memeage, 'cause I slept for 18 hours and don't have anything better to say.

[melannen]

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"But if you scramble down into the washes and" (my sed/strat textbook, awright?)

2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
Dirty towel hanging on the towel rack.

3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
X-files Thursday afternoon, the Nephilim episode which I hadn't seen before.

4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
12:05

5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
11:57 (1:03 on the clock)

6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
Birdsong, the door banging in the wind

7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?
Yesterday, walking home from class in the rain, eating a slim jim I bought at the library shop for lunch.

8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
The lj of my polyficathon assignment. Who is, of course, a writer I'm utterly in *awe* of. *coldsweat*

9: What are you wearing?
Pink with 50's-style black cats flannel pajama bottoms, extremely ragged "i hate mondays" nightshirt.

10: Did you dream last night?
Methos/Duncan mpreg. No, seriously. Set during the Gathering. And for reasons which don't need exploring at this juncture, there were also some terribly tragical used books.

11: When did you last laugh?
Reading a self-insert x-men fic rec'cd on crack_van yesterday.

12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Three Harry Potter posters, "Size Matters Not" AotC poster up backwards, old national geographic map of the universe, 1970's chart of rigging patterns and merchant sail vessels printed by Texaco, map of The Hobbit, semester calendar, whiteboard, poster of Dali's swans/elephants painting, Bjork poster, three strings of paper cranes folded from candy wrappers.

13: Seen anything weird lately?
Weird?

14: What do you think of this quiz?
Interesting, obviously, since I'm doing it.

15: What is the last film you saw?
Casablanca

16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
A small farm w/woodlot and orchard and spring

17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
That depends on the 'I'!

18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Teach everyone that there is no competition.

19: Do you like to dance?
Yes, as long as no-one's watching.

20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
Not so much a power-crazy nutcase as a child-rajah who doesn't stop to think through the consequences of his actions.

21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Zorah Belle. My great-grandmother's name.

21: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Benjamin. Supposedly the name me or my sister would've had if we were boys. And I like it.

22: Would you ever consider living abroad?
Oh, yes, lots. But I'd come back to Maryland eventually.

Also, I just got around to joining oldmill. q:

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bored, and distracting self from cleaning

[theemptylife.livejournal.com]

1) "to the essence of their own beliefs and faith. I've been telling" (From the free book I got from the Society for Krishna Consciousness)

2)An old sheet of lyrics I wrote while sleep deprived and watching 700 Club.

3)Three stooges.

4)10:50

5) 10:43

6)My fan.

7)Outside my apartment? Took out the trash. Outside the building? Went to dinner at a quaint mexican place.

8)Probably www.therogue.net/shiver/timber

9) A pair of pajama pants with various dalmation puppies on them.

10) Probably.

11) When Curly said "We have no bonanzas.." and Moe said "We got plenty of bricks!" and then hit him with one.

12) A Jealous Sound poster, a two chicks making out poster, and three construction paper "candles".

13) At Luther there was a kid with only three fingers on each count, does that qualify?

14) It's one of a kind.

15) All the way through? Office Space.

16) Better music equipment and accessories.

17) Yeah, are we talking about the person who we "got" the quiz from? Or the original creator of the quiz? If the latter, who is the creator? And how can I join with him/her once my mission is complete? Either way, neither person knows that yesterday I dropped my glasses in the toilet.

18) It'd be a toss up between teaching the world that there is nothing "dirty" about sex and the human body, or teaching the world how to clap in time to a given tempo.

19) Only when naked.

20) A self-involved moron who's willingness to do whatever Daddy's friends tell him to is setting the stage for some whacked out shite.

21) How about Jolie?

22)I will never reveal that, because the idea would be stolen.

23) Does being a nomad count as living "Abroad"?

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

Why not.. I did Katy's:

Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"thermal compression of mobile components, and transitions among potential" - "Nanosystems" by K. Eric Drexler, for a really terrible honors seminar I took a long time ago. We didn't even ever use this book or the $100 MEMS textbook. (My bookshelf is right next to my computer, and the old textbooks are at chair level, if you were wondering why this was close at hand. Not sure why I never sold this one back.)

Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
One of my three (3) copies of The Silmarillion, on the bookshelf. Not coincidentally, right next to the Nanosystems book, which I picked the same way. (This was the trade paperback edition, with (I think) the Elves awaking at Cuivienen on the cover - page 18 line 4 of this is: "[for to none but himself has Ilúvatar revealed] all that he has in store, and in every age there come forth things [that are new and have no foretelling]" There is a pink highlighter mark in the margin next to this line, the following one and the preceding two.)

What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Does the giant robot RPG I've been playing count? If not, neither should DVDs of stuff, even TV shows.. the last actual television I watched as it was broadcast might have been an episode of TNG or South Park last August while I was still in the Commons.

WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
8:15

Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
8:14. Booya! Of course, I looked at the clock when it was about 8, so I was pretty well synchronized.

With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
reclusivewaffle typing; hints of music from elsewhere in the apartment building

When did you last step outside? what were you doing?
Does the balcony count, to look at my window box? If not, I don't think I've left the apartment since Thursday morning to go to College Park. I worked at home Friday.

Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
If "this website" is LJ in general rather than yours in particular, my face in the mirror as I brushed my teeth.

What are you wearing?
White t-shirt, blue plaid short sleeve shirt (unbuttoned), jeans with ragged cuffs, white crew socks, underwear, piece of string around my ankle that's been there since 1997.

Did you dream last night?
Nothing that was interesting enough to try to remember.

When did you last laugh?
As attested by AIM, when speakerender IMed me saying "hmph, sally's mom says she's gonna chaperon next time I visit due to the stripping *pout*." He won't actually tell me what happened, though.. This was likely more a snort of amusement than a full-fledged laugh; can't remember the last one of those.

What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Big blue celtic knot / dragon hanging thing, Gandalf from FotR movie, big purple Tori Amos poster, Chessie cat, the little embroidered mouse I have as one of my user icons, an Indian wood leopard thing, a "Spring Inn" cross-stitch my mother did a long time ago.

Seen anything weird lately?
My head? No, seriously.

What do you think of this quiz?
As ways go to waste time, it's not too terrible.

What is the last film you saw?
DVD? 12 Monkeys, I think. Theater? RotK.

If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
I'd take you (and stellar_dust, and Jesse, and anybody else that wanted to go) to Europe to randomly wander for as long as we wanted to stay. Material object? I've been wanting a DVD burner, I guess.

(continued...)

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

Tell me something about you that I don't know:
Here's a deep dark secret nobody knows: There are people that know I got a cheap blender the other day because I didn't want to wear out my food processor using it to crush ice. What you don't know is that I destroyed a wooden spoon through careless poking. Lesson: Wait until the blade comes to a complete stop before poking, and use a rubber spatula rather than a wooden spoon.

If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Make it so that anyone planning an action could comprehend exactly how it would affect other people. People don't really have any sense of scale - I mean, nobody can really comprehend at a visceral level something that affects more than a few people at once. People would still be incredibly awful, but at least they'd know it, and we'd know they knew it.

Do you like to dance?
I have been known to exhibit various Terpsichorean abnormalities from time to time. I usually think better of it afterwards.

George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
I think he thinks he's doing the right thing, which is amusing considering how suspect the motives of his handlers are. See answer to #18.

Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Amaranthine!... er, maybe not. How about Anna?

Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Franklin, maybe; it's been in the family a while. Not Aaron.

Would you ever consider living abroad?
Absolutely. Would I come back to Maryland? .. Hard to say.