likethebeer

1. Tea or coffee?
Coffee.

2. Do you speak your mind?
At times. Usually loudly when I do.

3. What is your escape?
Reading.

4. When is the last time you cried?
While reading about kids and parents. A kid who went through a lot. I got misty.

5. What are your bedtime rituals?
Make sure the lights are off, say goodnight to my cat, and make sure I know where my childhood blanket is. As long as I'm at home, I can't go to sleep w/out my blanket.

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Lots of one-word answers.
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I thought I was more right-brained.

Left brain dominant individuals are more orderly, literal, articulate, and to the point. They are good at understanding directions and anything that is explicit and logical. They can have trouble comprehending emotions and abstract concepts, they can feel lost when things are not clear, doubting anything that is not stated and proven.

Right brain dominant individuals are more visual and intuitive. They are better at summarizing multiple points, picking up on what's not said, visualizing things, and making things up. They can lack attention to detail, directness, organization, and the ability to explain their ideas verbally, leaving them unable to communicate effectively.

Overall you appear to be Left Brain Dominant

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According to Darwinian theory, optimal evolution takes place with random variation and selective retention. The evolution savvy individual will try many different approaches when faced with a problem and select the best of those approaches. Many historical intellectuals have confessed their advantage was simply considering/exploring/trying more approaches than others. The left brain dominant type suffers from limited approaches, narrow-mindedness. The right brain dominant type suffers from too many approaches, scatterbrained. To maintain balanced hemispheres, you need to exercise both variability and selection. Just as a company will have more chance of finding a great candidate by increasing their applicant pool, an individual who considers a wider set of options is more likely to make quality decisions.

I prefer rules because most of my thoughts about things delve into gray areas. So having rules is a way to eliminate the variables. There are just too many choices, man, and too many ways to analyze things. But who knows. Maybe I don't get people's emotions as well as I have always thought. I can, definitely, listen to lots of people (one at a time, of course).

And, yes, I suffer from "too many approaches," but, as I told nadine_a, I refuse to call myself scatter-brained. Although I do misplace lose my keys. Often (they're usually in one of my pockets, but which pocket?)

I thought I would do horribly. I guessed at a lot of them. Still, it adds up:



Could be because I've been reading Blogging the Bible in Slate. Granted, the guy's only doing the old Testament, but it's very interesting.

Oh, and there was one question I answered and, believe it or not, it was related to Tal. I was to complete this psalm: "You will mount up with wings as __________." Eagles. It's from the book of Isaiah. It's carved into a balcony at the school on the Tal. estate.

What's the emoticon for rolling your eyes again?

djymm's meme to me

10 years ago today: OH! I was at my friend DDD's wedding. I was one of the bridesmaids. I should e-mail her and wish her a happy anniversary.... ok, I just did that.

5 years ago today: Today? I would have had the day off. I was, maybe, weeding at mda's cabin or sitting in my hated Mineral Point apartment, cursing that horrid, psycho little town.

1 year ago today: work. And probably depressed over something. Oh! I can check LJ to find out if I wrote anything. Nasty little LJ. I did write something! I was bitching about people lost and looking into my work windows. That's all, though.

Yesterday: Work. Then went to a home of a guy at work. The home was designed by a FLLW apprentice. I had 2 Lake Louie's. I haven't had them much, lately (too expensive). Yum. Then I got home. mda told me about his day. He made sloppy joes. Nice job. Then I slept.

Tomorrow: work. Slush pile reading.

One Year From Now: I don't want to think about it.

5 snacks I enjoy: Diet Pepsi, grannie smith apples, real white chocolate (not the stuff that has vanilla flavor in it), Baked Lay's potato chips, roasted soy beans.

5 songs I know all of the lyrics to: Off the top of my head? There are plenty of songs I know when I'm listening to them, but I'm not so good when I try to sing them, so here goes: the sung version of the our father from that funky 60s nun? [no, wait, I just tried that in my head, and it got mixed up with the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as sung on _School House Rock_]...
_Idiot Express_ & _Atavistic Viking_ by Stuart Davis, _If I Had a Million Dollars_, by Barenaked Ladies, _Black Cat_, by Janet Jackson, _No Help at All_, by D.Roth.

WHEW.

5 things I would do with 100 million dollars: buy my house, fix my car, adopt a Romanian baby, give $$ to my sister's kids, go to Europe for 3 months, stick a bunch in savings or IRAs.
Edit:--oh, I thought I was being asked what I would do with a million dollars, not 100 million. In that case, all of the above, and then:

Set up a non-profit independent trust for Tal.
Give money to my parents, sisters, and close relatives (cousins, aunts and uncle)
Give lots of money to the HRC, Dem.Party (maaaaybe), NPR. As long as I receive the promise that they'll stop bugging the shit out of me all the time. Then, there would be maybe 20 organizations, if I have money left over (working on Tal. is v.expensive) to give a couple-$5,000 a piece to.
Maybe I would buy the land that mda's cabin is on and give him all the money he needs so he'd never have to work again.

5 places I would run away to: Paris. Alaska (no place in particular, just to visit). Parts of Italy, maybe all of it, I don't know. I wouldn't mind Egypt or China, either. Oooh--Japan. Is that 5?

5 things I would never wear: crotchless panties, stiletto heels, fake nails...

Shit. Kind of ruins the fantasy, huh? Anyway--

A uniform belonging to the armed forces, one of those Mormon undergarment things.

5 favorite T.V. shows: Arrested Development, many things on Frontline, the Daily Show (or, the clips that we can download from the Daily Show), the Simpsons and [please don't hate me or think badly of me] Everybody Loves Raymond. I used to really like Alias before it jumped the shark. And I'm so excited that Ballykissangel is going to be replayed soon, but those are not the current likes.

5 bad habits: smoking, drinking, not exercising, chewing my fingernails (at least _everyone else_ says it's a bad habit--you haven't seen my nails when they're left to their own devices), sitting too close to the computer monitor (I'm gonna get GLAUCOMA!)

5 biggest joys: art, love, sex, passion, beauty

5 favorite toys: Alas, I don't have toys. The only toy I have right now is Outcast.

I won't tag anyone in part b/c most of the people that I know have already been tagged.

1. What is your favorite action movie?
_The Mummy_. Smart, funny, creepy, and Brendan Fraser is really cute. There are some chop socky movies, but I don't know if those can really be said to be the same thing. If that's so, then _Heroic Trio_--Anita Mui running across telephone wires and doing a split; Michelle Yeoh kicking up a manhole cover with her boot while wearing this fantastic red outfit; Anita and Thief Catcher on a bicycle spinning horizontal to the ground while a crazy cannibal is chopping off people's heads with this ancient Chinese head-chopping cage; the women fighting the Lord of the Underworld, who has been reduced to a skeleton with a brain! _Iron Monkey_--Little Wong Fe Hung kicking people's ass with an umbrella; Wong Fe Hung's father and the Iron Monkey FIGHTING THE BAD GUY ON BAMBOO STICKS WHILE EVERYTHING IS BURNING AROUND UNDER THEM. Or _Fearless Hyena_. Jackie Chan trying to get out the door while not touching the ground so he has to walk on bowls while his uncle fucks with him with their family's kung fu! Jackie Chan fighting--really fighting--3 guys at once with machetes and he has no weapon!

2. What is the worst movie you've ever seen?
_Patty Rocks_. The only movie I ever walked out on. There was a lot about women's genitals in it, and they wouldn't stop talking about Patty's genitals, and I found myself staring at the EXIT sign, contemplating its color to take my mind off the talk about Patty's genitals. I was in college and I realized I'd be willing to lose my $5--that's how bad I thought it was. There's also _The Reflecting Skin_, but that was fun to make fun of. "Smells like fish," is a saying from our friends now as a result of that movie. Interestingly, my sister Moe has it listed as one of her faves on friendster. We really are different.

3. Do you prefer comedy or drama?
Comedy. Drama often incapacitates me for days. I don't want to put myself through that without a real-life reason. But the comedy has to be really good. No simple slapstick, unless it's old slapstick.

4. Recommend a good tear jerker: tear jerker. Hmmm.
_The Killing Fields_. That always gets me. "Can you forgive me?" "There is nothing to forgive." Gives me goosebumps. And when they're at the embassy and Dith Pran has to leave despite everything they've tried to do to save him. Those 2 moments get me every time. _Creator_ (thanks to IMDb). The young guy falls in love with Virginia Madsen, whose has a brain hemorrage for no reason and she collapses without a word and he hangs out by her hospital bed while she's on life support and talks and reads to her for days while everyone tells him they're going to pull the plug and I cried like a big, huge, damned baby. Could have been the fact that I hadn't slept the night before, though, but that part made me cry like nobody's business. Oh, and the Virginia Madsen thing has almost nothing to do with the rest of the plot.

5. What movie are you looking forward to seeing soon?
Nothing, really. There's stuff. It's out there. I know I should see it. I know I probably will, but I'm not really hankering for anything.

It's a pretty close race, though.

This makes sense, b/c my mate, months ago, was Aragorn, and I can see those two getting it on.
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I'm a pretty standard selfless being, though. Damn, you, Catholic church!

a.) pick ten movies that are special to you.
b.) post a line of dialogue from each of these movies.
c.) cross 'em out as people guess 'em.
d.) NO GOOGLING ALLOWED!!!

1. "I don't want to get into a semantic argument about it, I just want the protein, all right?" Grosse Point Blank, guessed correctly by wi_c
2. "He wants you for possession, like a painting, or an ivory box."
3. "Why couldn't you just put the bunny down?" Con Air, solved by wi_c
4. "He breathes methane like oxygen" (ok, well that's what's said in the dubbing). Heroic Trio, guessed by wi_c (I hope he would, since I've pummelled him w/that movie for 7 years :)
5. "Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it." A Fish Called Wanda, another one for wi_c
6. "Rescue the damsel in distress. Kill the bad guy. Save the world."
7. "I'm wet... I'm in pain... and I'm still hysterical!" The Producers, guessed by cursethedark
8. “Nothing to forgive, Sydney, nothing.”
9. "Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase." Raising Arizona, guessed by cursethedark
10. "There is no spoon." The Matrix, guessed again! by cursethedark! Thanks for playing, cursie!

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