5 words to describe yourself:
1) Silly
2) Optimistic, usually
3) Flexible
4) Snarky
5) Reliable
5 songs you want everyone to hear:
1) Snow Is Softly Falling
2) Dancing In The Light
3) Walkin' In Jerusalem (Just Like John)
4) The Messiah (which is an oratorio and not a song, I know)
5) The Irish Ballad
5 albums you'd sleep with if albums weren't such inanimate
things:
1) Red Light!
2) Broken
3) Celebrity
4) Spicy Stewed Donut
5) Tenchi & Friends At The Hot Springs, I guess.
5 things you want to learn:
1) Patience with others
2) Aikido; the kendo version
3) Finnish
4) How to find my reserves of strength and -use- them, particularly
in emergencies
5) How to make headaches go away without NSAIDs/other drugs
5 places you want to go:
1) Japan
2) Finland
3) Norway
4) The U.K.
5) Virgina
5 things that make you happy:
1) Friends
2) Spending time with my silly pets
3) Warm weather, at long last!
4) Being relatively healthy
5) Accomplishing things
5 people that you'd like to meet and chat with* at a pub:
1) Neil Gaiman
2) Lois McMaster Bujold
3) Lynn Flewelling!
4) Trent Reznor
5) the Johns Linnell and Flansburgh
5 movies that you could watch over and over and over: (and
have!!!)
1) The Princess Bride
2) I Accuse My Parents
3) Red Zone Cuba
4) MST3K: Shorts Vol. I
5) The Wild Wild World Of Batwoman
5 qualities in people that annoy you:
1) Deliberate obtuseness
2) Condescension
3) Inanity
4) Constant and severe whining
5) Jingoism, warmongering
5 foods that you could live off of:
1) Bread
2) Mashed potatoes
3) French fries
4) My mother's chicken and rice soup
5) Macaroni and cheese
5 things that you drink most frequently:
1) Water
2) Diet cola
3) Squirt
4) Orange juice
5) ...wine?
5 random things about you:
1) My mother taught me to be polite at an incredibly young age; I was
forever impressing store employees/customers by saying "I would
like..." to my mother.
2) The first thing I can consciously recall linking sounds and
letter-shapes with was a No Tresspassing sign.
3) I share a family name with a relatively famous actress'
recently-born child, though I doubt there's any kind of blood
relationship there.
4) I impressed/disgusted my first-grade teacher and parents by
playing with a deceased vole I found while on a nature hike -- I
thought it was fascinating, because it was...well, -squishy-. And
fuzzy, and so so tiny... I was six! I didn't necessarily know any
better! (Er, the vole was intact; it had died of natural causes or a
head injury or something.)
5) I sometimes have the ability to tell when a woman is pregnant
before anyone else notices, or anyone else is informed that she is.
* This, of course, implies that I would be _able_ to 'chat' with these people. I'm assuming that whatever magic has transferred me to the pub would prevent me from blushing, sweating, stammering, and saying something -really-, _really_ REALLY stupid to any of these people.