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False, but I would have said the same thing at this time yesterday, only to end up going to two meetings afterwards. How do I love thee, small business? Let me count the ways.

TNP has pets of two or more different species right now.

False, no pets. Small place and allergic family.

TNP has visited a chiropractor.

False; they are quacks and my sister the physical therapist would hit me.

TNP has visited an acupuncturist.

False. Never expect to, either.

TNP will go camping this weekend.

False. Sadly, I haven't been in years. Used to love it.

TNP has sung with some kind of group (group = >1 person) in the last month.

False. I used to sing in choirs, many years ago. I sort of miss it.

TNP plays a musical instrument.

Nah, I can't even play an iPod.

TNP loves Snickers bars.

I do, or I did, but I haven't eaten one in years.

TNP has frozen a candy bar before eating it.

True, and I'm fairly sure the last one I did that to was a Snickers, incidentally. That fluffy nougat stuff is better frozen.

TNP has a can of WD-40 in the house...and it still has the little red straw.

True...I think...I always like to have some around, but I'm not sure about the straw, especially since I may have let my kid spray some.

TNP has more than four screwdrivers at home.

False. I think we just have three (one of which is battery-powered but broken). None of the sonic variety.

TNP gets that reference.

True, although I've never seen any of them.

TNP has no idea what we're talking about.

True, I'm lost. I wouldn't even know what to Google.


TNP carries five or more keys on his or her person.

True. I have no idea what most of them are supposed to open.

TNP has had a fight with a loved one in the past week.

Nope, closest I've come is yelling at the dog for pooping on the doormat.


TNP still has people from their high school that they see regularly.

God, no, unless you count various relatives who were going to the high school at the same time.

TNP attends high school reunions.

False. I had considered going to my 10-year reunion (2001), but it was halfway across the country and I could dispose neither the time nor the money at that time. By my 20-year reunion last year, Facebook was a thing and I no longer needed an awkward Happy Hour in order to catch up with these people.


TNP has driven a rental car in the last six months.

False, I haven't had occasion to.

TNP walks up escalators.

Usually no. I'm hardly ever in much of a rush.

TNP has high blood pressure.

Fortunately not. I've always had very low (but not dangerously so) blood pressure.

TNP has seen at least one complete episode of Doctor Who (following up on my earlier reference to a sonic screwdriver).

False! *D&R*


TNP has sold or purchased something through Craigslist.

True - I go a desk, my last 2 apartments, and my job all through Craigslist.

TNP has sent out paper resumes in the past 2 years.

False. Haven't had to look for a job in more than a decade, fortunately.

TNP has held a job at some point in his or her life for a decade or more.

Yes, finally. As of January 2nd, have held the current job for ten years.

TNP is actively looking for a new job.

False. Pretty happy where I am.

TNP has scratched his or her nose in the past hour.

True, it happens when I adjust my slippy glasses.

TNP enjoys bubble tea.

True! There's a Thai restaurant near here that has excellent coconut bubble tea. Just the thing after a big lunch of pad thai.

TNP hates all Asian food.

False, I'm fond of most of it.

TNP hates licorice.

So, so false. Anise is my friend. I love "Crows" candy at the theater. I love black licorice Altoids. I drink ouzo on the rocks.



TNP has read a Dickens novel that was not assigned as part of a class.

True, A Christmas Carol. HA! (I tried to read Great Expectations on my own, but that ... didn't happen.)

TNP has read and enjoyed a Henry James novel.

False. I've read two Henry James novels - The Turn of the Screw and The Beast in the Jungle - and liked the first all right, although I wouldn't say I "enjoyed" it. For the second, I was bored out of my skull. He never used one word when twenty were available.

TNP would love to be paid more for writing more.

True. I write ad copy as a fairly large chunk of my job, I won a few minor awards for essays and short fiction in college, and I've taken a stab or two at novels, but ultimately I'd love someone to offer me a living wage to take a year and write my best book. Never gonna happen. Story of my life, and that of many, many other people, I'm sure. :D

TNP had an e-mail address before January 1, 1996.

No, first got an e-mail address in 1996. Part of the "endless September", I guess.

TNP has more than two e-mail addresses.

True: I have my work e-mail, my Gmail, and the Hotmail I've had since 2003 and still occasionally check.

TNP belongs to a pay-to-post messageboard or community.

Well, I suppose I could still log in at the SDMB, but I haven't paid to post there in a long time, and stopped posted there at all since Domebo was founded. Sigh....

TNP still uses Usenet.

False, what's a usenet.

TNP made a website using Geocities, once upon a time.

False. Angelfire, baby. It was so embarrassing that five years later, I had to ask them to take it down for me because I had forgotten all my login info.


TNP generally goes by his or her full first name.

Yes, but my real first name is only one syllable. When I was a kid, my family often called me by a short form of one of my middle names. My family's kind of funny.

TNP often uses a mechanical pencil.

True and false: I rarely use pencils at all, but when I do, it's virtually always mechanical.


TNP has used a compass (drafting, not magnetic) or protractor in the last year.

False. Haven't used one of those since junior high, I think.

TNP has heard Olivia Newton-John sing at age 17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLUJ2...eature=related

No, my relationship with Olivia doesn't go that far back.

TNP has seen Olivia Newton-John perform live.

False, although I had a bigtime crush on her in the late Seventies and would've liked to.

TNP has been in Florida in the past twelve months.

False, I haven't been there in 25 years.

TNP has been to Hawaii.

Oh yes, and wouldn't I love to go back.

TNP has been to Vegas.

No, I never have! That and the Grand Canyon are the two places in America I still haven't been to that I'd really like to. Almost seems like a requirement of citizenship.

TNP knows a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Sure, my mom! She was born in Saigon as was I, but I was born a US citizen thanks to Dad. I remember her citizenship ceremony well, even though I was only five, because it was the first time I ever saw my dad cry.


TNP has thrown a punch at another human in anger since the age of 18.

Um ... no, I don't think so. Shoving/angry grabbing of coat-collars, yes.

TNP has taken a self-defense class.

Sure, I took "Intro To Kempo Karate" for a PhysEd credit my freshman year in college. The names of the techniques were so embarrassing. "Alternating Maces." "Left Forward Bow."


TNP can do the cherry stem knot-tying trick.

False, but I'll always remember the girl in Twin Peaks doing that.

:: dreamily staring off into the distance ::

Oh, right.

TNP's favorite color is hot pink.

No, although on some people it works.

TNP knows someone who's done hard time.