Divisions and Precisions

Another Survey?

This one courtesy of Dayna. What can I say, I've got an hour left at work to kill.

Fad you wish you had never bought into: Jelly shoes, in middle school. Those things were damned uncomfortable.

City you would next like to live in: Ann Arbor. I've lived in the area for years now, but I haven't lived within city limits since 1996. I love this town.

Food you used to love and now can't stand: White Castle hamburgers. They say if you get really drunk and hungover once, you'll never drink again. Lemme tell you, there is such a thing as a White Castle hangover.

Childhood idol: I can't honestly remember one. Maybe Laura Ingalls Wilder. I read the heck out of the Little House books, and thought she was the greatest writer ever.

Biggest leap of faith: Leaving Tennessee and my husband to go back home to my mom, not sure I'd be coming back, not sure if I wanted to, but knowing I couldn't stay.

Worst job that I've had: I once worked for three days in a literal sweatshop in Tennessee. About 75 women were crammed into a tiny, airless, dark shop, hunched over sewing machines making cheap clothes for the big stores. My job was cutting elastic between pairs of shorts. By the end of the first day, I had a blister on my thumb from the shears, I was dehydrated from the 90+ degree temperatures inside, and I'd spent the day dodging horseflies and wasps that flew around, not to mention the other critters hiding in piles of half-finished clothing. On the third day, I went out to my car for my lunch break and never went back. I realized then that some people spend their whole lives at jobs like that, and it horrified and terrified me.

Least favorite drug: Hrm. Lo-Ovral, the birth control pill. Had a nasty reaction to it once.

Least favorite slang word: beeyotch

Guilty pleasure tv show: E! True Hollywood Stories

Favorite song in eighth grade: Um... "Mr. Roboto" by Styx.

Cd or tape you are most ashamed of: Any of my Richard Marx tapes.

Favorite screen couple: Christian and Satine from Moulin Rouge.

Most hated celebrity: Oprah Winfrey -- that woman sets fat acceptance back ten years every time she decides to diet.

First crush: Hrm. The first ones I remember were in about 4th grade. I had a crush on two Mikes. Mike Siegal and Mike McElyea. I don't think either of them really knew I was alive.

Favorite halloween costume: When I cheated and wore my SCA garb to various Halloween parties. Wench garb goes over very well with goth guys. ;)

First concert: I got to see The Monkees when I was a freshman in high school. Like Dayna, my friend (also named Dana) and I took a big bedsheet we'd decorated with our love for the Monkees, but security wouldn't let us hang it over the railing.

Ever seen a ghost? No, but I've felt one.

First friend: Jeff. I was four, and I was the only one who could see him. (*eyes the above question* Hm...)

Favorite Simpsons character: I rarely watch it, but I'd have to say Lisa.

Re-occurring dreams: When I was in high school, I used to have nightmares about shooting up my school like at Columbine, but this, obviously, was years before that happened. In my dreams, part of me coldbloodedly shot everyone I saw, while a part of my mind was frantic and screamed for me to stop, that I was doing a horrible thing and ruining my life. They were very disturbing dreams.

Favorite playground equipment: Birkenstock Elementary had this great piece of climbing equipment. It had a big platform about six feet off the ground, with a long wide wooden slide coming off it, and beneath it was sort of a fort area. We used that thing as a castle, as a ship, as a house... it was a perfect place to roleplay as kids.

Number of first cousins: 11, off the top of my head. I'm not quite sure how many kids some of my mom's seven brothers and sisters had.

Name of freshman year dorm: Fanning for the first semester, and Elam for the second, both at Lipscomb University in Nashville.

Summer camp: I went to two, Camp Iroquois, and the Michigan Christian Youth Camp. I don't remember much about it.

Wasn't that fun?

Posted by Lisa at May 20, 2002 04:56 PM