Trent's & Shannon's Memes
"Time for a meme I feel. This is only natural. Be good if other people did it too, if anyone reaches that level of boredom/is an insomniac." -- The Trentster, July 2008
1) When was the last time you spoke to the 5th person on your top friends?
Actually have to have 5 to answer this one, yes?
2) Wallpaper on your cell phone?
Mr. Maxter Padder, of course
3) Next time you will kiss someone?
When I see my Maxter Padder again
4) Where was your default picture taken?
In a laundry basket
5) Who were your last 3 texts from?
My best bud
6) What's the most interesting thing that happened to you today?
I found a new source of dim sum nearer than Chinatown
7) What's your favorite number?
Kinda past playing favorites; too old
8) Does your crush like you back?
My orange juice? We haven't actually articulated - at all...
9) What is your current mood?
Kolohe
10) Last person you saw?
Dad
11) What color shirt are you wearing?
Who's wearing a shirt?
12) Ever had a near death experience?
Only whenever I ride with teens in possession of a learner's permit
13) Appears to have been removed. Must have offended someone.
Appearances can be deceiving
14) Whose car were you in last?
The bank's
15) What are you listening to?
The voice in my head
16) Do you get along with girls?
Some... sometimes... Boys are more fun and women are more adventuresome
17) Last movie you saw in theaters?
The Incredible Hulk or the latest Indiana Jones flick, I don't remember which
18) Last thing you ate?
char siu manapua
19) What was last thing you drank?
Refrigerated water
20) Are you happy right now?
Define happiness
21) What's the last thing your BEST friend said to you?
Bye
22) Where is your phone?
In my pocket, on my desk, in the kitchen (phone-rich)
23) What colour is your hair?
Depends on the strand: black, brown, red, auburn, white
24) If you could have one thing right now what would it be?
A teleporter
25) What could you do to get that one thing right now?
Nada
26) What were you doing at midnight last night?
Watching the last episode of the first season of Bones, the television series I have most recently become hooked on
27) What's for dinner tonight?
Dim sum: pay attention
28) What is the last thing you thought about?
Dim sum, because the previous question asked about dinner; sheesh!
29) When is your birthday?
Why settle for just one day? I generally just take the whole month of February
30) How do you feel about your hair right now?
Actually been giving it a lot of thought lately; contemplating seriously joining the "Silver Tsunami" well underway here in the islands and across the nation
31) Where does most of your family live?
It's a scattergun affair... It is safest to say the U.S.A. and leave it at that
32) Do you think you can last in a relationship for 6 months without cheating?
On my taxes? in games? at a buffet? with videos and cds? What does this question mean?
33) What color are your eyes?
My license says brown
34) What are you doing now?
Sitting in chair, typing this (Could there be a more foolish question?)
35) What is one thing you question a lot?
These questions
36) Do you think you lead people on?
I try, but they generally refuse to follow...
37) Are you married?
Marred or married? Either way...
38) Have you ever told someone of the opposite sex that you loved them?
Do relatives count?
39) Is there anyone who doesn't like you?
No, no, no. I am either loved or loathed; there is no tepid liking...
40) Did any of your friends go out with any of your ex's?
I have no exes. Or friends with whom they might go out...
41) Are you mad at someone right now?
Does the maker of these insipid questions count?
42) Which is more romantic: sunrise or sunset?
As a lover of the night, I find both equally appealing: the sunset marks the beginning of possibilities, the sunrise fulfillment. The best nights start just before sunset and last through sunrise.
43) Do you have any tattoos or piercings?
No, that would require a type of masochism in which I do not indulge.
44) Do you believe in love?
Curious question
45) How old do you want to be when you have kids?
Who wants baby goats? except maybe Heidi
46) When was the last time you threw up?
The last time I overindulged beyond reason, of course
48) Are you happier single or in a relationship?
Yes, I'd like to know this one, too
49) What's something you wish you could understand better?
Everything
50) What are you excited about?
Cool tech toys & tools
51) Kissed someone in the last 24 hrs?
Sadly, no
52) What's your favorite color?
Again with the favorites
Lit Meme. Because all the nerdy kids are doing it.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ .
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier.
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind -Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo