Get It All Down: What makes you think I'm a lawyer? / You have that sharp, useless look about you.

Is 'no glove, no love' your STRICT policy? that sounds like a very personal policy
What is the best epic movie (examples of epics: Ben-hur, Gone with the Wind, The Last Temptation of Christ)? The Godfather films, or maybe Braveheart?
Finish the sentence.
* Hey Hey, we're the... overgrown teenagers
* People say we... don't know each other at all
* But we're too busy... making money to make connections
* The time to hesitate is... ignored
* You're too... obnoxious
* It's a nice day to... sleep until noon
Have you ever had 'missing time'? only once--that I know of? I ate a lot of saltines and relied on the dubious help of my then-boyfriend Rowdy to survive. (And, to be fair, that may have been the nicest he ever was, to me.)
Have you ever sent an electronic greeting? not since the early 90s. Do people even do that anymore?
If you could send anonymous tips to people you knew who would never ever find out who sent them who would you send the following tips to?
* doesn't know when to leave: at least 3 of the 5 people with whom I work
* poor crotch hygiene: huh. Not going there.
* talks too much: someone I used to work with, who stops in periodically "to have lunch"--but really to get impromptu therapy
* band/art/dream is going nowhere: a Facebook friend, someone who thinks he's super artsy and intuitive but is actually just lazy and childish. It's very easy to put off growing up and being responsible for oneself when one is endlessly "following a dream." You're not as good as you think you are.
* most likely to get arrested: one of my colleagues. Best not to share that story.
* needs to get their life together: who doesn't? I'll claim this one myself.
* bad taste in clothes: a good friend at work, whose clothes are always 2 sizes too small and neverendingly 'adjusted'--as if it's going to make them larger and/or flattering
* bad taste in music: a former friend, the type of snob who comments loudly about his own tolerance, while blaring rich-white-privilege "Christian" music every chance he gets
* needs a hobby: a Facebook friend who comments on everything that I post, and texts or FB messages almost every day, yet somehow fails to realize that what I post is not about him (despite almost daily, increasingly less subtle hints). I don't want to blow up the friendship, but it's becoming a fine line between "friendship" and too much attention.
Are you more likely to download porn or Disney movies? what do you think? Really??
What is it with people? most of them are doing the best they can, but not succeeding all that well
Do you eat too much sugar? yep
Are you desperate but not serious? the opposite, really. I'm mad serious but not desperate.
Was there a time when you were younger and it took less to get you excited? oh, definitely
What did it take then? pretty much anything. My fuse was much shorter, but so was my, um...
What does it take now? I'm an extraordinarily patient person, until I'm not. Once I'm out of patience, I'm just done.
Can you think of anything else (besides cursive writing) that is unhelpful, or un-useful, yet traditional and unquestioned? What? much of traditional schooling is "unhelpful" or not useful to some people, but the point of school isn't all about learning or being helpful or useful. Sometimes it's about keeping people occupied for a whole day.
Have you ever been to a place where the restrooms were named in a clever way rather than just saying men's and woman's? I've seen Hens and Roosters, Bart and Lisa, Dudes and Babes...what have you seen? more often I've seen pictures (some of which can be weird and confusing) than clever pairings of words
START this sentence: "....and I think to myself, what a wonderful world." it's a good morning, sunshine...
Tell us about yourself in the third person for a bit: nope
If someone breaks a law, should they be punished if they did not know it was a law? uh, yeah. Otherwise, wouldn't everyone just claim that they didn't know? It's a facile argument.
Does coffee stimulate your mind or body more? body. Coffee fucks me up.
Can you do 'six degrees of separation' to anyone famous? I went to high school with someone who is brilliant in his (financial) field. I went to college with a sort of famous author, an actress, and a handful of people who are pretty well known in their respective fields. I graduated from law school with a few people who are now judges, and some high-powered lawyers. And my grad school mentor appears on The History Channel and C-SPAN.
What's the oddest thing in your home? the skull, maybe?
Do you sometimes find yourself talking to yourself? I talk to [at] other drivers on the road, but not "to myself"
Do you answer yourself back? nope
In your head do you call yourself 'I' or 'you' or both? no
What is the best excuse for why you haven't done your homework? excuses don't work, but reasons do. What's the difference? Excuses are the ones you feel guilty about, because you know they're bullshit all along. Reasons are legitimate and mostly unavoidable, so you may feel bad but not like a liar when you tell them.
Does culture shape behavior or does behavior shape culture? yes, both
What determines whether a person will be:
...intelligent? mostly how one is raised, but also partly genetics
...pretty? genetics and culture
...happy? genetics, nurturing and culture. And luck.
...successful? good question. I still haven't figured that one out.
What are the physical symptoms of: joy, fear, shame? I don't think that is an answerable question. Physical sensations that accompany, or represent, emotions are probably impossible to relate except by way of the original emotion, and what "joy" means to me is perhaps not what "joy" means to anyone else. So why try to pin it down? Why not just feel it?
Who really has a higher sex drive, girls or guys? How can you tell? kind of like the last question, although I think it's an interesting problem to try and solve, I don't think that it's truly something that can be quantified or compared. What does "higher" mean in that context? Is it a number between one and ten, one and a hundred? If it is, how can anyone know if Female X's "One" is the equivalent of Male Z's "One." Does male desire "feel" like female desire? Is it expressed in the same way? Is it resolved in the same way? This question is looking for an easy answer to an age-old and probably too-scientific conundrum.
Are you usually carefree? in some areas of my life, I am extremely carefree, in the sense of being lighthearted and able to set aside deeper ramifications in favor of living in the moment. In others, though, I can't let go of the idea that I can exert some sort of control, and I keep gripping so tightly that I end up with aching hands--but no useful results anyway.
Do you generally prefer reading to meeting people? definitely
Do you often long for excitement? the juxtaposition with the previous question is noted, thanks. Yes, I do long for excitement--but within certain parameters, not generally.
Are you mostly quiet when you are with others? yep. Random strangers comment on it, coworkers complain about it ("you need to wear a collar with a bell"), former roommates have complained about it ("you are allowed to make noise, you know"), and people who love me take it as given.
Do you often do things spur of the moment? yes. This will come as a surprise and probably be rejected by some people, but I truly prefer when my life allows for more 'spur of the moment' and less 'stick to a plan'. My work calendar is arranged by another person and subject to input by four others, so even something as simple as going out to lunch is suddenly a complex notion, which I cannot stand. And I have, admittedly, subverted my social schedule to another.
But I don't want to live a life where everything goes according to plan, and the spur of the moment is avoided at all cost. Some of the best things that happen come with a close of the eyes and a roll of the dice.
Are you slow and unhurried in the way you move? see question #49, above--I apparently move around like a cat, silent and sometimes a little sneaky
Would you do almost anything for a dare? hmmm. It depends on who's doing the daring? I recently bought a bag of rubber snakes...
Do you hate being in a crowd who plays jokes on one another? Ha! I swear I didn't read ahead on this one. The rubber snakes from the last answer are a part of a long-running practical joke with my best friends. I pranked their house while cat- and dog-sitting for their vacation three years ago. They JUST found the last (?) snake a few weeks ago. We had a garage sale this weekend and they tried to sell the accumulated snakes...but I bought them back. Guess what's gonna happen when they go on vacation this year???
We don't do anything destructive to each other, or terribly frightening. They are more of the "showing our love" sort of jokes. I'm not a huge fan of puns, so I'm the recipient of them more often than not, for instance.
Do you enjoy wild parties? not at all
Have you ever paid for something priced more than $5.00 in only change? probably when I was a kid. I never carry that much change anymore!
Do you have OCD? no
Are you more anxious or relaxed? overall, more relaxed. Anxious about some specific things.
Insecure or secure? secure
Sociable or withdrawn? withdrawn
Original or conventional? original
Are you more emotional or calm? emotional inside, calm outside
self-pitying or content? content outside, self-pitying inside
Fun-loving or sober? my fun doesn't look like everybody else's, but I'm not "sober"
Imaginative or down to earth? imaginative
Are you more friendly or aloof? aloof
adventurous or cautious? that makes me snort. Within certain limited parameters, I'm super adventurous--but hardly anyone would believe it, looking in from the outside.
Broad or narrow when it comes to interests? good question. My first response is to say broad, but that may be defensive?
receptive or closed to new ideas? receptive
Are you more good natured or irritable? it depends on the circumstances. My patience is considerable but not boundless.
soft-hearted or ruthless? ruthless
well-organized or disorganized? organized but not obnoxious, and only in certain areas of my world
Dependable or undependable? dependable
Are you more courteous or rude? courteous
sympathetic or tough-minded? tough-minded
hardworking or lazy? hard-working, but only because it's the path of least resistance
ambitious or easygoing? I. Am. NOT. Ambitious.
Do men and woman have little or a lot in common? men and women are just people, individuals, and as such they have a lot in common or a little in common as their personalities and backgrounds and choices allow
Do you feel like any of the teachers you've ever had have really cared about educating you to think for yourself? absolutely. That was the main purpose of many of my favorite teachers!
Do you tend to try harder if they do care? not necessarily. One of my favorite and best profs, about whom I was talking just a couple of days ago, came from the "if it's on the outline, then I'll teach it" mode. No part of his classes was extemporaneous, if interrupted he could begin at exactly the point in the outline where he had left off, and his lectures never deviated from one semester to the next. But I learned exactly what I needed to know about the subject matter, which is the point, after all, and that content has remained with me since college.
Have you ever been stereotyped? As what? everyone is stereotyped somehow, and I don't think it happens to me more than others. That being said, I'm tired of people thinking that I'm boring or socially inept because I'm not an extrovert. Extroversion has its own problems!
Have you ever been discriminated against? For what? I've gotten the "you look like you don't have the money to shop here" attitude from salespeople plenty of times, and I either responded with the Pretty Woman line ("You people work on commission, right? ... Big mistake. Big. Huge. I have to go shopping now.") or, if I really needed whatever they were selling, by giving them the no-blink death-stare throughout the transaction, as if to say, "How do you like me now?!"
Yes, I've been discriminated against in real ways, too. By people who think that a woman can't be an attorney, or a little 20-something woman can't be an expert on an esoteric historical subject. By people with whom I worked at the library, who took my management position to be a gifted title and not an earned role. By people in my current organization, who thought that, in my original jobs there, I was dumb and disposable.
Those events and campaigns and feelings can "train" a person. They can make you more or less of what you were to begin with, more or less confident or doubting, more or less assertive or aggressive, more or less angry or accepting. More or less aware that other people, and the assumptions that you're making about them every day, may be more or less than you are giving credit for.
How often is your school and/or job closed due to weather? almost never. One time in the last 3 1/2 years.
Who do you know that you believe does not masturbate? I prefer to think nothing about that, for 99.9% of humanity
Does a cloned human being have a soul? yes
Why or why not? because a necessary condition of humanity is possession of a soul
Finish the sentence: "As the world turns, I only have one concern--that..." "...you know that I love you, don't you?"
What group in history has been the most oppressed? Nickelback
Have you read any biographies? Whose? that makes me laugh. I could start a list, but I'd fill the character limits of the post! But, as a for-instance, I've read several biographies of Francisco Franco and Éamon de Valera.
What are you obsessed with? shoes, writing, and finding a really good white bean pasta recipe...
Or houseplants, if you ask pretty much anyone who visits.
Do you crack your:
...knuckles? yep--it usually means that I'm fucking furious and trying to give myself a breather before I completely lose my shit.
...neck? yes, because lately I either don't sleep at all or I sleep so soundly that my neck cramps from being in one position for too long
...back? not unless it's really, really bad
...other? after I get a massage, I can crack my toes, which feels SO good. My feet are way too tight to do it now, though.
Of the following powers, which two would you pick for yourself? The ability to fly, breathe under water, turn invincible, change into animals, freeze and restart time, never gain weight unless you want to, heal people with your touch, have orgasms that last for an hour. freeze and restart time, and to heal people with my touch
Do you chew your pencils and pens? no
Can you tell the exact point where your back ends and your butt begins? I don't think that's how the body works...?
When you are bored do you picture everyone around you naked? I don't get bored like that. Apparently that's one of the chief benefits of introversion--we tend to occupy ourselves in such a way that "boredom" as suffered by other people is not really an issue for us. Introverts get bored in social situations, when we can't wander around in the vastly more interesting arena of our own heads.
Do you sit in chairs or fall into them? I sit
Has anyone ever...
...screamed your name during sex? I suppose you'd have to ask the rest of the planet. Anyone ever heard my name being screamed?
...moaned your name during sex? likewise. And I do so fear any possible response to these questions...
Hershey's Kisses: mint, almond, hugs, plain, other? almond, plain, or caramel
What's the best Slurpee flavor? couldn't do it. Way too sweet and too cold for this mouth packed with fillings!
What are five movies that you think someone would have to be living under a rock in Iceland to not have seen? putting aside the desirability of living under a rock in Iceland, my first answer is that I'm hardly the type of person to have seen movies that everyone else ought to have seen. But, for the sake of the game, I'll pick five that I own that everyone ought to see:
1. Dazed and Confused
2. The Professional
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Dead Poets Society
5. Young Frankenstein
Do you give good massages? I used to. The tendinitis in my thumbs may have diminished that capacity somewhat. The spirit is still willing, even as the flesh weakens.
What songs have been 'stuck' in your head? I get songs stuck in my head all the time, and often post them to FB as a method of unsticking them. This one's been running through my head for the last week or so. (Alkaline Trio's "Fine Without You"
What don't most people know about your job? WTF it is that I do in the first place. I have a sort of nonsense title that doesn't clear up at all with a job description.
Is there anything you won't say unless someone else says it first? "we should really get together..."
Do you need a little Christmas? we all need a little Christmas!

'Lee Christmas'
Fake or real tree? fake, and several of them
How can you explain when there are few words you can choose? the truth shows in your eyes
Who can it be now? the same as it always was
Where has Joe DiMaggio gone? And why does our nation turn it's eyes to him? he died March 8, 1999. He was, and probably still is, a symbol of a good person, and a better time.
How often do you get headaches? 2-3 times a week under optimal circumstances. Other times, it can be almost constant, more like the waves rolling in and out, hard to know when one has gone and another begun. I have one now that I think is new this morning, that's already fucking with my day.
Have you ever worn fake eyelashes? no. Even mascara is rough. My eyes are sensitive anyway (the shape of my eyes means that they are very exposed to wind and dust, etc. + too many years of wearing contacts), and adding anything that could possibly irritate them makes it all uncomfortable or worse.
What could you spend 24 hours in a row doing? talking/texting/FB messaging, with the person who is endlessly fascinating and engaging and heartbreaking and hilarious and irritating and lovely...
Is it Friday yet? not for a few days, sorry
Do you remember, There was a time (ahaha) when people on the street were walking hand in hand in hand? except for little kids and as a joke, that time is quite past
Do you talk to inanimate objects? Do you try to get them to answer you? Have they ever answered you? as alluded to a couple of times previously here, I'm a pretty quiet person in my normal life. I can go whole days without saying a word, and sometimes even a weekend. Why bother talking to something that can't answer back?
Though, for that matter--why talk to something (someone) who will answer back? There are times, and circumstances, when the inanimate would be vastly preferred.