25 Random Things

I don't really like tagging, because it comes with a sense of obligation. If I don't like asking for a ride to the hospital, you can imagine how much less I like asking anything non-urgent. So, if you read this and feel like doing it, leave me a comment telling me where to find your list. It's a wonderful freezing-rainy-afternoon-waiting-for-a-download sort of activity.

1. I love to cook for an audience. Especially if the whole shebang is impromptu and I have to improvise a menu from whatever is laying around the kitchen
2. I broke my thumb once because I had seen a TV character say "Go sit on your thumb!" and I wanted to know if it was possible.
3. I love teaching. My favorite feeling is the one when I explain something to somebody and they GET IT.
4. I am not a gearhead and couldn't care less about all the stupid letters and numbers attached to vehicles.
5. I bungee jumped out of a gondola once and told my parents about it by having the pictures shipped to their house.
6. I was Jr. Miss Hallettsville and got to be in the parades and everything.
7. I skipped the second grade completely. I went straight from first to third.
8. I have never ever ever in all my years experienced a runner's high or enjoyed running at all.
9. My one and only irrational fear is of suffocation.
10. I believe in reincarnation. I'm also Christian. I don't think these things conflict.
11. I'm bisexual, but just barely. On the Kinsey scale, I'm a 4.
12. Some people have found it easier to think of me as bisexual than as lesbian.
13. I've had at least 13 dogs in my life.
14. The only heroes I have to speak of are my grandparents, although I have some pretty freakin' impressive sisters and parents, too.
15. I don't like to watch any sport unless I know someone who is playing in the game, unless it's the Olympics.
16. I sip my brain and my personality from a coffee cup every morning.
17. I am an engineer, but I started out as a double major in Middle Eastern History and Poli Sci with a minor in Arabic.
18. I got an infamous haircut on the porch of an apartment over a fish market in New Orleans at Mardi Gras one year.
19. I love to edit and am something of a 'Grammar Nazi.'
20. I don't like to think of myself as smarter than anyone else, particularly.
21. I have only once had occasion to put my finger on the trigger of a gun outside of target practice. When I got to that place emotionally, I was ready to kill without hesitation or qualm. Luckily, it was not necessary for me to pull the trigger.
22. If I could send the entire world to "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" therapy, I would erase drinking alcohol from our collective consciousness and remove it from society entirely.
23. I am a perfectionist and sometimes it's almost crippling because I agonize over stupid little decisions.
24. I love travel and would spend my life moving from place to place if I could.
25. I never put principles over people. Honesty is not always the best policy; kindness, goodness, gentleness, and forgiveness are.

Holy Crossdressing Chinese Princess, Batman!

Find Out Which Disney Girl You Are! created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Mulan A free spirit, a beautiful soul, all things that most people would tag on a lovely girly girl - but you're more boy than anything! Sometimes you're considered a 'nerd' or 'dork', but that just comes with the package - you even embrace your inner nerd. Go you! Mulan 79% Pocahontas 75% Esmerelda 67% Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) 67% Snow White 67% Belle 63% Jane 63% Ariel 50% Jasmine 46% Megara 46% Cinderella 38% Tinkerbell 29% Violet 21% Alice 21%

meme sheep says baaaaaaa!

You Are 68% Open Minded

You are a very open minded person, but you're also well grounded. Tolerant and flexible, you appreciate most lifestyles and viewpoints. But you also know where you stand firm, and you can draw that line. You're open to considering every possibility - but in the end, you stand true to yourself.

How Open Minded Are You?

it's not so much that i'm addicted...

...when compared to the population of folk who play, it's that i'm so very addicted when compared to my demographic. :) i'm only 63% on the general score, but compared to other women my age, i'm at 99%. i gotta start recruiting some friends!

Your Score: Well on your way!

You are 63% Addicted!

You play a lot, and you're starting to get hooked. Keep it up and soon you too will be part of the ever-growing group that is totally addicted. Or, see the warning signs now and get out while you still can!

Link: The World of Warcraft Addiction Test written by survivedestiny on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

yeah, another meme. i'm busy...

Modern, Cool Nerd
82 % Nerd, 56% Geek, 26% Dork For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.

Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

Congratulations!

Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

	You scored higher than 88% on nerdiness
	You scored higher than 82% on geekosity
	You scored higher than 38% on dork points

meme that's going around...

How evil are you?

yeah, so i'm basically a fluffy bunny. anyone surprised? i didn't think so.

Phantom Meme!

You scored as Christine Daee. Christine Daee is the sweet, young and beautiful new soprano at the Opera Populaire. She thinks that the voice teaching her to sing in her head is an Angel of Music, sent by her dead father from heaven. Soon, she learns that this mysterious tutor is the Phantom of the Opera, who dwells beneath the Opera House and is madly in love with her. She is horrified by his mutated face and brutal murders, but she feels sorry for him. Soon, her childhood boyfriend Raoul turns up as the Opera Populaire's patron, and he doesn't like the mesmerizing power that the Phantom holds over her, the Phantom doesn't like how Raoul tries to turn her away from him, and thus the love triangle forms. Christine Daee 64% The Vicomte de Chagny 36% Erik 32% La Carlotta 21% Who Are You In The Phantom of the Opera? created with QuizFarm.com

i <3 the muppets!

You Are Scooter

Brainy and knowledgable, you are the perfect sidekick. You're always willing to lend a helping hand. In any big event or party, you're the one who keeps things going. "15 seconds to showtime!"

The Muppet Personality Test

and, as a side note, a hypothetical question: when you've had a job interview (or three), but no offer has been presented, and you get a phone call from the human resources department of the company in question requesting the preferred spelling of your name so that they can create your e-mail address, should you open the champagne bottle immediately? or should you wait for a formal offer letter to materialize?

i'm in the "wait for a formal offer" camp. readers? comments?

"Name that Tune" meme -- ANSWERS!

Random quiz swiped from Trilia.net and crossposted to myspace

Rules for me:
1. Go to iTunes/iPod, set to shuffle.
2. Write down the first line of each of the next twenty songs.
3. If they are embarrassing, you still have to write them down. Sorry.
4. Any song where the title is the first line of the song must be excluded.
5. Only one song per artist.

Rules for you, dear readers:
1. NO GOOGLING (with a silent ", bitch!"). This must come out of your own brain. It’s on the honor code.
2. Leave your guesses as to which songs are represented above. They’ll be crossed out as people get them right. Guess song title. Album and artist are bonus, but not necessary for a correct score.
3. There may or may not be prizes, depending on how generous I’m feeling.
4. I’m not tagging anyone, but if you decide to play this game in your own blog, please let me know so I can play!

1. Darling I can see the clouds around you, and in your heart I know a sorrow grows. becca got this one! "Til A Tear Becomes A Rose" by Keith Whitley (also recorded by John Prine).


2. Hope. Everybody needs hope. Somebody's Out There Watching - The Kinleys


3. A hundred days have made me older since the last time that I saw your pretty face. joker2 got this one! Here Without You - 3 Doors Down


4. I was nothing but a lonely boy looking for something new. This fell under the "embarrassing songs" rule: All Revved Up With No Place To Go - Meatloaf


5. Everybody sings a different kind of song. Made For Loving You - Doug Stone


6. Well I'm a travelin' man, don't tie me down Give Back My Heart (You Fickle Redneck Woman) - Lyle Lovett


7. When you wake in the morning its always there. An obscure Celtic number I didn't expect anyone to guess: You Saw His Eyes - Mary McLaughlin


8. I search your profile for a translation. My friend K guessed that this one was the Ani tune, saying it was the only lyric "angsty" enough: Overlap - Ani DiFranco


9. We must hide our love, its beauty to enfold in our eyes.Rose got this one: My Secret Wish - Club69


10. Ice age, heat wave, can't complain. The World At Large - Modest Mouse


11. Every night, I'm lyin' in bed, holdin' you close in my dream. artist by rose "The Eagles". title by anonymous "Best of My Love"


12. On two bicycles, On a hillside desolate, Could nature make a man of me yet? This Charming Man - Death Cab For Cutie


13. Well mamma told me when I was three, Lord, the street'll never get you nowhere. Step That Step - Sawyer Brown


14. Paint the town, take a bow, thank everybody. Then The Morning Comes - SmashMouth


15. He believes in the family unit, the union of man and wife. He Wants To Get Married - Reba McEntire


16. She's an angel, and I ain't. Lord knows she deserves a saint. A little surprised nobody got this: Her Only Bad Habit Is Me - George Strait


17. Comb your hair and paint and powder. You act proud and I'll act prouder. A Classic! Settin' The Woods On Fire - Hank Williams, Sr.


18. If the night turned cold, and the stars looked down. opiate got the artist, Eric Clapton, although my version is by Sting. Title (anonymous) is "It's Probably Me". Bitter, anonymous?


19. I'm on a mission, I made my decision Geek Stink Breath - Green Day


20. We were all wounded in some domestic war. Enough Of Me - Melissa Etheridge

alright. i'll post correct answers as they come in.

My music taste is really more varied than the list would indicate, but it was a random sample of 20 from my library of several thousand tunes. So I guess the sample wasn't large enough to be representative... How did I do a whole list with no Jimmy Buffett on it?!?!?

haven't you always wanted a monkey?

Your Final Quiz Score: 32 right out of a possible 60
The Monkey's Final Score: 17 right out of 60

Well done, you have sent the monkey to his defeat. Your score is unquestionably higher, and thus the lowly monkey has been proven once again to be humankind's intellectual inferior. Good work, however your score does leave room for improvement. We should like to see the human dominate even more completely!

You scored in the 76th percentile.
(76% of quiz takers scored worse than you)

Geography Your score: 8 Monkey's score: 4 -- Quite a sufficient job.	History Your score: 6 Monkey's score: 5 -- You might have done better.
Science/Technology Your score: 9 Monkey's score: 6 -- Good enough I suppose.	Random Trivia Your score: 9 Monkey's score: 2 -- A handy defeat of the monkey.

Link: Monkey Challenge Trivia Quiz

a monday meme

rather than saying any of the entirely-too-deep things that are in my head today, i've decided to post a meme! i know you're utterly surprised to hear that i'd rather deflect the topic than talk about my inner workings, but try to contain your shock. now, muster up some curiosity and do the meme! this, you may note, requires you to comment...

Ask me a question about EACH of the following:
- Friends
- Sex
- Music
- Religion
- Love
- Blogging
Then post this in your blog and see what questions you get asked!

a friday meme

by the look of things, this migrated from somebody's myspace... oh, the contagion!

1. You have 10 bucks at a gas station, what do you get?
$5 in gas, a GIANT dr pepper, and a bag of 3d jalapeno cheddar doritos

2. If you had to be reincarnated as some sort of sea dwelling creature, what would you be?
no doubt, i'd be a hammerhead shark. they are the coolest looking things out there.

3. Who's your favorite redhead?
reneenee! except her hair's not red anymore. still, she's my favorite. amythest is a close second.

4. What do you order when you're at a pancake house?
crepes, whenever possible.

5. Last book you read?
working on robert jordan's latest. Knife Of Dreams

6. Have you made out with anyone on your friend's list?
yes, i have.

7. Describe your favorite pair of underwear:
a pair of boxers with spongebob on one leg and "talk nerdy to me" in large print on the other.

8. Describe the last time you were injured:
i got a papercut severe enough to require a band-aid on tuesday. i'll count that.

9. Of all your friends, who would you want to be stuck in the middle of a jungle with?
rose or brody or both. the jungle would be sorry it had tried to eat us by the time we got out.

10. Are there any odd things that make you feel uncomfortable?
when people have those surgeries where they put pins in to hold the bones in place and then those are attached outside their skin to some kind of traction thingie. it gives me a chillshiver right to my toenailhair every damn time i see that.

11. Tell me an embarrassing story from your high school years:
walking down the hall, i sneezed and my retainer flew out of my mouth, landed and slid across the floor. eep!

12. What is the wallpaper on your cell phone?
a random sunny color pattern in warm tones that reminds me it won't be graywinter for FREAKIN ever.

13. Soda?
don't you mean "coke"? i drink dr pepper flavored coke most of the time.

14. Flavor of pudding?
vanilla.

15. What type of shirt are you wearing?
long-sleeved black t-shirt with the freebird's world burrito logo superimposed on a picture of the earth taken from space.

16. Prescription medication?:
none for me, thanks.

18. How many people are on your friends list?
this only makes sense if it's posted on a livejournal or myspace blog.

19. How many people on your list do you know in real life?
this only makes sense if it's posted on a livejournal or myspace blog.

20. What are you listening to right now?
babble from down the hall

21. Most recent movie you watched?
The Woodsman with kevin bacon

22. Name 3 things you have on you at all times:
my hair, my hands, and my feet. everything else is mutable.

23. Would you rather give or receive a foot massage?
can we trade? i'd just as soon have either, so long as it involves skin contact.

24. Name a teacher you had the hots for:
can't say i ever have had a teacher crush. none of mine were remotely hot, aesthetically speaking.

25. What is a saying that you use a lot?
"that's a riot!"

26. How many people on your friends list are exes?
this only makes sense if it's posted on a livejournal or myspace blog.

27. What is your favorite part of the chicken?
any part i don't have to eat.

28. What's your favorite town?
whichever one i'm going to next! i love me some road trippin'...

29. Favorite kind of cake?
yellow mix cake with chocolate frosting. it's a childhood thing. (becca, joy, do y'all remember those microwave cakes? where you had to make the cake pan out of the box?)

30. What's the first word that comes to mind right now?
gumbo

31. When was the last time you saw your mom in person?
about three weeks ago she was up here visiting and i drove over to my sister's house to have dinner with them.

32. What makes you feel like puking?
ummm... the flu virus? botulisms? i don't generally barf outside of actual medical illness.

34. What did you have for dinner LAST NIGHT?
veggie patch pizza at applebee's

35. How long have you been at your current job?
almost 9 months

36. Is Tom on your friends list?
i think this meme must have traveled over from myspace. tom is the default friend on myspace the way frank the goat is on livejournal. and, yes, tom and frank are both on my lists.

37. What's the last thing you said out loud?
be a good girl, see you later. (to my dog, molly)

38. Look to your right, what do you see?
my cell phone, highlighters, engineer's scale, and stapler.

39. Who is the last person you spent over $100.00 on?
i sponsored a song for a local musician named kathy corbin who really needs to get a cd recorded and out there for sale. i hope the project is successful.

40. Who's your favorite villain?
Maleficent from disney's sleeping beauty

41. What's the last piece of clothing you borrowed ?
a pair of socks.

42. What's the last piece of clothing you bought?
Ka-Pow! boxers from Gap when i went shopping with brody this weekend. actually, he paid for them, so i owe him some bux... i forgot my wallet when we went to the mall. perhaps the fact that this did not surprise or dismay either of us, when it was revealed, will help reinforce the literal truth of my answer to number 22.

43. What phrase makes you laugh no matter where, when or how?
i don't think such a magic phrase exists.

45. What does your last text message say?
Realistically, in any relationship you're going to get your feelings hurt by something. Is it worth putting up with this in exchange for the good stuff?

nerd test rocks!

can you be nerdier than me?

meme i stole from vulpine

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
1. Goofy (yeah, at Disney World)
2. Programmer
3. Environmental Engineer
4. Lifeguard

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
1. The Princess Bride
2. Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail
3. The Star Wars sextet
4. The Lord of the Rings trilogy

FOUR CITIES/TOWNS YOU'VE LIVED IN:
1. Colorado Springs, CO
2. Austin, TX
3. Redlands, CA
4. Orlando, FL

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH:
1. Good Eats
2. House, M.D.
3. Trading Spaces
4. Southpark

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION:
1. London, England
2. Lake Tahoe, NV and CA
3. Maui
4. The Eastern Caribbean

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY:
1. LiveJournal
2. UserFriendly
3. Slate
4. MySpace

FOUR OF YOUR ALL-TIME FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS:
1. Any GOOD Sushi place
2. Freebird's
3. P.F. Chang's/PeiWei (same food, different faces)
4. The King's Inn - Loyola Beach, TX/The Two Georges - Corpus Christi, TX (also same food, different faces)

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS:
1. Sushi
2. Lasagna
3. Hot and Sour Soup
4. Funnel Cake

FOUR SCHOOLS YOU'VE ATTENDED:
1. St. Gertrude's Catholic School
2. U.S. Air Force Academy
3. Texas A&M University
4. University of Texas

FOUR PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1. Home, in bed
2. Anywhere, with a big pile of books
3. On the coast
4. In the scrum