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Name: You can call me Cat. XD
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regendy and angerfishAge: 24
Location: Good old SoDak (aka: South Dakota)
Occupation: Managing a DQ, serving your ice cream, since 2009
All About You
1. Describe your ideal house/home. Please go into as much detail as possible, and be sure to include your ideal geographical location in the description!.
Gah, when I was looking over this application with
regendy, this question totally threw me because I don't really have an ideal home in mind. My house itself isn't so important to me as long as I'm not, ya know, living in a car or something. Now, as far as geographic location goes, I'm really into cities. I think this may have something to do with my having grown up in the middle of absolutely nowhere - and feeling more than a little stuck there right now. But I love the feeling of all this life in cities. Like, all these people all living together and apart, their lives being intertwined in all these little ways, and you look in all the lighted windows of homes and shops and apartments and you can just imagine the different people there, living their stories. It makes me feel like I'm really a part of something, even if I'm not.
Also, I love skyscrapers. There is that.
2. Imagine you’re given the classic opportunity: a genie granting you three wishes. What would you wish for? Please be as elaborate as you can. Wishing for more wishes is not permitted!
Alright, here we go.
1) To somehow be within easy traveling distance of all my best friends/immediate family. I hate, hate, hate being alone - and feeling lonely. They are almost one and the same for me. So easy access to people who love and want to spend time with me. Yes.
2) Similarly, a guarantee that no one I love will die before I do. While I have an almost ridiculous fear of eternity and immortality, and I'm not asking that these people live forever either, I also don't want to imagine what I'd be like without them. I'm really not sure I'm strong enough to survive losing them in tact.
3) And finally LOL THIS IS RIDICULOUS, I KNOW but a guaranteed visit to DisneyWorld like... twice a year. Because that place makes me happy like nowhere else, and I feel like, if I could know that, for sure, I'd get there regularly, I could put up with whatever shit work throws at me. NOT LITERAL SHIT, OF COURSE. Since I work with ice cream and all.
3. In your life so far, what accomplishment are you the most proud of? Why? You can list more than one if you have trouble deciding. ;)
I'm not sure if this is really an "accomplishment," but I'd have to say my burgeoning self-confidence in my appearance. I wasn't always a fan of looking in the mirror, but now I'm like DAMN GIRL, YOU LOOK GOOD. *sassy snap* And I always thought this would take lots of money - and maybe a bit of therapy? - but Stacy and Clinton were right, you guys! Develop your own style, and it all follows.
AND IT IS GLORIOUS.
4. Which of the following is most important to you: Love, Money, Knowledge, Family, Friendship, Adventure, or Pleasure? Which is the least important to you? Please explain why for each choice.
I think I'm going to do a cop-out here and choose love. And by love I mean love in all its variations. Because there is no way I can choose between my friends and family. As you might have guessed by my three wishes, it's really important that I be loved - and be surrounded by those who love me. I think I would also extend the definition of love to include love for humanity in general. Oh, you know, caring about people starving somewhere across the world even if you can't see them and apathy is easier.
What I am not including in love - and this I realize is strange - is romantic love, at least for myself. Because yeah, I guess it'd be nice? But I'm not really able to understand how the love for one person you meet can somehow outshine the love for people you've known for years - maybe even for your whole life. I sort of have an issue of developing some pretty strong feelings of jealousy when my friends take a romantic interest in someone.
Pleasure is also up there. I have a penchant for the finer things - whether it be designer clothes or fine wines - and I guess money is also necessary for that. Too bad I've been told I have "champagne taste on a beer budget." And I do hate beer.
So yeah, I guess love is both least and most important to me.
5. What's one quote (or passage, song lyric, etc.) that effectively describes you and your values? Explain.
Okay, I'm going to do two here:
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Because Sarah Teasdale really articulates how I feel about the completely disproportionate importance we place on humans as compared to oh, EVERYTHING ELSE ON EARTH. I'm a vegetarian, and something of a conservationist, and it floors me that are people who are still so Aristotelian in their view of nature's relationship to human life.
Look for inspiration on the runway; find beauty in the mirror.
Because EVERYONE has what it takes to take what they want from the runway and make it their own. Basically, EVERYONE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL. And, since I'm just a mite shallow, I really think the world would be a much better - and more aesthetically pleasing - place if everyone paid at least a little attention to the runway, lulz.
6. How do you manage your money? On that note, how important is money/financial security to you? Go into as much detail as you can.
LOL THIS QUESTION. Me? Manage my money? Maybe someday I'll hire someone to do that for me. Except I'll probably never have the money to do that because I SPEND IT ALL. I'm like, "Pretty dress? I'LL BUT THAT!" "Seven inch high heels? I'LL BUY THOSE!" "Shiny iPad? I'LL BUY THAT!"
I mean, don't get me wrong, I can always pay my bills, but sometimes I cut it closer than I'd like, and I KNOW that's because of my carelessness. But as I said earlier in the application, when I see something that I like - ESPECIALLY a cute jacket or pair of jeans or something - I'm not very good at denying myself. I've learned the hard way that there's no such thing as window shopping or "just trying something on" with me. If I can't afford to buy it, best I say far away. Far, far away.
7. Name (and elaborate on) some of your hobbies. What are your favorite things to do outside of school/the office?
My number one hobby outside of Internet-related hijinks is, without a doubt, FASHION. I follow the designers, the catalogues, all that jazz. And dressing every morning (when I'm not putting on khakis and DQ regulation shirt, that is) is a creative exercise for me. I'm always very aware of the image I want to project and take each day as an opportunity to do just that. So it sort of frustrates me when I see so many people who just DO NOT CARE. I'm like, "Tennis shoes outside the gym? I don't think so!"
I'm also super into professional football, especially the Green Bay Packers. I feel I owe them some sort of loyalty, being as I'm originally from the Green Bay Area, and I'm also ridiculously competitive. So yeah, when people suggest girls can't be into football, I'm all like skjfklsdfjklsfjlsdkjf NO. In fact, the other day, a guy at work accused me of being a "fair weather fan," and I about flipped my shit. No lie.
Oh! And I also enjoy spending time with my one year old nephew. I'm not really sure I can see myself as mother - much too selfish for that, tbh - but I adore this kid. Which came as quite a surprise - but a pleasant one.
8. Name three things you are afraid of. Explain.
1) Okay, this one seems pretty obvious, but DEATH. I was a philosophy major in college (lol, that's how you end up in fast food, kiddies!), and I've come to think of life as consciousness - or the ability to have experiences. So the complete lack of consciousness, of experience, of BEING? Completely terrifying.
2) My second fear is related: ETERNITY. Because, assuming death isn't the complete lack of being, that means some sort of eternal afterlife, which is even WORSE. Someone tell me, how can there be something without an end? Wouldn't time lose all meaning? Seriously, I have given myself panic attacks thinking about this before.
3) And my third is more down-to-earth, and again, I think, pretty common. Working at Dairy Queen for forever. We have a guy at our DQ who has been a manager for fifteen years, and I'm scared of waking up one day and realizing I've turned into HIM. Which kind of makes me sound like a douche, but I swear I'm not judging him. He's such a nice guy, and he's doing what he has to to support his family, which is really admirable, but just... oh God, please, let this not be it for me.
9. Name (and elaborate on) your top three BEST and top three WORST qualities (personality-related, not physical). Please answer as fully as you can, as this is an important question.
BEST (Really, only three guys? I could give you forty-five, right off the top of my head. JUST KIDDING.)
1) The fact that I've really developed my own style with words, whether speaking or writing - or at least I think I have. I've had a lot of people tell me that I write the way I talk, really colloquially but with an air of knowing what I'm talking about. And I take a lot of pride in that.
2) My sense of fashion. I'm sorry this keeps coming up, but I just think a lot about fashion and how the way someone dresses really affects the way I see them as a whole person.
3) My sense of humor. I think in order to be really funny, you have to be willing to go right up to the line, but never over it. And that's something I have mastered. XD Well, most of the time; I'll admit the line may have been trampled a time or two.
WORST
1. I'm a hypocrite (which I had no idea how to spell, WHOOPS!). I mean, I think to a certain extent we all are. But... okay, here's a good example. I do not eat meat. Have not in quite a few years. But I may have recently bought a pair of leather boots because I wanted them THAT much. I'm not proud, but I get a lot of compliments on them, heh.
2. I'm a procrastinator. I will wait until the last possible moment to do ANYTHING, even things I will more than likely enjoy doing. It's like, as soon as doing it becomes necessary, it is the WORST THING IN THE WORLD AND I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN DO IT. At least I usually get it done though?
3. I can be a liar when it suits me. Not because I want to deceive people, but because I'm terrible at telling them things they don't want to hear. This often leads me to lie by omission - to just cut myself off from the person I'm hiding something from until they hopefully just forget about it. Of course, they don't, and I always end up crying and begging for forgiveness, but apparently I never learn. ;)
And unofficial number three: I SOMETIMES CANNOT TURN OFF THE CAPSLOCKS. ALL THE CAPSLOCKS.
A Song of Ice and Fire Related
1.How many books from the series have you completed? ALL OF THEM. I've been reading them for going on ten years now. :D
2.Who are your favorite three characters in the series? Why?
1) TYRION LANNISTER: I cannot even begin with this character. It's one of those things where the two of us have had a long and complicated relationship over the course of this decade, but in the end, he became one of my favorite literary characters EVER. This is embarrassing to admit, but I couldn't allow myself to like him during my first read (when the series was only up to SoS) because I didn't realize he hadn't tried to murder Bran until almost the end of the CoK. SHUT UP. I WAS 15, OKAY? But during my second, I found myself gravitating toward his character because of a really familiar need to be loved. Not romantically for me, but still. And then I was like I WILL LOVE YOU. And then Peter Dinklage was cast, and I was like YESSSS THIS I CAN WORK WITH. The end.
2) SANSA STARK: This character. THIS CHARACTER. I am ridiculously protective of her because, unlike Tyrion, I related to her right from the start. My fifteen year old self was pretty much Sansa Stark, love for songs and fairy tales and happy endings and all. So I sort of went on her journey with her as all those expectations were turned on their heads. Tbh, I think that's something everyone goes through - not to the extent Sansa does, of course - but, you know, as you get older and graduate from college and realize that maybe life isn't as easy as you might have imagined. I know, as a teen, I was quite judgemental of adults who hadn't accomplished all they wanted in life (like my parents), and now, working at DQ, I'm pretty ashamed of that time.
3) CATELYN STARK: MY FAVORITE CHARACTER ON MY FIRST READ AND STILL HANGING ON TO THIS DAY. <3 And, because I just spent some time articulating why I love Catelyn, I will quote that here: I still remember so clearly that moment when she takes Tyrion captive - and that's pretty early in the book - as the moment that I knew I loved this series. It's funny, because pretty much everyone lists that as one of her worst decisions, and I guess, objectively, it was. But young!me was just amazed at this woman who loved her family so damn fiercely. Like me, she was traditionally feminine, and like me, she placed great value on her family, but she managed to take all that and twist it around and make it powerful and badass and something to be reckoned with. In other words, I JUST REALLY LOVE CAT, OKAY? Oh! And she shares my name.
3.Who are your least favorite three characters in the series? Why?
Okay, this is really hard, guys! I love these books, and I love 98.8% of the characters to some degree, but I'll try.
1) TYWIN LANNISTER: Okay, I've seen a lot of people suggest that you can't - or shouldn't - like Tyrion without liking Tywin, and they do have a number of similarities. But seriously, if you can't even be bothered to treat your children decently, I can't be bothered to like you. Enough said.
2) DAVOS SEAWORTH: Sorry Davos, don't hate you as a person, but you are SO, SO boring. You aren't in King's Landing, and you aren't funny. I mean, you're basically Ned Stark but even LESS interesting. So it's not like I want you to die or anything, but I'd really like to never hear from you again.
3) RANDYLL TARLY: Same reason as Tywin. We haven't even really met you, and you're still clearly a dick. Impressive.
4.#1 Favorite moment in all of ASOIAF so far? Why?
This is probably colored by the fact that I just finished re-reading CoK, but I'm going to have to say when Sansa goes to sept during the Battle of the Blackwater and is singing for basically everyone, people who aren't even on her side, and it's just so heartbreaking and beautiful. And for once in the series, you see someone of noble birth sharing the same hopes as the common folk, holding their hands and commiserating. It's just a really gorgeous scene, and I can't lie, I love that she sings for Tyrion. Because it's like, one of my favorite characters having charitable thoughts about another of my favorite characters. In this series? I'LL TAKE IT.
Tbh, I just love the Battle of the Blackwater all the way around. <3
5. In your dream-world, how would you like to see the series end, and why?
As for the big stuff - who's on the throne, how the Others get defeated - I don't have any specific scenario in mind. I guess I am still Sansa in some ways; I just want some degree of happiness for those characters I care about. I want unCat to find peace (actually, I'd like for her to be brought back to life by the love of her daughters, but that is beyond unrealistic), and I want her to learn that the majority of her children are still alive. I hate to admit this, but I'd like for Sansa and Tyrion to remain married and find some small happiness together in Casterly Rock (LOL LOOK AT MY SHIPPING MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS), even if it's not romantic, then at least as friends who can somehow rehabilitate each other. I'd like Dany to find a true home, maybe something with a red door and a lemon tree - and whether that be in Westeros or not, I really don't care. I'd like Bran to live and NOT BE A TREE and eventually rebuild Winterfell as Bran the Builder 2.0. I'd even like Jaime and Cersei to work it out somehow because I know there's still love there somewhere.
Basically I'm just like HAPPY ENDINGS ALL AROUND AND NO MORE DEATH UNLESS THAT DEATH IS LIKE THAT OF RAMSEY BOLTON.
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