The Republic of T.

I wasn’t tagged for this, but after coming across Jill’s post, I couldn’t resist.

Julian has tagged me with a meme: The five most embarrassing tracks on my iPod. His are pretty great/horrendous (I too remember feeling like a super-hardcore 7th grader for loving “NIN,” and I too went to several “DMB” concerts). But here’s the thing: I have tons of embarrassing music on my iPod, but the most embarrassing of the embarrassing comes from this dude who I’m currently hanging out with who has the worst taste in music possibly ever (he’s pretty sweet in just about every way, but looking at his iTunes makes me want to weep). So he may or may not have sent me songs not only by Hilary Duff, but also by JoJo and Jordin Sparks. Yeah. I also may or may not have put both songs on repeat and muted my computer so that it would look like I listened to both of them when I haven’t.

Oh boy. I have something like something like over 4,000 songs on my 30 GB video iPod. There’s plenty of embarrassing stuff there.

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I’m somewhat disappointed.

60% Geek

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Perhaps I would have done better if I’d watched more Star Trek.

[Via Living the Scientific Life.]

This reminds me of my days as co-director of the LGBT student group in college. Once a semester, we’d spend at least one meeting sitting in a circle, telling our coming our stories when new members showed up. We stopped after we realize we could go around the room and tell each others’ stories.

How gay am I? How gay are you? Well, it’s anybody’s guess. But there’s a questionnaire that, while it won’t provide an answer, seems like an interesting diversion on an afternoon when I’m running on about two hour of sleep. I found it at Put ‘Em All On an Island, who got it from HiStoriesOfSex, who got it from wonder boy, who got it from addaboy, and after that I lost the thread.

Still, I’m too brain dead to think of anything serious to blog about. So, I’m joining the daisy chain. Check the questions after the jump, and feel free to chime in.

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Damn. I thought my score would have been higher than this.

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It guess it’s because I’ve been watching my language. Starting around the time Parker learned to talk.

[Via Respectful Insolence.]

Nothing like a blog meme to get you back into gear when you’re recovering from a huge conference, like the one I worked at earlier this week. So I have Dana to thank for getting me back to blogging, by tagging me for this rather interesting meme.

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I have to agree with Auguste, this is perhaps the best time waster ever. I won’t say how long I spent playing with it last night after everyone went to bed. It was time I probably should have spent sleeping. But it was the most undirected, unfocused time—time that’s not dedicated to doing what someone else needs or wants me to do—that I’ve had in a couple of months.

The rules are:

Here’s what you do: The article you get when you click this link is your band title.

The last four words of the last quote on this page is your album title (you will probably need to reload the page if you do more than one, if you’re like me.)

And the third picture, the upper right hand, will be your cover photo.

I’m adding a rule that you have to square off whatever picture you get, so that it’s a realistic album cover.

I did several of these last night, and these are the best of what I ended up with.
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You Are Vixen

Sexy and sultry, you’re the one all the other reindeer dream about. Why You’re Naughty: That fur pulling spat you got into with Dancer over Santa. Why You’re Nice: Because even when you’re nice, you’re still delightfully naughty!

I guess today is Lazy Blogging Day for me. This and the previous quiz come via Living the Scientific Life.

Your Holiday Personality is Social

For you, the holidays are all about spending time with people you love - and even those you kind of like. Host your own party - maybe even a few. Get people together for baking cookies, watching movies, and playing holiday charades.

Sounds about right. I’m busy making baked good and other stuff to give as gifts. This year it’s either White Chocolate Hazelnut and Cranberry Fudge or Milk Chocolate and Peppermint Fudge Topped with Candy Cane Pieces. In a pinch, I might whip up some Semi-Sweet Chocolate Orange and Hazelnut Fudge. If necessary.

I often complain about having seen so little of the world and not done so many things. I think it started when my best friend in high school spent senior year as an exchange student in Denmark, and I wished it could have been me. I vowed then that I’d travel later, that I’d see Europe and a bunch of other places. Here it is 20 years later, and I haven’t done it yet. And it’ll probably be years before I do it.

I’ve been to Canada, so I’ve been out of the country. And I’ve been to Hawaii, so I’ve been off the continent. But there’s still a lot of the world I haven’t seen, and at times it frustrates me. As a writer, I feel it limits me. How can I write about places I’ve never been? The novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo sits on my shelf, waiting to be revised, but I hesitate, because the plot I’d like to go with requires my characters to travel to countries I’ve only read about myself. Right now, the action doesn’t much beyond the D.C. area. Neither, for that matter, do I.

What made me think of all this was reading legalmoose’s “Stuff I’ve Done” post. After dwelling on stuff I still haven’t done, I thought I’d see how much I have done.
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I’ve never really called myself an atheist. But I don’t believe in a god; the Christian god or any other. And I don’t believe in a supreme being, an “intelligent designer,” a divine “watchmaker” or anything else. So what does that make me?

According to this test, a “spiritual atheist.”

Well, I was brought up in an organized religion, and as a result I definitely have baggage. Much of which is encapsulated in one of the questions on the quiz: “I was hurt deeply by religious people and have never forgiven them.”

Actually, I’d say I was deeply hurt by religion and have never forgiven it. People tend to use it as a weapon. I suppose I could apply the “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” Except my response to that is usually “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people, with guns.” And if you’d been shot a few times, you’d probably steer clear of guns and the people who tend to carry them.

Like I said before, I carry a bit of a grudge.

You Scored an A

You got 10/10 questions correct.It’s pretty obvious that you don’t make basic grammatical errors. If anything, you’re annoyed when people make simple mistakes on their blogs. As far as people with bad grammar go, you know they’re only human. And it’s humanity and its current condition that truly disturb you sometimes.

The It’s Its There Their They’re Quiz

Well, my English degree finally pays off.

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About You?

To be honest, I have no idea what this means.

What Your Hands Say About You

You are logical, analytical, and rational. You have good verbal skills. Idealistic and dreamy, you tend toward the impractical. You have a knack for getting yourself in sticky situations. Brainy and intelligent, you are intellectual to the point of being incomprehensible. Your emotions tend to be relaxed and uncomplicated. You don’t read too much into things.

Logical? Analytical? Rational? Isn’t that kind of the opposite of idealistic and dreamy? As far as being incomprehensible, some people have told me I am. If I can write that off to intelligence, I’ll take that. [Via Living the Scientific Life.]

Ramone is asking “When was your first gay kiss?”

The world as I knew it completely changed after my first gay kiss. I mean, I’d kissed girls before, but my first kiss with a guy confirmed all of the feelings I’d had buried inside for so long. It was almost like a fairy tale, especially since the guy was someone I’d had a crush on for a very long time. It was after that special moment with him at 17 that I started to dream of building a life with another man—a home, kids and all kinds of pets.

When was your first kiss?

Does it have to be the first time? Why not the first best time? I guess I ask because I’m one of those people who doesn’t have the fondest memories of the first guy I ever kissed.

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