to toil is human, to procrastinate divine

sorry yall, i've been wordy lately. the internet is knitter's porn, i tell you. all the pretty yarn . . . ooh. i need a knitting mentor and i need to diversify to something more complicated than a scarf, otherwise i'll get bored and quit. i have this gray yarn i think would make a perfect felted hat . . . not that i know how to felt, purl, or knit a hat-like shape.

anyway. aside from that, here is my main form of procrastination right now, lifted directly from Big Poppa E's livejournal. (i insist on pronouncing "meme" like the spanish "bebe" - ie, mem-meh. this is incorrect, it should sound more like "meem".)

that meme of threes that's going around now

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. grand high cunt (yes really)
2. sarita
3. sarahpants (stop calling me by my GODDAMN LAST NAME. i am NOT A BASKETBALL PLAYER. THANK YOU.)
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. poetsego
2. bs376
3. (it's a secret)
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. the way i listen (i try to do a good job of it)
2. my ability to introspect (emily always says it's a plus)
3. my belly and my eyes, especially the way the left one crosses when i roll them
+ my laugh
THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my neediness - i still kinda think it undermines my independence
2. my fear
3. when my toenails get too long but i'm too stubborn to cut them because i want a pedicure so i have godzillatoes
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. spanish by way of puerto rico (woohoo conquerors)
2. russian jew (go greatgrandma go. i hope i inherited her inner spirit and strength)
3. french and irish
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. EVERYTHING
2. the fact that my first answer is both more pessimistic than i try to be and, um, semi-true
3. the prospect of something happening to ylime
+ other people; namely thundercunt
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. tooth brushing
2. the internet (only while i'm at school)
3. ink pens (a woman said this to me on the phone today: hol' on, lemme get un ink-pen)
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. two rings on my left hand.
2. The Comfy Bra. it's been Comfy Bra week around here.
3. inadequate socks
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS (at the moment):
1.
2. question omitted for being too damn common
3.
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS (at the moment):
1.
2. question omitted for being too damn common
3.
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. knitting something other than a scarf. purling. learning to read a knitting pattern.
2. speaking spanish outside an academic setting - ie, actually speaking spanish.
3. getting out of the country for awhile. maybe nicaragua spring break?
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. sexual chemisty. otherwise why bother?
2. honesty.
3. support, appreciation for my particular brand of crazy.
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
1. i think overpopulation is a serious issue in the world today but do not believe coercive government action is the best method to curtailing it
2. i think producers of hate speech are automatically guilty of a hate crime and deserve prosecution
3. i spent the first three years of my life on an Army base
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. the way someone uses their hands, the way they fidget, what their body does when it's at rest
2. the way they handle things they love - car, lighter, etc. if someone were watching me they would notice they way i am constantly fiddling with pens, marking the tips of my fingers with ink, studying the way it trails my skin
3. eye contact
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. understand daylight savings time
2. learn knitting out of a book
3. explain neoclassical economics
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. knitting
2. grammar
3. politics
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. leave the library and be done with conference work
2. sit around and eat crappy food and knit and talk with friends
3. go the hell home
THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING: * i put mine in ascending order.
1. poet
2. mama
3. diety
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. chile
2. spain (rendered null if i study there)
3. australia, maybe?
THREE KID'S NAMES:
1. caleb
2. isabelle
3. after that, the significant other (if there is one) can weigh in. if i bear the kid, i have final say on its name(s). we can arm wrestle or take turns over who gets to name the adopted ones.
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. make something with my own two hands. i haven't decided yet if crafts count. but gerard builds airplanes for a living, mana builds sets, my parents have ripped apart and rebuilt house interiors, my mother sculpts and paints, my father landscapes, together they build ramadas and patioes.
2. learn the army alphabet from artie, who i kind of hope is the last family member to enter the military (alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot gamma hotel indigo)
3. bear a child
THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW:
1. jess, because she just might do it
2. ylime, because she *could* do it, and if she doesn't i can tickle her until she does
3. gerard, because i said so and he likes me.