There’s this meme that’s been going around Livejournal, and probably elsewhere too, and you know I can’t resist a good meme, even when I should.

Here goes:

In handwriting:

1. Your name/username.
2. Left-handed or right-handed?
3. Favourite letters to write?
4. Least favourite letters to write?
5. Write “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”.
6. Tag 5 people.

Photo of quite possibly the ultimate example of my complete insanity: my handwriting. I’m not even going to try to explain it. I’m just going to sign it, hang it on the wall, and call it art.
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Kenno did it, so I had to do it too. Actually, I did this quiz some time ago, and while I can’t recall which my top matches were, I am certain they were not the same as they are today. I think for anyone who has known me for any length of time, the top ten matches for which belief system most closely matches what I believe.

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Neo-Pagan (99%)
3. Liberal Quakers (94%)
4. New Age (91%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (85%)
6. Taoism (78%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (77%)
8. Theravada Buddhism (74%)
9. Secular Humanism (73%)
10. New Thought (70%)

I’m only going to list the top ten, though the quiz provides more than that. After #10, the percentage match drops off quickly. Let’s put it this way: Scientology was #11, and I think we all know how I feel about that particular “religion” don’t we?

And I’d be going to the U-U church if it didn’t require getting up early on the only day of the week I don’t have to get up and do something … and if I could get Lin to go with me, because I am such a wimp about entering rooms full of people I don’t know. Well, that and the fact that organized religion freaks me out somewhat. But Lin is never going to go with me, and I am never going to not want to sleep in on Sunday. The chances of me ever attending any sort of “church” service is now and has been for a while sitting at no chance at all. I feel certain the universe won’t hold it against me.

Behind the cut, a couples questionaire/meme thing snagged from kitlasha.
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All I want to know is … can I sell it now and keep using it? Like a reverse mortgage kind of deal?

I couldn’t resist doing this one.

1. Go to Career Cruising
2. Put in Username: nycareers and Password: landmark
3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.
4. Post the top ten results

I’m posting all 40 results. Not a one of them is at all surprising. In fact, many of them are SO not surprising, I am highlighting in bold the ones I have already called “job” at some point in my life or am otherwise actively doing or have done (but not necessarily gotten paid for doing).
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Tell me SEVEN things that I should know about you in no particular order.

ItzWick has a meme going, and why the hell not join in? I thought about it while I was shopping, because I actually had to think about it. Yes, for all the babbling I do on line, if you ask me to tell you about myself, you will more often than not get a deer in the headlights stare.

1. Politically, I am fiercely independent. Party affiliations mean nothing to me, and a politicians actions and behavior speak louder to me than any words.
2. I am naturally skinny. I do not have any eating disorder. I do not starve myself. I eat whatever I want whenever I want to, so you can be jealous about that if you like, but stop rolling your eyes when I tell you I am not anorexic.
3. I suck at math … all math. I tell you it must be a mental problem, because I really, really suck at math.
4. I am a phenomenal cook, and if I ever win the lottery I will be opening my own tiny bistro/art gallery. The name? OrbiZart, of course.
5. I am horribly shy. It’s true. Most people would never notice upon meeting me though, thanks to years of acting classes. I’ve learned to act like an un-shy version of myself, which isn’t at all like not being shy, unfortunately for me.
6. I still dream of being a Broadway performer, even though that isn’t likely to happen this lifetime, and I will, without warning, burst into showtunes … even in public.
7. Though I rarely speak about it, I am intensely spiritual and religious. I’d talk about it if I could explain it well enough to be understood, but I am not quite there yet. Maybe someday.

There, that wasn’t too painful!

True art or a fake?

Interesting little quiz. I managed to pull off a 100%. I recognized all the true art pieces, and I guessed that anything I didn’t recognize was a fake. I’ve obviously studied too much contemporary art history.

I can’t say I agree with all the results, but I took the time to answer all the damn questions, so I might as well post the results. I’m not, for example, a Socialist. I just find it impossible to answer political questions on silly quizzes, because my answer usually falls between two options. Also, I’d say I’m merely in a cynical stage right now, because even idealists get beat down by the world from time to time, and I have never thought of myself as an extrovert, but it’s possible I have a skewed perception on that point.

Since everyone on the internet seems to be doing it, I might as well do it too. Not too pleased with the results, but at the moment, I only have one photo of myself that will work with the system. I’ll try again after I take a “good” photo of myself.

Behind the cut … my celebrity look-a-likes.
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OK, how about a meme! That’s always a sure sign that I have nothing of interest to talk about, but this one is a little interesting. Strix said she tagged whoever wanted to do it, so I guess I want to, and it’ll be easy seeing as I only have 7 songs in my Faves playlist at the moment.

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.

Oye Como Va - Santana
Smooth - Santana & Rob Thomas
Low Rider - War
Yo Solo Se Que Solo No Se Nada - Jeremias
La Familia - Vallejo
Downtown - Vallejo
Rock Americano - Vallejo

Are you seeing a theme there? Yes, I love Latin and Tex-Mex music.

And I also tag whoever wants to do it.

Two more to add to that meme I posted the other day. Yeah, I know it said ten, but I am expanding it.

11. I, and a great many other people could have told you this would happen, but you wouldn’t have listened to us and claimed we were stepping on your dreams or were jealous of your success. Now that your dreams have been crushed, I, and a great many other people, don’t know how to react or what to say, because the only thing going through our heads is … “No shit, Sherlock.”

12. If you are incapable of filling out a 1040 tax form without help, you lose the right to brag about being a mathematics major and ex-teacher. A monkey could fill out that form … a monkey on crack.

A meme grabbed from Catgirl.

List ten things you want to say to ten random people, but you know you never will say these things to them. Don’t say who the comment is meant for, and use people only once.

Note: I’m pretty good about saying what I want to say to people, but yeah, I guess there are a few things I haven’t said or can’t say due to not being around these people anymore. Most of these I could say to the people concerned and actually consider saying from time to time, but I do try to avoid drama and conflict when possible. It’s just easier to say them in my head and not get into an argument about it. The rest I can’t say because I no longer know where to find the people that need to hear them … but if I could find them, I’d say what I have to say, no matter the outcome.

1. I screwed up royally, and I am so very sorry to have hurt you. I was young and dumb.
2. You are a manipulative, lying bitch, and you need to stop it if you want to have friends.
3. I was so in love with you, and I still am. I will always wish things had gone differently.
4. Is it possible we could have a conversation that doesn’t involve discussing what you want me to do for you?
5. Shut the fuck up about your wonderful life. It’s tiresome to us normal folk to hear you going on and on and on and …
6. I don’t understand you anymore … it’s like you’ve gone slightly crazy, but I’ll tolerate whatever it is you are going through … for now.
7. You need to take some responsibility for something. Everything is not always someone or something else’s fault.
8. I hate to burst your bubble but, Jesus was most likely not blond-haired and blue-eyed no matter how hard you wish it was so.
9. Occassionally you are dead wrong. Learn to admit it when it happens.
10. You are not as open-minded and enlightened as you think you are. Get off your high horse already.

Being incapable of resisting memes … here you go.

Do: Go to Wikipedia, enter your birthday (month/day). List three events, two births and a death.

February 20

1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.

1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.

1962 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.

1902 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
1954 - Patty Hearst, American socialite and kidnapping victim

1966 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)