A Day In The Life Of A Duckling
Are You Applying For A New Stamp? Nope. (Or, "Yes, but not a second one.")
Basics
Name: Dan. But "Bean" works fine.
Age: 23
Location: Canada
Occupation: Supervisor at a mall food court Taco Time, and FOREVER a part-time student, it seems.
Likes: Sleeping in. Working under pressure. Kicking ass and taking names. The books everyone hated reading in school. Chocolate milk. Being so efficient my customers just blink. My MP3 player in my pocket. GUM. Dexedrine. Most skate fashion. The free time to read up on my ever-growing collection of theories and fields I'm obsessively interested in. Poetry that's actually good. Patient customers. The nighttime. The morning when you've been awake all night. Writing. [House/Wilson] porn. My larval knitting efforts. Intersectionality, and the way so many seemingly unconnected things fit a pattern. My cats. Geometric proofs. Myers-Briggs typology. Finding out what makes people tick. Show tunes. Misdirection. Chuck Taylors. Shoe brands I should know better than to buy. Rain. The ocean and the prairies. Calvin and Hobbes. Damned crazy fandoms and their drama-llama... And tacos, dude.
Dislikes: Going to bed. Removing my headphones. Transphobia. Tranny boys who renamed themselves stupid shit like "Raven." Bullshit "no hats" rules, although I no longer wear one. Monotony. The way wrist braces itch when they get wet. Smokers. Did I mention asthma? And pneumothoraces? Stupid customers. Most customers. People who think I'm out to cause drama because I say what I think. Loud crowds. Big empty spaces. Oppressions. Privilege. Most white people, most of the time. My own whiteness. Calgary f*cking Transit. All the mythology surrounding ADHD. Proofreading becoming a lost art. Apostrophes. That Harold Bloom punk. People who blame all bisexuals for their bitterness over that bad break-up. Most music produced in the last 5-10 years. People who treat me like I'm stupid. Kids these days - pull up your damn pants. And why is Family Circus still running?!
Favourites
[Honestly, my "faves" are always a bit flavour-of-the-month. I'd like to think that it's not because I'm fickle, it's because there's just too much amazing stuff out there to really narrow down the list much. All of these lists are mixes of current and childhood/perennial favourites, and mostly in no particular order.]
Favourite Movies:
1. Boys Don't Cry
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Matilda
4. Searching For Bobby Fischer
5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
6. Marvin's Room
7. Edward Scissorhands
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. Silence of the Lambs
10. Princess Mononoke
Favourite Musicians and/or Musical Groups:
[I'm going to assume I can substitute show albums. Also, LAUGH and face my wrath.]
1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2. Michael Bublé
3. Michael Jackson
4. Aretha Franklin
5. Wicked
6. Alanis Morisette
7. Amanda Marshall
8. The Barenaked Ladies
9. Beethoven (Classical composers alone would be a separate list...)
10. Guys and Dolls
Favourite Books:
1. Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
2. Ender's Game, because the above story would be incomplete without it. (Also Card, of course.)
3. Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults - Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
4. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
5. Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child - Alissa Quart
6. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author, Illustrator), Katherine Woods (Translator)
7. The Medical Science of House, M.D. - Andrew Holtz
8. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes. (Despite the trauma of the ending.)
9. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson. (If I can count it as one book.)
10. Peabody - Rosemary Wells. (I haven't seen a copy of this book since I was seven, but I was so obsessed with it at the time that I read it over and over despite not knowing how to find it in the library. I'd go through every book on every shelf in the children's section until I found it. Oh, and I spent YEARS explaining why my teddy bear's name was "Peabody.")
Favourite Foods:
1. MEAT. ANY MEAT, um, except for pork (meh) and chewy seafood (i.e. clams, calamari...). Sorry, vegetarians.
2. White cheddar popcorn.
3. Eggs, most ways.
4. Most soups; I'm a freak for soup.
5. Virtually any sweet liquid. (I prefer drinking to eating.)
6. Spinach salad with tons of ranch dressing and bacon.
7. Perogies.
8. Kraft Dinner.
9. Plain salted or Wasabi peas.
10. Caramels.
Favourite Television Shows:
1. House, M.D. (State the obvious contest?)
2. Doctor Who.
3. Criminal Minds. (Except Mandy Patinkin bailing is so awkward.)
4. Jeeves and Wooster.
5. NUMB3RS.
6. Family Guy. (Equal-opportunity spearing is win.)
7. The Rick Mercer Report.
8. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. (Until my cable provider dropped the feed.)
9. Queer As Folk. (Until it got boring.)
10. The Pretender. (When I was a kid and it was running. Anyone remember this show?)
Brag and Rag
Strengths: Highly "intelligent," whatever that is. Hard-working at anything I can focus on. Easily amused. Typically chipper. Good multi-tasker, able to keep track of multiple threads of events at once. Very observant. Gullible when caught off guard, but hard to fool when focused. Bit of a soft touch with my money, but who needs to keep all their own cash? Stubborn, which I mostly think is good. Ability to grasp whole concepts very swiftly, and I can teach myself 90% of whatever I need to know. Good memory for things that interest me. Solid writing skills. Good "mind-reader," although I wouldn't call it empathy. Lack of ego when it comes to work - what needs to get done, I'll do.
Weaknesses: Forgetful. INCREDIBLY disorganized. Distractable with the ability to focus intently on the WRONG thing. Not always as tactful as might benefit the discussion, or as I might want to be. Very short fuse. Easily frustrated. Mostly terrible with my hands. Miserly with my time. A strong tendency to let communications lapse. Almost totally unable to work on whatever doesn't interest me. Hello, I'm failing college! You? A touch socially inept. Enough about you, let's talk about me. Loner-going-on-hermit. Guaranteed to press the big red button.
Fears: Failure, and the consequent dependency on anyone or anything. Being at someone else's mercy. Empty spaces, especially at my back. Phobia: Anything even slightly worm-like. Phobia: The idea of ghosts, which don't exist anyway.
...Otherwise, I'm not afraid of anything.
Hobbies: This implies I have a life. Reading widely and deeply. Surfing Livejournal. House, M.D. Studying medical terminology textbooks - I have this silly hope that some med school might accept my lazy ass some day. Games that gamers frequently sneer at - dorky PS2 games, old shareware platform games, DOOM II. I used to bike, play soccer and shoot hoops in my driveway, but I'm not making the time anymore for various reasons. ETA: I forgot knitting! It's because I'm so new to it, is all.
The One Thing You Want To Do More Than Anything: Change the world for [my idea of] the better. What does ANYONE want to do?
House-Related Questions
Who is your favorite character and why?
House. "Geez, I gotta have a REASON for everything?!" I like his virtues and, without wishing him ill, accept his vices. Unconditionally, I like House.
Do you have a favorite episode? Care to Share?
"Three Stories," probably, because we got background on House, and got to see what he'd be like as a teacher. "Son of a Coma Guy," for similar reasons.
But "Autopsy" stands out as the best House episode on its own terms.
Do you have a favorite quote and/or snark? Wanna tell us?
My favourite House quote is in my profile - it's the speech House gives to Foreman when Foreman first considered leaving. ("That's the difference between him and me. He thinks that you do your job, and what will be, will be. I think that what I do and what you do matters.")
That's a bit long, though, so I'll submit the line he gives the "yummy mummy"-obsessed clinic mother who won't vaccinate: "You know another really good business? Teeeeny-tiiiny baby coffins."
Do you have a favorite House accessory?
The flame!cane. But I like all his toys.
If you were sick, would you want House as a doctor?
Yes. Even in clinic, he'd have to be better than the airhead I've got now, who has to ask me what 150 times 2 is when she wants to give me a two-month refill on my Dex.
Which character do you identify with most? This can include a patient.
This is cheating. But I will say I identify with House and Chase's daddy issues. And I liked Dr. Sebastian Charles, despite House's disgust at the pleasure he got from media attention. Getting off on your job for fucked-up personal reasons doesn't make you less sincere about wanting to make things better. Or, as Wilson would put it, it's possible to have an ideal and fail to [entirely] live up to it.
That's human.
Most importantly, what is your non-House favorite quote?
Hard to pick, but if I had to choose one to live by, it would be:
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
--Rene Descartes
**extra** please include a pic of yourself, it would be really nice. :)
Erm, there's my icon. *points* That's the largest photo I currently have of myself on this computer, sorry.
In lieu of photos...have some funny comics!
That'd be all. Stamp away.
Basics
Name: Dan. But "Bean" works fine.
Age: 23
Location: Canada
Occupation: Supervisor at a mall food court Taco Time, and FOREVER a part-time student, it seems.
Likes: Sleeping in. Working under pressure. Kicking ass and taking names. The books everyone hated reading in school. Chocolate milk. Being so efficient my customers just blink. My MP3 player in my pocket. GUM. Dexedrine. Most skate fashion. The free time to read up on my ever-growing collection of theories and fields I'm obsessively interested in. Poetry that's actually good. Patient customers. The nighttime. The morning when you've been awake all night. Writing. [House/Wilson] porn. My larval knitting efforts. Intersectionality, and the way so many seemingly unconnected things fit a pattern. My cats. Geometric proofs. Myers-Briggs typology. Finding out what makes people tick. Show tunes. Misdirection. Chuck Taylors. Shoe brands I should know better than to buy. Rain. The ocean and the prairies. Calvin and Hobbes. Damned crazy fandoms and their drama-llama... And tacos, dude.
Dislikes: Going to bed. Removing my headphones. Transphobia. Tranny boys who renamed themselves stupid shit like "Raven." Bullshit "no hats" rules, although I no longer wear one. Monotony. The way wrist braces itch when they get wet. Smokers. Did I mention asthma? And pneumothoraces? Stupid customers. Most customers. People who think I'm out to cause drama because I say what I think. Loud crowds. Big empty spaces. Oppressions. Privilege. Most white people, most of the time. My own whiteness. Calgary f*cking Transit. All the mythology surrounding ADHD. Proofreading becoming a lost art. Apostrophes. That Harold Bloom punk. People who blame all bisexuals for their bitterness over that bad break-up. Most music produced in the last 5-10 years. People who treat me like I'm stupid. Kids these days - pull up your damn pants. And why is Family Circus still running?!
Favourites
[Honestly, my "faves" are always a bit flavour-of-the-month. I'd like to think that it's not because I'm fickle, it's because there's just too much amazing stuff out there to really narrow down the list much. All of these lists are mixes of current and childhood/perennial favourites, and mostly in no particular order.]
Favourite Movies:
1. Boys Don't Cry
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Matilda
4. Searching For Bobby Fischer
5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
6. Marvin's Room
7. Edward Scissorhands
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. Silence of the Lambs
10. Princess Mononoke
Favourite Musicians and/or Musical Groups:
[I'm going to assume I can substitute show albums. Also, LAUGH and face my wrath.]
1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2. Michael Bublé
3. Michael Jackson
4. Aretha Franklin
5. Wicked
6. Alanis Morisette
7. Amanda Marshall
8. The Barenaked Ladies
9. Beethoven (Classical composers alone would be a separate list...)
10. Guys and Dolls
Favourite Books:
1. Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
2. Ender's Game, because the above story would be incomplete without it. (Also Card, of course.)
3. Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults - Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
4. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
5. Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child - Alissa Quart
6. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author, Illustrator), Katherine Woods (Translator)
7. The Medical Science of House, M.D. - Andrew Holtz
8. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes. (Despite the trauma of the ending.)
9. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson. (If I can count it as one book.)
10. Peabody - Rosemary Wells. (I haven't seen a copy of this book since I was seven, but I was so obsessed with it at the time that I read it over and over despite not knowing how to find it in the library. I'd go through every book on every shelf in the children's section until I found it. Oh, and I spent YEARS explaining why my teddy bear's name was "Peabody.")
Favourite Foods:
1. MEAT. ANY MEAT, um, except for pork (meh) and chewy seafood (i.e. clams, calamari...). Sorry, vegetarians.
2. White cheddar popcorn.
3. Eggs, most ways.
4. Most soups; I'm a freak for soup.
5. Virtually any sweet liquid. (I prefer drinking to eating.)
6. Spinach salad with tons of ranch dressing and bacon.
7. Perogies.
8. Kraft Dinner.
9. Plain salted or Wasabi peas.
10. Caramels.
Favourite Television Shows:
1. House, M.D. (State the obvious contest?)
2. Doctor Who.
3. Criminal Minds. (Except Mandy Patinkin bailing is so awkward.)
4. Jeeves and Wooster.
5. NUMB3RS.
6. Family Guy. (Equal-opportunity spearing is win.)
7. The Rick Mercer Report.
8. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. (Until my cable provider dropped the feed.)
9. Queer As Folk. (Until it got boring.)
10. The Pretender. (When I was a kid and it was running. Anyone remember this show?)
Brag and Rag
Strengths: Highly "intelligent," whatever that is. Hard-working at anything I can focus on. Easily amused. Typically chipper. Good multi-tasker, able to keep track of multiple threads of events at once. Very observant. Gullible when caught off guard, but hard to fool when focused. Bit of a soft touch with my money, but who needs to keep all their own cash? Stubborn, which I mostly think is good. Ability to grasp whole concepts very swiftly, and I can teach myself 90% of whatever I need to know. Good memory for things that interest me. Solid writing skills. Good "mind-reader," although I wouldn't call it empathy. Lack of ego when it comes to work - what needs to get done, I'll do.
Weaknesses: Forgetful. INCREDIBLY disorganized. Distractable with the ability to focus intently on the WRONG thing. Not always as tactful as might benefit the discussion, or as I might want to be. Very short fuse. Easily frustrated. Mostly terrible with my hands. Miserly with my time. A strong tendency to let communications lapse. Almost totally unable to work on whatever doesn't interest me. Hello, I'm failing college! You? A touch socially inept. Enough about you, let's talk about me. Loner-going-on-hermit. Guaranteed to press the big red button.
Fears: Failure, and the consequent dependency on anyone or anything. Being at someone else's mercy. Empty spaces, especially at my back. Phobia: Anything even slightly worm-like. Phobia: The idea of ghosts, which don't exist anyway.
...Otherwise, I'm not afraid of anything.
Hobbies: This implies I have a life. Reading widely and deeply. Surfing Livejournal. House, M.D. Studying medical terminology textbooks - I have this silly hope that some med school might accept my lazy ass some day. Games that gamers frequently sneer at - dorky PS2 games, old shareware platform games, DOOM II. I used to bike, play soccer and shoot hoops in my driveway, but I'm not making the time anymore for various reasons. ETA: I forgot knitting! It's because I'm so new to it, is all.
The One Thing You Want To Do More Than Anything: Change the world for [my idea of] the better. What does ANYONE want to do?
House-Related Questions
Who is your favorite character and why?
House. "Geez, I gotta have a REASON for everything?!" I like his virtues and, without wishing him ill, accept his vices. Unconditionally, I like House.
Do you have a favorite episode? Care to Share?
"Three Stories," probably, because we got background on House, and got to see what he'd be like as a teacher. "Son of a Coma Guy," for similar reasons.
But "Autopsy" stands out as the best House episode on its own terms.
Do you have a favorite quote and/or snark? Wanna tell us?
My favourite House quote is in my profile - it's the speech House gives to Foreman when Foreman first considered leaving. ("That's the difference between him and me. He thinks that you do your job, and what will be, will be. I think that what I do and what you do matters.")
That's a bit long, though, so I'll submit the line he gives the "yummy mummy"-obsessed clinic mother who won't vaccinate: "You know another really good business? Teeeeny-tiiiny baby coffins."
Do you have a favorite House accessory?
The flame!cane. But I like all his toys.
If you were sick, would you want House as a doctor?
Yes. Even in clinic, he'd have to be better than the airhead I've got now, who has to ask me what 150 times 2 is when she wants to give me a two-month refill on my Dex.
Which character do you identify with most? This can include a patient.
This is cheating. But I will say I identify with House and Chase's daddy issues. And I liked Dr. Sebastian Charles, despite House's disgust at the pleasure he got from media attention. Getting off on your job for fucked-up personal reasons doesn't make you less sincere about wanting to make things better. Or, as Wilson would put it, it's possible to have an ideal and fail to [entirely] live up to it.
That's human.
Most importantly, what is your non-House favorite quote?
Hard to pick, but if I had to choose one to live by, it would be:
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
--Rene Descartes
**extra** please include a pic of yourself, it would be really nice. :)
Erm, there's my icon. *points* That's the largest photo I currently have of myself on this computer, sorry.
In lieu of photos...have some funny comics!
That'd be all. Stamp away.