Shameless Self-Revelation
Aug. 7th, 2002 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksI swiped this quiz from my friend Bread and Roses (yes, she came from Bryn Mawr-- why do you ask?) because it is informative, and should anyone I don't actually know actually (gasp) read this site, they might find it interesting. Heck, so might other people. I love LJ, because if people find me boring they can just go away, and I'll never even know about it. So I can go on and on and on and not have that deep-seated suspicion that I'm talking too damn much.
Oh, and I copyedited the quiz and removed the questions I found stupid.
1. What's your name: Skipping this...
2. What do you wish your name was, instead: I am very fond of my name, as I was named after a kickass great-grandmother. So I intend to keep it. I do wish my middle name didn't begin with a vowel, as it makes my initials spell something stupid, but you can't have everything.
3. How are you: It varies by the second. Fine right now. Shake the Magic 8-Ball later.
4. Would you ever eat sushi: I won't eat fish any other way; it all tastes better raw.
5. This question skipped for reasons of stupidity.
6. Have you considered homosexuality? Yes, but I was in the middle of a dyke march at the time, and I couldn't keep my girlfriend waiting during my philosophical maunderings. I concluded that I am all for it.
7. What's your sexual preference: Uhh... Kinsey four. There have been and could be men in my life, but the past ones were mistakes and the list of conditions on future applicants is so long that the idea is highly improbable, at least until it's time to get pregnant someday.
8. What were you in a past life: I have had no past lives. I will have no future lives on this planet. Other people can do as they please.
9. I punch you. Quick, what do you do: If you're not serious, bitch about it. If you are serious, hurt you until you stop.
10. When confronted with Britney Spears, you: Go off on a tirade about that incredibly sexist ad they have in Times Square with her and the Pepsi can and far too little clothing and that it is not fair that I should have to have these things shoved at me ten times life-size .
11. What's your favorite coffee: I can't drink coffee. I put away gallons of red Mountain Dew a week.
12. What's your political perspective: Socialist. Militant feminist. Big scary lesbian. Anti-censorship of anything in any way.
13. This question called on account of inexplicability.
14. Do you consider yourself a poet: Yes, but I don't know where to publish. You may read my poetry if you ask nicely or happen to be in the room when I finish something.
15.What do you want to be when you grow up: I grew up, or at least came of age, a couple of years ago, and I always knew I was going to be a writer.
16. There's a naked man in your living room. What do you do: Call the police.
17. How stupid do you think you are: I have a great ability to miss the blindingly obvious or the simpler solution.
18. How stupid do other people think you are: Ask them.
19. Who the hell do you think you are: If I can ever get off my ass and get some work done, I will be a brilliant writer. I am presently attempting not to be descended from the Anne Sexton/Sylvia Plath/Virginia Woolf school of Great Authors Who Commit Suicide In Thirty Years. Prospects for avoiding this look better all the time.
20. Is the Wonderbra good or bad: Neither. It is pointless.
21. Do you have a girlfriend or boyfriend at the moment: Decidedly.
22. What's your favorite fruit: Pear. Sweet peaches. Chilled plum. Mango. Starfruit.
23. This question canceled on account of trite sentimentality.
24. On a nude beach, you would: Apply large quantities of sunscreen.
25. Make up a story with yourself, a bridge, and a rabbit: I did not want to lie across the stream to be a bridge for the damn rabbit, but it said it could get me autographs from everybody in Watership Down.
26. What do you think about contemporary art: It's wonderful when it has a sense of humor.
27. Do you like being naked: Certainly, as opposed to having to wear this culture's wretched excuses for women's underwear.
28. If we had proof god didn't exist, what would happen: The proof would be disproved, and the argument would never end-- and gee, it hasn't...
29. Do you enjoy cheeze whiz: Ew.
30. What's your position on virginity: That is not a political subject, or a religious subject. It is a personal choice.
31. On civil unions: Please. Now. With the tax breaks.
32. On RuPaul: Her autobiography was a mildly interesting book to be stuck in a waiting room with.
33. On mosquito bites: Hate 'em. I got two hundred and forty three one summer at wilderness camp. You never get used to it.
34. On bad sitcoms: I don't watch American television.
35. On Fran Drescher: Can't act. Can't even speak without being annoying. Why is this person famous?
36. Are you left handed or right handed?: Ambidextrous, but I write more easily with my right hand, and most other things are easier with the left.
37. Are you smart: Genius level, objective estimate. Subjectively, some days I feel smarter than others.
38. What's your middle name: An extremely common English feminine name that I have never seen the point of.
39. How many personalities do you have: Three at the moment besides me, one of whom is independent enough that we have to bargain to get things done sometimes. They are associated with the novel I am writing and will reassimilate afterwards. (E. says hi to those of you who know him.)
40. How many piercings do you have: One, my nose.
41. What was your first word: I don't know.
42. Are you superstitious: What does that mean? Do I believe in magic, certainly. Do I believe in seven years bad luck if I break a mirror and all that sort of thing, no.
43. Do you read your horoscope: Only in the Onion. I was particularly fond of 'You will experience translation difficulties when you are dubbed into Portuguese and re-released in Brazil'.
44. Do you believe in that stuff: Astrology, no. I prefer Tarot.
45. Can you do a cartwheel: Yes, frontwards, sidewards, or one-handed, either hand.
46. Do you have contact lenses: I used to, but it was too much work.
47. Do you have a retainer or braces: Never have. Lucky me.
48. Can you drive: Yes, stick or automatic.
49. Do you snore: So people tell me. It's a foul calumny.
50. This question cancelled on account of nobody needing to know.
51. This question cancelled for sheer pointlessness.
52. Do you keep a journal: Several, counting this as one, which it isn't quite.
53. Do you like onions: Mildly allergic to them.
54. Do you like cotton candy: Depends on the flavor.
55. What instruments can you play: Flute, soprano recorder.
56. Do you like to dance: Hooked on Scottish dancing...
57. Do you like to sing: Something is wrong with the world if I am not in at least one vocal group.
58. Are you any good at it: Yes, and getting better. I could do professional work in musical areas requiring sight-reading as long as I was one of a fairly large chorus; solo-wise, I am a mildly pleasant complete amateur.
59. Do you like to talk on the phone: It's a useful communication device.
60. Do you like where you live: Bryn Mawr is magnificently wonderful.
62. Do you sleep with socks on: I never wear socks, anywhere.
63. Are you shy: Only in large crowds of people I don't know.
64. Do you talk to yourself: Doesn't everybody?
65. Are you a morning person: No. Never. One goes to bed at the beginning of a morning, and stays until a civilized hour, or one is bribed with caffeine. Morning perkiness should be a capital offense.
66. Are you a virgin: Not lately. If you don't know how long lately is, it's none of your business.
67. Are you proud of that: There are a couple of real mistakes in my past, but I am perfectly happy with my present situation.
68. Do you believe in reincarnation: It's a perfectly valid option for other people, but I am going to have other things to do.
69. Do you believe in God: That is far too complicated a question to be answered in this space. The short version boils down to 'Yes, but probably not the one you mean'.
70. Do you believe in ghosts: I've seen one, heard several others, mostly in graveyards. I doubt most of the famous ones really happened, as the ones I've run into were quite different, but I try to keep an open mind. I could have been seeing things, I suppose.
71. Do you believe in bigfoot: No, but there is certainly enough wilderness left on the planet for some quite large animals to have gone unnoticed somewhere-- just not where people claim to see Bigfoot. Try Upper Mongolia.
72. How old do you wish you were: My present age is comfortable.
73. What will you name your daughter: Araminta Idamae (the middle name is after my grandmother; I dislike the name but I loved her), and call her Mint for short.
74. What will you name your son: I'm very fond of the name Donatien, and have diligently looked up every possible good historical role model for a child to counterbalance the name being the given name of the Marquis de Sade. If I decide there's no way to balance that, I'll use Sebastian or Aloysius.
75. Have you ever thought you were gonna die: No.
76. Where do you wanna go: Where don't I? That makes for a shorter list: I do not want to go back to Estonia. End of list. Japan, England and Greece head my travel priorities.
Good night, all ye who followed me this far through the trivia.
Angst-O-Meter: 5 or so, but falling.
Oh, and I copyedited the quiz and removed the questions I found stupid.
1. What's your name: Skipping this...
2. What do you wish your name was, instead: I am very fond of my name, as I was named after a kickass great-grandmother. So I intend to keep it. I do wish my middle name didn't begin with a vowel, as it makes my initials spell something stupid, but you can't have everything.
3. How are you: It varies by the second. Fine right now. Shake the Magic 8-Ball later.
4. Would you ever eat sushi: I won't eat fish any other way; it all tastes better raw.
5. This question skipped for reasons of stupidity.
6. Have you considered homosexuality? Yes, but I was in the middle of a dyke march at the time, and I couldn't keep my girlfriend waiting during my philosophical maunderings. I concluded that I am all for it.
7. What's your sexual preference: Uhh... Kinsey four. There have been and could be men in my life, but the past ones were mistakes and the list of conditions on future applicants is so long that the idea is highly improbable, at least until it's time to get pregnant someday.
8. What were you in a past life: I have had no past lives. I will have no future lives on this planet. Other people can do as they please.
9. I punch you. Quick, what do you do: If you're not serious, bitch about it. If you are serious, hurt you until you stop.
10. When confronted with Britney Spears, you: Go off on a tirade about that incredibly sexist ad they have in Times Square with her and the Pepsi can and far too little clothing and that it is not fair that I should have to have these things shoved at me ten times life-size .
11. What's your favorite coffee: I can't drink coffee. I put away gallons of red Mountain Dew a week.
12. What's your political perspective: Socialist. Militant feminist. Big scary lesbian. Anti-censorship of anything in any way.
13. This question called on account of inexplicability.
14. Do you consider yourself a poet: Yes, but I don't know where to publish. You may read my poetry if you ask nicely or happen to be in the room when I finish something.
15.What do you want to be when you grow up: I grew up, or at least came of age, a couple of years ago, and I always knew I was going to be a writer.
16. There's a naked man in your living room. What do you do: Call the police.
17. How stupid do you think you are: I have a great ability to miss the blindingly obvious or the simpler solution.
18. How stupid do other people think you are: Ask them.
19. Who the hell do you think you are: If I can ever get off my ass and get some work done, I will be a brilliant writer. I am presently attempting not to be descended from the Anne Sexton/Sylvia Plath/Virginia Woolf school of Great Authors Who Commit Suicide In Thirty Years. Prospects for avoiding this look better all the time.
20. Is the Wonderbra good or bad: Neither. It is pointless.
21. Do you have a girlfriend or boyfriend at the moment: Decidedly.
22. What's your favorite fruit: Pear. Sweet peaches. Chilled plum. Mango. Starfruit.
23. This question canceled on account of trite sentimentality.
24. On a nude beach, you would: Apply large quantities of sunscreen.
25. Make up a story with yourself, a bridge, and a rabbit: I did not want to lie across the stream to be a bridge for the damn rabbit, but it said it could get me autographs from everybody in Watership Down.
26. What do you think about contemporary art: It's wonderful when it has a sense of humor.
27. Do you like being naked: Certainly, as opposed to having to wear this culture's wretched excuses for women's underwear.
28. If we had proof god didn't exist, what would happen: The proof would be disproved, and the argument would never end-- and gee, it hasn't...
29. Do you enjoy cheeze whiz: Ew.
30. What's your position on virginity: That is not a political subject, or a religious subject. It is a personal choice.
31. On civil unions: Please. Now. With the tax breaks.
32. On RuPaul: Her autobiography was a mildly interesting book to be stuck in a waiting room with.
33. On mosquito bites: Hate 'em. I got two hundred and forty three one summer at wilderness camp. You never get used to it.
34. On bad sitcoms: I don't watch American television.
35. On Fran Drescher: Can't act. Can't even speak without being annoying. Why is this person famous?
36. Are you left handed or right handed?: Ambidextrous, but I write more easily with my right hand, and most other things are easier with the left.
37. Are you smart: Genius level, objective estimate. Subjectively, some days I feel smarter than others.
38. What's your middle name: An extremely common English feminine name that I have never seen the point of.
39. How many personalities do you have: Three at the moment besides me, one of whom is independent enough that we have to bargain to get things done sometimes. They are associated with the novel I am writing and will reassimilate afterwards. (E. says hi to those of you who know him.)
40. How many piercings do you have: One, my nose.
41. What was your first word: I don't know.
42. Are you superstitious: What does that mean? Do I believe in magic, certainly. Do I believe in seven years bad luck if I break a mirror and all that sort of thing, no.
43. Do you read your horoscope: Only in the Onion. I was particularly fond of 'You will experience translation difficulties when you are dubbed into Portuguese and re-released in Brazil'.
44. Do you believe in that stuff: Astrology, no. I prefer Tarot.
45. Can you do a cartwheel: Yes, frontwards, sidewards, or one-handed, either hand.
46. Do you have contact lenses: I used to, but it was too much work.
47. Do you have a retainer or braces: Never have. Lucky me.
48. Can you drive: Yes, stick or automatic.
49. Do you snore: So people tell me. It's a foul calumny.
50. This question cancelled on account of nobody needing to know.
51. This question cancelled for sheer pointlessness.
52. Do you keep a journal: Several, counting this as one, which it isn't quite.
53. Do you like onions: Mildly allergic to them.
54. Do you like cotton candy: Depends on the flavor.
55. What instruments can you play: Flute, soprano recorder.
56. Do you like to dance: Hooked on Scottish dancing...
57. Do you like to sing: Something is wrong with the world if I am not in at least one vocal group.
58. Are you any good at it: Yes, and getting better. I could do professional work in musical areas requiring sight-reading as long as I was one of a fairly large chorus; solo-wise, I am a mildly pleasant complete amateur.
59. Do you like to talk on the phone: It's a useful communication device.
60. Do you like where you live: Bryn Mawr is magnificently wonderful.
62. Do you sleep with socks on: I never wear socks, anywhere.
63. Are you shy: Only in large crowds of people I don't know.
64. Do you talk to yourself: Doesn't everybody?
65. Are you a morning person: No. Never. One goes to bed at the beginning of a morning, and stays until a civilized hour, or one is bribed with caffeine. Morning perkiness should be a capital offense.
66. Are you a virgin: Not lately. If you don't know how long lately is, it's none of your business.
67. Are you proud of that: There are a couple of real mistakes in my past, but I am perfectly happy with my present situation.
68. Do you believe in reincarnation: It's a perfectly valid option for other people, but I am going to have other things to do.
69. Do you believe in God: That is far too complicated a question to be answered in this space. The short version boils down to 'Yes, but probably not the one you mean'.
70. Do you believe in ghosts: I've seen one, heard several others, mostly in graveyards. I doubt most of the famous ones really happened, as the ones I've run into were quite different, but I try to keep an open mind. I could have been seeing things, I suppose.
71. Do you believe in bigfoot: No, but there is certainly enough wilderness left on the planet for some quite large animals to have gone unnoticed somewhere-- just not where people claim to see Bigfoot. Try Upper Mongolia.
72. How old do you wish you were: My present age is comfortable.
73. What will you name your daughter: Araminta Idamae (the middle name is after my grandmother; I dislike the name but I loved her), and call her Mint for short.
74. What will you name your son: I'm very fond of the name Donatien, and have diligently looked up every possible good historical role model for a child to counterbalance the name being the given name of the Marquis de Sade. If I decide there's no way to balance that, I'll use Sebastian or Aloysius.
75. Have you ever thought you were gonna die: No.
76. Where do you wanna go: Where don't I? That makes for a shorter list: I do not want to go back to Estonia. End of list. Japan, England and Greece head my travel priorities.
Good night, all ye who followed me this far through the trivia.
Angst-O-Meter: 5 or so, but falling.
