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SO,
yeah,
that ABCs survey thing this is longer than the day is droll. Or something to that effect.
ABCs
A - Accidents
01. Have you ever been in a car accident? Nope.
02. Do you have a lot of scars? Including stretchmarks, a billion and a half.
03. Have you ever been in a fist fight with someone? In fifth grade. I also said some racist things and lots of cursing. It was pretty messed up. It was with some black girls in fourth grade, and we were all friends after that. They were bullying my friend.
04. Have you ever seriously hurt anyone by mistake? Gah, probably.
05. Have you ever had stitches? I skinned my chin, and they said I needed something like 12 stitches, but we could only afford two. So I have a cute little scar on my chin.
B - Beauty
06. Do you consider yourself beautiful? Ask again tomorrow.
07. Are you self conscious of how you look? Sometimes, but not lately. I look how I look and if no one else cares, why should I? Or even then, why should I care? Wasted energy.
08. Do you put on a lot of make-up? Less is more!
09. Would you ever consider getting plastic surgery? And then there are those days... =(
10. What do you think makes a person beautiful? Speech, actions, smiles
C - Consequences
11. What was the longest amount of time you've been grounded for? I was never grounded.
12. What would you do if you got pregnant, keep it or have an abortion? And I'd even kick some clinic picketers in the face on my way in.
13. Do you ever think about how your actions affect other people? Of course.
14. What do you think is the worst punishment someone could give you? Force me to eat dairy. adjhgkjsghd. I've become phobic.
15. What is one thing you wish you didn't do, just because it wasn't worth it in the end? Oh, dear. I wish I didn't want to put "brazil" here. =/
D - Dealing
16. When you are mad at someone, how do you show them? I tell 'em they fucked up.
17. Name a time when you had to be strong: My mom's lung absessed the summer after 8th grade, and my sister and I had to do the "switching schools" and "get the mortgage paid" things done on our own, while mama bear was in Michigan.
18. Have you ever dealt with a divorce or parents fighting? Any kind of abuse at home? Alcohol abuse led to fighting led to divorce led to more alcohol abuse.
19. When people at school don't accept you, or have problems with you, how do you react? I usually don't. o_o Well, I mean, if they confront me, I face them.
20. Have you ever lost someone to death? Explain how you got through it. I didn't really "lose" her. I just... watched her die.
E - Experience
21. Have you ever had a job? Any volunteer jobs? Sorta, yeah. About 4. And yeessss. A ton.
22. Do you think that you are sexually experienced, or not at all? Hardly at all. I can kiss. I hear the kissing is good.
23. Have you gone through a lot emotionally, or has life been easy thus far? I don't know many people that can top my past.
24. Do you think you are ready to be on your own (have your own home, job, etc.)? Yes.
25. How old do you act? I don't know. I used to be precocious, but they're catching up and I'm quite lazy.
F - Family
26. Is there anyone in your family you don't talk to? Why? Anyone outside my nuclear family. Distance? lazy.
27. If you had to choose, family or friends? uuuuhh. family, i guess. /spasm.
28. Can you tell your parents or one of your parents anything? No, not anything, not everything... but most things.
29. Do you have any siblings? If so, do you ever get jealous of them? My siblings are prettier than me:[ haha. No, I don't get jealous.
30. How often do you spend 'quality time' with family members? I still live at home. We ocassionally watch movies together. Really, that's almost all we do together.
G - Growing
31. How tall are you? How tall do you wish you were? 5'8"ish. 50', because then I could attack!
32. Do you think that you have grown more in the past year than any year before that? I think I've grown a little bit.
33. As a person, do you think you are mature for your age or still act childish? I'm goofy. I think that just about sums it up. But, I'm socially aware and mature about it. It works out.
34. Are you scared to think that one day you will turn 30, then 40, then 50? Nah. I just hope I've, you know, done something. SIGH.
35. Do you believe you still have a lot to learn? Of course! The catacombs of knowledge have just been entered! I can practically still see the light creeping in from the entrance! I have but chipped the tip of the iceberg.
H - Hope
36. Love - real or not? Real! but one true love? Not.
37. Are you a pessimist of an optimist? I usually give things the benefit of the doubt. I can be happy-go-lucky to the extreme of careless, sometimes. Like in that dream Hannah had about me saying our bicycles would be okay unlocked and then they got stolen and shattered into a million pieces. I'm sorry for dream-me dream-destroying dream-you's dream-bike!
38. Do you believe in fate, that everything happens for a reason, or do you think that our actions lead the way? I don't see the difference. Couldn't you argue that our actions are the reason, and leave it at that? Hmmm?!
I - Issues
41. Do you suffer from depression or constant sadness/loneliness? I have! And some associated disorders! Coping mechanisms are diseases, too! Weee!
42. Do you have any type of disease or disability? Myopia. Literally, not figuratively. I hope.
43. Are you currently in a hard relationship or have bad luck with the opposite sex? Bad luck. I guess. You can't really call it bad luck when you deliberately make sure you're lonely, can you?
44. Do you think that you are alone in this world? LOOK AROUND. THE WORLD IS. RIGHT. THERE.:)
45. How often do you think about death, suicide or running away? When I'm really sad, I sometimes think about being killed. Not killing myself, ever (how silly.:P) but circumstances beyond my control wiping me out. I had a rather vivid daydream about someone breaking in a shooting me, and me having enough time for one phone call.
J - Jokes
46. Say a word or phrase that would not be funny to anyone but you & one of your friends (an inside joke). I can't think of one right now...
47. Are you usually the one making people laugh, or the other way around? I laugh a lot, but people laugh at the things I say, too (in a good way! aah!)
48. Do you cry when you laugh hard? If I'm laughing hard because I'm slicing onions!
49. Write down a hilarious moment you had with someone that makes you laugh to this day.:
50. Do you ever get in trouble for laughing or talking a lot during class? I got in trouble for passing notes, for talking, for being talked to, for kicking some boy (2nd grade), for writing too small (to save paper!- 2nd grade)
K - Knowledge
51. The purpose of school: facilitate responsible voting!
52. Do people refer to you as smart, dumb, or average? smart. I get so used to it that I'm insulted if someone refers to me as a plebian *guffaw* "Average".
53. What was the highest grade you have received (full course mark)? 126% or something like that.
54. What was your last average? 3.67 GPA last I checked. I think it may have gone up!
55. What do you find the most interesting subject to be (to study or to talk about)? I love talking politics. I love studying politics. I love history and current events and philosophy and philosophical revolutions. I love talking music and talking art.
L - Love
56. Are you currently in love? You could say that. But you could say a lot of things.
57. Do people around you show you a lot of love (tell you they love you, hug you, kiss you, etc.)? Yes! Kissing is a greeting, to and from me.
58. Is love worth it? What?! What kind of a question is this? Worth it? This is making it seem like love requires some kind of obscene sacrifice. It requires no such thing. Love is like homework. You gotta study if you wanna get an A.
59. Do you hate it when girls in their young teenage years say they 'love' someone that they've been dating for a few months? Nah. Their chemicals are just like my chemicals. I just use more pretentious words to describe mine. :)
60. Does it take a lot for you to say you love someone, or is it just a word? I have lots and lots of love to give.
M - Money
61. Do you believe that money makes the world go round? No, Labor does.
62. Is your family on the poor side, average, or above average when it comes to money? Gurrrr' yous po'!
63. Are you saving up for college/university, or planning to? Bright Futures, yo'.
64. Would you rather win millions of dollars & be set for life, or find the perfect person to marry & start a family with? Where's the sense of adventure in this question? Answer: There isn't any. Bahaa.
65. On a scale of 1-10, how important is money to you? If money = freedom, then it's most definitely 10. Money is power and money is, more importantly, power over your own life. It's possibility and education and if "money", which I hate and want to be without (like in that movie "off the map" about the family in New Mexico), is necessary for my pursuit of knowledge and jetsetting, then 10. Still 10. But, money for the sake of money? That doesn't even deserve a number. Pfft.
N - Naughty
66. Are you a virgin? No.
67. What do you think about doing sexual things with someone you're not going out with? Hahaha
68. Do you know anybody you consider a 'slut'? What makes you say that? Nu uh.
69. If you could, would you erase some things you did in the past or make it so you did more? Or are you okay with everything you have done? I would have spent my time in school more wisely and acquired some more responsible study habits. Sob.
70. Do you consider yourself more nice or more naughty? amoral.
O - Openness
71. How long does it take for you to open up to someone? Seconds or years? "open up" Ahaha. I've come a long way. If someone wants to know something, I'll tell them.
72. What does it take for you to fully trust someone? Fully trust? Like, trust them with my hypothetical baby? Trust them with my life? Pff. I don't even trust some people with my real glass cups.
73. Are you generally untrusting towards people because of past experiences, or any other reason? I trust people :)
74. When are you comfortable with someone sexually? When I don't feel gross. It usually has nothing to do with them.
75. When it comes to parents and close friends, what's the limit of what you can tell them? Nothing sexual to my mother, nothing too abstract to most of my family, almost anything to my friends
P - Positive
76. Have you ever had an experience with someone that didn't necessarily end positively? So I had this emotionally abusive relationship this one time where I was used for rebound sex and made to feel horrible about everything from speaking to bellyfat. I've since reinforced my vertebrae.
77. Do you agree with the saying: better to have loved and lost than not have loved at all? Yes. Everytime. Ten for ten, I agree. I also say it's better to regret doing than to regret not doing. Use yoru better judgement.
78. Are you more optimistic or pessimistic? What do you try to be? Optimistic, realistic.
79. Do you agree that something good can come out of everything? Yes. There is no experience not worth having. Growth is always possible. Maybe not economic growth, but growth no less.
80. Have you ever had a time where something really bad happened, but something really good happened because of it? If so, please explain what it was.: Someone tried to kill me in my driveway, but it turned out that it was just Craig with a bar of chocolate. Hahaha.
Q - Questions
81. When faced with a problem, do you ask for help or try to figure it out yourself? That asking for help thing? Yeah, that? I don't do, often.
82. Do you often question the world and how we came about? Yes.
83. Do you think the government is truthful? If you could ask the president one question, what would it be? No. "So, Mr President, did we /really/ invade Iraq because of the supervolcano? Yes or No, plzkthx"
84. When someone does something wrong to you, do you confront them and ask them why they did it or just let it go? Confront, usually.
85. What is one unsolved mystery about the world that you want answers to? So, Harry Potter really isn't... real?
R - Respect
86. How do you show respect? By listening and being genuinely interested.
87. What can someone do for you to lose all respect for them? Abuse anyone weaker than themselves.
88. Do you respect your teachers, parents, and other authority figures? Some of them!
89. When you are disrespectful to your parents, what is the punishment? Yelling. Oh god, the yelling.
90. If someone is mean to you, are you mean back or do you kill them with kindness? Hahaha. I am invinceable!
S - School
91. If you are still in school, what grade will you be going into? Second semester sophomore.
92. When will you graduate high school/college? High school: 2006, college:??? probably 2009
93. After high school, what did you do/are you planning to do? I traveled a little, got a job, going to college.
94. Do you like or hate school? What do you like/hate about it? I love to learn. I hate losing interest quickly =( WE NEED THE QUARTER SYSTEM.
95. Have you ever been suspended, expelled, or dropped out of school? Nu uh. I've withdrawn from my fair share of courses, though. WE NEED THE QUARTER SYSTEM.
T - Temptation
96. Have you ever done something wrong, knowing it was wrong, because something inside of you said it was okay? My morals do yoga, not pilates, you yuppie fuck.
97. Has anyone ever pressured you to smoke or drink? Did you do it? Nope, yes. hahah
98. Did you ever cheat on someone? Why did you do it? No, I haven't. Wanted to. Oh, god. Wanted to. Should have, actually.
99. Did you ever want to do something sexual with someone you didn't really know or love? What did you end up doing? Yes. Ahahahaha. I now know /and/ love them.
100. Do you give in to temptation easily, or are you more independent and strong willed? I think very mathematically. I pick my battles, and most of my temptations don't need to be resisted. There's no retribution.
U - Unique
101. Would you rather blend in with the crowd or stand out? I don't care about the crowd.
102. Do you do a lot of things because your friends are doing it? I admit it, some things, yes. But, then again, they do things because I do them, as well.
103. Do you follow trends, wear whatever you want, or wear really unique pieces? I have lots and lots of expensive clothes. I wear whatever feels comfortable for whatever mood I'm in.
104. Do you give in easily to peer pressure? I usually want to do it in the first place. I'm the "c'mon! yeah! Let's go!" person. They're starting to be more active, though. Opening up to the world.
105. What makes you different from people your age? I have a future? AHaahaha. Possibly the most pompous answer possible.
V - Value
106. What's the most expensive thing in your room? This suit I have. Or, hmm. My shelves were pretty expensive. My mattress was probably /really/ expensive, but we inherited it. Yay! Dead person stuff!
107. What's more valuable: your life or the lives of your loved ones? Don't I have to value my life more? I live for myself. There is no one else I would live for. There is no one I would die for, purposely.
108. What is something you value not because it cost a lot, but because it means a lot to you? Wit and conviviality and the art of clever conversation.
109. If there was a fire in your house/apartment, what is the first thing you would grab? My mother. And then the car keys, and then our cell phones. Probably that suit, too. And a blanket, if it was cold outside.
110. Do you think past memories and experiences are more valuable than what could possibly happen in the future? I don't believe they can be separated by anything than perception, and I percieve them as whole and continuous and fluid. Inseparable.
W - Wishes
111. If you had three wishes, what would they be?
End the exploitation of workers, population decrease, and an environmental "D.O." where we can go back in time and implement solar/wind/renewablenonpolluting ASAP. That would make me so much more focused on one career. SIGH.
112. Would you rather wish yourself to be happy, or your loved ones? If their happiness means the sacrifice of my own, no way. I'll move away and be happy, and they can deal. I give them the utmost respect of being able to dictate their own lives in such a way that makes them the happiest. That said, there isn't much I wouldn't do to make my mom chill the fuck out and never have to work another shitty series of jobs ever again, and be able to travel to exotic lands and write her books and be happy. It also means that her happiness depends on my financial success.
113. Do you believe that wishes come true if you really believe in them? If you believe in them enough to get off your sorry wishing ass, then yes.
114. Have you ever had a wish come true? If so, what was that wish? I wished for love, and love I found, but maybe it was my misty-eyed and inactive disposition that snagged me that one. Yeah, probably. Eh. past is past.
115. Do you find wishing for things a waste of time because everything that's meant to happen, will happen? UHM. "meant to happen, will happen" That totally doesn't mean that you should stop having goals.
X - Xanga
116. Name all your Xanga's here. "Nothing to list. Fucking Xanga kids crossposting shit in their Livejournals." beautifully said, Michael.
117. Name everything you post on your Xanga LiveJournal. Memes, poetry, songs, prose, thoughts, feelings, current events, begging for comments.
118. How often do you update, check your subscribers/comments, and change your layout? :[ embarrassed. A lot. Just, a Lot.
119. How many subscribers and subscriptions do you have? A lot.
120. The greatest thing about Xanga? I almost forgot it existed.
Y - You
121. Are you more independent or social? Both!
122. What is something that makes you very mad when you see it? Stronger picking on the weaker. People not standing up for themselves. People feeling like they have the right to represent a whole bunch of other people under a blanket statement (ahem "liberal") and then do a REALLY POOR JOB.
123. Do you think that you have potential to do great things? Yes, I do.
125. Do you think people are generally good? Yes. Don't shoot me, Jesse.
Z - Zest
126. Are you currently happy with your life? Why or why not? "I will be". Yes, I am.
127. Are you more outgoing, ready for anything, or boring and shy? I'm a go-get-em-tiger kinda gal.
128. When change occurs, do you get scared or are you excited for it? I embrace it.
129. Do you like to try new things, meet new people? Addicted to it.
130. What is the most motivational thing in the world? Seeing results.
yeah,
that ABCs survey thing this is longer than the day is droll. Or something to that effect.
ABCs
A - Accidents
01. Have you ever been in a car accident? Nope.
02. Do you have a lot of scars? Including stretchmarks, a billion and a half.
03. Have you ever been in a fist fight with someone? In fifth grade. I also said some racist things and lots of cursing. It was pretty messed up. It was with some black girls in fourth grade, and we were all friends after that. They were bullying my friend.
04. Have you ever seriously hurt anyone by mistake? Gah, probably.
05. Have you ever had stitches? I skinned my chin, and they said I needed something like 12 stitches, but we could only afford two. So I have a cute little scar on my chin.
B - Beauty
06. Do you consider yourself beautiful? Ask again tomorrow.
07. Are you self conscious of how you look? Sometimes, but not lately. I look how I look and if no one else cares, why should I? Or even then, why should I care? Wasted energy.
08. Do you put on a lot of make-up? Less is more!
09. Would you ever consider getting plastic surgery? And then there are those days... =(
10. What do you think makes a person beautiful? Speech, actions, smiles
C - Consequences
11. What was the longest amount of time you've been grounded for? I was never grounded.
12. What would you do if you got pregnant, keep it or have an abortion? And I'd even kick some clinic picketers in the face on my way in.
13. Do you ever think about how your actions affect other people? Of course.
14. What do you think is the worst punishment someone could give you? Force me to eat dairy. adjhgkjsghd. I've become phobic.
15. What is one thing you wish you didn't do, just because it wasn't worth it in the end? Oh, dear. I wish I didn't want to put "brazil" here. =/
D - Dealing
16. When you are mad at someone, how do you show them? I tell 'em they fucked up.
17. Name a time when you had to be strong: My mom's lung absessed the summer after 8th grade, and my sister and I had to do the "switching schools" and "get the mortgage paid" things done on our own, while mama bear was in Michigan.
18. Have you ever dealt with a divorce or parents fighting? Any kind of abuse at home? Alcohol abuse led to fighting led to divorce led to more alcohol abuse.
19. When people at school don't accept you, or have problems with you, how do you react? I usually don't. o_o Well, I mean, if they confront me, I face them.
20. Have you ever lost someone to death? Explain how you got through it. I didn't really "lose" her. I just... watched her die.
E - Experience
21. Have you ever had a job? Any volunteer jobs? Sorta, yeah. About 4. And yeessss. A ton.
22. Do you think that you are sexually experienced, or not at all? Hardly at all. I can kiss. I hear the kissing is good.
23. Have you gone through a lot emotionally, or has life been easy thus far? I don't know many people that can top my past.
24. Do you think you are ready to be on your own (have your own home, job, etc.)? Yes.
25. How old do you act? I don't know. I used to be precocious, but they're catching up and I'm quite lazy.
F - Family
26. Is there anyone in your family you don't talk to? Why? Anyone outside my nuclear family. Distance? lazy.
27. If you had to choose, family or friends? uuuuhh. family, i guess. /spasm.
28. Can you tell your parents or one of your parents anything? No, not anything, not everything... but most things.
29. Do you have any siblings? If so, do you ever get jealous of them? My siblings are prettier than me:[ haha. No, I don't get jealous.
30. How often do you spend 'quality time' with family members? I still live at home. We ocassionally watch movies together. Really, that's almost all we do together.
G - Growing
31. How tall are you? How tall do you wish you were? 5'8"ish. 50', because then I could attack!
32. Do you think that you have grown more in the past year than any year before that? I think I've grown a little bit.
33. As a person, do you think you are mature for your age or still act childish? I'm goofy. I think that just about sums it up. But, I'm socially aware and mature about it. It works out.
34. Are you scared to think that one day you will turn 30, then 40, then 50? Nah. I just hope I've, you know, done something. SIGH.
35. Do you believe you still have a lot to learn? Of course! The catacombs of knowledge have just been entered! I can practically still see the light creeping in from the entrance! I have but chipped the tip of the iceberg.
H - Hope
36. Love - real or not? Real! but one true love? Not.
37. Are you a pessimist of an optimist? I usually give things the benefit of the doubt. I can be happy-go-lucky to the extreme of careless, sometimes. Like in that dream Hannah had about me saying our bicycles would be okay unlocked and then they got stolen and shattered into a million pieces. I'm sorry for dream-me dream-destroying dream-you's dream-bike!
38. Do you believe in fate, that everything happens for a reason, or do you think that our actions lead the way? I don't see the difference. Couldn't you argue that our actions are the reason, and leave it at that? Hmmm?!
I - Issues
41. Do you suffer from depression or constant sadness/loneliness? I have! And some associated disorders! Coping mechanisms are diseases, too! Weee!
42. Do you have any type of disease or disability? Myopia. Literally, not figuratively. I hope.
43. Are you currently in a hard relationship or have bad luck with the opposite sex? Bad luck. I guess. You can't really call it bad luck when you deliberately make sure you're lonely, can you?
44. Do you think that you are alone in this world? LOOK AROUND. THE WORLD IS. RIGHT. THERE.:)
45. How often do you think about death, suicide or running away? When I'm really sad, I sometimes think about being killed. Not killing myself, ever (how silly.:P) but circumstances beyond my control wiping me out. I had a rather vivid daydream about someone breaking in a shooting me, and me having enough time for one phone call.
J - Jokes
46. Say a word or phrase that would not be funny to anyone but you & one of your friends (an inside joke). I can't think of one right now...
47. Are you usually the one making people laugh, or the other way around? I laugh a lot, but people laugh at the things I say, too (in a good way! aah!)
48. Do you cry when you laugh hard? If I'm laughing hard because I'm slicing onions!
49. Write down a hilarious moment you had with someone that makes you laugh to this day.:
50. Do you ever get in trouble for laughing or talking a lot during class? I got in trouble for passing notes, for talking, for being talked to, for kicking some boy (2nd grade), for writing too small (to save paper!- 2nd grade)
K - Knowledge
51. The purpose of school: facilitate responsible voting!
52. Do people refer to you as smart, dumb, or average? smart. I get so used to it that I'm insulted if someone refers to me as a plebian *guffaw* "Average".
53. What was the highest grade you have received (full course mark)? 126% or something like that.
54. What was your last average? 3.67 GPA last I checked. I think it may have gone up!
55. What do you find the most interesting subject to be (to study or to talk about)? I love talking politics. I love studying politics. I love history and current events and philosophy and philosophical revolutions. I love talking music and talking art.
L - Love
56. Are you currently in love? You could say that. But you could say a lot of things.
57. Do people around you show you a lot of love (tell you they love you, hug you, kiss you, etc.)? Yes! Kissing is a greeting, to and from me.
58. Is love worth it? What?! What kind of a question is this? Worth it? This is making it seem like love requires some kind of obscene sacrifice. It requires no such thing. Love is like homework. You gotta study if you wanna get an A.
59. Do you hate it when girls in their young teenage years say they 'love' someone that they've been dating for a few months? Nah. Their chemicals are just like my chemicals. I just use more pretentious words to describe mine. :)
60. Does it take a lot for you to say you love someone, or is it just a word? I have lots and lots of love to give.
M - Money
61. Do you believe that money makes the world go round? No, Labor does.
62. Is your family on the poor side, average, or above average when it comes to money? Gurrrr' yous po'!
63. Are you saving up for college/university, or planning to? Bright Futures, yo'.
64. Would you rather win millions of dollars & be set for life, or find the perfect person to marry & start a family with? Where's the sense of adventure in this question? Answer: There isn't any. Bahaa.
65. On a scale of 1-10, how important is money to you? If money = freedom, then it's most definitely 10. Money is power and money is, more importantly, power over your own life. It's possibility and education and if "money", which I hate and want to be without (like in that movie "off the map" about the family in New Mexico), is necessary for my pursuit of knowledge and jetsetting, then 10. Still 10. But, money for the sake of money? That doesn't even deserve a number. Pfft.
N - Naughty
66. Are you a virgin? No.
67. What do you think about doing sexual things with someone you're not going out with? Hahaha
68. Do you know anybody you consider a 'slut'? What makes you say that? Nu uh.
69. If you could, would you erase some things you did in the past or make it so you did more? Or are you okay with everything you have done? I would have spent my time in school more wisely and acquired some more responsible study habits. Sob.
70. Do you consider yourself more nice or more naughty? amoral.
O - Openness
71. How long does it take for you to open up to someone? Seconds or years? "open up" Ahaha. I've come a long way. If someone wants to know something, I'll tell them.
72. What does it take for you to fully trust someone? Fully trust? Like, trust them with my hypothetical baby? Trust them with my life? Pff. I don't even trust some people with my real glass cups.
73. Are you generally untrusting towards people because of past experiences, or any other reason? I trust people :)
74. When are you comfortable with someone sexually? When I don't feel gross. It usually has nothing to do with them.
75. When it comes to parents and close friends, what's the limit of what you can tell them? Nothing sexual to my mother, nothing too abstract to most of my family, almost anything to my friends
P - Positive
76. Have you ever had an experience with someone that didn't necessarily end positively? So I had this emotionally abusive relationship this one time where I was used for rebound sex and made to feel horrible about everything from speaking to bellyfat. I've since reinforced my vertebrae.
77. Do you agree with the saying: better to have loved and lost than not have loved at all? Yes. Everytime. Ten for ten, I agree. I also say it's better to regret doing than to regret not doing. Use yoru better judgement.
78. Are you more optimistic or pessimistic? What do you try to be? Optimistic, realistic.
79. Do you agree that something good can come out of everything? Yes. There is no experience not worth having. Growth is always possible. Maybe not economic growth, but growth no less.
80. Have you ever had a time where something really bad happened, but something really good happened because of it? If so, please explain what it was.: Someone tried to kill me in my driveway, but it turned out that it was just Craig with a bar of chocolate. Hahaha.
Q - Questions
81. When faced with a problem, do you ask for help or try to figure it out yourself? That asking for help thing? Yeah, that? I don't do, often.
82. Do you often question the world and how we came about? Yes.
83. Do you think the government is truthful? If you could ask the president one question, what would it be? No. "So, Mr President, did we /really/ invade Iraq because of the supervolcano? Yes or No, plzkthx"
84. When someone does something wrong to you, do you confront them and ask them why they did it or just let it go? Confront, usually.
85. What is one unsolved mystery about the world that you want answers to? So, Harry Potter really isn't... real?
R - Respect
86. How do you show respect? By listening and being genuinely interested.
87. What can someone do for you to lose all respect for them? Abuse anyone weaker than themselves.
88. Do you respect your teachers, parents, and other authority figures? Some of them!
89. When you are disrespectful to your parents, what is the punishment? Yelling. Oh god, the yelling.
90. If someone is mean to you, are you mean back or do you kill them with kindness? Hahaha. I am invinceable!
S - School
91. If you are still in school, what grade will you be going into? Second semester sophomore.
92. When will you graduate high school/college? High school: 2006, college:??? probably 2009
93. After high school, what did you do/are you planning to do? I traveled a little, got a job, going to college.
94. Do you like or hate school? What do you like/hate about it? I love to learn. I hate losing interest quickly =( WE NEED THE QUARTER SYSTEM.
95. Have you ever been suspended, expelled, or dropped out of school? Nu uh. I've withdrawn from my fair share of courses, though. WE NEED THE QUARTER SYSTEM.
T - Temptation
96. Have you ever done something wrong, knowing it was wrong, because something inside of you said it was okay? My morals do yoga, not pilates, you yuppie fuck.
97. Has anyone ever pressured you to smoke or drink? Did you do it? Nope, yes. hahah
98. Did you ever cheat on someone? Why did you do it? No, I haven't. Wanted to. Oh, god. Wanted to. Should have, actually.
99. Did you ever want to do something sexual with someone you didn't really know or love? What did you end up doing? Yes. Ahahahaha. I now know /and/ love them.
100. Do you give in to temptation easily, or are you more independent and strong willed? I think very mathematically. I pick my battles, and most of my temptations don't need to be resisted. There's no retribution.
U - Unique
101. Would you rather blend in with the crowd or stand out? I don't care about the crowd.
102. Do you do a lot of things because your friends are doing it? I admit it, some things, yes. But, then again, they do things because I do them, as well.
103. Do you follow trends, wear whatever you want, or wear really unique pieces? I have lots and lots of expensive clothes. I wear whatever feels comfortable for whatever mood I'm in.
104. Do you give in easily to peer pressure? I usually want to do it in the first place. I'm the "c'mon! yeah! Let's go!" person. They're starting to be more active, though. Opening up to the world.
105. What makes you different from people your age? I have a future? AHaahaha. Possibly the most pompous answer possible.
V - Value
106. What's the most expensive thing in your room? This suit I have. Or, hmm. My shelves were pretty expensive. My mattress was probably /really/ expensive, but we inherited it. Yay! Dead person stuff!
107. What's more valuable: your life or the lives of your loved ones? Don't I have to value my life more? I live for myself. There is no one else I would live for. There is no one I would die for, purposely.
108. What is something you value not because it cost a lot, but because it means a lot to you? Wit and conviviality and the art of clever conversation.
109. If there was a fire in your house/apartment, what is the first thing you would grab? My mother. And then the car keys, and then our cell phones. Probably that suit, too. And a blanket, if it was cold outside.
110. Do you think past memories and experiences are more valuable than what could possibly happen in the future? I don't believe they can be separated by anything than perception, and I percieve them as whole and continuous and fluid. Inseparable.
W - Wishes
111. If you had three wishes, what would they be?
End the exploitation of workers, population decrease, and an environmental "D.O." where we can go back in time and implement solar/wind/renewablenonpolluting ASAP. That would make me so much more focused on one career. SIGH.
112. Would you rather wish yourself to be happy, or your loved ones? If their happiness means the sacrifice of my own, no way. I'll move away and be happy, and they can deal. I give them the utmost respect of being able to dictate their own lives in such a way that makes them the happiest. That said, there isn't much I wouldn't do to make my mom chill the fuck out and never have to work another shitty series of jobs ever again, and be able to travel to exotic lands and write her books and be happy. It also means that her happiness depends on my financial success.
113. Do you believe that wishes come true if you really believe in them? If you believe in them enough to get off your sorry wishing ass, then yes.
114. Have you ever had a wish come true? If so, what was that wish? I wished for love, and love I found, but maybe it was my misty-eyed and inactive disposition that snagged me that one. Yeah, probably. Eh. past is past.
115. Do you find wishing for things a waste of time because everything that's meant to happen, will happen? UHM. "meant to happen, will happen" That totally doesn't mean that you should stop having goals.
X - Xanga
116. Name all your Xanga's here. "Nothing to list. Fucking Xanga kids crossposting shit in their Livejournals." beautifully said, Michael.
117. Name everything you post on your Xanga LiveJournal. Memes, poetry, songs, prose, thoughts, feelings, current events, begging for comments.
118. How often do you update, check your subscribers/comments, and change your layout? :[ embarrassed. A lot. Just, a Lot.
119. How many subscribers and subscriptions do you have? A lot.
120. The greatest thing about Xanga? I almost forgot it existed.
Y - You
121. Are you more independent or social? Both!
122. What is something that makes you very mad when you see it? Stronger picking on the weaker. People not standing up for themselves. People feeling like they have the right to represent a whole bunch of other people under a blanket statement (ahem "liberal") and then do a REALLY POOR JOB.
123. Do you think that you have potential to do great things? Yes, I do.
125. Do you think people are generally good? Yes. Don't shoot me, Jesse.
Z - Zest
126. Are you currently happy with your life? Why or why not? "I will be". Yes, I am.
127. Are you more outgoing, ready for anything, or boring and shy? I'm a go-get-em-tiger kinda gal.
128. When change occurs, do you get scared or are you excited for it? I embrace it.
129. Do you like to try new things, meet new people? Addicted to it.
130. What is the most motivational thing in the world? Seeing results.