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Heh, I thought I was going to be all unique by posting this in my LJ, then checked out my friends' page and realized everyone else did that too. So, right. And, hey! Some people had questions in their ones that weren't in the one I saw in my email. Huh. Well, hmph. I'll just add those to mine now, I guess.

01. WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? Heh! Girl, please. If I do wake up in the morning, it ain't until morning's nearly over.

02. IF YOU COULD EAT LUNCH WITH ONE FAMOUS PERSON, WHO WOULD IT BE? The Dalai Lama.

03. GOLD OR SILVER? Either. Depends on the type of jewelry, I suppose.

04. WHAT WAS THE LAST FILM YOU SAW AT THE CINEMA? 8 Mile.

05. FAVORITE TV SHOW? X Files.

06. WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR BREAKFAST? Lately? Cinnamon Toast Crunch. But I don't always eat the same thing.

07. WHAT WOULD YOU HATE TO BE LEFT IN A ROOM WITH? I don't know, a rabid dog? Thousands of bugs? Anything that could either hurt me, or that I couldn't avoid.

08. CAN YOU TOUCH YOUR NOSE WITH YOUR TONGUE? Almost, but not quite.

09. WHAT INSPIRES YOU? People who have overcome trials and tribulations in their life; the people who make you reconsider your outlook on what's possible for your own future. That, and selfless people who devote their lives to helping others, and fixing the world's problems.

10. WHAT'S YOUR MIDDLE NAME? Marie.

11. BEACH, CITY, OR COUNTRY? City.

12. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer.

*extra question: "BUTTERED, PLAIN, OR SALTED POPCORN?" Buttered and salted, of course! And, because y'all know I'm not playin' around when I say the X Files is my favorite show. . ."I can't believe you don't want butter on your popcorn, Scully. It's un-American."

13. FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Cookies 'n Cream.

14. FAVORITE TIME OF DAY? Evening.

15. FAVORITE COLOUR? Green like a mofucker!

16. FAVORITE CAR? No clue. Those new bugs are cute, though.

17. FAVORITE SANDWICH FILLING? Peanut butter and honey.

18. TRUE LOVE? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? Indeed.

19. WHAT CHARACTERISTICS DO YOU DESPISE? People who have no interest in the world outside their own immediate one. People with a lack of empathy or consideration for others. People who care only for themselves, and not their fellow man. Also, people who are dishonest/don't respect other cultures and lifestyles/are judgmental and closedminded/think their opinions are right, when they don't even have facts to back them up. I could go on forever, here. Heh.

20. FAVORITE FLOWER? Dude. As in just one? Whatever! I'm cheating. Hee. Um, because I'm loyal to P-town, I'll say roses, first off. Then lilies, irises, cherry blossoms (are those considered flowers? I love, love, love them), orchids, hydrangeas, and okay that's enough. Hee.

21. IF YOU HAD A BIG WIN IN THE LOTTERY, HOW LONG WOULD YOU WAIT TO TELL PEOPLE? Are you kidding me? I'd wait as long as it took me to get the words out of my mouth, the first possible second I had the chance.

22. FIZZY OR STILL WATER AS A DRINK ? Huh? Like, fizzy water as in those flavored kinds or something? Or is fizzy some term for soft drinks? I drink both, regularly. If I had to choose, it would just depend, I guess. Sometimes, I'll have water, because I'm really thirsty or don't want the caffeine.

23. WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR BATHROOM? White.

24. HOW MANY KEYS ON YOUR KEY RING? A couple.

25. WHERE WOULD YOU RETIRE TO? Oh man, I don't know. I so don't have that shit planned out yet, at twenty years old.

26. CAN YOU JUGGLE? IF YES HOW MANY? Sadly, I can not juggle.

27. FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK? Any day where I don't have to go to work or a class, or whatever. Heh.

28. RED OR WHITE WINE? Red.

29. WHAT DID YOU DO FOR YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY? My last birthday is kind of a blur. I think I went to my Dad's and stayed for the weekend. When I got back, I went to dinner at Red Robin with my sister, Lance and Nanny, then went to Nanny's house, since Joe was out of town, and Mom was, you know, in the loony bin and all. It wasn't a good birthday.

30. DO YOU CARRY A DONOR CARD? I have the donor box checked on my permit (and my family definitely knows I want to be a donor), but I don't have an actual card or anything. How do you get them?

*extra question: "IF YOU COULD BE ANYTHING IN THE WORLD, WHAT WOULD YOU BE?" I wish I was a little bit talla', I wish I was a balla'. Hee. Okay, just kidding. Um, I'd be in some happy little life, all successful. Like, getting a major I love at some college, with plans I feel confident about for the future, living on my own, going out with friends, blah blah perfect life-cakes. I'd be me, minus all my annoying faults and problems. I just want to have my shit together and be relatively happy, yo. You know?

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Notice the awake mood icon? And the time? Heh. Yeah. Oh, Rachael.

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I've got French comin' out the ass!

I was going to get my ass in bed around four, last night, but that sort of didn't happen. Heh. I have an excuse, though! You know how I said my Dad sent me like five hundred photos, online? Well, lots of them are really, really old (like 1909, and earlier). And have names on them that I've never heard of before. See, my Mom knows a pretty good amount of stuff about her family's background. My Nanny has a family tree in storage that goes back hundreds of years, and Poppy paid a geneologist in Norway to look up his Grandpa's family there. But my Dad has always known next to nothing about his family. His Mom was a foster kid, so all they know about her was what two countries her parents were from. As for his Dad, whenever I've asked I get a reply like "Um, I don't know, he had some German and French. I think. He never talked about it. I don't know why." I mean, he's so clueless that for forever and a day he thought our last name was German, and then I looked it up on the internet (my last name has a town in Georgia, dudes!) and it so totally isn't. Heh. Anyway, so I took some of these names and started searching for information on them. Yes, this is the type of thing I do at four in the morning. Hee. But, point is, I actually found stuff! Like, I was looking for my Great Great Grandpa's name, and this lady has a family tree of sorts posted for her own family, and I found my Great Grandma's brother's son there (and went from there, clicking on the names). The reason I hadn't been able to find my Great Great Grandpa directly is because his name wasn't actually what we thought it was. It was spelled one way, when he came from Canada (Canada, who knew?), and then his kids got the last name spelled the way we know it. Weird. And the pictures I had would list the first name as one thing, but on this page it would have it be really their middle name. Yeah, so I got such a kick out of it. Because I could like start figuring out who people were, from the pictures I was looking at. The captions would just say "Anna [last name]", and I'd look it up and realize my Great Grandma's brother married an Anna. I'd see a picture saying "Jesse and Edna" and realize Edna was my Great Grandma's sister.

The best part is that it looks like the links go back further. Like, when you start getting further back, there's not as much info on the people, but at least you have the names, which is way more than we've ever had. I made myself go to bed around 6:30 (heh, shut up), but I'm gonna look up more later, and see how far back it will take me. What's neat is that I didn't realize that when my Dad said his Dad had French in him, it's really true. Like, dude. Granddad's mother's family is so very French. Francois and all that shit. When I consider that, along with the other French-ness I know I have, I guess it's really probably like the biggest chunk of the Rachael mutt pie. Heh. I'm such a French whore! Good times!

I love stuff like that. My Dad's gonna be psyched, when I tell him about this.

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If each show was a relationship, then:

Your current big romance: X Files, duh.

The girl you keep coming back to for sex: The Simpsons, ER, South Park, The Daily Show (though I'm with fishy, here. I could have a love affair with this show, and have before, but it's hard for me to catch it every day), etc. . .

The one night stand: Bernie Mac. I love Bernie Mac, and I think he's hilarious, but for some reason I've only ended up watching his show a couple times. I always forget it's on or something.

No one can understand what you see in him: With my family, The Amazing Race (I know! How could they not understand our love? Blasphemers!) and all the documentary stuff I love watching.

Your first great love which ended when you both got bored with each other: My first? Dude, I don't know. Boy Meets World? Heh. Man, that brings back memories.

The girl you were madly in love with a few months ago, but now you can't even remember what she looked like: I was so into Judging Amy for the longest time, a couple years ago, then kept missing it, because I had class on the night it was on, and then just sort of lost touch with it. Now, I don't even know what's going on with the show, and haven't watched it in forever. Oh, and I can't forget Trading Spaces. I still like it, but I used to watch it every day without fail, last year during the summer, and now I hardly ever remember to watch.

Your big passionate love that ended tragically and you're still bitching to people about: Melrose Place! Heh. They killed Kimberly! Bitches. Also, My So Called Life, and maybe MST3K. Oooh, and Ned and Stacey. Poor baby got cancelled, right in its prime! The good always die young, yo.

Your vibrator: Comedy Central. Saturday Night Live, stand up, Conan, stuff like that.