315 posts tagged “qotd”
What do you wear to feel confident?
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This, right here, is the kind of crap that's pushing me off Vox.
What's the worst story about a time you locked yourself out?
I think we did this one before.
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Yep, here it is! I haven't had anything happen to me worse than that yet.
What qualities must a good friend have?
Submitted by Alexandra.
To me there's two basic levels of friendship. "Friend" would be the people who you like spending time with and have some shared interests and stuff to talk about, but it doesn't really go beyond that. You can go a while without talking or doing anything and you don't necessarily get together to just...hang out.
When it crosses into "good friend" territory though, we're talking about somebody who will stick by you no matter what happens and who's willing to go out of their way to help you out of a jam if there's any possible way that they can. Somebody who doesn't mind listening to problems and somebody with whom I'm comfortable sharing stuff about me that nobody else knows. It goes the other way too, obviously. It's not all about what another person can do for you. It's about you wanting to help that person out too, no matter what.
If you could only eat ONE cereal for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?
My selection would be Reese's Puffs. I understand that they're just balls of sugar coated horribleness and that there's much healthier options out there. But I love them so...
How many times a month do you eat out in a restaurant? Do you wish you dined out more or less?
We tend to go out to eat once a week (every Monday) which is also the day we do our grocery shopping. Seems to work out pretty well that way. While I wish I could afford to dine out more, this setup seems to work out pretty well.
Occasionally I go out on my own, usually when I forget to bring my lunch to work. That's the kind of thing that makes me wish I dined out less since it gets expensive pretty fast.
What's your favorite summer dessert? Make it even sweeter by sharing the recipe!
Do you believe in ghosts?
In the literal super-natural dead walk among us sort of way? No. I find all of that spooky spirit world stuff to be stories at best and all out scams at worst (once you start talking about people who are selling their services to find ghosts or talk to the dead)
Ghost are much more relevant when we're talking about memories. People that aren't around anymore, things that you've experienced that just suddenly come to mind. That sort of stuff.
But literal ghosts? No. I don't think so.
Unless it's a Ghost in a Jar.
How do you like to quench your thirst on a hot summer day?
They're locally produced here by probably one of the best small breweries in the nation, The Matt Brewing Company in Utica, NY. One of the few claims to fame that this city has.
Are you interested in intergalactic travel? What would you hope to discover?
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Yep. I'm interested in intergalactic travel. Not quite as much as I was when I was a kid, exactly, but I keep my eye on the goings on of the space program.
I think I'm most interested in finding other planets that could support life (specifically our kind of life). Beyond the fact it would be interesting to view another planet that is similar to our own, it'd be a good idea in case of some sort of large disaster, like an asteroid or something, were to befall the planet. Gives a potential escape route.
Not that I hold out hope of that ever happening. Space exploration seems to be taking a backseat when it comes to funding. Seems like it's more important to spend our resources beating each other up than trying to explore the universe. Sigh.
What prevents your city/town from being the best place in the country to live?
Submitted by Cherney.
I quite like this area, to be honest. It's city enough for me where there's some decent stores in the area when I need to buy things, but rural enough where it's not too much of a trek to find a nice place to walk around outside in the woods somewhere. I'm not really cut out for city living with people stacked on top of people. Too loud, too busy. I can visit big cities but I don't think I'd enjoy staying there.
My complaint would be that the area is in that fuzzy population zone where we're big enough to have national retailers come in for the generic stuff, but we're not big enough to really support specialty shops for people who are looking for different sorts of items. Case in point...we have one art supply store in the area and it's Michaels. To get more specialized items, you'd have to go to either Syracuse or Albany.
