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Nothing's Fine, I'm Torn?

Just Like My Grandparents.

Your Death Forecast:     It is estimated that you will die  at the age of 92 Years  Old.         If you want to link to your Death Forecast from your blog or website, use this URL:     http://deathforecast.com/result.php?record=140468.             Note: This is an estimate using scientific data obtained from dozens of health studies. But, keep in mind it is based on averages, and you may live many years longer than what is predicted or you may get hit by a bus and die tomorrow. Also, at some point in the future you might change your lifestyle to be more or less healthy, which would make a big difference in your estimated lifespan.           Below is a summary of the answers you gave us:
Where did you grow up?	United States
What is your gender?	Female
Do you have a physical exam each year?	Yes
Did your grandparents live to age 85+ ?	2 long-lived grandparents
Do you live alone (pets do not count)?	No, I have a roommate
Daily brain exercise, like puzzles, games, learning?	Yes, and I am not in school anymore
Daily aerobic exercise like jogging, biking, treadmill, or swimming?	No, but I exercise several times a week
Balanced diet of fruit, vegetables, and whole grains?	Yes
Do you smoke?	No, I have never been a smoker and am not around smokers
Do you own a a dog or cat?	Yes
Use stress management (meditation, yoga, quiet time, spas)?	Yes
How do you get to work?	Drive to work
Ever had elective cosmetic surgery (not from an accident or medical problem)?	No
Have you ever been addicted to drugs or alcohol?	No
Family history of heart disease or cancer prior to age 50?	No
Family history of obesity, diabetes, or depression?	1 occurrence
Are you overweight?	No, I am at a healthy weight
How often do you brush your teeth and floss?	At least once a day
How much time do you spend in the sun (without sunblock)	Some
Do you have high blood pressure?	No
Do you have high cholesterol?	No
Do you always wear a seatbelt?	Yes
Do you have health insurance?	Yes
Do you own a gun?	No
How much sleep do you get per night on average?	More than 6 hours
Are you generally a happy person?	Yes

Since I'm *such* a hack...

...I thought I'd get some job counseling, since writing is my career.  Thank goodness for blogthings fluff.  :p

You Should Be a Film Writer

You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind. You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life. Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling. And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen!

What Type of Writer Should You Be?

SUCK IT, oh universe filled with negativity and poo

yup, lucky.  that's ME.

Your Luck Quotient: 76%

You have a high luck quotient. More often than not, you've felt very lucky in your life. You may be randomly lucky, but it's probably more than that. Optimistic and open minded, you take advantage of all the luck that comes your way.

How Lucky Are You?

At Least it's a Veg-friendly Country...

andrea did it, so of course i had to go try it, too.  and yes,
if she decided to jump off a bridge... ;)

You belong in Lacuna Coil! A successful gothic
metal band with varitations of male and
female vocals. Your true homeland is Italy
and that's probably where your fashionable
but unusual taste comes from. Sometimes your
mind wonders to life and mankinds destiny and
our paths of fate, that's what your songs are
about. Beautiful and mesmirising.

Which female fronted Gothic Band do you belong in?
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A+, not t and a

Your Observation Skills Get An A

Hardly anything gets by you... You have a great memory and eagle eyes

How Observant Are You?

wipe that smirk off your face

just in time to follow that adorable superbowl commercial for the hybrid, featuring kermy...

You Are Miss Piggy

A total princess and diva, you're totally in charge - even if people don't know it. You want to be loved, adored, and worshiped. And you won't settle for anything less. You're going to be a total star, and you won't let any of the "little people" get in your way. Just remember, piggy, never eat more than you can lift!

The Muppet Personality Test

i stole this from andrea, fyi

You are a Gender Nazi.  Your boundary-crossing
lifestyle inspires awe in your friends and
colleagues.  Or maybe they're just scared you
will kick their asses for using gender-specific
language.  Either way, the wife-beater helps.

What kind of postmodernist are you!?
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if only it were that easy to get paid

these are usually a joke-- to my surprise i actually had to think a few times for this one...

You Are a Blogging Expert

You got 8/8 correct! You know so much about blogging, you should blog for a living.

How Much Do You Know About Blogging?

because i heart andrea...

i didn't go out tonight, so i finally have time to do "seven" for the only rose in Tejas...i do believe that this is the first time i've been "tagged" to do anything.  how's that cherry taste, andrea?  ;)

:+:

7 things I plan to do before I die:

1) be a mother.
2) write a book.  or ten.
3) obtain one more degree.
4) live in manhattan again and then another continent.
5) run for office.
6) buy the rolls royce my dad wanted and put his plates on it.
7) buy my mother something equally outrageous.

7 things I can do:

1) speak in public with no fear.  impromptu.
2) have four blogs+two fotologs, half of which are updated regularly.
3) wrench on the car.
4) have ringlets or pin straight hair, frizz-free, w/little effort.
5) "take" flattering pictures, almost every time.
6) write.
7) spin/persuade/evade i.e. strategic communications.

7 things I cannot do:

1) diet.
2) give up.
3) drink apple martinis or respect those who do.
4) program/code/whatever manish et al do.
5) be quiet.
6) resist cute babies and all dogs.
7) be single.

7 things that attract me to another person:

1) kindness.
2) higher SAT scores than mine. j/k. brains.
3) how they smell and what they sound like.
4) a soccer-playing past and hopefully present.
5) curly hair.
6) if they're well-spoken/excellent writers.
7) chemical engineering degrees from MIT.  hell, engineering degrees period.

7 things that I say most often:

1) how are you? i'm well, thank you for asking.
2) thank you so much.
3) i love you.
4) this is untenable.
5) fucking hell/fuck you/fuck that shit/wtf.
6) my ass, it is.
7) take care of you.

7 People I want to do this:

1. DesiDancer
2. Maisnon + everyone else Brimful tagged.  :D
3. Sonia
4. Abhi, hell any of the mutineers.  (HA!  let's exhale...)
5. Chai
6. All of the flog girls: Sibil, Nina, Julie, Lisa, Sue, Nik...
7. Veena

what's my m.f. name?

like there was ANY doubt about whether i'd do this one... ;)

Your Pimp Name Is...

Princess Dynamite

What's Your Pimp Name?

damn. that IS accurate, yo.

no wonder i drive a red car, have red luggage, a red peacoat...

You are the color red. You are the most
controversial of all the colors. You are often
easily angered, but as easily as you got
excited, you come down. When angered, do you
have the tendency to be malicious? Afterwards,
do you end up begging for forgiveness? Maybe.
But you're incredibly generous, and, odd
enough, needy. You love to hate, and
sometimes, you hate to love. This color
describes you as generally edgy. When in a bad
situation, you're pessimistic, and when you're
in a good situation, you're extremely
optimistic. You're painfully tempermental, and
sometimes it hurts the ones you love. But with
an exciting and stimulating attitude, you enjoy
talking to people and being social. But aside
from your bold and outgoing attitude, you're
attention-needing and attention-getting. This
color is associated with lust and desire--and
you are both lust and desirous. You're a
protective person when it comes to the people
you love. You're incredibly sharp-witted and
powerful (not to mention intelligent!).

What color are you? (Amazingly detailed & accurate--with pics!)
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My Inner Child is wallowing, actually

Your Inner Child Is Surprised

You see many things through the eyes of a child. Meaning, you're rarely cynical or jaded. You cherish all of the details in life. Easily fascinated, you enjoy experiencing new things.

How Is Your Inner Child?

oh oracle of knickers, thou art wise indeed

What Your Underwear Says About You

When you're bad, you're very bad. And when you're good, you're still trouble! You're sexy, in that pinup girl, tease sort of way.

The Underwear Oracle

(i also got this: "You tend to buy new underwear instead of doing laundry".)
(it's happened before.)
;)

yeah, pretty much

How You Life Your Life

You seem to be straight forward, but you keep a lot inside. You are always tactful and diplomatic. You let people down gently. You prefer a variety of friends and tend to change friends quickly. You tend to dream big, but you worry that your dreams aren't attainable.

How
Do
You
Live
Your
Life?

withdrawn weaponry? i'll take it!

thanks, li'l nik.

You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant. Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle. You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs. For you, comfort and calm are very important. You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection. You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong.

The World's Shortest Personality Test

i like it "quick and dirty", thanks

i was surfing through my bloglines, when i saw the following link under "most blogged about"...supposedly, though informal and only meant for entertainment, the test is "surprisingly accurate".  well.  after taking it, i'm not sure about THAT...previous IQ tests have returned different results for me. 

Your IQ Is 130

Your Logical Intelligence is Genius Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Exceptional Your General Knowledge is Exceptional

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

what did YOU get?  you know this shit returns artificially high results, so don't be shy. ;)

i almost forgot to do this. thanks, D.

and my personal fave:

oh, you know i'm a sucker for anything MIT.

well, ANDREA did it, so...

1. Does all bottled water taste the same to you?

No.  I prefer the taste of Evian and Voss, glaceau is a good third.  Evian tastes slightly sweet to me.  There's no water I can drink faster or in greater quantities. 

2. Do you wear shoes when you hang around the house or do you barefoot it?

It makes me twitch with discomfort to do so.  While I'm thrilled to collect them into the triple digits, I think shoes are filthy.  I can barely deal with slippers.  Socks are fine, b/c mine are never icky.  Clean, clean CLEAN people.  gah. 

I'm lucky I had Asian roomies back in CA...they grok this.  There are never shoes in the house, where I live.  Eeeeew.  When I was at home for easter, our kitchen was thoroughly renovated.  My mom felt genuine remorse for the way I'd cringe constantly at what the contractors were tracking in, on our pristine carpets.  They wrapped up work the day after I left; the day after that, I called her to ask for advice and heard shocking amounts of noise-- the carpets were being cleaned.  NO.  SHOES. 

3. If money was no object, where would you go out to eat tonight?

well, if money were no object my curious comrade, i'd take my gulfstream to delhi for some bukhara at the maurya.  then after napping off my post-prandial exhaustion from excessive ma ki dal-consumption, i'd tell maverick to stop off in nyc...for hand-dipped, chocolate-covered coffee-kulfi from tabla.  my, my...i'm all about the injun food, innit?

4. List all the things on your bathroom counter without looking...

Yankee candle, Oral-B charger, Basket filled with hair products from: aveda, aquage, bumble squared, unsweetened cranberry dental floss from whole foods, sensodyne toothpaste, Oral-B toothbrush, foaming bergamot hand soap, several hair elastics and bobby pins, two black jelly bracelets, short square crystal vase with gerbera daisies, urban decay edible body shimmer powder in blackberry, aveda paddle hairbrush, the perfume whose name i shall never divulge, the EDT of that same fragrance, a much-loved bottle of the body shop's white musk perfume, bath and bodyworks mango mandarin splash (which is actually a spray), q-tips, one NARS eyeshadow brush, a white "tackle box" from the container store with eighteen drawers for all of my costume jewelry, my giant sunglasses that won't be in after this summer, the "98" metrobus schedule, tweezers.

perfetta, perché amo l'Italia

Your Inner European is Italian!

Passionate and colorful. You show the world what culture really is.

Who's Your Inner European?

georgetown alums are the BEST!

i don't like ALL "quiz things"...just the highly relevant ones.  ;)

what flavor pocky are you?
[c] sugardew

thanks for the link, joe.  :)

"And I've lost my light...I toss and turn, can't sleep at night"

as ever, from the rocks below

this quiz may be the most stirring, fascinating one i've ever done.  it's not the questions or even the title (which is what i found so provocative)...it's the result i received.

the name for this category is trifling b/c most of these time-sucks are insignificant, a half-amusing way to fritter away time.  i don't go looking for content to file under SIQASPT.  usually i copy whatever meme andrea's done, or some cute quizilla-ish "Which Simpsons character are you?" thing...but THIS one made me think.  am still thinking.  will probably keep thinking about this for a while.

I scored a 37% on the "How Indian Are You?" Quiz!
What about you?

apparently, only two people who took the quiz are "less indian" than i am.  yes, yes, i am aware that what's pink is the key phrase to consider.

so much to say...no time to get in to it.  i reserve my comments for later...

but you knew i was fast

haven't done a quiz in FOREVER, so let's do this "what drug am i?" joint, courtesy of the magnificent andrea.   :)

speed.
you are speed.you are talkative, outgoing, wild and sometimes maybe a little agressive.

Take the quiz: "what kind of drug are you?"

:+:

is it weird that i'm surprised? 

speed? 

then again what WOULD i have been?  coke?  vodka?  since this is apparently question time (or at least a post where i over-use the punctuation mark for it)-- anyone got a xanax?  i feel like being a connecticut housewife. ;)

spot on.

the terrifyingly brilliant PG did this first.  just so you know.

You Are 23 Years Old

23 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

What Age Do You Act?

i'm an elite in more ways than one, bitches! :D

okay, couldn't sleep, so i surfed.  and then i cheered right up:

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WOW! What a suprise! You're an "Elite Queer." Everyone knows you, you're beautiful, always in style, mommy and daddy buy you everything, AND you're the most popular in the gay scene...

What kind of queer are you?
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as always, feel free to leave YOUR quiz results, feelings, complaints and spongebob reviews in comments. 

spank you, quiz through.  :)

i am not a .swf, damn it

Which File Extension are You?

.....................

i was originally .cgi, but i have no idea what that is, so i tried again. also, this site may have pop-ups. my ad-aware was going ballistic while i had it up, so i have a feeling that it was the culprit...unless the BBC and TypePad have decided to get *really* annoying...

as always, please feel free to leave your results in the comments :)

dead on, baby.

ANNA is a hybrid of: Indie Girl Uptown Girl Click on the pictures below to read more: Take the 'What Kind of Girl Is She?' quiz at CookingToHookup.com

quizilla ORGY

You are angry Bush! You charge at Charlie Gibson
and if you get really angry....you scowl. ooooh, scary.


Which George W. Bush Are You?
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Congratulations! You are Lynette Scavo, the
ex-career woman who traded the boardroom for
boredom, mixed with moments of sheer panic as
the mother of four unmanageable kids.


Which Desperate Housewife are you?
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p.s. i was originally a "Bree", but i knew that couldn't be right...i'm not THAT flawless. sheesh.

thanks, veena.

You preferred Kerry's statements 78% of the time You preferred Bush's statements 22% of the time Voting purely on the issues you should vote Kerry Who would you vote for if you voted on the issues? Find out now!

i need a nap after all this introspection

stole this exhausting survey from devs. it answers some of your questions re: the MAN :)

Your perfect man:

1. Age: < 3 years older...

2. Hair color: dark

3. Eye color: size matters most, i like big eyes...big brown eyes

4. Height: 6'1" +

5. Six pack: flat is good. six-pack is ridiculous.

6. Long or short hair: texture matters most- i prefer wavy. if i can put a scrunchie in it, it's too long. having typed that, i hate uber-short hair.

7. Glasses: boys who wear glasses get passes from anna. they also get their asses smacked. hell yes. (amusing aside: one desperate ex- actually got glasses they didn't need b/c they knew it was such a massive turn-on for me. he still didn't turn me on.)

8. Piercings: NO.

9. Scars: i think my perfect guy has scars. pacifically one on his arm from when he sliced it open to the bone, and they had to stitch it sans anesthesia, b/c he was so trashed. that's so fucking hot. they put his arm together again WITHOUT giving him anything for pain. i faint when they draw blood. our kids shall be normal. sigh.

10. Eyebrows: as long as you don't have a unibrow, that's great. oh wait, this is my perfect guy, well, while i don't care for metrosexuals (unless they are monkeys!) if he wanted to get his eyebrows done, i'd be all for it. i dont' think guys realise how much their looks improve when they do this. what, you think brad pitt just lets his brows go wild??? see, THAT'S why he nailed jennifer aniston. good eyebrows. ;)

11. Big butt or little: the sound matters most. if it doesn't make that satisfying "thwack" when i SMACK it, then we've got problems. i'm fairly sure that my perfect boy has a butt. i definitely wouldn't use the phrases"no butt" or "flat butt" to describe him...

12. Chest hair: on my perfect guy? none. and guess what you motherfucking haters? i found the ONLY punjabi/kashmiri boy in amreeka who's skin feels like SILK under my grateful cheek. ha!

13. Buff or skinny: i fucking hate meatheads. my perfect boy isn't bulky. blech.

14. Teeth: well, it would be nice if he had some.

15. Funny or serious: both. simultaneously! this question teabags. all women sweat someone w/a fatty sense of humour.

16. Party or stay at home: party. like. rockstars. trash hotel rooms like them, too.

17. Cook or bake: my perfect guy? hmmm. both! he's perfect, why not?

18. Best friends: must think i'm the ultimate girl for their boy.

19. Girl friends: um...PG would make sure i never worried about this. it's healthy to have opposite gendered friends. if he's perfect, he'd be consumed w/me. knock yourself out baby. befriend as many girls as you want, your ASS (and car) is mine. ;)

20. Outgoing or shy: both. simultaneously! like ME!

21. Should he love his mother: more than he loves me. okay fine, as much.

22. Sarcastic or sincere: both. simultaneously! he's PERFECT, there's NOTHING he can't do. ;)

23. Should he watch chick flicks: yes. next?

24. Should he be a smoker: an occasional clove or cartier light could be tolerated. oh hell, that's ME. erm. no. not a smoker. he's perfect and whatnot.

25. Would he drink: not to the point of stupidity or vomiting, but hell YES.

26. Would he swear: barely. i have potty mouth for three.

27. Would he play with your hair: CONSTANTLY. his fingers are not allowed to leave my hair. every guy i know wants me to keep my hair long and painfully high-maintenance. well make it worth MY fucking while already, spanks.

28. Would he pay for dates: yeah, but this is more a pragmatic thing SINCE I'M BROKE.

29. Does he kiss on the first date: nope.

(now let's do something a leeeetle bit interesting. let's tally up how many of these my angel has...brb...TWENTY-SIX out of 29. ah, life is *good*) ; )

bow DOWN, how ya like me nowwww?

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!


If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!


How grammatically sound are you?
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je suis fromage!

Cheese Test: What type of cheese are you?

thanks vasha :)