off to see the wizard

I’m trying to catch up on some diary reading, but since I’ve been kicked off the internet 839 skajillion times this evening, I’m giving up. And I can’t stay up quite as late as usual tonight listening to the modem redial and redial and redial, because tomorrow is a big day – the Oz Festival! – and we must be on top of Beech Mountain by ten AM.  So I’ll just do a very entertaining survey from Dragonlady instead. That way I can just hit redial once, post quick, and be done with it.

1. Do you wear a name tag at work? No, but oddly enough I was just thinking about work-related nametags. We had a meeting today with the department that is in charge of our horrible slowmotion trainwreck new computer system, and one of the women responsible used to be in my previous department. She is a power-hungry loon, and in our old office she would head up staff meetings and was always coming up with silly, annoying, and/or completely insane ideas to waste our time on. Like buying us all nametags to wear. So students could tell we worked there. Because sitting behind our desks wasn’t enough of a hint. Nobody was very taken with the idea (K and I actually snorted simultaneously and audibly, and if glares could kill we’d both be burn marks on the carpet now) and she spent the entire meeting trying to convince us all that we needed nametags. Much more than we needed trivial things like raises and position upgrades! She also insisted that every other office on campus wears nametags, which I found odd since I couldn’t recall seeing a single person with a nametag, other than the Physical Plant people who are always going in and out of other people’s offices so really do need identification of some sort. I asked Baker B, who has probably been to every office on campus, and he said ummmmm…. no. Nobody wears nametags.

ANYWAY, this just came up today as my new coworkers and I discussed Raving Lunatic Woman.

2. What kind of car do you drive? A Honda Civic. And now an Outback. Not at the same time, of course. 
 
3. What do you order when you go to Taco Bell? I can’t even think of the last time I went to Taco Bell, although I’d wager it would be something Mexican. 

4. Have you ever had a garage sale? No. It just seems like waaaaay too much work.
 

5. Is/was your best friend a cheerleader? Well, that’s certainly an odd question. No, she isn’t/wasn’t. 

6. What is your best friend(s) favorite color? What’s with the parenthesis around that "s"??  Red.   

7. What college do you want to go to? I’ve already been, and I’m still there as an office drone.
 
8. What’s the most unique thing you have in your room? Which room?? I have unique things all over my house, and I don’t necessarily mean that in a good way either. The most unique thing in the livingroom, which is where I am right now, is probably the old ugly wardrobe. Which, yes, IS still here, but we moved it out of the middle of the floor (I’m not saying how long that took, but it was waaaaaaaay too long) and now it’s behind the couch. It actually sounds a lot weirder than it looks. I hope. I really wanted to keep it upstairs so we could put coats and stuff in it. 

9. What’s your mom’s mom’s name? Pearl.

10. Do your bed sheets match your room? They’re blue. They don’t clash, but I don’t think they technically match either. 
 
11. What’s the color scheme? Color scheme! That’s a good one!  

12. What kind of cell phone do you have? My new pink (ROSE) razr, which I just love so far. It’s lots of fun.

13. Who was your best friend sophomore year? Steve. 

14. What color is your iPod? I love how this survey just assumes that, DUH, everybody has an iPod! Okay, mine’s metallic blue. It matches my phone, now that I think about it. They actually look a lot alike. They must be related!

15. What kind of dog do you have?  No dogs. Just cats. Well, a single cat at the moment. Who needs a pet so she may not be single much longer.  

16. Has your older brothers or sisters ever told you that you were adopted? No but they is tell me I got bad grammer.

17. What is your favorite keychain on your keys? What?? I have keys on A keychain, but not a bunch of keychains on keys. Perhaps you mean my favorite non-key thing. I only have two non-key things on my keyring, and one is a remote so that probably technically counts as a key thing. The other is my teeny purple Swiss Army Knife, which is my favorite thing on my keyring, even counting keys. 

18. What did you get for graduation? Well, that’s been quite some time ago, so I don’t recall a whole lot of my graduation gifts. Either from high school or college. My uncle gave me a Thesaurus and a dictionary, and I still have both of them. Another aunt gave me a Cross pen and pencil set, which I also still have and recently discovered in one of my many wooden boxes. Stuff like that.

19. What is your favorite Dane Cook quote? I have no idea who Dane Cook is, and am not going to google him to find out. Is he something like the Swedish Chef?? 
 
20. Who introduced you to Dane Cook? Ummmm…. no one??? Who IS he?

21. Who was your prom date? Steve. Who was undergoing a gender identity crisis at the time. But we still had fun. Oddly, both Kim and I went to the prom with gay guys. 
 

22. Has someone ever made you a Build-A-Bear? I misread this as asking if someone has forced me to build a bear. But the answer is no, either way.

23. What DVD is in your DVD player? Dark Shadows. Still working on that. And will be for quite some time, since there are a LOT of episodes. Something like 2000, I think. 
 

24. What’s something fun you did today?  Went to Macadoos with Baker B after work and split a schooner of Newcastle and a loaded veggie potato.

25. Who was the principal of your high school? Mr. Dalton. The less said the better.

26.Has your house ever been TP’d?? Not sofar. Don’t give the neighbors any ideas, though.

27. What do you think of when you hear the word "meow"? Stella! 

28. What are you listening to right now?  Just the fridge running.

29. What is your high school’s biggest rival’s mascot?  I don’t have a clue.

30. What is your favorite aisle at Wal-Mart? The one with the magic doorway to make me disappear from Wal-Mart and reappear in a store I can stand. 

31. When is your mom’s birthday? September 8.

32. When is your dad’s birthday? January 14
 
34. What did you get for valentine’s day? I started to say half a schooner at Macadoos, but I think we actually went to Canyons and had a beer each. And dinner. 

35. What did you eat last? The aforementioned loaded veggie potato. 

36. Where did you buy the shirt you’re wearing now? I have no idea. It’s a very attractive and stylish black velour jogging jacket. I look like JLo’s dorky great-aunt.  

37. Is there anything hanging from your rearview mirror? Just a parking hangtag. Which I have to say is finally a tolerable size. They used to give us these huge things you could hardly see around. These are small and not at all annoying.

38. Favorite class last year? I had no classes last year. 

39. How many states in the US have you been to? You know, I just started trying to count and it’s waaaaaay too late for that. I’ve been to quite a few, but not nearly all of them.

40. Which ones? See previous answer. I am SO not listing them all.
 
41. What kind of milk do you drink? Skim. Which I actually like, because it’s not milky.

42. What are you going to do after this? Something I should have done half an hour ago – go to bed.

43. Who was the last person you went shopping with? I’m sure it was Baker B but I can’t think for what. Most of my shopping trips recently have been solo.

44. Do you watch Trading Spaces? No.

45 What is your favorite fruit? Blueberries. Or raspberries. Or mango. Do I have to pick one?

46. What about your favorite dessert? Chocolate anything.

47. What is something you need to go shopping for? Common sense so I’ll quit starting these ridiculously long surveys right before I need to go to bed!!

48. Do you have the same name as one of your relatives? Not any immediate ones.

49. What kind of car do your siblings drive? My brother drives a wide array of American cars which are constantly broken, yet he makes fun of my foreign cars. Which practically never break down and last for 20 years. It’s a little odd. 
 

50. What bank do you go to? Ummm…why do you ask??

51. Do you like pickles? Very much.
 

52. How about olives? Yum – green and black.

53. What is your favorite kind of gum?  AAAGHHH!!!! THIS SURVEY HAS TO END!!!!!

54. What is your favorite kind of juice? STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOP!!! Cranberry.

55. Do you have any tan lines? If I say yes, will you END???
 

56. What hospital were you born in? One in Asheville. ENDENDEND!!!

57. Do you remember the name of your kindergarten teacher? I didn’t go to kindergarten — EEEEEEEENNNNNNDDDDDD – oh, it’s over – yay!!