Meiran's blog

How many push-ups can you do?

I've never really wanted to find out.  Push ups don't seem to really work out any muscle groups or be a very good exercise in general.  If I felt like exercising, I'd do pilates or yoga.  

You crash your friend's car because you're driving too fast in bad weather. Everyone's okay, but the car has to go into the shop. Who pays the deductible?

I do, obviously.  How is that a question?

What item(s) do you have to prevent yourself from buying at the grocery store? 
Submitted by Places Unknown.

Costly cheeses.  Seriously, Harris Teeter has all these cheese out for free tastes and they're really good and I like them but they cost so MUCH.

Have you ever tracked down any of your old high school friends and fellow students? 
Submitted by campsite2007.  

No, I have run into some of them though.  The worst was when I worked for the newspaper, I kept dealing with their mothers for one reason or another.  Said mothers would think I'd want to know everything their children were up to.  Sometimes I did want to know, others, not so much.

I don't really miss those people much.

What are you going to do with your tax return?
Submitted by KB.

What return?  We owed money.

Babylon 5 - The Complete First Season

What's your suggestion for the Question of the Day? 
Inspired by Princesskasren.

Fasten then zip, or zip then fasten?

Do you believe there is intelligent life on other planets?

Awful waste of space, watch Contact.

Contact

What's the infamous story people tell about you? 
Submitted by Cherney.

There's the time I was on public television exclaiming that there were no guys worth dating in my hometown.

I never saw it, but I heard it was on pretty much at least once a week for an entire summer, while I was out of town.  Basically, it was a homecoming video shot by the av class at my high school.  They started airing said classes projects on public tv, including awards ceremonies and such.

I said this statement because I had literally five mintues beforehand found out that a guy I had known for a long time and really trusted as a friend had lied to me through his teeth and really really been a punk.  Basically, I asked him to homecoming because I was dateless.  As he was a friend, I didn't see a problem, and wasn't asking on any other basis.  He said he'd love to, but he was going out of town.

Yeah, he wasn't out of town.  But not knowing any of that backstory, or really anything other than there I was on television stating all the guys I knew weren't dateable, well it didn't really win me any points.  I also had to come back to this after attending a summer camp that I really really hated.  I qualify it as my most embarassing moment, and it's a story that gets told a lot.

There's another story my parents used to use to embarass me, but it doesn't really work anymore because I own up to it and admit it.  But I won't tell it here because it's started a few arguments where people take a lesson from it that goes completly against my personal politics.  People also use it as a reason to insult my parents, which is not cool with me because they raised me better than almost any set of parents I've seen in my admittedly short life.

Now, Cyn and I love to tell the story about that party in high school...but that's for another time ; )

What was the worst job you ever had?
Submitted by salaryman.

Right now, I'm tempted to say my current one.  But it's actually the copy place I worked at between freshman and sophomore year of college.  I was allergic to their dogs, their dogs made messes all over the store, the place was run terribly, and it was generally bad.  I could tell stories for weeks.

If you could have one superpower, what would you choose?
Submitted by J.T.

This question gets so old.  I've had the same answer for YEARS.  Telekinesis/Telepathy.  I think I'd like the first one more, but they're usually coupled.  If you get really good at it (Jean Grey good) then you can pretty much simulate almost every other power.