in which she overuses the word "depends"

• What would you do if you found out your ex is engaged? It depends. If it was an ex with whom I have retained a friendship, I would probably send a note of congratulations. If it was not, I would most definitely blog about it.
• Have you ever done something you told yourself you wouldn't do? Yup.
• What would you do if you saw a person fall down a flight of stairs? Depends upon whether I pushed them. I am most decidedly NOT feeling too considerate at the moment. (Be warned!)
• Are you aware of what happens around you? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I konked the living shit out of my knee yesterday because I forgot where the leg to the table was, in relation to me.
• When is your next road trip? Nothing's scheduled at this point. The Cat & artcat and I are supposed to Do Something one of these days. We shall see....
• Do you have any friends that you've known for 10 years or more? Sure. Coworker T and Fluffy and the rest of the work crew who were there the first time around, and of course college BFF and r and the rest of my college friends, and E. et al., who I've known since elementary school.
• Do you need to know everything about some one's past? No. NO. Please, no. Some things are better left unsaid. Some things you can't un-know.
• Anything hurt on your body right now? I'm a little hungry and so my stomach's rumbling, but nothing actively hurts.
• Have you done anything bad recently? Depends upon who you ask. My most recent crimes include: being petty and mean with and about someone with whom I work; an eeny-weenie little drug-related thing; and a LOT of putting off of the inevitable.
• Who is the last person to make you laugh? Fluffy
• Have you ever stalked someone? No. Being tracked down and monitored by another person is VERY WRONG, regardless of that person's pathetic attempt to justify it by way of claiming that certain things are "public."
• Do you have any strange or odd things in common with your best friend? My best friends are strange and odd, not necessarily the same way that I am. It's a nice mix-or-match deal.
• Do your best friends know each other? I think that each of them has met at least one of the others.
• Do your best friends know your family? One lives in the same town, so it would be well-nigh impossible for them not to know each other...and they do, oftentimes independently commenting upon chance meetings at Fleet Farm, etc. One has met them a couple of times when the 'rents have been visiting me. The other has remained blissfully apart from the crazies, though I'm sure she'd jump at the chance to check them out. (And they would ***love*** her. I'm not kidding. They would pull out all the stops. It would be scary.)
• Do you think you will be married by the time you are 35? I was unmarried when I was 35.
• Is there something you're doing tonight? No. I am in a vegetative state. Duh? Fluffy and I went shopping today [I'm writing this on Sunday night, 7-6-08], and then I came home and fell asleep for 3 hours, and then I went to the grocery store for milk, and now I'm home, cooking chicken and eggs (not together) and drinking a beer. I plan to eventually eat 1/3 of the chicken (the eggs are for lunches this week), trim the crappy bits off of my quart of strawberries (what is up with the strawberries this year? The size of my head and beat to shit before they arrive in the stores!), clean up the kitchen, and settle in on the couch with my beer and my book (Panama Fever).
• Would you rather someone be honest and hurt you or lie and save your feelings? Be honest. If you lie "to save my feelings," you are a coward and a manipulator. Let me decide when and how I will be angry or hurt - it's not up to you.
• Have you told anyone you love them this week? No
• Last four things you drank? Molson Canadian, tea (Cranberry-Blood Orange from Republic of Tea), water, and orange juice
• What is something that you find fun, that most other people wouldn't?
  • My main job (which is a funny thing to say, since at least 3.5 other people reading this do the same damned thing that I do for a living, so they'd be with me in the VAST minority of people who could enjoy such a thing - and I'm counting J.R. as .5 because she doesn't "get" to do it very often);
  • reading esoteric history for fun (e.g. a 500+-page-book about the building of the Panama Canal);
  • writing poetry, reading poetry, listening to poetry on CD, thinking poetry;
  • driving a car with manual transmission; and
  • getting up at 5:-something to run with Sam.
• Would you ever date someone 10 years older than you? Highly, highly, highly doubtful. That would make him older than my brother, which is like "older than God." Not that my brother is God, mind you.
• Do you have any "friends with benefits"? I'm sure that some of my friendships are beneficial, but I do not engage in this sort of behavior. In other words - and some of you need to listen carefully to this - I do not fuck my friends.
• What are some names that you particularly like? meh
• What would you do if you got stuck in an elevator? Depends on where I was, and with whom.
• Do you watch TV or listen to music more? Music, definitely.
• Would you rather your mate have gorgeous eyes or a gorgeous smile? Would it not be possible to have both? I think that the eyes are something you're born with, but the smile can be "learned" or "adopted" or "adapted," or something like that.
• If someone cheated on you, what would you do? Remove his head from his neck via halberd.
• What month is your birthday in? The next
• Would you consider yourself a bad or good influence? Depends. I am a very good influence for someone who needs to learn good habits re: my main job. I am a VERY bad influence for someone who needs to learn how NOT to behave with boys. I am good re: parallel parking. Bad re: drinking and driving. Good re: developing loyalty and generosity. Bad re: encouraging advanced degrees. And so forth.
• Who sits next to you in math? I sit between Jet Li and Edward Kowalczyk.
• Would you rather have an apple or an orange? If someone else is peeling, I'll take an orange any day. If it's up to me, I'll have a nice warm, soft Golden Delicious.
• Do you enjoy watching other people trip? Only if I've pushed them.
• Would you ever get a tattoo? Why, yes! I would. Thank you for offering.
• Who do you love? George Thorogood & the Destroyers
• Do words hurt you? Sometimes, but silence breaks the heart.
• Do you like wearing leather? Um, not so much in my regular life, except on my feet.
• Do spiders scare you? Not since I met H - the strong man was vewwy vewwy afraid of big bad spiders. I learned to be bolder than I felt, in order to save the world and my chicken-hearted spouse.
• Halloween or Christmas? whatever
• Do you think that your name defines who you are? Not so much.
• What color eyes do you prefer the opposite gender to have? Whatever. More depends on what they see, and what they reveal.
• Single? No
• Would you rather it be sunny or rain? I like rain an awful lot, but I'm diggin' the sunshine lately. (Which is why it's supposed to rain nonstop for at least 3 days.)
• Do you like someone right now? Yes
• Do you find it hard to concentrate? Sometimes. I can be deadly focused, though, when necessary.

[from The Cat, naturally]