I haven’t really said much here lately, for various reasons. I was seriously considering taking this one FB Note/Taggy thing and doing it over here, but…I wanted to know more about the source.
There wasn’t a source. Well, there was, but it was more of a ‘favourite books’ thing instead of a ‘most of you guys haven’t read more than six of these’ thing. With a bunch of stuff replaced with…other stuff. Before you say [citation needed] or something, this person did all the work, although wading through all the initial hits on google was kinda tedious, before I figured out which words I needed to search for.
Also, I don’t think I ever got tagged in one of those 100 books things. I don’t think I’ve been tagged in much of anything that I didn’t just…not do, or not notice, or simply comment on because I’m a contrary bitch who isn’t even sure how Notes work on FB has her own website goddamnit I’m just that special.
I found myelf tagged this morning by someone I don’t technically know — not that this makes a huge difference, since a majority of my FB friends are people from chat — but I do get into a lot of 3-5am comment conversations with her.
She’s got a store over on Etsy called Chains N Thingz. She makes stuff out of those little metal rings and whantot. Now, if you know me at all, you’ll be expecting me to find this mockable in some way, but the chainmail gamer dice bags are like a get-out-of-mockery-free card, and I sometimes find myself wondering if you can use those little metal rings like pixels and make little, like, 8-bit graphics.
That probably makes it pretty clear that I have no idea how chainmail works. It’s true — I don’t. My current craftiness level is ‘Kindergarten — with serious adult supervision due to glue and pokey wires’.
Tangent. Where am I supposed to be. Oh yes. The thing I got tagged with. Some ‘getting to know’ thing, which, hey, let’s jump right into that:
You have been tagged (as I have). You have the honor of copying these goofy questions, writing your own response, and tagging 25 other victims. You have to tag me so really you just need 24 more people. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you, my friend. To do this, go to ‘notes’ under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your title as ‘getting to know each other’ insert your answers and then tag 25 people including me (tagging is done in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.
Those would be the rules I’m breaking. Boring. Where are the que–oh, hai there questions!
1. What time did you get up this morning?
Seven. Ish. AM. Because I didn’t get to sleep until around Midnight, and I’d been meaning to go to sleep at 2pm yesterday.
2. How do you like your steak?
Warm in the middle, but still that glorious red-purple. I want it to bleed when I stab it.
3. What was the last film you saw at the movies?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.
4. What is your favorite TV show?
Really? Ugh. Oh, fuck you rules: House MD, CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Firefly, Buffy, Doctor Who, um…whatever that thing’s called — Craig Ferguson’s Really Crappy Midnightish TimeSlot, Penn&Teller’s Bullshit. That’s my DVR and part of my DVD collection…and I’ll probably think of more later, but who cares.
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
I don’t know. I don’t really think about things like that. I mean, there’s no point, is there? I’m probably in the minority here, but I’m in no hurry to bail on America, and I don’t really aspire to live somewhere warmer or tropical, because those places come with far less entertaining risks of property damage.
6. What did you have for breakfast?
Coke.
7. What is your favorite cuisine?
Pretty much whatever Gremlin cooks. He’s really rather good at that.
8. What food do you dislike?
Right now? Anything I can’t eat. And also spinach. And mushrooms. And a few other things, but mostly things that I can’t currently eat.
9. Favorite Place to eat?
I…don’t know. Let’s call it ‘right here, on my comfyseat, in front of my TV and computer.
10. Favorite dressing?
Ranch.
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
A thirty year old fleshy thing with a sorta calcium-based frame. I think it’s made mostly of water.
12. What are your favorite clothes?
The comfy ones.
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
The K-T Boundary.
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
Flat. No, really, by that point, the contents are usually no longer fizzy, and I don’t really care how full it is or isn’t.
15. Where would you want to retire?
It’s a tossup between something nice and urn-ish or in pieces donated to various scientific pursuits.
16. Favorite time of the day?
The dark bits where the rest of the world is asleep.
17. Where were you born?
A hospital.
18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
I don’t watch sports.
19. Who do you think will not tag you back?
People can’t tag me back if I don’t tag them first.
20. Person you expect to tag you back? Why?
Again: can’t tag me back if I don’t tag first.
21. Who are you curious about their responses to this?
I don’t really expect a response.
22. Bird Watcher?
Not in the avid ‘listmaking and identifying’ sense, but I do like to watch birds walking. I can’t help but see tiny, short-tailed theropods when I watch them walking and running about, and wondering why they bob their little heads like that.
23. Do you consider yourself attractive?
Not really, but I kinda feel that’s an assessment that’s up to people who aren’t myself.
24. Pets?
Yes, please.
25. Any new and exciting news that you’d like to share?
I’m not pregnant.
Not that I was worried or anything, but it seems like the opposite of the sort of response that question is begging for.
26. What did you want to be when you were little?
A palaeontologist. Or a virologist. Or some sort of artist. Yeah, I’m a bit of a failure.
27. What is your best childhood memory?
Every morning, before I left for school, my dad would always say ‘Do your best.’
28. Are you a dog or cat person?
What do you think? Cat, obviously.
29. Are you married?
No.
30. Always wear your seat belt?
Yes.
33. Favorite pizza topping?
I’m rather fond of just plain cheese, but, if I must have a topping, I’d probably go with ground beef and black olives…and then, if it’s delivery and I had the necessary supplies, I’d carmelise some onions and dump them on top.
34. Favorite flower?
I don’t have a favourite flower.
35. Favorite Ice cream?
Ben&Jerry’s Brownie Batter.
36. Favorite Fast food?
I…don’t know. I’m fine with McDonalds, I don’t get BurgerKing very often, I like the regular Arby’s Roast Beef [I really, really like it right now because it’s so easy to eat], and Subway [which is harder to eat right now, and I miss it]. If I’m feeling Not-Cheap, there’s Sonic and Quiznos.
37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?
I didn’t, although I was expecting to fail the practical rather spectacularly, because I was expecting some sort of impossible parallel parking thing. Also, my record’s clean [which isn’t all that impressive, since I no longer drive].
38. From whom did you get your last email?
Some lady dying of cancer who used to be married to a Nigerian prince who wants me to help her move 10 nonillion dollars to my account.
39. Which store would you like to max out your credit card?
Amazon.com
40. Do anything spontaneous lately?
Yesterday, I spontaneously didn’t sleep and then went to Sam’s Club. And a craft store.
42. Broccoli?
I wish. Because I really like it when it’s part of that whole ‘Beef with’ thing from chinese restaurants. Or with a whole bunch of Velveeta melted over it. Or raw, dipped in ranch. I can’t do any of those right now, though.
43. What was your favorite vacation?
I don’t think I’ve evern been on a vacation.
44. Last person you went to dinner with?
Gremlin.
45. What are you listening to right now?
Doctor Horrible – Everything You Ever. Wait, it just changed to Doctor Who XI — last season’s theme.
46. What is your favorite color?
Black. Or certain greens. Or that one shade of teal. Or a nice, dark, sorta rich-ish red.
47. How many tattoos do you have?
None.
48. Coffee drinker?
Occasionally.
49. How many children do you have?
None. I do have a cat that’s been taught to recognise me as ‘mom’. That wasn’t my idea.
Oh, we’re done? I guess so.