10 Random things meme

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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby Jadecavy » Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:36 pm

Qyot27 wrote:12) Our computers tend to be very long-lived. We have an NEC my parents bought in 1995 that still works, the computer I use as my main setup (yes, this includes editing, when I find the motivation) will be 10 years old come August, and the one in the living room that my sisters use is from 2003. The NEC hasn't been upgraded any (to my knowledge), but mine has been modified extensively*. The only stuff done to the one in the living room is a replacement ethernet card and some DDR SDRAM I bought for mine, only to find out that my setup uses non-DDR SDRAM.

*RAM doubled from 256MB to 512MB, one DVD-ROM drive I took out of a crappy Compaq we only had for two years, replaced that DVD-ROM with a DVD-RW a couple of years after that (but the -ROM drive does still work), swapped the original 30GB 5400rpm HDD out for a 160GB 7200rpm drive, a PCI card to give me USB 2.0 ports, a GeForce 6200 graphics card for PCI, and it's now on its third PSU. The first one went in September 2005, the second one went in June 2010. I'm also [effectively] on my third monitor, as the CRT it came with has problems with its reds (thereby sporadically turning everything green-tinted), and the second CRT has something wrong with its focus. So now I'm on a little LCD that's restricted to a maximum of 1024x768.

I'm sorry, but... how do you put up with that D:
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby purplepolecat » Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:36 pm

1) Although I'm 38 years old, I've only been a serious anime fan for about the last 6 years.
2) Apart from anime and AMVs, my main hobby is historical fencing. Rapier, longsword, sidesword and buckler, that kind of thing. I made my own leather armor. I'm not part of the SCA.
3) I smoke the same brand of cigarettes as Brad, but I only go through one pack per week. I'm not nicotine-dependent, it's more of a Freudian oral gratification thing. The only time I can't not smoke is while editing.
4) I moved to Canada from England in August 2000, for no particular reason.
5) I love beer. I like almost all alcoholic drinks, but beer is my favorite. I have tried almost every beer that BC Liquor Stores has in stock.
6) I am married to Corpsegoddess. It is my second marriage. We are both friends with my ex.
7) If there's an task that I perform regularly, I take great pains to figure out the most efficient way to do it.
8) AMVs are the only "artistic" thing I do. I can't draw or paint or write poetry or prose or sing or compose music. I used to play bass guitar in a metal band, but that doesn't really count.
9) I suspect I may have Aspergers. I tend to err on the side of caution when communicating with others, to make sure I don't blurt out something inappropriate. I didn't used to do this. I didn't used to have many friends.
10) I self-identified as a goth throughout my 20's. I'm a little old to be wearing eyeliner, but my clothes are still almost all black, and I still tend to like morbid or spooky stuff, especially music and movies. My apartment is always decorated for Halloween.
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby CodeZTM » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:04 pm

Here's 10 more things!

1) My biggest desire is to live in Sedona, Arizona, where I fell in LOVE with the landscape and weather.
2) My entire family lives within an hour drive. This includes extended relatives and my entire tree. Although we have an obscene number of friends in different states.
3) I'm a freelance webmaster/designer. I actually make some really nice money off of that. I'm also a part time accountant at a CPA firm, where I do all the IT stuff in the guise of a poorly paid intern. ;____;
4) I have a collection of pins from every state I've ever been to. My goal is to get all the states by the time I die, and hopefully several international places.
5) While I love anime, JRPGs and manga, I honestly don't obsess over the Japanese culture. O-o
6) I've never been naturally intelligent. I've always made good grades, but it requires effort and a lot of studying. But once I really remember something, I generally never forget it.
7) I obsess over old TV. Modern sitcoms can kiss my ass. I'll take "I Love Lucy", the "Beverly Hillbillies" or "Roseanne" any day of the week. Thank God for TVland and Nick at Night. [Although a few 90's shows are very good like "The Nanny"]
8) I LOVE water. In the summer, I'm out in my pool almost every stinkin' day that it's not raining.
9) I've bought every version of Final Fantasy IV. PSP, GBA, DS, PS1, SNES, Online.... And yes, I'm one of those freaks that actually buy them just for updated graphics and new dungeons/events. And if FFVI ever does it, you bet your ass I'll be snagging it too.
10) I went white water rafting and didn't get a bit wet during the entire trip, but when getting out of the boat and to get onto the dock, I tripped and fell into the water and got soaked head to toe. >_<
11) My great-grandmother is ridiculously racist towards African Americans. My step-grandfather hates "dem Mexicans". My great grandmother's daughter married an African American and my step-grandfather's daughter married an immigrant from Mexico. Thanksgiving at my house is a riot. XD
12) I went to New Orleans and about died from the heat. I literally thought I was going to die, because I passed out after being out in the sun for the entirety of the day. When I came back to Arkansas [which also has hot summers], I about kissed the cooler air in an inappropriate manner.
13) After watching "The Day After Tomorrow", I never want to EVER visit NYC. >_<
14) I was never scared of needles until the day when the blood tester miss-hit and drained WAY too much blood, made me pass-out and now I cannot even glance at one without getting ridiculously never. Which is bad, because I take a weekly injection for my arthritis medication.
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby Qyot27 » Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:19 pm

Jadecavy wrote:I'm sorry, but... how do you put up with that D:

Lots, and lots, of patience. And making sure I've got other things to do to pass the time when a process is taking a long time. I have the resolve to use something until it absolutely breaks. I didn't mention the processor, though - a 1GHz Celeron with a Coppermine core. Yes, the Celeron-ized version of the Pentium III. I've actually toyed a little with the idea of swapping it out with a 1.2 GHz PIII Tualatin, but that'd probably only happen if the CPU actually dies. And when that happens, it might end up taking the motherboard with it, so... But you have to admit, it's a Celeron, an older Celeron, it's been driven hard for the better 3/4ths of a decade, and it still hasn't keeled. I'm starting to think 'luck' just can't describe that properly.

I really have sort of stopped editing on here because I'd just about had it with the render times. And that was before putting the extra RAM and graphics card in. Chances are my editing is on a hiatus until I can build a new computer to my desired specs...and then run that setup for 10-15 years.

But it's perfectly fine for browsing the Internet, listening to music, watching videos (within a certain range I've learned the boundaries of*), playing [most] Touhou games, and other scattered tasks that don't really take up many resources.

*read: I have to convert nearly everything I want to watch to either DVD-compliant MPEG-2, or SD (or below) Xvid. Considering most AMVs, trailers, etc., that come through this setup do end up on DVD-Rs anyway, the MPEG-2 option is usually the go-to.

CodeZTM wrote:11) My great-grandmother is ridiculously racist towards African Americans. My step-grandfather hates "dem Mexicans". My great grandmother's daughter married an African American and my step-grandfather's daughter married an immigrant from Mexico. Thanksgiving at my house is a riot. XD

Now that is poetic justice.
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby LantisEscudo » Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:19 pm

What the hey, I'll throw mine in here:

1) I love tech. I currently have 5 laptops (4 are operational, 1 I don't know about), 3 computers I can have on in under 5 minutes, and another 4 that would take longer, and a ton of smaller things like external HDs, game consoles, DVD/BD players, etc.

2) I absolutely hate being rained, snowed, sleeted, hailed, or any other form of sky-watered on. I don't mind seeing it when I'm inside a building or other shelter, but I seriously dislike being out in it.

3) I've been under a general anesthetic three times in my life, and a local two other times. I had my adenoids removed and ear tubes inserted at different times when I was very young (1st/2nd grade), and had my wisdom teeth removed under general. I had a baby tooth pulled under a local, and interestingly, my heart surgery was also done under a local.

4) Speaking of my heart surgery, in March of 2007 I was diagnosed with a cardiac arrhythmia, specifically RVOT PVCs on about 28% of my heart's beats. I underwent radiofrequency catheter ablation that August, which reduced the number of PVCs from about 30,000 per day to 1 in a 24-hour period. Even the doctor was surprised at how well the surgery worked. I'm supposed to get checked for a reoccurrence every year, but I've been stupid and haven't for the last two. After the news about godix, I plan to see my cardiologist early next month.

5) Politically, I lean pretty heavily left on social issues, a little less so on financial ones. I think the biggest issue in the US system right now is all the corporate money in the elections. I'd like to see either a complete ban on corporate financing, or completely public financing of elections, with a severely restricted campaign season (9 months for President, 6 months for Senator/Rep/state-level office). People are spending so much time campaigning or setting up for their next campaign that they don't have time to actually do the work.

6) Religiously, I was raised Roman Catholic, but probably the best term I've come up with to describe my current belief system is "Agnostic Deist." Probably my prime tenet is "my relationship with God/the gods/what have you is my business and not yours, your relationship is your business and not mine." As long as you practicing your religion isn't impacting other people's rights to not practice it, I don't really care about it.

7) My eating habits are exactly that, habits. I tend to find a few things I really like to eat, and not deviate from those much. I eat a lot of Subway, since it's really close to where I work, and it's the best tradeoff of distance to quality and quickness of food around here. I almost always get one particular (kind of oddball) sub. Every clerk who's worked there for the past two years knows what it is and will ask if I want my usual, and I'll usually get a comment if I decide to get something different that day. I did the same thing when I was in undergrad at a different Subway near campus.

8) I love seeing theatre plays, especially musicals. I've seen at least twelve productions in the last few years, and have a membership at my local theater just for access to early tickets. I'd commit grievous bodily harm to see a professional production of Les Misérables, which I've heard the score to countless times, but never seen the actual show.

9) I've owned 7 iPods since 2004, but only paid for two. The rest were replacements through Best Buy's protection plan. The first one was an HP-branded 40GB 4G that I dropped on a DDR arcade machine a month out of warranty, so I replaced it with a 30GB 5G (and got a 3-year plan on that one). That one's battery stopped holding a charge after two years, which led to a string of refurbished replacements that were bad, two with hard drive issues, one with a click wheel issue. Since that was three Rapid Replacements, they gave me a new one after that, a 120GB 6G, since that was the closest in price to what mine had cost, and got a 2-year plan on that one. I fell with that one in my pocket about six months later, and the replacement for that is what's been riding in my pocket ever since. I'm debating buying an iTouch, but can't justify the price to myself yet.

10) I dislike talking on the phone and despise answering machines with a particular passion. I always sound like an absolute idiot when I leave a message for someone.
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby TritioAFB » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:11 pm

Facts? ok:

1) Even when I was a child, my family was already involved with anime. Never got interested in it until I was 12 years old though. Reason: Even I don't know

2) Meaning that when I was 12 years old I watched my first anime: Saint Seiya. That was in 2002, same year I started editing amvs, though I didn't know those things were amvs, I just simply used to mix the music with the episodes

3) Differently from other countries, anime in my country is restricted since 2009. There-s no way you can get DVDs. There's one anime shop though but no DVDs :( Special thanks to an activist group that promote the restriction, with the excuse that anime promotes violence in the youth :(

4) I'm a member of the Red Cross, In a summer day in 1998 I was saved by those guys. Now I'm returning the favor ;)

5) I'm not your kind of guy that likes to party too much, THOUGH all parties I decide to go I always do "something", like dancing in a psychodelic way xDD

6) Compared to other otakus, I'm not obsessed with doing cosplay. I think my edition is all I need during anime fests

7) Also not obsessed with collecting toys or mangas. I dunno, just not my cup of tea

8) Even when I'm a medical student, I also study a lot about design. Too weird considering that design students should be the ones making amvs, not me :O

9) About the otaku culture here, compared to USA or Europe, otakus here seems to not enjoy it the anime fests as they should. In my case I always clap for excellent cosplays even when I don't like it

10) Thanks to a disease I had in the past, I can't smoke. Seriously. Smoking means Death for me considering that just smelling it makes me have sudden changes, like coughing without stop, or headache. I almost fell one day

11) About food I love Pizza xD the Pizza here is more delicious than in USA FTW!!! I have tried the one from USA but it's not enough compared to the one made here

12) In my country there's one extra kind of Pizza. It's called the Honduran Pizza, better known as the Baleada. But instead of tomatoes, it has beans, so basically it includes cheese, beans, eggs and many other ingredients (avocado, pork, chicken meat)

13) What about drinking? During a mission with RC, I was offered to have a hot beer. You might imagine the flavor (guys who have drunk). Since I was so much thirsty I didn't think it twice. I inmediately drank it directly and then I don't remember what happened. I just woke up in the ambulance

14) I'm in charge of a hospital here. It's hard having the kind of boss that frequently reduces my vacation time thanks to the big amount of patients that comes here

15) Movies I have enjoyed are the Day after Tomorrow, Luther and Armagedon. Don't watch too much thanks to my job

16) After amvs, I love swimming. I used to be a lifeguard until last year

17) Before studying medicine I used to follow psychology. Even when I didn't choose psycho, I support the career

18) Reason why I'm in medicine (and not in design or psychology), is that I love ACTION. I consider design and psychology too quiet enough for satisfying my needs of adrenaline. In that way I'm more like Zaraki Kenpachi for example xDDD

19) About amvs, I'm also active in Akross. Actually in Akross is where I learned to edit properly thanks to big guys like S.A. Robert, brdm-69, Hlebalolomator, El-Tjan, and others

20) In the edition of amvs, I have one phylosophy: If I start editing something I already know how many time I have, how I am going to edit, what sources I need and what's the concept inside it. If I don't define any of those points then it's better for me to do anything else, but no editing amvs, cause I'm simply going to fuck it off. JUST to remind me that
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby Castor Troy » Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:40 pm

Brad wrote: his first impression of me was that I was full of myself and thought I was hot shit. He later understood more about who I was, but when André told me that, I genuinely felt like a complete asshole. Even though I wasn't trying to act like that, the fact that I was perceived that way really upset me. So, if I ever come off that way, please know that I'm either being totally sarcastic, or I'm talking about something factual (like in the previous case, I was talking about raw experience, not like, innate talent or something)... Okay that was really long.


This came as a complete shocker to me. Most editors that you and I know usually tend to act like "hot shit" in jest and we easily see right through each other. :shock:

This thread is great. I feel like I'm really getting to know you all better. :up:
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby Ileia » Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:01 pm

Brad wrote:10. I have shared apartments with 9 different AMV editors.


Nuh UH. In order of appearance:

1. Jay
2. Ileia
3. Grace
4. Liz
5. Jon
6. Darryl
7. Adam
8. Kit
9. Kiki
10. André
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby Hagaren Viper » Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:59 pm

Why sure, I'll play again. ;p

* I've never understood the point of dating while in Jr.High/High school. It always came off as a waste of time to me as chances of meeting 'the one' at that age are pretty slim, and there are lots and lots of break ups. So I never really bothered with the whole dating thing. Now that I'm older, I'm kinda interested in trying out a relationship, but at the same time I kinda see myself as the kind of guy who happily stays single.

* Random people seem to like to talk to me. At school, at the store, where-the-heck ever, people I don't even know decide to come over and just talk for a whole out of nowhere. They seem to enjoy themselves, which is weird because I generally don't do much besides reply with polite 'uh-huh's and 'yeah's. I still remember when I was about 13, some woman decided to unload her life's story on me for a good half hour. I was just minding my own business, playing Pokemon Sapphire...

* I love cloudy, rainy, dreary weather, probably because I live in a desert. Lots of people around me get tired of that kind of weather somewhat quickly, but I'm always sad when it leaves. The only exceptions are when I go to the beach or waterparks, since 90% of the time when I go, it's cloudy and I end up looking like a pathetic wet kitten. :|

* I'll tend to obsess over new songs a lot. Having killed the majority of my library, if I find a new song I like, I'll end up primarily listening to it for a week or two until I kill that too.

* The first few anime I remember seeing were My Neighbor Totoro, Dragonball Z and Akira of all things. I got introduced to them all by my dad, but I honestly can't remember if I got to watch the whole of Akira when I was that young, or just certain parts. I wasn't really allowed to watch anything violent at that age, but I do remember seeing some of the weirder scenes and just thinking 'whaaa'. So I have no idea.

* I think Im the only person I know who liked the 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' movie [With Johnny Depp] waay better than the older 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory'. Closer to the book, and Charlie is less of a whiner.

* I've never been interested in drinking or smoking. I'm certainly going to try some alky-hol when I turn 21, but I can't imaging that I'll like it that much. I hate smoke weather it's coming from a cigarette or a bbq, so there's no reason for me to want to try that.

* I'm a Christian. The church I go to calls itself Presbyterian, but I don't think it sticks that closely with it's namesake. To be honest, I'm not super clear on the different types of Christianity. I'm Christian, thats all I need to know.

* I don't mind talking on the phone, but I hate the idea of video chat, it just seems incredibly awkward to have to sit there and stare at the other person on a screen while you talk. I'm fine with jumping in on someone else's video chat for a second, but I don't want to be obligated to just sit there?

* I was totally interviewed for 'Platypus Day' [A promotion for Phineas and Ferb] at Disneyland a couple months ago, and my mom saw me on one of the commercials for it making the Perry noise XD She pretty much recorded the whole P&F marathon in case I was on again, which I was, but I still have yet to see it myself.
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby macchinainterna » Fri Apr 29, 2011 4:01 am

Hagaren Viper wrote:* I've never understood the point of dating while in Jr.High/High school. It always came off as a waste of time to me as chances of meeting 'the one' at that age are pretty slim, and there are lots and lots of break ups. So I never really bothered with the whole dating thing. Now that I'm older, I'm kinda interested in trying out a relationship, but at the same time I kinda see myself as the kind of guy who happily stays single.


I was the same way. I had only one relationship while I was still in school and it was bad enough that I realized I had way better things to do with my time and energy then.

Hagaren Viper wrote:* I'll tend to obsess over new songs a lot. Having killed the majority of my library, if I find a new song I like, I'll end up primarily listening to it for a week or two until I kill that too.


I have a bad habit of doing the same thing, especially if I have a video idea to it. Problem is I'll burn myself out on the song before I ever finish the video and I won't want to do it anymore XD
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby Brad » Fri Apr 29, 2011 4:26 am

Ileia wrote:
Brad wrote:10. I have shared apartments with 9 different AMV editors.


Nuh UH. In order of appearance:

1. Jay
2. Ileia
3. Grace
4. Liz
5. Jon
6. Darryl
7. Adam
8. Kit
9. Kiki
10. André
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby trythil » Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:34 am

00. I'm interpreting 10 as binary.
01. I always start lists with something that is true.
10. I am a pathological liar.
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby CodeZTM » Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:21 pm

Hagaren Viper wrote:* I'll tend to obsess over new songs a lot. Having killed the majority of my library, if I find a new song I like, I'll end up primarily listening to it for a week or two until I kill that too.


I have that same problem. XD
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby Devolution » Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:59 pm

1) it takes me FOREVER to post anything. and i do mean forever. this took me almost 3 days to convince myself to start writing, and this isn't anything difficult. i'm constantly paranoid that someone is out there mocking me for what i have to say, no matter how irrational that sounds. it also doesn't help that more often than not, when i DO post, the thread dies :S making me even MORE paranoid. this sucks all the more because i'm almost always here, i can just never bring up the courage to actually say anything :(

2) i'm a huge car guy. not just 'i love cars' kind of thing, but a finishing my engine swap, getting ready to custom modify my suspension, i should really seam-weld this thing so i don't need a roll cage while i race kind of thing. this is one of the reasons i don't edit video much anymore. once spring/summer hits, you won't find me NOT working on my car in my spare time.

3) i suffer from severe depression. i was put on medication, but it made it impossible for me to focus on anything for longer than 5 minutes, and my doctor hasn't gotten around to prescribing me a substitute yet.

4) i'm a packrat. i don't hoard junk though, my house may be just loaded with stuff, but most of it has proven useful in some way shape or form within the last year minimum.

5) i was raised Roman Catholic, and was VERY religious for most of my life, until a sudden epiphany late in high school made me realize that it just wasn't for me.

6) i love to cook. whether it's just something simple or some semi-epicmealtime concoction, i love it. though i love it more when i actually get to feed people other than just myself.

7) musically, i listen to a little bit of everything. i go through phases where all i'll listen to is techno/electronica, then nothing but rock, then something else. and i love finding new music, either by myself, or by bothering people until they send me stuff they've found recently

8) i collect vintage audio gear. Specifically Sansui, Aurex, and very old Realistic gear. i have more stereos and speakers from the 60s and 70s than i'll ever know what to do with, and to me, they all sound a hundred times better than anything you can buy new.

9) i regret not editing anymore. it drives me nuts that i haven't finished anything in 6 years.

10) in 9 years i've never met another Canadian AMV editor in person.

11) i'm the worst online conversationalist ever. i used to be pretty social around here, but in the last 8 years any semblance of online social skills have withered and died :(

12) i am entirely addicted to My Little Pony: FiM :| i own 11 figures, and i never leave home without Twilight Sparkle.

13) i have more hobbies than i can shake a pointed stick at, and i go through phases where i'll be all hardcore into one or two of them and then all of a sudden be bored and either find yet another hobby or move back to one of the ones i hadn't been involved in for ages. there are so many, that i actually forget about some of them until i'm cleaning a workbench, find something and realize 'oh shit! i forgot another one!'

14) there's nothing i dislike more than being lied to.

15) i apparently come across as being a bit of an asshole online when you first meet me nowadays :( i'm not. i may be a smartass, but i'm nice as pie otherwise, i swear.

16) i don't normally talk about myself at all, so making this list has, so far, actually been very difficult for me.

17) i went to the same high school as James Doohan(Scotty from Star Trek), and met him when he came to celebrate the 75th anniversary.

18) my family ancestry was traced to Erik the Red on one side, and William the Conqueror on the other.

19) i hate living in cities. i was raised in the country and i'll never get used to the people and the sheer amount of ambient noise produced by even the smallest of urban centres.

20) i miss being a part of this community and regret not keeping in touch with the people i used to talk to :(
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Re: 10 Random things meme

Postby ngsilver » Sun May 01, 2011 5:06 pm

1. I was diagnosed with dyslexia in elementary school. I to this day still joke about it but it is something that really bothers me and I suffer through it every day. Originally I was only supposed to be dis-graphic (in-ability to write) but I seem to have developed more of the reading side of dyslexia as the years have gone on. I experience great pain when handwriting to the point I can barely write a 3~5 sentience paragraph without having to put my pen/pencil down. Typing helps, since most of my problems just come up as typos, but they still bother me. This is partly the reason I haven't really gotten very far in my college career, as I've been plagued by doing calculus problems entirely correctly except for 1 lysdexic error that I can't see which ends up costing me the problem. I know I should seek out help, and I know it's out there, but I just don't seek it out.

2. I have an odd sense of pride. Ever since I was young I've made it a point to do things on my own without help from others. It really bothers me when I have to seek help, because to me that's a failure on my part. This has gotten me in trouble financially and in my academic carrier (see above) as I just don't feel like I should bother others with my problems.

3. I have a tenancy to bitch about things. Usually when something bothers me I bitch about it. I'll bitch to whoever wants to hear or anyone in hearing/typing distance. It doesn't matter if the other person cares, remembers the conversation, or even responds, I just need to get it off my chest. It's just how I deal with things I guess and a defense mechanism I think I've developed as a way to curb my anger problems as a child. I've had problems in the past, and I'm sure I'll have more problems in the future, with bitching about the wrong thing to the wrong person. Heck, half the time I don't really mean what I say, I just say it and move on. After I'm done bitching I usually forget about what it is I was bitching about and move on with my day. I've both been told I'm an ass because of this, but also that I'm the most happy-go-lucky person other have meet also due to this.

4. Kind of an addendum to above, I have an odd habbit of holding imaginary conversations with people when I'm bitching. Ruu-chan's had to put up with this a lot since she'll start talking to me about something and I wont even realize until she mentions it that I just spent the last 30 mins holding a conversation with someone who wasn't there.

5. Nothing really truly bothers me. Well... obviously some things bother me enough that I have to bitch about them I guess... but after that's done I'm not bothered by it anymore.

6. Through my childhood I had to develop a strong self esteem in order to overcome being the outcast. I've been told that I have an crushing ego and lack the ability to take compliments. Really, it's all just in jest. I don't even really believe the words that come from my mouth (or that I type) most of the time. I just have to tell myself and others how great I am in order to stave off the other voices in my head....

7. I have a tenancy to tell people I've hardly known way too much about me. It's my overly trusting nature. I could only have met you shortly and spoken to you for a bit and would probably consider you a friend. Once that happens who knows what I might tell you. I just don't really know what to say and what to keep inside.

8. Due to (above) I'm usually considered the quiet one. I try not to say much because I never know when I'll say something stupid, which often happens.

9. I really like to be the life of the party and the center of attention. Though due to (above) it can be hard sometimes. I do tend to open up the more I get used to being around and the more I get to know others. I'm a silly and loud drunk, which helps often with being the life of the party. Though in the process I've hurt myself a few times doing things I wouldn't normally due. I have a tenancy to forget I'm not as nimble as I was as a child when I'm drunk.

10. Perhaps my next 10 will be on a more happy note.
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