1. What is your favorite vegetable?

Fried Okra

2. What is your favorite salad dressing, sauce, gravy, or condiment?

Ranch

3. What is your favorite culture's food (American, Chinese, Creole, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Soul Food, Southern U.S., etc.)?

Southern U.S.

4. What is your favorite beverage?

Coffee

5. What is your favorite food?

Chicken

1.  What was your favorite class/subject in school?

Social Studies / Sociology

2.  Who was your favorite teacher?

Dr. Lewis Irving, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCO

3.  Why was your favorite teacher your favorite?

Because he treated us as adult individuals and showed us respect which was hard to come by from most teachers.

4.  What would you have liked to major in in college? Or what will you major in if you go to college?

I carried a double major in Psychology / Sociology

5.  Would you rather go to a small, medium, or large college, if you had the money to go to any of the three?

Small.  I hate huge classrooms.

1. What do you feel is the most important quality in a close friend?

Respect.

2. What is the one quality in a stranger you'd just met that would make you want to get to know them better?

Their outgoing friendliness.

3. What do you think is the most important quality in a good leader?

Leadership abilities.

4. What is the one thing that makes a child likable to you?

Their innocence.

5. What do you think is the one thing that makes a good parent (other than loving their children)?

Their example.

1. What bad habits do you have?

Fewer all the time :)

2. What bad habit would you most like to break?

Not exactly sure you would call it a habit.  More of a character defect?

3. Have you ever overcome any bad habits? What were they?

OMG yes . . the two biggies . . drinking and smoking!

4. Do you have any habits other people consider bad that you rather like about yourself? What are they?

Most people think I am "too nice"

5. What habit annoys you most in other people?

Being less than truthful especially with themselves.

1. What is your favorite girl's name?

Madison

2. What is your favorite boy's name?

Ethan

3. What is the weirdest/most obnoxious name you've ever given to a pet?

All of mine have had pretty vanilla names

4. What is/was your favorite pet?

A Miniature Poodle named Andy. He was with me from early 1979 until he died in 1993.

5. What is your most cherished dream for your future?

To be happy and prosperous from here on out.

1. If you could live in any period in history other than now, when would it be?

The late 1800s or early 1900s

2. What knowledge or skills do you think you'd have to learn to be able to fit in your chosen period of history?

Nothing that I don't already know.

3. If you could take just one thing from the modern world back with you, what would it be?

A stereo

4. What period in history would you hate to have lived in?

The Dark Ages

5. What thing from the past would you like to see make a comeback?

People being more polite.

1.  What was your first word as a child?

Mama

2.  What's the weirdest dare you've ever taken?

One that I just knew there would be no way to get away with it but I did!

3.  What are you allergic to?

Penicillin, Mold, Pollen

4.  What was the last name of the person you first kissed?

Stephens

5.  Have you ever REALLY cried from happiness? What was the situation?

Yes, I do it all the time.  Like crying at the end of a movie not because it's so sad but because it was so good!

1. Would you return to high school life for a week? Why or why not? (If you're currently in high school, would you redo your experiences so far?)

Oh hell no!  I always said when I was required to go (way back then) that if I ever got out I would surely never return.  It was -that- unpleasant for me!

2. Who were/are you in high school?

The one with only two or three close friends who did what he was supposed to and ruffled no feathers at all.

3. What was/is your favorite high school hangout? What did/do you do there?

TeeCee's.  It was a drive-in fast food place that was close to the high school and had good food and drinks.

4. What were/are your favorite three songs in high school?

Heh . . this will date me!

a. The Beatles - Hey Jude
b. Blood, Sweat and Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy
c. The Doors - Touch Me

5. What was the craziest thing you did in high school?

As explained in #2 I wasn't very crazy.  I suppose about the only thing that would fit would be we did go out in the country on Fri. nights to drink and / or get high.  Then it was my job to make sure everybody got home alright.

1.  A food that can be planted and regrown.

Rice

2.  A person you haven't seen in a long time.

My Cousin David

3.  A book you (were) read as a child.

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

4.  A celebrity.

Dane Cook

5.  The entire episode run of a television show (it's a very nice desert island).

Star Trek - TNG

1. Do you believe in good and/or bad luck?

Yes

2. Do you believe there is one man/woman luckier than all the rest?

Yes

3. When was the last time you considered yourself lucky?

Just about every day :)

4. What is the most unlucky thing to ever happen to you?

Car problems / accidents

5. Where do you think luck (good or bad) comes from?

I think in a lot of ways you make your own luck and that bad luck is often your own dumb fault.

What would you do?

1. If your car/bike is wrecked (if your mass transit service goes belly-up), do you know what you would do to replace it, perhaps even have the car or bike you want already picked out?

Kind of / sort of.  I have loss of use on my car insurance so a rental would be provided until I could obtain another vehicle.

2. A client/friend gives you a lottery ticket, which wins you a prize worth (after taxes) ten times as much money as you earned/received last year. What will you do with it?

If possible I would roll it into my present IRA and I would make sure they got something very nice that they had been wanting :)

3. Fight or flee?

Flee!

4. Someone performs a random act of kindness that is exactly what you need on a bad day. If you wish to pay them back, would you write a poem, bake, buy something, or what?

Buy something and / or take them out somewhere.

5. Your manager commands you to pick a charity to contribute to. Do you resist? If not, which charity would be your first choice?

Nope.  Most every community has a community chest that provides for those who cannot provide for themselves.  Makes a very worthy charity.

1. If you were to have a scholarship created in your honor, what qualities would you look for in applicants (leadership, service, GPA, etc.)?

I would take each applicant separately and consider them all.

2. Who would be eligible to apply for your scholarship (members of a certain major, ethnic group, sexuality, etc.)?

Anybody!

3. Would it be need-based or not? Why?

No, let's have no restrictions!

4. What would you call it?

That would be decided later.

5. If you made applicants write an essay, what would the topic be?

It would be open :)

1.  What activity can you not believe you survived in your childhood?

Shoplifting.  From the time I was about 14 until I was about 16 I never paid for anything and never got caught!

2.  What activity can you not believe kids get away with today?

Their total lack of manners.

3.  If you could be anyone else in the world live or dead, who would you choose to be?

I used to wish I were female.

4.  A lot of people think they've been in love at 15 or 16 years old, do you think you now look back and think you were a  stupid kid or do you believe that you were old enough to know what love was?

I believe I was old enough to know what love was.  I still love that person to this day :)

5.  Do you think it is possible to remain in love with someone you once loved, but haven't seen in a year?

Yes I do.

1.  How would you define beauty?

A very delicate balance between inner and outer characteristics

2.  What is the best quality a person can have?

Humility

3.  What is the worst quality a person can have?

Dishonesty

4.  What makes up your perfect match?

That very delicate balance again

5.  Have you met this person yet?

I thought so a couple of times

1. If you owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?

Home cooking

2. What is your favorite restaurant and why?

Cracker Barrel because they have good home cooking

3. What is your favorite fast food place?

Either Wendys or Arbys

4. If you had to choose only one type of food to eat for a year, what would it be?

Meat

5. What is your favorite cereal?

Honey Bunches of Oats w/ Almonds

1.  What are your favorite smells/scents?

Spring . . all of the things that bloom and their fragrance

2.  Do they bring back memories for you? If so, what?

Childhood

3.  What are your least favorite smells/scents?

Sewer smell

4.  Do they bring back memories for you? If so, what?

Only bad ones

5.  What are your favorite perfumes/colognes

Most any Musk and then Armani is a nice light scent.

1. What would you do right now, if money were not an issue?

Pay off my house

2. What would you do for the next three years, if money were not an issue?

Enjoy retirement

3. What is bringing you the most joy right now that requires little or no money?

Hanging around with friends

4. What types of things do you find enjoyable that require no money?

Going for a long walk

5. Is there anything you've been meaning to do for a long time, but put off because of money?

Go on a trip to Europe

1. What did you do on Monday?

Tried to call unemployment all day with no success

2. What did you do on Tuesday?

Finally got through to unemployment at close to 7pm

3. What did you do on Wednesday?

Noticed that my claim had indeed been straightened out

4. What did you do on Thursday?

Noticed that the unemployment payment was posted

5. What are you going to do today?

Go get a friend who is off today and go do some stuff with him

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Movie:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favourite memory of us?
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace, etc.' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?