from various points in time. (I suspect that tonight shall be cereal.)

7. Tell us a joke.

Two atoms are walking down the street and bump into each other. One dusts itself off, shakes its head, and asks the other, "Are you okay?" The other, looking slightly rattled, responds, "I think I've lost an electron!" The first, concerned, begins to look around, asking, "What? Are you sure??" The other, increasingly vexed, responds, "Yes, I'm positive!"

8. You have ten minutes to make a mix tape of ten songs. Don't take more
than ten minutes. Make your desert-island mix tape; ten songs you think
you could listen to over and over and over.

1. Paul Schutze: In the Absence of Angels
2. Hector Zasou and Catherine-Ann Macphee: Oran na Maighdean Mhara
3. Lena Willemark and Alle Moller: Agram
4. Holger Czukay: Good Morning Story
5. The Moon and the Melodies: Bloody and Blunt
6. Cocteau Twins: Oomingmak
7. This Mortal Coil: Barramundi
8. Coil: Tiny Golden Books
9. Recoil: Vertigen
10. Ramp: Titania

9. What's your first memory involving siblings? If you don't have
siblings, what's your first memory involving either cousins or childhood
friends?

You know, I have no idea. None of my early memories involve siblings. The earliest one that I can bring to mind offhand is from when I was eight, in Ann Arbor. We'd just moved there, and the people there, who lived an hour's drive from where we lived in Canada, were offering us chewing gum and showing us indoor plumbing. My eldest sister told them we left the sled dogs at our aunt's igloo while we were gone.

10. Given four hours alone in your house, what are you likely to do?

This varies wildly from day to day and what I feel like at that time. I often get four hours alone in my home, so there's nothing really critical queued up. Working on music is common. Reading is common. Playing video games is common. Just surfing livejournal and USENET and chatting on IM is *very* common. Laundry is somewhat common. Um. It depends on my mood.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I've answered in my own journal (http://www.livejournal.com/users/kightp/504022.html) so I could go on and on. (-:

[nooks.livejournal.com]

1. How many times have you moved from one city/town/state/country to another? What was your best/happiest/easiest move?

If you count moving between suburbs in a major city, I think I've lost count. I've moved more than, say, an hour's drive, uh, six times, and one of those was (of course) between countries. Yech.

2. Tell about someone who makes you think the world is a good place.

My friend Michael Carden (http://sodomology.org/blog/) has been working unceasingly now for, oh, years---as long as I have known him---to thorougly debunk the common interpretation of Genesis 19. He's done plenty of other things to be proud of too, as have lots of people, but it was his birthday recently and he needs a little more publicity, as always.

Buy his book!

3. Name three things about you that are attractive to you about other people.

1. My modesty.

4. What does the word "feminist" mean to you?

Gee, ask an easy one!

Uh, my first thought, rather than delving deeply into this and looking for a "right" answer, would be someone who carefully considers situtations where women aren't given their due and the effects of same.

5. What is your most-recently-visited non-LJ URL today?

It's hard to know for sure, but I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to tell anyone. Work-related stuff.

If we exclude that, too, then I think it might very well be news.google.com (http://news.google.com/) or Planet HUMBUG (http://planet.humbug.org.au/), where a largish number of friends from Australia have their blogs syndicated.

6. What did you eat for dinner last night?

I'm pretty sure it was an ordered-in pizza. The other half is for tonight.

7. Tell us a joke.

See answer to question number 3.

8. You have ten minutes to make a mix tape of ten songs. Don't take more than ten minutes. Make your desert-island mix tape; ten songs you think you could listen to over and over and over.

Oh, pass. Sorry.

9. What's your first memory involving siblings? If you don't have siblings, what's your first memory involving either cousins or childhood friends?

Pretty sure that would be my mum yelling at my older brother. Something him replying, on being asked where his manners were, that perhaps he left them under his pillow.

That could be some crazy dream, but I'm pretty sure.

10. Given four hours alone in your house, what are you likely to do?

These days: get online and work either on Actual Work Stuff, Home Kinda-Work Stuff, or focus on the next step(s) of relocating.

[psychofogqueen.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/fogtopia/85585.html

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

I answered in my journal.

[redandfiery.livejournal.com]

1. How many times have you moved from one city/town/state/country to
another? What was your best/happiest/easiest move?
I haven't moved much. Apart from three years in Hull for university, and a year in France, also for university, I've only moved once - from my parents' place in Tamworth, to my current home in Birmingham, only 15 miles away. But I'm planning to emigrate to France in a decade or so.

2. Tell about someone who makes you think the world is a good place.
snagglepat is the most fabulous person I know. She has such huge amounts of positive energy and love in her! I can't get enough of her company, and I am completely honoured that she seems to like me a ton too.

3. Name three things about you that are attractive to you about other
people.
Ummm. Strength, straightforwardness, and a really dirty laugh.

4. What does the word "feminist" mean to you?
Fighting for the right to be myself and live my life how *I* want to live it. It took me *years* to see that most of the barriers I came across in that goal were linked into gender discrimination somehow, even if they didn't obviously seem to be.

5. What is your most-recently-visited non-LJ URL today?
eBay. I am totally addicted.

6. What did you eat for dinner last night?
Mushroom risotto.

7. Tell us a joke.
Sorry, I'm not good with jokes.

8. You have ten minutes to make a mix tape of ten songs. Don't take more
than ten minutes. Make your desert-island mix tape; ten songs you think
you could listen to over and over and over.

Alana Miles - Black Velvet
Scissor Sisters - Filthy Gorgeous
All Saints - Black Coffee
Mya/Pink/Lil Kim/Christina - Lady Marmalade
The Quireboys - This is Rock'n'Roll
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Guns N'Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
The Wildhearts - One Love, One Life, One Girl
Silver Ginger 5 - Divine Imperfection
Dogs D'Amour - Billy Two Rivers

9. What's your first memory involving siblings?
My brother crawling up to me and biting me on the arm! I can't have been more than three at the time, and him around one.

10. Given four hours alone in your house, what are you likely to do?
Slap a film in the DVD player and sit down to watch it, with a ball of wool in my lap and a crochet hook to keep my hands busy.