Is this an important fight? Are there greater issues in your world? In the world? I will continue to have an opinion too. Appropriate dress for appropriate circumstance. Would you like to see your teacher dress as a teen does? I wouldn’t.
I am sure that there are greater issues in the world. However, as a high school student, this bothers me. I am not saying that people should dress like whores or strippers- merely that we, as students, should be able to have some realistic standard- bra straps should be allowed to show. I don't break the dress code- in fact, for a high school student, I dress rather conservatively. I just feel that the school is going to enforce a dress code, the dress code should apply to all students, not just girls. If that means that tank tops, no matter the gender, aren't allowed, then that is what should happen. Yes, there are greater issues in my world, but this is something that I am passionate about, and will continue to be passionate about, as I feel that it is unjust, and favors the males in my school, who are already favored. The world needs to understand that it isn't a girl's fault if she turns a guy on- this is the males problem, not the way a girl dresses...
1) Put your iTunes on shuffle. Give me the first 6 songs that pop up.
“Chanson D’amour” – La Floa Maldita
“Are You the One That I’ve Been Waiting For” – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“Heard It All Before” – Emiliana Torrini
“Fashion” – David Bowie
“Harm of Will” – Bjork
“Innocente” - Delerium
2) If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?
Hmm...maybe Michelle Obama
3) Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17.
“Workers Union, in his East San Antonio offices in the Spring of 2010” (I took “line” to mean actual line of text and not sentence...”
4) What do you think about most?
Recovery, relapse, and everything I’m afraid of
5) Ever had a poem or song written about you?
Not to my knowledge.
6) Do you have any strange phobias?
Yup.
7) What's your religion?
Reform Jewish
8) If you are outside, what are you most likely doing?
Getting the mail.
9) Simple but extremely complex. Favorite band?
That is a hard one. Hmmmm......probably Depeche Mode? Or Tegan and Sara? Or....
10) What was the last lie you told?
That I knew I would be okay.
11) Do you believe in karma?
Kind of.
12) What does your URL mean?
Just...that I’m, uh...here.
13) What is your greatest weakness; your greatest strength?
Weakness: I am constantly in fear and terror and I catastrophize everything. Strength: That I’m still here, I guess.
14) Who is your celebrity crush?
Probably Melissa Harris-Perry
15) How do you vent your anger?
I rage on Twitter or in GChat to my best friend.
16) Do you have a collection of anything?
Do books count?
17) Are you happy with the person you've become?
No. Ask me again in five years. Hopefully I’ll have a different answer.
18) What's a sound you hate; sound you love?
Hate: Alarms. Love: windchimes.
19) What's your biggest "what if"?
Not even gonna say it because then I’d have to knock on wood for the rest of my days.
20) Do you believe in ghosts? How about aliens?
Ghosts, no. Aliens, sure...not the little green men type but it’s certainly plausible that there is life on other planets.
21) Stick your right arm out; what do you touch first? Do the same with your left arm.
Right arm: my nightstand. Left arm: nothing.
22) Smell the air. What do you smell?
Nothing.
23) What's the worst place you have ever been to?
The port-a-potty at an all-day festival concert
24) Most attractive singer/s of your opposite gender?
Hrm. Honestly, no one comes immediately to mind because I just don’t think about dudes like that very much. I guess maybe David Bowie, George Michael, Lenny Kravitz...
25) To you, what is the meaning of life?
To leave the world a little bit better than you found it.
26) Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed?
Yes, and yes, a couple minor incidents.
27) What was the last movie you saw?
Anna Karenina (the new one with Keira Knightly)
28) What's the worst injury you've ever had?
I have had so few real injuries...I guess when I had a pinched nerve in my neck because holy hell.
29) Do you have any obsessions right now?
Uh, yeah. No good ones.
30) Ever had a rumor spread about you?
I don’t think so.
31) Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong?
It really depends on what the wrong was and who they are to me.
32) What is your astrological sign?
Cancer, but it should just be a GIF of someone rolling their eyes because puh-lease.
33) What's the last thing you purchased?
Clothes hangers.
34) Love or lust?
Platonic love.
35) In a relationship?
Nope.
36) How many relationships have you had?
If we use a broad definition...maybe 8-10?
37) What is your secret weapon to get someone to like you?
I don’t have one. You like me or you don’t.
38) Where is your best friend?
Lake Oswego, OR
39) What were you doing last night at 12 AM?
Watching Frasier reruns.
40) Are you the kind of friend you would want to have as a friend?
In some ways, but I can be a real pain.
41) You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late one more time you get fired. What do you do?
Save the damn dog, and tell my boss if that isn’t a good enough reason to be late to work, I don’t want to work for such an asshole anyway.
42) You are at the doctor’s office and she has just informed you that you have approximately one month to live. a) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die?
I would certainly tell my family and close friends.
b) What do you do with your remaining days?
Knowing me, probably freak out.
c) Would you be afraid?
See above. Yes.
43) What's a song that always makes you happy when you hear it?
“Black and Gold” by Sam Sparro
44) In your opinion, what makes a great relationship?
True respect.
45) How can I win your heart?
Romantically, you can’t. Platonically, be warm and kind and caring, show me the world is a better place for having you in it.
46) Can insanity bring on more creativity?
I mean...I guess. But creativity isn’t necessarily an end worth the means.
47) What is the single best decision you have made in your life so far?
I guess when I finally ditched my alcoholic ex, even though it was way too long in coming.
48) What would you want to be written on your tombstone?
A death year far in the future.
49) Give me the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "heart."
Safety.
50) Basic question; what's your favorite color/colors?
Black, purple, gray
51) What is your current desktop picture?
A mama and baby elephant
52) If you could press a button and make anyone in the world instantaneously explode, who would it be?
I wouldn’t want to do such a thing.
53) What would be a question you'd be afraid to tell the truth on?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
54) You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What is that power?
To never feel ill.
55) You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
The half-hour when I made the decision to try losing some weight.
56) You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
Too personal to mention.
57) You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who would it be?
No thanks.
58) You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
Nowhere. I’d give it to someone else.
59) Ever been on a plane?
Yes. Ever again? Probably not.
60) Give me your top 5 hottest celebrities.
Oh lord. Well...not necessarily hottEST but five people I find attractive...Melissa Harris-Perry (does she count as a "celebrity"?), Megan Rapinoe, David Beckham, Parminder Nagra, Jesse L Martin
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My answers from Chloe's questions:
1. Favorite color?
Purple
2. Favorite movie?
Oh, that's tough...way too many to choose :) But some tops are Some Like It Hot, The Devil Wears Prada, LOTR, Labyrinth, Philadelphia...I am eclectic in my movie tastes, LOL
Ugh, would rather not think too much on this subject.
6. Best memory?
Hmm...watching the 4th of July fireworks in Hawaii
7. What do you enjoy doing?
Reading, crossword puzzles, more reading :P
8. Favorite Place?
Probably Monterey and vicinity, Pacific Grove, etc.
9. If you had three wishes what would they be? (no wishing for more wishes)
To go back in time and NOT TRY TO LOSE WEIGHT and not have brought this damn ED back; to conquer my phobias and thus be able to live a fuller life; to have not untold riches but enough money to live a pleasant, simple life.
10. Top 5 singers/bands
Tori Amos, Tegan and Sara, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, David Bowie (not necessarily "top" 5 but 5 favorites, I could add a looooot more)
11. If you could only watch one T.V show ever (if you don’t watch T.V one song) what would it be?
Gotta be original Law and Order...it is impossible to get tired of those episodes.
YOUR QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:
1. If you had to change your first name, what new name would you choose?
2. How many countries have you traveled to/lived in (other than your current one)?
3. What career would you NOT want to do no matter how well it might pay?
4. Favorite quote from a movie?
5. Favorite teacher? What grade and class?
6. Do you have materialist/shopping weaknesses, something you spend more money on than you probably should?
7. What city/town did you grow up in and how long did you live there?
8. Ever have an experience you thought you'd hate but ended up really enjoying or being glad to have had?
9. Stick shift or automatic?
10. The book you most often recommend to others?
11. What would you say to the you of ten years ago?
