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I guess the key there is to never stop learning.TPBM knows how Guy’s last name is pronounced and would like to tell me.
I do, and would like to tell you, but have been sworn to keep it mum on pain of slow dismemberment.TPBM would like to learn another language.
Absolutely. I'd like to learn as any languages as possible.TPBM has a long lost of errands for this weekend.
Yes. The usual and an extra interesting one. TPBM is wondering about a friend s/he hasn't heard from in a while.
I actually have a few friends I'd like to hear back from.[Hi everyone! Grad school almost murdered my sleep schedule. And because of a few personal things, I couldn't really come online.]
TPBM has a name that is mispronounced.
OOC: Welcome back, Deepak! The place has been too quiet without you! Get some sleep, buddy! :)My real life last name is Haines-Temons. Haines rhymes with chains and Temons rhymes with Simmons. I've had my name butchered so many times that I just changed it to Kelly for my writing career.
TPBM enjoys eating at McDonald’s.
I do. I love their Oreo McFlurries so much. [I finally slept in a bed last night from 8 till 12 today morning. Never felt better. Sleeping an hour a day for a week makes you feel like crap.]
TPBM loves white chocolate.
I do, especially white chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Mmmm-mmm-mmm! Now all they need to do is make white chocolate Snickers bars. Even if there are no new messages there, TPBM likes to comb over old WSS threads for nostalgia purposes.
I haven't done that yet. TPBM is known for being a clean freak.
I wouldn't necessarily go that far, but I do enjoy a clean living space.TPBM is puzzled by the lack of activity in the story contests over the past few weeks.
Considering that I wasn't here to experience that, I might sort of understand the lack of activity. (Hint: My reason is a crapload of work that left me sleep deprived :P)TPBM has to a lot to catch up on.
*groans* don't remind me.TPBM has had a long day?
Actually a short one since I've spent most of it sleeping. TPBM loves M&M's
Nope. I'm Canadian and so prefer Smarties, which are not the same as what Americans call smarties.TPBM likes Chinese food take out rather than eating in.
Depends on which restaurant. TPBM has at least one friend who is obsessed with animal videos online.
My mom is a proud animal lover and goes nuts over those videos. I go nuts over them too. They're so cute! ^_^One of TPBM’s bad habits is peeling skin off of his or her fingers and lips.
Nope.TPBM likes to watch cooking competition shows.
The only way I would ever agree to watch those is if I got to eat the food afterwards. The meals look so good, yet they're so far away...TPBM knows what it means to be somebody’s rock and would like to tell me.
I do know and would like to tell you, but it's meaning is a secret... ;-)It means that the person is not shaken by life events, and supports you with calm and powerful strength and stability in and through the most distressing life-events.
TPBM has decided to start a journal, but after buying a journal finds time to not make the time to write in it.
I've been using the same Lego-themed journal since 2012 and it's not full yet. I don't feel the need to buy a new one just yet.TPBM owns a black trench coat.
Yes. TPBM has already started the Sunday morning chores.
I finished them a day early :)TPBM likes writing poetry.
Depends on my mood.TPBM likes analyzing poetry.
Yes though I'm probably not very good at it.TPBM wants to know what Smarties from Canada (a la Guy's message @7964) are like.
I play soccer (futbol) and golf.TPBM values writing over assignments, and sometimes fails to meet deadlines because of it.
No, I always get my homework done on time. TPBM doesn't get enough sleep because of all the things they have to do.
To avoid that problem I've redefined 'enough sleep' to mean the sleep I manage to get.TPBM is iconoclastic.
Not at all. I've been a devote Christian for years, but I still try to respect the beliefs of others. TPBM thinks it would be cool to see an NFL game go into 0-0 overtime.
If I was interested in football, then yes, that would be pretty cool. As far as sports go, I'm still in shock over Holly Holm's KO victory over Ronda Rousey in the UFC.TPBM agrees with the statement, "The hardest ones to love are the ones who need it the most."
Yes so true!TPBM had a teacher that has had such great influence on them to this day.
I had a lot of good teachers during my student career, but none of them stand out as being an "influence".TPBM believes that learning another person’s circumstances makes you less likely to cast judgment on that person.
I have grown to practice being non-judgmental regardless of my awareness or not a person's circumstances.TPBM keeps an old jean jacket that is so worn out that it is a waste of time to put it on.
I don't own a jean jacket, so no. I own a leather jacket that hasn't seen polishing spray since 2004 and is probably worn out.TPBM once got the alternative metal band Bush and the former US President Bush mixed up.
I can't say I have. TPBM feels that Mary Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" is still relevant today.
I do. (That was an interesting essay!)TPBM is learning that there are few really new ideas.
Steve Martin did an entire comedy routine about how everything is borrowed from something and even used other comedians' material to prove his point. In other words, yes, I agree there are few new ideas.TPBM knows that job interviews are just as nerve-wracking for the bosses as they are for the potential employees.
I've never heard that before, but it's comforting to know!TPBM feels that college interviews and job interviews are different experiences.
I imagine that they are, but have no feeling that they are.TPBM remembers with some ambivalence his/her university days.
My university days were wrought with depression from not seeing my family often enough and having few friends I could talk to while in Bellingham. I try to think about more positive thoughts instead, such as what the present and future hold for me.TPBM wants to learn how to market his or her own creative writing without sounding too aggressive or obnoxious.
It sounds like a useful life and career skill.TPBM would like to sit in on a Supreme Court hearing.
A hesitant yes.TPBM has thought of taking law at university.
Nope. I'm going to study mechanical engineering.TPBM enjoys problem-solving.
As long as those problems don't spiral out of control and I don't have a short time limit, yes, I can see how that'd be fun.TPBM feels bad about leaving negative reviews for books, but knows that it must be done in the interest of fairness and honesty.
Yes, so long as the negative review explains what the reader disliked, rather than just being a rage rant. TPBM enjoys participating in socratic seminars
Absolutely.TPBM realises that many online reviews are not to be trusted.
Yes, but that is because I do not trust reviews regardless of the medium within which they are expressed. TPBM rarely buys books because of a review.
If I paid attention to all the one-star reviews of "January First" by Michael Schofield, I probably wouldn't have bought it. But I did and I made my own judgments of the book. I gave it five stars.TPBM wants to visit Disneyland for vacation.
Exciting isn't the word i'd use.TPBM is excited about something?
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