benlehman

Swiped from Vassar E, who I apparently have little in common with.


Here's the deal:
1. Copy this whole list into your journal.
2. Bold the things that you have in common with me.
3. Whatever you don't bold, replace with things about you.

01. I am remarkably similar to my childhood self.
02. I vacillate between periods of low self esteem and thinking I'm on par with the rest of the world.
03. I endeavor to be a very good friend, and often succeed.
04. I am happiest after having written 1000 words of good prose.
05. I barely understand music at all, although I have recently begun to enjoy listening to it.
06. Sometimes I wonder if I understand anyone.
07. I hate when people type in all caps online.
08. I also hate people who TypE LyKe D1s.
09. I am amused by 133+ in the same way that I am amused by slashfic.
10. I want to go home.
11. I need to pack for moving home.
12. I wish I had graduated on time.
13. I don't want lovers (right now).
14. I believe in the virtue of regret and that, like all virtues, it is a fault in excess.
15. I hate how I look on camera, but that's changing.
16. I love to taste food.
17. Daie-Thion should be allowed to take up more of my time.
18. I have a lot to learn.
19. I wish some of my friends would fix what they can fix.
20. I check my email every day to see if I got new email, usually I check dozens of times a day.
21. I am a writer.
22. I hate when people yell when there are other options.
23. I am going to flee the country in February.
24. I've had fanfiction written about my creative work.
25. I love ending things.
26. There are times I walk away from situations thinking, "wow, I just fucked that up completely."
27. I am at all times and in all ways having an adventure.
28. I'm a weird person.
29. I dispute the nature of specific virtues and vices, i.e. Enlightened Self-Interest.
30. I sing in the shower.
31. I wish that I were able to concentrate.
32. I resent that people try to define my religion based on my genetics.
33. Memes are an old fucking hat already.
34. It bothers me that where I live is drastically different politically than most of the rest of the US.
35. I feel that comedy must be intelligent to be funny.
36. I've dressed up in order to go the movies, for movies other than Rocky Horror.
37. I have acted the part of a single-celled organism on multiple occaisions.
38. I am capable of hatred.
39. I am not love, for once.
40. I have difficulty believing in rationality.
41. I have less impulse control than I once did.
42. I like people who are a bit out of the ordinary.
43. I am antisocial.
44. I will be devastated when my parents die.
45. I have been accused of being a prototypical physics geek.
46. I should do housework.
47. There are foods that make the roof of my mouth itch.
48. I cannot drive, and barely see a reason to learn.
49. I am so open about myself because I honestly do not care if other people dislike me.
50. I hate money.
51. I like silence at times.
52. I am completely puzzled that any people find me sexy.
53. I try to be honest.
54. I hate passive aggressive tendencies.
55. I like being alone sometimes.
56. I don't know what a tzatchke is.
57. I am deathly afraid of falling. Not heights, but falling.
58. I need a more constructive form of excercise.
59. I like when my friends write me letters and emails, it makes me feel special.
60. I try to avoid the luxuries of pessimism and cynicism, for they will make me soft.
61. I attempt to avoid sarcastic, but often fail.
62. I wish I had a less frequent laugh.
63. I underreact about things sometimes.
64. I finish books that I start, regardless of my feelings on them, with certain specific exceptions.
65. I have truly bizarre dreams.
66. Hallucinations are far too common to scare me these days.
67. I lose weight on the east coast, and gain it on the west coast.
68. I don’t mind heights.
69. I don't think GW Bush is the worst possible President the US could have at this time. (very bad, but there is always worse.)
70. I am not convinced that democracy is a superior system of government.
71. I find that Winter is inspiring, but only California winters.
72. I develop crushes on people that don't technically exist.
73. This LJ is, presently, my only online diary or journal.
74. I know a lot of stuff that I never intended to learn.
75. I am opposed to polyamory on a personal level for no clear reason.
76. I probably would have gotten thrown out of Brown for voicing my opinions on the nature of equality and thought.
77. I love to read, but for some reason I don't as much as I used to.
78. I have recently met the cutest small child in the world (if you disagree, e-mail me and you shall see the terrifying cuteness.)
79. I try to be open about the health/mental health issues I have, but not to the degree of obnoxiousness.
80. I do not believe that my pagan friends and acquaintances are doing anything wrong, but I do believe the most modern paganism is spiritually bland.
81. I can be hard to deal with sometimes.
82. I cannot stomach most horror movies.
83. I owe my father money.
84. I don't see enough of my family.
85. On some issues, I'm very firm in my beliefs.
86. I am male. That does not mean I'm not permitted to wonder what it is like to be a woman. (essentially the same, just gender swapped)
87. I don't understand why anyone in their right mind would oppose gay civil marriage.
88. I want something of mine to be published.
89. I have not neither seen Aliens nor Predator
90. I hate having the feeling that I'm not going to go anywhere in life.
91. I wish people were more able to help themselves.
92. I wish that more people helped each other.
93. I think I'm a pretty good cook.
94. I have, in the past, understood our place in the world.
95. I don't trust myself to use drugs, even painkillers or caffeine.
96. I think prostitution and suicide should be legalized.
97. I hate making phone calls.
98. I am non-consensually spiritual.
99. I am intrigued by tattoos, but will probably never get one.
100. I am done with this survey now.