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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2006-05-21 04:18 pm

Meme

Memeage! I got tagged by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] l_aurens and [livejournal.com profile] 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.

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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.

[identity profile] jgracio.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe you should use a slightly lesss restrictive definition of a drabble, some people think that anything under 500 words (I think) is a drabble.

I know, it's probably a compromise of your principles, but hey, more words! :)

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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the reason I wanted to do the drabble thing is I really wanted to restrict myself. I do have this problem with economy of words, and I wanted to see what I could do. It's turning out kind of hit and miss.

But, thanks for the suggestion! I do know I'll probably never say I'm writing drabbles again.

[identity profile] jgracio.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
Well, IMO, the hardest thing about drabbles is making sure whatever you're trying to say doesn't run away from you. So, if you write longish stuff, you either go the [livejournal.com profile] nwhepcat route, and write a series of drabbles, or you make sure the subject can be covered in 100 words.

Spike, pre series, is alas, hard to do in such a short space. Everything is. :)

Also, your go all grr comment inspired me to write something. This (http://jgracio.livejournal.com/36430.html). Now, I'm no B/A fan, not really, so this is pretty much as close as I can get to it... :)
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[personal profile] rahirah 2006-05-22 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
But those people are wrong. /drabble police

[identity profile] jgracio.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Right on! :)
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Should be a vid.

Fan writes 123 word drabble.

Cut to Faith as Buffy, "You can't do that! It's wrong!"
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[identity profile] entrenous88.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Your name is Joyce! This is very exciting to me. I'm not quite sure why.

Ack, good luck with the drabbles. An obvious bit of advice, but still a good one, is to pick a tiny slice, a quick moment, and then make that swell, rather than trying to fit a whole scene/story into 100 words.

Also, now I want Cap'n Crunch.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
I hope it's not exciting to you because of Joyce Summers. I only hate one character in all of Jossverse, and she's the one.

Yeah, for me, the hard part with the drabbles is the picking the slice/moment. Once I got one for the first one I tried it was easy to write, though it took a lot of shearing and shaving and stuff. The thing is, I tend to think in terms of 200,000 word epics. Ack!

Interesting how the Cap'n Crunch is the one that pressed people's buttons. I find I get CRAVINGS for that cereal.

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Huzzah!


6. Mine too!
8. I would also have sex with you.
13. I can no longer eat sugary cerals. Except for Cocoa Puffs.
17. At least you'll never tip over. Younger younger sis has the opposite problem. She wears a size 5 1/2, width E. She has squares attached to the ends of her legs.
29. Asparagus!
44. That's one of my dad's favorite books in the whole world. He rereads it every ten years.

[identity profile] lostakasha.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a threesome a-brewin', I can feel it.

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to be in the middle.

I am quite bossy, it seems.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
You'd get smothered and die.

But you'd be so cute doing it.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
13. I hate Cocoa Puffs.

17. At least you'll never tip over.

Hee! But I do! I'm pretty clumsy.

29. Oh baby.

[identity profile] swmbo.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Heeeee!! Ohhh, your answers made me laugh so hard! Until 40. ANd then 40 just made me get all soppy and think how RIGHT you are and that you should definitely be in charge of arranging such things. Ohh, Connor!

And dude, YES on the reasons why I can't do the meme about characters who are sexy. Because my answer is always so and so is so sexy, I'd sleep with them if I was someone ELSE. Because as a swmbo, I can't handle that kind of emotional agony and pain and also possible death. I don't have superpowers and we've seen what happens if you don't have superpowers! *shiver* Plus, what if it involved breaking up a beloved pairing? How wrong is that?! So no, no no no no no no no.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
I love that icon.

It does not surprise me that given the words "hugs" and "kisses" at 4am that after a paragraph of babble I would end up wanting to cuddle Connor.

Yeah there's the possible death thing! Totally forgot. And I was going to mention Colonel Brandon (from Sense and Sensibility) and Gilber Blythe (from Anne of Green Gables) as characters I actually would shag because they are people I can also see myself having a happy life with, but then I thought, what of Marianne and Anne? And so I couldn't even say them.

[identity profile] elcazavampiros.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
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. Mmmmm. Bluebell's Homemade Vanilla -- So gooood.

[identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Comment stealer!!!! That was what *I* pull quoted. *pouts*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, do you get Bluebell in Oklahoma? Because I thought way back when it was only in Texas, but I heard a while (ok, like a decade ago or something) back they were expanding. It'd be so sad if you had the memory of eating it and then had hot apple pie with that crumbley stuff and then had to settle for less oh la la in your a la mode.

[identity profile] elcazavampiros.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Do we have Bluebell in Oklahoma? Oh, yeah!
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[personal profile] my_daroga 2006-05-22 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to have to decline your tag. Because I'd have to not answer half the questions, and that's annoying. But I give you leave to ask me anything you want right now.

As to sex with: meme, I agree. Well, part of me won't do it because, totally based on "ooh s/he's hot, I'd hit that," there's too many--I get super involved in my fictional characters. But on the other hand, I don't have that much sex, and I don't want that much sex, and given that I've gone 27 years without sexing up everyone in sight, or really anyone except one person, and even that took years for me to figure out, I really doubt I'd "do it" with anyone. I'm very very picky. Thinking about it is really way way more fun than thinking about actually doing it. Like, Kirk. Intellectually I'm all, "yeah, Captain, bring it on, you're made of sex." But put me in a room with him and I'd be all, "dude, I'm NOT bringing you coffee and get your eyes off my ass, buster."
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
My question is: why would you only be able to answer half the questions?

I'm very very picky as well. And I'm not against people who aren't, but it's just not the life for me. It's kind of weird to me that I think about these characters so sexually so much of the time, but would never have sex with any of them. I guess it's just an outlet...because irl, I rarely think of people in a sexual way, because there are so few people I've met that I've been interested in having sex with.

And wow, that was personal, but true.

Down in My Heart!

[identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I get to see you in less than a week!!! Eeeeeee!

Hahahaha! Pullin' you out of the fire beats hugs any day. I can't do that shag meme. I really want to shag no one in real life except Caza. Really. I'm a freak like that. I mean, if Nick Brendon or David Boreanaz were here flirting with me, then, hell yeah! But they tend to just be pretty things I look at than people I actually consider sexual. Wow. That was dismissive and slightly sociopathic. Hmmm. Well, I didn't call them pretty dead things, so I guess I can scratch off sociopathic. I am RAMBLY.

And you fb made my morning - and I'm craving Cap'n Crunch, which I rarely eat. And less than a week!!!

Re: Down in My Heart!

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
If I ever met Boreanaz in the flesh I don't whether I'd hyperventilate and faint or attach myself like a barnacle to the poor guy's leg.

Maybe I'd better never get close.
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Re: Down in My Heart!

[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
I know what I would do. Try to get a good look, then turn tail and run.

Beauty scares me.
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Re: Down in My Heart!

[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
I know! I'm excited!

One of the things I love about you is how much you love your husband. I just think that is so cool. And not freaky.

The thing is, I do consider certain characters in a sexual light. Far less so with the actors themselves--they are for more just pretty things, as you say. But this is because the closer and closer the "people" in question edge toward real life, the less likely I am to consider them sexually, because the less likely I am to have sex with them, because I am very picky! Er, what I'm trying to say is that movie stars have a kind of mystique of unreality about them, a persona, which is more often what I consider (as opposed to who they may "really" be) when I think of them in a sexual sense...but also why I'm more likely to fantasize about the characters they play than the actors themselves.

That paragraph was a SEXPLOSION of the word "sexual". I had this professor who used to give me HIVES whenever he said that word. He was English and said it "SEKS-syu-all" and it's all he ever wanted to talk about. He creeped me out.
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[identity profile] ravenwings-7.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Drabbles are definitely hard. Mine tend to turn out somewhat terse because there isn't enough room for the prettifying, descriptive stuff.

I went to write early!Spike and RPS with actresses from the 1930s came out.
Umm...Sorry? And I have to ask, RP's were you S-ing?
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo! I know, right? Crazy.

It seems there should be room for prettifyin', if the idea is bitty enough. The problem is, I'm a forest gal, not a tree gal. I see really broad strokes and over-reaching themes and huge plots when I see stories, not little snaps.
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[identity profile] ravenwings-7.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Whereas I tend to see not just a tree, but also light and soil conditions when it was just a sapling, what kinds of birds are nesting in it, whether or not it was good for climbing when I was little, and the exact shade of green on both the top and bottom of the leaf. Then I get all poetical, and before I know it, I've spent 75 words describing the oak in my yard and don't have room for the picnic underneath it. Writing-wise (not so much reading or watching), a forest is just a lots and lots of trees with their branches tangled up and a few ferns scattered around (my large-ish stories tend to have a kind of clunky stop-and-go pacing as a result).

This metaphor is wearing thin, isn't it?
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[identity profile] makd.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

Beaucoup de thanks for giving me the need to bleach my brain. [shudders.] I really don't want to even imagine that any student had done this prior to handing me a paper. [shudders again and dry heaves.]


;-)
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Do you mean, you don't want to imagine that they felt the need to rewrite because they first wrote it nude? Or just that they wrote it nude?

See, for me, I can't imagine it making a bit of difference. If you told me you wrote this comment I'm replying to nude, I'd just reply with, "So what?"

But if I was writing this comment to you nude (uh, I'm not) it would make me feel *very* weird. So, I uh, don't.

[identity profile] cordelianne.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Your answers made me giggle and giggle!!

8. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I'd have sex with me. heee! My friends and I once discussed what it would be like if we met our clones. I was having innocent imaginings of my clone and I hanging out together bonding over our AoGG love and watching BtVS/AtS together and squeeing over the same moments. And my one friend was like "I would totally sleep with myself. Just think about it: it would be awesome because you'd totally know what you like."

And Connor totally needs hugs and kisses!!

The drabbles are very challenging! I'm just half-way through my requests now (your request will be posted tomorrow!).
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
See how I stealthily avoided whether I'd actually be friends with me. The thing is, bonding with me over me things would be boring, because I would already know everything I'm thinking. True, I don't know everything there is to know about myself, but when I do want to know more about myself I look inside. The only thing really really awesome I could think of to do with myself is have lots and lots of sex. Not only would I know what I like, I would be perfectly unself-conscious.

And yay! I'm looking forward to reading your drabbles...I'm behind on reading my flist but I'll get to them!

[identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Joycifer. That's awesome.

8. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I'd have sex with me.

I'd have sex with you too.

Also. Your favorite sport is basketball. CHESS is not a Sport!!!!
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
My mother also calls me Doggy.

Get behind [livejournal.com profile] a2zmom. In line, I meant, in line!

And it is so a sport. Next you'll be telling me they don't show poker on ESPN.

[identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Being Televised on ESPN does not make something a sport. Here are a list of other things that have been covered on ESPN and the ESPN Family of Networks:

1. The Spelling Bee
2. Hot Dog eating contests
3. Magic the Gathering
4. Dudes playing Madden
5. Tiddly Winks

Basketball is a Sport. Chess is a game. Didn't you see David Robinson vs. Deep Blue.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Magic was on ESPN? So cool! I didn't know it was a sport! /gratuitous mocking

Basketball is a Sport. Chess is a game. Didn't you see David Robinson vs. Deep Blue.

But Deep Blue vs Kasparov was so much more interesting.

[identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Magic the Gathering on ESPN2. They had a lot of hours to fill.

But seriously? How can it be a sport if there isn't an injury report. Deep Blue can 'play chess' despite being completely immobile. And not in a metaphorically immobile 80-year-old Dikembe Mutombo kind of way.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-24 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'd watch that.

But seriously, I was joking around. Though now I am curious re: your views on golf.

[identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com 2006-05-24 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I know you were joking, as was I. "Chess is not a sport" is one of those staple discussion topics when there are no good games or stories, and the Sports Talk Radio just has to kill twenty minutes of airtime...

Golf. Hmm. I talked briefly about Golf a long while ago. Watching golf bores me, but it's definitely a sport. You can get injured during the normal course of play, and those injuries can directly affect your performance.

On the one hand, I find it fascinating because of the sheer volume of measurable events. But playing golf frustrates me, because I have a ludicrous competetive/perfectionist streak and I have the absolute wrong disposition for golf. (It's all about focus, self-discipline, and zen. If there is scorekeeping, I am not zen.)

Also, I have a political issue with the elitism and such... but that's sort of another topic.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought so but it's hard to tell on the internets.

it's definitely a sport. You can get injured during the normal course of play, and those injuries can directly affect your performance.

I want to change my answer on favorite sport to Twister.

You sound about golf the way I feel about all sports. I have no physical coordination. Never been able to catch a ball in my life, and I used to practice. Hard. But I sucked at all of it and am too competitive to just have fun with it, so I rarely even try any more.
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[personal profile] aea 2006-05-23 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
According to #28, our bees bumble the same way. So annoying (for me anyway) (kinda like high school Willowage)
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-24 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Well! I find the finding beautiful/handsome people intimidating annoying, because they are after all just people and sometimes people I am required to talk to for social reasons. But given a choice? I'd much rather be repelled than attracted by physical beauty. Seems to me that if I was the latter, it would be very easy to feel attracted to someone who has a horrible heart just because he's pretty, and that would make me unhappy--with myself and possibly with where it would lead me.

I do have a bit of that problem when it comes to intellect. I tend to be attracted to smarts and once I discover someone has them I sometimes get more invested than I should. No matter how smart a person is, he can still be an asshole.

[identity profile] 43100.livejournal.com 2006-05-24 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
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."

Yes. ;.;
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad to know I'm not the only one!
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[identity profile] femmenerd.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
Every post you make makes me glad I friended you. Language is your bitch. Also, your patsy.