mother of all memes ...

[saavedra77]

verbicide  clued me in to this monumentally narcissistic meme!

1. Full Name: Let's just say "Tony."
2. Nicknames: I hesitate to mention this, since so far only relatives have subjected me to it, but, honestly: "Pokey."
3. Birthday: January 17, 1967.
4. Place of Birth: Camden, NJ.  (Now featuring the nation's highest crime rate!  My family and I all got out long ago, thankfully.)
5. Zodiac Sign: Capricorn.  Almost Aquarius.  Is that a cusp ...?
6. Male or Female: Male.
7. Grade: Finished college a ways back.  Want to go back ...
8. School: B.A. in Comparative Literature, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
9. Occupation: "Research Assistant."
10. Residence: A good-size fourth floor studio walkup in Capitol Hill.
11. Screen Name: saavedra77 (as in Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and a certain number that recurs in my birth date ...).

__Your Appearance___

12. Hair Color: Dark brown.
13. Hair Length: Shortish
14. Eye color: Brown/hazel
15. Best Feature: My eyes, IMO.
16. Height: 5'5".
17. Braces: Nah, parents were too cheap.
18. Glasses? Yeah.
19. Piercings: Nah..
20. Tattoos: Not so far ...
21. Righty or Lefty: Right.

___Your 'Firsts'___

22. First best friend: Joe.  As I recall, we shared obsessional interests in comic books and monsters.
23. First Award: Some high school writing award for a short story I wrote about the invasion of Grenada.
24. First Sport You Joined: Cross country.
25. First pet: A long-haired white female farm cat who went on to have many kittens ...
26. First Real Vacation: Europe. Two weeks in Belgium, France in 1982.
27. First Concert: Bow Wow Wow at Six Flags' Great Adventure in NJ in ... 1983 ...?
28. First Love: Tracy. Two months of junior-high-school bliss followed by several days of not sleeping and crying my eyes dry.

___ Favorites___

29. Movie: See my previous post on movies.
30. TV: Oh, the obvious stuff: Homicide; I, Claudius; The Sopranos; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; The West Wing.
31. Colors: Red, black, evergreen.
32. Rapper: Um, I'm too old not to sound dumb answering this ...?
33. Band: This week?  Los Lobos.  Next week, it could be The Clash or the Buena Vista Social Club or REM or the Pogues.
34. Song Right Now: See below.
35. Friend: Um, you!  Whoever's read this far is a really, really good friend!
36. Candy: Skor.
37. Sport to Play: Cycling.
38. Restaurant: If I had to narrow it down to one, Anapurna on Cap Hill.
39. Favorite brand to wear: I already said I didn't have any tats, right ...?
40. Store: Really?  Any very, very large bookstore.
41. School Subject: Comp Lit.
42. Animal: Main Coone Cats.
43. Book: See my recent post on books.
44. Magazine: Salon.com.
45. Shoes: My Keen sandals.

___Currently___

46. Feeling: See below.
47. Single or Taken? Single.
48. Have a crush?  All the time.  More or less continuously since before I was old enough to do anything about it.
49. Eating: Sopa con fijoles negros.
50. Drinking: Tea.
51. Typing: Hello ...?
52. Online?: Frequently.
53. Listening To: NPR's On the Media. (The Chumbawamba disk has already ended, while I've been sitting here thinking about this ...)
54. Thinking About: Work.
55. Wanting To: Go see Layer Cake.
56. Watching: It's called a computer screen!
57. Wearing: Shorts, tee shirt, robe, sandals.

___Future___

58. Want Kids? Yes.
59. Want to be Married? Yes.
61. Where do you want to live? San Francisco, when I can afford it.
62. Car: Some snazzy, mythical, shiny, hydrogen-driven convertible.  (Um, I actually don't know cars, so well ...)

__Which is Better With The Opposite Sex?___ (or you know, the Sex You Prefer to Have Sex With for all my lovely gay friends out there)

63. Hair color: Dark.  Or red.  Or somewhere in between.
64. Hair length: Long.
65. Eye color: Brown or green, ideally.
66. Measurements: Curvy.  (I'm Puerto Rican!  Real women have ... y'know ...)
67. Cute or Sexy: Sexy.
68. Lips or Eyes: I guess that if someone had uninspiring lips that would be less bad than if they had dull eyes.
69. Hugs or Kisses: Well, if I have to choose--pucker up, baby!
70. Short or Tall: I never seem to get anywhere with taller women--it's just awkward.  So about my height or shorter.
71. Easygoing or serious: Easygoing.  I'm serious enough, really ...
72. Romantic or Spontaneous: Again, strange question: Isn't opennness to spontaneity part of being romantic?
73. Fatty or Skinny: I SAID "curvy"!
74. Sensitive or Loud: Sensitive.
75. Hook-up or Relationship: Relationship.
76. Sweet or Caring: Well, sweet but not caring doesn't sound very kosher, does it?
77. Trouble Maker or Hesitant One: Brats have a certain appeal, but, really, recklessness is overrated.

___Have you ever?___

78. Kissed a Stranger: Yes.
79. Had Alcohol: Regularly.
80. Smoked: Tobacco?  Never.  Ganja?  Once or twice.
81. Run Away From Home: Oh, yeah.
82. Broken a bone: Yes.  My 5th left metatarsul (I think?  Long bone in the foot, terminating in foot knuckle ..)
83. Gotten an X-ray: Yeah, lots of times.
84. Had Your Hear Broken? Yes, a couple times.
85. Broken Someone's Heart: Yes.
86. Broken Up With Someone: Yeah, although I hate doing it.
87. Cried When Someone died: No, I'm a heartless slab of rock!  (Of course I have!)
88. Cried At School: If so, I've successfully blocked the memory out, so let's leave it that way.

___Do You Believe In___

89. God:  Not really.  I'm particularly skeptical of the anthorpormphic personal God of the Abrahamic religions.  I could maybe conceive of a more impersonal God, along the lines that Jiddu Krishnamurti describes, like in advaita vedanta ("atman") or mahayana Buddhism ("buddha-nature").  But "believe"?  Just the facts, ma'am.
90. Miracles: No.
91. Love At First sight: Yes, actually.  At least, when I was 14 ...
92. Ghosts: No.
93. Aliens: Sure, somewhere far away, probably nothing remotely like us, possibly nothing like anything that's ever lived here, probably too far away for us to ever see, anyway.
94. Soul Mates: As in the one, only one perfect person who's out there just for you?  Not.
95. Heaven: As a very rare, blissful state of mind?  Sure.  As a supernatural location?  Nah.
96. Hell: As suffering?  Oh, yes.  See above about supernatural places.
97. Angels: No.
98. Kissing on The first Date: Yeah ...
99. Horoscopes: Well, no.

___Answer Truthfully___

100. Is there someone you want but you know you can't have? Hell, yes.  Doesn't everybody?

Comments

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

Don't worry: No actual living things were harmed in the formation of this mood icon! :) That's just the acedia'slittlegent icon for "numb," which was kind of where I was when typing all that in the midst of doing my laundry, earlier. Sorry if it eeked you out! My picture icon carries the same message without being gross, so maybe I'll delete the mood icon setting ...

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

No, it wasn't gross and I'm not eeked out. It's kinda hilarious, actually.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

Oh, good--always happy to provide a little amusement. :)