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[stonebender]

From serenejournal

I kept some of serenejournal's answers as my own because they were pretty darn good.



1. Name - I'm feeling like Stonebender today. Don't mess with meI
2. DOB: February 21
3. Astrological Sign: Cusp of Aquarius and Pisces. They usually say Pisces.
4. Profession: Slacker/Writer/Advocate/Slut
5. Height: 5'2"
6. Weight: I have no real idea, but I usually say 170
7. Hair Color: gray
8. Eye Color: blue
9. Siblings? 3
10. Color that you like to wear: Black; Red
11. Regardless of size or circumstance, an animal Peregrine Falcon (I'm wannabe royalty :-)
12. A flower you would like to grow in your garden: I like California poppies, but I have no strong feeling for a specific flower. I like sheep fuchsias too.
13. Your lucky Number: I insist that its 6, but it's never given me luck.
14. A scent that makes you pause: Anything burning.
15. A taste that makes you melt: My moms lasagna, my grandmother's cinnamon rolls, crawfish ettoufee.
16. A hobby that occupies your time: online games and
17. A sport you enjoy watching: Eh, but don't really care for any sports. I can watch most for a game. Except golf, which I actively hate.
18. A sport you enjoy playing: I'm not really built for sports. I played a modified baseball when I was a kid. I will (pretty much) play anything.
19. A city you like to visit: There are lots of them: Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brazil, Aalborg, London, Dublin, McMurdo station (yeah I know it's not a City, but I like to go to Antarctica), Belgium, Athens etc. etc.
20. A country you like/would like to explore: Anywhere I haven't been yet.(I'm with serenejournal
21. Your fave meal: a dinner I had in New Orleans.
22. A drink you often order: Latte no foam.
23. Fave dessert: Chocolate something or custardy things.
24. A game you like to play: I'll play anything. Card games, backgammon, anything but charades.
25. A book you strongly recommend: This is hard because I recommend books to the person. A book I would never recommend to one person would be the first book I would recommend to another person. I do recommend Heinlein often, Pat Murphy, Neil Stephenson and Kim Stanley Robinson.
26. An author who has affected you: Robert Heinlein (surprise, surprise), Samuel Beckett, Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Sturgeon, Frederic Brown
27. The magazine you read most frequently: I kind of got away from reading magazines.
28. Music you prefer to listen to when you're alone: Angry young men and Folk/rock singer-songwriters like: Indigo Girls, Rickie Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell, Melissa Etheridge, John Gorka, Joan Baez, Sarah Harmer.
29. The artist/band you currently listen to most: Boxcar Racer and Linkin Park
30. A film you could watch over and over: There are gobs of these. Local Hero, The Right Stuff, The Miracle Worker etc.
31. A director you admire: Bill Forsyth, Martin Scorsese
32. An actress whose performances you admire: Allison Janney
33. An actor whose performances you admire: Philip S. Hoffman
34. A TV show you watch regularly: The West Wing, Alias
35. An artist whose work you highly respect: Annie Leibovitz
36. A piece of clothing you love to wear: I have a gray long sleeved shirt that I think I look good wearing.
37. A monument you would like to have a view of from your bedroom: The Eiffel Tower
38. Your fave time of day: Evening
39. Your fave place to sit at home: In my backyard.
40. What you most like to do on Sunday: Go walking/shopping/whatevering with my sweetie(s).
41. Your motto: "I play it cool. I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is dig and to be dug in return." (Langston Hughes)
42. Your children: None.
43. Your pets: Gilley my Dobie girl.
44. You live in: A house.
45. Your transportation: A '97 Grand Caravan
46. Your cologne/perfume: No thank you.
47. Something important on your desk: A toy man in a wheelchair that serenejournal gave me
48. On your walls hang: Originals or prints of science-fiction/fantasy art.
49. When you sleep, you wear: Nothing.
50. Things you like to buy: Books, music, electronic gadgets, games.
51. If you could afford it at the moment, you would buy: a private jet?
52. You collect: Too much!.
53. Your strangest possession: An ammonite?
54. Your prized possession: A signed first edition Heinlein..
55. Material possessions are: Entirely too important to me.
56. If your house was burning and you had time to rescue three things: Assuming everyone is safe I would grab my hard drive, the Heinlein first edition and Carol's Mom's sewing machine
57. The first time you had sex consensually, you were this age: Not counting commercial sex, 24
58. A time you purposely hurt someone emotionally: I'm not sure. I don't think I have.
59. Do you believe in God? Yep.
60. What religion were you raised with? Roman Catholicism
61. Do you practice this religion? No.
62. Your most spiritual moment: My headwashing.
63. Death is: Inevitable. And it's the only game in town.
64. Have you ever been treated by a psychotherapist? Several.

Pro/Con
65. Right to have an abortion: Pro-with-no-caveats
66. Right to own guns: Pro-with-serious-reservations
67. The welfare system: Pro
68. Death Penalty: Con
69. Rights/services for illegal immigrants: Pro, but prefer that immigration be legalized
70. legalization of drugs: Pro
71. equal rights for homosexuals/bisexuals/the transgendered/polyamorous people/etc.: Pro.
72. What issue concerns you most? Peace, social justice, human rights, universal health care
73. Politically, you define yourself as: A bleeding heart liberal.
74. The worst crime against humanity: So hard to choose. Attempts at genocide
75. Three things you like about your mother:

a. She's good in emergency.

b. She's done her best in difficult circumstances.

c. She's rabidly loyal.

76. Three things you like about your father:

a. He always pushed me to do better.

b. His strength.

c. His singing.

77. Your most beautiful childhood memory of your parents: Going to a local pizza joint that had a player piano and having a sing-along.
78. Your most horrifying experience of your parents: The first time I noticed my parents were really drunk.
79. Your mother often said: "You can always come home" (grrrr)
80. Your father often said: "you know I'd give my left arm to make you better. (double grrr)
81.If you had to imagine your mother as an animal, she'd be: A lioness.
82 If you had to imagine your father as an animal, he'd be: A Peacock.
83. You and your siblings share a common: facile anger.
84. Something you wish for your mother: A cure for arthritis.
85. Something you wish for your father: That he had whatever he needed to not feel stuck.
86. Three traits you look for in a friend:

a. Smart.

b. Funny.

c. Compassionate.

(though I have friends who don't meet all three criteria)

87. The friend you have known for the longest amount of time: Carol. He
88. Is this person a close friend? If yes, why/why not? Oh yes! We're close. She's one of my SO's for 20 years.
89. The friend you miss the most: Richard Mulvey. He died when I was a child
90. A friend who makes you laugh often: Chuck Gee.
91. A friend to whom you can tell anything: Carol, serenejournal
92. A friend you can flirt with: I don't consciously flirt.
93. A friend you should not flirt with as much as you do: No idea.
94. A friend you've lost for reasons other than death: Mike Larsen.
95. A friend who is most like you/why: Phil Macak, we had very similar disabilities and level of ability. We were the same age, similar intelligence, sense of humor.
96. A friend who is most unlike you/why: Chuck Gee, he is very smart, literate, with a very dark ironic sense of humor.
97. Your three best qualities:

a) I'm stubborn.

b) I'm loving.

c) I'm clever.

98. Your three worst qualities:

a) I'm stubborn

b) I'm depressive

c) I can get angry and hold a grudge.

98. If you had to imagine yourself as an animal, you would be: Dolphin
99. Three words/phrases that describe how others view you: Easy-going, funny, self-deprecating"
100. Three things you are most often complimented on: My eyes, my independence, and I can't think of another one.
101. Which one of the three compliments listed is most meaningful to you? My independence
102. A compliment that made you blush: That I'm sexy.
103. Who gave you this compliment: serenejournal
104. An insult that made you burn: That my actions were done for self-aggrandizement.
105. The number of drinks that constitutes your limit: Four.
106. Your best physical feature: My eyes.

Yes or No
107. You keep a diary/journal - I guess I do now :-).
108. You like to cook - I would like to.
109. You exercise regularly - No.
110. You doodle while you're on the phone - No.
111. You have read a book in the past month - Yes.
112. You like crossword puzzles - Yes.
113. You have a secret you have never shared with anyone - I don't think so.
114. You wait til the last minute to fill your car with gas - I have never been responsible for a car's gas needs. I suspect I would keep it full.
115. You snore - I used to until I got my Bi-PAP.
116. You often have people over at your home - not often.
117. You talk in your sleep - not that I know of
118. You eat fast - Never.
119. You like hiking - After my fashion, yes.
120. You like being on the phone - Not particularly, unless it's with certain people.
121. You shave regularly - not really.
122. You set your watch a few minutes ahead - I don't wear a watch.
123. You're always late - I'm always early.
124. You smoke - Not tobacco and not much else for years.
125. You've had sex in an airplane - Nope.
126. When you think you have done something wrong, you are quick to apologize - Probably too quick.
127. You have fired a gun - Yes.
128. You often have the last word - Not really.

129. Three people you consider to be geniuses:

a. Stephen Hawking

b. Toni Morrison

c. My dad

130. Your three favorite childhood toys/games:

a. Monopoly

b. A remote control car

c. A caster from a wheeled TV tray. (Really, I used to pretend it was a robot and wheeled it all over the place)

131. Three sounds that disturb you:

a. Breaks squealing

b. Children crying

c. Carol saying "uh oh"

132. Three lessons you've learned the hard way:

a. I can survive being poor.

b. I don't have what it takes to be a leader.

c. Sometimes you just have to let people fail.

133. Three things for which you are grateful:

a. The amazing people who love me

b. That I live in the Bay Area

c. My intelligence

134. Your dream: A comfy home that is large enough to invite people I love to visit; enough money to be comfortable and travel; all my loves nearby, but not necessarily all in the same house.
135. Your hope: that folks I care about can find employment that they enjoy and will keep them in a lifestyle that they like.
136. If you had the talent or the opportunity, you would: Be a professional actor/director.
137. Something you wish you could learn in the snap of a finger: Learn several languages; French, Danish, Spanish, Yoruba, and Portuguese.
138. Something you wish you could change about your life: My periods of depression
139. Something you are trying to change about yourself: Producing more writing
140. Someones diary you would love to read: Chaney's maybe then I could figure out a way to get rid of Bush.
141. Three qualitites your ideal man/woman should posess:

a. Smart
b. Funny
c. Compassionate

142. Three qualities your ideal relationship should have:

a. Compatibility (including all people in the relationship being genuinely in favor of poly, if not poly themselves)

b. Honest communication

c. Flexibility

143. How would you like to spend the last minutes of your life? Having sex.
144. Someone who should not, under any circumstances, speak at your funeral: Sue Hodges
145. Someone you would like to speak at your funeral: Jonathan Carroll.
146. A dream you had more than once: That my parents were aliens.
147. The emotion you tend to hide the most is: Fears about my health.
148. The predominant emotion you have experienced lately: Happiness .
149. A moment you achieved/experienced absolute happiness: I have lots of those moments.
150. You have great amount of guilt regarding: How I handled my first attendant.
151. A piece of music that makes you sentimental: "Little Drummer Boy"
152. When you are happy, you need: To stay in the moment
153. When you are sad, you need: To let myself be sad
154. When you are angry, you need: To let myself be angry
155. When you are in love, you need: To enjoy it
156. When you are lonely, you need: To let myself be lonely
157. You would jump up and down and shout with joy right now if someone told you that: serenejournal was moving to the Bay Area.
158. The last time you were very angry: At Betty in New Orleans.
159. The last time you cried uncontrollably: When Klipper died.
160. A moment in your life when your emotions froze and you felt absolutely nothing: I'm not sure I have ever felt that way.
161. Someone who genuinely makes you or has made you happy: All of my partners. Several my friends
162. Something that makes you happy: Having really good sex. Figuring something out.
163. You get angry with yourself when: I've done something that hurt someone I love.
165. Your earliest memory - I remember seeing my cousin in a frilly dress standing in the front room.
166. When you were a child, you believed in: Everything I was told.
167. Your first paying job: A factory job in a sheltered workshop
168. You are haunted by the memory of: The last fight I had with my mother.
169. A memory that still makes you laugh: Getting Carol's skirt caught in my wheelchair during New Year's Eve a few years ago.
170. A person who was exceptionally kind to you: Debbie Notkin and my brother.
171. A person who made you miserable for a long time: Our contractor John.
172. One of your most peaceful moments: Sitting in a eucalyptus grove on the UC Berkeley campus.
173. One of your most jealous moments: Adjusting to Carol's first love relationship outside of me.
174. One of your angriest memories: When I realized a lover of Carol's might have knowingly endangered her.
175. One of your most desperate moments: Getting stuck in a parking lot late night one winter night in Illinois. I thought I was going to freeze to death. No kidding.
176. A smell that reminds you of childhood: Fried bread.

This or that
sunrise/sunset: Sunset.
sweet/sour: Sweet
sahara/himalaya: Himalaya.
dolphin/eagle: Dolphin.
old/new: somethings old, other things new
hot/cold: hot.
coke/pepsi: Coke
soft/hard: some things soft, other things hard
train/plane: plane
yesterday/tomorrow: tomorrow
red/blue: red
fast/slow: mostly slow
Beatles/Elvis: The Beatles
blind/deaf: deaf, although I would just as soon skip another disability.
open/closed: Open
bath/shower: bath
square/circle: Circle
fire/water: fire
lightning/thunder: Can't have one without the other.
black/white: black
ocean/forest: Ocean.
dogs/cats: dogs
day/night: night.
leaves/roots: Leaves
left/right: left
cremation/burial: Cremation
victim/criminal: criminal.
even/odd: odd
written/spoken: spoken
woman/man: woman.
carpet/hardwood floor: Hardwood floors
earthquake/hurricane: earthquake.
city/countryside: city
vanilla/chocolate: chocolate
abstract/figurative: some of each
limited/open ended: some of each
house/condominium: House
!/?: ?
Sun/rain: sun
briefs/boxers: neither
pen/pencil: neither
horns/strings: strings
summer/winter: summer
silver/gold: silver

177. Your greatest fear: falling/hospitals
178. Something that has been on your mind lately: Money; responding/beating Bush.
179. Something that has been on your mind for a long time: Living an ethical life and getting more independence.
180. Three people who have affected you the most:

a. my father
b. my loves, including exes
c. a list of authors too long to list here

181. Choose an existing book or movie title that defines you: Defines? "The Longest Yard"
182. When you want to get to know someone, you: have conversations with them
182. In social situations you tend to Say Hello
183. When attracted to someone, you like to be

a. the cat

b. the mouse

Mu.

184. The largest age difference you had in a relationship: 8.5 years
185. Something someone said or did that you found extremely attractive: How serenejournal handles difficult stuff and recently she dressed up!
186. Something someone said or did that you found frighteningly unattractive: Someone went out of their way to correct someone in public for no real reason.
187. A physical trait you find attractive: People who have a certain grace in movement. I'm also quite fond of a nice butt. However, I find that I am attracted to physical characteristics of the people am attracted to whatever those characteristics may be.
188. A personality trait you find attractive: Wit. Strength.
189. The farthest distance you traveled to be with the one you desired: from Oakland to Fremont. walking and using the BART
190. What you enjoy most about a relationship: Depends on the specific relationship.
191. The thing you enjoy least about relationships: Fighting.
192. You feel most attractive when: I'm clean and happy.
193. A book, song or movie title that describes your sexuality: _A Stranger in a Strange Land_
194. Sex is: Fun and happymaking and fun and often emotional for me.
195. If you had a plane ticket to anywhere in the world, you would visit: serenejournal
196. If you had a million dollars: I would try to the shore the financial security of those I love and then I would travel. Although I suspect it would take more than $1 million dollars may be the question should be up to the $20 million given inflation. :-)
200. What song fits your mood today/why? "Temporary Road" -- I'm in a bit of a funk today.

Name Four Things That You Wished You Had:

1) Independent wealth

2) A teleporter

3) The power to make positive change in the world

4) A wireless headset that would interface with a voice-activated remote control, my cellphone and my computer.

Name Four Scents You Love:

1) Baking bread.
2) Frying baking.
3) Vanilla
4) A lover's skin

Name Two People You Know Best:

myself and Carol

Name Four Things You'd Never Wear:

1) A glittery cowboy outfit

2) A leisure suit

3) A gold chain

4) Diamonds

Name Four Things You Are Thinking About:

1) Finances

2) Travel

3) My loves

4) The present political situation.

Name Four Things You Did Today: (hmm, I just got up!)

1) Ate breakfast

2) Caught up on some business

3) Read my Usenet groups

4) Did this survey

LAST THING YOU...
- did: besides this survey? Talked to serenejournal on the phone.
- read: email.
- watched on tv: An ER rerun.

EITHER / OR
- club or house party: House party.
- tea or coffee: coffee
- high achiever or easy-going: Easy going
- gloves or mittens: mittens.
- cassette or cd: CD
- snuff or cigarettes: neither
- matches or a lighter: matches

WHO DO YOU WANT TO...
- kill: no one, but there are people whose deaths I wouldn't mourn
- hear from: Everyone I love
- look like: Harrison Ford
- be like: myself

FAVORITE
- food: salmon patties
- drink: coffee
- color: read
- shoes: tennis shoes
- site: http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/
- song: Too many.
- vegetable: Corn.
- fruit: Watermelon or avocado

LAST TIME..
- last movie you saw: 28 Days Later
- last movie you saw on the big screen: 28 Days Later
- last thing you had to drink: coffee
- last thing you ate: a white chocolate and macadamia nut cookie
- last time you cried: last time I saw serenejournal ?
- last time you smiled: A few minutes ago.
- last time you laughed: Last night.
- last time you danced: My Prom.
- last person you hugged: Carol
- last thing you said: "I love you."
- last person you talked to online: Including email? serenejournal
- last thing you smelled: dust

DO YOU...?
- smoke: No.
- do drugs: Sure some. ibuprofen, Claritin, antacids
- sleep with a stuffie: with a stiffie? Last night :-).
- have a dream that keeps coming back: I have a falling dream they used to recur. I haven't had it in years.
- believe there is life on other planets: Yes I do
- read the newspaper: Not as often as I used to, at least the paper variety.
- have any gay or lesbian friends: Yes.
- believe in miracles: Yes.
- believe it's possible to remain faithful forever: Yes.
- consider yourself tolerant of others: Yes.
- consider police a friend or foe: A bit of both.
- like the taste of alcohol: Yes.
- have a favorite Stooge: No.
- believe in astrology: No.
- believe in magic: Yes.
- pray: Yes.
- go to church: Not in over a year.

Comments

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

8. Eye Color: blue

*amazingly* blue

20. A country you like/would like to explore: Anywhere I haven't been yet.(I'm with serenejournal

Cool, we can explore together!

36. A piece of clothing you love to wear: I have a gray long sleeved shirt that I think I look good wearing.

You wore that on our first date, I think. :-)

41. Your motto: "I play it cool. I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is dig and to be dug in return." (Langston Hughes)

I love it!

47. Something important on your desk: A toy man in a wheelchair that serenejournal gave me

Awww. :-)

57. The first time you had sex consensually, you were this age: Not counting commercial sex, 24

How about counting commercial sex? (You don't have to answer this.)

63. Death is: Inevitable. And it's the only game in town.

:-)

92. A friend you can flirt with: I don't consciously flirt.

*resists rolling her eyes, 'cause that would be disrespectful* ;-)

96. A friend who is most unlike you/why: Chuck Gee, he is very smart, literate, with a very dark ironic sense of humor.

That doesn't sound that unlike you to me.

100. Three things you are most often complimented on: My eyes, my independence, and I can't think of another one.

Your sexual prowess. HTH

102. A compliment that made you blush: That I'm sexy.
103. Who gave you this compliment: serenejournal

*smile*

120. You like being on the phone - Not particularly, unless it's with certain people.

"Me, too."

144. Someone who should not, under any circumstances, speak at your funeral: Sue Hodges

Who's that?

157. You would jump up and down and shout with joy right now if someone told you that: serenejournal was moving to the Bay Area.

Awwww. *smooch*

159. The last time you cried uncontrollably: When Klipper died.

:-(

185. Something someone said or did that you found extremely attractive: How serenejournal handles difficult stuff and recently she dressed up!

*powerblush* Glad you liked it. :-)

186. Something someone said or did that you found frighteningly unattractive: Someone went out of their way to correct someone in public for no real reason.

*snrch*

195. If you had a plane ticket to anywhere in the world, you would visit: serenejournal

Awww, but feel free to use it to go to Paris instead, love. :-)

FAVORITE
- food: salmon patties

Aw, man, I really gotta make some for you. :-)

- site: http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/

Now stop that. You're swelling my head. :-)

- last time you cried: last time I saw serenejournal ?

We almost always cry, don't we? :-)

- last time you danced: My Prom.

A-HEM.



*smooch*