301. List 5 things you have not experienced that you would like to experience before you die.
A Backpacking around various countries.
B Pregnancy. Yes, I actually want to experience it.
C How it feels just before jumping out of a skydiving plane.
D Body suspension.
E LSD, but when I’m old. I’ve decided to reverse drug experimentation and wait until I’m old and have nothing to really lose in case it all goes wrong.
302. Will you try to accomplish any of these things within the next year? Not likely, no.
303. What do you feel controlled by? Out of all possibilities, my emotions are what I feel controlled by most often. It’s both useful at times and highly inconvenient.
304. If Jesus appeared to you and told you that the moon was made of green cheese would you believe him? No.
305. What is one thing you are sure of? The above.
306. At what part of the day do you feel the most alert? When I’m properly awake and before the afternoon lull happens.
307. Have you ever played in a band? Does Rock Band count? lol
308. Have you ever stared into the ocean thinking ‘early creatures crawled outta that’? Not that I can remember.
309. If not, what do you think of when you are staring into the ocean? Whatever is bothering me in my life, or making me happy. Whatever emotions I am experiencing I try to make sense of, I guess.
310. Do you like the mental challenge of chess or other games? I’ve never actually played chess, so I don’t know. I would love to learn.
311. Do you ever think of where your atoms were before they were in you? I did just then… But I do think about that sort of thing.
312. Do you ever think about where your atoms will go after they have been in you? Yeah.
313. If you didn’t know that people couldn’t fly do you think that you could? If other people were flying around, I would obviously assume yes, but if they weren’t then I would be skeptical.
314. Are you someone that others call when they’re having a problem and want to talk about it? Yes.
315. When it comes to literature, do you see beyond the writing and into the meaning intended by the author? I try to. Makes the experience of reading much more interesting, I think. Though sometimes it’s nice to just read the damn book and not think too much about it.
316. Is there anything you can take apart completely, and then put back together, and have no left over parts? A puzzle? I used to like taking things (electronics and such) apart when I was little, and generally when I put them back together there was not any leftover parts.
317. What are your feelings about the death penalty? Do not approve.
318. If there was a god and you could ask him/her one question what would it be? Why, you fool? WHY?
319. Do you believe that life will be found on other planets? I hope so. The thought the what is on Earth are the only living things in the entire Universe is a bit depressing. What the hell is the point of the rest of it? What’s the point of anything?
320. What is something worth suffering for? Anything you want badly enough, providing it’s for reasons that aren’t ridiculous (though that is pretty subjective).
321. If you could put an extra eye on your body anywhere you wanted, where would you put it? The back of my head.
322. Are you in touch with the earth and nature? Not particularly, despite my living in a rural area. I like nature and the outdoors, but I wouldn’t say I’m that ‘in touch’ with either.
323. Would you rather live simply or extravagantly? If I can’t pick in the middle, I will take ‘simply’.
324. Have you ever been camping? Not properly.
325. Is your heart open when you meet someone new? No, it’s guarded.
326. Are you able to have conversations with and become friends with people who are not like you and are interested in different things than you are? Yeah, if they’re interesting/nice/have good qualities and so on.
327. Are strangers more beautiful or frightening to you? In between.
328. What stops you from doing everything you want to do? Fear of failure.
329. Can you think of three adjective that do not apply to you at all? Nasty, stupid, (overly) serious.
330. How do you feel about Jeremy Jaynes, who got a nine year prison sentence for spamming people with junk email (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Jaynes)? I feel like there are more important things to be dealing with than that, but I don’t know the full story and I’m too sleepy to read about it.
331. Do you know who the current premier of China is? Nope.
332. Are you very active? I don’t have time.
333. Is there a city that reminds you of the landscape of your brain? No…
334. Have you ever loved someone who has loved you back? Yes.
335. Is it really being ‘in love with’ someone if the other person doesn’t love you? Yes, I think you can be in love with someone even if they don’t love you back.
336. Do you believe that there is someone perfect for everyone or that people just fall in love with who ever they are with at the time? I think there we all have people that we are better suited to being with, but I don’t believe there is only ONE for each of us.
337. Do you know secret things? Why yes, yes I do.
338. Have you ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn’t have? I’m not entirely sure if I’ve been in love, because I don’t know how I define being in love, but I have definitely loved very dearly someone I probably shouldn’t have.
339. How do you overcome your fears? Face them! Just have to do it once and it gets a bit easier each time after that (for each thing that is scary).
340. What can you do better than anyone you know? Make teddies.
341. Would you benefit from a wilder existence? Maybe in some ways, yes.
342. Does it seem to you like the range of socially acceptable behavior is getting smaller or larger? I’m not sure if the actual accumulative size is really changing much, but the behaviours that are and are not socially acceptable are shifting. Sort of like a rearrangement, I guess.
343. Have you ever fired a gun? Yes, I have.
344. Are people becoming more afraid of each other? Maybe more weary than afraid.
345. If you had to choose the percentage of freedom vs. safety what ratio would you decide on (ex: 100% free 0% safe)? Define ‘free’ exactly.
346. Does safety stifle you? Depends what sort of safety it is! I’m lucky enough to live in a country with no wars, I can walk around outside and I don’t live in fear of my life ending at any moment. That is a freeing safety. Not walking down the street, alone, at night, because I’m a woman, is a stifling safety.
347. Who or what needs to be stopped? I’m just not even going to get started on that subject.
348. Are human beings becoming more domesticated? Yes. We invented it.
349. Do you follow the lives of the British Royal Family? Nope.
350. How did the death of Pope John Paul II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II) affect you? Hooray, another one bites the dust! Actually that was mean. Maybe he was nice? It didn’t affect me, but I do remember the election of his replacement took place when I was on holiday in Australia. Only thing on the news; well, that and Shapelle Corby.