Got this from Mindy, and you can visit her to learn how far back the spiral twists. Here we go:
1. Do you try to look hot when you go to the grocery store just in case someone recognizes you from your blog?
I’ve only ever posted one picture of myself on my blog. I do look substantially tidier than that (but not hot) whenever I leave the house. If someone I’ve never met before could recognize me from that picture, I think I’d kill myself.
2. Are the photos you post Photoshopped or otherwise altered?
I crop, I reduce, I remove pet red-eye – that’s all. Be afraid!
3. Do you like it when creeps or dorks email you?
Hey. Some of my best friends …
4. Do you lie in your blog?
What would be the point? I tell so little about myself as it is.
5. Are you passive-aggressive in your blog?
No, but I am passive-resistant in my blog, generally on Mondays.
6. Do you ever threaten to quit writing so people will tell you not to stop?
Ha! I’ve seen that done. It’s different from an existential crisis that drives you to say stupid things you take back later. We’re talking cynical manipulation. If I caught myself doing it, I would take it as a sign I should find a saner hobby.
7. Are you in therapy? If not, should you be? If so, is it helping?
Not currently. I don’t think I need it right now. There was a time, though … hoo boy! Suffice to say, it changed my life for the better, so I guess it helped. (During the therapy, I nearly slapped my therapist. Is that a bad thing? She was a Maslowian, so you know. She may well have deserved it. Still, I’ve often wondered.)
8. Do you delete mean comments? Do you fake nice ones?
I’ve only ever deleted one comment I thought was mean. The commenter called me on it, and he was right to do so. I’ve never faked a nice one. Sometimes it’s agony to wait for nice comments, but if I really need to see them, I just go to other people’s blogs and write nice comments myself.
9. Have you ever rubbed one out while reading a blog? How about after?
Wha …? Ha! You should be so good! With all due respect, as writers, y’all don’t exactly inspire lacivious thoughts. (Except for Jo and her old Par1s H1lton/Democratic Party installments.) Work on that, please, and get back to me.
10. If your readers knew you in person, would they like you more or like you less?
Less, maybe. I’m a lot quieter in real life, though pretty sardonic.
11. Do you have a job?
Lord, don’t get me started about my job. Next question.
12. If someone offered you a decent salary to blog full-time without restrictions, would you do it?
No earthly way. I know I’m the only one who has answered in the negative here, but I mean it. I’m not the commercial-art type – trying to be creative for money would kill all the fun. Well, maybe if I could blog about public policy. Nothing remotely creative about that. But then nobody would read it, and I would get depressed!
13. Which blogger do you want to meet in real life?
Everybody on my blog list, period.
14. Which bloggers have you made out with?
None. And I can’t seem to interest my husband in starting a blog, so my prospects are grim.
15. Do you usually act like you have more money or less money than you really have?
More, probably. It’s just easier than explaining our pathetically inadequate budgeting system all the time.
16. Does your family read your blog?
Yes, at least most of the nearest ones do. Or claim to, and pass the occasional pop quiz to prove it.
17. How old is your blog?
[pauses for a math break] [let’s see, ‘thirty days hath September …’] About eight months old. I know, I know, this place still looks like a fixer-upper …
18. Do you get more than 1000 page views per day? Do you care?
Good Lord, not remotely. Sorry to say, once in a while, I care a lot. But I’ve seen the hassles that come from a large readership – commenters start to get pushy, and a blogger is compelled to block comments, or write rants, or invite commenters out the same way they came in. I’m actually overjoyed with my small but laid-back readership.
19. Do you have another secret blog in which you write about being depressed, slutty, or a liar?
Uh, no. I do have a second blog, but it’s only secret because I haven’t advertised it much.
20. Have you ever given another blogger money for his/her writing?
No, but I really ought to start. Have any referrals?
21. Do you report the money you earn from your blog on your taxes?
Sh-h-h-h! Ix-nay on the eporting-ray. ::ahem:: I thought I told you, I would never blog for money!
22. Is blogging narcissistic?
What, are you kidding? It’s the defining characteristic. Who writes these questions?
23. Do you feel guilty when you don't post for a long time?
Yes. Stupid, but there it is. This is the darndest hobby I’ve ever had.
24. Do you like John Mayer?
Well, that song on the radio, the one about the real world, was very catchy. But I don’t go in for these whispery jazz tenors.
25. Do you have enemies?
I used to, but not anymore. We all made up at the 20-year reunion. Then we ganged up and killed the band because they wouldn’t play the song from our senior prom, “Come Sail Away”. Good memories …
26. Are you lonely?
I’m never lonely. I’m never alone long enough.
27. Why bother?
Because This Is All There Is. There is no Before, there is no After. Bet you’re sorry you asked!
Oh mah everlovin god god,Pam! I was tooling along with a small, sardonic smila (see, I pay attention), and suddenly, WHAMMO! You have anothe fresking blog??? Three seconds into it, and I am frantically trying to remember blogrolling's URL. ["A, B, C, D, "] [carry the one]
Blogrolled!!! Posted!! Trackbacked!!
Posted by: Mindy | June 07, 2004 at 02:32 AM
hey there Pam! just popped here via Mindy and wanted to say hello.
I have no idea what you two are on about with tracking back and seeing how far this spirals ;) but then i never did 'get' trackback anyway!
I have done the meme though.
I hope you will pop over to mine and see for yourself :D
bye!
Posted by: Fluffy | June 07, 2004 at 04:16 AM
Not on your blogroll but I'd love to meet ya! BTW I am putting you on mine right now! All because of Snuffaluffagus!
Posted by: Genuine | June 07, 2004 at 08:12 AM
How fun! I am going to do it... tomorrow! Just wanted to say hi from one of your laid back readers.
Posted by: Kristal | June 07, 2004 at 10:22 PM