Here is my survey for today…


Do you like having your picture taken?
Posed, I get very self-conscious and wind up holding in my gut and taking off my glasses. I like candid ones.

If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go and why?
I want to travel the world. I want to see exotic and nature, and bustling city.

Have you ever done crossword puzzles?
My gift is not in my vocabulary. I prefer ‘cross sums’

Pick up the closest book and write a sentence at random from it:
Concerning the pronunciation of “YHVH” from chicken qabalah:
Tantric lovers might lure their divine lover by cooing “Yoo-Hoo! Way-High,” or at the ecstatic moment they could shout “Yeh! I-Woo-High?”
(No, really. It was utterly random)

Do the same with a lyric from either a cd or the radio (or a randomly chosen mp3 in my case):
“Oh, I hate it when I’m right.” (Weird Al – Albuquerque. random song from list, random start point)

Have you ever tried to analyze your own dreams?
Yes: It never works… 🙂

Can you sing?
I’ve been told in my life that I absolutely can’t and that I have a beautiful voice. I guess it depends on who’s listening and what I’m singing.

Do you ever sing to yourself while doing everyday tasks?
I sing whenever I feel like it.

What’s your favorite color of post-it note?
Gotta go with Yellow, here.

Have you ever lied to get off the phone or out of talking to someone on line?
Isn’t that was creative AWAY messages on IM are for?

Is your VCR flashing 12:00 all the time?
Since I don’t want to be a slave to network programming, I tape shows and watch them on my schedule. Translation: I can read an electronics manual.

Do you read your horoscope?
More seriously than I used to.

Would you rather chew gum or use mouthwash and why?
I like chewing gum, but for fun, not for dental hygiene. For that I prefer mouthwash.

How many times a year about are you sick?
One big one about once every year and a half to two years. A couple of annoying snifflers about the year.

Ever been in an airplane?
Love ’em.

What radio station do you listen to most?
KFWB News 98. You give us 22 minutes… we’ll give you… THE WORLD!

Do you know how to play dominoes?
Once or twice… But I had a book on domino toppling. LOTS of FUN.

What color are your eyes?
Hazel… they tend to shift between emerald and brown depending on my mood and whatever it is you’re doing to it.

How many surveys have you filled out this lifetime?
In the words of rabbits in Watership Down…. Lots.

Name one person your life is made better by:
Me. Stolen shamelessly from shimmeringjemmy as it’s the best answer I’ve seen.

Can you do math with ease?
I was a number-cruncher in elementary school. Calculators rule. I took calculus in 11th grade. You do the math.

Are you a vegetarian?
I’m a vegetirian. I worship vegetables and sacrifice the fatted calf in honour.

How about an aspiring actor/actress:
Actor… I could… Director? That’s for me.

Which movie can you watch and say the lines along with the actors?
RHPS, Ferris, GhostBusters, Star Wars, Say Anything, Better Off Dead… Just about any Cusack film…

Name one of your passions in life.
Theatre
(I really like this list)

What’s your least favorite time of day?
Depends who’s around and what I need to do 😉

What color is the inside of your head when you close your eyes?
Dark fleshy. With lots of dynamic colours darting about.

Ever listen to classical music?
Lots… But it’s a mood thing. Along with Jazz, Pop, Punk, Folk, Christmas, Acapella….

Have you ever said ‘lol’ in real life without thinking about it?
Without thinking about it? No. Intentionally, Yes. “LOL”

What is the best present you’ve ever given someone else?
Sadly, I doubt she remembers it. I managed to keep an extra bottle of wine on hand for one of our local priestesses and surprise her with it for the one year anniversary of her first mass. There have been other creative gifts… None.. best.

What is the best present someone else has ever given to you?
Well, it sure as hell wasn’t the Denim Tallis from my mother. There’ve been many. One very treasured one is a Thelemic Pentacle given to me on my birthday by lrstrobel and fiannaharpar. fiannaharpar made a holding bag in my personal magickal colours.

Do you wear a watch?
i use my cell phone.

Write one sentence stating what you want people to say about you after you’ve passed on
He really found his way to his true will.

Describe the ideal superpower and what you would do if you had it.
Flight! It can be super fast. But going there is just as much fun as getting there. And it has other purposes 😉

Name something you’ve done in the last 24 hours no matter how big or small:
Found hope in something that I prayed might not be impossible.

Do you wear necklaces, bracelets, anklets, earrings, rings?
4 rings. UH, pentagram, hematite, a new cool greenish, white marbly one.

What’s on your computer desk?
Sorting thru the mess: Firewire hub with 4 ports that is shaped like Godzilla: Yes.. it’s hubzilla. A statue of Thoth, two computer speakers. And lots of chaos.

When you’re talking do you ever use your hands to do quotation marks in the air when saying certain words?
Yes, every now and then I feel the need to (fingerquote)fingerquote words.

Do you think you’re pretty?
I think it really comes from the outlook inside. I think I can be marvelous looking at times… But it’s hard for me to recognize when I’m there.

What’s in your fridge right now?
I’m male and live with another guy. A case of soda, some alcohol, and lots of leftovers.

How many people do you live with?
One: It’s a Johnny (burningblue)

What is the strangest thing you’ve ever done?
Since waking up this morning?

Name an instrument you’ve never played but would like to.
The Chapman Stick

Have you ever been on tv or the radio?
Both. Radio professionally.

What is the worst thing anyone could ever do to you?
I really am not sure. I guess, knowingly push me away from being me.

Are you a fast typer?
I’ve been using computers regularly since 1979. I can hunt and peck up to 70 WPM on a good day.

Describe how you sleep:
Usually start on back offering myself as a cushion for who ever is in bed. Often will roll to the side facing out… unless I’m between two people 😉

Have you ever read a book and not understood it? If so which one?
Liber Al vel Legis.

Do people pick up your slang language more than you pick up theirs?
Yes

Have you ever bought anything just because it was a fad?
Because it was a fad… No. Out of personal interest. Yes.

What would you like to do with your life?
Be me to the fullest I can be!

Do you bite your nails?
Pick at, not bite. But I’ve been getting better about it since discovering the wonders of the manicure.

Tell me about your dream last night.
No. I don’t remember it.

Are people’s perceptions of you usually correct?
Typically, no. But I’m working on it.

When they start sending rockets to the moon for us civilians, will you be on the list to go?
Having volunteered for the advance beta testing… Yup.

Have you ever written anything on your skin?
Not if I can help it. Which bares(sic) contemplation.

What color are most of your clothes?
Black mostly. But getting into button down shirts. And leather.

Are things as bad as they seem?
No.

Do you like to look people in the eye?
I actually get into it. I like the fact that other people get nervous about being looked in the eye.

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