Request

I know most of you aren't much for prayer, but I could really use the help just now. My qual is 08 August.

(btw- what's with the "word verification?")

Tyson?

Hey Tyson-

Pictures of the Alps? Where the hell are you?

As for myself, PDX Pop Now! 2006 is this weekend (July 28-30) here in Portland.

Then I am off to coastal Montenegro with my mom to meet my Russian friends the Khokhlovs, to be follows by a roadtrip back up to Petersburg and a return stateside on Sept. 1

I will be down in LA from Aug. 2-8 for an Alonim CIT reunion, packing, and hopefully a little hanging out.

Hope you guys are all well.

Lion lays down with the lamb

While there are, right now, some relatively obvious signs that these are the end times, I prefer the cuter ones:



Female Tiger Raises Baby Pigs




Duck and Chicken Raise a Family Together

Trailer 3: Spiderman 3

I thought that since it's Trailer Day (tm), I might as well go for the trifecta and link to the Spiderman 3 trailer. Some of you may have seen this, but I hadn't yet. I don't know if Venom is quite gooey enough, though. . .

TMNT

Today is officially Trialers Day. Here's the: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer. Well, trailer may be too strong a word for it considering that the movie has a release date of 3-3-07. And, judging by the trailer, they really haven't started making it at all. I think they just found some outtakes from an old WB animated series and made them shinier.

The Fountain

The trailer for Darren Aronofsky's new movie The Fountain is up now and it is both super weird and super fantasy-nerdy. Take a look.

Kevin Smith sucks even more than I thought

Link to a story about what a tyrant the director of Clerks II has become, apparently going so far as to keep a personal blacklist of critics who are barred from his press screenings forevermore for having given him negative reviews in the past. My question is: after loosing Jersey Girl upon the world, are there really any critics left that please him?

In other news, A Scanner Darkly is neato. Also, I've got Gang of Four's "Natural's Not In It" hopelessly trapped in my head after seeing the awesome new trailer for Marie Antoinette, which tragically is not yet available online.

The San Fernando Valley? Hip? Like, Totally!

The NY Times thinks the Valley is hip:

The San Fernando Valley has always gotten a bad rap. For years, it has been associated with two dubious cultural phenomena: Valley Girls and pornography. But just as the city of Los Angeles has undergone a process of rediscovery in long-neglected regions like the downtown area, so this suburban outpost across the Santa Monica mountains has also experienced an image makeover.

The Comedy of Hopelessness

If there was any doubt, we are now officially in the hysterically hopeless era. The NY Times ran a lead headline for an interactive feature:

Interactive Feature: Unending Fury in the Mideast

This is the caption to a big color picture of young, good-looking people screaming and crying.

We're past information now. What else is there to say?

Ah, why the hell not?

Because poorly-formatted, space-devouring tables verily scream Sunday fun...

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.  (Assuming TV on DVD doesn't count.)	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ 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.	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× 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 love sushi.	× I talk really, really fast.	× I have fresh breath in the morning.
✓ I have long hair.  (Nearing high-school-level-unfortunate-ponytail length.)	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	× 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 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.
× I have changed a diaper before.	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	× I'm not allergic to anything.
✓ I have a lot to learn.	✓ I am shy around the opposite sex.	× 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.	✓ I enjoy some country music.  (Exceedingly little, but yeah.)
× I would die for my best friends.	✓ I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.  (Does rubbing my nipples during thesis defense count?)
× 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.	× 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 tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	× I can work on a car.
× I love my job(s).  (Retroactively, I loathed my job.)	× I am comfortable with who I am right now.	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.  (Though generally, I'm pretty anti-shoe.)	× 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 am proficient on a musical instrument.
✓ I hate office jobs.	× 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.  (Or at least for the wrong people.)	× I adore bright colours.	× I usually like covers better than originals.
✓ I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.	× I can pick up things with my toes.	× I can't whistle.
✓ 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.	✓ 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.
× 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.
× 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.  (But less so than before.)	× I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business.	× I smoke.	✓ I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.  (Fucking RSS reader.)
× Nobody has ever said I'm normal.	✓ 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.  (unpleased?)	✓ 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.
× I can't stand being alone.  (I can stand it. Don't like it.)	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× 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.	× 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.	✓ I can speak more than one language.	✓ I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV.	× 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.	× 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.  (Milk is for chumps.)	× I obsessively wash my hands.
× 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.	✓ 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.  (Though I do get annoyed easily.)	× 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.	× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.	× 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.	× 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.

Response #1

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(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  (Ugh. Vomit.)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.	✓ I've tried marijuana.  (Yes, I'm a person who lives on Earth.)
✓ I've watched porn movies.	✓ I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.  (I think I came pretty close one time.)	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× 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 love sushi.  (Who in God's holy name doesn't?!)	× I talk really, really fast.	× I have fresh breath in the morning.
✓ I have long hair.  (Longer than it was yesterday.)	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	✓ 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.  (Sweet, sweet evasion.)
✓ I like the way that I look.  (Honestly? Yeah.)	✓ I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.	✓ I am usually pessimistic.  (Well, in fairness, the world is a festering shithole.)
✓ I have a lot of mood swings.	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized.	× I slept with a roommate.  (Not technically slept with. There was some funny business, but it was before we lived together.)
× 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.  (Doy.)	✓ I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.	✓ I've rejected someone before.
✓ I currently like/love someone.  (Reason number 6990834555 why life sucks.)	× I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.	× I want to have children in the future.
× I have changed a diaper before.	✓ I've called the cops on a friend before.	× I'm not allergic to anything.
✓ I have a lot to learn.	× I am shy around the opposite sex.  (They're shy around ME. I've got no reason at all to play that bullshit headgame with myself anymore.)	× 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.  (If I hadn't tried alcohol tonight, I probably wouldn't be doing this right now.)	✓ 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.	✓ I enjoy some country music.  (Surely. Gimme Hank Williams or George Jones or Jimmie Rodgers or The Carter Family any ol' day.)
× I would die for my best friends.	✓ 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.	× Republican.
✓ I don't even know what I am.  (Politically? This is the third question in the Democrat/Republican series, right? I guess that's a toughie.)	× I am punk rockish.  (I like punk rock a very great deal; does that make me a punk? I love the music and couldn't give a shit about the cultural trappings, so I guess that's a no.)	× I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
× I study for tests most of the time.	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	× I can work on a car.  (Change a tire, I'm your man. That's it.)
× I love my job(s).	× 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 am proficient on a musical instrument.  (Whoopdee-doo.)
✓ I hate office jobs.  (Didn't need to do that for more than three weeks.)	✓ I went to college out of state.	× I am adopted.
× I am a pyro.	✓ I have thrown up from crying too much.  (Look who you're asking!)	✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.  (My lot in life.)
✓ 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.  (Vehemently.)	× I can pick up things with my toes.	× I can't whistle.
× I have ridden/owned a horse.	× I still have every journal I've ever written in.	✓ I talk in my sleep.  (So I've been told. The word "bitch" apparently comes up a lot.)
× I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.  (Nah. Wrong decade, yes; wrong century is stretching it.)	✓ 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'm lucky right now in this regard.)	× I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.  (Fuck you and the granola you rode in on.)	× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.  (Killing solves fuck all.)	× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.  (I'm not an idiot.)
✓ I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.  (But all too seldom, given my wretched poverty.)	✓ I'm an artist.	× I am ambidextrous.
× 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.  (Braces, foo.)
× 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.  (Ridiculous.)
× I want to own my own business.	✓ I smoke.  (Yeah, that's just gonna have to go on for a while.)	× I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal.  (Totally believable.)	✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.  (I'm gooshy enough to be made out of jam.)	× 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.  (And boy is it not even remotely over!)	× I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
× I can't stand being alone.  (Lately, maybe... but on the whole, it's usually OK.)	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.	✓ I'm a judgmental asshole.  (I be not proud.)	× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
✓ I have travelled on more than one continent.	✓ 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.	✓ I can speak more than one language.  (Kinda! Sorta!)	✓ I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV.	× I like reading fact more than fiction.	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.  (Inveterate procrastinator.)
✓ I have no piercings.  (No intentions as yet.)	× I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	× 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.  (This is a fat can of electric worms.)	× I like most animals better than most people.
✓ I own a collection of retro games consoles.  (Well, two Sega Master Systems and a Dreamcast... I figure that counts.)	× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.  (Biking makes me happy.)	× I have hit someone with a dead fish.  (What the fuck kinda question is this?)
✓ 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 really just pretty much dig chicks. I've slipped before, but guys don't really do it for me.)	× I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.  (I don't eat, I collapse.)
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	✓ I dislike milk.  (Used to like it until it started ripping my intestines apart.)	× I obsessively wash my hands.
× 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.  (Nah, I'm cool with my hair.)	✓ I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.  (An ongoing project, which I call "life." Wooo.)
✓ 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.	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.  (From professional wrestling to Coheed and Cambria, the list runs for pages...)
× 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've got bottomless empathy in me.)	× 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.  (Still going strong!)
✓ 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.  (Don't still use it, but it's there.)	× 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.	✓ I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.	× I'm Irish and loving it.  (Well, I AM Irish; that part's true.)	× I have a thing for redheads.  (Huh-uh.)
× 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.  (The LAST THING ON EARTH that I want.)	× I wish I was more open-minded.	× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.  (I don't know what Death Note is.)	× 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.

I have no life.

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	× I love to play video games.  (I am the world's worst video game player.)	✓ 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.  (Maybe I curse most of the time)	× I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.  (Probably not.)	× 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.  (Only if I have to wait for the bus in it.)
✓ 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 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.	✓ 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 like the way that I look.	✓ I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.  (Nothing of any weight.)	✓ I am usually pessimistic.  (Oh, hell yeah.)
✓ I have a lot of mood swings.  (I have clinical mood swings.)	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized.  (If you say no to this and you're vaguely aware of how black markets victimize people, something is wrong with you.)	× I slept with a roommate.
× I have a hidden talent.  (I have all talents.)	× 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 despise talking on the telephone)	× 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 know what I don't want to do.)	× I want to have children in the future.  (Oh, goodness no.)
✓ I have changed a diaper before.	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	× I'm not allergic to anything.  (Bees are really bad. Hornets are all kinds of evil.)
✓ I have a lot to learn.	✓ I am shy around the opposite sex.  (Depends a bit on what you mean--I'm shy around women in their capacities as women.)	× 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.	× I enjoy some country music.
✓ I would die for my best friends.  (Bad question to ask people who have ever been suicidal.)	✓ I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.  (Hard to see how that would be paying off right now.)
× 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.	× Republican.
× I don't even know what I am.	× I am punk rockish.  (I know that's what everyone says about me, but no.)	✓ I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
✓ I study for tests most of the time.  (Right now, this is true regardless of the quantification.)	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	× I can work on a car.
✓ I love my job(s).	✓ 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.  (Love land turtles, too.)
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.  (I plan on it for August.)	× I am proficient on a musical instrument.  (I was until I lost a finger.)
✓ I hate office jobs.	✓ 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.	✓ I can pick up things with my toes.	× I can't whistle.
✓ 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.	× 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.  (Work with being a bit loose.)	✓ I am a caffeine junkie.
✓ I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.  (Is this possible for Catholics)	× 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.  (For sufficiently weak definitions of 'artist.')	× I am ambidextrous.  (I was until my kindergarten teacher made pick a hand.)
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.  (If by stuffed animals, you mean books, then yes.)	× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	✓ I have terrible teeth.
× 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.  (My friends on the internet are my friends 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 spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal.	× 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.  (Demons are serious problem, and I don't know why this isn't being adressed in our nat'l political discourse.)
× I can't stand being alone.	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× 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.	× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.  (Funny.)	✓ I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
× I am a Libertarian.  (If you actually mean anarchist, then okay.)	× I can speak more than one language.  (1+epsilon langauges)	✓ I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV.	× I like reading fact more than fiction.	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.  (I've done it twice for the *same paper*.)
✓ I have no piercings.	✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.  (In a train station. In a homeless shelter. In Frankfurt.)	× 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 don't know as many animals as I know people, but I have definitely never been angry at an animal.)
× 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.  (Do learning disabilities count?)	✓ 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 like milk, but I can't drink milk. Fate is clever like that.)	× I obsessively wash my hands.  (Used to.)
× 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.	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.  (Um, I do math all day every day.)
× 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.  (You may have heard of this thing called Wikipedia? Every single pope has a blurb...)	✓ 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.	× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.	× 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 do a lot of things without any expectation of finishing them, though.)
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.	× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.  (God, if only)	✓ 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.  ((only from iTunes))	× 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 should probably do that again.)	✓ 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.