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I think responding “Mac OS” and “rarely back up documents” probably hurt my score considerably…

I do find it amusing though that the average score for Windows users is 45 while the average score for Apple users is 60…

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Because I don’t yet wish to rant publically about how much I hate my job, I’m going to fill out a survey and leave the ranting for later, when I’m less likely to use words I’ll regret later (for as much as I let my guard down here, I really don’t like it when I start swearing like a sailor).

Courtesy of Corico, as always…

1. What color is most reflective of you?:
Hmm… blue, I guess. Probably a darker blue.

2. How did you get the idea for your deviantART name?
Ah, dA-centric surveys. Well, since my dA username is the same one I use everywhere else, I’ll go with the short answer to save space: I made it up.

3. First kiss?
If we’re gonna skip the rather clumsy, awkward one that Osc would like to forget about, I’ll go with after Mysterium 2003, so… I think it was August. Early August at that. Like, the 4th or something. I suck at dates.

4. Any song playing at the moment?
Not presently, for once, though there’s Star Wars music parading around in the back of my head. I need to pick up the Episode 3 soundtrack, and I’m debating whether or not to get it from iTunes… I like liner notes!

5. Has the death of a celebrity ever made you cry?
Not to my knowledge. But then, not much does anymore… I’ve detatched myself too much from the world.

6.What color of clothes are you wearing?
white t-shirt and my khaki work pants.

7. Do you want a baby?
Not for a while yet, thank you very much.

8. What is your pet’s name?
Um, well, I don’t have a pet, but two names of former fish I owned were Cleo (courtesy of Disney’s Pinnochio), and Luke, who was a plecostomous placostimous sucker fish.

9. Can you raise one eyebrow?
Yep.

10. What’s your favorite restaurant?
Um… tie between Brio and Milo’s.

11. Do you swear?
As I mentioned above, yes, but I often dislike it when I do so excessively.

12. What was the last concert you attended?
I don’t do concerts.

13. Who was with you?
I don’t do concerts.

14. What is/are your favorite subject(s)?
Umm… astronomy, geology… English to some extent… and anything to do with CG .

15. Have you ever eaten Spam?
No. I have read a lot of it though, and contributed some as well. I feel dirty.

16. What food are you craving right now?
I’m not hungry at present.

17. Thing to do in the summer?
Visit Ash, get a job at Cyan (or Blizzard, if Cyan continues to cold-shoulder me…), and finally get the hell out of AMC.

18.What was the last tv show you watched?
Um… I think it was CNN’s morning news. If you’re looking for something I watched enthusiastically, rather than just something to calm me down a bit, I’d say it was CSI (the original series, on Spike TV).

19.What is your fave piece of jewelry?
My shark tooth / Ash’s ring necklace.

20. What is to the left of you?
my desk, my bed, my laptop, and my webcam, along with a wide assortment of tech stuff and garbage that needs to be evicted.

21. What was the last thing you ate?
A quarter pounder. I feel dirty again…

22. Any close friends of the opposite sex?
Well, one, obviously… . A couple others are aquaintances, but I wouldn’t really call them “close”.

23. Write a song lyric that’s in your head?
I don’t think Star Wars has any actual lyrics I could write, but I could try my hand at a textual representation of an orchestral score…

daaaa, da da da da da daaaaaa, da da daaa, da da da da, da DA!, da da da, da DA da da da DA da da da da da DA da daaaaaaa da DA (bee-do bee-do bee-do bee da da da da, DA… da da da DAAAAA da…) and so on…

24. What song is that from?
It’s the finale to the Star Wars Episode IV music right before and directly into the start of the credits. I’m a sad sad person, and you are too if you can actually figure out the orchestration from that mess .

25. Who was the last person you talked to?
Someone at work… Jon and John, actually. Whee.

26. How much money will you bring when you are out?
It varies, but usually between nothing and 60 in cash, plus my plastic. Whee.

27. Do you club?
Do you breathe sulphuric acid?

28. How many cereals in your cabinet?
I don’t keep track of the stockpiles of cereal mom has created in the event of some nuclear holocaust or something… seriously, though, we probably keep Post’s Honey Bunches of Oats division in operation single-handedly…

29. Do you regularly check yourself out…?
I don’t even know what this is referring to… so I’ll just say no and move on. I shouldn’t fill out teeny-bopper surveys when I’m tired (nor should I try to spell… I almost wrote “servay” )

30. When was the last time you cut your hair?
Tomorrow.

31. Do you sleep with stuffed animals?
I did, but the five-inch-long tiger plushie is just no substitute for Osc…

32. Do you have a mental disease?
Probably a couple, not the least of which would be mild OCD (though you’d never know it from my room… O.o)

33. Have you watched a full episode of Barney & Friends?
Once or twice. In the Dark Ages of Youth when Such Things were Cool…

24. Do you cook?
Ash says I can, I say I burn instant mashed potatoes.

35. What languages do you speak?
English. Ash’s mom thinks I still know Latin well enough to speak sentences (I don’t, honestly, if I ever even did in the first place, languages do not become me), and I know a couple words in D’ni. Go me.

Dammit Jim, I’m an Archivist, not a Linguist!

36. When you are doing your dishes in the toilet, what would you do?
Why would I be doing dishes in the toilet? I’ll leave that to Ursula after she fills up her coffee cup.

37. First time you listened to rap music?
If “Men in Black” doesn’t count, then when we had Eminem’s 8-mile soundtrack sampled on the music at work. Oy.

38. Do you gamble?
No.

39. How tall are you?
6′1″ or thereabouts.

40. Any recent annoyances?
I reserve this answer for a later blog entry . To summarize in one word or less, though: people.

No, this isn’t a Gilette entry . Rather, it’s a threesome survey (shut up).

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Gary
2. Fox
3. Al

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. Alahmnat
2. Alahmnat5 (yes, creative!)
3. ozyllewellyn

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I’m employed
2. I completed an associates degree program
3. My exceedingly dry wit.

THREE THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My inability to sleep on what could be considered “normal” hours, largely because of aforementioned employment.
2. My tendency to get depressed
3. My general tendency to leave my room in shambles

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. Horror movies
2. People sneaking up on me
3. Losing my dearest

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Watch
2. iPod mini
3. Clothes

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. socks
2. An “I’m out of bed and dressed, what more do you want?” t-shirt
3. glasses (my fourth essential)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS (or artists (at the moment)):
1. Sarah McLachlan
2. Steve Ogden
3. Elly K (same style as Sarah McLachlan… look her up on iTunes)
(I wish it to be known that I hate these kinds of questions because they invariably lead to me being shunned for my tastes in music… just ’cause I’m a 20-year-old guy doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to listen to Sarah McLachlan )

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. So Long and Thanks For All the Fish (because it’s just that catchy, damnit)
2. Fugue (feat. Michel Jordan) – Steve Ogden
3. Let the River Run – Carly Simon

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. Getting a job in the gaming industry
2. Living on my own (well, not entirely on my own…)
3. Work on a computer game, regardless of #1

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. Friendship
2. Communication
3. Adventure, be it large or small

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
1. Rainstorms are like salve on a wound to me
2. I eat whipped cream straight from the can.
3. I like cheesecake
(not necessarily in the order requested )

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Eyes
2. Smile
3. Intelect

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN’T DO:
1. Drive a stick-shift
2. Drink diet soft drinks
3. Send mail in a timely fashion

THREE THINGS YOU CAN DO:
1. Write code, and just about anything else, with varying degrees of success
2. Talk to Ash for hours on end
3. Compute while on the phone

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. 3D Modeling
2. Drawing
3. Procrastinating

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Be with Ash
2. Sleep, kinda
3. Get some actual work done

THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING:
1. CG Artist
2. CG Animator
3. Web Designer

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Europe
2. Maine
3. Australia

THREE KID’S NAMES:
1. Alexander
2. Catherine
3. Kierkegaard

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Drive cross-country
2. Work for Cyan
3. Marry the love of my life

Pictures of last month’s Portland visit still forthcoming, I swear! To be honest, though, a Mysterium report just has never come to me, mostly because I don’t feel like there was much report-worthy this year… most of it was spent talking to people in small groups and hanging out with people (including the Rev Devs, who are really awesome folks and deserve every bit of praise given to them for their game). I missed laser tag and didn’t go to EDGE (though I got an EDGE disc) for a few reasons, not the least of which being that Brian and I stayed up until 5:00 AM or so talking to Mihshehl and R-chan. All in all, though, I did have a great time, and got to spend a very large amount of time, relatively, with the official-types. Dunno, such a thing just seems odd to me, especially when they actually know who I am… it’s just… weird. I know it isn’t and it shouldn’t be, but it is.

Anyway, I’ve got so much stuff to do right now between school, work, looking for more work, and free time projects… I have a painting that’s still not done which is already over 2 years past due and I don’t even know where the person who asked for it *is* anymore. If anybody knows where to contact Morning Rose, please let me know, or have her contact me through the normal channels… I want to get this painting to her. I’ve also got another painting in mind, though I dunno if that one’ll get shared around based on some of the reactions from my last painting. Plus I’ve got more stuff to tweak on DPWR and a portfolio site to build, ’cause I’ve had Ron bugging me about that lately. And Writing Project is always somewhere in the background demanding to be let out.

And finally, because I am a survey whore and Corico from deviantART always posts these things, here we go…

First job: Bus boy at a restauraunt. You can call it a Server Assistant, but I was a bus boy . And never again, lemme tell you.
First screen name: alahmnat5 in AIM, otherwise just Alahmnat. It’s still my screenname.
First self purchased CD: Um… I have no idea. Probably a movie soundtrack of some kind though… I don’t buy too many “albums”.
First funeral: Um… one of my great aunts, I think.
First credit card: I have no credit card.
First true love: Ash
First enemy: Oddly enough, not many people seem to hate me…
First big trip: Um… how big is “big”? ‘Cause I went on a trip to Tennessee when I was a little kid. And Disneyworld.
First concert: N/A
First musician you remember hearing in your house: Um… pass?

LASTS
Last big car ride: Going to Toronto with Brian for Mysterium.
Last kiss: September 8th
Last library book checked out: I don’t even remember.
Last movie seen: If you’re asking for the last one I went to see outside of work, then I think it was probably I, Robot. However, I’ve seen almost all of Shaun of the Dead through the projector glass.
Last beverage drank: Coke.
Last food consumed: Chili spaghetti, home-made.
Last phone call: Um, I answered the phone and it was mom.
Last CD played: Ovo (Peter Gabriel)
Last annoyance: School
Last soda drank: Coke (well, the off-brand crap)
Last ice cream eaten: Grasshopper Pie!!!!!!!! No, wait… there was an ice cream social at school and I had some rock-hard strawberry stuff… not very good.
Last shirt worn: One of my Kennedy Space Center shirts. I’m a space buff
Last website visited: deviantART, ’cause that’s where I got the survey.

I AM: Um… a guy? 20? In school? Up way too late?
I WANT: Ash
I HAVE: Two computers in use at the same time. And a sore throat (still).
I WISH: I could get a better job and get out of this city.
I HATE: living here.
I FEAR: heights. Sorta.
I HEAR: My computer humming.
I SEARCH: Google.
I WONDER: why I’m filling this out.
I REGRET: many things.
I LOVE: Ash
I ACHE: right here *points*.
I ALWAYS: procrastinate.
I AM NOT: a jock.
I DANCE: very poorly.
I SING: only slightly better .
I CRY: less than is probably really healthy.
I AM NOT ALWAYS: on time.
I WRITE: crazy stuff.
I WIN: the not-lottery.
I LOSE: sleep. Constantly.
I CONFUSE: everybody. But not as much as lonely does .
I NEED: Ash
I SHOULD: sleep soon.

‘YES or NO:
x. YOU KEEP A DIARY: I keep a blog. Intermittently.
x. YOU LIKE TO COOK: as much as I like to do calculus (not very much). Unless Ash is around to keep me from burning things .
x. YOU HAVE A SECRET YOU HAVE NOT SHARED WITH ANYONE: Probably.

DO YOU…?
HAVE A CRUSH: A-yup
WANT TO GET MARRIED: A-yup.
GET MOTION SICKNESS: A-nope.
THINK YOURE A HEALTH FREAK: *looks at the boxes of White Castle and McDonalds littering his room and cracks up*
GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS: Eh, sorta.
LIKE THUNDERSTORMS: A-yup-yup.
CURRENT HAIR COLOR: Dirt. Seriously.
EYE COLOR: Green/blue/gray.
BIRTHPLACE: Kentucky.

FAVORITES:
NUMBER: 5 (for purely strange reasons)
COLOR: Any shade of blue that isn’t close to pure 0000FF (whee, d0rk!)
DAY: what the hell kinda question is that? Hmm… September 6th, and I won’t say why .
MONTH: September, ’cause it’s a decent weather month and it has my birthday in it.
SONG(S): Currently, I’d probably say “Curtains” by Peter Gabriel.
DRINK: Vanilla Coke’s not bad… I’ll drink pretty much anything not diet.

PREFERENCES:
CUDDLE OR MAKE OUT: Both?
CHOCOLATE MILK, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Hot chocolate.
MILK, DARK OR WHITE CHOCOLATE: Milk or white.
VANILLA OR CHOCOLATE: Vanilla (this was written by a woman, wasn’t it? )

IN THE LAST 24 HRS, HAVE YOU…
CRIED? No. Came close last night though.
HELPED SOMEONE? Yes.
BOUGHT SOMETHING? A snack…
GOTTEN SICK? Been sick since Sunday night…
GONE TO THE MOVIES? I practically live there… but not beacause I watch a lot of movies.
GONE OUT FOR DINNER? Not in the last 24 hours, no.
SAID ‘I love you’?: If typing it counts…
WRITTEN A REAL LETTER: Um… e-mailed Pat thanking him for Revelation… guess that doesn’t count though.
TALKED TO AN EX?: I’d need to have an Ex first…
MISSED AN EX?: see above…
WRITTEN IN A JOURNAL?: Um… what am I doing now?
HAD A SERIOUS TALK?: Yeah, think so.
MISSED SOMEONE?: This… is a stupid question.
HUGGED SOMEONE? Mom. and lots of virtual hugs to Ash.
FOUGHT WITH YOUR PARENTS? No
FOUGHT WITH A FRIEND? No.

Would you ever:
1. Eat a bug?: Not intentionally.
2. Bungee jump?: No.
3. LOSE IT?: Repeatedly.
4. Kill someone?: No.
5. Kiss someone of the same sex?: Not in *that* way, no.
6. Parachute from a plane?: No.
7. Walk on hot coals?: Not willingly…
8. Go out with someone for their looks?: This is pretty shallow…
9 . Cheat on someone?: Why the hell is this even a question?
10. Be a vegetarian?: Um… no.
11. Wear plaid with stripes?: I think I’ve done this already… long ago.
12. IM a stranger?: Done it.
13. Sing Karaoke?: Not in public .
14. Get drunk off your Ass?: I don’t understand why this is a fun thing to do…
15. Run a red light?: Not intentionally. Yellow lights, though, yes.
16. Star in a porn video?: …
17. Dye your hair blue?: Prolly not, no.
18. Be on Survivor?: I’d probably have to break my resolution not to kill someone…
19. Wear makeup in public?: I’ve been in drama productions, so yes, but not, for instance, to the mall.
20. Not wear makeup in public?: Dumb question…
21. Cheat on a test?: I like not being expelled…
22. Make someone cry?: Probably not… I’m not a mean person.
23. Date someone more than 10 years older than you?: Um… not applicable?
24. Stay up all night? I’ve gotten to a point where I can’t actually do that anymore… I always crash sometime before 6 PM the next day.

Me, me, me:
Full Name: Gary Franklin Buddell
Age: 20
School: ITT Tech Norwood.
State: Kentucky
Height: 6′1″

Favorite:
Food: Pizza.
Drink: Repeat question…
Cereal: Alpha-bits. Shut up.
Restaurant: Milo’s is pretty good… @ Ash
Park: There really aren’t many good ones around here, but Sawyer Point is okay… miss Portland though.
Movie(s): LotR, Hidalgo, Spirit, and Spirited Away.
Candy: Reese’s Pieces. And Snickers.
Juice: Orange, with apple a close second.
Cartoon: I don’t really watch that many toons anymore.
City: Portland, w00!
Book: Hmm… maybe Hitchhiker’s Guide.

First…
Crush: If you can even have a decent crush in 1st grade…
Love: Ash
Date: Ash
Slow Dance With: Torrie Brink (my last crush)

Which one:
Glasses or Contacts: Glasses.
Dress or skirt: This was written by a woman!!!
Pants or Shorts: Determined by the weather.
Shoes or Sandals: Shoes
Food or Drink: Um… both.
TV or Radio: Neither.
Cellphone or Computer: Comp.
Diary or Journal: Journal
Walk or Run: Walk
VHS or DVD: DVD… damn Lucas…
CD or Tape: CD
Kiss or Hug: Both, though I guess it depends on the person .
Drink or Smoke: NEITHER, damnit.
Make out or Sex: Um… only one?
Sing or talk: Well, singing isn’t exactly good for conversing…
Diamond or Gold: Neither. Silver’s less… obnoxious.
Closed or Open: What? Closed.

Would you rather…
Live or Die: Um… this is another stupid question… this was written by a goth woman, wasn’t it?
Be Happy or Sad: There is a time and place for both.
Be lonely or Alone: To be alone is to be lonely. Or something.
Have many friends or One great friend: Somewhere in-between.
Stay at home or Go out: Home.
Smile or Laugh: depends on what’s going on… I don’t think laughing all the time would be good for me.
Yell or Scream: Yell. I go hoarse when I scream.
Draw or Write: Writing comes easier to me, but drawing is more expressive.
Run away or Move away: Move away

Yes or No..
Drunk? No…
Lost someone? In a manner of speaking.
Left someone? No.
Did anyone leave you, emotionally? Oh yeah, this is definitely a girl quiz.
Hurt someone? Probably, though never intentionally.
Made someone close to you cry? Yeah, unfortunately.
Fell in love? *points to the “want to get married?” question*
Cried over someone? Yup.
Dated someone you didn’t care about? Why?
Hated someone so much? Not so much, no…
Taken care of a baby? Not for an extended period of time.
Helped someone big time? Yep.
Pushed someone away? Never pushed.
Are you complicated? In many ways that are, themselves, complicated. (what does that even mean?)
Move away? Getting there…
Took someone away from another person? No.
Cried so much?: Yeah
Laugh so hard that your stomach ends up hurting? Yup.
Ever had a disease? Does strep throat count as a disease?

More quizzes from Corico…

[Spell your first name backwards]: yraG

[The story behind your pen name]: The short story is that I made it up. The long story is private

[3 words that sum you up]: weird, goofy, withdrawn

{DESCRIBE YOUR}

[Wallet]: Brown leather, full of plastic.

[Hairbrush]: It’s a comb.

[jewellery you wear daily]: A necklace that has a sharktooth and Ash’s ring on it, and a watch, if that counts.

[Pillow cover]: Depends on the sheets I’m using, ’cause I try to be coordinated and all that… yeah…

[Coffee cup]: I don’t have one that’s “mine”, really.

[Shoes]: Generic-brand white-ish gym shoes

[CD in stereo right now]: Weird Al – Bad Hair Day

[What are you are wearing now]: Green cargo shorts and a blue t-shirt. And underwear, if you must know

[Hair]: Kinda long and mottled-brown.

[In my mouth]: My tongue…

[In my head]: “He’s Gump, he’s Gump, he’s Gump… I need to go to school… but after I finish this quiz”

[Eating]: In a few minutes.

[Some of your favorite movies]: Return of the King, Lion King, Star Wars (the ORIGINAL one).

[Something you're looking forward to]: Mysterium in July, Path of the Shell, and September.

[The last thing you ate?]: A Red Baron breakfast pizza.

[Something that you are deathly afraid of?]: Breaking something important.

[Do you like candles?] Yup.

[Do you believe in a thing called love]: I’d have to get my head examined if I said no…

[Do you believe in soul mates?]: Yup

[Do you believe in love at first sight]: Couldn’t say… it didn’t happen to me but there were extenuating circumstances there .

[Do you believe in forgiveness]: Yeah.

[If you could have any animal for a pet]: Hmm… a golden lab I think… get ‘im as a puppy.

[What are 3 places you wouldn't mind relocating to?]: Portland, Seattle, and Montreal.

[What are some of your favorite pig out foods?]: chips, chewy Chips Ahoy!s

[What's something you wish you could understand better?]: Humans.

[Anyone you miss that you haven't seen in a long time? :] Ash. Very, very, very much Ash.

{In the last 24 hours, have you:}

[Cried:] Nope.

[Gotten sick:] Nope.

[Sang:] Yeah. “Sang well” is another question .

[Eaten:] Yes.

[Felt stupid:] A little.

[Hugged someone:] By proxy.

[Wanted to tell someone you loved them:] Yes, and have.

[Met someone new]: Yup, in class.

[Talked to someone you have a crush on:] Yeeeeeees…

[Fought with your parents:] Kinda.

[Dreamed about someone you can't be with:] Not last night, no.

[Are you center of attention or the wallflower:] Wallflower.

[What type of automobile do you drive:] 2003 Tan Chevy S-10 pick-up truck.

[Would u rather be with friends or on a date:] Date.

[Do you attend church:] I am a dirty heathen.

[Do you like being around people:] Depends on the people.

[Who have you known the longest:] This’s a really vague question, so I refuse to answer.

[Who do you always get along with:] I don’t *always* get along with anybody. There’s always moments. It’s part of being human.

[Who has the coolest siblings?] I’ve got dibs on “weirdest”…

[Who is the smartest:] In my family? Damn, I don’t know.

[Who is your Hero:] Anyone with the drive to keep going even when life beats the living shit out of them.

blah.

Corico keeps posting these things, and I keep filling them out… I’m so weak…

LAYER ONE:
– Name: Gary Buddell
– Birthplace: Newport Kentucky
– Gender: Male
– Eye Color: Blue / gray / green
– Hair Color: Brown
– Height: 6′1″
– Righty or Lefty: Neither
– Zodiac Sign: Virgo
– Chinese Zodiac: Um… I have no idea?

LAYER TWO:
– Your heritage: German / Irish
– Language: English (“American”)
– The shoes you wore today: gym shoes
– Your fears: breaking stuff, mostly. Everything else is rather mild in comparison.
– Your perfect meal: is one cooked with Ash.
– Goal you’d like to achieve: Get out of this place…

LAYER THREE:
– Your thoughts first waking up: Too early, back to sleep…
– Your best physical feature: Well, Ash would probably say my eyes or something, so I’ll go with that.
– Your bedtime: I have no bedtime. I answer not to the rhythms of time.
– Your most missed memory: If I missed it, how would I know about it? Oh, I think I get it. Um… spending June in Portland (that counts as one memory, right?)

LAYER FOUR:
– Pepsi or Coke: Whatever’s on tap
– McDonald’s or Burger King: It’s like voting for the president, they both suck.
– Single or group dates: This implies I’m able to go on a date…
– Adidas or Nike: Payless
– Usually wears: clothes…
– Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Earl Gray!
– Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate or vanilla what? This seriously alters the response! If it’s cake, then vanilla. If it’s milk shakes, then it’s chocolate. If it’s ice cream it’s Grasshopper Pie.
– Cappuccino or coffee: Tea, thank you.
– Favorite Emoticon: what the hell kind of question is this?

LAYER FIVE:
– Smoke: no
– Cuss: yes
– Sing: badly
– Take a shower: yes
– Have a crush: duh…
– Do you think you’ve been in love: see above…
– Want to go to college: University, no. Post-secondary degree, yes.
– Want to get married: Eventually.
– Get motion sickness: Nope (he says after spending a day at Paramount’s King’s Island…)
– Think you’re attractive: Someone does…
– Think you’re a health freak: Um, two words for you: White Castle.
– Get along with your parent(s): Meh…
– Like thunderstorms: Ohhhh yeah. Just not when the rain is freezing cold
– Play an instrument: Only if the computer keyboard counts.

LAYER SIX:
In the past month…

– Drank alcohol: No.
– Smoked: No.
– Done a drug: Tylenol…
– Had Sex: Getting personal…
– Made Out: Yeah, definitely getting personal…
– Gone on a date: If you want to classify it as that, then yes (but not in the past month).
– Gone to the mall?: Um… I think I work in what may be classified as a mall…
– Eaten an entire box of Oreos: See, this is another thing where clarifying what kind of chocolate would affect the answer, I hate Oreos.
– Eaten sushi: Nope.
– Been on stage: Not this month…
– Been dumped: Nope (yay!)
– Made homemade cookies: Nope.
– Gone skinny dipping: Nope.
– Dyed your hair: Nope.
– Stolen anything: Nope.

LAYER NINE:
In a guy/girl…

– Best eye color? : Ash.
– Best hair color? : Ash.
– Height: Ash.
– Best weight: Ash.
– Best articles of clothing: Ohh-ho-ho…

LAYER TEN:
– Number of drugs taken illegally: None
– Number of piercings: None
– Number of tattoos: None
– Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: Only one I think.
– Number of scars on my body: One or two…
– Number of things in my past that I regret: Strictly speaking, I don’t completely regret anything I’ve done, because it’s led me here, and here isn’t really all that bad now that I’m here. What a way to not answer…

Whee, surveys (I admit it, I’m a survey whore…)

1. What is your pen name?
Alahmnat (um, duh?)

2. How did you get the name?
Long story short, I made it up.

3. Do you use PC or Mac?
PC

4. What software you use most often?
Photoshop

5. Do you use mouse, or tablet?
Both

6. The color you use most often is?
Um… blue. And brown. And red. And green. Damnit, that’s a lot of colors…

7. What area of the pictures do you put most effort into?
The part that I’m drawing…

8. How long does it take you do draw a picture?
This is a survey for people who can actually DRAW, isn’t it?

9. Do you keep your rough drafts?
Only because Photoshop does layers.

10. Do you do anything else when you’re drawing pictures?
I listen to music, and tend to carry on conversations in IM.

11. Do you do doujinshi or original manga?
No.

12. Do you like doujinshi?
How about you define what that is before I answer?

13. Who are your favorite artists?
In no particular order, Corico, Kyoht, Goldenwolf… blue-el3ment… um… crap, drawing a blank on names… D.C. Simpson… the list probably goes on for a while…

14. What’s your favourite Anime/Manga?
If Spirited Away counts, then yeah, that.

15. Favourite Characters?
From my imagination or someone else’s? From mine, um… probably Larah (I’ll explain that if anybody has no idea what I’m talking about). From someone else’s… probably Millie (Ozy & Millie), Dori (Finding Nemo), Puss in Boots (Shrek 2), and Gandalf (LotR).

16. Any artists that you’d like to draw like?
No, though I wish I had some people’s grasp of anatomy and figures…

17. Any video games you enjoy?
Do I have to even say it?

18. Any favourite characters from video games?
Atrus. And Gehn… And Sirrus and Achenar… Catherine… yeah, that’s about it.

19. Do you write fanfics?
Only once, and it scared me to try and write about someone else’s world, so I stopped…

20. Any music that you often listen to while drawing?
The Myst soundtracks, lots of other soundtracks… general stuff from my music collection… pretty much anything.

21. Any websites that you totally admire?
Homestar Runner for its comic genius. I’d pick one for some sort of “fantastic mind-blowing design” category, but my brain isn’t working and most of the sites I visit regularly have mediocre or worse design…

22. What is your dream site like?
One that people actually participate on… and more than just the ****ing Word Association Game…

23. Do you like your own art?
Yeah… the more recent it is, the better I feel about it. The CG and design work I do I like more than my drawings…

24. Favourite celebrity?
Rand Miller (oh, he doesn’t count…) Um… Sir Ian McKellan. He’s the rockingest damn wizard in the world.

25. Favourite color?
dark blue (can you tell?)

26. Favourite food?
Pizza.

27. Favourite drink?
Hmm… probably orange juice *hides from Ash*

28. Any places you like to shop at?
B&N, Best Buy

29. Can you cook?
Ash says I can, I say only when Ash is around

30. Want to become a professional artist? what kind?
Does a game designer / modeling artist count?

31. What’s your favourite movie?
Oh gods… I hate these questions… So I won’t answer it.

32. Have you ever entered art contests?
Two. One was a flag design contest for the city I live in (Newport, KY) back in 5th grade. Amazingly, I was one of three winning entries that got combined to make the final flag. The other was an art contest at Mc, which I didn’t win.

33. When did you start drawing seriously?
Only after I left art school, ironically enough…

34. Anything that you often use as a reference when you draw?
Corbis is my almighty master…

35. Have you met any of your fans online?
Woah, I have a fan club! Holy crap, why does nobody tell me these things?!?!

36. What time do you usually go online?
All the time.

37. Do you have your own computer?
Yes. I have two of them, actually.

38. What would you say to the person you admire?
I think she already knows that…

39. Do you think of things when you draw?
Yeah… I think of what I’m drawing. What the hell kind of question is that?

40. Have you drawn bad because you think too much?
What the hell kind of crack is this person on?

41. Where do you often hang out?
My room. I’m a boring person.

42. Do you have any artists that you don’t like too much?
The ones who think their art is teh sh1t when really, it’s just shit. (In other words, about half of DeviantArt, 98% of which seems to be in the Anthro and Anime categories… O.o)

43. Situations in which you really don’t like being online?
This isn’t even a complete sentence!

44. Situations in which you hate when it comes to having websites?
When it’s offline because my host is a bitch? When my host won’t instal certain pieces of software that should be f*cking STANDARD because they’re a bitch? When nobody visits it and I’m paying lots of money for it?

45. What about things that make you NOT glad that the internet exists? Spam. Spam spam spam spam spam and spam. And porn.

46. What’s the first picture you’ve ever shown to the public online?
Hmm… some old Terragen thing I don’t even HAVE anymore.

47. Do you still have that?
Um… yes

48. Has your drawing style changed a lot?
I should certainly hope it has…

49. Have you experienced artists block before?
Who hasn’t?

50. How did you escape from it?
I didn’t… O.o

51. What happens when you’re in an art block?
More stupid questions!

52. Any artists that have influenced you a lot?
Yes.

53. What made you start drawing?
The fact that I can’t exactly express some things without pictures… which kinda sucks because I’m still not very good at drawing pictures…

54. Where did your site name come from?
Well, DPWR was a combination of two sites with semi-creative titles… this one came from being up for 36 hours straight and wanting a place I could bitch.

55. What do you think about net manners?
There are manners?

56. Have you ever been spammed?
Who hasn’t?

57. Ever thought about quitting your webpage?
DPWR? On occasion. The Realm? I actually have a couple times. If this is a DA-specific question, the answer is YES.

58. About how much KB is each picture?
Why are there so many STUPID QUESTIONS!!!!

59. Do you have good eyesite?
No.

60. If you can get any person’s autograph, who’s would you get?
Rand’s, and I already did. Three times. Plus RAWA’s. Yay.

61. What would you say to that artist when he/she autographs for you?
*crickets chirping…*
Later: *bouncedyboucedy* Rand signed my books!

62. Do you have fans of your art?
Did you already ask that question?

63. Do you like to draw on oekaki bbs?
No.

64. Are you good at art in school?
The kind of art we’re doing in school, yes. Thank god they don’t make me draw for a grade…

65. Did you take art lessons other than from school?
No.

66. Have you drawn a manga?
Ah, no, see, the question is, “Have I ever WANTED” to draw a manga”, in which case the answer is still HOLY GOD NO!

69. Lastly, what do you have to say to everyone?
Um… thanks for putting up with me?

Okay, so this one was really REALLY stupid. Sorry.

(re-done at a decent hour of the day)

Snagged from Corico, a very wonderful anthro artist whom I highly recommend pouncing and looking at on a regular basis (no, not like THAT ).

PAST
1.) first grade teacher’s name: Mrs. Hunt
2.) last word you said: “Yay!”
3.) last song you sang: I Will Always Return (I think… I suck at these “what did you do” questions because my mind is like a sieve)
4.) last thing you laughed at: Yet another one of Pat’s wholly inaparopriate Booth jokes…
5.) last time you cried: ’bout a week ago I think… not a very long one though.
6.) what color socks are you wearing: white
7.) what’s under your bed?: a box of something I don’t remember, a few clothes that are probably too small for me because I haven’t looked at them in about a year…
8.) what time did you wake up today: somewhere between 9:30 and 11:00, depending on when you want to say I actually woke up and just started smacking the alarm clock repeatedly… Yesterday I was up at 2:15 PM (yeah, I’m a lazy bastard, shut up)
9.) line from the last thing you wrote to someone: “it stuck again.” (shut UP,you sickos!)

FUTURE:
1.) what is your career going to be: Somewhere between game developer and web designer. That’s a pretty wide field there…
2.) where are you going to live: Somewhere else.
3.) how many kids do you want: I’m undecided on that one. If I had a boy, though, I’d name him Alexander, because that’s just a really nice name.
4.) what kind of car will you drive: Probably Sten. If Sten retires, probably something cheap. Beamers annoy me.
5.) if you could live anywhere in the world, where: Ooh… tough question… Dunno.

CURRENT:
1.) current hair: kinda long, kinda brown-ish (with a small patch of blond in the front… I look like Rogue ), and kinda unkempt and needing a shower
2.) current clothes: I’m gonna answer this one tomorrow. No reason…
3.) current jewelry: necklace with a sharktooth and Ash’s CTR ring on it (wish the CTR ring fit on my finger…)
4.) current annoyance: mom scraping the hallway’s lead paint without proper ventillation *cough hack braincellsdying*
5.) current smell: the aforementioned lead paint…
6.) current longing: Ash
7.) current desktop picture: My Myst IV: Revelation desktop.
8.) current worry: death from lead poisoning… (kidding)
9.) current hate: work
10.) current favorite article of clothing: my denim Exile shirt (that thing’s just cool…)
11.) do you currently like someone: That’s putting it lightly.

FAVORITES:
1.) favorite physical feature on a girl: Why do people have to ask this?
2.) favorite physical feature on a guy: And why don’t people construct these quizzes with a “select one” option for these kinds of questions?
3.) one person you wish was here right now: Ash (seeing a theme yet?)
4.) favorite authors: Ryan Miller, JRR Tolkien, Douglas Adams to name a few.
5.) favorite coffee: No coffee. Tea. Earl Gray. Hot.
6.) favorite smell: Ash’s bedroom, and that nifty air-conditioning smell (kinda one and the same, now that I think about it…)
7.) favorite way to waste time: putzing around online and talking to Ash (not like that’s wasted time…)
8.) favorite season: summer for the thunderstorms, fall for the crisp air.
9.) favorite color: blue. Definitely blue.
10.) favorite time of day: Snuggle time. Oh, clock… right… um, late at night. (I hate mornings)

FASHION:
1.) how many coats and jackets do you own: one. two if you wanna count the Exile denim shirt, which I treat like a jacket.
2.) do you wear a watch: I feel naked without it… My life at work is goverened by the clock.
3.) favorite pants color: probably blue, simply because most jeans come in that color…
4.) most expensive item of clothing: um… I dunno, nothing I buy is particularly expensive…
5.) most treasured: Ash’s CTR ring
6.) gold or silver: um… neither? Silver if I had to choose. Gold’s rather flashy.

YOUR FRIENDS
1.) do your friends know you: Somewhat
2.) what do they tend to be like: weird. Seriously.
3.) can you count on them: Sometimes.
4.) can they count on you: always
5.) do you find it hard to trust people: I’m gullible, if that answers your question. I’ve gotten more cynical lately though.

LASTS:
1.) last book you read: Inkarri, I think.
2.) last movie you watched: Kill Bill volume 2
3.) last movie you saw in theaters: Kill Bill volume 2
4.) Last show you watched on tv: Will & Grace. (I’m a baaaad person )
5.) last song you heard: Stay Awake (teh ir0ny!)
6.) last thing you had to drink: milk
7.) last thing you ate: steak, scalloped potatoes, and veggetables in cheese (damnit, now I’m hungry again)
8.) last time you showered: tonight
9.) last time you smiled: about three seconds ago
11.) last person you hugged: mom
12.) last person you danced with: Ash (and very badly, I might add)
13.) last person you talked to online: Ash
14.) last person you talked to on the phone: Um… probably mom… might’ve been Brian though.
15.) last thing you bought yourself: Some food… non-perisihibles… I think a CD, but don’t remember which one.

DO YOU?:
1.) smoke: No.
2.) do drugs: No.
3.) drink: Really, who the hell writes these things?
4.) sleep with stuffed animals: Yes (shut up, you!)
5.) have a dream that keeps coming back: More like people in dreams…
6.) play an instrument: only if computer keyboard counts… rather monotone…
7.) believe there is life on other planets: Yes, if only because it makes the fundies squirm
8.) read the newspaper: I read the newspaper? O.o
9.) have any gay or lesbian friends: Yup.
10.) believe in miracles: Yes, actually, I do. Love counts
11.) consider police a friend or foe: I think “annoying” fits better here…

FEELINGS:
1.) do you have any regrets: Duh…
2.) i am happiest when: I’m with Ash (I liked Cor’s answer… “when I’m not unhappy”)
3.) i feel lonely: On occasion.
4.) what makes you mad: Idiots. Especially (but not limited to in any way) the ones I’m forced to work with…

THIS OR THAT:
1.) bath or shower: shower.

OTHER STUFF:
1.) what’s the craziest thing you have ever done: Hmm… crazy… stolen a stick from Canada ranks right up there… for sheer balls, though, I’d have to say planning a week-long trip to someone’s house when I’ve never actually met them before, and have no idea of their parents will be able to stand me… O.o (needless to say, that worked out much better than I’d ever expected )
2.) any bad habits: nail biting, knuckle cracking
3.) any secret crushes: No secret ones, no…
4.) do you think too much: Duh…

If anybody has a good survey thing, feel free to post a link in the ShoutBack box. I’m in a questionaire kind of mood right now.