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1. Have you ever been searched for by the cops?
No, but I have called the cops to search for people. Most notable was the time that a repo man showed up when I was alone in the house and started screaming and pounding on the door looking for one of the cars. The payment had already been made, the finance company denied it the next day, and when the cops showed they were all primed for a domestic dispute even though I told the dispatcher that no, my husband was at the grocery store and I'd never seen the man trying to break in before.
Horrible experience.
2. Do you close your eyes on roller coasters?
I've never been on one. Given that the neuroma is a balance nerve, and that I occasionally get a mild case of vertigo, it's probably never going to happen.
3. When's the last time you've been sledding?
1968 or thereabouts.
4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
Do the cats count? I'm rather used to Malfoy curling up on my feet.
Otherwise, it depends on the person. If I'm in love, then being alone is torture. If I'm not, I like being by myself.
5. Do you believe in ghosts?
Spirits or entities, yes. Ghosts per se, not proven.
6. Do you consider yourself creative?
Yes.
7. Do you think O.J. killed his wife?
Yes.
8. Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?
Neither. Daniel Day-Lewis or Adrien Brody are more my speed.
9. Can you honestly say you know ANYTHING about politics?
Yes, and I find it mildly horrifying.
10. Do you know how to play poker?
Used to, haven't in years.
11. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
36 is my record. I felt like a zombie for the next two weeks.
12. What's your favorite commercial?
The EDS cat-herding commercial. "Nothing like bringin' in a herd of shorthairs."
13. Who was your first love?
Tom Georski back in Cleveland when I was kid. I was sure I was going to marry him.
14. If you're driving in the middle of the night, and no one is around you, do you run a red a red light?
No.
15. Do you have a secret that no one knows but you?
Yes.
16. Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees?
Pittsburgh Pirates.
17. Have you ever been ice skating?
Yes. Sprained my knee falling.
18. How often do you remember your dreams?
Maybe 20% of the time.
19. What's the one thing on your mind?
The paper I have to finish by Sunday.
20. Do you always wear your seat belt?
Yes. I have no desire to be brain damaged.
21. What talent do you wish you had?
The ability to draw a realistic human being.
22. Do you like sushi?
EW ICK BARF GROSS RAW FISH EW EW EW.
23. What do you wear to bed?
Winter, my Pennsic 32 t-shirt and yoga pants. Summer, as little as possible.
24. Do you truly hate anyone?
Yes.
25. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be?
Ewan McGregor. He seems like a nice, funny, normal guy, and without a sense of humor about how ridiculous the whole thing is, what's the point?
26. Do you know anyone in jail?
Not presently.
27. What food do you find disgusting?
Pickles of any sort, kimchi, raw meat, Bertie Bott's vomit flavored bean.
28. Have you ever made fun of your friends behind their back?
Not since I was a kid.
29. Have you ever been punched in the face?
No.
30. What is the deal breaker for you?
Lying, infidelity, disloyalty and moral cowardice.
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Date: 2009-03-18 03:42 am (UTC)From:A friend of mine makes a really good veggie sushi. I like the "real" kind too but his veggie creations are pretty good-- especially with plenty of wasabi!! :)
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Date: 2009-03-24 03:05 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-03-24 03:36 am (UTC)From:(actually AmyCat in my Secret Identity as a book-pusher)
Date: 2009-03-24 08:53 am (UTC)From:I put chopped-up sweet-pickled ginger bits in tuna salad instead of chopped celery.
A couple years back, a friend asked for "Alien Food" for a New Years' Eve potluck; I used some pink-tinted sliced sweet-pickled ginger (thin, sorta irregular and petal-shaped), rolled them, and stuck them in the centers of a can-ful of lychees, arranged on a plate. Called 'em Minbari something-or-other-fruit... :-)
A dash of ginger and cinnamon makes ordinary canned chicken soup MUCH more interesting.
Ginger... YUM! *purrr*
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Date: 2009-03-25 02:38 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-03-20 06:08 am (UTC)From:Nope.
2. Do you close your eyes on roller coasters?
Not when I used to go on them. I stopped around 19 when they started making me sick up.
3. When's the last time you've been sledding?
I was... eight. Or nine.
4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
I can't imagine not sleeping with Chaz. Before her, though, I couldn't imagine sleeping with anyone.
5. Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes, spirits & entities that can cross those barriers. Sure.
6. Do you consider yourself creative?
Yes.
7. Do you think O.J. killed his wife?
Undoubtedly.
8. Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?
Alan Rickman. Preferably between myself and Chaz.
9. Can you honestly say you know ANYTHING about politics?
Yes.
10. Do you know how to play poker?
Yes. I have it on my pda. I play it sometimes to relax/waste time if I'm waiting at the doctor's office or something, usually if I get tired of playing mahjjong.
11. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
Not quite, but close. Because of circumstances, when my grandfather had his first massive heart attack followed by emergency open-heart surgery, I was up for over 36 hours, but I didn't make it to 48. I don't know exactly how long I was up, but I remember calculating it had been at least 36 hours and I stayed up until we got word about his condition. Then I fell asleep in the ICU waiting room.
12. What's your favorite commercial?
http://www.undiesdrawer.com/undiesdrawer/2007/04/philips_bluetoo.html
13. Who was your first love?
An ice-blonde, sturdy boy w/piercing blue eyes named Casey. We were both 11.
14. If you're driving in the middle of the night, and no one is around you, do you run a red a red light?
No.
15. Do you have a secret that no one knows but you?
Yes.
16. Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees?
Arizona Diamondbacks
17. Have you ever been ice skating?
Not for 30 years.
18. How often do you remember your dreams?
Most of the time.
19. What's the one thing on your mind?
Wondering when Chaz is coming home.
20. Do you always wear your seat belt?
If the car has that automatic seat belt that pulls down, then yes. Otherwise, it's a toss up.
21. What talent do you wish you had?
I wish I could dance.
22. Do you like sushi?
Not at all.
23. What do you wear to bed?
That's for Chaz to know... and any neighbours if there's a bad earthquake.
24. Do you truly hate anyone?
Only whilst he was in office. Now he's gone, I can ignore him.
25. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be?
See #8.
26. Do you know anyone in jail?
Yes.
27. What food do you find disgusting?
Things that were just alive. Things that are still alive, such as oysters.
28. Have you ever made fun of your friends behind their back?
Why would I?
29. Have you ever been punched in the face?
Not so much since I turned 20.
30. What is the deal breaker for you?
Violence.
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Date: 2009-03-24 06:00 am (UTC)From:Yep. When I was not quite two years old, I reportedly (I have NO memory of it myself) got out of the back yard, went down the canyon, and was found a couple hours later when a neighbor on the other side of the canyon called the cops to report the toddler splashing around quite happily in their koi pond trying to catch the fishies... Mom, of course, had reported me missing probably within minutes of my getting loose (I think she'd gone in the house to answer a 'phone call), so the cops had been looking for me all that time, but since they didn't know I'd gone through the back fence and down the steep, overgrown, brush-covered hillside into the gully rather than around through the side yard and onto the street, they weren't searching in the right direction. Even forty years later, when walking through the neighborhood with my parents, Mom would point out the koi pond (part of a beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden) and describe how worried she'd been and how amazing it was that I'd gotten all the way there without injury. (She probably would've had a heart attack if she'd known at the time there were rattlesnakes in the canyon, too.) Poor mom.
2. Do you close your eyes on roller coasters?
Nope. Haven't been on one in years, though.
3. When's the last time you've been sledding?
Hmmm... Sliding down the hill towards Paradise Pond on a food-service tray when we were undergrads, I think...
4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
At home, I share with Doug and the Moggy Horde (Bjorn and Gryphon, in my icon, and E.Coli -- little grey-and-white girl half the size of our two boys) in a king-size waterbed. *purrr*
When I'm traveling, I often share with convention roomies, but if given a choice I sleep better on my own.
5. Do you believe in ghosts?
I'm agnostic on 'em. I think most of the "Ghost Whisperer" and TV psychic shows are total BS, though, and one of the things I like on "The Mentalist" is that the main character's a "reformed" EX-tv-psychic (and implied con artist) and, in the course of helping the cops, he uses the tricks of his former trade (and thus shows that it's NOT "psychic ability" or "communing with the spirits").
6. Do you consider yourself creative?
Yes, though more "crafty" than "artistic".
7. Do you think O.J. killed his wife?
Hell, yes. And that poor boyfriend (Ron Goldman?) who hardly even gets mentioned 'cause he wasn't *famous*.
8. Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?
Can I go for *characters* rather than RL famous people?
9. Can you honestly say you know ANYTHING about politics?
I wish I didn't have to pay as much attention to politics, but if we don't, we get politicians like Shrub and Cheney...
10. Do you know how to play poker?
No...
11. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
Not quite... Did one convention thing where I got up, packed and loaded the van (about 6 hours), drove to L.A. with two hour-long cat-naps en route (another 16 hours minus 2 naps), napped another 45min. parked in the loading zone at the convention site 'til they opened the Dealers' Room for set-up, then spent four hours unloading and setting up, eight hours selling books, and then sleep-walked through dinner and a con party before actually getting to bed (about another 3-4 hours). So, about 38 hours, of which 3 were spent sleeping, but in a car-seat, and most of the rest either working or driving. The next two days, I got up around 7 or 8am, worked all day, and the second also spent about 4 hours packing out.
12. What's your favorite commercial?
> The EDS cat-herding commercial. "Nothing like bringin' in a herd of shorthairs."
Never saw this one. Generally, I find commercials at best ignorable.
13. Who was your first love?
Illya Kuryakin from "Man From U.N.C.L.E."; I think I was about 10 or 11.
14. If you're driving in the middle of the night, and no one is around you, do you run a red a red light?
No. My late-night moving violations tend to be speed-limit related...
Posting in two parts 'cause this is too long...
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Date: 2009-03-24 06:01 am (UTC)From:15. Do you have a secret that no one knows but you?
That would be telling...
16. Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees?
*yawn*
17. Have you ever been ice skating?
Yes... not in decades...
18. How often do you remember your dreams?
Occasionally...
19. What's the one thing on your mind?
One? One?? Right now, I'm watching "Annie Oakley" on PBS (while "Heroes" records on DVR), catching up on LJ, checking e-mail, and getting ready to do my book order for NorWesCon... It's never just ONE thing!
20. Do you always wear your seat belt?
Yes. Seat belts when driving, bike helmet while biking...
21. What talent do you wish you had?
I wish I'd had music lessons rather than dance lessons when I was growing up...
22. Do you like sushi?
Not particularly... see comment above...
23. What do you wear to bed?
I've got some SCA t-tunics in comfy fabrics, and a flannel nightie for cold weather, and a couple cotton knit sleep shirts for warmer weather.
24. Do you truly hate anyone?
Reall, reallly HATE rather than Dislike (even "Dislike a LOT")? No one I know personally. There are various politicos, rabble rousers, war criminals, and suchlike that're on my "They never would be missed" list, though. If I had a shot at the "ethnic cleansers" in Darfur, or Bin Laden and his taliban cronies, or that lunatic "God Hates Fags" preacher in the midwest, or a PROVEN pedophile, and wasn't going to face a murder rap, I'd probably pull the trigger, for instance. So, a fair number of "I hate the IDEA of 'em", hate that people like them exist, but people of my actual acquaintance? None THAT bad...
25. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be?
I'd rather have a nice friendly dinner and conversation with any number of famous people than *sleep* with any celebrity I can name! Many (if not most) of the ones I consider particularly attractive are in relationships, anyway (as am I), and a sex partner who'd cheat on a spouse is a big turn-off to me. If you substitute "Spend an evening with" for "sleep with", I'd choose having dinner with President and Mrs. Obama... even throw in the kids and the First Puppy, for that matter... :-) Much more fun than a one-night stand with a celebrity!
26. Do you know anyone in jail?
Don't think so... About 20 years ago, one guy I knew very slightly through fandom was imprisoned for statutory rape (a consensual relationship with a barely-underage guy who'd lied about his age, prosecuted when the kid's parents found out and freaked over their baby being in a gay relationship).
27. What food do you find disgusting?
"Pickles of any sort, kimchi, raw meat, Bertie Bott's vomit flavored bean."
I'll agree on the Bertie Botts, but like several sorts of pickled things. Raw meat: not stuff I seek out, but I've eaten Steak Tartare once or twice when it was served at parties. Raw oysters, though... YECH! And I probably wouldn't eat kimchi by itself, but had a YUMMY Kimchi-sour cream dip at a cousin's wedding in Hawaii. If I were offered grubs or sheeps' eyeballs or "prairie oysters", I'd probably look for a polite way to decline...
28. Have you ever made fun of your friends behind their back?
"Not since I was a kid."
Ditto. If they're friends, I might tease 'em face-to-face, but I don't think an adult can honestly call someone a "friend" if they'd ridicule them to others.
29. Have you ever been punched in the face?
No.
30. What is the deal breaker for you?
"Lying, infidelity, disloyalty and moral cowardice."
Sounds about right, though since Doug and I have an "open" relationship I'd define "infidelity" as an *unsanctioned* outside relationship.
Interesting set of questions...