saavedra77 | mother of all memes ...

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?