dcseain | I Just Couldn't Resist

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× I miss somebody right now. (A wee bit, but not enough to check the box.)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days. (Haven't had cable in most fo 2 years.)	✓ I own lots of books. (I need to buy 2 or 3 more bookshelves for them, for books breed like rats, and bookshelves like elephants.)
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. (I'm now in year 23 of bifocals.)	✓ I love to play video games. (But i'm so not obsessive about it.)	✓ I've tried marijuana.
✓ I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. (Praise Elvis, no!)	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy. (To a fault.)
✓ I curse sometimes. (GDSBB,CSWM!)	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. (Personal change is enlightening.)	✓ I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. (Stupid-ass TSA. It's my problem that only one plane's-worth of people deigned to challenge f'n box cutters.)

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× I have broken someone's bones.	× I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal. (Nope.)	× I hate the rain. (I like the rain, but fear the lightening that oft accompanies it, having had a lightening bolt shoot between me and a friend one day while dancing in the rain.)
✓ I'm paranoid at times. (Well, who ain't.)	× I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free. (At this point, i don't think so.)	✓ I need/want money right now. (Want, yes. Need, not particularly.)
× I love sushi. (Like it, don't love it. Though with tempura, it is one of a VERY few Japanese foods i consider edible.)	× I talk really, really fast. (Mostly not.)	✓ I have fresh breath in the morning. (If i brushed my teeth the night before and i didn't eat too much onion the day before.)
× I have long hair. (Not any more. :()	× I have lost money in Las Vegas. (Nope. So far i'm +$700 for what little i've spent in Nevada, though all my gambling's been in Mesquite, NV, 80 miles NE of Vegas.)	✓ I have at least one sibling. (A younger sister.)
× I was born in a country outside of the U.S.	✓ I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past. (What stage actor hasn't, really.)	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D. (It's nice, but i predate it by enough that i could live with out.)
✓ I like the way that I look. (I'm a tad bit overweight, but generally satisfied with my looks.)	× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months. (Nope, that's just rude.)	× I am usually pessimistic. (Nope, i'm an optimist bordering on Pollyannaishness at times.)
× I have a lot of mood swings. (I'm known for my stability, though watch out when i'm not.)	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized. (Yep. Well-regulated, it's a fine thing.)	× I slept with a roommate. (Not to date, though there's one i would gladly have done so with.)
× I have a hidden talent. (Er, um, i would know?)	× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have. (So not.)	✓ I have a lot of friends.
✓ I have pecked someone of the same sex. (Duh!)	✓ I enjoy talking on the phone.	× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants. (As if!)
✓ I love to shop and/or window shop. (For kitchen stuff, yes. Else, Nope. Shopping is targeted, with a specific goal.)	✓ I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal. (LJ!)	× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother. (Heavens, no!)
× I have a mobile phone. (Two of them, though i only carry one with me. I've not had a landline in i think it's 8 years now.)	× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months. (I have never once passedout drunk. I did once awake with a hangover and wonder how i got home, though.)	✓ I've rejected someone before. (Brad deserved it. Chris did not.)
✓ I currently like/love someone.	× I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (Quite the opposite. It's just a matter of doing it.)	× I want to have children in the future. (I always imagined having two, but at this point, who knows.)
✓ I have changed a diaper before. (Many, many times.)	× I've called the cops on a friend before. (Nope, i've only called the police due to my house being broken into (twice), and being heldup at gunpoint once.)	× I'm not allergic to anything. (Heh. So not true.)
✓ I have a lot to learn. (Always have, always will.)	× I am shy around the opposite sex. (Nope. Why would i be.)	✓ I'm online 24/7, even as an away message. (No, i have a life. Though i can always be SMSed or emailed or called, so effectivively, this is a yes. Sigh. checks box)
✓ I have at least 5 away messages saved.	✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before. (I buy wine by the case.)	× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past. (Nope.)
× I own the "South Park" movie. (No, but i may someday.)	✓ I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.	✓ I enjoy some country music. (From 1975-1978 the only radio station our 1955 Admiral radio could pick up was KPIK-AM. When we got the AM/FM radio, we listened mostly to WXRA-FM 105.9, the FM equal to WPIK. We also spent time at a honky-tonk down the road, where my dad played darts)
× I would die for my best friends. (Hm. Maybe, for some of them, under certain circumstances.)	× I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist. (Sometimes.)	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career. (Nope.)
✓ I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy. (And, mor important, it honours the dead.)	× I have dated a close friend's ex. (Nope)	✓ I am happy at this moment. (Enoughso to check the box.)
✓ I'm obsessed with guys. (Just a wee bit.)	✓ Democrat. (Due to the limited choices in this nation. Though i live in a state that does not have party registration, so officially, we're all independents. Mr. Jefferson did not believe in political partes, never mind that he founded one.)	× Republican.
× I don't even know what I am.	✓ I am punk rockish.	✓ I go for older guys/girls, not younger. (Usually, but not in the least exclusively.)
× I study for tests most of the time.	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	✓ I can work on a car. (Not something i ever imagined i'd be able to say, but there it is.)
✓ I love my job(s). (So far, so good.)	✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now. (Always.)	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
✓ I walk barefoot wherever I can. (Shoes bad.)	✓ I have jumped off a bridge.	× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	× I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.	✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument. (Several, for that matter.)
× I hate office jobs. (No, but i've enjoyde working in grocery stores more than i have working in offices.)	× I went to college out of state.	× I am adopted.
× I am a pyro.	× I have thrown up from crying too much.	× I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.	✓ I adore bright colours. (Orange!)	× I usually like covers better than originals. (Almost never, except in the case of Tori Amos' cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". And in the case of DNA's remix of Edie Brickell's "Tom's Diner", which i like as well as the original.)
✓ I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays. (Ones of that ilk, totally.)	✓ I can pick up things with my toes. (Can't everyone?)	× I can't whistle. (Hm. Not true, but i don't do it very well, unlike the metro driver who whistled the theme from The Andy Griffith Show for us on the 4th of July this year.)
✓ I have ridden/owned a horse.	✓ I still have every journal I've ever written in.	× I talk in my sleep. (I don't, but my sister does. :D)
× I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century. (Sometimes, yes, though more usually too late in my own century. Often, no.)	× I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions. (Face your troubles, Dude.)	× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.	× I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.	× I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all. (I don't think i go quite that far.)	× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.	× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
✓ I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner. (Or two or three)	× I'm an artist.	✓ I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.	× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	× I have terrible teeth. (A few. I should go to the dentist.)
× I hate my toes.	✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.	× I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
✓ I have lived in either three different states or countries. (VA, Spain, MA, DC.)	✓ I am extremely flexible.	× I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business.	× I smoke.	× I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal. (But many have said i'm well-adjusted.)	✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then. (More than a trickle at times.)	× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons. (I was once upon a day.)
× I like the way women look in stylized men's suits. (Eh.)	✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.	✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds. (Though not in a while.)
× I have played strip poker with someone else before. (I'm not a huge poker fan.)	✓ I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.	✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
× I can't stand being alone.	× I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.	× I'm a judgmental asshole.	× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
✓ I have travelled on more than one continent. (North America, Europe)	× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear. (I did that once, then he died. I've not wished for much of anything since.)	× I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
× I am a Libertarian. (So not. It's as useless a system as Communism, Fascism...)	✓ I can speak more than one language.	✓ I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be. (Usually.)
✓ I would rather read than watch TV. (Most always.)	× I like reading fact more than fiction. (Not really. About equal.)	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.
✓ I have no piercings.	✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place. (Haven't we all at some point or another?)	× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried. (So not.)
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.	× There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.	× I like most animals better than most people.
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.	× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.	× I have hit someone with a dead fish. (Nope. When i've had dead fish in my hand, they were to be dinner. Who wants to eat bruised flesh.)
× I am compulsively honest. (Very honest, but not compulsively.)	× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.	✓ I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.	× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.	✓ I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to. (Only the eat portion applies to me.)
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	✓ I dislike milk. (I don't drink it, but i cook/bake with it.)	× I obsessively wash my hands.
✓ I always carry something significant around with me.	× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.	✓ I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.	× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.	× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.	× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.	✓ I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.	✓ I don't like to chew gum. (Mostly, but not exclusively, true.)
✓ I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it. (I want a way-back machine!)	× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.	× I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
✓ I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.	× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly. (Not for many years.)	✓ I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.	× I have a custom-built computer.	✓ I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.	✓ I've gone skinny-dipping.	✓ I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.	× I'm Irish and loving it.	× I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!	× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'. (Sometimes. But there are lots of fun intellecutal things, so where's the conflict.)	× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
× I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.	× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.	× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
× I need more time to myself.	× I wish I was more open-minded.	× I hope that I go really prematurely grey. (No need to hope. My beard's already mostly white, and my hair's going salt-and-pepper very quickly.)
✓ I download songs from the internet.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.	✓ I say random things to freak people out. (This is SO much fun ot do. especially in the metro.)
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.	× I love playing Truth or Dare.	× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
× Music helps me remember that I am not alone.	× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.	✓ I think this survey is particularly long. (And how.)
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones. (Mostly those overlap, as i know, or want to meet and hang with, the poeple on my friends list.)	× I can only hate someone that I love.	× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.