Aug. 29th, 2002

camwyn: Me in a bomber jacket and jeans standing next to a green two-man North Andover Flight Academy helicopter. (Default)
ultimately stolen from [livejournal.com profile] calamitymolly.

1. Full name: No.
2. What color of underwear are you wearing? Um - which bit? There's some black, and some green, and some white. . . *checks* Yeah, that's pretty much it.
3. What's your favorite brand of underwear? People have favourite brands of underwear? Good lord.
4. What song are you listening to right now? The Impression That I Get, Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I haven't worn this mix CD (the Fang soundtrack) into the ground just yet. Gimme a few more days.
5. What are the last four digits of your phone number? 5067. Now ask me when those were the last four digits of my phone number.
6. What was the last thing you ate? Pasta shells and cannelini with garlic and oil, mixed with baked tofu in a Thai sesame peanut sauce.
7. Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend? Ain't your business.
8. If you were a crayon what color would you be? Silver.
9. Where would you like to go on your honeymoon? British Columbia.
11. How is the weather right now? Raining. Finally.
12. Last person you talked to on the phone? A woman from the MIS department at Kean, I believe her name was Holly.
13. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? Voice.
14. Do you like the person that sent you this? You mean the person I stole it from? Sure.
15. How are you today? Mildly perverse. I keep wanting to deliberately answer questions in the most annoying manner possible.
16. Favorite drink? Green tea, not too sweet.
17. Alcohol? On cuts. Sorry, I don't drink.
18. How do you eat an Oreo? I pull several of them apart and eat the independent cookie sides except one, then scrape all of the white goo onto one cookie, eat the remaining independent sides (again, except one), then make a sandwich with the lone remaining free side and the Mound of Sugared Hydrogenated Fats and eat that.
19. Favorite sport? Archery. I don't really do spectator sports.
20. What makes you happy? Lots of things. Rain. Pesto. Song lyrics. Fiddling with computer innards. Flying kites. Being mistaken for one of the staff at a RenFaire. Rollerblading. Apologizing to startled wildlife and having them stop and look at me, rather than run away. The look on people's faces when I demonstrate more cultural knowledge than Americans are supposed to have. Knowing things. Helping people. Like I said, lots of things.
21. What's the next CD you're gonna get? Damned if I know.
22. Are you cute? So I hear.
23. Hair color? Dark brown, but it varies between black and brown with signs of auburn if I'm not careful.
24. Eye color? Brown.
25. Height? Again, variable, but when I bother to stand at attention and take off my shoes for measurement, 5 foot 9.
26. What is your worst subject? Organic chemistry. Or possibly statistics. grrr.
27. Who's your favorite relative? Uncle Edward
28. What school do you attend? Kean University, and a local karate school, and with any luck Parsippany High School as that's where the Mandarin class I'm hoping to register for will be held.
29. What religion are you? Technically? Roman Catholic. I believe in the Wingwalker's Axiom: don't let go of what you have until you've got your hand on something else. God knows, I disagree with the Great White Father in Rome on more things than I can count, but I'm not declaring myself to be something else until I know exactly what that something else is. That being said, you are much more likely to find me sitting in Great Swamp with a copy of the Bible or Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio or Paradiso than you are to find me at an actual church. I know where my God lives, and buildings rarely do the trick.
30. What do you like to do? Go back and look at the makes-you-happy question before asking me something like this. The list would take up far too many pages for a meme like this.
31. What's the best advice given to you? It's a tie: "Call Dr. Perl and find out when he's holding his next LASIK informational seminar," and "You know, normal people don't come home from work and try to make cracked black peppercorn linguine from scratch. . . you might want to consider taking an actual culinary school course or two."
32. What are your future goals? Finish my master's degree, get out of my parents' house, get a Red Cross job in the Pacific Northwest, and serve on disaster relief operations the country (and eventually, the world) over.
33. Favourite music? Buggered if I know, my tastes tend to vary.
34. Favourite movie? Lordy, there's too many of these to decide. Blazing Saddles, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jin-Roh, Iron Monkey. . . I dunno.
36. Favourite month? Okay, let's go back to the underwear question for my general attitude on this; but if you really insist, I'm going for December. It's got more holidays than you can count and by the time it rolls around everything's pretty much over. It's a good cleanup month.
37. Do you like to dance? No.
38. Are you shy to ask someone out? Nah.
39. Worst sickness you ever had? Haemophilus parainfluenzae B. Left me with tonsils the size of USDA Grade 'small' chicken eggs and the Highest Temperature and Still Lucid award for the year at my university - 105.1 degrees F. Why they didn't commit me to hospital I'll never know; maybe they didn't trust the Tempa Dot strip they used to take my temperature. Made me intensely grateful for amoxicillin, ibuprofen, and ramen noodles (it hurt to swallow water; the noodles were the only way to get any foodlike substances down my throat).
40. What's the stupidest thing you have ever done? Stuck a button up my nose to the point where it got stuck. If you ever do this, I suggest becoming hysterically tearful and sobbing and wailing until you can't think straight. The tears will eventually lubricate the button to the point where one good sneeze stands a fair chance of dislodging it. I would ordinarily say that allowing my grades in college to drop in my senior year to the point where I no longer qualified for Honours on my diploma was the stupidest thing, but given that I was dealing with a nasty case of depression for a long stretch of my time at school, I'm not sure how culpable I really was for that particular stupidity. The button, on the other hand, was of my own free will and could have caused genuine harm, so it wins.
41. Do you like scary or happy movies? Yes.
42. On the phone or in person? Depends. Do I like you?
43. Summer or winter? Winter.
44. Hugs or kisses: Kisses, as Hugs have weird striped chocolate layers or nuts inside. . . What? This isn't a question about Hershey products?
45. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? My vile tendency towards impatience with other people.
46. Book you've recently read? Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian, the Han Dynasty chapters.
47. Do you want your friends to write back? Sure.
48. Who is least likely to respond? Dead people. Look, you should have realized back at #41 that I'd lost the battle not to make light of these questions.
49. What are you most afraid of? Coming off looking like an insincere, pretentious prat in front of people who are important to me.

You know,

Aug. 29th, 2002 10:39 am
camwyn: Me in a bomber jacket and jeans standing next to a green two-man North Andover Flight Academy helicopter. (Default)
I feel a bit better now...

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Retail giant Target Corp has called on its 1,100 stores to remove shorts and baseball caps marked "eight eight" or "88" -- code among neo-Nazis for "Heil Hitler" because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.

On another note I am now remembering why I don't normally drink coffee... unless there's food in the stomach as well as the liquid, coffee is more likely than any other caffeinated drink to leave me feeling shaky and give-me-electrolytes-NOW. 'Scuse me. I gotta go find a bagel or something.
camwyn: Me in a bomber jacket and jeans standing next to a green two-man North Andover Flight Academy helicopter. (Xiang Yu)
to go on the list alongside Overnight Ground Force Systems, Smokey's Catastrophe Cleaning, and Golan Disaster Recovery: at least four times in the past three days, I've looked up from my desk and seen a big white tractor-trailer passing by with the name LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT BUREAU painted on the side. I got their phone number this time, as typing the name into Google didn't get me anything but vaguely disquieting articles on transporting hazardous waste in Korea; they're listed as LMB Transport and they have an address in New Jersey. The truck itself seemed to indicate they were someone's subsidiary, but I didn't get the name.

Frankly, I think Logistics Management Bureau is a wonderful name for a subtly creepy agency out to do practically anything, but then again I am the one who noticed it in the first place, so.

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