I was good. I was really good.

1. The 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, published [the month that this meme originally came out], has 400 new entries including the words sexting, cyberbullying, jeggings, and mankini. If you could create your own word to add to the dictionary, what would it be and what would its definition be?
   
   outch
   
   [Pronunciation: /aʊtʃ/
   exclamation, used to express severe psychic and/or sympathetic pain:
   "Outch! I can imagine how much it hurt when he blatantly flirted with you for several hours in that bar and then inexplicably never called you again."
2. Summer's Eve, the company that sells feminine cleansing products, has a new advertising campaign that promotes the vagina as all-powerful, the cradle of life, the center of civilization, and the thing men battle over. "Hail to the V," the company says. What is your reaction to this ad campaign?
   
   *gag*
   
   Not that it's not a nice idea, but, really? Think about what they're selling. Really think about the. product. that. They. are. Selling. If what they're saying were utterly true, would they need to over-hype it so much?
   I truly hate the phrase "it is what it is" - what else could it be, after all? - but in this case...yeah. It's nothing to be ashamed about, or afraid of, but it's also nothing to have a party over. It just...is.
3. Burger King announced...that it was retiring its mascot who peeped into windows and popped up next to people in bed in commercials. Some people found the king creepy. What did you think?
   As much as I relish the idea of waking up in bed next to someone I hadn't invited to be there...yeah, nevermind. Creepy is right.
4. The people in the Burger King commercials were happy when the king showed up with breakfast. How would you react to him showing up at your house?
   I think I'd pretend I wasn't here. That's my M.O. under normal circumstances.
5. Actor Jim Carrey posted a video love letter to actress Emma Stone on his blog.... If you were to post a love letter to a celebrity (whether it's serious or a joke), who would you write it to?
   probably Robert Sean Leonard. I've seen several of his works lately, from way-back-when (Dead Poets Society, Swing Kids) to the "middle years" (Much Ado About Nothing) and of course House, M.D. Besides being a really good actor (his Neil Perry in DPS is devastating - the title quotation is him, from here), he's just plain hot.
6. Jim Carrey is 49, and Emma Stone is only 23. How big can an age difference between a couple be before it becomes too creepy?
   it completely depends on their ages. Are they both over 18 the whole time? Has the relationship been carried out in an otherwise "above-board" manner? Meaning, has any of it been hidden because of the age difference? Or is it just another relationship, made more interesting by other peoples' fascination with numbers?
   Look: this is both something that I cannot understand in the slightest, and also something that I feel extremely strongly about. Too many people have FAR too much interest in other peoples' business. I don't give one flip about 90% of the topics that pass for 'news' today, much less 'leisure' or even 'sports' (since that's so often 'gossip' anyway!) But I really, really do have an emotional reaction to someone else telling me that my affection and attention toward someone else - when that someone is legally responsible for their actions, and their reactions to my actions - is 'wrong'. There is, to be true, no more likely way to achieve my deep wrath.
7. Hurricane Irene [wrecked] havoc on the East coast. How would you feel if a hurricane shared the same name as you?
   there have likely been a few, given the placement of my name in the alpha. I haven't checked to see if it's still in the rota; since I don't live in the target zone, it's not a particular concern of mine.
8. What is your definition of "normal?"
   usually "whatever I'm not"
9. An Associated Press movie critic has listed her five favorite high school comedy movies -- "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Rushmore," "Sixteen Candles," "Election," and "Heathers." What is your favorite movie about life in high school?
   Dazed and Confused. Each time I see it, I see greater depth and more intelligence and truth revealed.
   Of the above, I've seen the first three; Fast Times is a farce, Rushmore is as wonderful and surreal and pointless as all of Wes Anderson's movies (and Jason Schwartzman is, holy crap, fantastic), and Sixteen Candles - as much of a heartbreaking watershed moment in my history as it represents - is just another teenage movie.
10. [The weekend that this meme came out] the comedy "Our Idiot Brother" opens in movie theaters across the United States. Have you ever had to help a relative out of an idiotic situation?
    no...I was probably that guy, even.

[from The Cat, who got it here]