Can I get to post #1500 by 2 AM CST?

[St. Jarvitude]

Only 89 left...

I just got to #1300 very early Thursday morning (appropriately, the worst day I've had in a long time). 1500 by 2 AM means 200 posts in ~4 days.

And I even missed most of yesterday because I was working on a project/hanging out.

Let me hear some "ask me anything!" style questions and we'll see how far I can get }(

[azoth]

1. When was the last time you brushed your teeth?

[St. Jarvitude]

4. Last night

I actually didn't brush today because I was planning on eating right after I showered.. and I had to leave the house real quick after I ate.

I'll go brush now.

[azoth]

104. about six pm

[azoth]

2. Your favorite kind of frosting is ?

[St. Jarvitude]

Vanilla

Chocolate frosting is too ugh.

[azoth]

105. buttercream

[Sabriel]

3. Don't ask me, I'm still shooting for 1000 by midnight (central)

I'll enable you if you enable me.

[St. Jarvitude]

6. Let's artificially inflate our post counts!

Post a random band name.

[azoth]

Black Crack Review. "dinosaurs at breakfast...yeah...ahuah..."

[St. Jarvitude]

11. Dinosaur, Jr.

[intheflow]

15. Boston!

I hope you don't mind my answering. I'm just 3 away from my 800th post.

[azoth]

5. Do you prefer pen or pencil?

[St. Jarvitude]

8. A trusty Parker pen

Writing with a pencil makes me cringe... the friction and that graphite-on-paper sound... ugh.

Weird pet peeve of mine.

[Sabriel]

16. I'm too AR to use a pen

Must be able to erase.

[St. Jarvitude]

22. And erasable pens blow.

I tend to believe that life doesn't have an eraser... so neither should my writing instrument.

If I screw up writing something, I'll just cross it out and keep writing.

[azoth]

29. They are merely tools for the imperfect lol

[St. Jarvitude]

49. Erasers are for those who are in denial of their imperfection

The pen... well, I admit I make mistakes, so I just cross them out and leave the evidence.

The thing that really pisses me off though is pencils with awful erasers. The really tough erasers that have waaay too much grip with the paper and do little more than mark + tear the paper.

[azoth]

106. pen - always. Even for the newspaper crosswords.

[azoth]

7. Contacts, glasses, or pilot vision?

[St. Jarvitude]

10. Contacts

Though with contacts I have about 20/15 vision.

So you could say supera-awesome-mega contact vision!

[Sabriel]

32. I'm 20/400, so I'm dead in the water without contacts.

[azoth]

36. Me too. It'd almost be white-tipped cane time if I were uncorrected.

[Sabriel]

39. I walked around with one contact once. Don't do it!

[St. Jarvitude]

50. I can do it... kind of

My dominant eye is my right, and thankfully, if I lose a contact, it's almost always the left.

It's an interesting experience, nonetheless.

[St. Jarvitude]

45. Without contacts, I'm just shy of legally blind.

I forget the exact number... but I can barely do anything without them in.

The contacts make my vision supera powerful awesome though.

[intheflow]

9. What's better:

The Game of Life?

Monopoly?

or Scrabble?

[azoth]

13. Scrabble. Monopoly bites.

[St. Jarvitude]

14. The Game of Life is too freeperish

It's all about growing up and becoming part of the suburban system machine, man.

Fuck that.

Monopoly is too monopolistic. Plus there are too many "spinoffs" (Edna Craboppaly, anyone)?

Scrabble fo shizzle. Actually requires a fucking brain, unlike other so-called "board games" that are all random luck and chance (or manipulation of loopholes in the game rules).

[intheflow]

21. ping ping ping! We have a winner!

You have chosen wisely, Grasshopper.

[Sabriel]

28. Scrabble is fun to play high

All the words made sense and are incredibly funny

[intheflow]

31. Scooby Doo or Mr. Peabody?

ON edit-- I posted this in the wrong place. D'oh!

[Sabriel]

37. Who the hell is Peabody

[azoth]

41. No way. For real? Know what a Fractured Fairy Tale is? :)

[Sabriel]

43. Nope, never heard of them

[azoth]

55. Oh my.

I may be dating myself here but they're hilarious spoof cartoons based on fairy tales. http://www.toonopedia.com/fracture.htm

And Mr. Peabody is the genius dog on Mr. Peabody's Improbably History - another hilarious cartoon from the seventies. http://www.toonopedia.com/peabody.htm

I'm not even asking about Mighty Mouse or Dudley Do-Right ;)

[Sabriel]

60. I'm in my late 30's, but my family only got two channels

And one of them not very well, either. I missed out on a lot of TV during my formative years. Hah!

[azoth]

91. Ah you didn't miss much. I just had older sisters who thought

that stuff was funny so I was exposed. :)

[intheflow]

63. Part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show!

Mr. Peabody was a brilliant academic of a dog, who, with a red-headed sidekick kid, time traveled in the WAYBAC Machine to fix history.



And that was my 800th post! Ta-daaaa!

[azoth]

12. Dictionary or thesaurus?

[Sabriel]

17. Online Thesaurus

[St. Jarvitude]

18. Thesaurus

The thesaurus puts words into context better.

[azoth]

107. both online. m-w.com has either on their home page.

[Sabriel]

19. Green Bay or Houston

[azoth]

24. Go Pack!

[Sabriel]

26. they came, they saw, they kicked it through

[St. Jarvitude]

25. TIE!

I am a Bears fan, but I also hate the Texans. So there :P

[azoth]

20. Medicate for a cold or ride it out?

[Sabriel]

23. Medicate with whatever's handy

[St. Jarvitude]

27. Get a friend to punch it out

Works for me :shrug:

[Sabriel]

30. It doesn't work for the stomach viruses, though. Don't try it.

[azoth]

108. ride it out with the exception of cough medicine. and NyQuil.

[azoth]

33. Coffee: liquid gold or vile brew?

[Sabriel]

34. Depends on who's making it.

[St. Jarvitude]

42. I had Starbucks for the first time yesterday

I got exhausted looking for Cliffs notes with my friend at the Borders at Woodfield Mall. They say the Cliffs Notes are in the section 1D - Reference. But nowhere to be found.

We got sick of looking and just decided to fuck it and leave, and what do you know... she stops as we're leaving, turns, and points with shock written all over her face.

They were in the totally wrong section, hidden behind various bookshelves. I got the (way overpriced) Cliffs Notes...... I barely made it out of the store conscious.

She led me across the parking lot to Starbucks, where I had a Tall Cappucino. It was ok... didn't really taste like anything at all. That is, until I got to the lower 1/4 of the drink, which is pure hot milk :puke:

I tried some of her vanilla espresso... and the sentiments of many a DU'er rang true: the coffee was way over-roasted. Still tasted fine to me, though.

[azoth]

47. What were you Cliffs Noting?

[St. Jarvitude]

51. Oliver Twist - read it a long time ago

We are doing a project for Brit Lit class. I read the whole thing over a weekend when the project was first assigned. Me being the braindead idiot I am, I didn't do any of the work that was assigned for the book (which is due Tuesday... and we barely got any work done from 1 PM Saturday to 10:45 PM... mostly just hung out)

I needed a refresher, and that's exactly what Cliffs Notes are good for. Or if you just don't want to read the book :)

[Sabriel]

52. That's what I liked about grad school. No Cliffs.

[Sabriel]

48. I can't bring myself to pay that much for hot, flavored water

Ditto for soda. I bought a really good espresso maker and it's paid for itself in two years, by far.

[St. Jarvitude]

120. Well, we were out and I was literally about to fall asleep

I got really frustrated trying to find those damn Cliffs notes. LOL

Seeing as how she's not a licensed driver, and Woodfield is a ~25 minute drive from my house (15 when I'm speeding like mad down the expressway), and we had driven to Borders, there was no other option than to get me caffeinated quickly.

I'm probably not going to patronize another Starbuck's establishment for a while.

[azoth]

109. I'm working on developing a taste for the stuff. It's hard, you know.

[St. Jarvitude]

121. The cappucino wasn't that bad actually

Tasted like creamy sllk hot.

It was the espresso that was kind of "ehh"

[Sabriel]

35. Finished your holiday shopping yet?

[azoth]

38. No but I actually have a percentage done. (OK about 10%)

[Sabriel]

40. I'm pretending I'm too depressed about the election to shop

[St. Jarvitude]

44. Don't have much of a list.

I'm a poor high school kid in a poor job market.

[Sabriel]

46. Do what I did a few years back

Instead of presents, I notified people on the list I was donating to a charity in their name. I just didn't say how much....

[St. Jarvitude]

53. Heh.

Is a donation "in spirit" the same as an actual money donation?

[St. Jarvitude]

54. Ooh, maybe I should donate to the Human Fund

Ala Seinfeld.

[St. Jarvitude]

57. Err... hate to reply to myself so often, but

www.humanfund.org is unregistered.

Maybe I should register it just for shits and giggles.

[Sabriel]

58. I made real donations

Just not for very much. But with shipping costs the way they are now, it doesn't waste as much money on nothing.

[St. Jarvitude]

92. sadly, I don't think anyone on my xmas list would appreciate a charitable

donation.

MAYBE one of them... but it's kind of doubtful because despite how liberal she is, she has materialism in her blood.

[Sabriel]

56. This is harder than I thought it would be

It's kinda stressful. How many more do you have to go to 1500?

[azoth]

59. Oh come on - you're so close! Seven to go. I'll work on more ??

[St. Jarvitude]

66. Maybe 60 or so.

I've posted a lot :)

As long as people keep the discussions going, there's no reason all 60 couldn't be in response to the same question.

[azoth]

61. Do you have a favorite or lucky number?

[Sabriel]

64. I like 5. It's blue.

I'm one of those people who associates colors and smells with numbers.

[St. Jarvitude]

78. No, but I do have several unlucky numbers:

13 (read what happened on the day I posted #1300: http://www.livejournal.com/users/stjarvitude/4707.html)

27 (a very bad event in my life happened on the 27th of a month... don't ask about it)

613.27 - just because

oh, and the playing card 6 has burned me a lot playing poker.

[azoth]

110. 9

[azoth]

62. Do you own hairspray or other such hair goo?

[Sabriel]

67. Gross. It stinks.

[St. Jarvitude]

82. I own it, never use it.

My hair is pretty managable if I clean it with the right stuff.

I tried using gel and mousse for a while... but it was really my shampoo which was giving me the problems I tried to fix with gel+mousse.

[azoth]

111. not even.

[azoth]

65. Cake or pie?

[Sabriel]

69. Pie. It's Thanksgiving, after all.

[azoth]

112. cake, unless it's *my* margarita pie. Then the choice is clear.

[azoth]

68. What is your most prized possession?

[azoth]

70. Where would you go for vacation if money and time were of no object?

[St. Jarvitude]

89. Jarvis Island

One of the leading guano mining islands in the world, until it was all mined away.

Yes, they call it "guano mining."

[azoth]

114. New Zealand. omg how beautiful.

[Sabriel]

72. I used to say my freedom, but that's out the window now.

Have to find a new one.

[St. Jarvitude]

86. Right now, my copy of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" by Wilco

And that's including the jewelcase, insert, and the little box it comes in.

Every other material object in my life could be taken from me, and I would still marvel at it. Even if I couldn't play it.

[azoth]

113. A necklace given to me by a friend who's no longer on earth.

[azoth]

71. Cat person or dog person?

[Sabriel]

74. Was a cat. He just died last year after 18 good ones.

[azoth]

115. meow

[azoth]

73. Does this make me the nosiest person on earth or what?

[Sabriel]

76. Thanks, nosy!!! This is 1000.

[azoth]

88. Yay! And don't mind me, really...

I'm just a newbie who is stealthily boosting her own post count. ;) Not that I'm not nosy - because I am - but I wouldn't just *be* such a nose without permission.

Well...sometimes, anyway.

[St. Jarvitude]

98. What does your avatar mean?

A poem:

Tattoo, by Tom Jakubowski

Japanese kanji tattoos
you think mean
"honor" "love" "peace"
actually mean
"shoehorn" "stench" "fish sandwich"
should not be written
in industrial strength Sharpie.

But others -
devil horns and goatee on pResident's poster,
freedom fighter Arabic on a gauze banner,
peace rally "HAIL TO THE CHIMP" sign -
deemed more deserving of the Sharpie's mark.

It makes them last
until the world
turns to nuclear dust.

[azoth]

101. ooh I love that. And my avatar is the symbol for "om"

The universal resonance syllable used for chanting in meditation and yoga.

[St. Jarvitude]

118. Cool beans - you're nearing 100.

Perhaps my milestone was a bit too far away... I'm too ambitious at times.

I still have over 50 posts left.

If I had only posted in those whipper snappers vs. young guns flame war threads...I'd be in the 2000's!

[azoth]

134. hindsight...

and DAMN I am close, aren't I?

A million thanks. :) And you can make it. Really!

[St. Jarvitude]

93. I say, the "noisiest" person.

As long as we keep sharing, I wouldn't say it's nosy :)

[azoth]

99. Yeah well - noisy fits too lol I grew up in a huge, loud family.

[azoth]

75. Your best friend would use what word to describe you?

[Sabriel]

80. Darkly-humored

Even though I know you're not supposed to hyphenate "-ly" words.

[St. Jarvitude]

94. bizarro

I have a very strange sense of a humor, and a tendency to do totally random things.

[azoth]

116. Amusing

[azoth]

77. Would you ever consider cosmetic surgery?

[Sabriel]

81. Only if the cosmetic were near death. Otherwise, no.

[St. Jarvitude]

95. NO! Cosmetic surgery is terrible

The only time I could see a use for it is breast reduction surgery... as it's usually needed to reduce pain.

Otherwise, it makes people look plastic and inhuman. Wrinkles tell me you have a good story to tell.

[azoth]

79. I type (x) words per minute.

[Sabriel]

84. I've never tried to figure it out.

[St. Jarvitude]

96. 27*sqrt(pi)/minute

[azoth]

83. Is it bedtime yet?

[Sabriel]

85. It certainly should be. The toddler gets up at 6, therefore so do I

[Sabriel]

87. What does "azoth" mean?

[azoth]

97. Azoth is an alchemical term. It's the mysterious fourth element...

the One Thing, the Life element, the chaos of beginning and the perfection of ending, the sun and the moon, the ancient and the new...

I could go on but I bet you get the picture. It's the *magic*, really.

[Sabriel]

90. Thanks, azoth and St. Jar. Gotta go pacify the todd.

Muchisimas gracias!

[azoth]

103. eh-knee-thyme

[babylonsister]

100. Shameless! Kickin'

I might be next as far as a different way to chat!

[azoth]

102. ooh come on - you have ten to go! Go answer some nosy neighbor ??

[babylonsister]

159. Nah, I don't care.

Between DU and my imaginary mind, I'm doin' okay.

[miss_kitty]

117. that's a piece of piss man

I did 100 in a day, and if you do the math on my start date and my total, I do an average of about 40 per day. Not subtracting the 6 or so days I have not checked in...
How could you not do it? 50. just 50.

[St. Jarvitude]

119. Theoretically, I should be posting a lot

Seeing as how I'm a lounge-a-holic. I only venture into the GD and political forums when I'm wearing my flame-retardent suit.... and that takes 57 minutes to put on!

[miss_kitty]

122. Damn you did not see the flames in here?

I am typing with the old asbestos gloves tonight...

[St. Jarvitude]

123. I was going to post in those threads

But I couldn't articulate all of the feelings I had into a coherent post. Sadness, pity, anger, and indifference (who the fuck cares what YOU think about my generation?) all rolled up into one nice little package. Lovely.

I made a real nice post for another thread, but it was locked before I finished writing it. Hate it when that happens :(

[miss_kitty]

125. oh man i hate that the most.

especially when it's a long, thoughtful answer that I make sure all the grammar is correct, spelling good...etc...

[St. Jarvitude]

128. I even removed the flaming parts!

As to not have my message thrown out and cast into the "snotty youngin's" pile. Though, it would probably be thrown there anyway :eyes:

[miss_kitty]

148. you know it's been un-effin'-believable in here all day long

many posts by one person directed at me were deleted and a thread by the same one also directed at me was locked. and the snotty youngun's thread guy is part of that.

that isn't nice of them

[miss_kitty]

124. also, you need to post much faster than you are.

short answeres on other threads, find threads on back pages to answer questions on...quick short answers.
and remember a "LOL" is ok once in a while, but overall, lame.

LOL + a smiley, better.

[St. Jarvitude]

129. I do a lot of no text posts, does that count? (nt)

[miss_kitty]

149. yes. they do and that's good looks like more peeps have posted n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

126. What did you have for dinner?

:shrug:

[St. Jarvitude]

131. Swedish pancakes slathered in butter and maple syrup

With a Mountain Dew to drink.

[Rhiannon12866]

142. How are Swedish pancakes different from ordinary pancakes?

:shrug:

[St. Jarvitude]

144. They're very yellow.

And when you drop too much acid and they start talking, they have a funny accent.

[St. Jarvitude]

145. Or maybe

It's I that has the funny accent, and the pancake which is "normal".

I just blew my own mind.

[Rhiannon12866]

157. If your pancakes are talking to you,

then you really have blown your own mind.:crazy:

[azoth]

137. spaghetti. Yum!

and salad and italian beans!

[Rhiannon12866]

146. What kind of sauce?

I had linguine with marinara sauce. No salad, today, though I usually have it.:-)

[Rhiannon12866]

127. What's your favorite TV show?

:shrug:

[St. Jarvitude]

141. "Six Feet Under"

I'm a huge fan.

I also like (in no particular order): Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, The Critic, Law & Order, Scrubs, Clerks (the cartoon), and pre-1998 SNL.

[Rhiannon12866]

147. Is that on HBO?

I also especially like "Scrubs" and, of course, "The Simpsons.":-)

[Rhiannon12866]

130. Do you have any pets? If so, what are they and what are

their names?:shrug:

[St. Jarvitude]

135. Two dogs and a rabbit

The dogs: Freckles and Tawny.

Freckles is quiet and likes sitting in a recliner all day, until someone comes home when she freaks out and goes mad.

Tawny is the crazy ADD one. Everyone in my house thinks she's stupid, but I contend she's the smartest dog in the world and is faking it to get sympathy points. It works with the rest of my family at least!

I don't know their breeds or anything coz they're not really my pets. My parents and my sister mostly take care of them.

The rabbit is named Buster. She's a really cool indigo color with white hilites. I wish I had a pic, but she's really camera-shy and gets scared of the flash.

I used to have another rabbit (named by my sister), but Pikachu died last winter when we had a maggot that was living in her eye removed (the most disgusting thing I've seen that's not named Rush). The vet said it was a heart attack induced by shock. That was a very sad day for me :(

[Rhiannon12866]

150. The dogs sound adorable. I have two dogs, as well

Buster sounds amazing. I've never had one, but used to take care of my neighbor's when they went away. He had a huge cage that I had to get into to feed him and my sicko brother used to lock me in. I'm so sorry about Pikachu. That sounds really rough. I know how it is, since I lost both of my cocker spaniels within six months of each other, during the past two years.;(

[azoth]

139. I have a cat - a giant hairball of a feline.

[azoth]

140. and look - the little meowster just made me a centurian. WooHOO!

[Rhiannon12866]

152. YAY!!! Congratulations!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!:toast:TO azoth!!!:toast:ON 100 POSTS!!!:wow:YOU MADE IT!!!:bounce:CONGRATULATIONS!!!:toast:TO azoth!!!:party:ON 100 POSTS!!!:party:AMAZING!!!:wow:STUPENDOUS!!!:bounce:COLOSSAL!!!:toast:HERE'S TO 100 MORE!!!:kick::kick::kick:

[Rhiannon12866]

151. What's your kitty's name?

:shrug:

[Rhiannon12866]

132. What's your favorite sport to watch/play?

:shrug:

[St. Jarvitude]

136. For watching... definitely hockey!

I really enjoy playing water polo though... I'm a beast in goal }(

[Rhiannon12866]

153. Aren't they on strike?

Bummer.:-(

[azoth]

143. Hockey spectator. Go Blues! Go Avs! (and what is UP with the strike!)

[Rhiannon12866]

154. Greed? Don't ask me, since I don't follow hockey,

But that would be my guess about pro sports.:shrug:

[Rhiannon12866]

133. Who was your favorite candidate before the nomination?

:shrug:

[St. Jarvitude]

138. Kucinich, far and away

However, I knew he had a very little shot at actually receiving the nomination. Therefore, I was also a very strong supporter of Dean.

I would've been happy with DK, Dean, Clark, or Mosely-Braun. Gephardt and Kerry were "ok" by me. Lieberman and Sharpton were definite no-nos for me.

[Rhiannon12866]

156. Kucinich was my candidate, as well

But I could have lived with everybody but Lieberman, who kept trying to align himself with the Republicans. I used to dismiss Sharpton as a nut-case, until I discussed him with a Sharpton supporter, and really started listening to what he had to say. I found that he made a lot of sense and that I actually agreed with him. And he seemed to get the most applause during the debates, so I think that a lot of people liked him. He may not have been electable, but he brought up a lot of issues that needed to be discussed.:-)

[fleabert]

155. What is your least favorite color?

[St. Jarvitude]

158. Red... can you guess why?

Betcha can't :)

[fleabert]

160. Ida know, tell me! J/K, how about this...

would you prefer your favorite food for the rest of your life (only meal), or something different, but you hate it for the rest of your life? Assume you could get all your nutritional needs met by either option.

[St. Jarvitude]

162. Favorite food, by far.

I actually lived on Fettucini + chicken breat with lots and lots of olive oil for a couple weeks... best weeks of my life

:9

[Champ]

161. Just go on a posting spree as I have

You'll get there sooner then you know it, I'm actually shocked by how much I posted. I was gone for half the day!