Confessions of a Chronic Dork

Singing along to: Flogging Molly, Between A Man And A Woman

Stolen from The Caffeinated Librarian.

The Rules:
* Pick 15 of your favorite movies
* Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie (or quote them from memory because you are that bad ass)
* Post them on your blog for everyone to guess
* Fill in the film title once it’s been guessed

These are your rules:
* No Googling or using IMDb search functions (Don’t cheat!)
* Leave your answer(s) in the comments

The person who guesses the most movies gets... well, absolutely nothing, except for the satisfaction of knowing that A) you share my exceptionally fine taste in cinema and B) you have no life, possibly. And really, what prize could be better than knowing that?

The Quotes:

1. "Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket..." Serenity, guessed by James


2. "That's the beauty of argument: if you argue correctly, you're never wrong."Thank You For Smoking, guessed by James.


3. "Oooh, he's so handsome! Just like his reward posters..." Robin Hood (Disney version, of course), guessed by Grace.


4. "We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning, I'm making waffles!" Shrek, guessed by Mary Alice.


5. "Nah, Tone, you're just jealous. You know perfectly well that any bar anywhere in America contains ten girls more beautiful and more likely to have sex with me than the whole of the United Kingdom." Love Actually, guessed by Emily


6. "I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science." Anchorman, guessed by Emily


7. "Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony." Monty Python and the Holy Grail, guessed by James


8. "It's not everyday you find a girl who'll flash someone to get you out of detention." 10 Things I Hate About You, guessed by Christie


9. "...what do you do? You laugh. I'm not saying I don't cry but in between I laugh and I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry. It feels pretty good." Garden State, guessed by Emily


10. "We must meet this threat with our courage, our valor, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and always!"


11. "Consider the lilies of the goddamn field." O Brother Where Art Thou?, guessed by Mary Liz


12. "Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles..." The Princess Bride, guessed by Mary Alice


13. "If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will..." Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back guessed by Mary Liz


14. "Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh... he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18... Ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that." Little Miss Sunshine, guessed by Mary Alice


15. "Now if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you can come up with another clever idea to get us all killed - or worse, expelled." Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone, guessed by James.

Update: All the titles have been guessed (you guys rock) except for #10, Starship Troopers, which, despite its many selling points, is not the most quotable movie ever made.

Labels: Memes

Singing along to: Dave Matthews Band, #34. Technically I am not "singing along" to this song, since it's instrumental. Humming along? Maybe.

Am-I-Dumb.com - Are you dumb?

Although the test results did not tell me this, I went back and checked all my answers against Wikipedia because I'm a nerd. Turns out the one I got wrong is the first question, an easy one, which I could have figured out on my own had I taken the time to count on my knuckles properly. Oh well.

(Also, does anyone else do that trick for remembering which months are which lengths? I never could remember that little rhyme about thirty days hath September and so forth, but I can do the knuckle-counting thing. Anyone else know what I'm talking about or is it just something my mom made up?)

Quiz from the Sober Sophomore.

Labels: Memes

Singing along to: Coldplay, In My Place

From Ma Beck even though I only sit on the Gospel side sometimes.

Were you named after anyone?
St. Claire and my paternal grandmother, Cecile.

When was the last time you cried?
I don't remember. Good sign, right?

Favorite lunch meat?
Ham. Particularly on a grilled cheese sandwich. Although turkey on sourdough with hummus is good, too.

Do you have kids?
No. Some people might say that I'm still a kid.

If you were another person, would you be friends with yourself?
I really don't know. This question has always baffled me. Apparently my brain is not flexible enough to do the mental gymnastics involved in "me, but not me, encountering me."

Do you use sarcasm a lot?
I'm fluent.

Do you have your tonsils?
Yes. And my appendix. But not my wisdom teeth.

Would you bungee jump?
I don't think so.

Favorite cereal?
Cocoa Puffs. I rarely eat them for breakfast (and I never have them at home), but sometimes at school, after a bad day, there's just nothing that can satisfy like a big bowl of Cocoa Puffs. The ultimate comfort food. I also enjoy Froot Loops.

Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Usually.

What is your favorite ice cream?
Chocolate chip cookie dough!

What do you first notice about people?
Uh...

Red or pink?
Red.

What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
That I am freakishly self-conscious.

What is the last thing you ate?
Hamburger and fries.

What colors are you wearing?
Red plaid button-down, denim capris.

What are you listening to right now?
Coldplay; see above.

What is your favorite smell?
Hm. Most smells give me a headache, but my cranberry body wash (Avon, baby!) smells really good. And most men's cologne makes me weak in the knees. Cliche? Yes. But true.

Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
My dad.

Favorite sport to watch?
I really don't watch sports.

Hair color?
Reddish brown. Will be redder once I get to Target and buy some more dye.

Eye color?
Green.

Do you wear contacts?
Yes.

Scary movie or happy ending?
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive, but of the two choices, happy ending. Or more accurately, ANYTHING except a scary movie.

Favorite food?
Something Italian, cheese-filled, and artery clogging.

Last movie you saw in a theater?
Shrek the Third with James.

What color shirt are you wearing?
The same red plaid button-down I was wearing ten questions ago.

Summer or winter?
Neither. Fall and spring!

Hugs or kisses?
If we're talking Hershey's, then Hugs. If we're talking actual human contact, then that depends on who else is involved, doesn't it?

Favorite dessert?
Pie. Coconut cream, pecan, key lime, lemon meringue... I'm really not picky.

What are you reading?
I'm sort of in between books right now. I've meant to do a reading round-up post; perhaps tomorrow.

What is on your mousepad?
Tie dye. It's really grody, though.

What did you watch on TV last night?
No TV last night.

Rolling Stones or Beatles?
Beatles.

Farthest you've ever been from home?
Berlin, Germany.

Where were you born?
Baltimore, MD, hon.

Labels: Memes

Singing along to: Iron & Wine, Upward Over the Mountain

I was so good about resisting these. Blame the Ironic Catholic for this one.

Eight things about me that you really don't need to know:

* I am still a little bit afraid of the dark.
* I have a Rosie the Riveter bobble head on my desk.
* I have never been able to touch my toes.
* I wear a size 10.5 shoe, which actually means I wear 10s or 11s and just get blisters.
* I was born 5 days late, which pretty much set the precedent for the rest of my life
* I have lived all my life in Maryland, but I don't like crabs much.
* I have never had cable TV.
* I have a secret weakness for fashion magazines.

1. What do you hope to accomplish with your blog?
Like, a purpose? With, like, goals? Oh. My bad.

Seriously, though? I just like to write. I like words and sentences and writing and yes, I like the sound of my own voice (most of the time). And burned out as I am with the fiction thing, blogging seems like a reasonable way to channel that need to write. Actual content isn't as important to me as the actual act of writing, but that's something I should work on. Just not in this post.

2. Are you a spiritual person?

I am Catholic. I think that whatever happens to me in my life, I will always be Catholic, because no matter how much I doubt, I can't see anything else for me. But that doesn't answer the question. Here's my real and honest answer: I try. I don't know if I succeed, but I do try.

3. If you were stranded on a deserted island, what three things would you want to have with you?

A GPS-equipped boat. Food. Sunscreen. Is that cheating?

4. What’s your favorite childhood memory?

All the crazy things my best friend and I used to do in elementary school. Once we made paste out of flour and water and realized it was edible. Tasted bland, though, so we added Jello powder, Kool-Aid, cinnamon, whatever we could find in her kitchen. That just made it worse, so we decided it would be more fun for me to cover my entire body in it. That was the moment that my mom pulled into the driveway to pick me up.

Another time, at camp, there was a massive game of capture the flag, and the counselors used dabs of paint on the backs of our hands to differentiate between teams. JJ and I kept coming back for more and more paint, so that by the end of day, every part of our bodies not covered in clothes was covered in pink paint. Once again, that was when my mom came to pick me up, so we could go to the hospital to visit my grandmother. Oops.

5. Are these your first (tagging) memes?

No, I'm sort of an addict, although I've tried to rein in the meme compulsion.

6. Eight random facts about me

Didn't I just do this for the first question?

* I am practicing to be a crazy cat lady, except without the cats.
* My musical ability reached its height in fifth grade, when I successfully played "Hot Cross Buns" on the recorder. It's been downhill ever since.
* I would love to learn Old English, as well as improve my very rusty Spanish.
* I would love to be a newspaper columnist, except for the part where you have to prove yourself as a reporter first.
* I think I would also enjoy copy editing. Does that make me a freak?
* Josh Groban's music puts me in a killing mood.
* I don't like carbonated drinks.
* My favorite Chinese food is sesame chicken.

Labels: Memes

Singing along to: Reliant K, Be My Escape

Labels: Memes

Singing along to: the Beatles, Revolution

Admiring: My fingernails, which are pretty much all the same length--and that length is NOT "really really bitten." HURRAH.

Beating myself up about: That fact that I've been eating french fries at like every meal. And dessert. I don't have weight issues or insecurities, but that's just not healthy (BUT SO TASTY).

Crying over: Nothing, at the moment. I've been doing a lot less crying this year than last, thank goodness--in fact, I'd say I'm back to my usual levels of non-cryingness. Hurrah.

Daydreaming about: My next paycheck (will land in my checking account a week and a few hours from now)

Excited because: I got James and me tickets to the Damien Rice concert at the Lincoln Theatre on December 16.

Frustrated because: our archaeology syllabus is terrible and doesn't explain projects and assignments and neither does the professor. And the TA has no idea what's going on. (Seriously: she didn't know that we don't have a final exam.)

Grumpy because: See above. But I'm not really that grumpy.

Hate-filled and seething over: At the moment, nothing. (I know, how often does that happen?)

Indignant because: Oy vey! Why I am doing this thing on the ONE DAY I don't have a list of twenty things to grouch and complain about?

Just shoot me now because: my checking account balance, coincidentally enough, is exactly the same as the date of the Damien Rice concert: 12.16

Kidding myself regarding: the idea that I'll ever be able to kick my hot chocolate habit. Or, you know, the idea that I'd want to.

Listening to: U2! And, until recently, the periodic shrill tones of someone's alarm clock. It's NOON. Get out of bed and turn off the damn alarm clock already!

Mooning over: ?

Need: A LIFE

Obsessing over: Um, my fingernails, a little bit? Because they haven't looked this nice in a long time. (Hi, my name is Shallow. Nice to meet you.)

Praying: that the end of the semester will come very, very quickly. Also, that I'll be able to find someone to replace me at work next Saturday, because I have a Dead Owl Train Trip scheduled and I totally cannot miss that in order to spend four hours of my Saturday at the bookstore.

Questioning: my unhealthy addiction to memes like this.

Reading: "Ancient Ireland: Life Before the Celts" by Laurence Flanagan and the December issue of Glamour, plus I am supposed to be reading "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" by Kant and some stuff by Francis Bacon (but I'm not).

Singing: "Must Get Out" by Maroon Five

Trying: To convince myself to finish my archaeology homework now, instead of waiting until fifteen minutes before it's due.

Unnerved by: This unusually gorgeous November weather

Valentiney Update: I love James. James loves me. Go ahead and barf now. (Is that what "Valentiney Update" means?)

Wondering: what's behind the recent upswing in daily hits on this blog. (And by "upswing" I mean it about doubled...from six to twelve.)

X-rated action: None of your beeswax. (But no, there is none of that.)

Yawning over: My approaching class on the Renaissance and Francis Bacon.

Zoinks: What a spectacular time-wasting strategy this has been. I love blogs.

Labels: Memes

Singing along to: Carmina Burana, O Fortuna

Never again in my life: will I go parasailing. Or go-carting with my uncle.

When I was five: My parents asked me if I wanted a new brother or sister. (Good thing I said yes, because my brother was coming whether I liked it or not.)

High school was all about: procrastination and running.

By noon: I'm ready to go back to bed.

Last night: I went to the Phi Eta Sigma induction ceremony and did laundry. Yes, on a Friday night. It was actually a great time to do it since every else in the world was out and about.

Next time I go to church: will be tomorrow.

What worries me most: change and the future.

When I turn my head right I see: my wardrobe and the top of my fridge, covered in glasses and a mug I need to wash.

When I turn my head left I see: my calendar, my window, and a photo of me and Vikki at her graduation.

You know I'm lying when: I say I love college.

By this time, next year: I'll be more than halfway through college, counting down the days till my twentieth birthday, and hopefully still living on campus.

I have a hard time understanding: myself?

You know I like you if: I talk freely around you.

Take my advice, NEVER: Say nasty things about other people on the Internet.

My ideal breakfast is: CREPES. With chocolate. In Paris.

If you visit my hometown, I suggest: that you prepared to get very lost, if you're in Columbia, or you get to know and love the Metro, if you're in DC.

I'd stop my wedding for: Hell or high water. Or maybe a death in the family.

The world could do without: War. Josh Groban. The words "nuptial" and "Gitmo." Spiders. Chihuahuas. The list goes on...

I'd rather lick the belly of a cockroach than: lick the belly of a spider.

San Diego means: a whale's vagina.

And by the way: I just woke up from an early-evening nap and now I'm all lethargic. I also deleted a lot of questions from this thing (which I borrowed from Tim Rice) because I didn't feel like answering them and also to make it shorter.

Labels: College, Memes

Singing along to: Iron & Wine, On Your Wings

From Thursday.

1. One book that changed your life:

Oh man. I've read so many books that have been so good...

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:

I'm a chronic re-reader, but picking one at random: The Hobbit

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:

The Canterbury Tales. In Middle English. It would keep me occupied for a very long time.

4. One book that made you laugh:

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris--this book (and anything else by Sedaris, for that matter) is riotously funny.

5. One book that made you cry:

Oh, you know what's coming: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (even when I re-read it and normally I don't cry as much the second time around)

6. One book that you wish had been written:

Rosemary Sutcliff's take on Robin Hood (probably has been written and is just out of print, but in the end I suppose it comes out to nearly the same thing)

7. One book that you wish had never been written:

Oh, you want me to pick just one? The first two that crossed my mind were The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, which I recall as being stupendously boring, and Romeo and Juliet which I still think as being far more of a testament to stupidity than twoo wuv.

8. One book you’re currently reading:

Well, I just finished The Mark of the Horse Lord by Rosemary Sutcliff; I'm not sure what I'll start on next. I've been meaning to re-read The Once and Future King for awhile now, so perhaps that?

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:

Again, how can I pick just one? But I think I'll go with Walden--I even own it and yet I can never seem to pick it up.

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In other news, it is raining and gross again, but this time I can't blame it on Ernesto. Right now it is misting very heavily, but when I woke up this morning to go work out, it was pouring. So I didn't go work out. Instead, I spent the time on the computer, stewing about Facebook's stupid new changes. Time well spent, clearly.

Labels: Books, Memes

Singing along to: Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, Two of Us

So far, for Photo Friday pictures, I have made a valiant effort to post photos of subjects other than my dog. You know, photos with more artistic interest or something. Well, I'm feeling too lazy this morning to dig up something good (plus I'm running late for breakfast), so I'm posting this photo of Lucy that I took Wednesday. She loves to stretch out on the steps and sleep and I think it's hilarious when she sticks her head so far under the railing, because then she usually ends up knocking it when she tries to get back up. Plus, she's cute and I miss her. So enjoy.

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Also, Thursday tagged me with the Quotation Meme, so here goes:

The Directions:
Go here, to the random quotes generator, and look through random quotes until you find five that you think:

a) reflect who you are

OR

b) what you believe.

The Results:


"The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives." (Lois McMaster Bujold)

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves." (Ronald Reagan) (Why yes, I am a registered Republican. Why do you ask?)

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends." (Walt Whitman)

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." (G.K. Chesterton)

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." (Robert Frost)

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Perhaps later this evening, if I have time, I'll say something about the training so far or maybe my air conditioner, which is quite possibly the loudest IN THE WORLD. Not that it, you know, kept me up at night or anything.

Labels: Memes, Photos

Singing along to: Simon & Garfunkel, Cecilia

I have no actual reason to do this, except that I saw it on Thursday's blog and thought it looked more fun than going to bed.

Instructions: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING.

How does the world see you?
Spies--Coldplay

Will I have a happy life?
All My Friends--Counting Crows

What do my friends really think of me?
The Best of What's Around--Dave Matthews Band

What do people secretly think of me?
My Best Friend -- Weezer

How can I make myself happy?
Downhill From Here -- Snow Patrol

What should I do with my life?
Hey Jude -- the Beatles

Will I ever have children?
The Glory of Love -- New Found Glory

What is some good advice for me?
No Other Way -- Jack Johnson

How will I be remembered?
Can't Buy Me Love -- the Beatles

What is my signature dancing song?
Peace -- Weezer

What do I think my current theme song is?
Fix You -- Coldplay

What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Smooth Rider -- Dave Matthews Band

What song will play at my funeral?
Cautioners -- Jimmy Eat World

What type of men/women do you like?
Hello, I Love You -- The Doors

What is my day going to be like?
Life of a Salesman -- Yellowcard

Interesting....

Labels: Memes, Music

Singing along to: Keane, Walnut Tree

Stolen from Darrin.

Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Leave the rest. Pass it on:

1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
4. The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger <--I LOVED this book.
7. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
9. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
10. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
12. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
14. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
15. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
16. 1984 - George Orwell
17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
20. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
21. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
22. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
23. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
24. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
25. Neuromancer - William Gibson
26. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
27. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
29. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
30. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley <--highly recommend
31. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
32. Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
33. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
34. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
35. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
36. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
37. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
38. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
40. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
41. Atonement - Ian McEwan
42. The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
43. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
44. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
45. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
46. Dune - Frank Herbert
47. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
48. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
49. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
50. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

There were only 46 when I got this list, so I added 4 more of my own.

Labels: Books, Memes

Singing along to: Fuel, Shimmer (acoustic). "We're here and now, but will we ever be again? Cause I have found that all that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away again."

First off, substantial update at the art blog, including a photo of James' Christmas gift portrait.

Second, I've been tagged (twice!) with this meme by both Mary Liz and Ma Beck (whose blog I need to add to my sidebar...). So here it is: 5 Weird Habits. Except that not all of these are habits--some are just quirks. But whatever.

1) All the books on my shelves are arranged in descending size order, with the tallest on the left. Can't help myself. It's the only way I can stand to look at my book shelves.

2) I absolutely cannot stand having dry skin. If I'm laying (lying? I should know this.) in bed and my hands or feet feel dry I will not be able to sleep until I get up and find some lotion. This probably isn't that weird, though.

3) I'm not very neat in real life, but I can't stand to have icons cluttering up my desktop or to have all my documents willy-nilly in the documents folder. I have four or five folders, each with several subfolders (and sometimes sub-subfolders) to try and keep everything under control. I do the same thing with pictures on my computer and bookmarks on the Internet.

4) If I see a penny anywhere, at any time, I will pick it up, pocket it, and drop it in my change jar. One time, at the mall, I found five or six coins on the floor near one of those kiosk things and I picked them all up, even though the guy working was laughing at me. (On the other hand, that change jar pays off. Last time I filled it up, it had somewhere around $22 in it. Not too shabby.)

5) I'm a compulsive grammar and punctuation checker. I can't read anything without proofreading it. My favorite error was a mixup of its/it's in an end-of-year Baltimore Sun article on mistakes and corrections in newspapers. I thought it was pretty ironic. Anyway, I can't stop doing this, as much as people around me probably wish I would. The mistakes just leap out and beg to be commented on. lol

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That was fun. Not tagging anyone, sorry, unless Mork and Gina and Christie and any other Livejournal folks feel like it.

But now it's time for sleeeeeep, since I'm going to the library tomorrow to work a few hours. I wasn't going to, and then I realized that if I just work ten hours between tomorrow and Friday, I'm seventy dollars richer (pre-taxes, alas), and since it's direct deposit I don't even have to worry about picking up a paycheck.

Nighty!

Labels: Memes

Singing along to: nothin'

My neck hurts and my eyes are very unhappy. However, I did get a full night's sleep and was not plagued by insomnia or the SB. So I feel ok. Also, I'm giggling, thanks to The Cavalcade of Bad Nativities. Very funny stuff. Link courtesy of The Shrine of the Holy Whapping, which itself is courtesy of Mary Liz's sidebar.

Now a thingy I found on LJ that is supposed to give me an idea of the "year in review." Instructions: Go through your blog archives and look at the first post for each month, then post the first sentence of those posts.

January: Since I'm too lazy to write an original New Year's post, I'll steal a quizzy thing from Andrea.

February: I had real things to say, but then my evening went out the window and I can't think except in circles. [No, I don't remember what happened.]

March: I have an editorial to post but I'm thinking I'll do that tomorrow, when I'll hopefully also have a headline.

April: ...that I am exhausted and I am going to bed. [The title was: "I just want the world to know...]

May: I've finally gotten around to making CDs of all the prom pictures I took (plus a few that other people took).

June: This T-shirt is amazing.

July: I'm home from the Irish Odyssey, but I'm far too tired for an actual update, so more on that tomorrow, probably.

August: I'm typing this entry on a Mac, of course, since I made the big switch to Apple when I got my laptop for college.

September: I finally finished 20 (twenty!!!) thumbnail sketches for two assignments for art class.

October: So...Friday began with a philosophy midterm, which was...hm.

November: I have always considered myself quite the fashion trendsetter.


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Well, wasn't that illuminating?

Labels: Links, Memes

Singing along to: nothing

Itunes: vital stats.

How many songs?: 1428, but most of my CDs still aren't on here


Sort by song title:
First: "40" bu U2
Last: Zoo Station...also U2

Sort by time:
Shortest: Kobe Bryant Jewelers--The Capital Steps (0:49)
Longest: Goodbye Sky Harbor--Jimmy Eat World (16:14)


Sort by Artist
First: 3 Doors Down
Last: Zero 7


Sort by album:
First: 1--The Beatles
Last: X&Y--Coldplay


Top Five Most Played Songs:
1. Easy to Please--Coldplay (46)
2. Babylon--David Gray (43)
3. Collide--Howie Day (42)
4. You and Me--Lifehouse (42)
5. Brighter Than Sunshine--Aqualung (40)


First song that comes up on Shuffle:
Steal My Sunshine--Len


Search for "sex", how many songs come up? 2: Sexy and Candy (Marcy Playground) and Sexi Plexi (Jack Johnson). 3 if you count "Give It Away" from "Blood Sugar Sex Magick" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Search for "death", how many songs come up? None per se, although I do have the "Dead Puppies" song

Search for "love", how many songs come up? 46 and I'm not listing them all :)

Labels: Memes, Music

Singing along to: Damien Rice, Older Chests

Mork tagged me with this music quizzy thingy, so here's the seven songs I am really into right now:

1) Lover Lay Down by the Dave Matthews Band
2) This Year's Love by David Gray
3) Bedshaped by Keane
4) Walnut Tree by Keane
5) Make Love to Me Forever by Snow Patrol
6) Naked as We Came by Iron & Wine
7) Another Day from Rent

I'm not actually going to tag anyone, but feel free to tag yourself. :)

Labels: Memes, Music

Singing along to: Red Hot Chili Peppers, This Velvet Glove

Three nicknames that you’ve had: Clairabella, OJ, Claude

Three things you like about yourself: my eyes, my hair (most of the time), my writing ability

Three things you don’t like about yourself: my perpetual hangnails, my teeth (they're straight, but not exactly pearly, damn braces), my tendency towards motion sickness

Three parts of your heritage: twisted sense of humor from my dad, OCD tendencies from my mom, predisposition to heart disease of all kinds from both sides

Three things that scare you: spiders, scary movies (even ones that aren't really scary), loss of self-control

Three of your everyday essentials: checking my email even though I almost never get any, reading the comics, checking blogs

Three things you are wearing right now: blue jeans, yellow Abbey Road t-shirt, black long-sleeved tee

Three of your favorite songs (at this moment): "Living In Your Letters" by Dashboard Confessional, "Steady As We Go" by the Dave Matthews Band, "Easy to Please" by Coldplay

Three things you want in a relationship: Ability to talk about anything and everything, laughter, fidelity

Three things you can’t live without: computer, music, and books

Three places you want to go on vacation: back to Ireland (and the northern counties this time?), New Zealand, and New York City (I've never really been and I NEED to see the art museums there)

Three things you just can’t do: blend with a paintbrush, tolerate country music, remember important things

Three kids names: Daniel, Grace, Patrick

Three things you want to do before you die: sell some artwork, see Guernica by Pablo Picasso in person, catch up on my "to be read" list

Three of your favorite bands at the moment: Coldplay, Simon & Garfunkel, Damien Rice

Three things about the opposite sex that appeal to you: outrageous sense of humor, ability to have an intelligent conversation, good hair

Three of your favorite hobbies: Reading, planning and making art, this blog

Three things you really want to do badly right now: live in a single, get back my lunch table, make art on a large scale

Three careers you’re considering/you’ve considered: artist, museum anything person, horse breeder (when I was much younger)

Three ways that you are stereotypically a boy: I like dirty jokes, I get uncomfortable when people cry, I don't pick up on either subtle conversation clues or just about anything similar

Three ways that you are stereotypically a girl: I love a nice-smelling bubble bath with candles and chocolate, I love chick flicks, I like to hold hands and snuggle

Labels: Memes

Singing along to: Keane, Somewhere Only We Know

Write twenty five completely random things about yourself and then the time it took you to write it, tag that many of your friends. Except I'm not going to tag anybody, although please feel free. :)

1) Sometimes I don't like being proven right.

2) My air conditioner is possessed.

3) I'm really shy about making phone calls.

4) I never had cable TV until I came to college.

5) The last book I read was The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America by Alan Ehrenhalt, for Intro to Social Science. The last book I read for pleasure was a reread of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I recommend the latter (highly) but not the former.

6) My favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate chip cookie dough.

7) I've been to two concerts: a Lifehouse concert at King's Dominion with Gina several years ago and HFStival with James in May. In 9 days, I will be adding a third to that list: Coldplay with James.

8) In my four years (eight seasons) of running track, I ran every sprint event, relay, and hurdle race 400m and below, except for the open 200. I also long jumped, high jumped, triple jumped, and threw shot.

9) On the rare occasions that I go to Starbucks, I always get a small caramel frappachino.

10) Although I am unspeakably glad to have finished high school (particularly my hellish senior year), I am not sure college is all that it's cracked up to be.

11) My four favorite kinds of desert are German chocolate cake, coconut cream pie, cannoli, and ice cream.

12) My room at home is painted blue with yellow stars.

13) The last time I cried was three hours ago. The last time before that was last night. I'm getting sort of tired of it, you know?

14) I have a betta fish named Paco, who I got from work (he was a leftover wedding favor). He's swimming around in a bowl that I brought home from work filled with flowers. Seeing a theme?

15) I really miss being able to do art pretty much whenever the mood strikes me. Technically I still can, but I'm limited to pencil or colored pencil. I miss being able to paint and work on altered books, two things I was just starting to get into.

16) I bought a Monty Python poster at the poster sale, but it WILL NOT stay on my wall, no matter how much tape and sticky squares I use. It's getting frustrating. Do you think it will help if I cleaned the wall?

17) My favorite actor is Ewan McGregor; my favorite actress is Sandra Bullock.

18) I'm running out of ways to kill time on the Internet (obviously, if I'm doing this thing), so send my your favorite sites! Preferably funny, but I'm also open to zines, forums, and whatever weird random stuff you think is cool. Please! I spend 75% of my day bored out of my mind.

19) My favorite punctuation mark is the question mark (?) not because of any sort of deeper resonance, but because I think it's cute. And squiggly. See how bored I am? Take pity on me!

20) My favorite colors to paint with are cadmium red and Mars black. The cadmium red because it is an in-your-face, impossible-to-ignore red with orange hints. The Mars black because there is something very satisfying about laying down a coat of deep dark shiny paint that obliterates everything in its path.

21) I have worn glasses or contacts since first grade, when I got my first pair of chunky plastic purple-confetti-pattern frames. I'm back to plastic frames after a long wire-frame hiatus, but now they're sleek, black, and very nerd-sexy.

22) I like clouds, stars, moons, and suns...but not those wierd folders and whatnot that have the dolphins swimming through space or whatever. Those are ugly, tacky, and just plain disturbing. Actually I'll be honest: I'm not a big dolphin fan even when they're where they belong, in the ocean with the other fishies.

23) As far as I'm concerned, the only part of Star Wars: Episode II that justified the obscene price of admission was the lightsaber duel between Yoda and Count Dooku. And even that didn't fully make up for the rest of that festering blob of big budget and small plot. Nothing beats the original trilogy.

24) My iTunes library contains 492 songs, or roughly 1.2 days of music. Compared to many people's collections, this is nothing. On the other hand, it's not all the music that I own.

25) I am finally done with this stupid thing.

Labels: Memes