Tag game

I was tagged by @beauty-grace-outer-space last week, but haven’t been on the desktop site since then, so apologies for the delay!

Star sign: Libra (tail end; my due date would have made me a Scorpio)

Put your songs on shuffle and list the first four songs that pop up:

Grab the nearest book to you and turn to page 23, what line is 17?

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[Origin, Dan Brown]

Ever had a poem written about you?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA are you kidding?!? 🤣🤣🤣 (a.k.a. no, not a chance)

When was the last time you played the air guitar?

Something like nine hours ago (”We Will Rock You” is irresistible, you know... even out in public)

One sound you hate and one you love:

I hate the sound of long fingernails drumming on a desk, and I’m not a fan of the high-pitched buzzing fuzz-type noise that a TV makes just by being switched on. *cringe*

One of my favorite sounds in the whole wide world, though, is basically any version of the Star Trek opening fanfare... like, four little woodwind+mallet perc notes, and/or that iconic 10-note trumpet line and you just KNOW you’re in the Trekverse. I also will frequently play the TOS bridge sound effects as I work, write, sleep, etc. because I am a geek and I find the little viewscreen chirps and the boatswain’s whistle and the whoosh of the turbolift door oddly soothing/comforting.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Yes

Do you believe in aliens?

Yes

Do you drive and if so have you gotten in a crash?

I do drive, and I have been in multiple crashes, but not when I was the driver!

Do you like the smell of gasoline?

Depends on the day, but... yeah, sorta. Less at an actual gas station, more at an oil change place because it’s subtler, perhaps...?

Last movie you’ve seen?

The last thing I watched at home was Despicable Me 2.  And the last thing I saw in the theater was................. uh....... um............................... Star Wars 8, maybe?!??  (I have OCD/germophobia such that movie theaters squick me out so I usually don’t see any new movies until they come out on DVD)

Worst injury you’ve ever had

Uh... I think I broke my pinky toe about five years ago, I stubbed it and it swelled up like a giant blueberry for about a month.  And I got a pretty dramatic 4- or 5-inch diameter rainbow bruise on my shin once in college when I tripped on some eroding stone stairs.  Otherwise, I’ve been remarkably fortunate where physical ailments are concerned; I have never been a patient in a hospital besides when I was born.  I get scrapes and scratches and nosebleeds and cramps and that kind of crap all the time, but I’ve never been operated on or anything like that.  Blueberry Toe was about the most dramatic injury I’ve ever sustained, lol.

Do you have any obsessions rn?

Star Trek (TOS), Kirk/Spock fanworks, Veep, Pokemon Go, and taking pictures of my cat.  My other all-the-time fandoms include Nintendo stuff (Mario, Zelda, Chrono Trigger, etc.), The Matrix (I’m an Agent Smith fan), Disney/Pixar stuff (like... original animated Snow White and Peter Pan and Cinderella and Toy Story, you know, not these weird live-action reboots), Friends, Peanuts, Mr. Rogers, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, I could go on for ages...

Do you hold grudges?

I really wish I could say no, but that would be a lie. Forgiveness does not come easily to me.

In a relationship?

[operating under the assumption that this means a romantic relationship]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA are you kidding?!?? 🤣🤣🤣 (a.k.a. no, never really have been and never intend to)