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a2zmom! Oh, fun!
1. FIRST NAME? Joyce, Joyce Elizabeth, Joy, Joysie, Juh-hooey, Joy Sunshine, Joy-Joy, Jay, Joycifer, Little Furry Bits of Joy. Sometimes I think my mom didn't ever quite decide.
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER SOMEONE? My grandmother. I was told this at age four. For about a week I thought my name was Granny.
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? Sue made me want to cry with dead!Buffy moments. But I don't cry when I want and when I do it's because the moon is making me. Okay, I cried when I saw Imogen Heap sing "Speeding Cars" live. That's a very personal question, you know.
[4.] What kind of mathematically challenged person wrote this, anyway?
5. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? I have multiple fonts.
6. WHAT IS YOU FAVORITE LUNCHMEAT? Angel! ...What?
7. KIDS? Here's looking at you. Also, Rock. In a candy store. New, and on the block!
8. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I'd have sex with me.
9. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? The question is here. Q.E.D.
10. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Likea2zmom I'll have to go with never.
11. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? This question makes me suspicious.
12. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? No. Never. If all the minions of hell were after me, if nothing but reruns of ALIAS after it completely jumped the shark was on, if Richard Simmons was the only man left in the universe--come to think of it, I'd sure as shit want off that plane or cliff or whatever it is you bungee from. Just, you know, no bungee.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Trix! Well, sometimes Lucky Charms. I also have this serious addiction to Capt Crunch, but again that's a monthly thing. What? Are we talking about favorite cereal when cooked up with gobs of sugar and peanutbutter and corn syrup, then slathered with melted chocolate and butterscotch? If so I'll revise and change to Rice Krispies. Muslix is good too, but Granola's really gone the way of bad, after that time I ate it ever day for a year. I was coming off my oatmeal addiction then. I really like breakfast. Breakfast foods, not breakfast. I really like breakfast breakfast if it means I get to sleep through it. Otherwise, PFFFT.
14. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? No. Again with the suspicious-making questions.
15. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Used to did.
16. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? Vanilla. Yes, I am that boring. But don't dog me unless you're from Texas and've had Bluebell's Homemade Vanilla because IT IS THE BEST ICECREAM IN THE COUNTRY.
17. SHOE SIZE? 12. You know what they say about women who have big feet. And since you do, you should sure as hell tell me, because I've never met a woman with feet as big as mine and it'd make me feel better to know there's something redeeming in it.
18. RED OR PINK? Uh, green? I look good in red.
19. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My slackitude.
20. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? I'd rather not answer that question.
21. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? I'm hanging my world on it. Hitching my wagon to a star, girls.
22. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES YOU ARE WEARING? Black. I'm not wearing shoes. I never wear shoes if I can help it. Never wear pants if I can help it either. In fact, I had to put pants on to type this, because I didn't want anyone to be freaked out by the thought of talking to a naked me. Do you ever do that? I mean, type an essay nude, and then realize you can't hand it to your professor because YOU TYPED IT NUDE? Or an email to your boss? Letter to your very no-naked-parts friend? Or is that just a me thing? Enquiring minds want to know. They also want to know the difference between "inquiring" and "enquiring."
3. LAST THING YOU ATE? cereal! But I forgot what kind, it's a new kind I am trying. Also, sausage, left over from BBQ. Also, left-over chicken lettuce wrap from Pei Wei. I was hungry. Meat and cereal go together, trust me. Meat goes with anything.
24. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? My computer makes this humming noise.
25. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Burnt umber. But only because I like the name. I mean, imagine calling me Burnt Umber. Would it be Burnt, or maybe Miss Umber; or how about just Um?
26. FAVORITE SMELL? Wood-smoke and the air before it rains.
27. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Tiff. Or possibly Kristy. Both are my very bestest friends from way back when.
28. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO? I don't like this question. It's frustrating and makes me feel itchy on my left shoulder. Oh wait, that's my hair. But another itchifying factor is I never find people attractive off the bat. When I see someone I think is handsome or beautiful, I am not attracted. I am uncomfortable and nervous and sweaty palms. So if I ever become attracted to you it is not through an immediate overwhelming physical wow, it's a more gradual don't even really notice at first how it's gradually come over me oh god. Though in the end, I suppose it will be a combination of your intelligence, your integrity, how much attention you pay to me, and your hands. It is different with TV and film people but actually not so much. I don't get the hots until I know at least a bit about a character they play. It's just the way my cookie crumbles. That’s the way my stomach rumbles. That’s the way my bee bumbles. . . That’s the way the moon wanes. . .
29. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Oh yes. And, among other things, ripe vegetables.
30. FAVORITE DRINK? Coffee.
31. FAVORITE SPORT? Chess. But I like to play basketball, as long as no one is depending on me to make points. Is cooking a sport? OMG! I think I missed the Iron Chef where Rachel Ray was going to team up with Mario Batali. Dammit dammit DAMMIT! My mom once sat next to Mario Batali in a movie theatre. They were seeing Crash in Suttons Bay, Michigan. I don't know about Mario, but his wife is good people, they say. I don't get that; the plural disagreement gives me a slight case of hives.
32. HAIR COLOR? Brown.
33. EYE COLOR? Blue.
34. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Again with the gooky questions. No.
35. FAVORITE FOOD? sausage balls, Houston's spinach dip, dark chocolate cherry heath pecan extra chocolate oatmeal cookies, peanutbutter mountain sundaes made with cookie dough icecream, a really good sandwich on pretzel bread from the cheeseshack in Leelanau Michigan, those wee weiners wrapped in Pillsbury croissant (they only taste good because everything it's made of is fake), crab wantons, also every other kind of cookie there is, and CHICKEN BISCUITS.
36. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING? Most scary movies I've seen pretty much suck. Did I hear right that they're making a sequel to The Grudge?
38. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Black. It is a theme of me in this meme I see. But not in a dark morbid way, much more in a slimming way.
40. HUGS OR KISSES? Yes please. Actually, I'm not very touchy feely except with an extremely small number of people. Which is why I more often answer the *build a fire and dance around it. Then pull you out of the fire so you can dance too and not burn up* scenario than the (((hugs))) one. But sometimes hugs and kisses are very very necessary. Obviously. Or maybe not. Since so many of them lead to sex and that just leads to demon impregnation and mysteriously-fitting maternity clothes? Or soul loss. Or Connor. Speaking of whom... back on board with the hugs and kisses. The boy needs them! And the sex. He needs that, too. Actually, I'm not so sure whether it wouldn't be better for him to've been celibate at certain times in his life. I'm sorry, could you repeat the question? I want to hug and kiss Connor. Then tuck him into bed and tell him stories until he's asleep and Angel can brush the hair from his forehead without him knowing. That's sad. OMG HUGS AND KISSES.
41.FAVORITE DESSERT? Cookies.
42. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? uh-huzzah-wha?
43. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? no!
44. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING? Catch-22. Still.
45. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? I don't have a mouse pad. However if I had a mouse that did pad, I would make it a pallet to sleep on and give it a munch of my Parmegiano Reggiano, which makes everything better.
46. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST NIGHT ON TV? BtVS and AtS. Dude, S1 A/Wes makes me hurty and sad and awww! all at the same time. That part where possessed!boy is all to Wesley, "You're more afraid of [Angel] than of me!" It's true. Because Wesley is pretty much going absolutely backwards for Angel's approval, and if Angel hadn't given it to him--I don't really like to think of the places Wesley would go.
Because he goes there anyway later. Wah!
47. FAVORITE SOUNDS? Carbonated liquid when poured over ice, the snuffing of a lit match in water, and cicadas.
48. ROLLING STONE OR BEATLES? The Beatles.
49. THE FURTHEST YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME? Rome, Italy. Or, uh, Amsterdam, when you consider the mental state. Har har.
50. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Of course.
51. WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN? 1983, Houston.
I tagl_aurens and imnotacommittee, but only if they don't feel like it's a waste of their time.
*
That other meme that's going around, the one about fictional characters you do/not do? I can't do that meme. I mean, I know it's just for fun, something you're not really supposed to think about, but thoughts, they just careen into the territory of utter profundity, never to bob back to the kiddie pool of shallow with questions like, yeah they're hot, but would they be good in bed?
So, for as many times as I've said I'd like to take Angel's clothes off and do naughty naughty things with him, I'm not sure I would, really. Because first of all I'd just be intimidated and self-conscious and with that hot feeling under my skin that makes me want to take off my clothes but only after I run away (is that TMI?) And after that, if we were friends, Angel would still not be having of teh Casual Sex, and not me either, actually. But say we were romantically involved, then I'd want more, wouldn't I, and that would just be sad, because I really don't think I'd make him go all grr, and that would make me feel all bad about myself, and he'd be there with his blood belly thinking back on the glory days when I thought his creature of the night routine was hot. And I'd suddenly start dreaming of Xander in a private jet or maybe prime rib, I'm not sure which. Anyway, say Angel and I did make the monster of two backs, then what? Afterwards, I'd just sit up and say, "Okay, now can we do it with Spike?"
And it'd just all go to pot from there.
*
I'm still doing drabbles. It's extremely difficult. There are only 100 words in a drabble! I knew that going in, and yet . . . and yet. I went to write early!Spike and RPS with actresses from the 1930s came out.
a2zmom! Oh, fun!1. FIRST NAME? Joyce, Joyce Elizabeth, Joy, Joysie, Juh-hooey, Joy Sunshine, Joy-Joy, Jay, Joycifer, Little Furry Bits of Joy. Sometimes I think my mom didn't ever quite decide.
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER SOMEONE? My grandmother. I was told this at age four. For about a week I thought my name was Granny.
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? Sue made me want to cry with dead!Buffy moments. But I don't cry when I want and when I do it's because the moon is making me. Okay, I cried when I saw Imogen Heap sing "Speeding Cars" live. That's a very personal question, you know.
[4.] What kind of mathematically challenged person wrote this, anyway?
5. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? I have multiple fonts.
6. WHAT IS YOU FAVORITE LUNCHMEAT? Angel! ...What?
7. KIDS? Here's looking at you. Also, Rock. In a candy store. New, and on the block!
8. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I'd have sex with me.
9. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? The question is here. Q.E.D.
10. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Like
a2zmom I'll have to go with never.11. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? This question makes me suspicious.
12. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? No. Never. If all the minions of hell were after me, if nothing but reruns of ALIAS after it completely jumped the shark was on, if Richard Simmons was the only man left in the universe--come to think of it, I'd sure as shit want off that plane or cliff or whatever it is you bungee from. Just, you know, no bungee.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Trix! Well, sometimes Lucky Charms. I also have this serious addiction to Capt Crunch, but again that's a monthly thing. What? Are we talking about favorite cereal when cooked up with gobs of sugar and peanutbutter and corn syrup, then slathered with melted chocolate and butterscotch? If so I'll revise and change to Rice Krispies. Muslix is good too, but Granola's really gone the way of bad, after that time I ate it ever day for a year. I was coming off my oatmeal addiction then. I really like breakfast. Breakfast foods, not breakfast. I really like breakfast breakfast if it means I get to sleep through it. Otherwise, PFFFT.
14. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? No. Again with the suspicious-making questions.
15. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Used to did.
16. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? Vanilla. Yes, I am that boring. But don't dog me unless you're from Texas and've had Bluebell's Homemade Vanilla because IT IS THE BEST ICECREAM IN THE COUNTRY.
17. SHOE SIZE? 12. You know what they say about women who have big feet. And since you do, you should sure as hell tell me, because I've never met a woman with feet as big as mine and it'd make me feel better to know there's something redeeming in it.
18. RED OR PINK? Uh, green? I look good in red.
19. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My slackitude.
20. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? I'd rather not answer that question.
21. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? I'm hanging my world on it. Hitching my wagon to a star, girls.
22. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES YOU ARE WEARING? Black. I'm not wearing shoes. I never wear shoes if I can help it. Never wear pants if I can help it either. In fact, I had to put pants on to type this, because I didn't want anyone to be freaked out by the thought of talking to a naked me. Do you ever do that? I mean, type an essay nude, and then realize you can't hand it to your professor because YOU TYPED IT NUDE? Or an email to your boss? Letter to your very no-naked-parts friend? Or is that just a me thing? Enquiring minds want to know. They also want to know the difference between "inquiring" and "enquiring."
3. LAST THING YOU ATE? cereal! But I forgot what kind, it's a new kind I am trying. Also, sausage, left over from BBQ. Also, left-over chicken lettuce wrap from Pei Wei. I was hungry. Meat and cereal go together, trust me. Meat goes with anything.
24. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? My computer makes this humming noise.
25. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Burnt umber. But only because I like the name. I mean, imagine calling me Burnt Umber. Would it be Burnt, or maybe Miss Umber; or how about just Um?
26. FAVORITE SMELL? Wood-smoke and the air before it rains.
27. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Tiff. Or possibly Kristy. Both are my very bestest friends from way back when.
28. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO? I don't like this question. It's frustrating and makes me feel itchy on my left shoulder. Oh wait, that's my hair. But another itchifying factor is I never find people attractive off the bat. When I see someone I think is handsome or beautiful, I am not attracted. I am uncomfortable and nervous and sweaty palms. So if I ever become attracted to you it is not through an immediate overwhelming physical wow, it's a more gradual don't even really notice at first how it's gradually come over me oh god. Though in the end, I suppose it will be a combination of your intelligence, your integrity, how much attention you pay to me, and your hands. It is different with TV and film people but actually not so much. I don't get the hots until I know at least a bit about a character they play. It's just the way my cookie crumbles. That’s the way my stomach rumbles. That’s the way my bee bumbles. . . That’s the way the moon wanes. . .
29. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Oh yes. And, among other things, ripe vegetables.
30. FAVORITE DRINK? Coffee.
31. FAVORITE SPORT? Chess. But I like to play basketball, as long as no one is depending on me to make points. Is cooking a sport? OMG! I think I missed the Iron Chef where Rachel Ray was going to team up with Mario Batali. Dammit dammit DAMMIT! My mom once sat next to Mario Batali in a movie theatre. They were seeing Crash in Suttons Bay, Michigan. I don't know about Mario, but his wife is good people, they say. I don't get that; the plural disagreement gives me a slight case of hives.
32. HAIR COLOR? Brown.
33. EYE COLOR? Blue.
34. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Again with the gooky questions. No.
35. FAVORITE FOOD? sausage balls, Houston's spinach dip, dark chocolate cherry heath pecan extra chocolate oatmeal cookies, peanutbutter mountain sundaes made with cookie dough icecream, a really good sandwich on pretzel bread from the cheeseshack in Leelanau Michigan, those wee weiners wrapped in Pillsbury croissant (they only taste good because everything it's made of is fake), crab wantons, also every other kind of cookie there is, and CHICKEN BISCUITS.
36. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING? Most scary movies I've seen pretty much suck. Did I hear right that they're making a sequel to The Grudge?
38. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Black. It is a theme of me in this meme I see. But not in a dark morbid way, much more in a slimming way.
40. HUGS OR KISSES? Yes please. Actually, I'm not very touchy feely except with an extremely small number of people. Which is why I more often answer the *build a fire and dance around it. Then pull you out of the fire so you can dance too and not burn up* scenario than the (((hugs))) one. But sometimes hugs and kisses are very very necessary. Obviously. Or maybe not. Since so many of them lead to sex and that just leads to demon impregnation and mysteriously-fitting maternity clothes? Or soul loss. Or Connor. Speaking of whom... back on board with the hugs and kisses. The boy needs them! And the sex. He needs that, too. Actually, I'm not so sure whether it wouldn't be better for him to've been celibate at certain times in his life. I'm sorry, could you repeat the question? I want to hug and kiss Connor. Then tuck him into bed and tell him stories until he's asleep and Angel can brush the hair from his forehead without him knowing. That's sad. OMG HUGS AND KISSES.
41.FAVORITE DESSERT? Cookies.
42. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? uh-huzzah-wha?
43. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? no!
44. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING? Catch-22. Still.
45. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? I don't have a mouse pad. However if I had a mouse that did pad, I would make it a pallet to sleep on and give it a munch of my Parmegiano Reggiano, which makes everything better.
46. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST NIGHT ON TV? BtVS and AtS. Dude, S1 A/Wes makes me hurty and sad and awww! all at the same time. That part where possessed!boy is all to Wesley, "You're more afraid of [Angel] than of me!" It's true. Because Wesley is pretty much going absolutely backwards for Angel's approval, and if Angel hadn't given it to him--I don't really like to think of the places Wesley would go.
Because he goes there anyway later. Wah!
47. FAVORITE SOUNDS? Carbonated liquid when poured over ice, the snuffing of a lit match in water, and cicadas.
48. ROLLING STONE OR BEATLES? The Beatles.
49. THE FURTHEST YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME? Rome, Italy. Or, uh, Amsterdam, when you consider the mental state. Har har.
50. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Of course.
51. WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN? 1983, Houston.
I tag
l_aurens and imnotacommittee, but only if they don't feel like it's a waste of their time.*
That other meme that's going around, the one about fictional characters you do/not do? I can't do that meme. I mean, I know it's just for fun, something you're not really supposed to think about, but thoughts, they just careen into the territory of utter profundity, never to bob back to the kiddie pool of shallow with questions like, yeah they're hot, but would they be good in bed?
So, for as many times as I've said I'd like to take Angel's clothes off and do naughty naughty things with him, I'm not sure I would, really. Because first of all I'd just be intimidated and self-conscious and with that hot feeling under my skin that makes me want to take off my clothes but only after I run away (is that TMI?) And after that, if we were friends, Angel would still not be having of teh Casual Sex, and not me either, actually. But say we were romantically involved, then I'd want more, wouldn't I, and that would just be sad, because I really don't think I'd make him go all grr, and that would make me feel all bad about myself, and he'd be there with his blood belly thinking back on the glory days when I thought his creature of the night routine was hot. And I'd suddenly start dreaming of Xander in a private jet or maybe prime rib, I'm not sure which. Anyway, say Angel and I did make the monster of two backs, then what? Afterwards, I'd just sit up and say, "Okay, now can we do it with Spike?"
And it'd just all go to pot from there.
*
I'm still doing drabbles. It's extremely difficult. There are only 100 words in a drabble! I knew that going in, and yet . . . and yet. I went to write early!Spike and RPS with actresses from the 1930s came out.