Running on fumes and a prayer... :)
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kjpepperow ow ow fuck OW! I am so sore from the waist down it ain't funny. Good thing there's no class today. I think I'm going to bravely slog through work and then come home and blissfully fall unconscious before it's time for me and sunny to meet ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jaicat and darkling_dreams for dinner or somesuch tomorrow.
And now the silliness. I was recently thinking godDAMN it's been a while since I've seen hide nor hair of a long thoughtful questionnaire thingummie. (I've kinda mostly given up on short quizthings and picture memes, but I like, answer and read questionnaires.) As lo, my savior in the form of_kyri posted something to occupy my three conscious brain cells for the next little bit. yay!
Five Things You May Not Know About My Time in School are:
1. I went to the same school for 11 years. 2-12. Any person that manages to fit that much of an academic career into ONE FRIGGIN BUILDING should have gotten the survivor award. (the special title you get when your there K-12. Apparently still bitter.
2. I played violin for 9 years, clarinet for three, and know far more gross things to do with a plastic soprano recorder than is probably necessary.
3. I was an awful student. Still am. The ghosts of teachers past and the words "if she would only apply herself" on less than perfect report cards still haunt me.
4. I loved my high school library. 2 whole walls of nothing but glass overlooking the huge chunk of east river from the Williamsburg Bridge to the Queensboro. I spent so many free periods in that corner watching the boats go by, you have no idea.
5. Remind me to tell you the story of how my French Section (2 below "Francophone") ate teachers for breakfast. Plus if you haven't heard either the French Vasectomy story or the fine line between "my balls" and "my kids" story, there is something sorely lacking in your knowledge of my funny anecdotes. this must be corrected.
Five Things You May Not Know About the Job (Jobs) I Have (or Had) are:
1. I actually liked working concession at Cinefart. Sure, the job sucked and I came home smelling not like butter, or even butter flavored topping, but BUTTERY flavored topping every night, but I loved the people I was working with, I went to the movies three times a week, and I now have a lifelong addiction to Nerd Ropes.
2. I had to learn HTML in three days at my internship at IBM. That was fun.
3. It is possible to get sick of looking at cock rings after cropping way too many pics of them in Photoshop.
4. Smith SSW students are some of the meanest mofos EVAR.
5. I met beatgoddess during our concurrent time served at Paradise Copies.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Online Life are:
1. I have three LJ accounts. One I post in all the time, one I post in sorta regularly, the other one I only post in when my brain gets overloaded and I don't feel like sharing.
2. I am sooooooooper proud of my seven digit ICQ number.
3. if I could, I would marry imdb.com
4. I wonder is #roughsex still exists on EFnet? Haven't been there in nearly a decade.
5. my first SN was Aarbie. (pronounced ay-ar-bee. Think about it.)
Five Things You May Not Know About Where I Live are:
1. someone needs to give the weather gods around here lithium.
2. I can recommend more good places for breakfast than for dinner
3. THERE ARE 17 ASIAN RESTAURANTS IN NORTHAMPTON. And two more are opening soon.
4. There are some seriously fabulous blackberry brambles behind the tennis courts and up by the asylum at Smith
5. there is this fabulous house on Elm Street where one of the creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles used to live.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Core Personality are:
1. I feel perpetually 12. Often I act it. Sometime I act six. sometimes I act my age.
2. When I am good, I am very very good, but when I was bad, I have been a bitch, broken trusts, been vindictive, manipulative and hurtful...
3. I seriously have a sieve for a short term memory.
4. My time of day is the dark time
A couple of deals before dawn
When the street belongs to the cop
And the janitor with the mop
And the grocery clerks are all gone.
When the smell of the rainwashed pavement
Comes up clean, and fresh, and cold
And the streetlamp light
Fills the gutter with gold
That's my time of day...
5. I'm a hopeless romantic.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Home Life Are:
I'll assume this meant growing up.
1. Our house is a three story limestone row house (but can be referred to as a brownstone of sorts). Lord, but you do grow to hate you name if it ends in a shrill vowel and you've heard it bellowed at you from the bottom of the main stairs.
2. Every friday, dad has done the same thing for years. Watch PBS. Washington Week in Review, Wall street week, apparently not with Louis Rukeyser anymore, and then... british comedy!
3.It's not thanksgiving without turkey, corn pudding, some sort of loud raciopolitical discussion and me refusing to do anything between the hours of 9 and 12 because the Macy's parade is on.
4. Waterbugs. You do not want to know. I promise.
5. Going to sleep with the sound of the subway roaring past in the cut not 500 feet away every fifteen or so minutes is soothing.
Five Things You May Not Know that I Desperately Want Are:
you know? I don't want anything desperately. I have lots of things that I'd love to have that are impractical, impossible (either now or ever), unattainable... And ultimately unnecessary.
Five Embarrassing Fannish Admissions I Have That You May Not Know Are:
1. I had an almost complete collection the Babysitters Club growing up. I still want to meet Ann M. Martin.
2. One of my favorite novella type things is a Moulin Rouge fanfic following what happensto one of the dancers after the events of the movie.
3. my only foray into fan fiction was in high school, when I wrote this fairly damnedfabulous fic in the Castlevania-verse. Mmm, Belmonts.
4. Ok, I lied. I also wrote one about a-ha. and had all of thier albums up to Memorial beach. Most of which are out of print in the US now, but are very worth hearing, especially East of the sun, west of the moon. Anyone wanna earn my undying love and devotion, please get me this album on CD.
5. Meat Loaf is sooooooooooo much fun in concert.
Five Things You May Not Know About What I Do in a Typical Day are:
1. That light at the intersection of Main/Elm, South and State Streets? I've waited at that light on my bike so many times on my way to work that I now have its pattern memorized.
2. On my way from work I will often ride up the bike path behind stop and shop even though it ultimately take me about three miles out of my way and is kind of a gruling slow uphill for most of the beginning stretch. This is for several reasons. a. bike path therefore can wear headphones with impunity. b. my legs could use the extra work c. in the fall, its teh pretty d. the downhill coast from Cooley Dick to NHS is really sweet.
3. My workplace is not diabetic-safe.
4. I look massively forward to rukasboy's "fucked up thing du jour" where he will come into my office and tell me something that so absolutely left field all you really can do is nod, smile and pat his head.
5. I take an afternoon nap. Mostly by accident - the sleepiness is usually a side effect of... never mind.
Five Things You May Not Know that are Really Important to My Character are:
Not really sure what this means. but I can list what's important to me.
1. music
2. people to talk to, be it by phone, in person, over IM what have you.
3. laughter. Seriously, I find something to have a good laugh about every day. It keeps me sane and filled with yummy perspective.
4. Love - it's everywhere in so much abundance. and the fun stuff is that the amount you soak up like a sponge has little to no correlation to how much you can give away. It's like all you can eat night at Fuddruckers, except better because love doesn't lead to heart attacks.
5. not sure about the fifth one. Which is all well and good because I have to go do that work thing now. ;)
jaicat and darkling_dreams for dinner or somesuch tomorrow.And now the silliness. I was recently thinking godDAMN it's been a while since I've seen hide nor hair of a long thoughtful questionnaire thingummie. (I've kinda mostly given up on short quizthings and picture memes, but I like, answer and read questionnaires.) As lo, my savior in the form of
_kyri posted something to occupy my three conscious brain cells for the next little bit. yay!Five Things You May Not Know About My Time in School are:
1. I went to the same school for 11 years. 2-12. Any person that manages to fit that much of an academic career into ONE FRIGGIN BUILDING should have gotten the survivor award. (the special title you get when your there K-12. Apparently still bitter.
2. I played violin for 9 years, clarinet for three, and know far more gross things to do with a plastic soprano recorder than is probably necessary.
3. I was an awful student. Still am. The ghosts of teachers past and the words "if she would only apply herself" on less than perfect report cards still haunt me.
4. I loved my high school library. 2 whole walls of nothing but glass overlooking the huge chunk of east river from the Williamsburg Bridge to the Queensboro. I spent so many free periods in that corner watching the boats go by, you have no idea.
5. Remind me to tell you the story of how my French Section (2 below "Francophone") ate teachers for breakfast. Plus if you haven't heard either the French Vasectomy story or the fine line between "my balls" and "my kids" story, there is something sorely lacking in your knowledge of my funny anecdotes. this must be corrected.
Five Things You May Not Know About the Job (Jobs) I Have (or Had) are:
1. I actually liked working concession at Cinefart. Sure, the job sucked and I came home smelling not like butter, or even butter flavored topping, but BUTTERY flavored topping every night, but I loved the people I was working with, I went to the movies three times a week, and I now have a lifelong addiction to Nerd Ropes.
2. I had to learn HTML in three days at my internship at IBM. That was fun.
3. It is possible to get sick of looking at cock rings after cropping way too many pics of them in Photoshop.
4. Smith SSW students are some of the meanest mofos EVAR.
5. I met beatgoddess during our concurrent time served at Paradise Copies.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Online Life are:
1. I have three LJ accounts. One I post in all the time, one I post in sorta regularly, the other one I only post in when my brain gets overloaded and I don't feel like sharing.
2. I am sooooooooper proud of my seven digit ICQ number.
3. if I could, I would marry imdb.com
4. I wonder is #roughsex still exists on EFnet? Haven't been there in nearly a decade.
5. my first SN was Aarbie. (pronounced ay-ar-bee. Think about it.)
Five Things You May Not Know About Where I Live are:
1. someone needs to give the weather gods around here lithium.
2. I can recommend more good places for breakfast than for dinner
3. THERE ARE 17 ASIAN RESTAURANTS IN NORTHAMPTON. And two more are opening soon.
4. There are some seriously fabulous blackberry brambles behind the tennis courts and up by the asylum at Smith
5. there is this fabulous house on Elm Street where one of the creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles used to live.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Core Personality are:
1. I feel perpetually 12. Often I act it. Sometime I act six. sometimes I act my age.
2. When I am good, I am very very good, but when I was bad, I have been a bitch, broken trusts, been vindictive, manipulative and hurtful...
3. I seriously have a sieve for a short term memory.
4. My time of day is the dark time
A couple of deals before dawn
When the street belongs to the cop
And the janitor with the mop
And the grocery clerks are all gone.
When the smell of the rainwashed pavement
Comes up clean, and fresh, and cold
And the streetlamp light
Fills the gutter with gold
That's my time of day...
5. I'm a hopeless romantic.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Home Life Are:
I'll assume this meant growing up.
1. Our house is a three story limestone row house (but can be referred to as a brownstone of sorts). Lord, but you do grow to hate you name if it ends in a shrill vowel and you've heard it bellowed at you from the bottom of the main stairs.
2. Every friday, dad has done the same thing for years. Watch PBS. Washington Week in Review, Wall street week, apparently not with Louis Rukeyser anymore, and then... british comedy!
3.It's not thanksgiving without turkey, corn pudding, some sort of loud raciopolitical discussion and me refusing to do anything between the hours of 9 and 12 because the Macy's parade is on.
4. Waterbugs. You do not want to know. I promise.
5. Going to sleep with the sound of the subway roaring past in the cut not 500 feet away every fifteen or so minutes is soothing.
Five Things You May Not Know that I Desperately Want Are:
you know? I don't want anything desperately. I have lots of things that I'd love to have that are impractical, impossible (either now or ever), unattainable... And ultimately unnecessary.
Five Embarrassing Fannish Admissions I Have That You May Not Know Are:
1. I had an almost complete collection the Babysitters Club growing up. I still want to meet Ann M. Martin.
2. One of my favorite novella type things is a Moulin Rouge fanfic following what happensto one of the dancers after the events of the movie.
3. my only foray into fan fiction was in high school, when I wrote this fairly damnedfabulous fic in the Castlevania-verse. Mmm, Belmonts.
4. Ok, I lied. I also wrote one about a-ha. and had all of thier albums up to Memorial beach. Most of which are out of print in the US now, but are very worth hearing, especially East of the sun, west of the moon. Anyone wanna earn my undying love and devotion, please get me this album on CD.
5. Meat Loaf is sooooooooooo much fun in concert.
Five Things You May Not Know About What I Do in a Typical Day are:
1. That light at the intersection of Main/Elm, South and State Streets? I've waited at that light on my bike so many times on my way to work that I now have its pattern memorized.
2. On my way from work I will often ride up the bike path behind stop and shop even though it ultimately take me about three miles out of my way and is kind of a gruling slow uphill for most of the beginning stretch. This is for several reasons. a. bike path therefore can wear headphones with impunity. b. my legs could use the extra work c. in the fall, its teh pretty d. the downhill coast from Cooley Dick to NHS is really sweet.
3. My workplace is not diabetic-safe.
4. I look massively forward to rukasboy's "fucked up thing du jour" where he will come into my office and tell me something that so absolutely left field all you really can do is nod, smile and pat his head.
5. I take an afternoon nap. Mostly by accident - the sleepiness is usually a side effect of... never mind.
Five Things You May Not Know that are Really Important to My Character are:
Not really sure what this means. but I can list what's important to me.
1. music
2. people to talk to, be it by phone, in person, over IM what have you.
3. laughter. Seriously, I find something to have a good laugh about every day. It keeps me sane and filled with yummy perspective.
4. Love - it's everywhere in so much abundance. and the fun stuff is that the amount you soak up like a sponge has little to no correlation to how much you can give away. It's like all you can eat night at Fuddruckers, except better because love doesn't lead to heart attacks.
5. not sure about the fifth one. Which is all well and good because I have to go do that work thing now. ;)
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