Long meme...have you ever?

[mapsedge]

Another meme, although I've edited this one somewhat to remove questions I remember having answered before.

1. smoked a cigarette? - Smoked for ten years. Quit during finals week.


2. smoked a cigar? - Yes. For smoke you can't inhale it's not bad.


3. crashed a friend's car? - No, thankfully.


4. stolen a car? - No. Never needed to, and it's not something I would do anyway unless in extremis.


5. been dumped? - Yes, on Christmas morning. Yes, it sucked.


6. shoplifted? - Yeah, but nothing spectacular.


7. been fired? - Yes, twice. Long stories, both, once for being stupid and the second for...well, being stupid.


8. gone on a blind date? - Not really, no.


9. had a crush on a teacher? - Molly Hankins, 7th grade social studies. She looked like Meg Ryan, but with frizzy hair. I saw her years later, and the difference in perspective from child to adult was frightening.


10. skipped school? - Sure. Senior year, all the damn time.


11. seen someone die? - Yes. My mother, which if you read my journal at all regularly you already know.


12. been on a plane? - Many, of all diffrent sizes and configurations. My dad was a pilot.


13. thrown up in a bar? - No, don't spend a lot of time in bars.


14. taken painkillers? - Yes.


15. love someone or miss someone right now? - Both, 24/7.


16. laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by? - Yes, not for a long time, though.


17. made a snow angel? - Yes. Having a five year old daughter they're kind of required.


18. played dress up? - I own one of the five largest tights manufacturing and distribution companies in the country. I think so.


19. cheated while playing a game? - When I was a kid, sure.


20. been lonely? - With an absentee dad, a junkie mom, and few friends...yeah.


21. fallen asleep at work/school? - Oh yeah. If I have one cookie (or any sweet for that matter) at lunchtime, my blood sugar plummets and I'm dead by 2:30 - 3:00 in the afternoon.


22. used a fake id? - For what?


23. felt an earthquake? - No, but I'm assured by the Mercers, who experienced one in Taiwan, that it's frighteningly disorienting, like suddenly being very drunk. The ground doesn't shake like in the movies. The likened it to standing on a waterbed in the wobble-room of a funhouse.


24. touched a snake? - Sure, why not?


25. run a red light? - Yes, sometimes even on purpose.


26. been suspended from school? - Never.


27. had detention? - Senior year, all the damn time.


28. been in a car accident? - Yes. One only needs to see me in short sleeves to see that.


29. hated the way you look? - Yes, pretty much all the time.


30. witnessed a crime? - Not in the way this question probably means, no.


31. pole danced? - Lessee...I'm a midwestern white guy. Uhhhh...no.


32. questioned your heart? - More than once.


33. been to the opposite side of the country? - When you're in the middle, what's opposite? Asia? Been to both coasts, how's that?


34. felt like dying? - Yes. Recently as a matter of fact.


35. cried yourself to sleep? - No. I cry, or I sleep.


36. played cops and robbers? - Not as such. Unless a stormtrooper counts as robber, and Luke Skywalker counts as a cop.


37. sung karaoke? - Shit no.


38. done something you told yourself you wouldn't? - Yes.


39. laughed till some kind of beverage came out of your nose? - No. I've snorted soda into my sinuses from a good guffaw.


40. caught a snowflake on your tongue? - Kinda bland.


41. sang in the shower? - Who writes these questions? Do the public schools even teach English anymore? Yes, I've SUNG in the shower.


42. had a dream that you married someone? - No.


43. glued your hand to something? - Fingers yes, hands no.


44. got your tongue stuck to a flag pole? - No.


45. worn the opposite sex's clothes? - Yes, actually. And, no, I ain't tellin'.


46. been a cheerleader? - See "pole danced", above.


47. sat on a roof top? - Oh sure. I love the roof over my family room as it's relatively flat.


48. are scared to watch scary movies alone? - No.


49. played chicken? - Not with a car, no. Momma didn't raise no fools.


50. been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? - Fell in, does that count?


51. been told you're hot by a complete stranger? - No. Fuck you.


52. broken a bone? - Came close, but no. Deviated septum is the worst structural damage I've ever sustained.


53. been easily amused? - When I was 2.


54. laughed so hard you cried? - Sure.


55. cried so hard you laughed? - Yes.


56. cheated on a test? - Once. It didn't help.


57. forgotten someone's name? - Every damn day. I've no memory at all. If I don't have regular exposure to someone, or some significant reason not to, I'll forget you before you're twelve feet away. It's not that I'm trying to be rude, there's just not a lot of room left up there.


58. slept naked? - Unless the kids are sick, it's storming badly outside, in other words, if I have reason to believe I might be getting up over night, that's my preference. Oh, and if it's bloody cold in the house. Then it's knit lounging pants and a "T", but only for warmth.


59. gone skinny dipping in a pool? - Sure.


60. been kicked out of your house? - No. It's my goddamn house. Oh, in junior high? No, again.


61. blacked out from drinking? - Yes. For two days.


62. pulled a prank on someone? - Yes, but only stuff I wouldn't mind having done to me.


63. gone to a late night movie? - Yes, though I don't remember what the movie was at that midnight showing. Never been much of a late night person.


64. gotten shit faced drunk? - See "passed out" question, above.


65. like someone right now more than a friend? - Define "more." As a potential lover? No. As family? Yes, and you know who you are...although retdet might qualify for...no. Never mind. Forget I said anything. Move along.


66. Answered a meme that sounded like it was written by a junior high school student? - Yep.

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When this old world starts getting me down...

[themadblonde]

& people are just too much for me to face
I climb right up to the top of the stairs
& all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof, that's the only place I know
Where you just have to wish to make it so
Let's go up on the roof....

When I was a teen, one of my summer jobs was on the custodial team of the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan. It's a 5th Ave double mansion converted into a high-end Catholic girls' school. I lived in the servants quarters on the 5th floor of #1 East 91st street, immediately across 5th ave from the Reservoir in Central Park. More than once I spent the night out on the balcony, though the mosquitoes could be pretty fierce.

Re: When this old world starts getting me down...

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Gerry Goffin. I love that song.

My roof can be nice, but it gets powerful hot up there. Still, there's a great view - we're on the highest hill in the neighborhood, and I can look down over the houses behind us, to the woods beyond.

I've been thinking of putting an 8 pounder siege cannon up there, just to keep the guy down the street with the loud muffler quiet...

who is Gerry Goffin?

[themadblonde]

Written, of course, by Carol King. I first heard it done by JT (so it made me think of you) but my favourite version of it is by the Nylons.

Re: who is Gerry Goffin?

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

"Up On The Roof" was written by Carole King in collaboration with Gerry Goffin. The two were married for nine-ish years.

http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=114

Interesting...

[themadblonde]

I've got the sheet music & his name is nowhere on it. Wonder if she got it in the divorce or something? ;-)