(I almost never do these, but IDK, one of the questions cracked my shit up this time. Anyone who just likes these questions should feel free to run with this even if I didn't tag you.)
Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 11 new ones.
Tag 11 new people and link them to the post.
Let them know you tagged them.
thelocaleamidstthestars tagged me and asked:
1.) In your opinion, what is your greatest strength?
Resilience. I'd say intelligence but that's a two-edged sword.
2.) Alternately, what would you say is your greatest flaw/weakness?
I'm immoderate about anything I take seriously at all and it leads to workaholism, insomnia, occasional disastrous rabbit holes and a generally unbalanced life. Or I'll get into defense against myself mode, go into a long inert drifting period and lose considerable time to zone-out, which is worse.
3.) If you could live within a fantasy world - including but not limited to books, movies, TV shows, video games etc - which would it be and why?
If that question were serious I'd have to consider it for like a month solid. Sigh. Terre d'Ange is tempting.
4.) Who is your idol? Who do you strive to emulate in everyday life?
Just other people I see being effective in ways I'm not yet as effective in my line of work, really. I don't think in terms of role models.
5.) If you were a character, what would you like your theme song to be?
Alison Krauss, "Take Me for Longing" or PJ Harvey "50-Foot Queenie" depending on the genre/plot twist.
6.) Would you rather have shark arms or bear legs? I.e, forearms are live sharks that can survive out of water, and are somewhat trained. Or your lower legs are fused (think melted candle) on to the top of two docile bears, who won’t attack people, but who don’t particularly like each other?
Bear legs. For some reason, that reads like a not completely unfamiliar situation. *buries face in hands* Shark arms is right out, because then I can't do shit with my arms, which constitutes a whole separate catastrophe, even aside from the scary animal control issue, itself further exacerbated here by oceanic horror.
7.) Any peculiar hobbies or habits?
Nothing that's not potentially identifying, alas.
8.) What is the best insult in your repertoire, or what is the best insult you have ever been subjected to?
After I broke up with the first guy I was ever engaged to he sent me an email that opened, "Dear Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short," and I died laughing so hard that I forgot to be pissed.
9.) What period in history had the best fashion, in your opinion?
I'm partial to the 1870s and the 1920-30s.
10.) I stole this question from a job application that I recently filled in because it seemed so ridiculous. Give an example of a time when you “sprinkled a bit of stardust onto somebody’s day”. And that is a direct quote.
I puked in someone's office wastebasket once.
11.) What is your favourite feature?
I have great forearms.
1. Name one of your favorite poems.
2. Who or what is after you?
3. If you could have either the power to teleport anywhere on the planet (along with your clothes, one other person you're touching with intent to transport, and anything the two of you can carry) OR the power to turn back time by five minutes, which would you choose?
4. Is there anything that reliably calms and soothes you? What?
5. If you were a cocktail, what would it be?
6. What's your dream job?
7. What book are you currently reading?
8. What's the best single thing you've ever had in your wardrobe?
9. If you had to wear either a propeller beanie or thick rubber gloves everywhere for a month, which would you choose?
10. You win an all-expenses-paid adventure vacation. You can go on a science-and-wildlife icebreaker cruise to the Antarctic, or you can join a Bedouin camel train through the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuktu. Which do you choose?
11. Is there a first name you'd rather have been given at birth than your actual first name? What's your dream name?
