Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

As the attempted smart-arse title suggests, there are quizzes aplenty. I can’t help it: I see others do them and I feel compelled to do them myself so I thought why don’t I just do a massive post with a whole lot of the bloody things? I thought it might distract me from my current mood drop. It’s helping a bit.

Yourself: under construction (I’d say ‘broken’ but that would be taken differently to what I really mean)
Your partner: non-existent
Your hair: virgin territory to hair dye
Your mother: frightening
Your father: the source of familial reason

Your favourite item: can’t restrict it to one:

• the prayerbooks my father gave me before we went to live in the Philippines
• my first diary given to me by a teacher at school in England, for same reason as above
• Greenwich Maritime Museum guidebook
• pearl and garnet necklace from Portobello Market
• drawing of Snoopy that C did for me in high school
• drawing of a character that Z created and mailed to me
• Totoro plush toy that K gave me
• Mozilla Firefox plush toy my father bought for me
• Radiohead ‘OK Computer’ tee that SB bought for me
• my Kenzo Jeans couture jacket that really should have cost a fortune (1200 AUD) but I got for 100 AUD
• Japanese ceramic cat charm from K to celebrate a year of being a couple
• a book of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poetry in the original early modern English

(If I lost any of these things, aside from people of course, it would be very upsetting)

Your dream last night: another bad dream about some fat classmate.
Your favourite drink: tea of diverse varities
Your dream car: Jaguar Sovereign…ahh
Your dream home: should have a study-library room and a music room, and not belong to my parents (or contain them…), and be affordable to me!

The room you are in: the sunroom
Your ex: sinister
Your fear: er…that death really is the only way out? That or loss.
Where you want to be in ten years: I can’t think that far ahead (and I don’t think the real answer ought to be divulged here)
Who you hung out with last night: no one

What you’re not: tall
Muffins: Studmuffins? Yes please! Edible, bakery-type ones: anything with bran and/or fruit
One of your wish list items: a beautiful dressing table, preferably vintage or antique
Time: 1.30am
The last thing you did: fondly ruffled my cat

What you are wearing: a toga. No, seriously? Brown cords and a 70s white, purple and pink flower graphic polyester button tee
Your favourite weather: autumnal minus the wind, or English summer
Your favourite book: you can’t ask a writer that and not expect an essay!
Last thing you ate: pain au chocolat
Your life: duplicitous?

Your mood: numb yet deeply sad
Your best friend(s): my cat, D, Z (I think).
What are you thinking about right now: how lucky Christian Bale’s wife must be to get to bonk him
Your car: a race car in hiding
What are you doing at the moment: filling this in

Your summer: intolerable
Relationship status: single
What is on your TV: Thundercats cartoon, on DVD
What is the weather like: unpredictable and chaotic but generally, scorching

1. Three things you do that women usually do:

1) Shop!
2) Get pulled in by emotional blackmail.
3) Menstruate.

2. Three things you do that men usually do:

1) play Magic the Gathering
2) get very excited when watching European football games
3) fix any electrical/audio-visual issues in the home

3. Three things you do that women usually don’t do:

1) Lift up the toilet seat when the house has more male inhabitants than females.
2) Attempt to retain a sense of direction and map-reading.
3) Make the first move on someone I like.

4. Three things you do that men usually don’t do:

1) get Brazilian bikini waxes.
2) attempt to empathise.
3) worry about sexual harassment in crowded public places, such as pubs.

5. Three things you don’t do that women usually do:

1) Refuse to leave the house without a full face of makeup
2) Go out with female friends for the sole purpose of picking up blokes or finding a potential boyfriend
3) Enjoy bra shopping.

6. Three things you don’t do that men usually do:

1) Take out the rubbish.
2) Masturbate?
3) Watch sports for hours on end on TV.

7. Three things you don’t do that women usually don’t do:

1) Watch porn.
2) Hesitate to help someone if I think it’s possible for me to do so (help, that is).
3) Forget the times when heartbreak was experienced.

8. Three things you don’t do that men usually don’t do:

1) Admit it when I think someone could help me.
2) Practise restraint in regards to self-destructive behaviour.
3) Let on that something means much more to me when it usually does.

1. Are you complicated? Yes, but not by choice.

2. Do you retaliate? Yes, especially when I’m depressed which is only…gee 99% of the time.

3. Last person to hug you? Rob, I think. Wow, that was…nearly a fortnight ago?

4. Your latest complaint: Why oh why did I have to do something stupid which will make me look even more retarded in public than I usually do? Ugh!

5. Who was the bully on your playground? Willybum!