QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK:  (Sorry, I'm way behind on posting these as usual!!!)

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well, despite the fact that I've had three boyfriends...I've never been on anything I consider a date. perhaps that's the worst of all.

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This guy who was a friend of a friend asked me out . We were like 19 so no cool clubs or anything! We met at the movie theatre. As soon as we got to the ticket line he just stood there waiting me to go first. Now seriously i am all about equal rights and all that stuff, but if YOU asked me out than i assume YOU will pay for the date. My mother always said the the one who invites the other should be the one who picks up the tab, it's a way to show that you are making the effort to impress this person, if they don't make that effort, they won't make effort in much else later in that relasionship. Luckely i did bring money just in case, but he stood there like he was being a gentleman to let me pay first! Than he bought himself popcorn and a drink and didn't offer anything to me! not even just a hand full of popcorn!
Ok so we go see this amazing movie (mystic river awsome!! by the way i am a movie geek) of course i am blown away by this movie , all he had to say was "i didn't really get what was going on". Now if you've seen this movie, it's not complecated, it's not like a deep mind bender or anything like that. pretty cut and dry.
He asked if i wanted to grab a cup of coffee afterward and for some reason i agreed. so i drove us over there (he had no car, i don't judge people on their transportation situation, but in this case it was just iceing). he doesn't offer to buy me a cup of coffee,(seriously what is that like a buck fifty?) and we sit down and start chatting.
He tells me he is really into techno, now i have never really liked techno, and that is what i said, and explained why. well this did not stop him from telling me all the minut details of techno for oh about an hour and a half (not kidding). I understand you sharing your point of veiw on something you are passionate about, but if i don't like the subject, i don't really need to hear your point of veiw for that long of a period. the silence on my end should have tipped that off, not to mention the excessive looking around in complete bordem. i tired to change the subject on many occasions, thinking perhaps he was nervous and just couldn't stop (we all have been there) the only responce was "uh yeah.. anyway techno blah blah blah"
At that point a friend of mine called me (i know it's rude to answer the phone but i had to get out FOR THE LOVE OF GOD). me:"oh my gosh i totally forgot we were supposed to do that" my friend :"what the hell are you talking about i just want to know how your date went" Me:"oh yeah i'm so sorry i will be there as soon as possible" my friend :"Kelli what is wrong with you, have been self medicating?"
I know it sounds harsh, but you know i am not a bad person, i just felt as if i would be in this techno hell until the coffee shop finally asked us to leave! thats would have been at least 4 for hours.
I dropped him off at his dorm, said goodnight, he leaned in, i went for the hug. He said he'd call, he did, i did not return that phone call (still sounds harsh but i fear my niceness will take over and i would put myself in that position again)
Later i found out that he turned into this strait edge kid (ugh) and would go to partys and bars to preach to people about the deamons of the drink. dodged that bullet. I still run into him, and he talks about hanging out sometime, i politly nod and back away slowly, lest i be sucked into a conversation about .. i don't know.. john mayer? or something of equal disinterest to me!

QUESTION #11:

Do you get crushes? What was your best/worst crush?

(I don't really get crushes, but I think I had a few minor mini-crushes while I was doing Paris. Something about dressing like Paris made me have more interest in men than usual. But nothing like the major crushes that I remember friends of mine having during their teen years.)

-Laura

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ARG. yes, I've gotten crushes, quite a few actually, and they more often than not end up being on people who are the wrong type (straight girl, gay guy, either...and taken.) it's quite aggravating.

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I get crushes all the time. The anticipation is the best part. Even though i have a boyfreind and nothing ever happens anyway.

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I have had some massive hard core crushs in my day i'll tell ya!In 9th grade i went to a small visual and performing arts school, but if you rode the bus you had to stop and hang out in the public school befor you caught the bus to the charter school. My friend Monika went to the public school so i would hang out in a certin hallway with her waiting for this boy (he was senior i was a freshman) to walk down the hall. Of course i never spoke to him (which is funny because we are now friends through other aquantinces). The most shameful was on Valentines day i bought him a flower and taped it to his locker with a small card (unsigned of course, god forbid he know who i am) and did rounds to make sure he got it. Sadly someone stole it off of his locker befor he could. Ah freshman year...

---- was i guess a crush of mine. I always saw him with his beautiful hair at ruby tuesdays working, and i always hoped we would get his section. Oddly when I ran into him at the bar i met him at i didn't know who he was. He wasn't in work attire and didn't have his hair pulled back. When we started talking he told me where he worked, it was as if my mind said "*chime* oh hell yes, this is the hot ruby tuesday guy". I made it a conquest!! I called monika the next day, as if I were in highschool again, and exclaimed "monika guess who i kissed!! hot ruby tuesday guy!!!" not quite as poetic as one would hope, but i think it is funny.

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Yes, I get crushes. Aren't they bad and good at the same time? But sometimes they're neither good nor bad: The crush is just there, a dream, hope, illusion that lacks substantive meaning.

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Are you kidding? Do you remember our freshman year when I had a list of 10 guys I had crushes on? I'm not so bad now, but I do still get the occasional crush, mostly on people I admire.

My best crush was on one of my entomology profs. I fell for him the moment I saw him giving his job talk. Then I met his wife and she was so great that I got a double crush!

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Ohhhh, yeah. I definitely get crushes. The absolute WORST ones are on B-list celebrities, oddly enough. I had a crush on a particular celebrity at one point (and I'm not going to say who) that was almost debilitating. The most painful part of that, of course, was knowing how stupid it was, while having it.

QUESTION # 10:

What would you wear to a Fetish Ball?

(I went as the Swiss Miss and served chocolate... silly and a little sexy.)

-Laura

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i would cover myself in candlewax and go as a human candle.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK #9:

Do you have a favorite outfit or item of clothing? Why is it your favorite?

-Laura

(I think the bright green jacket is my favorite right now, but I LOVE the shinny, pink lensed Elvis sunglasses too....)

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I used to have a lot of favorites. Now it's probably a few of my t-shirts, like my AC/DC shirt. One of my friends and I got the same shirt at a concert and vowed to wear them if we ever got married. I also love the one that a friend made for me. It says "Blinded by Science". Finally, there's one I got from Mighty Girl that says "I fuck like a girl".

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A definite tie between my black three-piece suit with a red silk tie and the perpetually-dirty cargo pants with an old tshirt. The former is definitely a power costume - I can be my snootiest, sharpest, and grinning-most. The latter I wear when I work in the machine shop, which is one of my favorite things to do.

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Not specifically but a pair of blue jeans and a hooded sweatshirt that zips up... All about the funcionality of layers..l. being able to adapt the clothing for the climate that day... Unless you would consider an apron clothing... My Takach Printmaking apron... mmm comfort...

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my Teva sandals...
they are durrable..
have this added baggage attached to it by the crowd of hippies, hipsters, and mountaineers... a certain aura of granola follows them everywhere they go.
plus they are equally happy wet as dry...
and let my feet breathe freely..
almost like asthma inhalers for my feet.

QUESTION #8

Do you think Paris is attractive?

(I don't think she is attractive. She's too thin, too blonde, too tan, too unemotive, and way too fake... I've never understood why people find that to be attractive. I almost always prefer the "before pictures" to the "after.")

-Laura

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ahh.....
what does paris look like again?

I DO think she's too dam lanky with a squarish mug that will just look terrible when she's older (I often "age peeps" in my mind... the really good lookers are those that are not only attractive now, but age gracefully as well)

"What do looks have to do with attraction again?" Said one chromosome to the other...

A couple of months ago I met a woman that I think is one of the sexiest people I've ever come across... and it's 90% b/c I can tell she's smarter than I am... she's fit and has great skin.. which helps.. but the real deal is all about her big noodle upstairs. I dink I wanna babies wid her... AuuuuGah! ;.P

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I don't think Paris is very attractive. If she smiled more, she might reach "cute" in my book, but not much more than that. I've expressed this before, but I also think you are more attractive as yourself than as Paris. She has that odd plastic quality that makes her seem like a department store mannequin. Not a quality I find appealing.

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i think paris hilton has the scariest jawline i have ever seen...

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YES