In which firecat grills folks

[firecat]

via serenejournal et al.
in the interest of learning a little more about the people who read here: Copy the questions to a comment here and answer them, or answer whichever ones you're willing to answer. And feel free to copy the empty questions to a post of your own.

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A.

2) What was your dream growing up?
A.

3) What talent do you wish you had?
A.

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

5) Favorite vegetable?
A.

6) What was the last book you read?
A.

7) What zodiac sign are you?
A.

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A.

9) Worst Habit?
A.

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A.

11) What is your favorite sport?
A.

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A.

16) Do you have any pets?
A.

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A.

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A.

22) What color eyes do you have?
A.

23) Ever been arrested?
A.

24) Bottle or can soda?
A.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A.

26) This was left blank in the original. Pick a question you would like to be asked, and answer it.
A.

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
A.

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A.

30) Do you swear a lot?
A.

31) Biggest pet peeve?
A.

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

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A.

26) This was left blank in the original. Pick a question you would like to be asked, and answer it.
A.

35) Do you believe in God?
A.

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

And if you want my answers, let me know in your comment :)

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A. Yes. More than one.

2) What was your dream growing up?
A. To be a writer and a teacher.

3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. Languages.

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Depends on the time of year. Either a cup of hot tea or a glass of iced tea.

5) Favorite vegetable?
A. Carrot

6) What was the last book you read?
A. Bait and Switch, by Barbara Ehrenreich

7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Cancer, according to the newspapers. Gemini if you go by the constellation the Sun was in the day I was born.

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. No

9) Worst Habit?
A. Picking my nose

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. Sure, if the traffic allowed me to get over to the curb.

11) What is your favorite sport?
A. (Spectator) Pairs skating; (Individual) Target shooting

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. More optimistic

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Do what I could to make sure you were comfortable. Presumably we'd have already used the emergency phone to call for help.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Don't want to talk about it.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. I once went surfing naked during a typhoon

16) Do you have any pets?
A. Yes

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. I'd say "Stef! What brings you here?!?! Come in!"

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. Really interesting, intelligent person. (from posts on a.p.)

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Depends on the clown. More are cute.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. I have no idea. I've worked 53 years to look like this. Why change now?

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Depends. Would it be a crime of conscience?

22) What color eyes do you have?
A. Blue/grey with gold flecks

23) Ever been arrested?
A. Yes

24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Embrace the power of 'neither'

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Deposit it in my bank account.

26) This was left blank in the original. Pick a question you would like to be asked, and answer it.
A. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A metric chuck-load.

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
A. Home

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. Not most of the time

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Go for a walk (in nice weather) or read.

30) Do you swear a lot?
A. No

31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. Intolerant people of all stripes

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

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. In the sense that the troubadours wrote and sang, I appreciate it. Not so much in modern notions, though I do believe in long lasting love.

26) This was left blank in the original. Pick a question you would like to be asked, and answer it.
A. What's the difference between a duck? A banana about this yellow.

35) Do you believe in God?
A. Sort of. Not the God of orthodox Christianity, but in spite of a lot of doubts, I still hold with a Power (or Powers) in the universe.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A. Nah, but you're welcome to tell me in comments.

[firecat]

What did you think of Bait and Switch?

[wcg.livejournal.com]

It's worth reading. I don't think I learned much from it, other than maybe the things I've observed in the white collar community are a lot more ubiquitous than I'd suspected. It's a good narrative, she writes a good story.