287 posts tagged “qotd”

What would it take to get you to start a new life on a new world?
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 Nothing short of a catastrophic natural or political disaster. The vast majority of my ancestors were not explorers; they were refugees, in a sense. They fled poverty, hunger, and religious persecution. I couldn't leave my home for anything less than that, either.

What's the worst book you've ever read?

If a book is really, really crappy I will put it down. Crappy as in bad prose and a boring plot. So "worst" to me means books that I have read all the way through and still hated. Wuthering Heights is definitely up there. I hated all the characters. I mean, really loathed them. I wanted them all to die horrible deaths. Heart of Darkness gets the prize for most boring book. It wasn't very long, but good heavens was it tedious.

If you could hang out with any movie character for a day, whom would you choose as your sidekick?
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Listen, "Avatar Community", if I get to hang out with any movie character I choose, I'm gonna pick a leading man, not a sidekick. Let's be real.

If I had to pick a sidekick specifically, you can't go wrong with a wizard, elf, Dunedin, or a stouthearted hobbit, could you?

What’s your favorite movie quote of all time?
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Perhaps not of all time, but certainly of Christmas time:

"Fra-GEE-lay....must be Italian!"

Followed very closely by:

"Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls!"

What one film do you think everyone should see?
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Oh lord, so many. Right now I'm in the mood for The Fugitive, though, so I'll go with that one.

"Care to revise your statement, sir?"

 
"What?"

"Do you want to change you bullshit story, sir?"

What is the scariest incident with drugs or alcohol you’ve witnessed or personally experienced? How did it change you?
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I like this question the best of the sponsored QoTDs. Very thought-provoking. Although as a regular watcher of Intervention, I feel like I've seen enough drug or alchohol-induced tragedy to have a healthy fear and respect for mind-altering stuff. It's unnerving to be at a party and see someone so drunk that they need to be taken to the hospital, or close to it. Scary.

How many times did you move growing up? How did moving (or staying put) impact your childhood?

I have moved three times, not counting moving into college. With the exception of the first move, the immediate feelings I had were strongly negative. I've never been a fan of uprooting. Travel and moving can freak me out a little, and it doesn't help that my body translates negative emotions into physical symptoms much of the time.

But all of our moves were for the good. The first move was fine, since a) I was 2 years old and b) the four of us moved from a one-bedroom apartment into an honest-to-goodness house. The second move was because we outgrew said house with the addition of my sisters. I changed cities and schools, which was really tough, but the town we moved to is such a good place. The last move was more annoying than anything, because we moved across town. But now I'm right down the street from Lake Erie, so that's cool.

Why do you love your body?
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'Cause it's mine. :-) It gets me places and it's what I use to communicate with other people.

I like having my body type because I feel very...minimalist. I don't know how to explain it, really. The interesting thing about being very thin is the feeling that everthing has a function. There isn't much extra skin or fat that just moves around with no utilitarian purpose. Does that make sense?

And this is no diss on curves. My body type is just one that, for the moment, precludes curviness. Some days I'm fine with that, some days I get jealous. Like any person, I would think.

Which relative - dead or alive - do you wish you knew better?

Ooh, good question! I would have to choose any relative who was the first to immigrate to America. I would love to know specifics: the whys, the feelings involved, the family left behind.

On a more specific note, I would have loved to have known my great-great grandmother Assunta, since she was an immigrant, had an interesting life story, and shares a birthday with me.

What have you been putting off doing?
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*sigh* Figuring out my life. How I'm going to pay for school, what I'm doing after graduation...it sucks. I mean, I guess it's exciting? But mostly terrifying.