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05 October 2009 @ 11:20 pm
Writer's Block: Sick day  

When you get sick, do you prefer to go it alone or be doted upon by a friend, partner, or parent? Do you usually go to work or school or stay home?


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Oh, god knows I'm a pain in the ass when I'm sick. I generally prefer to be left alone, so I can suffer in private, but my family has a way of bringing me things when I need them, like water or some food.

They're kind of awesome like that.
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zfreelance
29 September 2009 @ 02:04 pm
Writer's Block: How competitive are you?  

Are you competitive when you play games like Trivial Pursuit or Monopoly? Have you ever gotten into a serious argument over a game?


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Not even a little. I am the most uncompetitive person you could probably imagine. Also, I cheat at those games. But then, so does everyone else, so it all just dissolves about an hour in, anyway.

Also, who the hell has ever finished a game of Monopoly, anyway?
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zfreelance
31 August 2009 @ 03:01 pm
Writer's Block: Under Protest  

Have you ever participated in a boycott? What did you boycott and why?


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I participated in A Day Without a Gay, a boycott of all jobs in order to show narrow-minded co-workers that people they knew and worked with every day were gay and/or supported their rights.
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on the tape deck: Violence Fetish, Disturbed
 
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zfreelance
25 August 2009 @ 11:01 am
Writer's Block: Kindness of Strangers  

Would you donate a kidney or bone marrow to a stranger?


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... I'm not overly enthusiastic about needles, and bone marrow transplants are supposed to hurt like a bitch. They'd have to give me an extraordinarily good reason, or chloroform.
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zfreelance
10 August 2009 @ 04:12 pm
Writer's Block: Memo to Myself  

If you could travel back in time, what advice would you give to your younger self?


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Several things.

01. Eat the fucking receipt.
02. Blue hair dye turns green after a few days. Your best bet is to bleach beforehand.
03. Never drink screwdrivers.
04. Don't take yourself too seriously. There's enough hilarious shit out there that no one should be able to keep a straight face.


And... then I'd probably make out with myself. JUST TO SAY I DID.
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on the tape deck: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Ra
 
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zfreelance
06 August 2009 @ 05:31 pm
Writer's Block: I May Be Crazy  

What does this Rorschach blot look like to you?


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An evil moth.

... What?
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zfreelance
16 July 2009 @ 12:32 am
Writer's Block: 5//7//5  

Sum up your day in the form of a haiku.

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Today was a day
for thirteen hours of X-Files
and junk food. That's it.
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on the tape deck: Dead Souls, Nine Inch Nails
 
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zfreelance
14 July 2009 @ 02:57 am
Writer's Block: Le Quatorze Juillet  

Happy Bastille Day! Today the French celebrate the event that sparked the French revolution. In honor of our Francophone friends, what is your favorite French thing? Bonus points for answers en français.


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Mon prefere, c'est la frommage. Ah, j'adore la frommage.

A la France, normalment, c'est ne pas pasturize, donc la gout est magnifique.

La brie, la bleu, la frommage blanc... Ah. merde, je manque la frommage.


If that made any sense, kudos for me.
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zfreelance
03 July 2009 @ 09:44 am
Writer's Block: Dog Day Afternoon  

The Dog Days of summer, the hottest days of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, start today. What's your favorite thing to do in hot weather?


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Road trip!
The thing about the summer is that it actually does get too hot to eat, which I have always thought to be kind of cool. Combine that with mountain weather (hot in the day, cooler at night), and being on the road, that is just one awesome way to be, my friends.
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on the tape deck: Sick & Tired, Default
 
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zfreelance
02 July 2009 @ 11:42 pm
Writer's Block: Prying Eyes  

Have you ever read someone's private writings (journal, diary, email, letters, etc.) without their permission?


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Why, yes. It's called LiveJournal, perhaps you've heard of it?
Also? Diary of Anne Frank. Yeesh, people, kick her while she's down.
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on the tape deck: Turn Me On, "Mr. Deadman", Union Underground
 
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zfreelance
28 June 2009 @ 07:55 pm
Writer's Block: First Aid  

Have you ever performed CPR, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, or the Heimleich maneuver on someone in an emergency?


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I've had to use the Heimleich maneuver on my little brother, once. He was snarfing down some kind of meat at the speed of light, stopped, and started gesturing at his throat.

The first words out of my mouth were, "Do you need the Heimleich?" While practical (if someone is actually choking, they can't speak), but it still struck me as funny.
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zfreelance
16 June 2009 @ 10:22 pm
Writer's Block: Set the Scene  

Empty parking garages, roadside motels, dark caves, dank basements, overgrown forests—what kind of setting makes you feel nervous?


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Hospitals. No one's ever there because they want to be, and chances are good that if you're there, it's because you can't leave.

Also, those things are haunted as fuck. True story.
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on the tape deck: Fighting Tao, Hurt
 
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zfreelance
06 June 2009 @ 11:57 am
Writer's Block: It Sounds Better When You Say It  

No matter what language you speak, you've probably come across words or phrases in another language that sound better than their equivalents in your native tongue. What's your favorite word or phrase in a foreign language?


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The French term 'interdit', which directly translates into 'forbidden'. You'll see it on signs saying 'Entre Interdit', meaning 'Do Not Enter'.

It always cracked me up in France when a teacher or fellow student would come up to me, explaining why what I was doing was 'interdit', because when I translated the phrase in my head, I got images of condemning church officials pointing at me, screaming, "THAT IS FORBIDDEN!!!"

I got in some trouble while visiting France, mostly because I could not take anyone seriously. Personally, I think they need a less archaic word for 'you're not allowed'. But 'interdit' is still my favorite.
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on the tape deck: Engel, Rammstein
 
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zfreelance
12 May 2009 @ 05:49 pm
Writer's Block: There Once Was a Girl from Nantucket  

It's Limerick Day! Share a favorite or compose your own humorous five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme structure.


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Tile the floors, paint the cabinets, install a new shower,
Lay down gravel, knock down walls, plant new flowers.
Working for my parents till everything throbs,
While desperately searching for a job,
because at least then I'd be paid by the hour.
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on the tape deck: Medicate, Breaking Benjamin
 
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zfreelance
01 May 2009 @ 01:44 pm
Writer's Block: End of the World as We Know It  

Robert Frost speculated about the world ending in fire or in ice. Which do you think is likely to end us all: meteorite, global warming, nuclear weapons, zombies, or the superflu?


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Dinosaurs.

Namely velociraptors.

You know it to be true.
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zfreelance
28 April 2009 @ 01:26 pm
Writer's Block: Wild Life  

How long could you survive on your own in the wild?


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There's Christopher McCandless wild, and then there's The Jungle Book wild.

I'm choosing to address the former.

I think I could survive maybe a week, before I ran out of food/money, or got into trouble.
But it'd be fun!
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zfreelance
27 April 2009 @ 12:56 pm
Writer's Block: Musical Affliction  

Have you had an earworm lately? Exorcise it by inflicting it on your friendslist. Post the lyrics or - even better - a video.


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Downloading the Fast and Furious soundtrack turned out to be a less than stellar idea, if my Walkman playlist is anything to go by.
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zfreelance
19 April 2009 @ 07:14 pm
Writer's Block: Shhhh  

Would you ever go on a silent retreat? How long do you think you could go without talking?


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I really, really couldn't.

I can go without speaking to others for... a long time, sure. But I talk to myself, nonstop. It's not anything sinister (I don't think...), I just keep a running monologue of my day-to-day activities.

I've also had about four hours sleep, so stop encouraging me, LJ!
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on the tape deck: Every Day Is Exactly The Same, NIN
 
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zfreelance
16 April 2009 @ 11:53 am
Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry  

It's Tax Day in the U.S., a day when the mind might be too occupied with deductions and long lines at the post office to think about poetry. But let's try: what's your favorite line of poetry? Song lyrics count.


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I have got to give kudos for this one.

But, sadly, I have no one favorite line.
Here are my favorites, in general. Yes, I read poetry. Shut up.

"Oů, rimant au milieu des ombres fantastiques,
Comme des lyres, je tirais les élastiques
De mes souliers blessés, un pied pre`s de mon coeur."
Ma Bohème
Arthur Rimbaud

"The smoke of my own breath,
Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine,
My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of the wind,
A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides,
The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun."
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman

"A penny for the Old Guy."
The Hollow Men
T.S. Eliot
(actually, this whole damn poem is awesome)

"The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats


Trust me, they're good.
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on the tape deck: Hate To Say I Told You So, The Hives
 
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zfreelance
15 April 2009 @ 10:31 am
Writer's Block: Looking Back  

LiveJournal is turning 10 and we're feeling nostalgic. What was your first LJ post about?


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Animal House, and how I was not sure how to work this LJ thing, anyhow.

Long time ago...
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on the tape deck: Our Lips are Sealed, The Go-Go's
 
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