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I am feeling a little bit better. I just woke up from a three-hour nap. My head still hurts a little, and I haven't tried to stand up yet, but I think I'm doing a lot better than I was before. Maybe I'm lucky and this won't carry over into tomorrow.
1. Let's say it's 20XX and you've acquired a couple of kids that look like you. Unfortunately, little Dante/Ariel is diagnosed (let's say, by Gregory House) with some terminal illness, and only has a short time to live. Do you tell your child how long s/he has to live?
Depends on the age. Not if they were very, very small, but otherwise, I would be honest to them and I would help them to live their remaining lifespan to their fullest.
2. Do you currently have a writer's callous?
Nope. I don't really hand-write often, though..
3. Do you see gay marriage being legal in at least seven states by 2018?
We're at two now, and that only took a few years, so yeah, I'd say that's near to definite. I mean, New Jersey and Vermont are already close, and Prop 8 might be overturned soon.
4. How far do you see space exploration going in your lifetime?
I hope very far. I'm watching it daily. I am slightly obsessed with space and I want desperately to know what is out there, and if I ever get a chance to experience it myself, I will take it.
5. What is the dumbest thing you have ever heard? Seriously.
Oh, too many to count. This guy might take the cake, though.
6. You're on death row. What's your choice for last meal?
Baked Ziti and pumpkin pie, because, for all their faults, I would want to be reminded of my parents before death..
7. And your last statement?
Honestly? I think I would just say goodbye, to myself, to the world, to whatever I had done to deserve execution.
8. What's the farthest distance you've traveled to a concert or performance? Bonus points for details.
Well, we went to Middletown Springs once for Solarfest to see Dar Williams in 2006. That's about three or four hours away. I navigated, and my Dad and I both almost got overheated. Dar was really the only good musical act, but the food was really good, especially the blackberry lemonade sweetened with maple syrup. The guy who ran the solar generators explained them to me personally, which was amazing, and during Dar's performance, some teenage girls did interpretive dances to her songs, which she thought was really cool. At the end, she brought her son up on stage, and he's such an adorable little boy.
9. Do you think spanking is an acceptable form of punishment? Children or otherwise :D
As someone who was spanked as a kid, I might be biased, but I would say never.
10. Do the words "customer satisfaction" carry any weight with your job?
Don't currently have one. Working on that.
11. Ginkgo Biloba: Memory Support or CommuNazi Propaganda? Or anything in between.
. . . This is a Chinese tree. What on earth are you talking about? OH. You mean, can it help the mental attentions of people and possibly be used to treat alzheimer's? Not sure, but I doubt it's propaganda so much as wishful thinking if it can't. I really hope it can.
12. Can you read a fortune cookie without sex crossing your mind? For five minutes or so, at least.
These are two things that in my mind, will never, ever cross. It saddens me that they have for many people.
13. If You had an hour, a single sheet of paper, and a pen to name as many Pokemon as you could, would you laugh and ask for more paper?
Honestly, I could probably name at least the first 150, if not the G/S batch as well, and a smattering of the Pokemon from R/S and D/P. I grew up catchin' em all.
14. Your current favorite webcomic?
Ozy and Millie, which I would recommend to anybody, especially now that it has become less politicized. It's ending, too, in a beautiful arc that is depressing me since I've read it since I was 11. I have at least one collection from it and hope to purchase the entire thing soon. I am also fond of The Broken Mirror, if it ever continues, and tathrin 's comic, Dark Welkin, is very good. I've heard good things about Girl Genius, so I might check that out soon.
15. Did you ever have braces?
Nope.
16. Did you get chicken pox or the shot?
Chicken pox. Twice, actually..
17. Your favorite swear word. Go!
D'arvit.
18. You're climbing Everest. Don't say "but, Kyle, I'd never climb Everest," you're climbing the proverbial tallest mountain, and that's final! Anywho, you're two days' time from the top and your climbing buddy (let's say some fairly attractive person you never met before the climb) buys the farm. You're out of food and sure to die. Do you turn to cannibalism to survive?
NO. Never.
1. I am morally opposed to the desecration of human remains.
2. At that altitude, it is difficult to build a fire, and even cooked human meat has the likelihood of giving one a fatal brain disease.
3. While I am not a vegetarian, I am only somewhat meat-tolerant. I don't think I could mentally make it through the experience to the point where I was actually eating them.
I would likely through the remains off of the mountain so that I would not be tempted.
What if s/he was a vegetarian?
Wait. What difference does that make?
If you were going to die, would looks really matter?
Uh, no. Why would they matter to begin with?
19. If you promise not to say Dubya, who do you think was the worst president ever?
I may be in the minority with this, but Andrew Jackson.
20. You get a cold. Do you "drown it" with a carton of orange juice, or do you sleep it off with half a pint a cup of NyQuil?
Orange juice. I actually don't take anything that isn't homeopathic unless deeply necessary. My Dad did make me drink a tiny amount hot wine to try to get me to sleep once when I was sick, though..
21. Regardless of how you hide the remains, how would you kill someone if need be?
Only in self defense.
22. Would you rather have a new car or your pilot's license?
New car, because a license is free. You have to buy the plane.
23. You notice a cop across the street looking at you. Do you feel more safe or less?
Less. I don't like anybody staring at me.
24. If you could drop everything without fear of consequences and devote two solid weeks to learning something new, what would it be?
Japanese, fencing, or law.
25. You can time travel, but only to the your exact location. To when would you go?
I would drive to North Bennington, and then I would go to the 1940s. I wrote an essay about this, once. Why? To meet Shirley Jackson, naturally.
Another meme is to follow.
Heh. I just spent five minutes feeling really guilty for thinking my advice had gotten someone sick and found out that they didn't follow it. Not that it changes anything, so, you don't read this thing, but I hope you feel better soon, Omega.
1. Let's say it's 20XX and you've acquired a couple of kids that look like you. Unfortunately, little Dante/Ariel is diagnosed (let's say, by Gregory House) with some terminal illness, and only has a short time to live. Do you tell your child how long s/he has to live?
Depends on the age. Not if they were very, very small, but otherwise, I would be honest to them and I would help them to live their remaining lifespan to their fullest.
2. Do you currently have a writer's callous?
Nope. I don't really hand-write often, though..
3. Do you see gay marriage being legal in at least seven states by 2018?
We're at two now, and that only took a few years, so yeah, I'd say that's near to definite. I mean, New Jersey and Vermont are already close, and Prop 8 might be overturned soon.
4. How far do you see space exploration going in your lifetime?
I hope very far. I'm watching it daily. I am slightly obsessed with space and I want desperately to know what is out there, and if I ever get a chance to experience it myself, I will take it.
5. What is the dumbest thing you have ever heard? Seriously.
Oh, too many to count. This guy might take the cake, though.
6. You're on death row. What's your choice for last meal?
Baked Ziti and pumpkin pie, because, for all their faults, I would want to be reminded of my parents before death..
7. And your last statement?
Honestly? I think I would just say goodbye, to myself, to the world, to whatever I had done to deserve execution.
8. What's the farthest distance you've traveled to a concert or performance? Bonus points for details.
Well, we went to Middletown Springs once for Solarfest to see Dar Williams in 2006. That's about three or four hours away. I navigated, and my Dad and I both almost got overheated. Dar was really the only good musical act, but the food was really good, especially the blackberry lemonade sweetened with maple syrup. The guy who ran the solar generators explained them to me personally, which was amazing, and during Dar's performance, some teenage girls did interpretive dances to her songs, which she thought was really cool. At the end, she brought her son up on stage, and he's such an adorable little boy.
9. Do you think spanking is an acceptable form of punishment? Children or otherwise :D
As someone who was spanked as a kid, I might be biased, but I would say never.
10. Do the words "customer satisfaction" carry any weight with your job?
Don't currently have one. Working on that.
11. Ginkgo Biloba: Memory Support or CommuNazi Propaganda? Or anything in between.
. . . This is a Chinese tree. What on earth are you talking about? OH. You mean, can it help the mental attentions of people and possibly be used to treat alzheimer's? Not sure, but I doubt it's propaganda so much as wishful thinking if it can't. I really hope it can.
12. Can you read a fortune cookie without sex crossing your mind? For five minutes or so, at least.
These are two things that in my mind, will never, ever cross. It saddens me that they have for many people.
13. If You had an hour, a single sheet of paper, and a pen to name as many Pokemon as you could, would you laugh and ask for more paper?
Honestly, I could probably name at least the first 150, if not the G/S batch as well, and a smattering of the Pokemon from R/S and D/P. I grew up catchin' em all.
14. Your current favorite webcomic?
Ozy and Millie, which I would recommend to anybody, especially now that it has become less politicized. It's ending, too, in a beautiful arc that is depressing me since I've read it since I was 11. I have at least one collection from it and hope to purchase the entire thing soon. I am also fond of The Broken Mirror, if it ever continues, and tathrin 's comic, Dark Welkin, is very good. I've heard good things about Girl Genius, so I might check that out soon.
15. Did you ever have braces?
Nope.
16. Did you get chicken pox or the shot?
Chicken pox. Twice, actually..
17. Your favorite swear word. Go!
D'arvit.
18. You're climbing Everest. Don't say "but, Kyle, I'd never climb Everest," you're climbing the proverbial tallest mountain, and that's final! Anywho, you're two days' time from the top and your climbing buddy (let's say some fairly attractive person you never met before the climb) buys the farm. You're out of food and sure to die. Do you turn to cannibalism to survive?
NO. Never.
1. I am morally opposed to the desecration of human remains.
2. At that altitude, it is difficult to build a fire, and even cooked human meat has the likelihood of giving one a fatal brain disease.
3. While I am not a vegetarian, I am only somewhat meat-tolerant. I don't think I could mentally make it through the experience to the point where I was actually eating them.
I would likely through the remains off of the mountain so that I would not be tempted.
What if s/he was a vegetarian?
Wait. What difference does that make?
If you were going to die, would looks really matter?
Uh, no. Why would they matter to begin with?
19. If you promise not to say Dubya, who do you think was the worst president ever?
I may be in the minority with this, but Andrew Jackson.
20. You get a cold. Do you "drown it" with a carton of orange juice, or do you sleep it off with half a pint a cup of NyQuil?
Orange juice. I actually don't take anything that isn't homeopathic unless deeply necessary. My Dad did make me drink a tiny amount hot wine to try to get me to sleep once when I was sick, though..
21. Regardless of how you hide the remains, how would you kill someone if need be?
Only in self defense.
22. Would you rather have a new car or your pilot's license?
New car, because a license is free. You have to buy the plane.
23. You notice a cop across the street looking at you. Do you feel more safe or less?
Less. I don't like anybody staring at me.
24. If you could drop everything without fear of consequences and devote two solid weeks to learning something new, what would it be?
Japanese, fencing, or law.
25. You can time travel, but only to the your exact location. To when would you go?
I would drive to North Bennington, and then I would go to the 1940s. I wrote an essay about this, once. Why? To meet Shirley Jackson, naturally.
Another meme is to follow.
Heh. I just spent five minutes feeling really guilty for thinking my advice had gotten someone sick and found out that they didn't follow it. Not that it changes anything, so, you don't read this thing, but I hope you feel better soon, Omega.