1. Overambitious-yet-secretly-convinced-she-will-never-amount-to-anything college freshman.
2. Hates peas. so hard.
3. Wants to be a Foxy Lady when she grows up.
4. Once put a dying bird out of its misery by breaking a neck with her bare hands. Felt powerful and brave and miserable for weeks afterwards.
5. Has never been able to jump-rope.
6. Doesn't write as much as she should.
7. Can work the fryer at a fast-food joint like nobody's business.
8. Old people love her.
9. Selfish, with bad social skills.
10. Has dexterous toes.

->>bad, jaundiced cameraphone photo.

You first!

Allo!
Since we don't actually know each other, I'll try and make my answers at least semi useful. But no promises :)

1. My real name is Tori
2. I'm a 3rd year Media Studies/Journalism major at the University of Guelph Humber in Toronto, ON, Canada
3. I have no idea what I want to do with my degree when I get out of school, other than doing journalism...somehow
4. I love musicals
5. I've been with my boyfriend for four and a half years (and I'm sick of people telling us to get married already :S )
6. I've had a whole bunch of random jobs, including camp counsellor, lifeguard, waitress, sales associate at an organization store, and attractions playmaster (essentially a peon at an indoor amusement park)
7. I love food and eating, although I'm not so big on cooking
8. My favourite genres of music are pretty much anything from the 80s and 90s
9. I used to do theatre back in high school, and now I really, really miss it
10. I'm a big movie whore, with some personal favourites being Kill Bill, Titan A.E., Big Fish, Interview With the Vampire, and Fifth Element

And finally, this is a pic of me and the boyfriend this past Halloween:


And now, we know each other a little better (well, I will once I read your answers :) )

1. I'm 28 years old.
2. I'm married for the second time.
3. I have 6 children. I gave birth to three of them.
4. I'm a double major in Web Design and Development and Information Systems Management. I graduate in a month with my first degree.
5. I'm bisexual
6. I'm polyamorous. I have a husband and a girlfriend.
7. I suffer from depression.
8. I am a rather talented cook.
9. I love to read.
10. I am a movie fanatic and absorb facts about movies, movie stars, and pretty much anything else about movies. Plus I own a bunch of them.

My icon is a picture; does that count?

1. i rule.
2. i don't like to capitalize.
3. i enjoy lists.
4. i like to paint and draw and make big photoposts.
5. i'm bisexual.
6. i'm married and monogamous.
7. i like all vegetables. all of them.
8. i recently got over major depression and have lost 30 pounds.
9. i own like 80 colors of toenail polish.
10. i totally stole your wallet once. but not really.

my icon is me. so are all my other icons. it is the height of vanity.

1. I'm eating fruit cocktail right now out of the can. I never eat the grapes, I always eat the cherries.
2. We're both from the same area in PA and now go to college in DC/VA within an hour or so from one another, yet have never met.
3. I used to be a Christian with Republican views. I am now a born again individual with very strong Democratic views.
4. I have never once dyed or highlighted my hair.
5. My dad is an abstract painter and I have inherited a bit of his creativity, yet I rarely have time to paint/write/take pictures. It kills me.
6. I'm in a lifeguarding class right now and am one test away from receiving my certification. The thought of having to save someone's life scares me senseless.
7. I'm straight, but I love to admire the female form.
8. I barely ever wear make-up.
9. I think I want to be a literature professor, but I don't know if I can go through with it.
10. I don't eat beef. Only about bimonthly do I break down and eat a cheese steak.

And here's some more cheese:

1. I once started an artists' co-op in MN so that my friends and I could make and sell clothing.
2. I'm not sure what religion I am any more. Raised protestant Christian, converted to Paganism about 8 or 9 years back, slid out of practice now, although I occasionally observe Pagan holidays I more commonly go to a Unitarian Universalist church (the one on 16th & Harvard).
3. My real name is Beth. Just Beth. Not Elizabeth, not Bethany.
4. My family and I get along pretty well, but in some ways I have ended up the black sheep of the family... and I sometimes kind of wonder how it happened.
5. I wonder if we will ever run into each other on the AU campus (or if we already have)!
6. I like my boyfriend's family. They like me. This is good, because we've been together for 4 and a half years.
7. I wish I could figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. On the other hand, it's fun exploring all of the possibilities.
8. I'm 30. How have I not figured out #7 yet?
9. I'm bisexual, and although I tried polyamory, I find I am more comfortable in a monogamous relationship. I am totally Not Out about either of these things at work.
10. I love making things. Food and clothing are my main things-to-make, which makes me feel like a bit of a domestic goddess sometimes.

Picture of azure_armand and me, at daviathan and msmaryclare's wedding:

1. I'm 36.
2. I'm bisexual.
3. I wish I had come to the California Bay Area for college (or right afterward).
4. I have started listening to E! True Hollywood Stories in the car on my way to work instead of the news.
5. I'm really shy but hide it well.
6. I love giving booktalks.
7. Ice cream is my favorite treat.
8. I loved driving cross country & hope to do it again.
9. Blowing bubbles & things that glitter make me happy.
10. I know that sexy is truly a state of mind.

Photo... here!

1. i am obsessive compulsive in a quirky/not quirky way.
2. i take pictures. lots and lots of pictures.
3. shoe fetishist.
4. i owe 1/2 of my sanity to my car.
5. boys hate me.
6. i just finished reading julie douchet's new book.
7. i grew up in northeastern pennsylvania and i talk like a coal hunkie. i am not sure of the meaning of the word "wunst" but i have used it in sentences.
8. william eggleston is the reason i take color pictures.
9. i like the way concrete smells.
10. i was nominated for homecoming queen my senior year of high school and if i wouldn't have dropped out, i probably would've won.



yay!

1. My cleats really smell, and I'm kind of past caring.
2. I haven't cleaned my sink for... two months? Maybe just a month and a half.
3. Mostly it's dusty and linty. Not moldy.
4. But I'll probably clean it before my parents come this weekend.
5. I'm no longer completely comfortable with the label "bisexual" because of how long I've gone without any interest whatsoever in boys.
6. I don't know what label I'd want to use instead.
7. I wonder if this is a product of spending most of my time with the rugby team.
8. I am obsessed with this song "girlshapedlovedrug" by Gomez, and I want you to listen to it the next time I see you.
9. I've decided I like protesting because it gives me the opportunity to vent and yell things and feel useful. I don't, however, think protesting has much effect.
10. I sort of forgot to vote, but I sort of didn't care because I knew my absentee ballot probably wouldn't even be counted.


RANDOM OLD PICTURE that you've probably seen before, but then.... is there any picture of me you haven't seen? Probably no.

I love these things. ^^

1. I'm the kind of perfectionist who has never been close to perfect.
2. This very eve I attempted suicide for the 8th time in my life. (I'm ok)
3. I'm way too frank with somethings, and I hide others.
4. I have fucked up every term so far in university, I feel as though I am doomed to fail.
5. I have a boyfriend, but I want a girlfriend too. The boyfriend would never go for that.
6. I fall in love too easily.
7. When I first found your journal, I thought you the coolest person ever :)
8. I joke about things I shouldn't. Like how it was funny that I googled Trazodone to find out how many I would need to ingest to die, I learned that I don't have nearly enough.
9. I'm lactose intolerent.
10. I used to eat glue.

1. I'm rather laconic, although I sometimes write lengthy posts...presumably my posts are more correlated with my thoughts than my words
2. Yes, I'm aware that morocco is actually spelled with just one R after continually ordering moroccan mint tea at politics and prose
3. I accumulate friends that are girls but rarely date, I like the term non-practicing heterosexual.
4. I am easily made uncomfortable.
5. Despite numbers three and four I've taken interest in a farsi-speaking, shia muslim practicing, iranian girl (I'm catholic)
6. my favorite book was written by a slovenian philosopher that I can't recall the name of
7. Currently listening to the decemberists, Crane Wife 3
8. I have to wake up very early to renew my passport for yellowbrick's spring break russia trip...thus precluding 9,10 and a picture (I would have just used the turkish person costume picture)

1. I found your journal while researching AU grad programs. I decided to go to Hopkins.
2. I love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
3. I only wear black shirts and have not worn another color in ten years.
4. Yep, I'm gay.
5. I'm a major fangirl of Michael Jackson, even though he went nuts.
6. I own 300 records and 800 CDs and they are in alphabetical order by genre.
7. I drive a bright yellow car.
8. I don't eat red meat.
9. Vertigo is my favorite Hitchcock film.
10. I am starting to have nostalgia for the music that played while I was in high school, which means I am getting old.

My icon is me.

1. I used to 'unwind' myself if I thought I'd gone round in a circle.

2. I've calculated I have drunk over 104,000 cups of tea in my life (well I am British).

3. I go through phases of filling my windowsills with plants I've grown from pips.

4. I like to study maps on the toilet.

5. I am one of 5 brothers but I have no sisters - but when I was 8 I really envied my cousin Ann because she was a girl and she was the person I wanted to be.

6. I make a nest from my clothes at the end of my bed, and the birds leave chocolate easter eggs in the night on the night before easter.

7. My grandfather was the 13th child of a 13th child. His dad was 75 when my granddad was born. If he hadn't kept going I wouldn't be here!

8. My favourite animals are rabbits.

9. At the age of 12 I wrote to the US President to volunteer as an astronaut... he never replied.

10. I once found a metal nut in a bar of 'Fruit and Nut' chocolate. They sent me a huge box of goodies when I complained.

i'm the left one :)
well i don't have any pictures of myself, there are mostly in my friends' albums. i make photos only on film, and it causes some problems with publishing them in the places like this. i hope this photo will help you to imagine who i am better then if it would be my portrait.

to be honest, i don't know how to discribe myself in ten sentenses, but i'll try...
1) i prefer to live in utopia then in so cold "reality"
2) i try (but maybe i don't try the best i can) to play some music, to write some novels and poems, to make some photos and create some movies, but i'm not sure if i'm talanted enough for doing this...
3) i believe, people can get much closer to each other than they could imagine, but most of them think they don't need it and the rest doesn't know how to do this. i guess there's some door we have to find and go through. opening this doors we come closer. it's like pooling off your closes - you're getting naked, and turning into what you really are. unfortunately our souls have thousand times more closes than we wear on our bodies...
4) i try hard to be honest and sincere. it's not so easy as i supposed.. but i still try..
5) i hate to cheat people and reject to do this. it was a reason to fire me in 90% of all my past jobs. there was only one job when i was cheateng - being santa claus:)
6) if i would be a scientist, i'd invent some way to get anywhere only with the force of my thought, than i would publish the instructions in the internet for free. and there will not be my signature..
7) i prefer to meet peole in real life. modern technologies made it possible to have a conversation with people in spite of any distance and it's really great. but somtimes it's so nice to seat side by side without any word..
8) i do love people but not the crowd. that's why i feel sick in subway.
9) if i would find a million dollars, i wouldn't have any idea what to do with this money.
10) sometimes i do stupid things like wearing a different boots on right and left feet, jumping to the river from the brige, speaking-in-tongues in public places, going 1000 kilometers with the last money spent on tickets to find my old friend and shout "surprise!" etc. with the only reason - to feel something different, unsupposed.
...
12) my real name is sergey..
...
18) my english is horrible..
...
23) i study sound engeneering
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327) i'm ukrainian.......

1. i hate milk
2. i am afraid of the dark
3. i regret not taking up journalling with you last camp
4. you still haven't commented on my myspace
5. i miss you
6. i don't know what i want to do for the rest of my life
7. i think you are the only human being who can look like a blue fish (dory)
8. no7 was meant to be a joke
9. i don't know what else to say
10. i don't like animals

Sorry it took so long ...

1) I am old enough to know better and young enough not to give a fruitcake.
2) Photographer (Amateur) (Soon to do my first showing at a local gallery (maybe), oh, soon could mean anywhere in the next year, mmm).
3) I miss my sailboat
4) Self employed for food and housing at a business I could take or leave (and is in a slump at the moment partially due to lack of drive.
5) I HATE Lima Beans, but love a good steak w/a baked potato topped with butter & sour cream.
6) Cycling around the Mall (when it is above 60 degrees, haha) catching people unaware in my camera lens.
7) Collect various/miscellaneous figures from Potato Heads to Vampires. (recently i found a 20" Dark Lord figure from the movie Legend at a fantastic price. But my cat knocked it off the shelf it was on and it's arm broke off, grrrr... but luckily they had another left that I bought to replace it.
8) DVD's are another addiction ...
9) I like to read when I discover a good book. Fiction, Non Fiction.
10) I sometimes will have a thought pop into my head, sometimes inspired and sometimes not, that it becomes a poem or a unfinished short story.

I did this here and here the other day (well, that's only eight). I will think of some other things another time, maybe.

1. I am a "non-MLS library professional."
2. I like Polaroids, typewriters, and vinyl records, but I dislike steampunk and its advocates.
3. I've visited every state east of the Mississippi, and only two to the west.
4. I worked nights for ten years.
5. I used to do drugs, but I've quit everything besides vodka & coffee.
6. I have a hard time coming up with lists of facts about me because I just started to like myself this year.
7. I'm embarrassed that I write phrases like "I just started to like myself this year."
8. I'm a Mac advocate.
9. I think people who make exaggerated violent threats over grammatical & spelling errors are socially inept.
10. I think The Wire is brilliant and wish that everyone in America would watch it.

My icons are all me, but this is me at work:

1) I don't know how I'll ever come up with 10 tidbits of info about myself...I have yet to be that interesting.
2) I'm blessed and cursed with wanderlust.
3) My child is my hero.
4) I would collect just about every one of your user pics if I could figure out how to add them to mine. :)
5) I'm a bibliophile.
6) I admire humor writers.
7) However, some of my own best work has been written when I've been heart-breakingly sad.
8) I adore the bittersweet...from dark chocolate covered espresso beans to my favorite movie, "The Lover," based on the book by Marguerite Duras.
9) I've lived in 5 states & 3 countries, and I've visited 5 additional states and 6 additional countries. (Did I mention the wanderlust?) And yes, I had to count them out on my fingers and I may be forgetting a place or two.
10) Surely # 8 counts as 2 comments, no? Okay, minor quirk: I don't like using the words "things" or "stuff"...as a writer/editor, I should have any number of more appropriate terms, no? Don't worry, I'm not on a crusade to ban all use of the words, though... :)
Please stop by my journal sometime and tell me 10 details about you. I'm sure you're much more interesting!

1. As an undergraduate, I was a biology, art and finally English major.
2. I discussed vegetarian menu options with Dennis Kucinich.
3. Even though I have better than 20/20 vision, I sometimes wear glasses with non-prescriptive lenses because I like the way they look.
4. I am only a bibliophile because I don't have the money to be a bibliomane.
5. I bicycle two and a half miles to class and jog for relaxation.
6. I have made attempts at becoming a pornographer, but have generally been thwarted.
7. When I first became interested in library science, one of my goals was to see a Gutenberg Bible. The very first time I visited the college I am attending to get my MLS, I walked into the rare books library, and it was one of the first things I saw. That accomplished, I need to find some new eccentric goals as a rare books librarian.
8. I want to write a book on nude modeling.
9. I have a drafting table that hardly gets used anymore.
10. I'm re-teaching myself Classical Latin.

1. I love love love to laugh. But not at stupidity. I have a dry sense of humor.
2. I tell people waaay too much in a socially awkward way to let people know I like them and want to let them in.
3. I blush. All. the. time. Ironically, when people tell me I'm blushing I usually wasn't aware, and then I get truly embarrassed: cue vicious cycle.
4. I whine about my life a lot, but it's usually simply dripping with sarcasm. I'm really not as unpleasant as I sound over the internet (on the flip side, in person people usually think I'm the happiest/cheeriest person ever when they first get to know me).
5. I talk a lot and I love to articulate myself. Which is probably why I have a journal (est. 2003).
6. I have had a boyfriend for 3 and a half years and I adore him very much and would like to get married to him when we can afford it. But sometimes I still imagine what it was like before him/what it would be like after him (read: sluttiness and my enjoyment of such).
7. I enjoy food and am constantly eating. I would cook the best meals EVER if I didn't have to clean up the mess afterward ;)
8. It pisses me off when skinny people bitch about their weight and go on diets. Or think that their pants size is what defines them. I'm 5'2 and around 130 pounds. I wear size 9 jeans. To quote Joey from Friends, "I'm curvy, and I like it!"
9. I have seen every episode of Friends at least 6 times. DVDs ftw.
10. I'm extremely enamored with sexuality. I would love to work in that field forever. Just gotta find the right job, though, and it's harder than you'd think!

This picture is nothing like my normal, toothy smile. But I never post it anywhere, so this is what you get.


Edited at 2007-11-27 03:13 am (UTC)

i just friended you , came over from the customer_sucks community...my default ICON is a very old picture of me.

1. i used to be a go Go dancer/stripper
2. i am a preachers kid
3. i am allergic to garlic
4. i have recently become a BPAl addict
5. if its a craft project i probably have tried it
6. i recently cut 16 inches off my hair for wigs for kids.
7. i used to run a new age store
8. but i make Rosaries...
9. i am terrified of snakes, needles, spiders, and small scuttling things
10. i am a platelet donor, have owned snakes, and think spiders are pretty.

oh, yes, i also post 99% of my stuff "public", and also post under my other Lj "thorninthefoot"

Count me as another who came over from customers_suck; after seeing you several times (at least, if my memory's alright) and checking out your profile (which is obvious perhaps, given that I'm on this entry xD ), I'm adding you to my own friendslist *snickers* ^^ Now, as for those 10 Things...

Making these slightly useful, in the true effort of 'getting to know me better' xD

1. I'm 23, although I've been known to forget that before.
2. I collect Megaman figurines.
3. I aspire to be a professional artist someday.
4. I live in North Carolina but have been to CA and PA by plane, and DC by car (and if they count, as plane transfers I've also been to TX, GA, and IL xD )
5. I am known as the NMBC fan among my coworkers, to the point where my Secret Santa got me a Jack wallet, and my boss saved our NMBC merchandise for me to stock during one floor move.
6. I'm diligently studying French, although it's a little rough at times since I'm doing it alone ^^;
7. I am addicted to hoodies, as well as the color purple. (Naturally so, then, one of my favorite articles of clothing is a purple hoodie. Although the fact I got it from my boyfriend's awesome!parents probably helps XD )
8. When joking around with my boyfriend and best friend, I'll frequently use "internet speech" xD ("Onoes", "lawl", "GTFO", etc.)
9. I know American Sign Language. (Deaf sister.)
10. I'm also a "long, long ago" Girl Scout, although I never made it past Junior; dropped out soon after that because of difficulties between it and life (like the busy-ness factor xD; ).


I have no decent photograph of me but errh... Will this count? XD;;
http://cbizumi.deviantart.com/art/10sktch-Self-portraits-kinda-60784338

Oooh, boy. Here we go!

1. I've been together with my significant other, Andrew, for 8 years come April 1st.
2. I'm a geek - I love comics, cartoons, a good chunk of sci-fi/fantasy, games (video & board), stupid internet jokes...yeah.
3. I LOVE books.
4. And movies. (Working in a video store helps!)
5. I love a wide variety of music -- old, new, rock, classical, alternative, even foreign. My least favorites are country and rap, but even then, there are a few exceptions.
6. I love fashion design...if I were more ambitious, I'd totally try to make my own clothes.
7. I'm very laid back, and fairly lazy. XD
8. I love graphic design as well, I love making wallpapers and avatars/icons.
9. I collect Japanese dolls. (A few of my friends find them "creepy", though, so I have a whole seperate LJ for them. ^^; )
10. I HATE HATE HATE it when people use the wrong "your" or "there". It's one of my biggest pet peeves.

And here is me: