No I lied

I'm still bored and just drunk enough that I can't focus on my book. AND I totally forgot about these MySpace surveys that used to be all the rage. So I'm doing one, to capture the nostalgia and also figure out what the fuck is wrong with all teenagers, using my own personality as a reference point.

Note: Maybe not a totally psychologically sound



1. What color are your kitchen plates?
Orange. And made of plastic. Whoa, downgrade.

2. What book are you reading now?
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, which is amazing.

3. What's on your mouse pad?
hahaha oh, 2003, no one has mouse pads anymore!

4. Favorite board game?
We had a lot of fun playing that zombie game, though I'm partial to Puerto Rico or Settlers

5. Favorite magazines?
I no longer read magazines, and why was I frontin' that I liked CosmoGirl when I was 15? I don't even like Cosmo now.

6. Favorite smells?
cinnamon, this random purfumes thats like 395713875 years old I have, and new car smell, oh, oh, and winter air
^fun fact, I still fucking love that perfume smell for whatever reason. Also, Indian Food.

7. Least favorite smell?
curdled spinach and artichoke dip ruining my nicest pot

8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning?
well seeing as this morning I woke up in a panic at 3:44am, I'm gonna go with, "What the actual fuck?"

9. Favorite color?
OH MAN my orange phase. I was just telling Jeff about that. These days I'm partial to green.

10. Least favorite color?
still not terribly into yellow

11. How many rings before you answer the phone?
aww, phones don't ring anymore.

12. Future child's name?
Ten years later and this question is still irrelevant.

13. What is most important in life?
making something of yourself
^I... I actually agree with myself.

14. Chocolate or vanilla?
Chocolate. Obviously.

15. Do you like to drive fast?
I'm more reasonable these days. But also I pretty much exclusively drive on the highway, and no one in Illinois believes in speed limits anyway.

16. Do you fall asleep with the tv on?
Fuck I don't even watch TV on the TV anymore. I'd get rid of cable if my roommate wasn't so addicted to Bravo.

17. Storms - cool or scary?
Cool, unless you have to go out in them

18. What type was your first car?
princess blue 2003 Camry
Ahh, Huebert, you've yet to let me down baby.

19. Favorite alcoholic drink?
Oh man I have so much more knowledge now than I had in 2003. This is probably just weird nostalgia and my then relatively virgin palette talking, but I still think the cosmos I had at my mom's friend's daughter's weddings when I was 18 were the best thing ever.

20. Do you eat the stems of broccoli?
On the rare occasion I eat broccoli, yeah, I guess I eat all of it

21. If you could have any job what would it be?
fuck I don't even know, but I'll have a PhD when I do it.

22. If you could have any color hair, what would it be?
Mannnnn I still want red hair. But at this point I've accepted a) I'd look awful with it because my skin isn't right and b) having rich brown hair and grey eyes isn't such a bad consolation prize

23. Favorite movie?
Pirates of the Carribean, Ocean's 11, Breakfast at Tiffany's (whoda thunk Id like it?), Gladiator, Back to the Future 1
^I respect my earlier choices, though I'm not sure if BaT, PotC or maybe even Ocean's 11 held up for me. I really like Inglorious Basterds and Love Actually.

24. Do you type with your fingers on the right key?
Yes. Thank you Mags keyboarding, which I evidently took after the original survey.

25. What's under your bed?
Suitcases, clothes I don't wear but am too lazy to sort out, probably old make up

26. What is your favorite number?
eleven, 11, once
^self-agreement. I like doubles in general

27. Favorite sport to watch?
Stilllllll hate watching sports, though I tend to find hockey oddly compelling

28. What is your single biggest fear?
failure I reckon. And needles.

29. Favorite cd?
It isn't even my place to say this anymore. Depends on the day.

30. Favorite tv shows?
shows? no, no, no....'tis only one..........Early Edition.......
^I love my old answer. And I still miss this show. But I didn't watch much TV in my younger years and now that's all I do, so the list is ridiculous

31. Ketchup or mustard?
mustard is a MAYBE, but not a must

32. Hamburgers or hot-dogs?
black bean burgers are pretty delish

33. Favorite soft drink
I don't like pop unless there's booze in it, in which case it doesn't matter so much what it is because alcohol.

34. Best place you have ever been?
Fuck. I've been places now! I like travelling in general, but I sort of feel like the appropriate and correct answer to this is "Chicago."

35. What screen saver is on your computer right now?
I don't have a screen saver, but my wallpaper is this:

It's funny, you see, because it just looks like a pretty flower until you realise it says "fuck off."

I love the internet.

36. What is your favorite animal?
God I just love dogs so fucking much. And goats. Love goats.

37. What do you want to be when you grow up?
not destitute.

38. Car you drive now?
Holy shit I couldn't drive when I filled this out. Anyway, please see #3

18. Before it's too late

Full prompt: Describe 5 things you want to see or do before it’s too late.

Tricia reminded me that this blog is a thing that exists, and then I drank margaritas, and it's only 21:15 so I can't go to bed, so I figured, why the fuck not? I'll go back to reading 1Q84 later, which, by the way, is fucking amazing so far. I never realised how grateful I'd be for AP Spanish instilling a love of Magical Realism in me. I actually had a very angry rant in its defense not too long ago, which I quickly realised was pointless as the person I was arguing with a) didn't care and b) doesn't even read books. Who doesn't read books? Terrible people, that's who.

1. I guess this is vague, but I want to go back to Europe. Not too particular on where. But I want to go:
a. armed with the general knowledge of the cities I acquired during my 2010 trips
b. while I'm still young enough to drink and galavant
c. not necessarily for work
Travelling abroad isn't such a rare thing in the sciences- we like to host big, serious conferences in places like Switzerland and France and also smaller, slightly less serious ones in places like the Caribbean and what have you. Seeing as I've more or less accepted the fact that I'm a city girl through and through, I'm more partial to the former vs. the latter, though I wouldn't say I'd turn down a trip to the Bahamas, particularly if the department was going to comp it. The crucial thing is really just that I want to go back while I'm still relatively young and have a sense of adventure; I don't want to save all my travelling for retirement age.

2. Road trip. I believe this came up before, but I'd love to go on a proper cross-country roadtip. This desire has been particularly strengthened by my recent devotion to Supernatural. I'm not going to do it in a 1960's era Impala (the gas mileage! honestly.) but I'd still like to see the weird, quirky things my own country has to offer. Besides, I haven't been west of Oak Park since I was maybe 10 or 11, and there are some beautiful vistas out west. Or so I hear. Teddy Roosevelt was into them, and if Teddy liked something, it must be damn fine.

3. Write a book. Seriously, I've been vaguely working on one for forever now. I don't expect it to be any good or get published or anything, but I just want to finish one bloody thing I start when it comes to writing. I can't even remember this blog for ten month periods of time, so I'm not sure how likely any of that is.

4. Become a proper doctor (as in, PhD, not those flashcard-memorising, artery-severing, ego-inflated MD fools). I mean, this is a given. But seriously I want to be a doctor. So people call me doctor. But realistically, I'm not ready for it yet, seeing as I haven't really got the "post-PhD"goal in mind.

5. The aurora borealis. Pictures of it are so pretty, but you never see it this far south. Once, many years ago (holy shit, seriously over a decade) all the lights went out, a la Revolution. Okay, more like Eastlake, OH overloaded some crucial circuit breaker or something for the entire northeastern chunk of the United States, but same concept. For one glorious day and night, we were without power. So close to 9/11, many people assumed the worst, but it was just standard inefficiency and error. That night, I went to my neighbour's house- barely able to see the road there- and we had a bonfire. The adults did whatever it was adults with kids do (I assume drink copiously and talk about mortgages) while we set tree branches on fire. And the stars. They filled the sky. I used to want to be an astronomer (before I learned that calculus is really hard, like seriously you guys, it's rough.) and so I knew a lot of constellations and what have you. That night, the sky was so full, I could barely discern the constellations I knew. I think I only really managed to pick out the Big Dipper. Only it wasn't just the Big Dipper- you could see all of Ursa Major. Hell, you could actually see the Milky Way. Sometimes on Reddit, people post pictures of things like that, and I remember that night, and I want to experience it again. It was so pretty and peaceful and calm.

Okay so that's about it. My drunk is wearing off and I can't resist the call of this Murakami book any longer. Particularly because the sooner I finish it, the sooner I no longer have to lug a 1000-page tome around with me on the train. Until next time, which realistically will be like 2014.