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I so totally forgot to post my July 4th Mandatory Reading Material! So, presented for your perusal, my July 4th+4 Mandatory Reading. God Bless America:

Celebrating Independence Like a Bad Motherfucker

Advanced Celebration of Liberty: Homemade Fireworks

In other news, Power Rangers Zeo ended today, and so does my recording. They didn't show all 50 episodes, and I'm cool with that, cause they showed the good ones. Also, I've proven that I CAN use the computer as a VCR - it's just got the extra step of needing to "compress" what I want after it's done. It can be a pain timing the sound and video, but it dosn't take long, and most of the compressing runs in the background.

I'm currently drawing AWFW...FOR NEXT FRIDAY. I'm so far ahead! :D

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now. (I love, you, Emily.)	× I don't watch much TV these days. (It's always on, but I hardly ever Sit'n'watch.)	× I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games. (Particularly fighting games.)	× I've tried marijuana. (Been around it, never needed it.)
✓ I've watched porn movies. (Who hasn't? I mean, come on, really....)	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes. (Actually, I curse a LOT.)	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. (Over the last two years.)	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

× I have broken someone's bones.	✓ I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.	× I hate the rain.
✓ I'm paranoid at times. (Sometimes my heart decides the world is about to get me, no matter what the brain says.)	✓ I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free. (Hell, I'd get it if I could afford it at all. And lots of it. I'd prolly make Michael Jackson look natural.)	✓ I need/want money right now. (Money is the problem in need of a solution and the solution to the problem.)
✓ I love sushi. (:9)	✓ I talk really, really fast.	× I have fresh breath in the morning.
✓ I have long hair. (Long naturally curly hair.)	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	✓ I have at least one sibling. (A sister.)
× I was born in a country outside of the U.S.	✓ I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past. (Fingernails. Once. Wasn't too thrilled.)	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
× I like the way that I look. (Hell, no.)	✓ I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.	✓ I am usually pessimistic. (Not all the time. Most of the time, though.)
× I have a lot of mood swings.	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized.	× I slept with a roommate.
× I have a hidden talent.	× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.	✓ I have a lot of friends. (I like you, too. :))
✓ I have pecked someone of the same sex.	× I enjoy talking on the phone.	× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
× I love to shop and/or window shop.	× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.	× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
× I have a mobile phone.	× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.	✓ I've rejected someone before. (Not too long ago in fact.)
✓ I currently like/love someone. (Hi, you. ::kisses::)	✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (I do what pays the bills. What I WANT to do, doesn't.)	× I want to have children in the future.
× I have changed a diaper before.	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	× I'm not allergic to anything. (I'm allergic to pine floors, it seems.)
✓ I have a lot to learn. (And I will never know enough.)	× I am shy around the opposite sex.	× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message. (Pretty damned close, though.)
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.	× I have tried alcohol or drugs before. (Seriously. Never. Too afriad of losing control and becoming a deep addict like some of my extended family.)	✓ I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
✓ I own the "South Park" movie. (How 'bout we sing "Kyle's Mom is a Stupid Bitch" in D minor?)	× I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.	✓ I enjoy some country music. (Very very old country music. Pre 1975 or so.)
✓ I would die for my best friends. (I would take a bullet for exactly three people.)	× I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
✓ I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy. (Not that I've gone out recently....)	× I have dated a close friend's ex.	× I am happy at this moment. (Are we ever truly happy?)
× I'm obsessed with guys.	✓ Democrat. (Left leaning centrist.)	× Republican.
✓ I don't even know what I am. (So many labels, so many rejections.)	✓ I am punk rockish. (Thank you, Amy and Steph.)	× I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
× I study for tests most of the time.	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	× I can work on a car.
✓ I love my job(s). (If you call my art a job, then sure!)	× I am comfortable with who I am right now. (Hell, no.)	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
✓ I walk barefoot wherever I can. (I used to be someone who wore shoes all the time. Now I'm barefoot as much as possible.)	✓ I have jumped off a bridge. (Really low one. REALLY low.)	× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	× I plan on achieving a major goal/dream. (Gave up on that.)	✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument. (Piano. I can sight read, too.)
✓ I hate office jobs. (But they pay well....)	× I went to college out of state.	× I am adopted.
× I am a pyro.	× I have thrown up from crying too much.	✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people. (I have, but only once.)	× I adore bright colours.	× I usually like covers better than originals.
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays. (Local when possible, but sometimes, you just gotta have IHOP.)	✓ I can pick up things with my toes. (And often do.)	× I can't whistle.
✓ I have ridden/owned a horse. (My uncles owned a ranch. One still does.)	× I still have every journal I've ever written in. (Lost my computer journal that was 1985 to 1990 or so.)	✓ I talk in my sleep. (Not really. But I make noises in my sleep. And laugh.)
✓ I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century. (Far far far past. Or far far far future.)	× I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.	× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.	× I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.	✓ I am a caffeine junkie. (I'll take Splenda over sugar any day...but don't gimmie that caffiene-free stuff....)
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.	✓ If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder. (Probably several.)	× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
× I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.	✓ I'm an artist. (What gave you that idea?)	× I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.	× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	× I have terrible teeth.
✓ I hate my toes. (They're all wierd shapes....)	✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.	✓ I have more friends on the internet than in real life. (Although many of my real life friends CAME from the Internet.)
× I have lived in either three different states or countries.	✓ I am extremely flexible. (I took an back arch test for a physical once. The doctor gave me a wierd look.)	✓ I love hugs more than kisses.
✓ I want to own my own business.	× I smoke.	✓ I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else. (I do as much on the computer as I can, so that I can spend more time on the computer away from distractions. The vicious cycle continues.)
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal. (Steph: "I'm glad you don't do drugs. You're pretty fucked up as it is.")	× Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.	× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons. (I can shoot a pistol, and a shotgun.)
✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits. (It's a sexy look!)	✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me. (I'll bend over backwards for you, if I can. Sometimes even when I shouldn't.)	✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds. (Eight of Cups.)
× I have played strip poker with someone else before.	✓ I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help. (Mostly TS related.)	✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal. (I do NOW. Five years ago? I didn't.)
× I can't stand being alone. (I enjoy solitude when I can get it. I'd enjoy pitch black soundless solitude a whole lot.)	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time. (I'm not obsessive 24/7, but can get engrossed to the point of obsession. :))	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.	× I'm a judgmental asshole.	× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
× I have travelled on more than one continent.	× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.	× I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
✓ I am a Libertarian. (Left leaning centrist. Libertarian economic policies scare the hell out of me some days.)	✓ I can speak more than one language. (Spanish. I can speak "survival" Japanese and Chinese.)	× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
× I would rather read than watch TV.	✓ I like reading fact more than fiction. (Huge history buff.)	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. (I can BS a paperwith the best of them)
✓ I have no piercings. (They hurt!)	× I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	✓ I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried. (Every goddamned day.)
✓ I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night. (Miscommunication? No. I was just alone, and preferred being alone.)	✓ There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it. (Every goddamned day.)	✓ I like most animals better than most people. (They don't lie.)
✓ I own a collection of retro games consoles. (And Emulators!)	× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.	× I have hit someone with a dead fish.
× I am compulsively honest.	× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.	× I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.	✓ I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders. ("I do what feels right, and this feels right.")	× I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	× I dislike milk.	× I obsessively wash my hands.
× I always carry something significant around with me.	× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.	✓ I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.	× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird. (And revelled in it.)
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.	✓ Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed. (Depends, really. I'm empathic for real honest to goodness problems. If you've stuck your hand in the blender for the seventy third time, I will get annoyed quickly.)	× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
✓ I do not 'get' most comedy acts. (I know what's funny to me. Sinbad isn't funny.)	✓ I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing. (They're selling something they never give away.)	× I don't like to chew gum.
✓ I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it. (And I'll bring a VCR, too.)	× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.	× I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
✓ I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.	× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.	× I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.	✓ I have a custom-built computer. (Never buy an IBM.)	× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.	× I've gone skinny-dipping.	✓ I've performed in three plays. (Not by choice.)
✓ I enjoy burritos.	× I'm Irish and loving it.	✓ I have a thing for redheads. (JD! Come back! All is forgiven!)
× I am a twin!	✓ Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'. (Sometimes I have to pull myself away from encyclopedias to be social.)	✓ Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else. (And if someone interrupts it, or pulls me away, or I can't finish it for whatever reason, it bugs me till I'm done with it.)
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes. (So so so many.)	× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.	× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough. (I'm proud I've made it this far at all.)
✓ I need more time to myself. (Isolation tank would be nice.)	× I wish I was more open-minded.	× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.	× I say random things to freak people out.
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.	× I love playing Truth or Dare.	× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
× Music helps me remember that I am not alone.	× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.	✓ I think this survey is particularly long.
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones.	× I can only hate someone that I love.	× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.