Behold the power of distraction.

[serinde]

To distract myself, therefore, a meme taken from marnameow.

x. What is your secret guaranteed weeping movie?
No movies spring to mind, but I can't see the video for "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" without bawling.

x. If you could have plastic surgery, what would you have done?
I occasionally toy with the concept of breast reduction, but I have this weird deep-seated conviction that any major cosmetic changes would make me not me anymore. So, probably nothing.

x. Do you have a completely irrational fear?
Spiders (and other critters with more than six legs).

x. What is the little physical habit that gives away your insecure moment?
Futzing: compulsive twisting of rings, bracelets, etc. Also, incoherent gibbering.

x. Are you a pyromaniac?
Oh yeah.

x. Do you have too many love interests?
Hell no.

x. Do you know anyone famous?
yesthattom probably qualifies. I have had sushi with and been to the home of Al Bouchard, if that counts.

x. Describe your bed.
It's a king-size waterbed which was designed & built by someone on panix.chat that we bought from him for $100. The blankets are usually a riot of confusion. There is a metric buttload of books stacked on the top shelf of the headboard.

x. Spontaneous or plan?
Both, often at the same time.

x. Do you know how to play poker?
I know the basics, though not the variations.

x. What do you carry with you at all times?
Keys and my mini-wallet. Usually, but not always, cellphone.

x. What do you miss most about being little?
Dreaming about flying.

x. Are you happy with your given name?
Meh. I don't love it but it's okay. Anyways, it's who I am, for better or worse.

x. How much money would it take to get you to give up the Internet for one year?
Hah. We're talking Bill Gates levels of dough, here.

x. Do you like yourself and believe in yourself?
That so wildly depends on the day and mood, not to mention changing from aspect to aspect of self, that I can't sensibly answer it. Most of the time it's closer to "yes" than "no", if that helps.

x. Do transient, homeless, or starving people bother you?
Well, that's in the running for "most stupid-ass meme question". I should hope there's no one who is not bothered by that.

x. Do you consider yourself to be a nice person?
Yeah, reckon so.

x. Do you spend more time with your girlfriend or your friends?
...? I'm going to guess that the above question is supposed to understand "partner or S.O." where it says "girlfriend". But do they mean any one S.O. or all the time you spend with S.O.s taken as a whole? Huzzah for non-thought-through questions!

x. What's one thing you wish you could do but can't?
Fly. Failing that, lose these last goddam 20 lbs.

x. What is your ideal marriage location?
I'm pretty darn content with where we did get married: the zoo.

x. Which musical instrument do you wish you could play?
Drums.

x. Favorite fabric?
Silk dupioni, particularly the kind that has different colored warp and weft.

x. Something you love and hate?
Knotty sysadmin problems. (Knotty for me, anyways.)

x. What kind of bedding do you use?
100% cotton sheets, misc blankies. I got a lovely down comforter over the winter, but His Highness says it keeps him awake because it rustles too loudly. I ask you--!

x. Do you tell your friends about your sex life?
Any who encourage me in the slightest to do so, yeah.

x. What's the one language you want to learn?
I'd like to actually learn Latin, instead of the brokeass cobbling together I got in college.

x. What do you order at a bar?
Currently in low-carb hell: wine. The rest of the time, if the assembled crowd is drinking beer, then whatever's on tap and not too hopped; if hard booze, then whiskey sour or Bailey's on the rocks; if girly drinks, then interesting daiquiri or margarita flavors.

x. Have you ever pierced your body parts?
Four ear piercings currently, may get more as the whim strikes. Steve vetoed the labia piercing idea. If I had different tits, I'd get nipple piercings, but they just wouldn't look right on mine.

x. Do you have tattoos?
Not yet. Soon.

x. Would you ever admit to having done plastic surgery any kind if confronted?
Boy, welcome to Land of Super-Theoretical here. Yes, if I had any, I'd admit it.

x. Do you drive stick?
I can, though my current transportation is not.

x. What's one trait you hate in a person?
Stupidity.

x. What kind of watch(es) do you wear?
I don't.

x. Most frivolous purchase?
Aforementioned flamingo dress.

x. Do you consider yourself materialistic?
Yeah, I'm definitely a stuff-ist.

x. What do you cook the best?
I daresay I'm a deft hand at lots of things, but baking is my specialty.

x. Favorite writing instrument?
My happy clicky keyboard at home.

x. Do you prefer to stand out or blend in?
Depends on where I am and who I'm with.

x. What kind of books do you like to read?
Yes.

x. If you won the lottery, what would you do?
Everything.

x. What's one thing you're a sore loser at?
Anything academic/knowledge related. I like to think I keep it all on the inside...

x. If you don't like a person, how do you show it?
Avoid them as much as possible; don't look at them while speaking to them. (Though that latter can also happen if I'm having a shy moment.)

x. Do you cry in front of friends?
Close friends, yes. Just Friends[tm] and acquaintances, not if I can bloody well help it.

x. What kind of first impression do you think you give to people?
Depends on what mode I'm in (see: stand out/blend in question above).

x. What's one thing you like to do alone?
Write.

x. Are you a giver or a taker?
I think the general consensus is "giver", here.

x. When's the last time you cried?
Last week at sweh's, after hearing "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" again.

x. Favorite communication method?
Email or IM, depending on the needs of the moment.

x. How many drinks before you're tipsy?
One. I am the cheapest drunk ever.

x. Favorite kind of porn?
Text-based and, let me emphasize this, literate. I've never seen any porn flick that I found at all appealing, not that my experience in this department has been vast, I grant you.

x. Do you ever have to beg?
Not since breaking up with...oh never mind.

x. Do you think you're cute?
Doubt it.

x. Do you have problems changing clothes in front of friends?
Nope. Unless of course I think it'd make them uncomfortable.

x. What's the most painful experience you've ever had?
I'm not sure I want to put it up on teh intarweb.