out of character

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: "Jessica" by the Allman Brothers Band

Stolen from Chelsea

I ...

I am: a son, a brother, a grandson, a boy, a friend, a dishwasher, a student, a Boilermaker, an engineer, a pilot, a musician, a comedian

I want: a kickass job

I have: permanent metal fixtures

I hate: when someone walks on my freshly mopped floors

I miss: my old car

I fear: my new car

I search: for a woman on a unicorn

I wonder: what I'll do right after college

I regret: not spending money on a flatscreen monitor when I bought my computer

I love: webcomics

I ache: when people insist we never landed on the moon

I always: take my socks off before bed

I am not: tall

I dance: like a skinny white nerd boy

I sing: music from before I was born

I cry: rarely, which is typical for the XY chromosomes

I write: very well for an engineer, but not as well as my sister

I win: with logic

I lose: at chemistry (double meaning, score!)

I confuse: sarcasm and jokes (oh, the irony)

I need: to fly again

I should: tell somebody how I feel

YES OR NO

You keep a diary: the closest thing is my blog, but that's open to the internet and I haven't been posting much lately

You have a secret journal: yes, and it's pink with a heart lock, and I write all my mushy love notes in it

You set your watch a few minutes ahead: actually, I regularly sync it with the national atomic clock

You bite your fingernails: occasionally, sometimes I don't even realize it

You believe in love: quite

DO YOU?

Take a shower every day: yes, sometimes more

Want to get married: someday

Have any tattoos/where? none

Piercings/where? I'm watertight

Get motion sickness: never in my life

Think you're a health freak: *cough*

Get along with your parents: not anymore

WHEN YOU SEE THIS NAME YOU THINK OF?...

Mike: Ziffer's old boyfriend

Matt: Alex's roommatete that plays WoW obsessively

Drew: Hinson, my old best friend

Ashley: Steinmetz, recently married

Will: Liggett, at West Point

Nikki: Sarah's engineering "friend"

Paul: CMG! Captain of the Ship of Fools

Eve: Parcher, from Face/Off

George: Lopez. Not funny.

Lauren: Belle (the steamboat)

Alex: my engineering friend at Purdue

Tyler: that smart kid from A-Team at school

FAVORITES?

Number: 14

Color: blue, silver, maroon

Day: every other Thursday, for now

Month: May and July

Song: "Princes of the Universe" by Queen...and many others

Season: fall

Sport: swimming, baseball, NCAA football, MLB, NASCAR, frisbee golf

Drink: Mt. Dew and Cherry Coke

Veggie: potatoes

Fruit: peaches, oranges, strawberries

Fast food: Arby's and Taco Bell

HAVE YOU EVER?

Helped Someone? yes, often

Bought Something? yes, but I'm pretty conservative (cheap?)

Gotten Sick? a few times

Gone To The Movies? just yesterday (to see The Devil's Rejects)

Gone Out for Dinner? yes

Said "I Love You"? with truth in my heart

Written A Real Letter? yes, recently to several close friends

Received A Real Letter? yes

Talked To An Ex: yes

Missed An Ex? yes...I have a horrible track record of being the break-up-ee

Written In A Journal? yes

Talked To Someone You Crush On? yes

Missed Someone? yes

Hugged Someone? yes

Fought With Your Parents? yes

Fought With A Friend? yes

Been In Love? yes

WOULD YOU EVER?

Eat a bug? for suprisingly little

Hang glide? ("Is this how you spend your days? / No, I just wanted to impress you...") sure!

Kill someone? if I had to

Kiss someone of the same sex? I prefer the ladies

Parachute from a plane? sure!

Walk on hot coals? not a problem- see, because coals are poor conductors of heat, and you're not standing still, and you're distributing the heat over the sole of your foot...it's not that dangerous

Go out with someone for their looks? it would be a waste of time

For their reputation? in *spite* of, perhaps

Be a vegetarian? couldn't do it...I'm an omnivore, and damn proud of it

Wear plaid with stripes? function over fashion

Sing karaoke? songs I know and like, absolutely!

Get drunk? I'd really rather not, but perhaps if I was with some close friends just hanging out, I would consider it

Shoplift? no...if we all steal, then the store has to charge more anyway, so you're really just hurting yourself

Run a red light? um...one car wreck is more than enough for me

Dye your hair blue? I like my hair just how it is, ok?

Be on Survivor? I wouldn't want the attention, but I bet I could do it for a while

Wear makeup in public? um...what would I wear?

NOT wear makeup in public? yes

Make someone cry? that always makes me feel terrible

Kick a baby? that's actually a staple of my "Ivan the Terrible" impression...

Date someone more than ten years older than you? not at such a young age

Stay up all through the night? I like my sleep, I really do, but sometimes, the company is even better