Inquiring Minds... aka A Very Long Time It Seems

1. What makes you visit a blog?
At first I did a lot of 'Next Blog'ing, but now I mostly click on links from blogs I like. I also get a few from it2m.

2. What makes you come back to it?
Mostly I think it's the style of writing. If they can make something interesting and funny, I'm there.

3. Do you read the archives of a new blog you find? Or of ones you visit frequently? Not usually on new ones. Usually what happens is I'm bored one day, or there are frequent references to things that have been writtten about previously, so I go on an Archive-binge.

4. Do you comment on all the blogs you read? Or only some? What makes you comment or not?
No, not all. It usually has to be one I've read for a while, or know they've read mine, otherwise I feel like a stranger butting in on a private conversation. Blogs of my friends, I make an effort to comment, cos I know how much a comment can mean to a crazy blog-obsessed person.

5. Do you like it when someone repsonds to your comment with one of their own, or do you not care?
I like it, but don't see it as necessary. It's fun when a single post can spark a huge discussion that gets lots of people/lots of comments.

6. How often does a blog need to update for you to keep visiting? A few days? Once A week? Once every couple of weeks?
Every half hour! There must be something new and funny for me!
Daily is good. Once a week is ok.
If I know it's going to be something good, I can wait a week.
If someone stops posting permanently, they leave my blogroll.

7. Is there anything you DON'T want to read about? If so, what and why not? If not, good on you. ;)
I don't like reading ranty religious or political blogs, so I don't read blogs like that. If it was a single post on a blog that I read regularly, I probably wouldn't mind. I don't like high school C told L that K said L was a bitch type blogs either. I don't like preachy blogs and I don't like offensive blogs. I don't mind swearing in a good cause, but I don't like the f-word or the c-word used more frequently than good grammer or punctuation.

Thanks Holly for the questions.
Do I pass?

Four Things

Dude, I got tagged.

In a way, you could think that it's kinda sad that we keep tagging each cos we don't know anyone else.
However, I'm really happy that I have this little circle of blog-people, some of whom know each other in the real world, and some who met through blogs, and I think it's very cool.

Ok, that was the end of my sappy post. On to the tagging.
It's called Four Things, and I was passively tagged by Jen. So here we go:

Four Jobs You've Had In Your Life:
1. Basketball referee.
2. Clothing chick in a sports store.
3. Summer camp counselor.
4. Support childcare worker for a kid with autism.

Four Jobs You Wish You'd Had:
1. Official tester in a chocolate factory (not Hersheys though, ick).
2. Famous author.
3. Someone incredibly respected in their field.
4. Anything that pays way more than being a student does.

Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over Again:
1. Clueless
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. The Sound of Music
4. Pirates of the Caribbean

Four Shows You Love To Watch:
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. House
3. Las Vegas
4. Bewitched

Four Places You've Been On Vacation/Travelled To:
1. Boston, Washington DC
2. England
3. Niagara Falls
4. Paris

Four Websites You Visit Daily:
1. Miss Snark
2. Book Bitches
3. Tiffany, Holly, Jen, and KimmyK.
4. Yahoo TV Guide

Four Of Your Favorite Foods:
1. Dark Chocolate
2. My dad's burgers
3. Charcoaled pumpkin
4. Salty potato chips

Four Things You Won't Eat:
1. Dirt (although I did when I was about two and I have the photo to prove it).
2. Oranges (unless someone else will peel it for me cos I'm a lazy bitch).
3. Tofu or other healthy-sounding things, unless I don't know I'm eating it.
4. I don't like really really spicy things or really really strong-tasting things or really really slimy things, although I don't mind all those in small doses.

Four Things You Wish You Could Eat Right Now:
1. A hotdog with cheese
2. Anything homemade
3. Fresh-picked fruit (preferably peaches or apricots)
4. Triple-choc brownies

Four Things In Your Bedroom:
1. Clothes and shoes and bags
2. Heater/AC
3. Desk, computer, phone, books
4. Lots of long dark hair

Four Things You Wish You Had In Your Bedroom:
1. More books
2. Bigger bed
3. DVD player as mine has shat itself
4. Mini-fridge

Four Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. My new fav jeans with the buttons diagonally across the hip
2. School hoodie
3. My watch that never comes off
4. Some pink beaded bracelets

Four Places You'd Rather Be Right Now:
1. At the beach
2. At the snow
3. Riding a motorbike
4. On vacation

Four People You'd Really Love To Have Dinner With:
1. An author, any author. Jane Austen
2. Johnny Depp
3. Laura, Ellen, Sylvie
4. My dad's parents who I never really knew, and my mom's dad, for the same reason

Four Things You Are Thinking Right Now:
1. Dude, when are these questions going to end?
2. Who the hell am I going to tag?
3. Wish I wasn't sick.
4. Hope someone's updated their blog since I started typing this.

Four Of Your Favorite Things:
1. A good book
2. A good hug
3. Do-you-remembers
4. Buying pretty clothes

Four People You'd Tag:
1. Tiffany, had she not already been tagged.
2. KimmyK.
3. Holly.
4. You! Yes, you! The random person who was about to click Next Blog. You're so tagged.

Whew, made it through. Jen, I am going to find the longest meme I can, and very very agressively tag you with it! ;) Hope all you bloggy people are having a great day and have posted something brilliant for me to read! Mwah! (Ok Nyquil + Blogger = hyper post + lol)

Boy Meets Girl Part Two

Girl meets Other Boy before Girl meets Boy.
Other Boy pokes his tongue out at girl. Girl pokes tongue out at Other Boy.
Girl does not figure out that this is code for something.
Boy defines his and Girl's relationship as officially bf-gf.
Other Boy and Girl have a depressing conversation.
Girl suspects Other Boy thinks she is a slut and a player.
Boy drives Girl home (to her house, not her room, in case you were wondering).

Girl and Other Boy have a normal conversation the next morning, but Girl still feels like an idiot and a bitch.

Girl Meets Boy

Girl meets boy.
Boy takes girl shoe shopping.
Girl can't find any.
Boy drives girl to an outlet mall.
Girl still can't find any and is getting cranky.
Boy convinces girl to go shopping to mall another day.
Boy drives girl to mall.
Girl shops.
Boy buys girl chocolates.
Boy drives girl home, picks up girl's friend, and drops them off so they can do more shopping.
Boy comes back and picks up girl and girl's friend when they're done and takes them home.
Boy's car is running on empty and boy still wants to see girl again.

To be continued...

This tagging business

I have been tagged by Tiffany to do one of those fill-this-out-and-tag-some-other-unfortunate-soul things. This particular one is about books which is very good as I read a lot, although I don't think you'd know it from reading this blog. However, for some reason unknown even to myself, perhaps because I am addicted to this thing called blogging, I started another blog under another account from which you might have been able to tell that I read a lot and the two are colliding with the result that Tiffany and The Other Me were tagged by the same person, and then Tiffany tagged This Me, while I can't tag her in either case as The Other Me doesn't know her and she already tagged This Me.

I hope we are all sufficiently confused by this explanation.

Um hello? FOCUS!

Ok, so I went to get my legs waxed yesterday.
And the chick was very nice and chatty. I thought she was being a bit slow really, especially considering I had to get to class later on. But it actually only took as long as normal so anyway.

Point is, the phone rang three times while we were in there, and she went to answer it each time.* Just leaving me. All alone. With wax going all hard on my legs.

And my legs still feel a little bit waxy. It's not good. Especially when they're sposed to be all smooth and shiny and slippery, and they're like not grating exactly, but just, idk, what's the word? There's friction where there shouldn't be.

So, since maybe some of you work in service industries, I'm wondering how important is the current customer, and how important is the phone? Does it vary with the job? Like when you have the client bare legged on the table with hot wax on her legs?

I'm just glad it wasn't a bikini wax.


*Actually she only left me twice cos the phone like rang once then stopped, but she was on her way. Anyway.