Poppy Cedes

First order of business: Happy birthday to my favorite NASAgrrrl Jen!

Found this over at Avi’s. I haven’t done a meme in a long time!, and this one looked mildly unstupid.

1. What is more difficult for you; looking into someone’s eyes when you are telling someone how you feel, or looking into someone’s eyes when they are telling you how they feel?

I always look into everyone’s eyes when I am talking to someone or someone is talking to me. Except when I’m trying to work out a process in my head, then I look up and to the left.

2. Think of the last time you were REALLY angry?

No, thank you.

3. You are on a flight from Honolulu to Chicago non-stop. There is a fire in the back of the plane. You get enough time to make ONE phone call. Who would you call?

I wouldn’t call anyone. I’d get up and order people around to help find all the bottled water and non-flammables on the plane and put out the fire. Why sit back and let death take you if you don’t have to?

4. 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? (B) What do you do with your remaining days? (C) Would you be afraid?

Am I absolutely sure I’m going to die?

A) Yes, I would confide in my closest friends, my mom, and my brother.
B) I know I would want to stir up a lot of trouble during that last month ( :) ) but I have a lot of respect for the fact that my trouble lasts way beyond my death, so I’m not sure I’d go through with it. But I’d want to.
C) I have always been afraid of death. I used to have anxiety attacks as a child over death. But, really, if I know it’s coming and I can’t do anything about it I will probably stop being afraid.

5. You can have one of the following two things: trust/love.

I choose love. No one is 100% trustworthy. It’s more exciting that way anyway.

6. 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?

Dog comes first. Always. I do whatever needs to be done for the dog, including caring for it after I pull it out of the canal. My boss can go fuck himself if my compassion gets me fired.

7. You are unfaithful to your spouse/significant other. Do you tell him/her?

I told my SO in college, he didn’t take it so well. :)

8. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

To my happy place.

9. Think of the last person who you really knew that died. You have the chance to give them 1 hour of life back, but you have to give one year of your life. Do you?

No. Sorry, but … the things I believe about death, it’s best to leave that person alone.

10. Are you the kind of friend that you would want to have as a friend?

Yes. :)

11. Does love = sex?

Nope.

12. Your boss tells your co-worker that they have to let him go because of work shortage, and he is the newest employee. You have been there much longer. Your co-worker has a family to support and no other means of income. Do you go to your boss and offer to leave the company?

No. (Ironic that I have all the compassion for the dog but not the co-worker.) I am not responsible for others’ success or failure.

13. When and how was the last time you told someone HONESTLY how you felt?

I tell people how I honestly feel all the time. Generally it’s in written form because I think more clearly in that form of communication. (I’m very visual, and writing has a visual component to it.)

14. What would be harder for you, to tell someone you love them or that you do not love them back?

It is definitely harder to tell someone you don’t love them back. Way harder. Like, ow.

15. What do you think would be the hardest thing for you to give up?

The kittos.

16. Excluding romantic love, when was the last time you told someone you loved them?

Thursday? My mommy, in email. :)

17. If you had to go back in time and change one thing, if you HAD to, even if you had “no regrets” what would it be?

Damn you for your “no regrets” clause! Um… Well, damn, the butterfly effect and all would really change how everything goes down, so maybe I’d just straighten up a stack of books in my room, but not enough for my then-self to notice.

18. Imagine. It is a dark night, you are alone, it is raining outside, you hear someone walking around outside your window. Who do you call?

What’s this with all the calling? Fine, I call the police. Why would I call anyone else? And then I go outside and kick the fucker’s ass.

19. Would you give a homeless person CPR if they were dying?

I would if I remembered how to.

21. Are you old fashioned?

I’m going to have to say no to that. Perhaps on a few things, but in general I’m really not.

22. Which would you choose, true love with a guarantee of a heart break or to have never loved before?

True love. :) Getting your heart broken is part of life experience.

23. If you could do anything OR wish for anything that would come true, what would it be?

If I tell you my wish it won’t come true!