Wednesday, December 08, 2004

You can probably tell that the work I am doing this week is especially irksome, as I have to pepper it more thickly with blogging procrastination breaks. Yep, irksome.

Anyhoo, I saw one of these pop-psych kind of profiles that one is meant to fill out and annoy one's friends by spamming them with it, also demanding that they fill it out too and then send it back. Like this:

FILL THIS OUT>
I AM:
I WANT:
I HAVE:
I WISH:
I HATE:
I FEAR:
I HEAR:
I WONDER:
I LOVE:
I ACHE:
I ALWAYS:
I AM NOT:
I DANCE:
I SING:
I CRY:
I WRITE:
I WIN:
I LOSE:
I CONFUSE:
I NEED:
I SHOULD:

Of course, as posted, it was filled out in a serious kind of way that would make an anime character gag.

What I ache for is to see how others would fill this out. It is ripe for mocking, and yet my brain is too inert to properly mock it right now. I leave it to you, gentle readers of clever persuasion. (Oh, c'mon, just a few of them!)

7 comments:

argotnaut said...

working on it!

Big Al said...

OK, I'll bite...

I AM: What I am. I don't need praise, I don't need pity.
I WANT: It all, and I want it now.
I WISH: It could be Christmas every day.
I HEAR: You knocking, but you can't come in.
I LOVE: To love, but my baby just loves to dance.
I WRITE: The songs that make the young girls cry.
I SHOULD: Stop. Right now.

liz said...

I WISH: to never receive any spam, ever again.
I HATE: spam. Although not the canned kind: it's okay, as far as processed, spiced, pork products go.
I FEAR: I have too many blog entries.
I HEAR: a whistling sound in my head when the wind blows.
I WONDER: if that hole in my brain has closed up yet?
I LOVE: that kind of comma that comes before the last item in a list. What is that called, again? (I gave away my punctuation book.) I also love using the word "bark" in a non-vocal sense.
I ACHE: when I bark my shins on a low table, which is more often than you'd think.
I ALWAYS: place the lotion in the basket. IN THE BASKET!
I AM NOT: ready to get back to work!
I DANCE: when lit on fire or when I really have to go to the bathroom.

Gwen said...

Oxford comma? I think?

liz said...

Ah yes: I was thinking Cambridge, but it didn't seem quite right.

argotnaut said...

OK, I'm just going to post what I have so far, because this thing is too darned long.

First, the version from me:

I AM: what I yam, and that's all what I yam.
I DANCE: better than Elaine on Seinfeld, because I keep my thumbs to myself, at least.
I SING: like a boid. One dat's sittin' on da coib, choipin' and boipin' and eatin' doity oit-woims.
I LOSE: my mind when I see people use "loose" when they really mean "lose!"

And from my poetic alter ego:

I AM: Alone. I am . . . _utterly_ alone.
I DANCE: like an autumn leaf, carried by a chill breeze to the bones of the cold, cold earth.
I SING: the body ele-hec-tric! I ce-le-brate the me yet to come!
I CRY: out in anguish, but the uncaring forest of humanity heeds me not.

liz said...

Ah, the forest of humanity.

Isn't that near the cold cold bones of the earth?