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Totally Random Survey

Favorite word or phrase: Wicked awesome!

Do you get to use it enough? Actually, yeah. I'm very expressive ;-)

Do you really, really have to stop saying it, or others might want to hurt you? Unsure. Comments?

Favorite commercial and why: So help me God, I LOVE the Pepto-Bismol commercials. The chant! The dance! OH, THE DANCE! It has me rolling on the floor every time.

Best present ever: My dad bought me my (then) dream car a Celica coupe. Nice daddy!

Describe yourself with:

5 adjectives: loyal, sensitive, guilt-ridden, curious, excitable

5 nouns: music-lover, bookworm, gastronaut, Masshole, ex-overachiever

5 verbs: entertain, listen, strive, procrastinate, learn

5 words you think (hope, whatever) others might use to describe you: friendly, kind, thoughtful, intellectual, necessary

Ideal wall decoration: Something 3-D. Metallic and paint and wood. Maybe flowers v. abstract design.

Do you wish you could go back to school full-time? Constantly.

Really, full time? Or would you rather go part time? No, definitely full time.

For what? Therein lies the problem. Something to do with water, policy, equality, and health care. Possibly with an international angle.

Dream (fantasy) job: Food critic with no deadlines or defined medium. I could be a TV food person! An Internet food person! Someone who just walks around and tells others whats good! Rapture!

Dream (actual) job: Full-time artist, various mediums (wood, glass, stone, edibles, and sound).

Favorite aspect of your work: Industrial inspections seeing how things are made.

Least favorite aspect of your work: Paper cuts! And the ennui. And the feeling that I'm not really accomplishing anything worthwhile and therefore, should be making a lot more $ doing something equally nonworthwhile somewhere else.

Favorite soup: Chicken corn chowder

Colors you like best: Blue

Colors you look best in: Black, red

Colors you shouldnt wear. Ever: Light pastels, white pants. Any yellow-based color that clashes with my skin.

Favorite clothing: I would wear pajamas all the time, if I could get away with it.

Best-looking guy/girl, anytime, anywhere: Clark Gable during many, many parts of Gone with the Wind.

Most life-altering decision: Deciding not to go to Harvard.

How? $, first of all. The financial situation would be vastly different today if I had school loans. And the direction of my professional and personal interests. I don't think I'd be so interested in environmental issues if I'd lived and studied in the city or specifically, at that school. Oh, also, I would have hurt myself from living that close to home.

Favorite place to talk on the phone: In bed or in the car.

Pet peeve in others: Rudeness or unkindness, especially working in concert.

Pet peeve in yourself: Undeserved snappishness towards others. Deserved snappishness is A-OK.

Best place to unwind (think, day-to-day): My couchbed. Or, going on walkies.

Best place to unwind (think, vacation): Somewhere mountains water. By a waterfall after a long hike?

Favorite animal to own: Puppy. They should stay as puppies forever.

To fantasize about owning: Horse/Pegasus, depending on the level of fantasy. Either one will have to wait until I get over my crazy horse allergies.

To be: Otter. They always look happy and aren't usually kept as pets.

Reason you might need therapy: Inability to separate my self-esteem from the esteem of certain others.

Most comforting food: Chili cod, coconut tom yum gai soup, and pad se ew. Ummmmm, Thai food.

Most wicked (caloric or otherwise) food that you indulge in: Foie gras or crispy duck.

Favorite vegetable: Still can't get enough of eggplants.

Favorite form of transportation: Vacation moped-ing

Favorite fantasy form of transportation: Rocket jet-pack, or maybe Pegasus again.

Favorite country to visit: Italy

Country you most want to visit: New Zealand, and Ive wanted to go since way before the LOTR came out.

Rug or hardwood? Both, please. Hardwood in the living areas, rugs in the bedrooms.

If you were going to have to pick a personal platform, a la Miss America, what would it be? Sustainable development and resource conservation.

Your signature drink (to drink or to make): Orange juice and ginger ale. Yum.

Favorite West Wing character and why: CJ, because she is so wickedly awesome, looks great in formalwear, and gets some of the best lines - at least before she an became evil podperson.

Favorite driving song(s): Aerosmith and Run DMC's version of Walk This Way and Tubthumping by Chumbawumba.

Angry song(s): Most of the stuff by Evanescence.

Mopey song(s): Jack Johnsons Brushfire Fairytales.

Song(s) to sing with: Pretty much the entire Little Mermaid soundtrack.

That hits you emotionally: Barber's Adagio for Strings

What time period would you most like to live in (as an approximate version of your life now)? Now, but I also think I would like the life of an upper-middle-class scholar (thats sort of close to my life now) in the Elizabethan or Renaissance ages.
In a fantasy role? (e.g., lord of the manor, queen of the Nile, cowgirl in the Wild, Wild West, etc.) I think it would be fun to be a gentleman of the European lower-to mid aristocracy with plenty of family $ in the non-wartime mid-1800s. Pretty much anything goes. Or basically be an independently wealthy anything now, for the same reason.