can almost understand why people leap from bridges

Anyone in California want to be my friend?

I live a block (yes, and a walk through a park. and down some steps.) from the beach.

I tend to be very hygienic: I shower at least weekly and only rarely forget to put on deodorant.

I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie.

Someone once told me I was cool; he was an escaped mental patient so you know it’s true. No, that didn’t actually happen.

I have a large quantity of bushy red hair. You’ll probably find strands of it in body parts that you didn’t even know you had.

I am deathly afraid of spiders (even little tiny harmless ones), but I will never let you kill one.

I may be addicted to caffeine, or I may just enjoy hot beverages. Rest assured, if a month of working hasn’t made me an addict yet, it will soon. (There’s a Starbuck’s cafe across the street. ACROSS THE STREET!)

I have never had a problem with going over my cell phone minutes. I use my decline button 90% of the time, and I think I like text messaging better anyway.

I love to eat. I’m too lazy to cook. I’m also very picky. Ethically, I think eating meat is kind of wrong, but I don’t like enough vegetables to ever be able to carry off being a vegetarian. I’d probably just eat lots of potato chips and call it a day.

I like to spend money on ridiculous things.

I am bad at keeping in touch with people. I really think this stems back to my hatred of phones.

I like to think of myself as a music elitist, but I don’t really know enough about it to actually be one. Also because I refuse to stop listening to Hilary Duff.

I get a little obsessivecompulsive sometimes.

I’m emotionally unavailable. Mostly because I’m unstable & don’t really have continuous emotions.

I love the taste of onions, garlic, tomato, and peppers. I will, however, refuse to eat pieces of onion, garlic, tomato, or peppers.

I treat inanimate objects (and inanimate non-objects) as though they are my children. Examples include: my car, my 401K (which has earned $0.56 since Thursday), and my beeper (which I cannot figure out how to use).

I don’t need a pet because I have a boyfriend.

I tell people I don’t photograph well, but really I just think I’m ugly.

I cry every time I get my hair cut.

I really, desperately want girl friends. I love boyspacefriends, but there’s something more fun about girls. Two out of the 3 good female friends I had in college became psychotic. Consequently, I am no longer friends with them.

I am ridiculously shy. I will probably not talk for the first month I know you.

So. Are we friends?

And, because I was tagged by ImperfectlyBeautiful:

five details about me:
12345. Didn’t I just do that? What’s odd is I didn’t even know it before I started filling out this survey.

five details about your appearance right now:
1. My pants are made of gray wool.
2. I am barefoot & sitting on my feet.
3. I’m not wearing my earrings anymore because I somehow developed this tic where I repeated pull on them and hurt myself.
4. I accidentally bit my nails really short at some point. I blame work.
5. I am wearing an ID badge where my hair appears to be a very dark brown.

five things you did yesterday:
1. Wandered around IKEA for 3 hours.
2. Went through my cell phone and copied everyone’s numbers into my planner.
3. Watched football.
4. Read through all of mugglenet’s conspiracy theories.
5. Bought Halloween cookies because they were so festive.

five memorable things you did in the last year:
1. Traded my soul for a new Toyota Camry. (I get the soul back after I pay massive amounts of money.)
2. Moved across the freaking country.
3. Obtained gainful employment.
4. Graduated from college.
5. Flew first class for the first time ever.

five favorite musicians/singers/bands:
1. Death Cab
2. Ben Kweller
3. The New Pornographers
4. Damien Rice
5. The Shins

five favorite movies:
1. Labyrinth
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Charlotte’s Web
4. Even though it hasn’t been released yet, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
5. Napoleon Dynamite

five things that make you happy:
1. Thunderstorms.
2. Stargazing.
3. Going down to the beach at night & being unable to tell the difference between the sky & the sea.
4. Shopping.
5. Text messages & IMs.

five things that don’t impress you:
1. Capitalization (though it does make things easier to read).
2. A boy telling me how something he’s doing is chivalrous & how he likes to do chivalrous things & how his friends all say how chivalrous he is.
3. Anything that is meant to impress me.
4. Me.
5. People who think they’re literary geniuses just because they have a livejournal & a short attention span that renders them incapable of watching television.

five things you can’t live without:
1. Keebler Rainbow Chocolate Chip cookies & milk.
2. My family. That’s probably the corniest thing I’ve ever said, but I can’t stand most other people.
3. Internet. I don’t have to use it, but I get antsy thinking about how I would be so helpless without it.
4. The fact that I’m easily entertained. Otherwise I’d probably quit my job by slicing my wristsopen with a procedure document.
5. More corny, but… the Chad. He gets me.

five people that you’d like to fill this out:
1. and she breaks
2. [Konstantine]
3. indoubitably me*
4. ((brilliant))
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