trogdor!!

it's the end of year survey!

01. What did you do in 2016 that you’d never done before?
participated in a grand slam! visited oregon and minnesota!

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52. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

You're not real, but you're something
You're not real, but you're everything

- JANK, "caitlyn"

from aliyaskie:

01. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
02. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
03. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the post.
05. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

and my chicky asked:

1. Tell me one thing you miss about each of your past significant others. Or, if you think that might cause trouble somewhere in the world, tell me three things you miss about your most significant past significant other.
how significant are we talking? okay, i'll pick a person without naming names. this person is one of the most talented writers i've ever met; always cracked me the fuck up - i mean 40-year-old virgin funny and funnier; and there was a genuine heart there, true and tender, and i was idiot enough to stomp all over it. that relationship ended when it needed to end, but i will always regret the manner in which i ended it. i caused much unnecessary pain to someone who didn't remotely deserve it, whom i never treated right, whom i always took for granted. really, the relationship should probably not have happened the way it did in the first place. we should have stayed friends; i was in the position of advantage and i should never have crossed that line. and while i can't regret what i gained, i must regret what i lost and how i lost it. there aren't many aspects of my life i'd change if i had them to do over, but this is one.

2. Tell me your two favorite memories of me -- one of which you think I probably don't even remember. (Don't worry if they're embarrassing ones -- they'll be in your journal anyway. :D)
um! i'm not sure i have two particular favorites. two that jump out at me: one, talking about the beaver mascot while watching dawson's in wilson living room. DIRTY! two, remembering to bring sexyback to canadia halfway over the bridge and cracking up.

3. Tell me three things you wish you were doing right now that DON'T have to do with your husband. ;)
sleeping, sleeping, and sleeping. :) okay, i'll keep one of those sleepings. but i'll throw in a hanging out with my dad and a working on my knitting. yes i am attempting once again to take up knitting. i so win. :p

4. Tell me where you see yourself in five years.
i freaking HOPE i have a college degree of some sort! i think in five years, we might still be here, but possibly we'd be starting to look at selling our house (i'm assuming we'll own a house at that point) and moving to colorado. maybe m will be teaching a few track days a year, racing WERA league or even first year AMA formula extreme. i'm hoping he also has an investigative job of some sort. i'll be writing a lot; i hope that finishing school will give me the time i'd like to complete some of the writing projects i have on the back burner. i'd like to have a collection of vignettes ready to shop for publication or at least for editing at that point.

5. Tell me five places you're dying to live.
well, obviously i'm dying to live back in colorado springs. we've talked a lot about portland; i've never lived in the pacific northwest, so i'd like to give that a shot. i'd love to live in new mexico for a while, either taos or santa fe, probably. taos is at the base of an absolutely gorgeous mountain. the place is just incredibly physically beautiful. there are times when i would really love to be back in northampton, too. fifth thing...fifth thing...um, i'll do another colorado one. i'd like to do grad studies at uc-boulder. so boulder.

yay chickadee! thank you! now volunteers for interviewing?

i went to dayton pride today! it was rinky-dink, kinda. but o the drag queens. i had fun. i got pictures and i'm sure i'll post them someday.

i've been thinking about this for a while. for those of you who are queer and are in a straight-appearing relationship (esp. those of you who id as queer women and are with guys, since that would be the closest to me), how do you...oh fuck it, here's a poll. anybody can play.

( here's a poll )

anything you'd like to elaborate on, i'd love to hear about in the comments.

eta: aw fuck. i meant to write ftm at one point and wrote mtf instead. and i can't find a place to correct that in the poll. thanks for the catch :) oh well.

my cutest sister told me what she was listening to. will you?