23 Questions Meme

[aadler]

Ganked from honorh, by way of nemogravis.

1. Elaborate on your default icon.
   
Sure. Karl Kolchak, brandishing a crucifix with a deer-in-the-headlights look? Relates to me because of a) my allegiance to a fandom that heavily features vampires, and b) my own less-than-active courage issues. Also, the caption? “What doesn’t kill me, makes me strAnger”? Sounds just like me.


2. What’s your current relationship status?
   
Officially single. Actually (as recently noted), I’m getting along alarmingly well with my ex-wife lately.


3. Ever have a near-death experience?
   
Not really near, but close enough to notice. Back when I was still married, we came around the curve on the mountain road in the rain and started hydroplaning. Total loss of control, and I had all the time in the world to think, “Okay, we’re definitely going over the edge. Both of us belted in, so we’ll probably survive, then there’ll be the matter of climbing back up and finding help …” As it happened, we didn’t go over. When we found ourselves alive, we sat there and laughed ourselves sick for twenty minutes.


4. Name an obvious quality you have.
   
Brains. And social ineptitude. Hard to miss either of those.


5. What’s the name of the song that’s stuck in your head right now?
   
The theme to the movie “Zulu”. Seriously, it keeps popping up.


6. Any celebrity you would marry?
   
I might consider Ann Coulter.


7. Who will cut and paste this first?
   
Probably sroni, who I still owe a rewrite of “Queen’s Gambit”.


8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
   
Someone at the first WriterCon (I think it may have been honorh) observed in her LJ that I looked like Joel Grey playing Doc in Buffy Season 5.


9. Do you wear a watch? What kind?
   
A Suunto, with built-in altimeter, barometer, compass, and stopwatch. Courtesy of the Army … only they issued it to us on the way out of Afghanistan. One of the reasons ‘military intelligence’ is popularly identified as an oxymoron.


10. Do you have anything pierced?
    
What, do I look like a nancy-boy?


11. Do you have any tattoos?
    
Two. One can be seen when I wear a muscle-shirt; the other has been discovered by the occasional fortunate female.


12. Do you like pain?
    
Not my own. Not in anybody I care for. The pain of enemies? I don’t (outside of a combat theater) have that many enemies, and even then I’m more concerned with neutralizing them than with making them hurt.


13. Do you like to shop?
    
For electronics, movies, and (infrequently) firearms. Cautiously, because I also like to have money.


14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
    
Red Bull.


15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit/debit card?
    
Steak-and-shrimp dinner.


16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
    
My daughter.


17. What is on your desktop background?
    
Scenic shot of a construction tower at the Army base in Samarra (Iraq).


18. What is the background on your cell phone?
    
My cell is strictly functional. No visuals.


19. Do you like redheads?
    
Anyone who knows me well knows I have a serious weakness for redheads. Fortunately for spiralleds, I can control myself.


20. Do you know any twins?
    
I once dated the female member of a set of triplets (her brothers were identicals).


21. Do you have any weird relatives?
    
I am the weird relative.


22. What was the last movie you watched?
    
Saw Shamalyan’s the Village on television the other night. Not his best, but memorable and of recognizable quality.


23. What was the last book you read?
    
Shadow of the Hegemon, by Orson Scott Card. Yes, the famous public homophobe himself, except that his statements of belief sound quite a bit more reasoned (and certainly more restrained) than those of the people who disagree with him. Of whom, big surprise, I’m not one.

Comments

Near death experiance

[sroni.livejournal.com]

Oh, you left out the funniest part of the story. Your ex-wife's thought process at the same time.