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Gracias a Dios es #Viegsen.

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Potato

Oh, hum! ... I know this is supposed to be a personal fact about me and yet all I can think is:

(From the game Portal 2.)

But okay, fact about me and potatoes... The only potato related things I’ve eaten the past 10 years or so is a couple of (small) bags of chips, but I used to live on fries in highschool because I couldn’t eat the school lunch (picky eater/ARFID) so I’d either walk or dad would come get me to have fries. I still love fries, but I can’t get them from food places anymore (OCD) and it’s too much of a hassle to make my own. :/ 

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helen of troy who tbh

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they’re not wrong

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I'm dying to re read Emma! It's been like 4 years since I last read it and I've never read it in English so I think I must do it now. I left my physical copy back home, so I think I'll read it on the internet, or maybe I'll buy another. We can start whenever you want. I'm really exciting about this.

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I'm sorry you were getting so much hate for your opinions on "Shatter me." I actually struggled with that book a lot. For some things I didn't like (the writing style ended up annoying me a lot) I felt like maybe I just didn't read it at the right moment in my life, you know? But other things, like the ones you mentioned about Warner, are things I just couldn't get past and that made me not want to pick up any of the other books in the series. So you're definitely not alone on that!

Since I answered all the messages on my phone last night, the number of messages I received were in my notifications box this morning and I received a record of 84 messages last night.  Which is kind of crazy and overwhelming but I enjoyed the debate despite some of the slightly negative comments I received. Thank you for sharing your opinion with me! I completely agree that sometimes you just read a book but maybe you read it too late or two early in your life. I can relate to that.

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Tag question meme

I was tagged to answer these by viegsen.

Since I just started again on Tumblr, I figure this will be a good way for my 5 followers to get to know me.

My questions:

1. What’s the weirdest food combination that you love?

Since Pat was making fun of me for it earlier, bacon and corn.  It's a thing my family has done for years - when the corn comes in in mid-July, you eat it until you don't want to see corn until NEXT July.  Fry some bacon up and eat it with the corn.  Don't mix it together or anything, just a plate of corn and a couple strips of bacon -- HEAVEN.  I think it's the juxtaposition of the sweet corn and the salty bacon. If you're my brother you'll slice up a fresh tomato and eat it, but I'm not a big tomato person so I don't personally do that.

2. What’s the show that you could watch over and over again and never get bored of it?

There are probably several, but I Love Lucy comes to mind.  You can literally watch it with anyone without feeling awkward, and the comedy is spot on.  Everyone loves Lucille Ball and she was FLAWLESS without a doubt, but I will forever defend Desi Arnaz's ability to do physical comedy.  Watch the scene in "Job Switching" where he and Fred are trying to cook chicken and rice - hilarious.  Absolutely hilarious.

3. Which books/music/movies have had the most impact on your life?

PREPARE YOSELF.  A novel is coming.

Oh man.  Immediately what comes to mind is the story I'm about to tell.

As a 14 year old, I was desperately trying to fit in at school, my cheerleading team, was hopelessly in love with my best friend (I realize I was 14 - but this continued for years - I maintain I was in love with him), and attempting to balance that with my dad's new job where he was gone for training a lot and a dying grandmother, and I ended up in a wild state of teenage angst.  I was good at cheerleading, made UCA All Stars at camp, and that.  Nevertheless, I was the one nobody liked.  They were nice to me because they had to be.  I liked being strong, I liked tumbling, and I liked being able to throw my teammates like a rag doll.  

(As an aside - I'm 5'8" and was about 135 pounds in high school.  I was all muscle, but being around 90-pound, 4'11" girls really does a number on your self esteem.  It was during this time that I was writing in my journal that I ate a bag of Cheetos for lunch and did 100 sit ups and ran a mile around the gym without stopping and occasionally sneaked out of practice to make myself throw up.  I was not ok in the head at the time.)

Anyway, the breaking point came in January of my sophomore year.  I was 15, so I couldn't drive myself to cheerleading practice or games.  My mom had been taking care of my grandmother, who had been released to hospice care at that point, and I was late to a game.  I was benched, and I was livid.  There had been a lot of other shit with my coach, who I still to this day, ten years later, absolutely loathe.  I quit.  I handed her my uniform.  My mom later went up to this woman and told her the fuck off about my grandmother and this woman had the gall to say, "Well Lindsay WAS really good."  After she'd spent the last year and a half telling me how terrible my tumbling was, made me tumble on a sprained wrist that required not one but two braces to complete our competition routine and still bothers me, forced me in the back of every stunt for being tall, she finally, after I quit, said I was good.  Fucking bitch.

Two days later my grandmother died.  To say my family does not openly deal with emotions would be a gross understatement, and I did not cope with her death well.  

So in the span of a weekend, I lost my entire friend group and my grandmother.  I withdrew from everyone, but nobody talked to me anymore anyway, so what did it matter?  It was during this time that I found my solace - Led Zeppelin.  I can't tell you why this particular band is the one that I was drawn to, but oh I was.  I became obsessed with music, joined a Led Zeppelin forum, and started making friends online.  This band helped me through the worst time in my life at that point, and showed me just how powerful music can be.  I grew out my hair, started playing guitar, wore a lot of black, pink chucks, went from stereotypical polo shirts and khakis (it was 2003, okay?) cheerleader to band shirts Hot Topic Employee Internet Friends Long Hair Pink Chucks Rocker Chick.  This complete 180 was facilitated by my friends in Led Zeppelin, and I literally could not have made it through without this music.  (These are also reasons I relate to Veronica Mars so fucking much.  Class of 2006 and all.) This band still makes me sob sometimes with how much I love them and how much I owe to them.  

Two years later I was in a much better place mentally, with friends, and everything.  I was editor of the newspaper, and had amassed a pretty sizable circle of friends and nerds and academic team members.  I was starting to come into my own, but then I found Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes.  It was a huge musical revolution in my life, and Jack and Meg opened a million doors for me in the world of music.  They allowed me to go to concerts (FINALLY), and drag myself out of the 70s to listen to music.  

In my junior year of college, I went through a pretty shitty depression.  That's really all there is to say about it; it was shitty, it was depression, I'm out of it now but at the time I was sobbing over a pot of macaroni and cheese that I let stick to the pan and burn because I couldn't get up off the couch to check on it.  Rilo Kiley helped me through that.  "A Better Son / Daughter" - god, I listened to that and cried and cried and cried.  I still adore the shit out of Jenny Lewis for that.  

Obviously Harry Potter has had a big influence on my life - I always identified with Hermione, being the overachiever and know-it-all that nobody liked in school because I was so fucking annoying trying to answer questions.  Pottermore sorted me into Gryffindor about a month after I moved to a completely new place to do a completely new degree, and I couldn't believe it.  I'd always been a Ravenclaw.  A die hard Ravenclaw.  But then I told a lady where I was tutoring about what I'd done, and she said, "Wow, that's very brave of you."  And that was the first time I felt like a Gryffindor.  From that point on, any time I needed some motivation, I'd tell myself to Gryffindor up, or Hermione The Fuck Up, and it usually worked.  

I read The Bell Jar in high school and at the time, I wanted to be a journalist.  I wanted to move to New York and create some huge music magazine and basically be HBIC in the music industry.  Esther lived the life I wanted, and I loved the book.  I reread it last summer and it affected me much more profoundly, after having suffered depression and that awful fucking depression where you cannot motivate yourself to do anything but stew in your own sour air under the bell jar.  

That leads me to a movie that affected me - and I know this will sound goofy as fuck - 10 Things I Hate About You.  I basically was Kat Stratford in high school.  I was the long-haired messenger bag-carrying, Bell Jar-reading, staunchly feminist, angry girl music of the indie rock persuasion-listening embodiment of Kat Stratford.  And she let me know it was okay to be that girl.  It was okay to be angry at things, it was okay to be heavily misanthropic, it was OKAY to be who I was.  And that is why I will defend her to the death.

4. If you had a band, what would you name it, what kind of music would you play and who else would be in it?

I DID have a band!  We were called The Van Pelts and we played awesome garage music.  My friends were in it.  Check us out and try not to judge me for thinking we were playing a different song, lmao

5. Which do you think is the best and worst trait a person can have?

Best - a great sense of humor!

Worst - arrogance

6. What’s your most recurring dream?

Some form of academic or life failure.

7. What’s the stupidest lie you’ve ever told?

I used to tell a lot of lies when I was a kid - possibly that I was in the ~witches' council in third grade.

8. What’s the stupidest lie you’ve ever believed?

Oh you know, the standard "my brother was running with a fork and fell and stabbed himself in the pee-pee" lies that we'd tell at the lunch table in elementary school.  I really was a compulsive liar as a kid.

9. If you could go and start your life over in another country, which would it be?

I guess England - I know people there, the food isn't too harsh on my finicky digestive system (as opposed to the two weeks of digestive misery I spent in Greece), it's beautiful, and I suppose the culture is pretty similar to ours here in the US, so.

10. Do you have any weird or strange talents?

I'm very dextrous with my feet.  I regularly pick things up with my toes, and pinching is a great defense mechanism.

I seriously don't know who I'd tag on tumblr to answer these (other than perfumed-ponce, if you like?) so I'm not going to make new questions, but here are answers for your enjoyment.

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viegsen replied to your post:Got a job offer on graduation day! I’m officially...

Congrats! That’s awesome!

Thanks so much! I've just been running around my apartment singing about it haha! :)

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Camila

Call Me Maybe - Ben Howard

Amsterdam - Daughter

More Than Letters - Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Iris - Jade Gallagher

Leave Me Here - Hem

All The Stars - Eastmountainsouth

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Me gustó y no podía no compartirlo... mirá lo que es esa vista papaaa!!! 🖤🖤🖤

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I just said this to another person, but your post about books and music made me remember how great The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is. Even though it’s not a about a musician, the author wrote some songs to go with the book and it really adds to the experience. 

You should give it a chance if you haven’t read it yet, because either way it’s just a beautiful story with really great characters.

viegsen (submitted)

That book has been on my TBR for so long that its now sad. I'm definitely going to have to redo my list and put it back up to the top. 

Thank you!!

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2, 4,11,17,28!

2. Do you think you could ever have an abortion if you unexpectedly turned up pregnant right this second?

Could? I would be in there before the pee on the stick had dried up - not only am I horribly unsuited to be a parent but I've actually had literal nightmares about being pregnant. Also it would make me the Virgin Mary 2.0 and that shit's been done so nah. (*Watches follower count to see if I had managed to get any religious pro-lifers somehow*) 

4. Is there a color shirt you’d NEVER wear?

Pukey green, I can't stand that. For obvious reasons. 

11. What did you have for breakfast?

Why, the same thing I have every morning Pinky: oatmeal and chocolate milk, like a fucking adult. (The oatmeal is like drenched in sugar so ... don't be fooled.) 

17. If you could see any musician live, front row, who would you choose?

The Decemberists or The National. I feel like The Decemberists might be more fun so lets go with that, I wanna sing along to The Mariner's Revenge Song (quietly, because srsly what's the point of going to a concert if you're gonna yell over the singing? Ugh, I do not miss that aspect of concerts...).

28. Whats the next movie you want to see in theaters?

Nothing tbh, I haven't seen a movie in theaters since, I *think*, the first Pirates of the Caribbean and I don't miss it too much. I miss not being spoiled for things, and that surreal feeling you get leaving the theater, but other than that I got all the good bits at home and none of the smelly sweaty talky people stuff. Looking forward to seeing Guardians of the Galaxy though, what bits I haven't already seen in untagged posts from various people on my dash (*passive aggressive glare*). 

Thanks for the ask!

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1, 5, 8, 10, 21, 22, 23, 25, 41 for the film question tag!

1. Favourite film of all time? (if you’re not sure then your current favourite film) Stranger than Fiction!5. Favourite psychological film? Hard Candy, def!8. Favourite “dark humour” or “black comedy�� film? Jawbreaker!10. Favourite horror film? Not a horror movie fan.21. Favourite book adaptations? Catching Fire and Perks of Being a Wallflower!22. Worst book adaptations? Blood and Chocolate, they didn't even read the book!23. Favourite old film? His Gal Friday!25. Favourite compilation soundtrack? Probably the one for Shrek 1, lol.41. Most beautiful film? (in terms of cinematography) Memoirs of a Geisha, the only thing that movie got right.

Ty for the ask, bb~

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Wohoo! If you're in, I'm in. Which one?

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