Blogging is a Funny Beast

This is the fourth blog I've had, due primarily to the shifts in my community of friends and family on the internet. Last place I posted was on Myspace, but I just never liked the feel of that place. Nobody really seems interested in writing, just updating. Which is fine if you want to catch up with someone, but I've been jonesing for a place to cultivate the kind of blog I once had on Xanga. So here's me, giving it another shot. I stole this question list from my sister's blog just to get started.

1. Do you know any true misanthropes?
I can't say I'm very fond of mankind myself. Sure there are a few exceptions, but on the whole, I would be happier if there were a lot less of us. I don't know what constitutes a 'true' misanthrope though. If we were talking about a scale of 1-10, with 10 being say...the Unibomber, then I would say I'm probably somewhere in first quartile. I'm a very tolerant breed of misanthrope. I'll probably get worse as I get older.

2. What has been your rock bottom?
I think those two years I spent between graduating from highschool and going to college were a pretty low point in my life. I remember running into an old friend of mine from Vegas while I was working at Busch Gardens as a caricature artist. She looked fabulous, had a great-looking boyfriend on her arm and a fat bankroll from her daddy who was paying for her to go to University of Tampa. I, on the other hand, looked like a sweaty, frizzy-haired mess in my uniform that consisted of black shorts and a safari-print shirt, and had next to no money or plans for the future. I about died of shame when she recognized me and could not bring myself to answer the phone when she called later that week to reconnect.

3. Has a spouse or partner of a friend ever hit on you, and if so, how did you handle it?
Yeah. The boyfriend of friend from highschool started hitting on me during the afore-mentioned lowpoint in my life, and like an ass, I fell for it. What can I say? I wanted to be loved. In the end, it cost me a good friendship and my sense of self-worth. But on the bright side, it made me realize what real love was, what real friends were not, and it got me writing again.


4. Have you ever questioned your sexuality?
No, I've always been comfortable with it.

5. In what ways to you live "green?"
I eat locally and organically grown food whenever I can, I recycle, I use environmentally friendly cleaning products around the house, I refuse plastic shopping bags if I can carry my purchases easily out of the store and reuse the ones I do end up taking.

6. Have you ever seen something in the sky such as a UFO, that you just couldn't explain?
I've seen plenty of things I can't readily explain (at least in scientifically proven terms) but, queerly enough, never in the sky.


7. In what ways are you a freak?
I'm paranoid for no good reason. I carry a knife with me wherever I go and habitually size people up for potential threats. Did I mention my hatred for the general populace?

8. What is the biggest risk you have taken this week?
Ummm.... Reading on the job?

9. Do you think there someone at this very moment thinking about you?
Maybe Frank, very likely Merlin.

10. Are you presently keeping a juicy secret?
Hah, like I'd tell you.

~Bonus Question~Time for our random rant. What would you like to get off your chest?
Mouth-breathers, this is your final warning.