Answers to Questions from Meme

Friends - Is there a friend you see in real life that you really can't be assed seeing, or occasionally question why you're friends with that person?

Short answer, yes. I usually wonder why people stay friends with me, though. I'm a notoriously bad friend.

Sex - Favourite position? Heh.

Favorite position... That's a toughie - there are so many to choose from! A mistress I was seeing liked to tie me to her headboard w/my arms bound over my head, elbows bent & something about the tension it created was just mind-blowing. In everyday sex, it's probably just bent over - bent over the sink or a chair arm or a couch arm...

Visitors to my home always seem a little nervous about sitting on the furniture - I've never figured out why exactly...

Love - What is the hardest thing about loving someone, do you think?

The hardest thing for me about loving someone is that I never really am sure about my own emotions. Do I honestly love someone or am I just saying it to make them feel better? I don't know what it's supposed to feel like, but it sure doesn't feel the way the movies seem to portray it being felt, I never feel the depth that poets and artists seem to express how love is supposed to feel. Sometimes when I'm drunk & thinking about it, it feels like my heart is literally going to crack in half & thunderbirds are going to leap out of it spraying lightning and rainstorms - but because I'm drunk I don't know if it's legitimate or just the booze talking. And I never have that feeling when I'm sober.

The hardest thing about love in general... I think that because we are all separate people living in our own heads and hearts means you can never be sure about the other person's emotions, either. Do they really love you back or is it just a relationship based on convenience? Is it all synapses and neurons and chemical responses or is it something greater than that? Is love just, at its basest, need & the reciprocation of need? Do we love or are we just terrified of being alone in this great big Universe?

More Meme-age, Stolen from a Maker of Icons

What would happen if you had a baby with the last person you kissed? Abortion. ASAP.

Last place you hugged someone? The garage.

Do you know anyone named Matt? Yeah, a couple of ‘em.

What color is your hair? Mostly gray with black growing out. And some blonde stuff that isn’t gray yet. Weird.

When was the last time you talked to one of your siblings? About 2 weeks ago.

Is your hair curly or straight? Wavy

Who was the last person you talked to on the telephone? An investigator looking for a different help desk clerk .

Who was the last person you took a picture with? The in-laws.

Do you have a best friend? Yes.

Do you remember what you were like a year ago? Yes, & nothing’s changed except my job & schedule.

Do you use smiley faces on the computer too much? I don’t believe so – if I do, someone please let me know & I’ll stop.

Have you ever changed clothes in a vehicle? Yes.

Who did you last go out to eat with? Rob.

Do you wear glasses? Yes

Is the sun shining? Should be, unless it got overcast out there. I’m in the basement, so I honestly can’t tell.

Are you happy with your life right now? Phffth, no.

Are you currently jealous? No.

What jewelery are you currently wearing? Just my wedding ring. Unless you want to count my ID badge as necklace since it’s on a shoelace around my neck.

What were you doing at 10pm Friday night? Most likely playing WoW

What are your plans for today? Screwing off a little longer here at work, going home, finding something to eat, playing some WoW, maybe reading a chapter of my History of Rock text book… going to bed

Have you ever broken someone's heart? Yes.

Do you have any weird inside jokes? Yarp.

Do you find piercings on the opposite sex attractive? Depends on the body part.

Could you go the rest of your life without smoking a cigarette? Yes

Is there something you dislike about the day you're having? Yes.

Is there anybody you're really disappointed in right now? Yes.

Do you miss someone? Not at the moment.

Do you watch a lot of TV? Nope.

What was the last reason you went to the doctor for? Some kind of cardiac sonogram thingy. I don’t know what the Hel it’s called, but it involved gel, a wand and some sticky pads that left sucker-shaped red marks on me for a few days.

Do you think you will be in a relationship 3 months from now? Unless I get a divorce between now & then, most likely yes.

Do you drink tea iced? I live on the stuff.

Have you ever wanted something you couldn't have? Yes.

Three names you go by? It’s pretty much just ‘Janelle’. Or online, kiyotesong or perzephone.

Three things you are wearing right now? Forest green pants, a white shirt & dark blue undies

What is your all-time favourite romance movie? Bram Stoker’s Dracula… or maybe Shaun of the Dead.

Who was your best friend in 6th grade? The Rat

Are you still best friends with this person? Yes.

Anything exciting happen yesterday? No.

Whose birthday is coming up? My sister Terry’s

What is something you need to go shopping for? Food & sweaters for Rob.

What's your favourite restaurant? At present? Hamada of Japan

Where were you on July 4th? Home for a change

Who's thinking about you right now? Probably Rob.

What woke you up this morning? My alarm clocks. Yes, I have two. I still laid around in bed too long.

Do you find the opposite sex confusing? No.

What were you doing last night at 8pm? Just finished dinner, surfing the ‘Net

Last time you spent the night at someone's house? Gods… 4 years ago?

Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance? Yes

What are you gonna do after this? Do some work. Maybe.

Is there anything you're craving for right now? Yes

Have you ever logged onto a boyfriend/girlfriend/crush's LiveJournal? No.

Who is the most spoiled person you know? The mother-in-law

Does the last person you held hands with, mean a lot to you? Not really.

Bookish Meme

I know I've done something similar to this recently...

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, add a strikeout to the books you read but didn't like.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - most favourite!
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The SecretGarden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A SmallIsland - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle some of them
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo