Quiz-O-Rama
Oh, I do like me an online quiz. Because, you know, it is all about Me, all the time. Hah. And I am so fascinating. This edition stolen from
Mouse Words.1. Your name spelled backwards. Enirahtak
2. Where were your parents born? My father was born in Reading, UK, my mother in Lubling, Poland.
3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer? An upgrade from Murkysoft for Windows. And it seems to have farked something, too; my laptop has been crashing catastrophically ever since. I think I will have to do that XP reboot thing tonight.
4. What's your favorite restaurant? My favourite locally is the Korean-Japanese place up by the university, because no matter how nasty my diet is, I can go and get some variation of delicious, fresh, luscious raw fish, with or without rice, which is nutritionally acceptable
and a tasty treat.
For less stringent times, I like the Ethiopian place (mmm, injera!) and the new East Indian restaurant A. and I were at t'other week. Also
Fressen on Queen West in Toronto.
5. Last time you swam in a pool? Can't even remember. Um... I think it was Spring 2003 that I made a short-lived effort to include swimming in my workout plans. It failed because not only am I a lousy swimmer, my bodyfat at the time was so low that I was spending most of my time just trying not to sink like a stone to the bottom.
6. Have you ever been in a school play? Have I not! I was always cast in school plays, not because of any surpassing talent but because I could reliably memorise any number of lines. Then I took Drama and Theatre Arts in university, and was in more plays, for credits. Now I frequently appear in local amateur productions. Being on stage is fun.
7. How many kids do you want? None. Not one. And I would like best if any loud and obnoxious ones produced by others would stay well away from me.
8. Type of music you dislike most? "Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favourites -- music
everyone at work can agree on!" Adult (bluch) Contemporary.
9. Are you registered to vote? I am indeed, though I do not usually vote, as such.
10. Do you have cable? No. I'm one of those horrible no-TV snobs.
11. Have you ever ridden on a moped? Sadly, no.
12. Ever prank call anybody? I have vague memories of standing uncomfortably around on the sidelines of slumber parties while this sort of thing went on. It never seemed terribly thrilling to me, but I pretended that it was.
13. Ever get a parking ticket? Yes. In Toronto. Because I did not see the sign qualifying the "park here between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m." with "
excepting this hour in the morning and this hour at night." Fifty dollars! I was livid.
14. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving? Yes!
15. Farthest place you ever traveled. Northern Scotland.
16. Do you have a garden? We have a sort of thick and unsightly tangle of Austin roses, various interesting perennial herbs, and bindweed. Our little plot is very discouraging, as it is full of killer bindweed. We keep telling each other how we're going to dig out everything we want to keep, put it in pots, and scorch the remaining earth with Roundup, but it's so goddam much work.
17. What's your favorite comic strip? I only read four regularly:
Dykes to Watch Out For, For Better or for Worse (although it's gotten really boring these days now that it's all about Michael and whatserface breeding),
Get Fuzzy and 9
Chickweed Lane. I really miss
Bloom County and
Calvin and Hobbes.18. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem? Sher do -- even the French ones.
19. Bath or Shower, morning or night? We only have the Bath option available at the moment. Daily in the morning (because I have the kind of hair that can't go out in public after it's been slept on, no matter how short or long it is), and otherwise as necessary.
20. Best movie you've seen in the past month? Watched altogether, probably
The Butterfly Effect.21. Favorite pizza topping? I tend to like "pretentious thin crust" types of toppings... shaved Parmesan, artichokes, roasted peppers, prosciutto, that kind of thing. Strong, interesting flavours, and lots of garlic, basically.
22. Chips or popcorn? Caramel popcorn.
Kernels' Double Double Butter or Creamy Caramel, specifically.
23. What color lipstick do you usually wear? I don't usually wear lipstick, but when I do it's usually in the rust, burgundy or dried blood colour family.
24. Have you ever smoked peanut shells? Hunhyunh?
25. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant? I suppose so, since bodybuilding competitions probably count.
26. Orange Juice or apple? Neither. I like mango juice or peach nectar if I'm going to waste calories on beverages.
27. Who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine? A., and we went to the new East Indian restaurant. Competition dieting does not particularly lend itself to going out to dinner.
28. Favorite type chocolate bar? Dark, black, savage ultra-cocoa-solids types, like
Michel Cluizel's 99%. I started to qualify this answer, then realised that I like most good chocolate. I do not, under any circumstances, like Hershey's. It tastes burnt and stale, which I understand is intentional.
29. When was the last time you voted at the polls? I actually did vote in our last national election. Normally I decline my ballot, which is the only way, in Canada, to make a protest vote that will be, somewhere, counted.
30. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato? Few months ago, wasn't it? A. brought home that bunch of tomatoes from our friends' garden.
31. Have you ever won a trophy? I used to win scholarly ones... History and English are two that I recall. I got a couple of monstrously ugly ones in the bodybuilding show.
32. Are you a good cook? Reasonably. I can be overly experimental, which sometimes leads to failure.
33. Do you know how to pump your own gas? Are there still people (with cars, that is) who don't?
34. Ever order an article from an infomercial? No.
35. Sprite or 7-up? Either, if they're diet. I don't really taste a difference. I wish that wacky new Sprite Purple or whatever it is came in a sugar-free variant.
36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to work? Yes. I remember it well. Marks & Spencer, and it was polyester. I was once disciplined because my uniform belt had spun round my waist so that the buckle was at the back.
37. Last thing you bought at a pharmacy? The latest issue of
Oxygen Magazine, yesterday.
38. Ever throw up in public? Is there anyone who hasn't? Even I, who hate to throw up and will do almost anything to avoid it, have thrown up in public at least twice that I recall.
39. Would you prefer being a millionaire or find true love? I have true love, or so I fancy, so I'll take the cash, please.
40. Do you believe in love at first sight? For some people, some of the time. "Believe." How silly.
41. Ever call a 1-900 number? No.
42. Can ex's be friends? Depends on the exes, and the circumstances of the breakup.
43. Who was the last person you visited in a hospital? Our friend who had a stroke on my birthday, while he was in the rehab centre.
44. Did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby? I don't think so; not that anyone has ever mentioned, anyway.
45. What message is on your answering machine? A., sounding formal. "You have reached..."
46. What's your all time favorite Saturday Night Live Character?I do not recall that I have ever even watched an entire episode of Saturday Night Live.
47. What was the name of your first pet? Clea. She wasn't mine, I suppose... she was the family cat. I'm told that when I was born, she thought I was one of her kittens, and later would follow me round the garden keeping watch over me while I played.
48. What is in your purse? I don't have a purse. My backpack contains (at least -- I'm going on recollection, not opening it to check) my DayTimer, my workout binder, a couple of notebooks, a bunch of pens and pencils and things, three sets of keys, several packages of sugarless gum, a Swiss Army knife, a small Japanese change purse with a cat face on it, a package of Bandaids, a tin of Altoids Strips, a bunch of single-use eyedrop dispensers (contact-lens safe!), my tax return which I will be mailing (obscenely late) later today, and my wallet, containing only ID and no bank cards of any kind. Oh, and a windbreaker, because today's sky is ominous.
49. Favorite thing to do before bedtime? Read.
50. What is one thing you are grateful for today? Um... that's a toughie. I am not feeling particularly grateful today. A. was lovely to me all morning. I think he still likes me even though I am terribly, terribly tired and very cranky, and have been all week. And I am glad to have four fuzzy cats and a dog, even though they sleep on top of me all night long so that I can't move and wake up stiff.
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