Questions and Answers

[tzikeh]

The 62-question survey meme, with extra-ranty goodness.
1. First name?

Jessica

2. Were you named after anyone?

Nope.

3. Do you wish on stars?

No, but I do sing "When You Wish Upon a Star" a lot - I think it's a really lovely song.

4. When did you last cry?

Two days ago while chatting online about my inability to pull it together re: my weight.

5. Do you like your handwriting?

My handwriting cannot be read by anyone but me, most of the time. I love it.

6. What's your favorite lunch meat?

Corned Beef!

7. What is your birth date?

5/31/1969

8. What is your most embarrassing CD?

I am not embarrassed by any music I like, even if it is complete and utter crap. I own the crappiness and I get down with my bad self.

9. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?

I would so be friends with me. I crack me up.

10. Are you a daredevil?

No, thank you.

12. Do looks matter?

Depends entirely on the situation.

13. How do you release anger?

By yelling and cursing and snapping at people for about five minutes.

14. Where is your second home?

Manhattan.

15. Do you trust others easily?

Yes, often on first impression. I also learn not to trust relatively quickly.

16. What was your favorite toy as a child?

Oh! The Hippity-Hop or the Sit-n-Spin! Anything involving self-propulsion and nausea. Yay! They should so make these for grown-ups.

17. Which class in high school do you think was totally stupid?

Communication. Basically the bio teacher decided everyone should understand one another so we had to go sit in a lounge on couches and beanbags and talk about our "facades" and so forth. I remember working extremely hard not to crack the fuck up when one classmate said to another "you're dead to me."

18. Do you have a journal?

Only this one - not much of a journal, really.

19. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Define "a lot". *g* I certainly make use of sarcasm.

20. What are your nicknames?

Well, tzikeh, I guess. My father has a nickname he uses for me but you will never ever be privy to that information. No, seriously, not ever. No one calls me "Jess" or "Jessie", just fyi. Those who have are often found in dark alleys with wrong things having happened to them.

21. Would you bungee jump?

Not unless there was a million dollars at the end of it. (TAR!)

22. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?

Sneakers, yes. Most of my shoes don't have laces though.

23. Do you think that you are strong?

Physically? No. Mentally and emotionally, yeah, most of the time.

24. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

Mint chocolate chip.

25. Shoe size?

8.

26. Red or pink?

RED.

27. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?

I'm fifty pounds heavier than I was when I was happy and healthy and on stage.

28. Who do you miss most?

My Nana.

29. Do you want everyone to whom you send this to send it back?

Uh...

30. What color pants and shoes are you wearing?

Grey pants and tan Wicked Good Slippers.

31. What are you listening to right now?

The fan from merryish's bathroom.

32. Last thing you ate?

Raisin Bran. (ETA: and an apple)

33. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?

I'd be blue-green or green-blue.

34. What is the weather like right now?

Outside.

35. Last person you talked to on the phone?

merryish.

36. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?

That they're male.

37. Do you like the person who sent this to you?

I grabbed this from yahtzee63, whom I adore.

38. What is your ethnicity?

Czech, Polish, English, Irish, German. Good luck!

39. Favorite drink?

Currently? Hot cocoa with blackberry brandy. In warm weather it's Diet Peach Snapple.

40. Favorite sport?

To play? None. To watch? Ice skating.

41. Hair color?

Brown.

42. Eye color?

Green.

43. Do you wear contacts?

Sometimes, yeah.

44. Are you single?

Yes.

45. Favorite food?

Buffalo Joe's chicken wings, mild, well done, extra ranch dressing.

46. Last movie you watched?

Double feature - On the Waterfront / The Shawshank Redemption.

47. Favorite day of the year?

Any day I feel energetic.

48. Scary movies or happy endings?

Forced to choose one, happy endings. But really I'm not all that fond of either for their own sake.

49. Summer or winter?

Winter, oh please, winter.

50. Hugs or kisses?

Entirely depends on the situation.

51. Do you have any favorite rants and, if so, what are they?

Do you have a couple of weeks?

a) There is, objectively, good art and bad art. There is good writing and bad writing, good acting and bad acting, and a big fat range in between. Every art form has a definition and an objective, and how well any creation meets (or purposefully doesn't meet) the definition and objective is a pretty real barometer to measure if it's any good or not. Of course we can argue semantics and debate taste, of course nothing is absolute, but "Isn't the best one simply the one you like the most?" (a.k.a. "I like it, therefore it must be good, because I don't like things that suck, duh") is utter and complete bullshit. You can detest good art and love bad art. It's okay to like things that do not meet high-quality standards. Everyone does. Separate "good" from "enjoyable" and "bad" from "I don't get it / don't like it / don't think it should be legal". Do it for me. Or I'll kill you.

b) Just because the word "entitlement" is vastly overused in metafandom doesn't mean that most whiny newbie fuckers fans aren't guilty of it anyway.

c) Scully's character was totally destroyed by the end of the show, especially by the pregnancy, but Aeryn's *wasn't*. So STFU, all you knee-jerk "oh noes a baby now let the hating begin" women who make us look bad by immediately protesting that, just because a strong female character on a tv show becomes pregnant, she is ACTING TOTALLY OUT OF CHARACTER OMG. Get real. Most women have children. Deal with it. I don't have kids, I don't want kids, I don't *like* kids, and I thought Aeryn's character arc was FUCKING AWESOME all the way through the series. People are complex, and "people" includes "women". You can be a kick-ass space-soldier *and* deeply concerned and emotional about the fetus inside you at the same time. It's called depth. Bite me.

d) Draco is a tertiary character who is a spoiled racist bully with very little going on other than that. Any piece of fanfiction that makes him more/better/deeper than that is an AU. Just because you want him to be interesting in canon doesn't *make* him interesting in canon.

e) Slash is not misogynistic. There are misogynistic people in slash fandom. Difference.

f) Aw fuck, I could seriously go on all day, but I don't have the brainpower at the moment.

52. What is your favorite dessert?

Pera Rellana - Roasted Pear Stuffed with White Chocolate and Mint, in a Dark Berry Sauce, from Tapas Barcelona in Evanston.

53. Who is most likely to respond?

What?

54. Who is most likely not to respond?

?

55. What books are you reading?

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, for like, ever, now, but I'm finally making serious headway.

56. What's on your mouse pad?

My mouse.

57. What did you watch last night on TV?

I avoided the television last night.

58. Favorite smells?

Bakery smells, cinnamon, chai, autumn.

59. Favorite sounds?

Fire in the fireplace, cellos, that tiny little nearly inaudible intake of air when an entire audience understands something for the first time while watching a play or a movie, purring cats.

60. Rolling Stones or Beatles?

Beatles Beatles Beatles.

61. What's the farthest you've been from home?

Venice.

62. Do you have a special talent?

...this is a stupid question. Define "special".. Well, that was... ultimately pointless. But a good way to spend a few minutes!

Comments

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

Oh! The Hippity-Hop or the Sit-n-Spin! Anything involving self-propulsion and nausea. Yay! They should so make these for grown-ups.

This *totally* cracked me up because my answer was the Sit n Spin!! It was tough choice between that and the Hippity Hop (mine was read with a Mickey Mouse head as a handle) but yes!! I would *still* go on a Sit n Spin!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I would *still* go on a Sit n Spin!

So would I! I tried one a couple of years ago, but they're really not built for grown-ups at all. Stupid Sit-n-Spin.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

I curse at Sit-n-Spin. My neice has one, and I am compelled to try it each time I am near it because I truly believe that each time will be the one time that I do not force the spinny portion down into the ground and it will spin for me. But alas, I sit, and I don't spin.

So instead, I settle for plopping her on it, and spinning her as she does not yet get the whole self-propulsion thing. I leave the nausea for the parents.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

My big Million Dollar Idea a few years ago was for an Adult Sized Sit n Spin.

Then someone waved some candy in my direction and I was distracted. I still think it would make money. I'd buy one.

Hell, I'd buy a big wheel, too.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

You can be a kick-ass space-soldier *and* deeply concerned and emotional about the fetus inside you at the same time. It's called depth. Bite me.\

I adore you beyond reason.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yay!

God*DAMN* people annoyed the fuck out of me during that story arc.

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

I adore you also. I was going to post this and Jill got to it first but I agree with you totally and love you for saying it.

RE: rant 'C'

[lanchid.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I thought I was alone in the "WTF-ing" of people's going on about Aeryn's character in S4. I totally did not get why they hated her. Thank you for validating my interpretation of her character arc.

BTW, I don't think I've ever told you how very, very, very much I covet your Ship/'ship icon........::drools over it some more::

Re: rant 'C'

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

You are *not alone*!

And re: icon -- If you like it, go ahead and use it - just put "tzikeh" in the keyword space or something :)

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Draco is a tertiary character who is a spoiled racist bully with very little going on other than that. Any piece of fanfiction that makes him more/better/deeper than that is an AU. Just because you want him to be interesting in canon doesn't *make* him interesting in canon.

You speak truth. Also, I adore you too.

[pipsqueaky.livejournal.com]

51-c? FUCKIN' WORD. I think I managed to avoid most of the complaining about that arc, due to entering the fandom after the show was canceled. From the sounds of it I'm very very glad.

[fer1213.livejournal.com]

Just popping by (since I've seen you commenting and saying great things over at sdwolfpup's LJ) to say I also have to say HELL YES to your Rant C. Absofrickinlutely.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Hee! Can I get a HELL YEAH!

[fer1213.livejournal.com]

Seriously! I was really surprised to read that people had a problem with Aeryn's characterization in S4. She'd come back to Moya and to John, knowing she'd made peace with which John was which, so I found her actions completely believable with him. And as for the baby--I loved that little interlude she had with D'Argo in the mini while they were shooting Peacekeepers. He said he never pictured her as the mother type and she said that John wanted it so badly so she did too. Very in character, IMHO.

I'm done now, I think. HEE!