an actually interesting survey

[dragonlady7]

well. Insofar as a survey can be.
At least this one has a structure.

Someday I will figure out what compels me to fill these out. Perhaps then I'll stop doing so...

SEVEN SINS:
ANGER
1. Who did you last get angry with? Albany.
2. What is your weapon of choice? Words. I used to fence sabre, too... and decided I'd do better with pipe wrenches.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex? Sure, and have.
4. How about of the same sex? Yes, and have many times.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you? Probably my mom.
6. What is your pet peeve? Pet peeves.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily? I have a poor memory, which Rita Hayworth says is the key to a happy life...

SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a while? Work out.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up? Late is a relative term. When you go to bed at 10 am, waking up at 6 pm isn't late.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't: Any number of people. My favorite college professor? Oh, the place where I want to take a class, and was supposed to call last week?
4. What is the last lame excuse you made? "I'm waiting until it stops raining." (It wasn't raining at the time, but the person I was speaking to was elsewhere and didn't know that.)
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the
long ones...)? Don't have a TV.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in? Two days ago, while Dave was in the shower. I can only work out when nobody's around...
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today? I don't even have an alarm clock. Or a watch.

GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice? Organic juice. Don't drink it much. Bought it on sale, in bulk.
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat? If it's dead, I'll probably enjoy it.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event? Like ten beers.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company? No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight? An issue? Not really. I have a minor issue with my shape, however, in that I think perhaps it should be smaller than it is.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods? I'm fond of sweets.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, LUNCH? Sure. I've said it, too.

LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)? Uh... A bunch. Hint: my house parties were called Naked Fridays.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)? Uh... see above.
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member
of your gender of choice during a normal conversation? Sure. All the time. Crotches are uninformative. Chests are amusing and jubbly.
4. Have you "done it"? What's "it" and what am I supposed to have "done" with it? If you're referring to sex, it's better to just ask, honey.
5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice? On women, the smooth, really soft, usually hairless patch of skin on the upper inner thigh. On men, the place between the hipbone and the navel.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute? I don't think so.
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy? No, but I did undergo routine STD testing at my physical last year. It's part of a usual gyn exam... Unless the doc was lying to me and thought I was a dirty skank...

GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own? 1.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store? I don't really shop, and so am relatively free of that sort of aqcuisitive guilty pleasure.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it? 1) pay off credit card debt 2) invest 3) live off savings while I write a book, finally 4) travel
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous? Rich, no contest. Rich and obscure. Unostentatiously rich, even.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
I'd accept a boring job if it meant I'd make any bucks, man.
Well, it depends. I am kind of fond of being unemployed.
6. Have you ever stolen anything? I think I shoplifted some paintbrushes as a kid, simply because the store was poorly laid-out and I couldn't be bothered finding the damn cash register.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive? Heh heh heh heh.
Actually, I was never a music fan until I started picking up mp3s from the local area network of my college, and I've bought more music since I became exposed to it than I ever bought before. So I have a shamelessly huge mp3 collection and when i get money, I expand it by buying music from artists I respect. Also, I buy direct from the artists.
You get a lecture because you assumed this counts as stealing and is motivated by greed. Bah. Fie on you.

PRIDE
1. What's one thing have you done that you're most proud of? Won a literary competition for a short story.
2. What's one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of? Graduated college. i didn't realize that they thought I might not.
3. What's one thing would you like to accomplish in your life? Finally finish that fucking novel...
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place? Honey, if I'm finishing that high, I'm probably annoyed not to finish first because it means something must have seriously been in my favor. To get that close and not win? Well, I won't cry. But I never finish above last, so I'd be pretty emotionally fraught if I cared at all about the contest.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much
higher skill than all the other competitors? No, because I have no skills.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score? Sure. I shamelessly cheated to survive Japanese.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of? I scrubbed the shower, and shaved my legs. Two difficult and unrewarding things that had to be done...

ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for
your own? I covet my sister's digital camera. Why? Because it fucking works. Goddammit.
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with? That's that TV show, right? Well, if I had a space of my own, perhaps I'd have an answer for you.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be? My littlest sister. Shit just always goes her way.
4. Have you ever been cheated on? Naw. I had a partner fuck around, but it was an open relationship, and that's different. Nothing cheating about it. Open lines of communication, man.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your
own? Yeah, sometimes.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for
yourself? Hmm... Charisma? Charm? That'd be nice.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey? Not really. Not a survey person.
8. Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin? Lust.

SEVEN VIRTUES:
FAITH
1. What religion do you follow? Catholicism, I suppose.
2. What religion were you raised as? I'm a halfbreed Catholic.
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human
property? Forgiveness is not unknown among animals either, so it's not human. It's transcendant, but I don't think religious is the right word.
4. Do you believe in magic? I don't believe in reality, dearie. Magic isn't a stretch.
5. What was the last promise you broke? Probably a promise to myself. I've been doing pretty well on this, though.
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it? Depends. I repeat words by rote in Mass all the time, but it's not that I don't mean it. It's just that I'm not into it. You don't have to be into it all the time. It's just a meditation aid really.
7. Do you believe that anyone could be perfect? I don't think I understand the question. We are all perfect in our own ways. Most people think of the wrong thing when they think of perfection.

HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season? Sure. I got tons of stuff.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for? I hope I figure out what the hell to do with myself.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know
that there is a large chance of failure? Oh sure. But I do try to insulate myself a little bit, with a backup plan.
5. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket? If so, how close did you come to
winning? No, I sold them when I worked in convenience stores, and I have actually read the sheet that comes with each packet and contains the odds.
Yeah, them's a whole lot of zeroes.
6. Do you gamble? If so, what game or activity? No. I have shitty luck. I know this. I don't complain about it. I just don't need to repeatedly prove it, either.
7. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but
then gone ahead and done it anyway? Yeah... Mmm, mud.

CHARITY
1. What causes do you support? Anything that strikes me.
2. What causes have you given money or time to?
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach
for the homeless? I've done various volunteer works... Food pantry, I recall... I've done a lot of volunteer stuff so I don't remember what all of it was.
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International,
or another travel-inherent worldwide charity group? If I had the time and the inclination, sure.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street? Not usually. If they have a really good story, sure.
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like rent or food? Yes. Both.
7. What's the greatest extent you've gone to help a friend in need? Several hundred miles.

FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of? Death of those close to me.
2. What did you do today that was really brave? ... so far, got out of bed. But yesterday I saved a kitten stuck up a tree. (No, really. OK, no.)
3. Who is your favorite superhero, and why? Wonder Woman, because an invisible jet is just so dada. Also, I covet her underwear.
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone? If I thought I had a reasonable chance of actually succeeding in rescuing them, rather than simply making an ass of myself, making things worse for them, and then getting killed. I am generally unsuccessful at physical things, in case you hadn't guessed.
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart? Probably courage. I'm awfully bashful, but people don't realize because I'm so brash about other things, so they just think I'm fuckin' rude when I'm too shy to do something like offer help or return a compliment.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright? If so, when? Stage fright... Actually, not really. See above about brashness.
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower? It depends. I'm pleased when there's someone leading where I want to go.

JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty? Were you chosen? I was summoned once, but I had just moved so I got out of it.
2. If they reinstituted the draft (for both genders), would you go, or
would find some way out of it? I've got two family members in the Army so far. I suppose I'd go, but I doubt they'd want to keep me. I am divided on the draft. Serving one's country is important to me. It bothers me that the draft is so sexually biased. I should go, in fairness. However, I've seriously lost faith that the politicians are taking their responsibilities seriously. I don't feel that Bush's little war merits my sister risking her life, for example. But she is a good soldier and I am proud of her. If I were drafted I would probably go, and I would try to be as good as she is. But I would be writing my Congressman every goddamn day, you can be sure.
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)? You know, it strikes me that the death penalty is logical, in that when someone's already serving life in prison, there's nothing more you can threaten them with, and some people are just so dangerous, etc., etc., BUT, in practice, the legal system is so fucking stupid and flawed that honestly, I don't think they should be entrusted with people's lives like that. But, it's better than nothing I guess, for now, and I don't have legal reform in me so I'm going to have to put up and shut up, mostly.
4. Which should be guaranteed legal? I'd have to go with pretty much the Bill of Rights, but I will also here take a stand against the legislation of morality. Certain things have to be legislated, sure-- crimes have to be protected against, but mostly, it's the rights of citizens that have to be protected. Banning activities that the legislator simply thinks are wrong, now that's something else entirely. Some things are just not the Constitution's business.
5. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA? No. I was in a class at that point on African studies with a professor who was a native of Malawi (near South Africa) and he just laughed and laughed at us, and said "maybe now you won't come over and tell us how to run elections. Yours are more corrupt than ours."
6. What was your favorite media circus trial? Favorite? Media anything disgusts me.
7. Have you ever written a letter to a politician? Not sure. Maybe when younger. At this point, I have so much disgust I don't know if I could get anything coherent and purposeful out.

TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on? Writing.
2. Do you collect anything? Lint. Incidentally.
3. Are you addicted to anything? Writing.
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan? No.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things? Cash, or sexual favors. I might be kidding.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do? Eat those cheese fries last night. At 3 am, it was a great idea. I was starving. Now I just feel like hell.
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things? A tiny bit, but fortunately I have a short attention span.

PRUDENCE
1. Who is the wisest person you know? Ooooh... Wisdom. My father is wise at times.
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil? I don't get how this is prudence, but I have been to a couple vigil masses... I've probably been in vigils too, but I don't recall.
3. Do you take advice when it's given? If it's good advice and kind of correlates with what I was thinking, yes.
4. What area are you wisest in? I'm extremely good at solving other people's problems. Always have been. I should be an advice columnist.
5. Do you drive defensively? In that I assume most people are morons, yes. But I'm not that good at it.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage? Would you ever? Unprotected? As in, not protected against STDs? Yes, but don't assume that means I'm a moron. Unprotected against pregnancy? No. Never.
7. What did you learn today? I learned today that pancakes and flapjacks are slightly different things.
8. And of course, what is your favorite heavenly virtue? I don't know nothing about heaven. It's almost certainly a human construct. I'm not taking anything for granted about the Otherworld. But insofar as virtues, I'd have to say that patience and reasonability rank among my favorites.
(As I said, I'm a halfbreed Catholic, so I'm not real good at it.)

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[(Anonymous)]

>> 5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
>
> I'd accept a boring job if it meant I'd make any bucks, man.

...how long would you keep it?

- Z

Re: But...

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Ah, that wasn't the question. :)


Note also that I didn't say I'd seek out said boring job. But if it were dropped in my lap and offered me megabucks, I would say sure. And I'd probably stay until you made me leave because I was going nutz.