32 posts tagged “qotd”

What are the things in life that you're truly passionate about? 
Submitted by Jess.

• Soul searching, if we have souls.
• Loving others.
• Finding myself so I can love myself and then love others better.
• Self-sacrifice.
• The dotted line between love and hatred.
• Books. I love books.
• Words, words, words.
• Connections and patterns.
• Fresh air.
• Clean rain.
  

How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something? 
Submitted by LeendaDLL.  

I feel like someone's asked this question on here.  But my name comes from a poem I wrote over the summer about an interaction between a baby and a kitten, called "Collector's Items":

Lorraine was a girl who played with trifles,
Her eyes always caressed the simplest trinkets,
She fondled and fumbled with diary locks,
She knitted and purled with the blandest strings,
She always nibbled colored plastic over dribbled crystal,
She crossed prismatic sand with pricked diamonds, and
Lorraine loved all things glisteningly mundane.

Her cat Sylvia preened her finest furs,
Lorraine cultivated her litter near the kitten’s pride,
Lorraine and Sylvia disagreed on collecting,
Sylvia adored diamonds and the finest yarns,
Lorraine preferred the most vibrant colors,
Lorraine coddled the most sensual textures, so
Lorraine and Sylvia always snipped at each other.

One day, Sylvia spread nonsense about Lorraine –
In a fit of pique, Sylvia took Lorraine’s breath away,
She put it in her den and covered it with scents,
Sylvia circled the scene of the crime and mewed,
She pranced about the tiny girl with royal airs, and
She pawed the swaddled playground with nose in clouds.
Lorraine rested amongst her celestial trifles in peace.

I generally like cats more than baby people.  But I adopted the screenname Sylvia's Revenge because what's wrong with a little decadence?  What's wrong with preferring space?  And why can't spaces be shared?  Sylvia may have been too rash, but c'est la vie.  My screenname reflects the protection of kitten individualism.  :-p

What's your sign?  What do you think of astrology and horoscopes?

I'm a Scorpio.  We rock.  Astrology and horoscopes illustrate this fact.  That's all I need to know.
I am also a Wood Ox.  Oxes also rock boxes.  And the earth is our box.  I GOT DEEP RIGHT THERE.  ;-)

What's the most memorable building you've lived in?
Submitted by Shelly.

A homeless shelter.  There was a cool playground outside of it, but we only stayed for one night.  Two days.  It was the second time I've ever slept in a bunk bed.  To be as poor as I was/am, I was snotty and I thought it looked disgusting.  The food was...not yummy.  I didn't eat it all, and I kinda wished people would clean the food off the floor.  I remember there being a small devotional room or prayer room.  I thought that was the prettiest part of the shelter.  It wasn't very big, and for some reason it didn't feel crowded to me. 

Maybe this question answers the most memorable place I've stayed in rather than the most memorable building I've lived in. 

The answer to that would be my aunt's house, hands down.  She bought it one or two years after I was born, and I practically grew up there as much as any place my mother and I lived on our own.  I still love that house.  My aunt loved decorating and redecorating, and her house looks exquisitely coordinated, expensively outfitted, and ridiculously comfortable.  The upstairs has always been hot, and the basement has always been storage/living space.  If they took out all the stored items down there, they could open up a little flat with a shared kitchen space.   I don't see that happening any time soon.  My grandmother has the greenest thumb ever ever.  ^_^

Also, I hate dial-up and breakdowns. I'm trudging through law school, and I'm learning to avoid awkwardness in social environments.  Sometimes I just can't help it.

What's the last thing you usually do or think about before you fall asleep?

Whether Ryan has gone to sleep yet, and I usually decide I'm not going to X class tomorrow because I did no preparations for X.  And I go.  And I hate it.

What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why? 
Submitted by ducnly.vox.com.

I wish I did have a TiVo or something.  I'm not watching much of anything this season.  My internet and my television do not like each other, so they stay in separate rooms.  Of course, this also means I rarely see the light of day, but I make that sacrifice.

What's your favorite foreign accent?

Can you tell the owners of this site are Amurrcan?  lol

I don't know if I have one "favorite;" all accents to me sound damned interesting.  European accents are pretty kickin', and African accents (especially from Morocco and Nigeria).  Some Asian accents are fairly interesting (Korean, Nepalese, Indian, and my friend did a cool impression of a Hawaiian accent from when she briefly grew up there).  I like Australian accents, and Canadian accents are cool even though they arguably don't sound very much different from American or French accents.  Southeastern American accents surprise me because they sound like English accents that are exaggeratedly relaxed (and that seems wholly likely with American history). 

I guess that's my list o' accents.  I'll tag this later when I have the energy.

What's up?

I'm threatening my boyfriend with telling the internets he's horny.  :-p 

Aside from that, I'm doing nothing of importance.  My mother's whining because she lost the lottery.  I'm rockin' out to those striped whites.  (Sounds like ruined laundry, but they're cool.)

If you could only save one thing in a house fire (thing, not person), what would it be and why?
Submitted by donnunn.

Wah, Ryan doesn't count as a toy!

Hmmm. 

Whatever item has my money and vital information in it.

(Okay, I'm lying; my laptop!)

What time period would you have lived in, if you could have lived at any time?

The part of the future where thinking controls our existence.  I'd be a rebel bad ass motherfucker if left to my imagination.  "For there is nothing good or bad/But thinking makes it so," said Mr. Hamlet.

Also, another cool poem that brings a smile to my face: "The Wit" by Elizabeth Bishop

"Wait. Let me think a minute," you said.
And in the minute we saw:
Eve and Newton with an apple apiece,
and Moses with the Law,
Socrates, who scratched his curly head,
and many more from Greece,
all coming hurrying up to now,
bid by your crinkled brow.

But then you made a brilliant pun.
We gave a thunderclap of laughter.
Flustered, your helpers vanished one by one;
and through the conversational spaces, after,
we caught, - back, back, far, far, -
the glinting birthday of a fractious star.