austin_tycho | (no subject)

A lot about me in quiz form

Profession: High Priestess. I have a job at an abuse phone bank, but that's mostly for the income
Height: 5'8"
Distinguishing marks: curly hair, a scar on my upper lip
Allergies: cedar, dust, a few other green things
Lucky number: 67
A smell that makes you pause: copal incense
A taste that makes you melt: dark chocolate
A hobby that occupies your time: dicking around on the Internet
A city you'd like to visit: Anchorage or somewhere way up north
A country you'd like to explore: Finland
Your favorite meal: this changes every day; usually something with mushrooms in it
A drink you order most often: rum and DrPepper, or a grasshopper if I'm feeling really froo-froo
A delicious dessert: black forest cake
A book you highly recommend: 'Ishmael' or just about anything else by Daniel Quinn
The music you prefer while alone: stuff from Musical Starstreams; plus Dave Matthews
A film you could watch over and over: oddly, Raising Arizona
A TV show you watch regularly: Los Simpsons, Space Ghost
A monument you would like to have a view of from your room: I don't do monuments. How about a forest of some kind?
Your favorite time of the day: Sunset
Your favorite place to sit at home: on my bed

Your stuff

You live in a(n): house
Your transportation: '79 Pontiac Catalina, or a maroon '83 Goldwing equipped for touring
You approx. annual income: I think around $22,000?
Your cologne or perfume: my own stank
Something important on your night table: important? I guess the $#@! clock radio that wakes me up when I need to go to work...
When you sleep, you wear: my skin and a grin
If you had a safe, in it you would keep: birth certificates, titles, mundania like that
Things you like to buy: clothes, things that smell good
If you could afford it at this moment, you would buy: off all my debt
You collect: things with phoenixes on them, or scorpions
You don't have a lot of: spaces not covered with cat hair
Your strangest possession: an ivory doorknob
Your most expensive possession: a large ring I had made when I became a High Priestess
Your most prized possession: not counting my husband or pets, I'd go with the ring

Your morals

People should not marry before this age: the one where they show a lot of sense, and after they've had their heart broken at least once. Let's say, 25.
People should not have children before this age: I'm an NPG kinda girl, so my honest response is 'never'
The appropriate age for having sex: this depends a lot on maturity. It can be 14 or 21
When you are late for an appointment and it's your fault, do you tell the truth or tell a white lie: it depends on who the appointment is with
Your most recent lie: I don't remember, actually
One person you might kill if the law protected you: I'm taking the 5th on that one
One thing in this world you are addicted to: sugar, usually in chocolate form
You believe hitting a child is an appropriate form of discipline: only in very specific, controlled circumstances
As an adult you have hit a woman?: not even as a child
As an adult you have hit a man?: not in a serious or non-consentual way
Have you been arrested?: yes
Have you read someone's diary or gone through their personal possessions without asking?: Shamefully, yes
What would your reaction be if your spouse or partner cheated on you: enraged
Have you purposely hurt someone emotionally: Only in moments of extreme anger, then I regretted it.
Have you accidentally hurt someone emotionally: Yeah, probably so
Have you apologized?: when I was able to
Do you owe someone money but have stalled paying it back: I do owe money, but I have not stalled in repayment.
If yes, how much is the amount?: I think it's somewhere between $5 and $50,000

Your religion and views of the world

Do you believe in God?: In a manner of speaking, sure
Describe God: It is everywhere and in everything, even our President (that was hard to type)
What religion were you raised with: Sort of a vaguely 12-step kinda thing... both my parents were brought up in very religious families and they did the opposite with us
Do you still practice this religion: Nope
Your most spiritual moment: listening to the trees talk on the banks of the Guadalupe in Kerrville
Death is: an end and a beginning
How you picture the end of the world: the Sun will expand in a kazillion years and engulf the planet. People will be long gone by then, though
Do you feel that most wars started because of religious conflicts: No, but religion is the convenient excuse a lot of the time.
Does life exist on other planets?: yeah, why not
Have they made contact with us: Not yet
Do you believe we come from Adam and Eve: Nope.
Do you believe in astrology: Yeah
Do you read your horoscope: the one from this site (with all the transits and stuff calculated), and this one, mostly for the poetry.
Have you ever been treated by a psychotherapist: Sure; and I think everyone should at some point
If reincarnation does exist, you'd like to come back as: a starfish

Your opinions

The right to have an abortion: I'm all for this one
The right to own guns: Yeah, I suppose
The welfare system: It beats the alternative
The death penalty: Yeah. I think the system needs some revision, though
Rights and services for illegal immigrants: Why not?
Legalization of drugs: Some of them, yeah.
Equal rights for homosexuals: Absolutely
The practice of premarital sex: That's the most popular kind, I'm told- teach how to do it safely in school
The worst crime against humanity: thoughtlessness- sometimes inadvertent, but often a deliberate, willful refusal to consider the consequences of one's actions
The minimum punishment for those who molest children: This is a very complicated question, where we have to define 'molest' and 'children' etc.
The minimum punishment for those who rape: ditto
Your opinion of the draft: I dislike it intensely
You would fight in a war if: only if I was forced to
The environmental issue that concerns you most: Overpopulation; just about every other environmental problem stems from it.