So, Independence Week 2006 didn’t go as well as I’d hoped. I wanted to do at least one article a day, but it didn’t happen. I will not fail next year! After all, if I fail, the terrorists win…
So, before I head to bed, I leave you with a long survey. Read on…
UPDATE: Sorry that it’s way down the page. I’ll blame it on the absolutely hideous code that’s being used to create the table. I’ll try to work on it.
(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
| ✓ I miss somebody right now. (Got to get out to see friends sometime!) | × I don’t watch much TV these days. (Ha ha, yea right. Someone who is trying to catch up on Stargate SG-1 after ignoring it for the first eight years isn’t lacking in this area.) | ✓ I own lots of books. (I own a fair amount, but would like more. Any suggestions?) |
| ✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. (I’d much prefer the latter right now.) | × I love to play video games. | × I’ve tried marijuana. |
| ✓ I’ve watched porn movies. | × I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. | × I believe honesty is usually the best policy. |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. (More than I used to. College has corrupted me. And now I’m beginning to in front of my parents. Oops.) | ✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. (Last few years.) | × I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. |
| × I have broken someone’s bones. | × I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal. | × I hate the rain. |
| × I’m paranoid at times. | × I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free. | ✓ I need/want money right now. (I’m alright, but I wouldn’t mind some more.) |
| × I love sushi. | × I talk really, really fast. | × I have fresh breath in the morning. |
| × I have long hair. | ✓ I have lost money in Las Vegas. (Yes. That buffet somewheres down the strip at 1am in the morning sucked!) | ✓ I have at least one sibling. |
| × I was born in a country outside of the U.S. | × I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past. | ✓ I couldn’t survive without Caller I.D. (I also could not survive without GAIM’s alias feature.) |
| ✓ I like the way that I look. | × I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months. | × I am usually pessimistic. |
| × I have a lot of mood swings. | × I think prostitution should be legalized. | × I slept with a roommate. |
| × I have a hidden talent. | × I’m always hyper no matter how much sugar I have. | ✓ I have a lot of friends. |
| × I have pecked someone of the same sex. | × I enjoy talking on the phone. | × I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants. |
| × I love to shop and/or window shop. | × I’m obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal. | × I’m completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother. |
| ✓ I have a mobile phone. | × I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months. | × I’ve rejected someone before. |
| × I currently like/love someone. | × I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. | ✓ I want to have children in the future. (Probably) |
| × I have changed a diaper before. | × I’ve called the cops on a friend before. | ✓ I’m not allergic to anything. (Liquid fabric softener) |
| ✓ I have a lot to learn. | ✓ I am shy around the opposite sex. (In matters of asking out on a date, etc.) | × I’m online 24/7, even as an away message. |
| × I have at least 5 away messages saved. | × I have tried alcohol or drugs before. | × I have made a move on a friend’s significant other or crush in the past. |
| × I own the “South Park” movie. | × I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal. (Not necessarily limited to LJ.) | × I enjoy some country music. |
| ✓ I would die for my best friends. (Don’t really have a single best friend, but I’d save somebody.) | × I’m obsessive, and often a perfectionist. | × I have used my sexuality to advance my career. |
| × I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy. | × I have dated a close friend’s ex. | × I am happy at this moment. |
| × I’m obsessed with guys. | × Democrat. (I’d like to participate in the Lieberman/Lamont primary, but I can’t stand the two major parties at most times.) | × Republican. |
| × I don’t even know what I am. | × I am punk rockish. | × I go for older guys/girls, not younger. |
| ✓ I study for tests most of the time. (I used to not study so well, but I buckled down more at ECSU.) | × I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I’ve ever met. | × I can work on a car. |
| × I love my job(s). (What job?) | ✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now. | × I have more than just my ears pierced. |
| × I walk barefoot wherever I can. | × I have jumped off a bridge. | × I love sea turtles. |
| × I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup. | ✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream. (I’ll try my best.) | × I am proficient on a musical instrument. |
| ✓ I hate office jobs. (I really do. Get me on a field camera shoot any day compared to an office job.) | × I went to college out of state. | × I am adopted. |
| × I am a pyro. | × I have thrown up from crying too much. | × I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved. |
| × I fall for the worst people. | × I adore bright colours. | × I usually like covers better than originals. |
| × I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays. (99 rocks!) | × I can pick up things with my toes. | × I can’t whistle. (Alternatively, I cannot really snap my fingers.) |
| × I have ridden/owned a horse. | × I still have every journal I’ve ever written in. | × I talk in my sleep. |
| ✓ I’ve often thought that I was born in the wrong century. (Yes, get me into the next one. I want affordable space travel, damnit!) | × I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions. | × I wear a toe ring. |
| × I have a tattoo. | × I can’t stand at LEAST one person that I work with. | × I am a caffeine junkie. |
| × I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I’m not ashamed at all. | × If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder. | × I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better. |
| × I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner. | × I’m an artist. | ✓ I am ambidextrous. (In that I don’t do everything with the same hand.) |
| × I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed. | × If it weren’t for having to see other people naked, I’d live in a nudist colony. | × I have terrible teeth. (Ask me that question six years ago, and I might have said yes.) |
| × I hate my toes. | ✓ I did this meme even though I wasn’t tagged by the person who took it before me. | × I have more friends on the internet than in real life. |
| × I have lived in either three different states or countries. | × I am extremely flexible. | × I love hugs more than kisses. |
| ✓ I want to own my own business. | × I smoke. (I have ASTHMA. My maternal grandfather has asthma and smokes. It’s not a good thing.) | ✓ I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else. |
| × Nobody has ever said I’m normal. (Though, nobody has ever said I’m abnnormal, either.) | × Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then. | × I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons. |
| × I like the way women look in stylized men’s suits. | × I don’t like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me. | × I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds. |
| × I have played strip poker with someone else before. | × I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help. | ✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal. (Ironically, I do not believe in God.) |
| ✓ I can’t stand being alone. (This is a problem with me. Sometimes I just can’t stand not being with people. Other times, I just want to be alone.) | × I have at least one obsession at any given time. | × I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again. (W…T…F?) |
| × I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment. | × I’m a judgmental asshole. | × I’m a HUGE drama-queen. |
| × I have travelled on more than one continent. (Ask me again in January.) | × I sometimes wish my father would just disappear. | × I need people to tell me I’m good at something in order to feel that I am. |
| ✓ I am a Libertarian. (Ideologically, probably, though not the actual party. Though, I’m not completely for smaller government everywhere, so I’d be a bad Libertarian.) | × I can speak more than one language. (I can’t say my three years of Spanish actually taught me much. Thanks, MHS!) | × I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be. |
| ✓ I would rather read than watch TV. (Sometimes) | × I like reading fact more than fiction. | ✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. |
| ✓ I have no piercings. | × I have spent the night in a train station or other public place. (If the rain had continued much longer, I’d add airport to this.) | × I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried. |
| × I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night. | × There have been times when I have wondered “Why was I born?” and may/may not have cried over it. | × I like most animals better than most people. |
| × I own a collection of retro games consoles. | × The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver. | × I have hit someone with a dead fish. |
| × I am compulsively honest. | × I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired. | × I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers. |
| × I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex. | × I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders. | × I sometimes won’t sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to. |
| × I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on. | × I dislike milk. | ✓ I obsessively wash my hands. (Kind of. I wash them a lot, which I guess isn’t a bad thing.) |
| × I always carry something significant around with me. | × Sometimes I’d rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair. | × I’ve pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others. |
| × Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother. | × I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document. (Someone else made it for me, but I’ve created my own previously.) | × I’ve liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird. |
| × I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time. | × Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed. | × I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won. |
| × I do not ‘get’ most comedy acts. | × I don’t think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing. | ✓ I don’t like to chew gum. |
| × I am obsessed with history/historical things and can’t wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it. | × I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car. | × I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years. |
| × I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other. | × I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly. | × I love to sing. |
| × I want to live in my mother’s basement when I grow up. | × I have a custom-built computer. | × I want to create a certain someone’s babies, even though there’s a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it. |
| × I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human. | × I’ve gone skinny-dipping. (Haha, I think I’d be too shy to do so.) | × I’ve performed in three plays. |
| ✓ I enjoy burritos. (Mmm, beef burrito.) | × I’m Irish and loving it. | × I have a thing for redheads. |
| × I am a twin! | × Most of the times, I’d rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically ‘fun’. | × Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else. |
| × I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes. | × I sleep more than 12 hours a day. | × I wish I could be prouder of what I’ve accomplished, but it’s never enough. |
| × I need more time to myself. | × I wish I was more open-minded. | × I hope that I go really prematurely grey. |
| ✓ I download songs from the internet. (Legally, and not so legally.) | × I’ve just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend. | × I say random things to freak people out. |
| × I’m still a little mad about the ending of Death Note. | × I love playing Truth or Dare. | × I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it. |
| × Music helps me remember that I am not alone. | × Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems. | × I think this survey is particularly long. |
| × I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones. | × I can only hate someone that I love. | × I’ve ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks. |