282 posts tagged “qotd”
What is the scariest incident with drugs or alcohol you’ve witnessed or personally experienced? How did it change you?
Sponsored by MTV's "Gone Too Far." Tune into the series premiere this Monday at 10 p.m. EST.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?
Submitted by BeautifullyBroken.
*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.
In honor of Bastille Day, we'd like to know: What's your favorite thing to come out of France?
I thought of Victor Hugo, but he was beaten out by:
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Would you ever want to be a model? Why or why not?
On a serious level, no way. I'm not really comfortable with the whole industry, and I'm not that in tune with my body anyway. Posing and stuff is not natural to me. ; )
On a superficial level, though...it would be kind of cool! Who doesn't like to have beautiful pictures taken of themselves? Plus, if I were a few inches taller I'd be the ideal body type.
Littering, long showers, not recycling... What's your biggest pet peeve about the way some people (mis)treat our planet?
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Well, I guess I'm "some people", because I do all of those things at one point or another. Sheesh, Cisco, sound more condescending. *rolls eyes*
If you were to open up a business of your own, what would it be?
Submitted by beth.
Oh gosh, good question. Can I be unoriginal and say a cute little bookstore? 'Cause that would be nice*. I know just where I would put it, too. The main street of my college town is so picturesque and perfect, and on the corner there is this little coffee shop in what used to be a hotel. I would leave the coffee shop and add my bookstore to the upper level. And it would be too small to stock lame books that I wouldn't want to read. So there. :-P
*This is a fantasy, right, not set in the Real World? 'Cause there's a reason I'm not going to college for bookshop-ownership.
If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?
If we're talking middle names, Ohio might be kinda fun because it's personal, you know? But for a first name, I think Delaware would be nice. Or Maine. They're funky but not too aggressively unusual, and they sound kind of woodsy.
