Long day. Mostly good, some really bad. I have just enough mental energy to spend time bolding text.

01) Bold what is true about you.
02) Underline what is half true.
03) Italicize what you wish was true about you.
04) Add one true thing about you to the end of the list.
05) Tag five LJ friends, if you want.
06) Ask me anything about any of my answers, if you want.

I'm tagging bettybaker, melanie, elwoodontario, moominmuppet, and leback, but don't feel obligated if you don't feel like doing it.

( Seen everywhere, but this one's from firecat. Warning: it takes a long time to do )

While I wait for someotherguy to finish his shower so we can walk to the store, I'll do this survey I stole from autographedcat:

( High school. Eeeeeek!! )

Oh, good, a sex survey (gakked from someone who had it locked, so I'm not sayin' who, but I stole some of zir answers). I was wanting something mindless and fun to do.

[Edit: It's not all about sex. It's also about meat, sleeping, and other stuff. It's a strange mix of questions. But lots of 'em are about sex.]

( If you don't want to read about my sex life, or you're underage, don't click here )

Still ouchy, still tired, but feeling a lot better today. Did some contract work for a while and caught up on alt.poly, but now I'm gonna goof off and fill out a survey, 'cause, well, I wanna.

( 50 questions )

I'm supposed to be writing software documentation. Clearly, I am not writing software documentation. Next, I will write software documentation, but right now, I'm gonna do this thing I swiped from klwalton and a few others:

( 20 years ago, I was... )

Comment on this post and I will pick seven of your interests. You then explain them in your journal and re-post. My interest selection below courtesy of supergee.

bleeding-heart liberalism: I believe that fairness doesn't preclude compassion. I believe the point of government is to provide infrastructure and access to the necessities for those who lack it for whatever reason. If you have access to clean municipal water, a 40-hour workweek, or similar benefits, you can probably thank a liberal.

john gorka: Many years ago (early '90s?), my record-club flyer compared Gorka to Lyle Lovett and I bought a couple of now-out-of-print CDs (careful -- autostart music at that link). I fell in love with his music, all full of wordplay and bleeding-heart liberalism (see above), and now that I've seen him in concert a couple times, I know he's One of Us (that is, a wordgeek, and just an all around lovable nerd). He's an old friend of elisem's, and I made him stammer and have to regroup once when I dropped a note from her on his music stand during a set break.

jonatha brooke is one of a bunch of singer-songwriters that I groove on. My favorite album of hers is Steady Pull

lgbtqi: I have several versions of this initialism (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer/questioning, intersex) in my interests list as part of my general desire for both outness and creation of safe space for people of all genders and sexual orientations.

my niblings: Munchkin The Elder and Munchkin The Younger (wtfpotatoes), my sister's children, are so much a part of my heart that calling them "interests" really waters down what they mean to me.

nanci griffith: Oh, my, Nanci. If you need introducing to Nanci, my best recommendation is The MCA Years: A Retrospective, but she never stops putting out wonderful music, so just grab you some. If you own any contemporary folk/rock singer/songwriters' work, you probably have heard her in the background already -- not only does she write kick-ass songs, but she has a reputation for being a real working member of the music community, and she seems to be almost entirely without any ego of the toxic sort. She also put out a marvelous album of her renditions of American folk music called Other Voices, Other Rooms. It has Arlo Guthrie, Odetta, Emmylou, John Prine, and many others on it.

wallyware: One day in San Diego, someotherguy and I were in the Goodwill store and we saw this silly little plate. It looked like it might have been made in ceramics class. It had a dog and a cat on it. The cat was, if I remember right, dressed in black lingerie. The dog was taking video. The caption was something like "Wally and Socks Clinton collaborate on a controversial video". It was so full of WTF that we had to have it, and it was only three dollars. When we got home, we saw the word "Wallyware" on the bottom of the plate, and went to google to find the artist's web store. Now we collect the stuff (when I can find it cheaply, on eBay). I broke our favorite one, where Wally gets an NIH grant to turn the Weinermobile into a safer-sexmobile, and he's driving around in a condomed hot dog. :-) sogwife got us four mugs for Giftmas, so we now have something like two plates, two bowls, and five mugs.

Two things I should be doing:

1. Working
2. Making toffee

Two things I'm actually doing:

1. Listening to someotherguy talk about rational pantheism with his brother/boss
2. The Two Things Survey

( See? )

This survey was nicked from micheinnz, along with at least one of her answers. (For some reason, this survey made me want to give a bunch of smart-ass answers, but I decided not to. Not sure why.)

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A friend posted (in a locked post) a list of ways in which zie's different from zir peers. I thought it was interesting, so I'm reposting my list here.

( You may not find it interesting, however, so it's behind this cut )

Ask me anything. (If you want.) I will answer every question. I will not reveal who asked unless you tell me to. Anonymous questions are fine. All comments are screened, and will not be unscreened.

I'm having trouble caring about anything, or thinking very hard, so what shall I do? Whatever shall I do? Why, an LJ survey thingy, of course!

( gakked from micheinnz )

mactavish doesn't do many surveys, but when she does, I know I'll like the questions more than I like the average ones.

( Let's see if today's is any exception )

Verdict: Pretty standard, but I'm such a survey slut that it worked for me.

Yesterday would have been cute-poet-chick's and my eighth anniversary, and for the first year since we split, I didn't think about it on the day. It was also the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day I graduated from high school, so I thought I'd do this senior-year-of-high-school survey from snippy:

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Skipping some again.

( Survey for a woman who doesn't feel like going to bed )

Once again, I'll delete the ones I don't feel like answering. You can get this batch (without my deletions) at http://opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D133099&entry=10017&mode=date

( survey )

Questions from the_ogre, and then I'm off for a while to help golden_c_turtle move.

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