it's a feeling of slipping without falling. The hardest thing is when you're at the bottom...

1. Are you a born leader? not hardly. I can fake it well, though.
2. Have you had a "nasty break up"? not in the traditional sense, although looking at it from the outside, the divorce would probably count for that
3. Is being paparazzi a cool job? no, it's a discrete circle of Hell
4. Do you know where to look when someone says "2 o'clock", "9 o'clock", etc.? yup
5. Do you like writing random stuff on your hand when school's getting boring? no, mostly because I tend to touch my face often and so I transfer the ink. I doodle on paper all the time, though.
6. Have you watched a hentai before? Do you even know what that is? admitting this is like admitting to shaving off someone's eyebrow, isn't it?
7. What's your favorite color combination? black & blue
8. Do you memorize both of your parents' phone numbers? like, both of their cell phone numbers?! 'Cause my parents only have the same land line as each other, and it's the same one they've had since before I was born.
9. Ever experienced sleepwalking? I've done it a couple of times, but only since I've lived in this apartment. Which makes me wonder if I should put a child gate on the basement stairs at the new place...?
10. How do you handle it when your significant other does/says something awkward?
    immediately break up, of course
11. Name one flick that made you cry. The Big Blue
12. Do you like sleeping just wearing your underwear and a top? I like sleeping in pretty much any permutation I can get away with, especially lately. Put a brick on my head and invite a Dixieland band and I'll still get a good couple hours' in.
13. Is Megan Fox hot? so I've heard. I wouldn't necessarily concur; she's got the same trashy vibe that Lips Pitt rocks, which has never worked for me.
14. If someone tells you you're childish, do you get offended? maybe not if it was phrased that way; tell me I'm being childish, though, and it's a different story
15. Is there any difference between a novel and a book a novel is "an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with human experience through a usually connected sequence of events"; a book is a physical entity that can, but does not necessarily, contain such a thing
16. Give one significant date in your life. 4 November 1999
17. Why is it significant? admission to the bar. Graduation from law school seemed like a big deal, but it paled in comparison to that solemn day.
18. "Nobody puts baby in the corner"--do you know which movie this line came from? of course, although it reminds me of someone (unrelated to the film) who is unlikeable
19. Do you see the point in purity rings? meh. You do what you've got to do to get through the day. I wish that sex didn't have to be a toggle switch in our culture - "bad" until it's "acceptable" - but the presence or absence of purity rings isn't going to change that. I'm just glad that no one ever tried to foist such a concept on me when I was that age.
20. Do you know how to stalk without being creepy? I do. My particular blend of education, skills, and inherent ninja-vibe make it easy.

[from The Cat, of course, who got it here; the title quotation is from The Big Blue - the rest of it is: "Why?" "'Cause you have to find a good reason to come back up...and I have a hard time finding one."]