43 questions that I'm primed to answer.
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1) First teacher's name: First one I can remember is Mrs. Scola in the second grade.
2) Last words you said: "Thank you" (to neighbor who held the door open for me when I was hauling laundry.
3) Last song you sang: Jesus' Brother Bob by The Arrogant Worms
4) Last person you hugged:kshandra
5) Last thing you laughed at: Myself, due to my signing.
6) Last time you said 'I love you: last night, to Kirsten.
7) Last time you cried: At RENT last year.
8) What's in your CD player: Brontosaurus by Da Vinci's Notebook
9) What color socks are you wearing: white
10) What's under your bed: A surly mob of dust bunnies.
11) What time did you wake up today: 0700
12) Current taste: Coke
13) Current hair: Black, and badly in need of mowing.
14) Current clothes: Black Dockers, blue hooded sweatshirt, black t-shirt.
15) Current annoyance: eight hours of laundry.
16) Current longing: about three days in a hot tub.
17) Current desktop picture: An artist's rendition of what the accretion disk in Fomalhaut might look like.
18) Current worry: Getting a job.
19) Current hate: San Francisco's DPT (Don't Park There!)
20) Story behind your LJ username: Arameth Gridlore was one of my first, and most successful Traveller characters. I've used him, or one of his wide-flung family in many games. When the game's fourth edition came out, the Traveller Mailing List started a ship design competition. I created Gridlore Technologies for the event (and even won one of them!) When we switched to Mindspring, I chose "gridlore@mindspring.com" for my address. The word itself comes from watching Monday Night Football and hearing Howard Cosell describe a person as a "veritable storehouse of gridiron folklore." Arameth was a generic Celtic-sounding thing.
21) Current favorite article of clothing: The grey sweatshirt I got for Christmas.
22) Favorite physical feature of the opposite sex: eyes
23) Last CD that you bought: Postcards of the Hanging: The Grateful Dead play the music of Bob Dylan was the last one I bought for myself. The last CD that I actually purchased is secret, since it's a gift forfimbrethil.
24) Favorite place to be: No place in particular. At home, I like my couch.
25) Least favorite place: Crowds.
26) Time you wake up in the morning: Before 0900, every day.
27) If you could play an instrument, what would it be: Guitar
28) Favorite color: I have two: black and red.
29) Do you believe in an afterlife: Not sure, and in no hurry to find out!
30) How tall are you: 180 cm
31) Current favorite word/saying: Feh.
32) Favorite book: A World Out of Time, by Larry Niven
33) Favorite season: Football, with baseball a close second
34) One person from your past you wish you could go back and talk to: No one really springs to mind.
35) Favorite day: Don't have one.
36) Where do you want to go: Normandy. Do Bayeux and Omaha beach in one day.
37) What is your career going to be like: Hopefully, I'll have one! I'd like to spend my career as a police dispatcher.
38) How many kids do you want: Out of that race.
39) What kind of car will you have: Car? Gimme a Harley!
40) Type a line you remember from any book: "I was stupid," the thing that claimed to be Brennan said. Protector, by Larry Niven
41) A random lyric: "Hello me, hello you/ you say you've got other things to do/throw in your hand/break up the band/seek a new life/be a new man" Rock and Roll Fantasy The Kinks
42) Identify some things surrounding your computer: Printout of my NYC ticket, my meds, two stuffed critters, wire rack with most of my gaming stuff, lots of CD cases.
43) What's Up: my time before I have to switch laundry.
figmo1) First teacher's name: First one I can remember is Mrs. Scola in the second grade.
2) Last words you said: "Thank you" (to neighbor who held the door open for me when I was hauling laundry.
3) Last song you sang: Jesus' Brother Bob by The Arrogant Worms
4) Last person you hugged:
kshandra5) Last thing you laughed at: Myself, due to my signing.
6) Last time you said 'I love you: last night, to Kirsten.
7) Last time you cried: At RENT last year.
8) What's in your CD player: Brontosaurus by Da Vinci's Notebook
9) What color socks are you wearing: white
10) What's under your bed: A surly mob of dust bunnies.
11) What time did you wake up today: 0700
12) Current taste: Coke
13) Current hair: Black, and badly in need of mowing.
14) Current clothes: Black Dockers, blue hooded sweatshirt, black t-shirt.
15) Current annoyance: eight hours of laundry.
16) Current longing: about three days in a hot tub.
17) Current desktop picture: An artist's rendition of what the accretion disk in Fomalhaut might look like.
18) Current worry: Getting a job.
19) Current hate: San Francisco's DPT (Don't Park There!)
20) Story behind your LJ username: Arameth Gridlore was one of my first, and most successful Traveller characters. I've used him, or one of his wide-flung family in many games. When the game's fourth edition came out, the Traveller Mailing List started a ship design competition. I created Gridlore Technologies for the event (and even won one of them!) When we switched to Mindspring, I chose "gridlore@mindspring.com" for my address. The word itself comes from watching Monday Night Football and hearing Howard Cosell describe a person as a "veritable storehouse of gridiron folklore." Arameth was a generic Celtic-sounding thing.
21) Current favorite article of clothing: The grey sweatshirt I got for Christmas.
22) Favorite physical feature of the opposite sex: eyes
23) Last CD that you bought: Postcards of the Hanging: The Grateful Dead play the music of Bob Dylan was the last one I bought for myself. The last CD that I actually purchased is secret, since it's a gift for
fimbrethil.24) Favorite place to be: No place in particular. At home, I like my couch.
25) Least favorite place: Crowds.
26) Time you wake up in the morning: Before 0900, every day.
27) If you could play an instrument, what would it be: Guitar
28) Favorite color: I have two: black and red.
29) Do you believe in an afterlife: Not sure, and in no hurry to find out!
30) How tall are you: 180 cm
31) Current favorite word/saying: Feh.
32) Favorite book: A World Out of Time, by Larry Niven
33) Favorite season: Football, with baseball a close second
34) One person from your past you wish you could go back and talk to: No one really springs to mind.
35) Favorite day: Don't have one.
36) Where do you want to go: Normandy. Do Bayeux and Omaha beach in one day.
37) What is your career going to be like: Hopefully, I'll have one! I'd like to spend my career as a police dispatcher.
38) How many kids do you want: Out of that race.
39) What kind of car will you have: Car? Gimme a Harley!
40) Type a line you remember from any book: "I was stupid," the thing that claimed to be Brennan said. Protector, by Larry Niven
41) A random lyric: "Hello me, hello you/ you say you've got other things to do/throw in your hand/break up the band/seek a new life/be a new man" Rock and Roll Fantasy The Kinks
42) Identify some things surrounding your computer: Printout of my NYC ticket, my meds, two stuffed critters, wire rack with most of my gaming stuff, lots of CD cases.
43) What's Up: my time before I have to switch laundry.
