Toadfish Monastery

1) Would you rather read a book or watch a movie?
How about write one?

2) What color attracts you attention most when shopping? (This may not be your favorite color, just the one that gets you to look at things.)
Lime green, cantalope, bright blue, deep red, certain shades of orange. Butter yellow. Certain shades of grey  .

3. Crisps/chips and dip or crackers and cheese?
There's a Caribbean sauce that's super good with cream cheese and crackers. I'll take that, please.

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1. What makes you happiest?

2. What is your current mood?

3. What is the philosophy by which you live your life?

1. What makes you happiest?
when I can actually pull off #3 below, when my daughters are both home and we are all piled on the couch together

2. What is your current mood?
Just now reading back over some of the replies to this thread-- connected to the world--- can I call that a mood?

3. What is the philosophy by which you live your life?
the whole 'do unto others' thing-- not in a biblical sense because someone said I have to, but just because I am a human and they are a human and we as humans should treat each other as human ( I do include non-human primates here as well, I know several of them too well to dismiss them as anything but worthy of simple dignity and respect, from me they get much more)-- this is a two way street, kick me like a can and well that tells me that is how you want to be treated in return, don't kick people when they are down(unless of course you are the one that had to put them down, I'm thinking along the lines of child molesters here), attempt to leave behind a place in better shape than when you got there (environment, planet, feelings, dreams, rooms, work, etc), at minimum to express to one single person a day what they mean to me-- we so often get in a routine of 'bye going to work/school-love you'-of course we love that person but- I try and stop and look that person in the eye and tell them it's more than I love you-so much more.


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1) Do you ever dream about people you know online- like sibling toadfish?

2) Have you ever been bitten by fireants> Was it what you expected based on reports of them you have heard or bad but not that bad

3) If you had the chance for one big huge great do over of an event in your life- would you, what, why

OK, back to inquiring minds want to know...

1) Do you ever dream about people you know online- like sibling toadfish?

Yep. Recently, Aggie's been sent do supervise oilfield stuff here in this area, Pieces got a job at A&M being in charge of the University's Graphic Arts EVERYTHING, and Swato was hired to teach there, tenure track, and I introduced him to a lovely woman I know who teaches German and French at a private school...it's in Indianapolis, but distance didn't seem to matter.

Before that, Alpaca chose to go to Rice in Houston and so did Qwerty. And Scrib went to U of H because the speech department's better. (I listed Grey/Scrib as having resided with me for 2 years to get her in-state tuition.)


2) Have you ever been bitten by fireants> Was it what you expected based on reports of them you have heard or bad but not that bad

Yep.

Huge blisters that burned like blazing hell for 3 days, then just hurt for another 2-3 weeks. I ran a temperature for over a week, and was nauseated for most of it.

(I'd rescued my Mom's 16 year old blind dog from a fire ant bed after a meter reader left the gate open and he went wandering into a field. The gas company paid my doctor bill and the dog's vet bill. Mine was $230, the dog's, by virtue of more bites on a much smaller body, ran a little over $900. I also chained the fence closed, and they had to come through the house to see the meter. One guy jumped the fence and then went out it and left it open and I saw him do it. I flattened all four tires on his vehicle and called the gas company to tell them what he did.)

3) If you had the chance for one big huge great do over of an event in your life- would you, what, why

My birth. I'd delay it by 2 or 3 years. My sister and I were born too close together...especially since Mom also miscarried between the births. We were 18 months apart...

The why? Mom's body wasn't ready to support another pregnancy. I was half a foot shorter than the next shortest sibling (my sister) and by the size of my legs and arms, hands and feet, SHOULD have been much taller. It might have also prevented some of the genetic problems that have given me so much trouble.



1. What is one very important lesson you actually learned in "high school" (or the equivalent)?

2. Do you sing? and if so, can you sing harmonies?

3. Who is your favorite cartoon character? (Animated, strip or book, any genre.)

1. What is one very important lesson you actually learned in "high school" (or the equivalent)?
That people are effing idiots and deeply corrupt in certain ways. I had always hoped people were generally smarter and more honest. But I learned better when I started grading my debate coach's senior English papers.
OMFG, dumb! These people were seniors in high school but I don't think I wrote that badly in middle school! And then the principal forced her to pass these kids, even though they shouldn't have, just so the school didn't look bad.

2. Do you sing? and if so, can you sing harmonies?
I do sing, but mostly to annoy my choir sister, since I'm terrible.

3. Who is your favorite cartoon character? (Animated, strip or book, any genre.)
Aaron Stack, the Captain and Bloodstone from NextWave or Jones from Desolation Jones.
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1. What do you usually dream about?

2. What's your favorite shirt look like?

3. What's your silliest vice that you indulge in?

1. What do you usually dream about?
Am in school (shifts randomly from elementary through post-college depending on scene). I have just realized that I signed up for some class which I have not attended all semester. I am in a final for a maths class for which I was supposed to keep a daily journal all semester, "showing my work". I have not done this. I have no idea how to do the maths problems because I am a fine arts major, dammit! I need to drop the missed class quickly because the semester is about to close, but need to know what it is and find the registrar's office. I am trying to get to a physics class, but keep winding up in a phy-ed wing instead, and am the only person sneaking - fast - through the gymn in street clothes. I also need to go to other classes; cannot remember what else I am taking. Of course, my class schedule with info is in my locker. No idea which wing it is in, or what the combination is. If I locate the locker and open the locker, I cannot read the schedule. I am schlepping around a weird collection of notebooks and texts.  Suddenly, there are strange interpolations of "seminary lite" classes and events; I once "filled in" for the homily as presiding priest disappeared...

At this point my brain starts to dimly suspect I may be dreaming...


2. What's your favorite shirt look like?
Ahhh, one I purchased after wearing it in my brief phase as a community model for a couple of my favorite boutiques. (That was a few years and a couple chocolates ago!) It is an ivory silk with a "racing silks" print. I have carefully preserved it lo, these many years and hope never to surrender it.


3. What's your silliest vice that you indulge in?
I love "super hot" Hot Tamales.
Drop one in an opened diet coke. Drink fast! before inevitable chemical reaction. Laugh hilariously at cat. Wait for blood sugar to return to normal.


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1. If you could relive one great day, what would it be?

2. Favorite mental vacation place?

3. Hot Tamales or M&Ms?

1. If you could relive one great day, what would it be?

There's one day, when I actually had a connection with a woman (with whom I've since lost touch) that was real.  Details omitted, but there was great conversation among other things.

My one great regret is failing to "take a hint" that she broadly dropped my way, several times.... *sigh*

2. Favorite mental vacation place?

Alternate reality.  Usually loosely based on one or more of my favorite fictional "worlds"

3. Hot Tamales or M&Ms?

Neither.  Not much of a candy person.

But, if I had to pick between one of those-- peanut butter M&M's if such existed.

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1)  Fiction or nonfiction.  Why?

3) See the movie first, or read the book it's based on first?  Why?

2) Orderly bedroom, or chaos?  Care if company notices (either state)?

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1)  Fiction or nonfiction.  Why?
Fiction! I'm fascinated by certain concepts--magic, teleportation, humanoid species, Fate, and more than a few other things.

3) See the movie first, or read the book it's based on first?  Why?
I'd rather read the book first, but it doesn't always happen. Sometimes I on;y find out later there's a book/comic that it's based on.

2) Orderly bedroom, or chaos?  Care if company notices (either state)?
Chaos! My room tends to be an inordinate disaster--clothes, books, shoes and papers litter the floor. But I can find everything
(except my math book...) and I have a path cleared from the bed to the door.
I'd be mortified if anyone but close family saw it like this, though.
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1. What do you look for in music?

2. Believe in coincidences?

3. Are you too mean for Davey Jones' locker?

1. What do you look for in music?

Mostly, I like intricate music.  The style doesn't matter that much as long as the interplay of the themes gives the mind a lot to work with.  For example, I love Bach.  His fugues are great.

2. Believe in coincidences?

Yes.  While the chance of a particular coincidence occurring is pretty small, the chance that some coincidence will happen is pretty good.  I am not one that thinks everything that happens must have meaning and purpose.  I am a believer in Sh!t Happens.

3. Are you too mean for Davey Jones' locker?

I would like to think so, but in reality...NO.

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1)  What was your favorite class in school?

2)  Who is your favorite Sci-Fi author and why?

3)  Did you ever want to be an astronaut?

1)  What was your favorite class in school?

Biology, natch.  I remember one year, had a particularly easy teacher.  I had taken the text book home the first coupla weeks, read what interested me, returned it to my locker, never opening it again.  I made A's anyway, though.  The book was essentially review-- little that was new to me that year.  Was 9th grade, I think.

2)  Who is your favorite Sci-Fi author and why?

Depends on the day of the week.   Asimov? Heinlein? Pratchett? I dunno.  If I had to stick to one and only one... Heinlein I guess.

3)  Did you ever want to be an astronaut?

Oh, certainly.  When the Apollo program was going on, I avidly followed it-- built plastic models of each stage and stuff like that.  At some point, someone pointed out that a person with glasses would never qualify for the physical, a bit of me died.

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3) When reading forum comments, do you notice the little things, or totally ignore that, and just pay attention to the message?

1) Do on-line spelling, diction and grammar mistakes bother you?  Do you correct them if you 'quote' the person?

2) Or do you 'save them up' in case you want to insult or belittle the poster in some way?

G) When reading forum comments, do you notice the little things, or totally ignore that, and just pay attention to the message?

How awake am I at the time? Do I feel OK, or am I seriously in need of 5 units of Sando and a lobotomy?? It alll depends!!

N) Do on-line spelling, diction and grammar mistakes bother you?  Do you correct them if you 'quote' the person?

I notice them, because I was married to a j-prof, and journalists make EVERYBODY become an editor. They generally don't bother me, and I don't correct them if I quote. A quote's a quote, not an adaptation.

U) Or do you 'save them up' in case you want to insult or belittle the poster in some way?

Oh, if I wanna insult and belittle somebody, it'll be for stuff they've just done that pisses me off...I'se ebil, but I'se current and ebil...



Z) How many 'cosmetic' items (anything beyond soap/shampoo and water) do you use in your regular grooming?

O) Do you regularly use a perfume/cologne/aftershave? If so what kind of scent?

G) Can you tolerate fragrance laden household cleaners, or do you go far as little added smell as possible?

Z) How many 'cosmetic' items (anything beyond soap/shampoo and water) do you use in your regular grooming?

Zero (apart from plain anti-perspirant). I'm the wrong generation, both mentally, and in the sense of being too old and ugly for anything but boiling nitric acid to work an improvement.


O) Do you regularly use a perfume/cologne/aftershave? If so what kind of scent?

Nope. But I suspect there's an industrial sized spray can of Brut 33 left over in the cupboard somewhere from when I was about 13 and was convinced it would alter the odds in my favour.


G) Can you tolerate fragrance laden household cleaners, or do you go far as little added smell as possible?

Don't really notice one way or another. Generally by the time I get round to cleaning my house it needs something with the subtlety of Jeyes Fluid, or the aforementioned acid (so versatile).

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a) What's the scariest word in the English language?

b) Which are worst, Daleks or Cybermen?

c) Where's the sidelight switch on a Volvo?

a) What's the scariest word in the English language?

Believe.

b) Which are worst, Daleks or Cybermen?

Cybermen.  For were they not once human?  The Daleks were always just Monsters.

c) Where's the sidelight switch on a Volvo?

Absolutely baffled.  Never owned or rented a Volvo.  But one of my best friends has one, maybe I'll ask him.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was automatic, a part of the turn signal system?

   

@) Do you regularly change your PC's desktop picture?  Or is it one of the "generic" ones that came with the operating system?

*)  Do you Trust The Government?  Why or Why Not?

() Have you ever considered, as a protest, not filing Income Tax (or your country's equivalent)?   Purely hypothetical, of course _{(hear that homeland security? purely hypothetical... )}

@) Do you regularly change your PC's desktop picture?  Or is it one of the "generic" ones that came with the operating system?
I did on this one but it slowed the performance of this antique piece of electronics so I do not anymore. On my PC at home I like the one the company put on it (not Microsoft abaominations), so I did not change it.

*)  Do you Trust The Government?  Why or Why Not?
On average I do in most areas, since they have not given me much reason of distrust yet as far as my person is concerned. I may think them incompetent on a regular base but thta's the way it is.

() Have you ever considered, as a protest, not filing Income Tax (or your country's equivalent)?   Purely hypothetical, of course (hear that homeland security? purely hypothetical... )
I considered due to lack of taxable income but They mailed me to prove it. That was a bit difficult (how do you prove a negative) but I managed and they have left me in quiet since then.

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ß) Are you often plagued by stomach trouble?

ö) If yes, what do you do, if not, how?

ä) sensitive to seasickness or related illnesses?

ß) Are you often plagued by stomach trouble?

26/8/379...MORE than daily. Of course, it's me, with the carcinoid and all...

ö) If yes, what do you do, if not, how?

Let's see. Nexium, (PPI) for starters. Also my Giant Vat of Pepcid, and then Gaviscon, and a pancreatic enzyme, fresh-ground nutmeg if I HAVE to...sleep sorta propped up, and then there's the Sando, which helps as well. And a pill for stomach spasms, if that stars up again.

ä) sensitive to seasickness or related illnesses?

Been so long since I didn't have at least a mild nausea on a regular basis, I don't know that I would recognize a day without it. A non-nauseated state of being---I remember that. It was about 1972...

Don't get motion sickness, really. Of course, I don't press the issue, either. I've got a horrid sense of balance, bad inner ear issues, and know my limits.

My carcinoid diagnosis answered a LOT of questions that I had about some health issues. It's also given me insight into other health issues as well.



$] Is there a history of any hereditary illness in your extended family?

^] Have you ever had genetic testing of any type?

!] If given a choice, would you consider self-euthanizing rather than living with a progressive debilitating illness? Why or why not?

$] Is there a history of any hereditary illness in your extended family?

Yes. A rather extensive list--biopolar, border line, Ausberger's, Aushikin-slaughter's, depression, heart-disease, asthma and, a few others, too, I think.

^] Have you ever had genetic testing of any type?
Nope.

!] If given a choice, would you consider self-euthanizing rather than living with a progressive debilitating illness? Why or why not?
toward the end, I would. In the beginning? No. Too much to do still, still capable of doing it.
And I do sort of already have one--eventually, manias will cease to exist, and I will only have norms and depression. Some time around 40, I think.
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