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The topic says it. I like being interesting places but I really hate the process of getting there.
More on my most recent adventure later.
Show us something that takes your breath away.
I think this will do. The pictures are from the fires we had a couple of years ago, but it was still very scary, and breathtaking.
Do you know that look that children get on their faces when they catch you doing something that they've been told that they not? The way their mouths gape and they get a shocked expression in their eyes? The sheer childness of it never fails to amuse me when I see adults give me that look, which is not a particularly uncommon thing for Annikah and I to get when we display affection in public, but I really wish that they wouldn't.
It's not just men that do it, either. It's not just them staring off into space as they imagine the possibility of getting the two of us in bed with them for a threesome, as I've been told most men dream about. Women are just as guilty of this, if not more, and some people stare for minutes at a time, until we leave their presence, as though they're turning away would give us a moment to come touch them and infect them with gay-cooties.
To all of you who feel the need to treat me like a leper just because I love someone who shares the same gender as me, fuck you. Mind your own fucking business.
When you were younger, were there any game shows that you religiously watched and wanted to be a contestant on?
I've always held a passionate disinterest in game shows. They're so boring to watch.
I need to start making entries that aren't just answering the QotD.
What do you usually do on Sunday?
Usually as little as possible. I try to do all the things that might be seen as a routine, beyond the normal things like waking up and bathing myself, on Saturday. That way Sunday feels like it's free of obligation. It doesn't always work, but usually it does.
Who decides which questions to use, anyway? The last few have been really boring ones.
What is your favorite cover song?
Question submitted by Ray.
To name a few:
- Machine Head's cover of Message in a Bottle, originally by Sting & the Police
- Tool's cover of No Quarter, originally by Les Zeppelin
- Godhead's cover of Eleanor Rigby, originally by the Beatles
- Rasputina's cover of Tourniquet, originally by Marilyn Manson
- Finger Eleven's cover of Walking In My Shoes, by Depeche Mode
- System of a Down's cover of The Metro, by Berlin
I hate cars. I can appreciate their form, I can admire the engineering that goes into them, and I can accept that for many people they're an absolutely vital part of every day life. Despite all this I hate them, and have since I was young. It has nothing to do with their environmental impact or even a general disinterest, but rather the fact that so many people that I loved, including my mother and my sister, have been taken from me by them. I've been in three major accidents (before you wonder, I was driving for none of them), and each of them claimed the life of someone dear to me. I can ride in cars, or even drive them when the need arises, but I do so with a constant, nagging trepidation.
Over the years I've tried to work them out of my life as much as possible. I have a job that allows me to telecommute and I've chosen to live in the downtown area of San Diego, where nearly every place that I need to go with any sort of regularity is within easy walking distance. I've gone against the grain, and I'm one of the only people I know who willingly does not own an automobile.
This has put some limitations on me, for certain. When I go to the grocery store I'm limited to purchasing only what I'm able to carry home myself. I can't visit friends or family that don't live in my neighborhood or shop at places that aren't down the street or on the web, and I can't use the drive through at a fast food restaurant. At the same time as the Internet has expanded my virtual world so that keeping in touch with friends on the other side of the planet is as easy as those only miles away, I've made a conscious decision that's shrunk my physical world to where going beyond those few miles is a matter of effort, not ease.
There are benefits to the decision too though. There's the obvious financial benefits, for example. In a time when gasoline prices are soaring I'm scarcely impacted at all, other than the general affects of fuel prices on the economy. I have no car payments, no insurance costs, no registration fees, and no repair bills. I also never have to worry about finding parking, or what the traffic is like at certain hours except for the way that it influences the days of the people in my life.
Most importantly of all, however, is the fact that I'm happier this way. And that's what really counts, right?
What are the 5 words that best describe your life right now?
Question submitted by mojito.
My first inclination was to answer with 'it's my life right now' but that isnt very descriptive. Let's go with:
- Succeeding
- Lonely
- Fulfilling
- Busy
- Frustrating
I know, some of these things might seem contradictory. But they're all applicable!
I've been dragged along by my nuissance of a cousin Eve has convinced me to join yet another social networking site. If she abandons me on this one like she did on myspace Im going to do something to make her regret it. I don't know what but it will be bad.
While I'm here I might as well make the best of it and see if I can find interesting things. I like the Explore page. Theres something fun about commenting in random peoples blogs! Who knows if that fun will last though.
