2001. Can you believe that we have only gotten through two fifths of this survey so far?
Balls! I was hoping to finish this before the end of the year. New Year’s resolution. Gotta get movin’!

2002. What is your opinion of Dave Coulier?
Is he the guy who played Joey on Full House? I used to watch Full House all the time in the summer, pre-college. He’s okay, I suppose.

2003. If you were to a write a Choose Your Own Adventure book, what would it be about?
Probably some sort of adventure.
It would involve calculus and Leibniz and Newton and all sorts of fun.

2004. What was your best find from a flea market, garage sale, ebay or thrift store?
Those ostentatious pink Alex Colman bell bottom pants. Freaking awesome.

2005. What do you not have enough money for right now?
Pretty much everything but rent and sometimes food.

2006. Do you believe that Tears for Fears were right when they said, “Everybody wants to rule the world?”
Nope.

2007. What is the design on your beach towel?
I don’t have a beach towel.

2008. What stirs something deep and animalistic inside you?
STATISTICS!

2009. Have you ever cross dressed (even as a joke)?
Hell yes. Claude’s a sex pot.

2010. Do you own anything with a rainbow on it?
Dude.
Do you even know who I am?

2011. What would be the worst object for a child to take on a long car ride with you?
The child itself. Haha. I hate kids.

2012. What’s the Best Beatles song in your opinion?
I really like Ticket to Ride for some reason.

2013. Why do you suppose that diary sites are more popular with females than males?
Ladies like to blah-blah.

2014. What do these color combinations remind you of:
orange and pink: a certain pair of socks I have.
pink and green: Easter.
green and gold: Karma Chameleon (“lovin’ would be easy if your colors were like my dreams/red cold and green/red gold and greeeeeeeeeeen…”)
purple and gold: royalty.
gold and red: 7th grade
red and white: Christmas
blue and grey: 8th grade

2015. What is one selfish thing you tend to do?
I get super pissy if people don’t catch the hint that I like to be alone. I don’t know if that counts, but it’s something.

2016. When do you think technology will catch up with the Jetson’s?
Who knows if we’ll live long enough as a species to see.

2017. What made you laugh today?
I was digging through my old blogs trying to find a specific post and I stumbled upon the Yogi Bear thing. Hilarious.

2018. Do you ever stick your entries in any of the diary circles?
What?

2019. Can you freestyle rap?
Hell to the no, yo.

2020. Are you:
stylish? Hardly.
shiek? I assume you mean “chic”…and no.
smart? I don’t know.

2021. Do you find you self only buying brand name products?
Depends. I’m a brand-whore for some things (SONY!), but some brand name things I buy ‘cause they’re WAY cheaper than everything else around here. Like President’s Choice.

2022. Would you ever want to buy an article of clothing or an accessory because you saw a celebrity wear it?
I’d buy a replica Leibniz wig. ‘Cause that’s totally and accessory. And he’s totally a celebrity.

2023. What song do you feel the sexiest dancing to?
I had this whole elaborate dance planned out for Claude set to Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. He felt super sexy doing it.

2024. Who do you know who looks silly when they dance?
Me.

2025. Sweaty sex or clean sex?
NO sex. HA!

2026. Which is more important to you: being kind or being right?
Being right.

2027. Can you do any special dances like swing, tap, or ballroom?
Absolutely not.

2028. Are you scared of monsters?
Do you guys remember Gossamer from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons? That thing FREAKED ME THE HELL OUT.

2029. Who would you like to remind people of?
Someone who has done something good with their life.

2030. Do you walk to school or do you bring your lunch?
Um…can’t people do both? I do both.

2031. Rate your skills from one to ten (10 = you are the best at it):
socializing: ha, like a -10,000,000
making friends: 3
working with computers: 10
arts: 9
crafts: 6
dancing: 4
skating: ice skating? 7
talking other people into things: 5
writing: 10 (meaning I do it a lot)
living life to the fullest each day: 3
cooking: 5
gardening: 1
cleaning up after yourself: 10
playing poker: 1
surviving in the woods: 5
managing your time: 8
attracting the opposite sex (or same sex if you prefer)? Again, like -10,000,000

2032. Have you ever been to an Indian reservation?
I’ve driven through many of them. Ah, northern Idaho…

2033. What is going to happen tomorrow that you can celebrate, even if it’s a little thing?
I got through my first week of Grad School: Part II.

2034. Do you save things for special occasions or is everyday a special occasion?
I tend to save things. They’re more special that way.

2035. What is one thing you are terrible at:
Simple math. Like, 5 + 3 type math. Yes, I don’t know what that sum is off the top of my head. I can do singualar value decomposition, but I can’t do one-digit sums.

2036. What’s your favorite odd song?
Does Trololo count? I freaking love Trololo.

2037. What do you get your teacher or your boss for the holidays?
I don’t remember what I used to get for my teachers.

2038. Do you like to read books by Virgina Wolfe?
Eh. She’s okay.

2039. What is your favorite tv show from when you were a kid?
Tailspin is probably the greatest kids show ever made.

2041. What has been passed down through at least two generations to you?
Weirdness.

2042. Do we live in a particularly bad age for romance?
I don’t think so, no.

2043. Have you ever cheated on someone?
I’m a bad human being.

2044. Have you ever gone:
christmas caroling? Yes.
pumpkin picking? No.
on a hay wagon ride? Yes.
on a romantic valentine’s day date? Sorta.
to a new year’s eve party? No.
to a memorial day parade? No.
to the Macy’s thanksgiving day parade? No.
to search for gold coins on st patrick’s day? No.

2045. Have you ever done any modeling?
PFFT, that would be a laugh.

2046. Would you consider yourself to be psychologically damaged?
Nope.

2047. How aware are you of the reasons behind your actions and words?
I am master of introspection.

2048. What is the sickest you ever drank or drugged yourself?
I staggered around for like half a minute when I took two shots of whiskey, but that’s as bad as I’ve ever gotten.

2049. Would you prefer it if clothing was optional?
DUDE. YES.

2050. What is one interesting fact about you:
I’m good at identifying fonts.

2051. Are more people depressed because they are alone, or are more people alone because they are depressed?
Depressed due to aloneness.

2052. Have you ever gotten a mug, t-shirt, key chain, etc. that was personalized with your picture?
I don’t think so.

2053. What was the last thing that you experienced for the first time?
A graduate philosophy course.

2054. If you were going to die tomorrow and you were leaving a postcard for someone to read after you were gone what would it say?
It would direct them to the file on my compy that contains all my posthumous directions.

2055. If you were about to be executed what would your last request be?
A flight to Tucson to see my mom for one last time.

2056. What kinds of people do you find intimidating?
Most people. People freak me out.

2057. How much conviction do you have in your feelings and beliefs?
Meh. I’m all screwed up; I don’t trust myself anymore.

2058. In your house where is the:
crazy glue? In the medicine drawer.
flashlight? In the closet.

2059. Out of everyone you know who has the most personality?
Probably Nick. Or Sean.

2060. If you could go back in time to experince a musical movement or era, which one would you choose to live through?
Does disco count? Disco!

2061. Do you suffocate people with your love?
I don’t think so, no.

2062. Do you feel your life is charmed?
Bah.

2063. What character do you identify the most with from Winnie the Pooh?
I’ve always liked Owl, but probably I’m most like Rabbit. Neurotic little Leporid.

2064. When do you do your best thinking?
Late at night with the music blasting. Or in libraries. Libraries really urge me to think.

2065. What motivates you?
My future plans.

2066. Look back at all the people you’ve dated. Has there been a pattern?
Only that each relationship was longer than the last.

2067. Things change but what will always remain the same for you?
My fear of Google. My love of statistics.

2068. Is divorce something you would ever consider or do you feel that marriage is permanantly binding?
I don’t really know how I feel about marriage itself…

2069. What’s the strangest movie you ever saw?
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars. What. The. Hell.

2070. If you could go into virtual reality and set up your life there to be perfect and it would seem real but not be real would you trade your life now for the virtual life?
No.

2071. Does it seem like life is more difficult for you than for anyone else?
Only on occasion. Then I get back to reality.

2072. What are you grateful for?
My parents. My opportunities. My physical health (I love you, immune system!).

2073. What was a choice that you didn’t want to make but you had to?
Pretty much everything involving grad school.

2074. Have you ever had dental surgery?
Just getting my wisdom teeth yanked out.

2075. At what point exactly are you grown up?
Growing up is optional.

2076. If there was a weightloss procedure that would destroy your ability to taste food so you wouldn’t be tempted by junk food, would you have it done?
Hey, I don’t need to lose another sense. My taste is screwed up as it is due to the anosmia, anyway. Also, no way in hell is anyone taking away the taste of M&Ms.

2077. What is one thing that happened that you never expected?
Me getting and MA. No freaking way.

2078. If you called one of your friends and they said “It’s nothing personal but I don’t want to talk to anyone right now,” would you take it personally?
Probably not. It’s pretty late at night, even on the West Coast.

2079. What is your favorite girl’s name?
I like the name Becky a lot.

2080. Do you ever feel guilty for being more fortunate than others?
Yes. Especially when I bitch about stuff.

2081. If you had to wear a shirt with one word on it for a year, what word would you choose?
LEIBNIZ

2082. What is evian spelled backwards?
Naïve…

2083. You drop 10 pounds of feathers and a ten pound bowling ball off the top of the same building. Which will hit the ground first?
Depends. Are we in a vacuum? Are the feathers bound in any way? Questions, questions!

2084. Even though you may never get what you want, are you happy because you’re trying?
Sure. Best of all possible worlds, eh?

2085. If you started a petition what would it be about?
Getting Facebook to shut up and GTFO.

2086. When was the last time you asked someone to do something and they said no?
Haha, I don’t remember.

2087. Do bad things happen to you on friday the 13th?
Nope.

2088. What’s your favorite:
Madonna song? 4 Minutes
John Lennon song? Imagine
Michael Jackson song? Don’t Stop ‘Till You Get Enough
Doors song? I’m not familiar enough with The Doors to pick a fave.
Rolling Stones song? Blah.
David Bowie song? Under Pressure (yes, that counts)
Elvis song? A Little Less Conversation

2089. If you had started a relationship with someone and they said that it would be best if no one knew about it just to see how it goes, would you be offended?
I doubt it. I am, unfortunately, okay with that kind of stuff.

2090. Do you know any self defense?
Not formally, no.
How about CPR?
Yes, but I’m not officially certified.

2091. If you had to look into a mirror and see your naked soul stripped of all delusions and pretenses (Never ending Story style) could you handle it?
Dude, I can’t even handle seeing my physical self in the mirror.

2092. Are you a genius?
I’m a durr-durr.

2093. How did you find out that Santa Clause wasn’t real?
I honestly don’t recall.

2094. Which is your favorite tarot card?
The Hermit.

2095. Does the internet separate people or connect them?
Both.

2096. Have you ever written a letter to a soldier?
No.

2097. Does pain and fear make you feel alive?
On occasion.

2098. Are you:
good looking? God no
thin? No
happy? Sometimes
successful? I’m trying to be
confident? Haha, nope

2099. Are you decisive or wishy washy?
Depends on the situation. I have trouble making decisions most of the time, though.

2100. Do you feel pop stars should be morally responsible to set a good example for their fans?
Not really.