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One of those days, one of those nights. I got my day started very, very slowly; took care of an errand outside the house; came back to prepare for other things, like heading to Virginia, but wound up feeling crashy; lay down for an early sleep; dozed for about an hour, and woke up again feeling not at all rested. Argh. So I figured I'd do this Tarot personality-quizmeme since I'm feeling too discombobulated for much else.
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You scored as II - The High Priestess. The High Priestess
is a card of intuition, instinct and hidden knowledge. She knows
all your secrets, you can hide nothing from her. Yet you will
never know the secrets she herself protects.If well aspected in
a Tarot spread, this card can indicate the use of intuition to
solve problems; trust to your instincts. If badly aspected, it
can mean suppression and ignoring of such instincts - following
your head at the expense of your heart.
Which Major Arcana Tarot Card Are You? created with QuizFarm.com [then hand-tweaked because the automatically generated code itched] |
Oh, wait; I have a couple more scratch files with blogmemes in them from other nights like this, that I never got around to posting...
The instructions as I found them: Bold all of the following TV shows you've seen three or more episodes of in your lifetime. Bold and italicize a show if you've seen every episode. Add up to three additional shows (please keep the list in alpha order).
[On a few of these I guessed as to whether I'd seen two episodes or three; on the ones I italicized, I think I've seen every episode that was broadcast. There are a few series I didn't mark as complete that I will have caught up on when I get through the next few stacks of videocassettes neatly arranged on the staircase.]
- 24
- 7th Heaven
- Adam-12
- Adventures of the Gummi Bears
- Aeon Flux
- ALF
- Alien Nation
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Alias
- All Creatures Great and Small
- All in the Family
- American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
- American Gothic
- America's Next Top Model/Germany's Next Top Model
- Andromeda
- Angel
- Are You Afraid of the Dark?
- Are You Being Served?
- Arrested Development
- Babylon 5
- Babylon 5: Crusade
- Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
- Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
- Baywatch
- Beavis & Butthead
- Beverly Hills 90210
- Big Love
- Birds of Prey [May have seen all; not certain.]
- Blackadder
- Blossom
- Bonanza
- Bones
- Bosom Buddies
- Boston Legal
- Boy Meets World
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Bug Juice
- Butterflies
- Carnivale
- Chappelle's Show
- Charlie's Angels
- Charmed
- Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
- Cheers
- Chicago Hope
- Columbo
- Commander in Chief
- Coupling - UK
- Cowboy Bebop
- Crossing Jordan
- CSI
- CSI: Miami
- CSI: NY
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Dancing with the Stars
- Danny Phantom
- Daria
- Dark Angel
- Dark Skies
- Davinci's Inquest
- Dawson's Creek
- Dead Like Me
- Deadliest Catch
- Deadwood
- Degrassi High
- Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Designing Women
- Desperate Housewives
- Dharma & Greg
- Different Strokes
- Dinosaurs
- Doctor Who
- Dougie Howser, M.D.
- Dragon Ball Z
- Dragnet
- Drake & Josh
- Duck Tales
- Due South
- Earth 2
- Emergency!
- Entourage
- ER
- Everwood
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Facts of Life
- Family Guy
- Family Ties
- Farscape
- Father Ted
- Fawlty Towers
- Felicity
- Firefly
- Frasier
- Freaks and Geeks
- Friends
- Futurama
- Gargoyles
- Get Smart
- Ghost Hunters
- Gilligan's Island
- Gilmore Girls
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- Green Acres
- Green Wing
- Grey's Anatomy
- Growing Pains
- Gundam Wing
- Gunsmoke
- Hannah Montana
- Happy Days
- Hercules the Legendary Journeys
- Here Come the Brides
- Hex
- Highlander
- Hogan's Heroes
- Home Improvement
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- House
- I Dream of Jeannie
- I Love Lucy
- I Spy
- Inuyasha
- Invader Zim
- Invasion
- Iron Chef (Japan)
- Iron Chef (US)
- It Takes A Thief
- Hell's Kitchen
- JAG
- Jackass
- Jeopardy
- Joey
- John Doe [May have seen 'em all, not sure whether I missed any.]
- Keen Eddie
- Kingdom Hospital
- Kitchen Confidential
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker (original)
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker (reincarnation)
- La Femme Nikita
- LA Law
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- Law and Order
- Law and Order: SVU
- Law and Order: Criminal Intent
- Laverne and Shirley
- Life On Mars
- Little House on the Prairie
- Lizzie McGuire
- Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
- Lost
- Lost in Space
- Love, American Style
- M*A*S*H
- MacGyver
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Married... With Children
- Melrose Place
- Miami Vice
- Mission: Impossible
- Mister Roger's Neighborhood
- Mod Squad
- Monk
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Moonlighting
- Mork & Mindy
- Muppets Tonight
- Murder She Wrote
- Murphy Brown
- My Life as a Dog
- My Three Sons
- My Two Dads
- NCIS
- Ned Bigby's Declassifed School Survival Guide
- Nip/Tuck
- Numb3rs
- One Tree Hill
- Oz
- Penn & Teller's Bullshit
- Perry Mason
- Pokemon
- Popular
- Power Rangers
- Prey
- Prison Break
- Profiler
- Project Runway
- Quantum Leap
- Queer As Folk (US)
- Queer as Folk (British)
- Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
- Quincy ME
- Reba
- Red Dwarf
- ReGenesis
- Relic Hunter
- Remington Steele
- Rescue Me
- Road Rules
- Rome
- Roseanne
- Roswell
- Sailor Moon
- Sapphire and Steel
- Saved by the Bell
- Scrap Heap Challenge
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
- Scrubs
- Seaquest DSV
- Seinfeld
- Sesame Street
- Sex and the City
- Six Feet Under
- Slings and Arrows
- Smallville
- So Weird
- South Park
- Space: Above & Beyond
- Spaced
- Spongebob Squarepants
- Spooks/MI-5
- Sports Night
- Square Pegs
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Stargate Atlantis
- Stargate SG-1
- Starsky & Hutch
- Strange Luck
- Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars etc
- Sugar Rush
- Superman
- Supernatural
- Surface
- Survivor
- Taxi
- Teen Titans
- That 70's Show
- That's So Raven
- The 4400
- The Addams Family
- The Andy Griffith Show
- The A-Team
- The Avengers
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Bob Newhart Show (1970s)
- The Bold & the Beautiful
- The Brady Bunch
- The Champions
- The Colbert Report
- The Cosby Show
- The Daily Show
- The Dead Zone
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (1960s one, not 1970s)
- The Flintstones
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- The Golden Girls
- The Goodies
- The Honeymooners
- The Invisible Man (2000s)
- The Jeffersons
- The Jetsons
- The L Word
- The Love Boat
- The Magnificent Seven
- The Man from Atlantis
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Mighty Boosh
- The Monkees
- The Munsters
- The Muppet Show
- The Mythbusters
- The O.C.
- The Office (UK)
- The Office (US)
- The Outer Limits
- The Partridge Family
- The Phoenix
- The Powerpuff Girls
- The Practice
- The Pretender
- The Prisoner
- The Professionals
- The Real World
- The Rose of Versailles
- The Saint
- The Sentinel
- The Shield
- The Simpsons
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- The Sopranos
- The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
- The Sweeney
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- The Twilight Zone (original)
- The Twilight Zone (reincarnation)
- The Unit
- The Waltons
- The West Wing
- The Wire
- The Wonder Years
- The X-Files
- The Young Ones
- Third Watch
- Three's Company
- Threshold
- Top Gear
- Touching Evil (UK)
- Twin Peaks
- Twitch City
- Undeclared
- Veronica Mars
- Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
- Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
- Wild Wild West
- Will and Grace
- Wings
- Wire in the Blood
- Without a Trace
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- Wonderfalls [I've seen all broadcast episodes but I know there are some on DVD that I haven't seen yet.]
- Xena: Warrior Princess
- X-Men: The Animated Series
- X-Men: Evolution
- You Can't Do That On Television
- Zoom
What struck me as odd was the number of shows I'd seen two episodes of but not thee.
This last one is just a 35-item word-association thingie (I'm not sure it'd properly be called a "test" ... how about "game"?) that I filled in a couple of weeks ago and forgot about.
The instructions, as I copied them from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
firinel:
Okay, this is called FIRST REACTION ...type what comes to your mind first whenever you hear these 35 words.. don't think and don't go back and change...doesn't matter how random just type it!
- Cigarettes:
- Sex:
- Relationships:
- Your Last Ex:
- Power rangers:
- Marijuana:
- Crack:
- Food:
- This President:
- War:
- Cars:
- Gas Prices:
- Halloween:
- Bon Jovi:
- Religion:
- MySpace:
- Worst Fear:
- Marriage:
- Fashion:
- Brunettes:
- redheads:
- Work:
- Pass the time:
- One night stands:
- cellphones:
- Pet Peeves:
- Pixie Stixx:
- Vanilla Ice Cream:
- Porta Potties:
- High school:
- Pajamas:
- Wood:
- Surfers:
- Pictures:
- First True Love:
As firinel did, I've included the list without my own
answers so anyone else who wants to play can copy the list into whatever
tool you edit journal entries in, without having been contaminated by
having seen my answers first. And since I prefer to cut-tag most
"play along" memes ... both the empty list and my answers are in the
same place, here behind the cut. So I'm going to blather on a bit in
the hope that it'll create a "spoiler space" so that my answers will
be off the bottom of the screen until you scroll down. You can just
ignore the next couple of paragraphs -- they're just to take up space.
Creating spoiler space like this used to be very straightforward: just include twenty four blank lines, and presto -- it's guaranteed to be below the bottom of everybody's twenty-four-line computer terminals. But that was a looooong time ago. After that came personal computers and workstations with screens taller than twenty four lines ... and GUIs where you can change the font and/or the overall screen resolution so that different users with the same equipment can have very different amounts of text visible at a time. I think a lot of newsreaders and maybe some email clients honor a control-L ("formfeed") as meaning "force scrolling here by putting the next character below the bottom of the window", but since I'm writing this for the web, that ain't helpful.
Of course, being webby means that unless I stick in a bunch of <br /> tags (or <pre>, or just tell LJ to format it for me instead of doing all my own markup as I usually do), I've no way of even knowing how many lines this will be. And those seem like cheating. But I'm going to cheat anyhow, just in a different way, and set the margins of this section to be a bit narrow regardless of the size of your browser window, just to tilt the odds a wee bit in my favour here. Er ... unless you are already using a narrow window and a large font, in which case I've just done the opposite of what I meant to and I owe you an apology for the horizontal scrolling. But if that's the case then I just have to hope you heeded the "ignore these paragraphs" instruction so you aren't getting a headache from shifting the text back and forth to read the bits that fell off the right-hand edge of your screen.
I'd just stick in a tall picture, but I don't know whether anyone (well, anyone who cares) is reading this in a text browser or with image loading turned off. Anywho, this is either enough space or it isn't -- here are my answers as they popped into my head. Not very coherent or informative, but they're mine:
With two exceptions, these really are what popped into my head (or the nearest translation of my abstract emotional response into a word or noise). One exception was "wood", for which I had a completely non-verbal response (the image -- and the feel of the texture under my fingertips -- of a chunk of very dry black walnut roughly split with an axe, that cleaved along a curved fault instead of a plane. (Some of the others, as you can see, are also not really verbal but were at least spellable utterances (or would have been if I'd uttered them aloud instead of just thinking them).) The other exception was "one night stands", for which three or four related concepts jumped into my head simultaneously and there was no real "first" -- so I typed the intersection between them.
Note that contrary to the instructions, these are not what comes to mind "whenever" I hear these words; they're what came to mind the morning I wrote this. Only a few of them have any sort of consistency to them in that regard, for me. To answer what cluster of concepts generally spring to mind, I'd have to disregard a different part of the instructions, by stopping to think about my answers.
- Cigarettes: eww
- Sex: yes
- Relationships: loving
- Your Last Ex: sweet
- Power rangers: pink
- Marijuana: long ago
- Crack: don't step
- Food: potato
- This President: urgh
- War: ouch
- Cars: pretty
- Gas Prices: ouch
- Halloween: yay
- Bon Jovi: eh
- Religion: complex
- MySpace: take it
- Worst Fear: donwannathinkaboutit
- Marriage: had hoped
- Fashion: sleek
- Brunettes: yum
- Redheads: shiny!
- Work: *sigh* [later note: thought-cluster that evoked the sigh was about frustration of being disabled]
- Pass the time: online
- One night stands: not really
- cellphones: useful
- Pet Peeves: turn signals
- Pixie Stixx: forgotten pleasure
- Vanilla Ice Cream: mmmmmm
- Porta Potties: whatevah
- High school: was that really me?
- Pajamas: seldom
- Wood: black walnut
- Surfers: sunshine and wind
- Pictures: at an exhibition
- First True Love: Cathy
Obviously, I spent a lot more time on the layout and the babble than I did on answering the thing. It was more entertaining than tossing and turning and muttering curses under my breath ... (that was a really bad night for my legs).