Jessica at This is Worthwhile flashed, er, tagged me for this, so here you go: a little cross-section of my boring life and funny-shaped mind...
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1. What are your current obsessions?
My moods, thinking about writing, bedtime, trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.
2. Which item from your wardrobe do you wear most often?
BDG cigarette jeans--unless we're counting underwear, in which case it's these unmentionables from American Apparel.
3. Last dream you had?
It was bizarre and boring at the same time. But there was nudity, so that's something. Rob, Westley and I were trying to use my parents' shower, which had a triangular drain, a step down, and a fold-down seat for some reason.
4. Last thing you bought?
Wine, chocolate, and Bunny Grahams. The guy carded me. I love being carded. "Do you have ID for me?" Why, of course! [Eyelashes: bat, bat.] Anyway, I don't think it was for the wine. You're not supposed to eat Bunny Grahams over the age of 5.
5. What are you listening to?
A plane overhead and two laptops thinking.
6. If you were a god/goddess, who would you be?
Is there a Goddess of Introversion?
7. Favorite holiday spots?
I keep going back to one particular spot: Pacific Grove, CA. I think my second child should be conceived at the Martine Inn. Rob and I had our wedding there; it seems nicely circular somehow. Like returning to the scene of the crime.
8. Reading right now?
'Surrender the Pink' and 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.'
9. Four words to describe yourself.
I hate this question.
10. Guilty pleasure?
Marathons of "America's Next Top Model." And Bunny Grahams.
11. Who or what makes you laugh until you're weak?
Rob, without a doubt. My brother. Combine the two and I'm at risk for some kind of humor coma. Westley's pretty stinkin' funny, too.
I crack myself up.
12. Favorite spring thing to do?
Opening day at Yakima Fruit Market and Nursery in Bothell. Also:
13. When you die, what would you like people to say about you at your funeral?
"Wow, she looks really thin."
I'm just kidding. (Sort of.) How about, "She had a real impact on people."
14. Best thing you ate or drank lately?
Improvised dinner, night before last. I rehydrated some chicken-style TVP, cooked some yellow bell peppers, summer squash and mushrooms that were about to bite the dust, mixed it all together and smothered it with the Pomegranate Barbecue Sauce from Vegan with a Vengeance. Over brown rice? Stupidly tasty.
15. When did you last go for a night out?
Two weeks ago, Rob and I saw Wishful Drinking at the Rep. Rob ended up on stage in a Princess Leia wig. It was fucking awesome.
16. Favorite ever film?
Lord. I spent a year with Double Indemnity and know it backwards and forwards. I can tell you all about how it relates to the cultural understanding of the Oedipus complex at the time, and how the gun at the end is actually Phyllis's penis. I guess that means it's my favorite? Anyway, it's genius, but as far as Barbara Stanwyck films go, Ball of Fire is more fun to watch. So there you go.
17. Care to share some wisdom?
If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
18. Song you can't get out of your head?
See 12, above.
19. Something you don't know how to do, but wish you did?
Graphic design. Mostly because I like the way it sounds. I always want it to mean the job of artistically preparing things to be depicted pornographically.
20. Which disease or condition would you most like to see eradicated?
Depression.
21. Last thing you said to someone?
"We'll see."
22. Have you ever confronted a litterer?
What an odd question. Not really. I think I scolded my mother for throwing gum or an apple core or something out her car window when I was a child. She said, kind of defensive, "What? It's biodegradable!"
23. Pet peeves?
"Everyday" when it's misused to mean "every day." And "literally" as an intensifier.
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