bending_sickle | Are you feeling better now?*

Life: I spoke with the family friends (mom's school friend and husband) who were basically my surrogate family in Barcelona on Monday, which was pretty sweet. (It was to express my condolences over the death of her niece, which wasn't.)

Meeting with Supervisor went well, except he read the report fully this time and as such found more things to change which had been slipping past his radar for the last month or two. Yay, more things to change. Argh.

Texted mom hoping she was okay with the move to the new house. Reply successful and not soul-crushing. I approve.

Nano: Working on the final touches, hang in there.

Meme via

sweetdragon

***********FOODOLOGY***********

1. What is your salad dressing of choice?
Home-made honey mustard, although oil and vinegar is my staple.

2. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
I haven't gone out eating often enough to be able to answer this.

3. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
Mandarins. (Or mangoes. Mmm, mangoes.) I might die of starvation and malnutrition, but I'll die happy.

4. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
Ham and mushroom.

5.What do you like to put on your toast?
Salted butter and raspberry jam or honey.

***********TECHNOLOGY***********

1. How many televisions are in your house?
At my address, I don't know: I'm sure my roommates have some in their rooms. As it is, there's one television with public access, but it's in the other physical house and I've never ever used it. So, really, there's no television in my house.

2. What color cell phone do you have?
White and grey. (And a blue one I need to get unlocked.)

3. How many computers are in your house?
I'd say seven, but if we consider "house" as "my personal area of residence", then one.

4. Have any idea how many Megahertz your computer has?
Quick! Get the exorcist! They're speaking in tongues! (Translation: Megawhats?)

***********BIOLOGY***********

1. Are you right-handed or left-hand?
Right, but that's not to mean the left is useless.

2. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
Milk teeth that wouldn't quit, a few plantar veruccas (sounds so much nicer than in American English) and all my wisdom teeth. I also got my retina laser-blasted, if that counts.

3. What is the last heavy item you lifted?
My suitcase up onto my wardrobe. There was stuff inside. Yeah, heavy.

4. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
Not knocked but I've fainted twice, and near-fainted a few more times. I don't even know, man. Most of those times were due to epic cramps, but the last time I just plumb keeled over. Everyone around freaked right out and I came to and started giggling because I was like, "Oooh, what a nice nap! I was having a splendid dream! Oh? It's not the radio I'm listening to but people being worried about me? I fainted? Oh, how hilarious!" ...yeah.

***********BULLCRAPOLOGY***********

1. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
No, thanks very much. I'd plan for it and move deadline around to accommodate it and that's just bad, bad, bad. There's a witch in a Pratchett book who sends a "Sorry I couldn't be there, am currently dead" note. That'd be me.

2. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
I don't give a rat's about my name and anyway, that's what nicknames are for! Although it's annoying that no one (by which I mean anglophones) can ever pronounce my last name on the first go or realize that it's two last names, not one.

3. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for £1000?
Let me quote

sweetdragon: "Are you kidding? I would DIE."

***********DUMBOLOGY***********

1. How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
One. Well, two, but the other's in the "will throw away when am not lazy ass" pile.

2. Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
Never. Yeah.

3. Last person you talked to?
Erica, my flatmate. Someone melted the corner off the big kitchen microwave, so we wtf'ed about it.

4. Last person you hugged?
...Willemijn, when we said goodbye after our coffee. I can't remember the last person I e-hugged, but those are nice too. I needs more snuggles!

***********FAVORITOLOGY***********

1. Season?
Autumn.

2. Holiday?
I don't have one because I either don't celebrate them or they involve extended stays with family which just puts the shit-cherry on the otherwise good cake.

3. Day of the week?
Saturday, 'cause you still have Sunday before it's Monday.

4. Month?
Wtf? Screw y'all and your favorites.

5. Color?
Blue.

6. TV Show?
Supernatural. I love the boys ♥

***********CURRENTOLOGY***********

1. Missing someone?
No.

2. Mood?
"It's the apocalypse but I don't care". Like, defeatist pessimism.

3. What are you listening to?
Some Radiohead playlist on YouTube. *checks* "Push Pulk / Spinning Plates" Nothing's happening in the song ):

4. Watching?
The goddamn computer screne, what do you think?

***********RANDOMOLOGY***********

1. First place you went this morning?
Kitchen (after my desk to start up the 'puter.)

2. What's the last movie you saw?
Chance, indie film by Amber Benson

3. Do you smile often?
Yes. Gods bless the internet for that.

***********OTHEROLOGY***********

1. Do you always answer your phone?
Yes, because it almost never rings.

2.It's 4 in the morning and you get a text message, who is it?
Wrong number of omgsomethinghorriblehashappenedinthefamily.

3. If you could change your eye color what would it be?
I like my eye colour! So do other people!

4. What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic?
What is this thing you call Sonic? The Hedgehog? Why are we drinking insectivores?

5. Do you own a digital camera?
Yes.

6. Have you ever had a pet fish?
Four, two at a time. It did not end well.

7. Favorite Christmas song(s):
Any Christmas song by Jonathan Coulton, and maybe "So This Is Christmas" as sung by Melissa Ethridge.

8. What's on your wish list for your birthday?
Books or

ursulav stuff.

9. Can you do push ups?
Yes. I see you do not specify how many.

10. Can you do a chin up?
Yes...I've just never tried. (So, no.)

11. Does the future make you more nervous or excited?
I believe we call it "freak right the fuck out".

12. Do you have any saved texts?
A few transcribed and a few I just haven't bothered deleting yet.

13. Ever been in a car wreck?
No. The closest, I guess, is that I was in the other car (we were caravanning in two cars) the only time my family had a car accident. It was a bad accident.

14. Do you have an accent?
Everyone has an accent, you ignorant meme. Do I have a non-anglophone accent whilst speaking English? No.

15. What is the last song to make you cry?
"Rosas" by La Oreja de Van Gogh. It always makes me cry. It's about waiting for someone and undying hope and stupid yearning and people gone and gah...

16. Plans tonight?
Links of the Day and Nano Journal editing. I know how to have fun. Plus, it's 10:30 at the moment.

17. Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom?
Yes. A lot of times. It wasn't just rock bottom, but like deep sea bottom, being utterly crushed into immobility. Fun times. I think I'd rather just have the official certificate rather thinking I'm blowing things out of proportion.

18. Name 3 things you bought yesterday?
Lunch (vending machine crackers and coffee) and dinner (microwave meal). Suckitude.

19. Have you ever been given roses?
Yes, by Josie on my birthday and by Landen on Valentines (we were friends, I was in one of my "oh gods kill me now life sucks" stage).

20. Current worry?
Omg colloquim presentation. Omg job. Omg family for Christmas. Omg my skin's fucking permanent rash. Omg my deformed spine. Oh, wait, you meant "worry" and not "source of unending panic".

21. Current hate right now?
Unending thesis editing. Supervisor picks the last draft to do a thorough read-through, which means a lot of edits I could have fixed ages ago. Also, mom, for being that version of my mother that reduces me to tears and makes my life utter crap with the power of one phone call. I don't like that version of her.

22. Met someone who changed your life?
Everyone does. Like, if I hadn't met Mariska I wouldn't have done a literature internship and wouldn't have met my current Supervisor and wouldn't have gone to Kenya and wouldn't have had a boyfriend and...yeah, see? Or if I hadn't met

seschat I wouldn't have written Nano and become a certifiable novel-writer.

23. How will you bring in the New Year?
...in Rome with my family? I don't know, it's our first New Year's there since 1990.

24. What song represents you?
I'm too ~*special*~ to be represented by a single song! But I guess, as a Globo Sapiens, Enrique Bunbury's "El extrangero" does so lyrically ("I'm a foreigner everywhere, and comfortable everywhere"), although I like Joan Manuel Serrat's "Cantares" better, especially since it focuses more on the "there's no path, you make your own by walking it". Which reminds me, I have a list of Globo Sapiens fanmix songs half-done, both the English version and the multi-lingual one. *sigh*

25. Name three people who might complete this.
Out for a... Damn. Out for a walk...bitch. Get the reference and win my lurv.

26. Would you go back in time if you were given the chance?
Dinosaurs! That's all I need to say.

27. Have you ever dated someone longer than a year?
No. Only ever dated one person, if you can call it dating, because it was some serious special circumstances.

28. Does anyone love you?
Again, I quote

sweetdragon: "Well, I should hope so."

29. Ever had someone sing to you?
Yes, Willemijn, 'cause she's a brilliant singer.

30. When did you last cry?
Yesterday. Thanks, meme.

31. Do you like to cuddle?

sweetdragon says it best, again: "Lord, yes. I cuddle everything cuddleable."

32. Have you held hands with anyone today?
Dude, I've barely spoken to anyone today. Seriously: Supervisor (meeting), Moon (reception) and roommate (omgwtf microwave).

33. Are most of the friends in your life new or old?
What are these things and where can I get them? Most of them are old and absent because I can't get the new to work out or new and absent or new and internety. *sigh*

34. Do you like pulpy orange juice?
Extra pulp.

35. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
I don't know where I'm going to be in a few months time! Fuck off, meme.

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