Get It All Down: I don't plan to tell anyone where I've been

have you ever written a letter to...
...a friend: on average, probably once a week for my entire adult life
...a lover: Yes. I have.
...a celebrity: maybe as a kid? I don't recall anything specific.
...a legislator: no?
...the President/leader of your country: uhm, I think I may have written to an ex-Vice President when I did a report on him in 6th grade. That may be the closest that I've come.
Why are cigarette companies allowed to manufacture and sell cigarettes when they are so unhealthy and dangerous? They are getting rich on the deaths of the people you love who smoke. I've never quite figured that one out. Is there any useful purpose to smoking?
Do you chat with people in an elevator? not if I wasn't chatting with them prior to the elevator-ness
What's your favorite Jack Nicholson movie? Five Easy Pieces
Who should play the part of Superman? I was fond of the Christopher Reeve version, but Henry Cavill is nothing to sneeze at
Do you like when your friends and your mate's friends hang out? it's funny--I was talking/thinking about that earlier this evening. My best friend is a good work friend of his best friend's wife. There are numerous other overlaps, too, but that one is particularly uncanny. Except for the obvious snake pits and sinkholes, it would all work very well.
Doritos or Cheetos? poufy Cheetos, please!
Do you brush your teeth three times a day? sure
What gives your ego a boost? when the right person says that my big brain is both intimidating and a huge turn-on
What knocks your ego down? punching a clock
Live and let live or live and let die? depends on your purpose
Why is it that 70 percent of Americans Do Not want to go to war with Iraq and yet we are going to war with Iraq anyway? Is this democracy? there is a lot of good, basic information available on the Internet (or at your local library!) that can explain the difference between direct and representative democracy. Look into it.
Imagine you have two choices of what life you can live:
One: You are provided with meals, medicine, clothes and shelter. You are always with your family. You can lie in the sun and smoke, drink, play, cook, etc.. There will be certain rules you must follow such as no killing, no hurting others, no leaving the commune you were born in, no stealing, no TV, no newspapers and no books.
OR
Two: You are turned loose in the world with nothing. You start out cold and hungry. You may stay cold and hungry forever but you also have the opportunity to try and make a life for yourself. This will take a lot of hard work and there is no guarantee you will ever live comfortably.
Which life do you choose? Why? Two. Because I could not live without books, period.
Why is there no 'Mr. America' pageant? Should there be? What qualities would YOU look for in a Mr. America if such a contest were to exist (like Miss America he would have to be a role model)? there is not such a thing because men have never had to fight for that level of "respect" and "admiration." Should there be? Obviously not, because it would be a gross perversion of something that has probably outlasted its welcome in modern society anyway.
If something offends you do you feel that it has no right to exist? hardly
Why do advertisers seem to believe that guys will buy any product that a hot girl in a bikini is sitting next too? ...because it works?
What would you do if your mom had a fight with a male acquaintance and you heard an answering machine message he left her cursing at her, calling her names and being very disrespectful? to be honest, I would not be terribly surprised. The older that I get, the more that I realize that my personality, intellect and demeanor are made up of two quite disparate sides, one of which comes from each of my parents. Neither of them is good or bad, preferable or not, but serves to make them and therefore me who we are. And one element of that is that whatever small element of hothead (and resulting hothead-magnet) that exists in the three of us stems entirely from my mom's personality. Other people being ticked off as a result? Not surprising to me. At all.
What do you represent? "When I was young and full of grace
And spirited a rattlesnake
When I was young and fever fell
My spirit I will not tell
You're on your honor not to tell"
What message does ___ send when given as a birthday present?
...flowers: ugh. WORST birthday present ever, when given on its own, in certain relationships--because flowers die, and so you're left with dead nothing. They're lovely when accompanied by something else, but alone they're sad and awful.
...slippers: "we're not close"
...candles: "light"
...diamond necklace: "generous/impersonal"
...gift certificate: "the [nice] gift that keeps on giving"
...cash: "cheap and/or untraceable"
...books: perfection
Have you ever completed a paint by number? If yes, of what? I have, but not since I was a small child. I remember something with a deer? I should ask my parents if they still have it.
How long has it been since you colored in a coloring book? a year, maybe less. I have a Mandala book that's pretty relaxing.
What have you been caught doing? that question made me laugh. I guess I've "been caught doing" a lot of things. You might need to be more specific!
Does temptation make you do what you love? "Temptation showed me what I shouldn't do"
Do you have any gadgets in the house that you don't know how to use? What? I have a snowblower that intimidates me. And I'm not exactly a power-user of my Crock pot.
Do you read the instructions to things or skip them? maybe 30/70 skipping. To quote one of my favorite people ever, "Directions are for people who aren't willing to live!"
Will you ever reach your full potential? maybe, but there's nothing after that but death
Who is your biggest fan? DG
Who do you take care of? me
Who takes care of you? uh, see above? And D&R, and my parents, and a surprising cadre of exes, and...
Do you think that lawyers should only argue cases when they feel like the client is in the right? If you were a lawyer would you argue cases when you felt like your client was completely wrong? this is a basic lack of knowledge about the law that I find both funny and exasperating. You understand the basic tenet that everyone deserves legal representation, right? And that the representation must be adequate? Well, for that to happen, the attorney does not have to believe that the client is "in the right." What they do have to do--even if they know good and God damned well that the client is dirty as sin and guilty as Hell--is to put opposing counsel to their proof. That is The. Whole. Point. of adequate representation: to force the government, the prosecution, the opposition, however you want to think about it, to present the best, most comprehensive, most carefully researched and laid out and handled case that they can, so that absolutely nothing is left up to chance. Make sure that every element of evidence is weighed, that every objection that can be laid is, and that every procedure is followed to the letter. That way, there is no way that a righteous finding can be overturned on appeal because of some tiny flaw that could have been avoided. It is the only way that I could live with myself if I were practicing law, and the way that my friends who practice get through their roughest days. They are just there to make sure that justice has been done, and cannot be undone, through anyone's inaction or inattention.
Is it sexy in here or is it just me? lines are so stupid
You are giving out your phone number to a hottie by writing it on a napkin. Do you write a little note or draw a picture too? If yes, what? I can only remember "giving my number" as such to one person, in the whole history of my dating life. There was a note, of course, but no picture drawn. His response was a text message, asking why I'd given him my number. That was the start, more than ten years ago, of a relationship that makes me laugh and bang my head against the wall, both. Plus he still owes me a whole bunch of money.
Can you fold paper into anything (a hat, a swan, a boat, etc)? What? I cannot fold anything in a fancy way. I still have a napkin that was folded into a rose, by a flirty friend of my ex-spouse, at a wedding reception. (I think I could maybe get rid of that.)
How can a girl get a guy-she-is-dating's mom to like her better? there is no one secret trick to it. Moms are just like people, and it either works or it doesn't.
What is one theory about life or anything that you came up with that no one else has? there is nothing new under the sun
Do you like answering questions about:
...your life? on this meme? I guess. The "me" questions are probably easier to answer, more organic to open up from, than the more general topics.
...your taste? not as much, since there is less that I do than "most people" do
...TV? meh. I don't do TV.
...music? better than TV
...art? not as much. Whomever is responsible for this survey is unnaturally attached to freak-out "art."
...politics? not at all. However passionate I feel about the subject, I'm not motivated to get into it here.
...life? as opposed to...?
...religion? in some scenarios it's fine, more philosophically or spiritually than dogmatically
...issues? no
...sex? now and then I enjoy the ridiculous vagueness that I can employ, but most of the time it's just stupid
...loved ones? I try very hard not to reveal too much about my loved ones here
...favorites? fine
...objects? ?? are there "objects" questions?
...math? feh
...philosophy? yep
...hypothetical situations? no
...things that require lots of thought? yes
The mortuary science department is having a bake sale. Does this strike you as funny? no
What would you think of a new reality TV game show where real life criminals on death row competed in life threatening tasks for the prize of a reduced sentence? Did you know that they are considering making this a show? Would you watch it? no. Give 10 seconds' thought to the feelings of the victims' families, seeing the convicted perpetrators "winning" reprieve for the horrors they committed--through entertainment. It's sickening.
What was the last song you looked up the words to? "Temptation" by Semisonic
What Saturday morning cartoons do you like? I haven't watched cartoons on a Saturday morning since Brian from Mad-town visited. That's a little mindblowing, but true enough. I guess that experience was enough to turn me off a lot of things.
If anything's possible, then is it possible that nothing's possible? clearly
What does the T in T-Shirt really mean? the shape of the shirt is a capital T
Would you alter your routine if there was a sniper in your area? If so, how? if I tell you, then I'm not more safe, am I?
Is castration a good punishment for extreme or repeat sexual offenders? it certainly is a punishment, isn't it? "Good" is really hard to determine.
If you are a girl have you ever experienced penis envy? If you are a guy would you still want to live if you had to be castrated? I don't think it's supposed to be a conscious thing? And if it is, the pathology is probably so far beyond the classification of "penis envy" that the phrase wouldn't enter into the equation.
Imagine you are teaching a class of sixth graders. At the start of the year you tell them, "If you come away with class and have learned only one thing, I hope that you learned: focus"
If you were being interviewed for a job in a clothing store how would you sell yourself to the prospective employers? really good question. I have never been "job in a clothing store" material, to my knowledge. I dislike people and have no patience for the retail experience. The smell of most clothing stores makes me vaguely ill (I think it's the surface treatment of the clothes, to make them hang right on the rack) and they are inevitably loud enough to make my head pound. In all: I would fail.
How do you stop pop up ads? I run a pop-up stop app, and if something appears I make it go away using the newest in killer technology

[From the 5000-question meme; this is the first half of the thirty-first part (questions 2901-2950). The title quotation is from "Temptation" by Semisonic]

3.31.2018

I don't plan to tell anyone where I've been

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