20 + 2!
Well...davidd, pastilla, and zannah all did it, and all managed to retain their dignity. I know that, about a year ago, I posted an entry titled (something along the lines of) "The Last Xanga Quiz I Will Ever Post In My LiveJournal. Ever.". However, this is a LiveJournal quiz. With that very lame loophole, here goes.
I'm very late, again.
1. There is a whiteboard on the wall of my room. It was originally put there with the intention of writing hard-to-remember Greek and Latin roots for spelling study, but since my tentative decision to skip the spelling bee this year, I've been writing other people's quotes on it. At the moment, it reads:
"'If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.' --Kerry Thornley",
"'Let youth cease to serve as a commodity merely to become the consumer of its own élan.' --Isidore Isou",
"'Vamos a jugar por la playa' --Pixies".
I replace the quotes every time I find a cooler one.
2. I am ridiculously clumsy and accident-prone, and as a result I am a band-aid connoisseur.
3. As a band-aid connoisseur, I harbor an intense dislike for foam bandages.
4. I'm not a coffee person. I can't stand coffee. Maybe it's because I'm not old enough to appreciate coffee, but I really prefer tea to anything else.
5. I have lived in two places in my entire life. When I was six years old, we moved two or three blocks away. Same city, same neighborhood, more snails. My older brother, however, was born in and spent his first year in San Francisco. I'm quite jealous.
6. My dreams usually involve houseplants, abandoned theme parks, and crowded airplanes.
7. I never, ever wear matching socks. This was a fashion statement originally stolen from Sky McCloud around second or third grade. I don't wear matching earrings, either, though whether this was also from Sky I don't remember.
8. I love album liner notes. The Dead Kennedys and X have the best.
9. The Internet connection in my room is faulty very, very often. I just opened a new window to see if it's working, and I got "Adelphia High-Speed Internet Installation Wizard". Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
10. Yesterday I finished reading Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything. I'd been reading it on and off since 2004 (!), until I decided to restart it from the beginning in late spring.
11. While Googling "Chicken Soup For The Soul" this morning, I came across this lovely page:
I advise believers to steer clear of Jack Canfield and the enormously popular Chicken Soup Series books and products because they are New Age at best, and at many points even occultic and anti-Christian.
Um, if you say so.
12. Oh, and for why I was Googling "Chicken Soup For The Soul"--I got a phone call a couple of weeks ago from Chicken Soup For The Soul, asking for my e-mail address. They sent me an e-mail with a permission form for me to print out and sign, then send to them so that they could use a story I wrote in second grade for a new book. Mom really wants me to do this because getting published will help me get a scholarship. However, I really don't like Chicken Soup For The Soul because they peddle shallow, quasi-inspirational fluff. It's still bugging me, though. Any advice? Please?
13. I am stereotypically feminist in a lot of ways:
13a. I love cats.
13b. I love Sleater-Kinney.
13c. I don't like being called "honey", "sweetie", etc. by strangers/people who barely know me (though this is more because of #15).
13d. People who confuse "feminist" with "feminazi" annoy me.
13e. My contempt for "chick flicks" cannot be put into words.
14. In general, I do not like stupid comedy movies, especially stupid comedy movies that star Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell. However, there are some stupid comedy movies which I unashamedly love, such as Repo Man and This Is Spinal Tap.
15. I am very shy. Usually, I squelch this when I try to be outgoing, but then people refer to me as "very quiet" and I'm baffled.
15a. When bored, tired, or overwhelmed by social interaction, I sometimes revert to what Mom calls "the doll-like stare". Usually during this time I daydream about moving out of California.
16. I have an embarrassingly hard time recognizing sarcasm.
17. I read 9 or 10 political/tech blogs every morning, and I almost never read the regular news.
18. I get cranky when I spend too much time at large stores, carnivals, or other places with lots of people. My parents are the same way.
19. I occasionally use British spellings/pronunciations without realizing it.
20. Pinned to the wall of my room is a flashcard that reads "6 x 8 = __", which is a fairly obvious Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference.
And now for the +2, both of which are very similar to those listed by davidd but still apply to me:
21. I don't like talking on the phone at all. I don't know why.
22. I have a pink, teacup-shaped Hello Kitty alarm clock/radio and I love it.
Congratulations on making it to the end of this list! Because you must be really bored if you read this all the way through, I present to you The Gallery Of Regrettable Food.
Observations concerning the list may come later, but not right now.
I'm very late, again.
1. There is a whiteboard on the wall of my room. It was originally put there with the intention of writing hard-to-remember Greek and Latin roots for spelling study, but since my tentative decision to skip the spelling bee this year, I've been writing other people's quotes on it. At the moment, it reads:
"'If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.' --Kerry Thornley",
"'Let youth cease to serve as a commodity merely to become the consumer of its own élan.' --Isidore Isou",
"'Vamos a jugar por la playa' --Pixies".
I replace the quotes every time I find a cooler one.
2. I am ridiculously clumsy and accident-prone, and as a result I am a band-aid connoisseur.
3. As a band-aid connoisseur, I harbor an intense dislike for foam bandages.
4. I'm not a coffee person. I can't stand coffee. Maybe it's because I'm not old enough to appreciate coffee, but I really prefer tea to anything else.
5. I have lived in two places in my entire life. When I was six years old, we moved two or three blocks away. Same city, same neighborhood, more snails. My older brother, however, was born in and spent his first year in San Francisco. I'm quite jealous.
6. My dreams usually involve houseplants, abandoned theme parks, and crowded airplanes.
7. I never, ever wear matching socks. This was a fashion statement originally stolen from Sky McCloud around second or third grade. I don't wear matching earrings, either, though whether this was also from Sky I don't remember.
8. I love album liner notes. The Dead Kennedys and X have the best.
9. The Internet connection in my room is faulty very, very often. I just opened a new window to see if it's working, and I got "Adelphia High-Speed Internet Installation Wizard". Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
10. Yesterday I finished reading Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything. I'd been reading it on and off since 2004 (!), until I decided to restart it from the beginning in late spring.
11. While Googling "Chicken Soup For The Soul" this morning, I came across this lovely page:
I advise believers to steer clear of Jack Canfield and the enormously popular Chicken Soup Series books and products because they are New Age at best, and at many points even occultic and anti-Christian.
Um, if you say so.
12. Oh, and for why I was Googling "Chicken Soup For The Soul"--I got a phone call a couple of weeks ago from Chicken Soup For The Soul, asking for my e-mail address. They sent me an e-mail with a permission form for me to print out and sign, then send to them so that they could use a story I wrote in second grade for a new book. Mom really wants me to do this because getting published will help me get a scholarship. However, I really don't like Chicken Soup For The Soul because they peddle shallow, quasi-inspirational fluff. It's still bugging me, though. Any advice? Please?
13. I am stereotypically feminist in a lot of ways:
13a. I love cats.
13b. I love Sleater-Kinney.
13c. I don't like being called "honey", "sweetie", etc. by strangers/people who barely know me (though this is more because of #15).
13d. People who confuse "feminist" with "feminazi" annoy me.
13e. My contempt for "chick flicks" cannot be put into words.
14. In general, I do not like stupid comedy movies, especially stupid comedy movies that star Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell. However, there are some stupid comedy movies which I unashamedly love, such as Repo Man and This Is Spinal Tap.
15. I am very shy. Usually, I squelch this when I try to be outgoing, but then people refer to me as "very quiet" and I'm baffled.
15a. When bored, tired, or overwhelmed by social interaction, I sometimes revert to what Mom calls "the doll-like stare". Usually during this time I daydream about moving out of California.
16. I have an embarrassingly hard time recognizing sarcasm.
17. I read 9 or 10 political/tech blogs every morning, and I almost never read the regular news.
18. I get cranky when I spend too much time at large stores, carnivals, or other places with lots of people. My parents are the same way.
19. I occasionally use British spellings/pronunciations without realizing it.
20. Pinned to the wall of my room is a flashcard that reads "6 x 8 = __", which is a fairly obvious Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference.
And now for the +2, both of which are very similar to those listed by davidd but still apply to me:
21. I don't like talking on the phone at all. I don't know why.
22. I have a pink, teacup-shaped Hello Kitty alarm clock/radio and I love it.
Congratulations on making it to the end of this list! Because you must be really bored if you read this all the way through, I present to you The Gallery Of Regrettable Food.
Observations concerning the list may come later, but not right now.