Monday Meme -- Questionnaire

[the_other_sandy]

Grabbed from libra_traveller.


1. Your name spelled backwards?
YDNAS

2. Last incoming call on your phone?
Some telemarketer trying to get me to donate money to the state police

3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
An interview with Jared Padalecki from Supernatural

4. What's your favorite restaurant?
Giordano's

5. Last time you swam in a pool?
About 20 years ago

6. Britney Spears is a skank. Agree or disagree?
Skank is a little harsh, but she definitely needs professional help

7. How many kids do you want?
None

8. Type of music you dislike most?
Rap

9. What was the last thing you bought?
Groceries

10. Have you ever ridden on a motorbike?
Yes, but only as a passenger

11. Does someone have a crush on you?
No

12. Ever made a prank phone call?
Probably, when I was young and stupid

13. Listening to music?
Not at the moment

14. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving?
Not even if you paid me

15. What shoes are you wearing right now?
Fuzzy slippers

16. Do you have a garden?
No

17. What's your favorite comic strip?
I don't have one at the moment; none of the ones I used to like are funny to me anymore

18. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
Yes

19. Bath or Shower, morning or night?
Shower at night; I like baths too, but I have the world's most uncomfortable bathtub

20. Hello or goodbye?
Am I coming or going?

21. Favorite pizza toppings?
Cheese and pepperoni

22. Chips or Popcorn?
Popcorn

23. Favorite color?
Forest green

24. What did ur last text message you received say?
I have never actually received a text message; of course, it would help if I owned a cell phone, which I never have

25. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant?
No, but I modeled in 3 fashion shows when I was a pre-teen

26. Orange Juice or apple juice?
Apple juice

27. Who was the last person you ate dinner with?
My best friend and her family

28. What did the last text message that u sent say?
I have never actually sent a text message

30. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
Never; I hate tomatoes

31. Have you ever won a trophy?
No, but I won some ribbons that I wasn't allowed to keep when I was in Girl Scouts

32. Are you a good cook?
No, I can only make things that involve boiling water (mashed potatoes, oatmeal, pasta, rice, etc.)

33. Do you know how to pump your own gas?
Yes

34. Do the chinese really use cats in their food?
No idea

35. Sprite or 7-Up?
Sprite unless I'm sick, then 7-Up

36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to school?
Yes, from 1st through 6th grade, then I got sent to public school

37. Last thing you ate?
English toffee

38. Ever thrown up in public?
Yes

39. Would you rather find true love or be a millionaire?
Be a millionaire

40. Do you believe in love at first sight?
In theory

41. Think fast, what do you like right now?
The Internet, books, reading, TV, cats, and Italian food

42. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital?
My best friend after she had her baby

43. Where were you on Valentine's day?
Work and the chiropractor

44. Last time you laughed?
Earlier today

45. What's your favorite animal?
Cats

46. What was the name of your first pet?
Heidi

47. Who is the second to last person to call you?
The manager at my chiropractor's office to reschedule my appointment

48. Is there anything going on this weekend?
I went to a huge craft show and tried to catch up on my flist

49. How are you feeling right now?
Anxious; I'm heading into the home stretch for my Spanish class, so I'm going to be taking 6 or 7 exams in the next 3 weeks

50. What do you think about the most?
How much I want this semester to be over so I can have my nights and weekends back

51. What do you think of the person that posted this before you?
She was one of the first people to welcome me onto LJ, which made getting my feet wet here a lot easier

52. Who is MOST likely to repost this survey?
I don't know; most of my flist who do memes have done it already--Hey, bit_boy? Want to make another post to your blog?

Comments

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

Aww, you're welcome. Good luck with all those Spanish exams!

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm going to need it. The last two chapters have been heavy on the complicated grammar. I should do okay on the reading proficiency exam on Wednesday (that was my highest score on the proficiency exams last semester), but the writing exams are going to suck.

I did make my instructor laugh in class tonight, though. We had to write out 5 sentences each for the definite and indefinite subjunctive tense, then she called on random people to read a sentence out loud. My sentence for the indefinite subjunctive was, "Deseo una clase que sea más fácil" (literally = "I desire a class that is easier"). She threw a pen cap at me. 8-)

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

That sounds fun, a little humor to offset all the hard work. You can do it, even the writing, I know you can. And after this class will you be taking another in the fall? Either way nice summer break, you're not taking one in the summer are you?

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Ye Olde Community College doesn't offer intermediate Spanish classes in the summer (or at least not this summer), so I'm free until the fall.

My boss would like me to keep going until I run out of classes to take. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I'm kind of burned out after 8 months of classes. I'll have to see how I feel after some time off when I'm a little more objective.

I like knowing things, but learning them is just so darn much work. ;-)

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

I like to journal so today I did what I've thought of doing for awhile, which is basically to go through by semester and classes, my entire 4 1/2 years of college and write about them, so I wrote 38 pages, in cursive. My hand aches by the way, but I realize again, that someday I really do want to go and get my Masters. I miss college already.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Ouch. That's a lot of writing.

I went back and got my Masters five years after I graduated from college. Since my degree was in a "soft science" (library science), I had to write a lot of theory-laden papers for my classes, sometimes five or six ten-page papers per class. When graduation neared, my mentor tried to get me to go on for my Ph.D, but at that point, I was so burned out on writing papers that I never wanted to set foot in school ever again, much less write a dissertation. I'm just starting to get back into writing again now by blithering away on my LJ.

How's the job hunt going? Find anything yet?

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

That's quite the burnout.

Er, I haven't even set in any applications yet, it's hard enough trying to find a place that I would want to apply to because I've limited myself so much about what I want. I did find a few places I'm hoping to contact this week.

If I do go for my masters it'll probably be for fiction writing.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

That's quite the burnout.

It was, but cranking out a 10 page paper every other week (sometimes 2 in one week) for a year and a half will do that to you. My poor BF got to listen to me melt down daily via email for my entire grad school career.

I haven't even set in any applications yet, it's hard enough trying to find a place that I would want to apply to because I've limited myself so much about what I want.

WARNING: Crotchety old person doling out unwanted advice.

Sometimes you have to take a less-than-ideal job right out of school to get the right experience that will lead to an ideal job later on. I started out temping for a library specific temp agency out of grad school to get experience to put on a resumé, which got me the job I've had for the last 11 1/2 years. I'm just sayin'.

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

Yeah yeah, I know. Still it's hard even finding the unwanted job, because even those what you to already have experience.

I may not get time...

[bit-boy.livejournal.com]

before I leave next week, but I'll repost it NLT next Friday. Since I'm going to be traveling until ugly hours Thursday night, I'm taking next Friday off. Our new bed and mattress are showing up that day as well. Woohoo!!!