freesia’s flip-flopping fixation with friday five
I don’t like this week’s friday five, so I’m swiping questions from old ones. It’s a special choose-your-own-friday-five today.
1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?
Starting a whole new life for myself. Buh-bye, long-term relationship I thought would last forever. Buh-bye, cozy apartment where I’d lived longer than anywhere else since I was 14. Buh-bye, cute fuzzy dog we got when we moved here. Buh-bye, best friend since 1998. Buh-bye, old life. Hello, total shambles that I called my new life. GOD, did my life suck for a couple of months there. The mere fact that I fucking survived that is a miracle to me. In the end, of course, it was all for the best - but it’s been a serious struggle to find a new home, to find new housemates, to make my existence my own again. I’m pretty proud of that. In most ways, I’m better off than I was to begin with. That’s good to know.
2. You’ve just won a complete collection of movies starring one actor - what actor would you pick?
I know, I know, you’re all going to laugh and taunt and mock, but it would be Angelina Jolie… of course, I’m already halfway there. Second/Third would be a tie between Julia Stiles and Gwyneth Paltrow. (It doesn’t really make sense to me either.) I’m also incredibly fond of Pauley Perrette and Fairuza Balk, but I don’t know that I’d want to own any of their movies.
3. How old were you when you had your first kiss?
Some of you have heard this story - I apologize. Skip it and go to #4. I was 14 and four months old. I’d gone over to Scott Bauer’s house for stir-fry. (He was a junior and a varsity wrestler - and as an older man and an athlete, that made him cool. Plus, he was old enough to drive.) We failed utterly at the stir-fry and ended up ordering a LOT of pepperoni pizza and watching some movie that had a lot of nudity in it. Oh, and his older brother (who was a freshman in college) was there as well. Needless to say, I was freaking out, because I’d never watched naked women on tv with older boys before. In any case, Scott drove me home, and as he was walking me to the door he says “Would you be mad if I tried to kiss you?” and I responded “Why don’t you try it and find out?” Now, that last part is exceedingly funny to anyone who knew me at the time (mostly Casie ;) because I was SUCH A GEEK back then, and I had racked my brain for something seductive to say to impress him and that was all I could come up with on short notice. I stood up on my tiptoes, expecting him to at least start off with something tame, and before I know it I’m nearly gagging from what feels like 30 pounds of cold deli-style cow tongue being shoved down my airway. Plus, we’d been gorging on pepperoni pizza all night, and the combination of those two things very nearly made me lose my dinner. He pulled away, and I immediately turned and spit everything I could get out in one load into the lawn. I said “Sorry - too much pizza.” as he was driving away … and I proceeded to go to my room and eat an entire tin of altoids. Within a week, Scott had asked someone else to the prom (without telling me that he didn’t want to go with me anymore) … his reasoning, I’m told, being that he didn’t want to go with someone who had a curfew. He ended up getting some girl pregnant before graduating high school and he’s currently in the Navy trying to support her and several kids. Go figure.
4. When did you first get online?
September 1993. I’d just gotten to IMSA and was told that I just had to get an account, so Katharina Bradley and I snuck into the training session going on in the CRC. (I never had to sign the Network Honor Code, either. We missed that part.) Within a month, I’d figured out what my dad’s email address at EIU was (he didn’t even know he had one) and by the end of the school year, I’d set up my family at home with email. I wrote my mother a letter (on the typewriter) at least once a week before they got email at home - and I don’t know that I’ve hand-written/typed a letter since.
5. Hey, baby, what’s your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well?
I’m a Sagittarius … ooh, yes. I think it fits me to a T. Here’s a slightly different description. Someone once gave me a Sagittarius keyring that said “You are easy-going, charismatic, and popular with the opposite sex.” I think it’s fascinating how different the descriptions of the same sign can be - but all of the Sag ones I’ve ever read seem at least mostly right on. (This is probably the most complete one I’ve found online.) I am most definitely mutable - I want to be in a constant state of flux. Location, occupation, social group, hair color, something has to be always changing or I get really bored with myself. It’s been awhile - and I’m getting itchy. As soon as my paycheck is in my hot little hands (a week from today) something’s going to happen. I don’t know what yet … I guess you’ll have to wait and see.
#1 Growing the business, and producing a show that was 20 (real number) times larger than anything else I’ve ever done. Show cratered, and lost all my and investors $$$. Now I work at the Taco Bell in Factoria.
#2 Ron Howards older brother, whose name I can’t remember, but he’s really funny and he’s been in about 300 bergillion movies over the past 30 years, so that would mean that I just won a whole boatload of flix.
#3 15. What they say about fireworks and THAT song playing in your head. it’s true.
#4 If you count BBS services, I’ve been on line since around 1983. I got my first internet E mail account in college 1989…. (auaxe@inre.asuvm.asu.edu) Though I had few friends on-line at the time, so I just used the account for library research. (and anyone who knows me would then surmise that this particular account was little used, and you’d be right)
#5 Goat-Boy, People all the time tell me that I’m a stereotypical Capricorn. If it brings us closer, then it matters, otherwise I don’t much care. (READ: I know far more than I let on)
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Lizzie - I may be road-tripping to IL for Christmas with a friend who’s going home to Barrington. Maybe a day or two in Chicagoland with you and the Cruz? ;)
oh, trackback. If you write a blog entry that’s related to one of mine, you click on trackback and put the URL there. Sorta like a “Hey, I commented, but it’s OVER HERE” sorta deal.
I’m a Cancer and, like you, every description I’ve read has been pretty much spot on in most ways. If it wasn’t true at the time, it had been at some point prior (and I’d just compensated for it). By Chinese zodiac, I’m a dragon and that pretty much fits the bill too.
Oh, and congrats. So you going to visit me too? =)
Of course I am… if you think you can handle it. ;)
[Cancer and Sagittarius Friendship Match]
You, Cancer, will observe Sagittarius’s risky lifestyle and wonder if they will ever wake up and grow up. You just don’t get it and never will.
hm.
1)Going to a real college that offers real degrees, leaving a bad relationship, and um… saying no to sex with ugly people…
2)Definitely Angelina…. ah and I hear she’s single….
3)Hmmmm….13… he was a senior… very bad kisser
4)pre-IMSA… parents had AOL
5) Aquarius, I’m told it fits me to a T
Will you ever wake up and grow up? Ahem, I mean let’s boogie. Seriously though, some of these assessments require liberal interpretation, and ultimately they’re really about tendencies… find another site! =)
1) Ditto. Switchimg jobs, finding me, starting my journal, becoming a real true baseball fan, getting into a legit grad school, moving on. Mostly, anyway. oh, and getting our beloved alma mater to start seeing its alums. that’s going to keep me on cloud nine for weeks.
2) oooooh. Hard one. Russell is up there, but his star is fading. Audrey maybe, but she’s kind of a cliche, and she makes me feel fat. Tom’s good, and Gwyneth, too, but I think it might still be Russell for now. Though if that kid from Almost Famous develops a career it might be him. And I do have a really bizarre fixation with Julia Roberts.
3) 13. His name was Wayne. He played the trumpet and had horrible acne. It was in a hallway. At school. After a long day of overly hormonal flirting. It was dumb. Then he broke up with me. Heartbreaking. Kiss #2 (the first boyfriend was in the middle somewhere but did not involve kissing) was at 14, with this trombone player who SHOVED his massive tongue in my mouth. He was a senior. Ick ick ick. He then became my Youth in Government trial partner. We won everything in Springfield, but let me tell you, it wasn’t because of HIS writing. The first nice one that I really remember was in college. Yay for chemistry!
4) Spring of ‘90, I think. I still remember Scott’s virtual leather couches and his room of sound. And how annoyed he was with me. Sorry, Scott. I was a repressed little kid.
5) I’m a Scorpio, and it fits me big-time. Secretive (really, my whole life’s not online), determined, intuitive, intense, jealous, obsessive — notice the lack of balance here? Hmm.
6) this has nothing to do with anything, but you really should come visit chicago, shigs.
7) how the hell does trackback work, anyway?