Seismic Twitch

Your result for The Animal Archetype Test…

The Cat

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1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
~ Worked in a half-way house for federal offenders on day parole;
~ Finished post-secondary school (as opposed to flunking out) and getting my Baccalaureate;
~ Began Grad school;
~ Studied before I absolutely had to.

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn’t make any to break, and I’m going to continue with that fine tradition.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, no one close to me died.

5. What countries did you visit?
I didn’t leave Canada…again.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Well, a lottery win comes to mind first. Other than that, time to actually get some reading done for my thesis would be really nice.

7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory,and why?
I don’t have dates, per se, just memorable events…
~ Obama’s election – self-explanatory
~ The coalition attempt by the NDP, Liberals and BQ

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
That’s definitely graduating university. I never thought, in my wildest dreams, that I would actually succeed in getting that diploma, let alone one with honours that would allow me to continue on into graduate school.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Hmm…I’m not sure. Not that I haven’t failed at something this year, it’s just that the successes have finally managed to overshadow the failures and made them hard to think of.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No real injuries and no illnesses as such. I think my knees are getting arthritic but it could just be that I’m too fat and losing weight would help that out.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
I didn’t buy it, Bran did for the family, but the Jeep. Of course I wrecked it…I guess that would be my failure of the year…totalling the Jeep.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Lots of people. This is a silly question.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
All the states and countries that insist that other people are less human, less worthy, of having the same civil rights as others…or in some cases such as Iran and Pakistan, who have mob rule killing gays and lesbians, the very right to life.

It saddens me greatly that hatred runs so deeply that killing other people because of who they love is considered noble and desirable.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Food and school.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I made that “squee” noise when Bran showed me he bought some of those glowy bracelets.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
None that I want to mention here lest I get their tunes caught in my head because the most memorable songs are generally ones I dislike intensely.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier, I think.
b) thinner or fatter? Fatter, but I’ve not gained any more fat since getting off meds.
c) richer or poorer? Poorer, more in debt to the government than is desirable or wise.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Studying.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
I don’t know about this one. Anything I occupied my time with I generally liked.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Sleeping during the day, working at night.

21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
I love Bran deeply and I’ve been in that mother-love thrall with Boy for many years…does that count?

22. How many one-night stands?
I read this and laughed out loud.

23. What was your favorite TV program?
Only one? I guess that would be The First 48 with Midsomer Murders following closely behind.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No…well, there are a few politicians that I think would be better off unemployed.

25. What was the best book you read?
I only read text books this year. However, Gender Trouble is proving to be an interesting read.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Bran made the discoveries. I followed along because they were good. Top of the list right now is Lily Frost, a Canadian singer. One of her albums is Billy Holliday songs…very smooth.

27. What did you want and get?
Into grad school.

28. What did you want and not get?
The winning numbers on the lottery.

29. What was your favourite film of this year?
I didn’t see any current films this year.

30. What did you do on your birthday?
Studied…I think. I know I didn’t work because I avoided the birthday fuss there.

31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I still haven’t gotten the final marks for my single term class so I don’t know if I passed it yet, but passing it would be immensely satisfying (not to mention relieving).

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
“Early Frump” with an edge of not quite fashionable.

33. What kept you sane?
Not what, who, and that would be Boy and Bran.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Same-sex marriage

36. Who did you miss?
A couple of distant friends.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
Hmm….I guess that would be two people, and one was a re-meet since I’d taken a class with her…the two other grad students I spend my day time with at school.

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
We’re all just one or two poor decisions away from being a person residing at a half-way house or in prison. The playing field is not equal and many people don’t have the same skills and opportunities that I have had. It’s up to me to walk with them and point out areas they can change if they want to and support them in making changes by being a good example of how to live life without preying upon others. Not just doing that, but doing that with respect for who they are as people and honouring their experiences and knowing how privileged I truly am that they might allow me into their lives and help, even if it’s just a little bit.

That must mean that it’s time to waste time on a meme before I try to get some sleep so that I can write coherent sentences and finish up my essay and exam and find energy to visit with Dad. I have the attention span of a ferret, which has paid off nicely in entertaining a co-worker tonight even if it wasn’t very useful in my essay writing.

I stole this from a fellow blogger I’ve changed things a little by making it present tense instead of past because I want to have things my way. I’m funny like that. I’m also changing some of the touristy type “visit” places to include a few Canadian ones. It’s sad that an American quiz has questions about visiting Europe but none about the Great White North.

Bold the things you have done, italicize things you want to do, strike out what you’ll never do and leave the ones you don’t care about in plain text. I’m adding colour because some of the changes don’t show up clearly on my template.

Start my own blog
Sleep under the stars
Play in a band
Visit Hawaii
Watch a meteor shower I got to see some of the Leonid shower when I was younger. That was pretty phenomenal.
Give more than I can afford to charity
Visit to Disneyland / Disneyworld Three words: crowds…Mickey Mouse. Both those things freak me out.
Climb a mountain
Hold a praying mantis
Sing a solo Only in the shower.
Bungee jump Having jumped out of a plane at 3000 feet on my very first flight, this one doesn’t hold a lot of attraction.
Visit Paris
Watch lightning at sea Do oceans of wheat count?
Teach myself an art from scratch
Adopt a child
Had food poisoning
Visit Parliament Hill
Grow my own vegetables
See the Mona Lisa in France I hear the crowds milling around the painting make it hard to even see the paining…I think I’ll pass.
Sleep on an overnight train
Have a pillow fight
Hitchhike
Take a sick day when you’re not ill
Build a snow fort
Hold a lamb
Go skinny dipping
Run a Marathon Yeah, like I’m likely to do that. It might as well read “win” a marathon.
Ride in a gondola in Venice
See a total eclipse
Watch a sunrise or sunset
Hit a home run. Way too late on this one.
Go on a cruise
See Niagara Falls in person
Visit the birthplace of my ancestors
See an Amish community We’ve got Hutterite colonies around here. They’re like the Amish except they use modern machinery and other modern things.
Teach myself a new language
Have enough money to be truly satisfied
See the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
Go rock climbing
See Michelangelo’s David
Sing karaoke If for nothing else, to keep from being lynched.
See Old Faithful geyser erupt
Buy a stranger a meal at a restaurant This is an interesting one. Bran has bought the order of the car behind him in the drive through at Tim Horton’s, but I’ve not done anything like that.
Visit Africa
Walk on a beach by moonlight Unless this means ocean, then it’d be italicized.
Be transported in an ambulance I’ve not done it and hope I never have to availe myself of their services.
Have my portrait painted
Go deep sea fishing
See the Sistine Chapel in person
Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Go scuba diving or snorkeling
Kiss in the rain
Play in the mud I did this with Bran and his cousin. If you can slop about in a tilled garden’s mud do it. It’s the very best way to defoliate your feet and get rid of those old calluses
Go to a drive-in theatre I’ve been to many, even a porn (it was very tame but oy! back then it was very racy)
Be in a movie
Visit the Great Wall of China
Start a business Someday I’ll get Wicked Witch Jewelry off the ground. Doing that and grad school and working has proven to be somewhat difficult. I’m glad for your patience.
Take a martial arts class
Visit Russia
Serve at a soup kitchen
Sell Girl Scout Cookies Except up here they’re called Brownies and Girl Guides.
Go whale watching
Get flowers for no reason
Donate blood, platelets or plasma
Go sky diving
Visit a Nazi Concentration Camp
Bounce a check Thank heavens for debit cards. This will never happen to me again!
Fly in a helicopter
Save a favourite childhood toy My spirograph is still at Dad’s house.
Visit Quebec City This one was changed from a DC landmark. I want to visit Quebec City and all the historic landmarks around that area.
Eat Caviar It was quite possibly the most traumatic thing I’ve done to my taste buds ever.
Piece a quilt I’d like to, but I know it’s not likely to happen.
Stand in Times Square Crowds just don’t do it for me.
Tour the Everglades
Been fired from a job It was a learning experience…I discovered that I hated doing collections and would rather have a limb removed with a dull grapefruit spoon than do that again.
See the Changing of the Guards in London
Been on a speeding motorcycle
See the Grand Canyon in person
Published a book (Meh)
Visit the Vatican Even if I were in Rome I’d not likely to there.
Buy a brand new car
Walk in Jerusalem
Have my picture in the newspaper (Meh)
Read the entire Bible
Visit the White House (Meh)
Kill and prepared an animal for eating I’ve caught, killed, scaled and gutted fish.
Had chickenpox
Save someone’s life I used to be a blood donor until the continued policy of Canadian Blood Services of excluding gay men from donating made me realize that they don’t need my blood enough if they’re turning away perfectly healthy people on the basis of outdated and homophobic rhetoric.
Sit on a jury While I’m sure it would be fascinating, I’d rather not.
Meet someone famous Why would I want to?
Join a book club
Lose a loved one
Have a baby
See the Alamo in person (Meh)
Swim in the Great Salt Lake
Been involved in a law suit
Own a cell phone
Been stung by a bee
Ride an elephant It would be fun to be a mahout.

Bran, on his blog, asked his friends to fill out the following questionnaire. Since he wanted everyone, no matter how long or how well he’s known us, to fill it out. It’s a really good quiz regardless.

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A. Yes, with you.

02) What was your dream growing up?
A. I don’t remember having a dream about being an adult.

03) What talent do you wish you had?
A. I wish I could sing well. Technically I can sing, but not well at all.

04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. A Belini

05) Favourite vegetable?
A. Green beans with butter

06) What was the last book you read?
A. The final Harry Potter book, Deathly Hollows.

07) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Libra

08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. Piercings on my ears and one on my nose, tattoo on my right forearm.

09) Worst Habit?
A. Interrupting you when you’re talking.

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. In an instant, love.

11) What is your favourite sport?
A. One that I’m not required to play.

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. Hmm…can I be both at the same time?

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Sorry, love. As much as I’d love to sneak in a hug or something on an elevator, I’d be in the corner trying not to fall down.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. You already know that. I won’t get into it here.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. You mean one you don’t already know about? That’s hard being as we’ve been together so long…I can open doors with my toes.

16) Do you have any pets?
A. Just your fish.

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. Invite you in, chat, have tea, snuggle, chat some more…you know, like we do now except without the tea for me.

18) What was your first impression of me?
A. You were a building beacon.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Depends on the clown, but they all lean toward scary, f they already aren’t downright so.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. I’d get rid of my double chin.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. I’d probably be your conscience. I don’t have much sense of adventure for crime.

22) What colour eyes do you have?
A. Plain old hazel.

23) Ever been arrested?
A. Nope.

24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Bottle, I dislike the feeling that my lips are going to be amputated on the can opening.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Get some bras, put some away in savings, get a shit pile of beading stuff, put some on both of our PayPal accounts so that we can go shopping online, probably get an HDTV and a blue ray player.

27) What’s your favourite place to hang at?
A. My spot on the couch.

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. Yes, and no.

29) Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Beading, crosswords, watch murder and mayhem, spend time with you.

30) Do you swear a lot?
A. It depends.

31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. Toothpaste being squeezed from the middle instead of from the end.

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Ummm…

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Yes.

35) Do you believe in God?
A. The Christian God? No. I’m not sure that I believe in any deity anymore.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A. Yep.

It’s better than number 2 (har! I crack me up!)

Anyway, what was the number one hit on the day you were born. On the day I chose to grace this world with my presence was Save the Last Dance for Me by the Drifters. For Boy it was Jump by Kris Kross.

So whose number one hit serenaded you into the world?

I wonder if I answered the questions accurately or just according to how I was feeling. I stole this one from April Cherrie’s blog. Oh, if you’re hungry and like oriental cooking don’t go there while you’re hungry. You’ll need to order in after reading her blog.

You Are An INTJ

The Scientist You have a head for ideas – and you are good at improving systems. Logical and strategic, you prefer for everything in your life to be organized. You tend to be a bit skeptical. You’re both critical of yourself and of others. Independent and stubborn, you tend to only befriend those who are a lot like you. In love, you are always striving to improve your relationship. You have strong ideas of what love should be like. At work, you excel in figuring out difficult tasks. People think of you as “the brain.” You would make an excellent scientist, engineer, or programmer. How you see yourself: Reasonable, knowledgeable, and competent When other people don’t get you, they see you as: Aloof, controlling, and insensitive

Because she gets all testy when I don’t directly link to her, Raincoaster had this on her blog today. Check out the sunglasses quiz just under this one.

Your Punk Band Name Is…

The Potato Skins

What a coincidence! I love potatoes!

You might as well follow Raincoaster’s example and get a generated name. There ya go Raincoaster, your link.

Your Penis Name Is…

Phantom Lord of Ultimate Darkness

I’ve been getting inundated with spam in my comments the past couple of days. I’m glad I have them on moderation because it’s just nuts!

Here’s a quiz I got from Raincoaster (click my “others” button and you’ll find her there) heh…i said click my others button…

anyway..

What Your These Fireworks Say About You

You are deeply passionate about a few things in your life. Everything else, you couldn’t care less about. Your passions tend to hold steady over time. If anything, they intensify. Once you hold on to something (or someone), you don’t let go!