(I've given up on trying to make this consecutive weeks, but I'll still count it if I get 27 journal-type entries in.)
My good friend Alaina posted these questions on her blog for people to answer, so I'm stealing them! We know how I feel about middle-school-type surveys.
1. What makes you cringe?
Angry confrontation. I'm happy to engage in open, respectful discourse, but as soon people start using "attack language," I literally shrink down in my seat. It makes me uncomfortable, like when your friend's parents yell at her in front of you.
2. How do you eat an Oreo and what do you think that says about you?
I eat mine the same way Alaina eats hers--I eat the filling, put the two cookie parts back together, and eat them. I'm also the kid who eats all the marshmallows first and then has to eat the cardboardy cereal bits by themselves. I think this says that I'm not very good at rationing out the extra-good parts.
3. Are you a procrastinator, or do you just get distracted by things easily?
Nope. Definitely a procrastinator. I've read quite a few times that perfectionists tend to be procrastinators, because if they put things off until the last minute, they have a better excuse to give themselves if everything doesn't turn out just right.
4. Politics are _________.
...exhausting. I think a lot about how nice it would be to become an ex-pat and live someplace small and remote and not involved with every other country's business.
5. How far have you really gotten on that novel?
As in a novel I'm writing? Not even past the brainstorming. See the above note about being a perfectionist--it makes it hard to write anything down. It takes me 15 minutes to compose a Facebook status, for crying out loud.
6. Where was your favorite place to escape to as a kid?
When I lived in Yorktown, VA, we lived across the street from a pond where ducks would come every year to have ducklings. All along the bank were big, beautiful willow trees; one particular tree had little nook just low enough to where I could easily climb, but high enough to get a good view of the lake and the ducks and to be pretty well-concealed by the willow branches. I used to climb up there with books in the summer and read--it was awesome.
7. Did you think LMNO was one letter?
I honestly don't remember. I don't think so, though, because I remember singing the alphabet song and pointing at each letter in an alphabet book as I went.
8. Do you consider yourself a good cook?
Nope. I'm not terrible, but Ricky's better at making things on the fly than I am. I have to follow a recipe really closely or it comes out tasting funny. I've come to terms with it.
9. Is there one world you wish you could live in instead (like a book world or whatever)?
Lainy, I'm with you on this one--it's a toss-up between Harry Potter and traveling in the Tardis. I think I'd have to go with Harry Potter, though.
10. Where would you run away to right now?
Oxford. And then I would hide in C.S. Lewis' woods until everyone assumed I was dead and I would create a new identity and live there forever.
11. Who is your Doctor?
I started with Nine, and I was pretty wary of the "new" Doctor after he regenerated, but honestly I'd have to say I love Ten more than anyone else. David Tennant is my One True Doctor. Ricky's Doctor is Nine, though.
Part of the deal is that I'm supposed to come up with 11 questions for other people to answer, but I'm feeling extra lazy today, so that part may just have to come later. :)
My good friend Alaina posted these questions on her blog for people to answer, so I'm stealing them! We know how I feel about middle-school-type surveys.
1. What makes you cringe?
Angry confrontation. I'm happy to engage in open, respectful discourse, but as soon people start using "attack language," I literally shrink down in my seat. It makes me uncomfortable, like when your friend's parents yell at her in front of you.
2. How do you eat an Oreo and what do you think that says about you?
I eat mine the same way Alaina eats hers--I eat the filling, put the two cookie parts back together, and eat them. I'm also the kid who eats all the marshmallows first and then has to eat the cardboardy cereal bits by themselves. I think this says that I'm not very good at rationing out the extra-good parts.
3. Are you a procrastinator, or do you just get distracted by things easily?
Nope. Definitely a procrastinator. I've read quite a few times that perfectionists tend to be procrastinators, because if they put things off until the last minute, they have a better excuse to give themselves if everything doesn't turn out just right.
4. Politics are _________.
...exhausting. I think a lot about how nice it would be to become an ex-pat and live someplace small and remote and not involved with every other country's business.
5. How far have you really gotten on that novel?
As in a novel I'm writing? Not even past the brainstorming. See the above note about being a perfectionist--it makes it hard to write anything down. It takes me 15 minutes to compose a Facebook status, for crying out loud.
6. Where was your favorite place to escape to as a kid?
When I lived in Yorktown, VA, we lived across the street from a pond where ducks would come every year to have ducklings. All along the bank were big, beautiful willow trees; one particular tree had little nook just low enough to where I could easily climb, but high enough to get a good view of the lake and the ducks and to be pretty well-concealed by the willow branches. I used to climb up there with books in the summer and read--it was awesome.
7. Did you think LMNO was one letter?
I honestly don't remember. I don't think so, though, because I remember singing the alphabet song and pointing at each letter in an alphabet book as I went.
8. Do you consider yourself a good cook?
Nope. I'm not terrible, but Ricky's better at making things on the fly than I am. I have to follow a recipe really closely or it comes out tasting funny. I've come to terms with it.
9. Is there one world you wish you could live in instead (like a book world or whatever)?
Lainy, I'm with you on this one--it's a toss-up between Harry Potter and traveling in the Tardis. I think I'd have to go with Harry Potter, though.
10. Where would you run away to right now?
Oxford. And then I would hide in C.S. Lewis' woods until everyone assumed I was dead and I would create a new identity and live there forever.
11. Who is your Doctor?
I started with Nine, and I was pretty wary of the "new" Doctor after he regenerated, but honestly I'd have to say I love Ten more than anyone else. David Tennant is my One True Doctor. Ricky's Doctor is Nine, though.
Part of the deal is that I'm supposed to come up with 11 questions for other people to answer, but I'm feeling extra lazy today, so that part may just have to come later. :)
Yay! When you do come up with questions, I'll answer them on Tumblr. Also, I'm glad it takes you 15 minutes to write your statuses. I've always felt so inferior on the writing front when I read them.
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