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amand_rI'm ignoring the open file in Word, and what better way than to do that with a Meme? I haven't done one of these in a while, and I only review the past year a full two days after it's over, much like movies or books, because really, you have to think about it well after it's over. If I think about a movie before it's over, then I miss the end. And as we all know from Empire Strikes Back, the last 20 minutes are the best.
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wenchita, I present:
1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before? I lived with someone else that was not related to me and was/am fully conscious of the fact that it is not just a summer job deal. In fact, the summer has long been over, and he's still here. His stuff is still here. His dirty underwear is still there…on the bathroom floor, where he put them this morning. Hrm. Did you know that there's no "cide" word for "killing a husband"? Yeah, it surprised me too.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I never made any in the first place. Breaking a promise is one of the worst things you can do, something about Yahweh eating your soul, blah blah. Therefore, if I promise that I'll kill you, expect me when you least expect me. Yeah. Like that. The comedy demon strikes again.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? This is a boring question. I can tell you who DIDN'T give birth, and that person would be myself. Yes, quite the feat in avoiding the act of Immaculate Conception there. Before May, and I got married, I had angels coming to the apartment two, three times a week. Sure, it SOUNDS nice with the singing and the glowing lights, but do they have to do it in the middle of the night? You get all comfy and then all the sudden you feel a hand snaking up your thigh, and you have to sit up and say "NO GOD! NOT NOW!! I HAVE A HEADACHE!"
4. Did anyone close to you die? What year is this? 2003? Uh, no, I think for the first time in ten years no one has died. I was about to say that this had to change, but then I realized that the title says "retrospect," so, uh, no.
5. What countries did you visit? Orlando. No really, it's a cultural cornucopia down here,. Do you know what a carneceria is? I do. Now.
6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003? This is such a cop out question, because there are so many ways to answer it:
The person who takes all this "seriously" says, I'd like to have more self esteem, maybe a significant other, blah blah emo blah.
The person who thinks he's funny but is really just cliched says either, a. A million dollars! Ha! or b. Heidi Klum/Ewan McGregor! Nekkid! in my bed! omgimsobad/toasted/ridiculoislyloserish!
the painfully deliberately weird person says, cheese! omgimsooddteehee! blat!
Amand-r says, The new Tori Amos CD, and since I'm going to buy it tomorrow at Borders, my job here is done.
7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? I could probably say my wedding date, but Tianyu and I have already forgotten it and regularly have to check the cover of the wedding album for the date, so I guess it will have to be July 14th. Bastille Day. Ah, I remember it as if it was only yesterday, the flowers, the music, the carnage and the waving of the flag. We freed all the prisoners and they we raised our mugs of cheap wine, singing as one...no wait, that was my wedding.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? I made tenure. But then I left the school so that hardly matters, does it? Oh well, at least I can say I made tenure. Yeah.
9. What was your biggest failure? I didn't finish ToA. Oh well, it's not like it can't wait. ::shrug::
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Waaaaaaaaaaaait…waaaaaaaaaaaaaait, scanning…scanning………scanning……scanning 87% complete. Press Cancel to Stop Scan. Scanning 95% complete….scanning….scanning….scanning 99% complete….scanning complete. Would you like to open this file or save it to disk?. Which program would you like to use to open this file? cannot find c:/ACROSYPHILIS.exe……
Uhm. no?
11. What was the best thing you bought? A horse, but I had to trade my kingdom for it. Ba dum dum ching!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Tianyu's, because he has been very patient, wot wi' all the scannin' an' all goin' on 'roun' 'ere. An' all the dropped aayches, ey guvnah?
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Okay, real answer here. My MIL. Really, she goes after the Ti man, and I just want to rip her guts out. He will go to grad school soon, and he's working on it. They way you do things is not the way we do things. Some things take a backseat to frugality. Seriously, if I had ever given my mum a necklace and it had been of poor quality (and right now I think of all the macaroni portraits I made for her, and realize that she's a saint, a goddamned saint), and she had told me that she would have been able to get it at a third of the price, she would have fully expected to be DECKED by my fist of thunder. ANYWAY, lots of buried resentment and general loathing for a great deal of her behavior, if this lj is to be believed.
14. Where did most of your money go? To banks. Some of it is still, gah, canttellyouthat.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Lessee, the wedding thing, RAGNOROK, the 5th Harry Potter book, and the second X-Men movie because I am a whore.
16. What song will always remind you of 2003? e-nomine's "vater unser", because really, I think Hellsing just sums up the entire year for me, poor fansubs and all.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I can't even remember last week, let alone last January, dude.
ii. thinner or fatter? probably fatter. Being married is high in calories. I wish I was pregnant so I had an excuse.
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer, though we make more money, I make, like, a monkey and a tin can once every two weeks. Then the monkey runs off with the tin can, but not before he flings poo everywhere and uses my toothbrush to comb for ticks. Damn monkey bastards.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Horseback riding. Not that I did any in the first place, but I figure that just leaves me with a lot of room for more of the same, you know?
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Most people will answer "watch TV", or "fight giant squids", or perhaps even "work," but I think they're all being unrealistic. You watch just as much TV and fight as many giant squids or even work as much as you want to and can stop at any moment you wish, so I think I'll just answer that I wish I had done less coke, because I didn't do any in the first place, but it's like a polar opposite to the previous answer.
OT: Have you ever noticed that "answer" does not sound like it's spelled? I never noticed it before until it was a new sight vocab word for a student, and their eyes had widened and they had said, "ans were?" and I realized that whoever made this word up was DEFINITELY too much dabbling in the coke that year, yes they were.
Tianyu: Answer come from the old word "answarion" for swearing an oath….
Me: No one says the W any more, that wot I'm sayin'…
Tianyu: No one says the Q in "poop" anymore, but it's there!
Me: There's no Q in poop.
Tianyu: Yes there is: p-o-o-q-p, see?
Me: O__o
20. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with? The mum. I miss the mum. I think I should go make her a macaroni portrait after I finish this.
21. Did you fall in love in 2003? Hello? Did we not earlier read that I'm MARRIED? Marriage, I have learned is not about being in love. It is about finding a bed that has a good mattress and making sure that everyone has enough clean underwear for the upcoming days. Oh, and taking EPT tests at 6 a.m.
22. How many one-night stands? Well, only one nightstand, but it used to be the gerbil cage table. THAT'S IT!! Blarg died! I knew someone had died! Gah!
23. What was your favorite TV program? Family Guy. Hands fucking down. Though I squeeed like a fangirl when I got QaF Second season on DVD.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Norman Mailer, only because I didn't really know much about him before now, and perhaps Phillip Roth, simply because The Human Stain is the most boring book in the universe, and I wasted my QPBC bonus points on it. Commie bastard. I should have KNOWN when Bloom recommended it that he'd be a shit ass, retard, dry as fuck writer who cares about all that boring human crap. I want to read about whores and pretty pretty ponies, dammit.
25. What was the best book you read? Hands down, though rather boringly, The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory. See? Whores and pretty pretty ponies.
26. What did you want and get? I wanted a part time job. I got a part time job. I wanted a quiche ring. I got a quiche ring. I wanted to sense a pattern. I sensed a pattern.
27. What did you want and not get? This is retarded. I just want to go to bed. Or maybe write a little. I was thinking about all the time I fill these things out and it seems that the last five to ten questions are the worst. Your spirit is gone, and you have no steam, so you bow to the yoke of Survey and answer them in the must succinct and honest way imaginable. Apparently, it takes energy to lie. Well, not me, no sir. I shall trudge on, spouting half-truth, puns and nonsense, dammit.
28. What was your favorite film of this year? 28 Days Later, because it had ZOMBIES THAT RUN. And if you don't think that's scary, then you haven't seen it or ever played a Resident Evil game. And if you HAVE, then you are a soulless being and that is concentrated evil coming out the back of you.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? See, how they try to trick you into revealing your age? It's all a clever ploy. They don't really care about what you did on your birthday; all they want to know is how OLD you are. Well sirrah, I have NO IDEA what I did on my birthday, but I bet it was great. And since I'm in the mood to not remember more things, I have no idea how old I am this (or last) year.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? The year would have been better as a whole if more random acts of violence occurred. I heard that there was some guy who liked to bike down streets in Sacramento and punch women in the face. I mean, come on, folks, that is pure genius. I think everyone needs this to happen in their life. I would have also have been more satisfied if certain trolls were beaten with bats and then anally raped with a broom (yes, special-reader-who-knows-who-they-are, that means you), because you know? I figure most people here take me waaaaay too seriously. Heh. Lube the broom, and expect me when you least expect me. Because in that moment when you least expect me, you'll be able to expect me.
31. What kept you sane? Uh, have you been reading the last question? Nothing, dude. Nothing! You sooooooooo stupid!
32. Who did you miss?danawoods, rabbijones and arsenicjade, because they are all t e h r0x0r5.
33. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003: Never tell your significant other that he/she is being childish, because they just stick out their tongue and call you a pedophile.
34. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: "wake lady, wake/the hills are in flood/and the road we must take/is a river of blood." The Waterboys, "Wind in the Wires"
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wenchita, I present: 1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before? I lived with someone else that was not related to me and was/am fully conscious of the fact that it is not just a summer job deal. In fact, the summer has long been over, and he's still here. His stuff is still here. His dirty underwear is still there…on the bathroom floor, where he put them this morning. Hrm. Did you know that there's no "cide" word for "killing a husband"? Yeah, it surprised me too.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I never made any in the first place. Breaking a promise is one of the worst things you can do, something about Yahweh eating your soul, blah blah. Therefore, if I promise that I'll kill you, expect me when you least expect me. Yeah. Like that. The comedy demon strikes again.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? This is a boring question. I can tell you who DIDN'T give birth, and that person would be myself. Yes, quite the feat in avoiding the act of Immaculate Conception there. Before May, and I got married, I had angels coming to the apartment two, three times a week. Sure, it SOUNDS nice with the singing and the glowing lights, but do they have to do it in the middle of the night? You get all comfy and then all the sudden you feel a hand snaking up your thigh, and you have to sit up and say "NO GOD! NOT NOW!! I HAVE A HEADACHE!"
4. Did anyone close to you die? What year is this? 2003? Uh, no, I think for the first time in ten years no one has died. I was about to say that this had to change, but then I realized that the title says "retrospect," so, uh, no.
5. What countries did you visit? Orlando. No really, it's a cultural cornucopia down here,. Do you know what a carneceria is? I do. Now.
6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003? This is such a cop out question, because there are so many ways to answer it:
The person who takes all this "seriously" says, I'd like to have more self esteem, maybe a significant other, blah blah emo blah.
The person who thinks he's funny but is really just cliched says either, a. A million dollars! Ha! or b. Heidi Klum/Ewan McGregor! Nekkid! in my bed! omgimsobad/toasted/ridiculoislyloserish!
the painfully deliberately weird person says, cheese! omgimsooddteehee! blat!
Amand-r says, The new Tori Amos CD, and since I'm going to buy it tomorrow at Borders, my job here is done.
7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? I could probably say my wedding date, but Tianyu and I have already forgotten it and regularly have to check the cover of the wedding album for the date, so I guess it will have to be July 14th. Bastille Day. Ah, I remember it as if it was only yesterday, the flowers, the music, the carnage and the waving of the flag. We freed all the prisoners and they we raised our mugs of cheap wine, singing as one...no wait, that was my wedding.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? I made tenure. But then I left the school so that hardly matters, does it? Oh well, at least I can say I made tenure. Yeah.
9. What was your biggest failure? I didn't finish ToA. Oh well, it's not like it can't wait. ::shrug::
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Waaaaaaaaaaaait…waaaaaaaaaaaaaait, scanning…scanning………scanning……scanning 87% complete. Press Cancel to Stop Scan. Scanning 95% complete….scanning….scanning….scanning 99% complete….scanning complete. Would you like to open this file or save it to disk?. Which program would you like to use to open this file? cannot find c:/ACROSYPHILIS.exe……
Uhm. no?
11. What was the best thing you bought? A horse, but I had to trade my kingdom for it. Ba dum dum ching!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Tianyu's, because he has been very patient, wot wi' all the scannin' an' all goin' on 'roun' 'ere. An' all the dropped aayches, ey guvnah?
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Okay, real answer here. My MIL. Really, she goes after the Ti man, and I just want to rip her guts out. He will go to grad school soon, and he's working on it. They way you do things is not the way we do things. Some things take a backseat to frugality. Seriously, if I had ever given my mum a necklace and it had been of poor quality (and right now I think of all the macaroni portraits I made for her, and realize that she's a saint, a goddamned saint), and she had told me that she would have been able to get it at a third of the price, she would have fully expected to be DECKED by my fist of thunder. ANYWAY, lots of buried resentment and general loathing for a great deal of her behavior, if this lj is to be believed.
14. Where did most of your money go? To banks. Some of it is still, gah, canttellyouthat.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Lessee, the wedding thing, RAGNOROK, the 5th Harry Potter book, and the second X-Men movie because I am a whore.
16. What song will always remind you of 2003? e-nomine's "vater unser", because really, I think Hellsing just sums up the entire year for me, poor fansubs and all.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I can't even remember last week, let alone last January, dude.
ii. thinner or fatter? probably fatter. Being married is high in calories. I wish I was pregnant so I had an excuse.
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer, though we make more money, I make, like, a monkey and a tin can once every two weeks. Then the monkey runs off with the tin can, but not before he flings poo everywhere and uses my toothbrush to comb for ticks. Damn monkey bastards.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Horseback riding. Not that I did any in the first place, but I figure that just leaves me with a lot of room for more of the same, you know?
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Most people will answer "watch TV", or "fight giant squids", or perhaps even "work," but I think they're all being unrealistic. You watch just as much TV and fight as many giant squids or even work as much as you want to and can stop at any moment you wish, so I think I'll just answer that I wish I had done less coke, because I didn't do any in the first place, but it's like a polar opposite to the previous answer.
OT: Have you ever noticed that "answer" does not sound like it's spelled? I never noticed it before until it was a new sight vocab word for a student, and their eyes had widened and they had said, "ans were?" and I realized that whoever made this word up was DEFINITELY too much dabbling in the coke that year, yes they were.
Tianyu: Answer come from the old word "answarion" for swearing an oath….
Me: No one says the W any more, that wot I'm sayin'…
Tianyu: No one says the Q in "poop" anymore, but it's there!
Me: There's no Q in poop.
Tianyu: Yes there is: p-o-o-q-p, see?
Me: O__o
20. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with? The mum. I miss the mum. I think I should go make her a macaroni portrait after I finish this.
21. Did you fall in love in 2003? Hello? Did we not earlier read that I'm MARRIED? Marriage, I have learned is not about being in love. It is about finding a bed that has a good mattress and making sure that everyone has enough clean underwear for the upcoming days. Oh, and taking EPT tests at 6 a.m.
22. How many one-night stands? Well, only one nightstand, but it used to be the gerbil cage table. THAT'S IT!! Blarg died! I knew someone had died! Gah!
23. What was your favorite TV program? Family Guy. Hands fucking down. Though I squeeed like a fangirl when I got QaF Second season on DVD.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Norman Mailer, only because I didn't really know much about him before now, and perhaps Phillip Roth, simply because The Human Stain is the most boring book in the universe, and I wasted my QPBC bonus points on it. Commie bastard. I should have KNOWN when Bloom recommended it that he'd be a shit ass, retard, dry as fuck writer who cares about all that boring human crap. I want to read about whores and pretty pretty ponies, dammit.
25. What was the best book you read? Hands down, though rather boringly, The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory. See? Whores and pretty pretty ponies.
26. What did you want and get? I wanted a part time job. I got a part time job. I wanted a quiche ring. I got a quiche ring. I wanted to sense a pattern. I sensed a pattern.
27. What did you want and not get? This is retarded. I just want to go to bed. Or maybe write a little. I was thinking about all the time I fill these things out and it seems that the last five to ten questions are the worst. Your spirit is gone, and you have no steam, so you bow to the yoke of Survey and answer them in the must succinct and honest way imaginable. Apparently, it takes energy to lie. Well, not me, no sir. I shall trudge on, spouting half-truth, puns and nonsense, dammit.
28. What was your favorite film of this year? 28 Days Later, because it had ZOMBIES THAT RUN. And if you don't think that's scary, then you haven't seen it or ever played a Resident Evil game. And if you HAVE, then you are a soulless being and that is concentrated evil coming out the back of you.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? See, how they try to trick you into revealing your age? It's all a clever ploy. They don't really care about what you did on your birthday; all they want to know is how OLD you are. Well sirrah, I have NO IDEA what I did on my birthday, but I bet it was great. And since I'm in the mood to not remember more things, I have no idea how old I am this (or last) year.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? The year would have been better as a whole if more random acts of violence occurred. I heard that there was some guy who liked to bike down streets in Sacramento and punch women in the face. I mean, come on, folks, that is pure genius. I think everyone needs this to happen in their life. I would have also have been more satisfied if certain trolls were beaten with bats and then anally raped with a broom (yes, special-reader-who-knows-who-they-are, that means you), because you know? I figure most people here take me waaaaay too seriously. Heh. Lube the broom, and expect me when you least expect me. Because in that moment when you least expect me, you'll be able to expect me.
31. What kept you sane? Uh, have you been reading the last question? Nothing, dude. Nothing! You sooooooooo stupid!
32. Who did you miss?
danawoods, rabbijones and arsenicjade, because they are all t e h r0x0r5.33. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003: Never tell your significant other that he/she is being childish, because they just stick out their tongue and call you a pedophile.
34. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: "wake lady, wake/the hills are in flood/and the road we must take/is a river of blood." The Waterboys, "Wind in the Wires"
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Date: 2004-01-02 10:01 am (UTC)This is retarded. I just want to go to bed. Or maybe write a little. I was thinking about all the time I fill these things out and it seems that the last five to ten questions are the worst. Your spirit is gone, and you have no steam, so you bow to the yoke of Survey and answer them in the must succinct and honest way imaginable. Apparently, it takes energy to lie. Well, not me, no sir. I shall trudge on, spouting half-truth, puns and nonsense, dammit.
You've just summed up the true evil of memes, I think.
Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003: Never tell your significant other that he/she is being childish, because they just stick out their tongue and call you a pedophile.
LOL! Thank you, I needed that laugh. Also, I think I live like an hour from you. And yet further also, I was very psyched to read your new Tongues of Angels chapter! Please don't give up on it. It's insane, but I enjoy it immensely. Or should that be 'and?'
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Date: 2004-01-02 10:44 am (UTC)I have deemed it my mission in life to wittily answer any and all memes I deem worthy of my attention. That it is four in the morning and my creative juices are running low will not deter me. Bah!
By the way, you like in FL too? We live in Orlando, off of Orange Blossom Trail (the dodgy end).
Lastly, I'm glad you're still reading ToA. I figure if the Krell aren't done yet, then I shan't worry. Or course, the day that do they do finish, if I'm not done yet, I believe that people come to one's hoise and cart you away to a place where one is chained to an old Smith Corona and forced to finish their opus with only water and zwieback for sustenance.
And that last bit is proof that I've been writing too much Harry Potter in the last few days.
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Date: 2004-01-05 04:59 am (UTC)Umberto Eco. You might like it -- it's about a compulsive liar during the 4th Crusade.
By the way, you like in FL too?
Yes, about an hour or a little more due west of you. :)
Lastly, I'm glad you're still reading ToA. I figure if the Krell aren't done yet, then I shan't worry. Or course, the day that do they do finish, if I'm not done yet, I believe that people come to one's hoise and cart you away to a place where one is chained to an old Smith Corona and forced to finish their opus with only water and zwieback for sustenance.
You mean after the world ends and the sky falls and dogs and cats start sleeping together?