Alphabetical: The Best of the -eticals

Here is a fun filler blog that I stole from Puddles! This should keep those who feel it is my job to entertain them entertained. ;-) A better entry will come this weekend, in which I will discuss the event I am attending Thursday (where I plan to meet my future husband Davy, who runs this wonderfully creative site.)

Accent: Absolutely not! I have what news anchors call 'region free diction.' Or at least that is what I think. Others disagree but they are just haters that are jealous. I can imitate accents pretty well though, much to the dismay of others. It irks my mother when I read directions aloud in my BBC English, but it sounds smarter than my regular voice. It irks my stepmother when I pretend to be from Mynn-ah-sow-da, but it is fun!

Booze: Absolutely! I like my drinks. Right now it is a dirty dirty vodka martini.

Chore I Hate: All of them? Elves or fairies or whatever should come into my house while I sleep and night and do my dishes, launder my clothes, clean the apartment, and spirit away any trash, dust, or dirt.

Dogs/Cats: Dogs divided by Cats? I don't know what that equals. I like both, want both, have cats.

Essential Electronics: Well none of it is essential but I'd be up a creek without my laptop.

Favorite Perfume/Cologne: I am partial to Ralph Lauren Blue for me and enjoy Ralph Lauren Black for the men folk. (*Freaky side note: I was reading a magazine in bed and came across a RL Black fold-out and liked it so much that I rubbed it on my pillow so my sheets smelled delightfully manly.)

Gold/Silver: For wearing? I tend to wear silver. I am not a big gold chains gal.

Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia. God bless NoVa.

Insomnia: I don't have time for insomnia. Sleep is such a luxury; when my head hits the pillow I am out.

Job Title: Clinical Psychology Graduate Student/ Court Documentation Specialist/ Utilization Review Appeals Coordinator

Kids: I hated that movie. :-( Ew. But if you mean children, got none. May have some one day. If you mean goats, may have some one day. Who knows!

Living Arrangements: satisfactorily arranged. But not properly Feng-Shu'ed as of yet. That is my next project for when I have free time. I like my lovely 1-bedroom in Arlington, VA.

Most Admired Trait: Admired by others? Or one that I admire? Recently an unnamed source said I was the most independent person they know. I believe it was communicated in the spirit of admiration. I admire people who are high-energy and non-procrastinating, as I am not those things.

Number of Sexual Partners: Not enough to be considered a whore, I've been told.

Overnight Hospital Stays: Does it count that I have worked in hospitals and have done double shifts that have taken me overnight? Even those I can count on one hand. Overnight hospital stays I wasn't getting paid for? None.

Phobia: Water that is too dark to see anything in from all directions. I can handle it for a little while, but after that the panic will set in. Jaws could be in the darkness you know.

Quote: I like so many! So I am listing three good ones.
"It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed. It is shyness before any sort of new and unforseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope, but only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive." ~Ranier Maria Rilke
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." ~Aldous Huxley
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~ Emerson

Religion: Is funny. I am Catholic, but loosely so.

Siblings: The older brother (Puddles!) and the younger sister. Both aspire to careers in law, so I am the odd man out that way. :-( But at least I get plenty of free legal advice.

Time I usually wake up: Some days 6 am and other days 8 am, depending on whether I have class that day. Weekends, around 10 am.

Unusual Talent: I have the unusual talent of having no unusual talent. I also have super spying talents...you didn't see me following you did you? I thought not.

Vegetable I refuse to eat: Can't think of a single one. I like vegetables. I'd prefer not to eat cooked carrots...they are all mushy. But that is a critique of culinary style, not the vegetable itself.

Worst Habit: Sarcastic bitchiness? But sometimes that works for me. So maybe procrastination.

X-Rays: I used to know how to take those! And I got to press the button on multiple occasions. But of me? While I worked there I got a lovely one of my foot (nothing broken). I also once swallowed the pull tab to a soda can (and, yes, I was old enough to know better), so I got a pretty picture of my torso to make sure I hadn't aspirated it (breathed it into my lungs). I didn't.

Yummy Foods I Make: All the foods I make are good. I am still working on meat...I cook non-meat things better still. Though I do think my roast chicken is not bad.

Zodiac Sign: Cancer - not the dying kind. The moody, crabby kind.