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Elizabeth Culmer ([personal profile] edenfalling) wrote2005-04-17 09:35 pm

utterly pointless thingywhatsit

I am bored.

Three Things Quiz

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Liz
2. Diana
3. Mistress of the Obvious

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. Elizabeth Culmer
2. edenfalling
3. um, I once had an email address for nevermind1134

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my hair is fun -- just wavy enough to have body, and at the moment it's long and I can play around with it
2. I am curvy without being overweight, so nyah! ;-)
3. I am good at looking cute and slightly lost, so people try to be helpful and friendly

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. nearsighted
2. prone to backaches
3. oily face, dry backs of hands, sweaty palms... my skin has multiple personality disorder

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. German (by way of a stay in Belarus)
2. English (including a nutcase Puritan who smashed stained glass windows)
3. Polish (um, don't know anything about them before they reached America)

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. the fear that enough consciousness survives death to know that you're dead, but nothing more
2. having nobody miss me if I vanished
3. um... related to the first: brain damage with just enough left over to know how much I've lost

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Coca-Cola
2. chocolate
3. the internet

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. sandals
2. glasses
3. a red t-shirt with a map of Star Island, Minnesota

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:
1. J.S. Bach
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. gah... too many... U2

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS (of the moment):
1. I have no radio. I can't download anything onto public computers. I have no CD player. So right now, I have no favorite songs.
2.
3.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP
1. is willing to be there when I need him/her
2. is willing to leave me the hell alone when I need space
3. will work with me to compromise when one of us needs space but the other needs comfort

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order):
1. If I were a boy, I'd be named Richard.
2. I used to pretend I was She-Ra when I was really little.
3. I am allergic to penicillin.

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. reading -- at the moment I'm leaning toward science fiction, fantasy, fanfiction, various nonfiction (very little rhyme or reason to my choices), and Russian classics
2. writing (yes, even when I hate it)
3. watching candles burn

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. take a nap
2. eat dinner
3. find some Tylenol for my headache

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. librarian (though I'd really rather not, since my mom is already a librarian)
2. teacher
3. make-work of some sort while I try to be a professional author (this seems to be the current winner)

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Star Island, Minnesota (okay, so it's the family summer cabin going back three generations. I'm allowed to love the place to pieces)
2. Hawaii (because my first visit was too short)
3. my old hometown, because I miss my old friends and they never come up here to visit

THREE KID'S NAMES YOU DON'T LIKE:
1. There are too many. I can't decide.
2.
3.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Write a book that will survive me.
2. Plant and landscape a flower garden
3. Learn to sky-dive

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY:
1. I don't wear make-up.
2. My instinctive reaction to anger is physical violence rather than emotional violence. (No, I don't go around hitting people. I'm just saying that if I did react when I get incredibly mad, I'd hit people rather than yell at them.)
3. I like watching American football. For the game, not for the players.

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A CHICK:
1. I change my sheets and towels regularly.
2. I clean the goddamn kitchen.
3. And I clean the bathroom.

THREE CELEB CRUSHES:
1. Johnny Depp
2. Viggo Mortenson
3. ...I am torn between Eliza Dushka and Paul Newman from 25 years ago.