Questionnaire #1

1. Name one person who made you laugh last night.
My colleague, B.

2. What were you doing at 08.00?
I was under the shower…

3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
Avoiding work by searching for questionnaires to answer

4. What happened to you in 2006?
Who’s still thinking about 2006? … Started my new job. Started a new uni, quit my old one. Started another new job. Became godmother. Became aunt for the second time. Did my first real training (as a trainer).

5. What was the last thing you said out loud?
Wiederhören.

6. How many beverages did you have today?
Coffee (3 cups) and water (1/2 l up to now)

7. What color is your hairbrush?
Black/grey/silver

8. What was the last thing you paid for?
lunch

9. Where were you last night?
At my company’s birthday party (see entry below)

10. What color is your front door?
brown

11. Where do you keep your change?
In my wallet.

12. What’s the weather like today?
It’s sunny and freakin’ cold.

13. What’s the best ice-cream flavor?
Rasberry

14. What excites you?
antici…pation, male upper bodies … what the hell … male bodies :), when someone nibbles on my ear (I hope this question was meant in a sexual way or it would be rather embarassing… O_o)

15. Do you want to cut your hair?
Thinking about it but lacking the courage to really do so.

16. Are you over the age of 25?
nope

17. Do you talk a lot?
When I’m in the mood, but that’s not very often.

18. Do you watch the O.C.?
I have other series to watch. Quality ones.

19. Do you know anyone named Steven?
A couple of Stefans (Steven in German) and my guinea pig’s name was Istvan (Hungarian for Steven)

20. Do you make up your own words?
Sometimes. Especially names. But mostly I borrow words from other languages if I need them.

21. Are you a jealous person?
Very, very rarely… of my brother. But usually no, not at all.

22. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘A’.
As you might have noticed, I don’t write real names here. But one of my sisters’ name (multiple sisters not names) starts with an A…

23. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘K’.
K (see Deadra’s blog)

24. Who’s the first person on your received call list?
A, my sister

25. What does the last text message you received say?
ja (yes)… that’s the whole text.

26. Do you chew on your straw?
no

27. Do you have curly hair?
not really. It’s not 100% straight, but it’s too straight to even call it curly-ish.

28. Where’s the next place you’re going to?
Wr. Neustadt, tonight, for a concert

29. Who’s the rudest person in your life?
My colleague, E.

30. What was the last thing you ate?
nuts

31. Will you get married in the future?
Not because of me… I might decide that it would be practical for legal issues or probably my future husband (whoever he is) will want to get married. I’m not opposed to marriage but I really don’t care.

32. What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past 2 weeks?
If we are talking cinema, then the only movie I’ve seen in the past two weeks is Beowulf which had a great script but the director was bad and Ray Winstone has the facial expression of a dead clam. On TV, I saw Pirates of the Caribbean which is just wonderful.

33. Is there anyone you like right now?
This sounds like a question from high school… There are a couple of guys I’m attracted to, but nothing serious… The last time I was serious… well, the guy has a girlfriend and lives on the other side of the world. Let’s just leave it at that.

34. When was the last time you did the dishes?
Saturday, I think. Having no time at home (and a cleaning lady, hehe) pretty much spares me doing the dishes…

35. Are you currently depressed?
Not really. Wait, let me ask my therapeut.

36. Did you cry today?
No. (Seems my hormones lost their chokehold over me.)

37. Why did you answer and post this?
Because I’m an obsessive questionnaire answerer and I really, really don’t want to type in the business cards I’m supposed to type in…

38. Tag 5 people who would do this survey.
Anyone who wants to fill this out – be very welcome and let me know!

 

Questionnaire #2

1. What is your favorite word?
Aluminiumminimumimmunität (but only handwritten)… sorrow (It makes the pictures in my head really flow…), thingy

2. What is your least favorite word?
Erziehung (it means education, upbringing, breeding). I don’t like it because it derives from the word Ziehen (pull) and somehow implies that you have to pull children in the right direction, in the right way. I don’t think that children should be pulled. But that’s a topic for a very long discussion I’m not getting into right now.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
A good book, good movies and good music. Sometimes all I need is a piece in the newspaper or a certain word or a picture I find fascinating. I guess, anything can turn me on creatively, it just has to touch me somehow.

4. What turns you off?
Not having time to (re)act on my impulses or to think about a certain idea.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
Well, the one I use most often is “fuck” (although I’m thinking about starting to use the SA forum version “loving caress”) but the one I like the most is Saubär (Dirty Bear, sow bear) and Grottenolm (axolotl – I think I have to add this to my favourite word section), they have a certain love to them.

6. What sound or noise do you love?
The sound of walking in the snow, when the snow is already a little frozen. Breaths of a sleeping person.

7. What sound or noise do you hate?
Hearing one-minute-long bad renditions of good music when I’m put on hold.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
I would like to be an editor at a publishing company. Or a critic of movies and books. Or both. I’d like to translate books. And I’d like to write some myself.

9. What profession would you not like to do?
Cleaning lady (nobody would be happy with me), working in a call center (especially out-bound).

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
“I’m just joking, you were right all the time, I don’t exist.” That would give me something to think about!

Questionnaire #3

1. Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got it.
I only have one scar, a little one on my right palm. I got it while canyoning. I fell on a rock.

2. What does your phone look like? List your reasons to buy it?
It’s a Sony Ericsson Something Walkman phone. I got it because I love the Sony Ericsson mobiles and it plays music.

3. What is on the walls of your bedroom?
Batman Begins and Superman Returns movie posters (Well, actually they are on the ceiling). A mirror.

4. What is your current desktop picture?
At work it’s simply blue. At home I got a picture of Hero, the white clothing scene, where Moon (Ziyi Zhang) hugs Broken Sword (Tony Leung).

5. Do you believe in gay marriage?
As much as I believe in straight marriage.

6. What do you want more than anything right now?
Starbuck’s Venti Latte and a bed.

7 . What time were you born?
15.35

8. Are your parents still together?
Yes. And happy.

9. Last person who made you cry?
Eric Clapton. “Tears in Heaven”.

10. What is your favorite perfume / cologne?
Lâncome – Miracle

11. What kind of hair/eye color do you like in the opposite sex?
I’m usually drawn to blond men, with brown or green eyes. But it doesn’t really matter.

12. What are you listening to? Why?
Right now? Just Jack – Overtones. Because I don’t have that much music at work and I really like the album.

13. Do you get scared of the dark?
Not of the dark itself. But sometimes of the things that might lurk in in.

14. Do you like painkillers?
I couldn’t survive without Aspirin.

15. Are you too shy to ask someone out?
Definetly. As soon as I like someone, my tongue’s tied.

16. If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?
I’m not that hungry right now, but you can always eat chocolate.

17. Who was the last person who made you mad?
My colleague, R. (see entry “rant” below)

18. List one habit you have that has the potential to annoy people?
I crack my finger and neck bones.

19. Who was the last person who made you smile?
Jasper Fforde. “First Among Sequels”: He thought Felix8 might have been another stalker and was going to warn him off, but when he noticed the absence of notebooks, cameras or even a duffel coat, he called me.

Questionnaire #4

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
   There is no such thing.
2. What is your greatest fear?
   Apart from slot-machines? :P That I won’t have enough time in my life to do everything I want to do.
3. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
   I don’t really identify with anybody.
4. Which living person do you most admire?
   My parents. Both of them always went their way and did their thing.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
   I put myself under a lot of pressure and when I need a break, I think that I am lazy. Which I am sometimes. But sometimes I just need the time for myself.
6. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
   Thinking that they are the best in what they do and therefore not listening to others who might have something valuable to say or not accepting criticism.
7. What is your greatest extravagance?
   My personal library (books and DVDs)
8. What is your favorite journey?
   I did? I don’t know… I really liked Scottland, I enjoyed discovering Glasgow and Edinburgh with only me and some books as companions. But I can’t say that it was my favourite journey. Just the latest.
9. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
   Chastity.
10. On what occasion do you lie?
    When I hurt someone with the truth and see no reason or way to tell the truth anyway.
11. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
    I don’t like my hands.
12. Which living person do you most despise?
    I don’t despise anybody I know personally and people I don’t know don’t interest me enough to give them that much attention.
13. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
    ur, cool, anyway
14. What is your greatest regret?
    So far, I’ve made it through life without any major regrets. I hope to keep it that way.
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
    Literature
16. Which talent would you most like to have?
    How I would like to be able to sing!
17. What is your current state of mind?
    unmotivated to do anything productive and tired.
18. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
    I wish we hadn’t moved that much.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
    tough question. Probably just surviving and meeting so many different people and getting along with most of them.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
    I guess I would be an ameba because I spent my whole life not believing in this kind of things.
21. If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
    Human. Maybe an immortal kind. There’s so much to discover.
22. What is your most treasured possession?
    My diaries/notebooks/calendars I’ve been keeping since I was 10.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
    Being helpless.
24. Where would you like to live?
    In a turn-of-the-century mansion just outside of Vienna. (Is there a millionaire around who would like to give me a present?)
25. What is your favorite occupation?
    Reading, watching movies/TV and filling out questionnaires :)
26. What is your most marked characteristic?
    I’m nice, I think.
27. What is the quality you most like in a man?
    respectfulness (but still speaking one’s mind), sense of responsibility
28. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
    the same as for a man
29. What do you most value in your friends?
    Their support, that I can always talk with them, they make me laugh and together, we can make every crappy plan happen.
30. Who are your favorite writers?
    Overload… too many writers at once. To name but a few: Thomas Mann, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Jasper Fforde, Stephen King, Roddy Doyle, Christopher Brookmyre, Irvin Welsh, …
31. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
    Cyrano de Bergerac. If he counts, he was a real person first :). Thursday Next. Renie Sulawayo. Faramir.
32. Who are your heroes in real life?
    Isn’t that the same as someone we admire? Anyway, again my parents.
33. What are your favorite names?
    For boys: Gregor, Jukka, Samson, Seth, Finn. For girls it’s much harder: Gretchen (German, not English pronounciation though), Timea, Johanna, Ada.
34. What is it that you most dislike?
    The taste in my mouth every morning after waking up. First thing I do is brush my teeth to get rid of it…
35. How would you like to die?
    In my sleep as a very, very old person.
36. What is your motto?
    Take life as it is and don’t fret.