I am so very lazy about this blog. I am always so surprised when someone chooses to add me as a favourite. So in honour of being added by the illustrious and lovely Maven, I will steal this alphabet meme from her.

ACCENT: Uh, Western Canadian, I guess. Pretty generic and close to what most people consider to be a North American accent. During my time as an ESL teacher, my (mostly East Asian) students pretty much unanimously agreed that the Western North American accents are the easiest to understand. I do tend to lapse into reedier hippie-speke while drinking, though...that's what being from Vancouver Island gets me, I guess.

BOOZE: Yes please. Currently I have some brilliant cranberry vodka given to me by a friend from Poland who was just visiting. It's going to be tricky to get more.

CHORE I HATE: painting or staining anything. With the exception of brushing my teeth and art, I despise the application of goo with a brush, because I'm bad at it and I always fuck it up. Right this second, the parts of my body covered by clothes are covered with wood stain. I only had enough solvent to make my face and arms acceptable for work.

DOGS/CATS: Dogs, meh. Like children; I like to play with them until their owners take them home. Cats, though...I am a squealing retard for my spinny ditz of a cat, Squirrelly, and her adopted elder brother, Cemetery Jack.

ESSENTIAL ELECTRONICS: My iPawd, who is named Darth. I would prefer to do without my spleen or one of my kidneys.

FAVOURITE PERFUME/COLOGNE: none.
I have really bad eyesight and I have wrecked my hearing with too many live shows. Therefore, in the absence of other more acute senses, my sense of smell, has become honed. Basically I can't go near people wearing scents. I can't go in a Body Shop. Women especially don't understand. They're all like "but doesn't this smell nice?" And yes, it usually does at a great distance. My favourite colour is blue. If someone shines a 12-skedillion candlepower blue light in my face, I don't give a shit what colour it is; I just want it off.

I wear Old Spice original deodorant. I can't smell it anymore. But I swear that this has happened twice in my life: attractive women in bars have come up to me to complement me on my scent. Both times I was in the bar after a long day of animating (usually 10-14 hours since a shower by the time I was in that particular bar), and by my lights smelled stale and gross. Upon reflection; I probably should have done something about that.

GOLD/SILVER: Silver (the colour, not the substance)

HOMETOWN: Oak frickin' Bay.

INSOMNIA: Not an issue. I am a virtuoso of slumber.

JOB TITLE: Baaaaahahaha. I think it's official Graphic Designer, but that is...let's just say 'inaccurate' and drop it.

KIDS: See: DOGS/CATS.

LIVING ARRANGEMENT: I live with my girlfriend. Other details are covered thoroughly in other areas of this blog.

MOST ADMIRED TRAIT: Others of me, or me of others?

People think I'm really smart, but I actually just have a really good memory. People also think I'm a really good artist, but I know really good artists and therefore that people who think that about me don't know shit about art.

In other people I think I admire patience the most. People also think I'm patient, but that's because I only hang out with people I'm willing to be patient with.

NUMBER OF SEXUAL PARTNERS: Counting on my hands...I am on my right pinkie toe.

OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS: Nyope. Knocking wood now.

PHOBIAS: Irrational fears don't really plague people as curious about everthing as I am. As for actual fears: I fear my parents getting Alzheimer's. I also fear that if I have a kid, he'll turn out to be an asshole.

QUOTE: "The more you learn, the less you know"

I dunno who said it and it's probably a paraphrase, but I think it all the time. I guess it might be a Buddhist koan or something.

Another paraphrase, and he may himself have been quoting:

"A leaf is much more complex than a star."
~Douglas Adams.

RELIGION: Calvinandhobbesian.

SIBLINGS: None. But I've kept the core group of my friends since I was really little, and I consider my oldest friend's daughter to be my niece.

TIME I USUALLY WAKE UP: 8, and then I pee, and then I go back to sleep until 9:30. If I have to be any pesky places such as work in there anywhere, it pretty much fucks up my day (this makes for a lot of fucked-up days).

UNUSUAL TALENT: The amazing ability to remember pretty much anything I manage to put into my long-term memory, and the equally amazingly inability to engage my short-term one.

VEGETABLE I REFUSE TO EAT: None. Except Brussels sprouts are all kinds of nasty if you do them wrong (which almost everyone does)

WORST HABIT: Procrastination to the point of actually creating some sort of blind spot to the chore. I can't actually see it, and I don't actually remember it, and then when I do, the other bad habit arrives! Paralyzing guilt!

X-RAYS: Before this past January, I'd only had dental ones. But I got this bronchial infection and coughed so hard I tore a couple of intracostal muscles. I was in so much pain my doctor was convinced I'd broken a rib. No foolin'.

YUMMY FOODS I MAKE: I seem to have a flair for improvisation, and I tend to mess things up if I plan them too well. I will say that sesame oil is like the Wite-Out of cooking.

ZODIAC SIGN: Do Not Overinflate.

**a very funny thing: my favourite band is called nomeansno. though successful, they have never been very interested in self-promotion, especially with regards to making public photos of themselves. so somehow i am now a member of the band (though I suspect it's because I know their pr dude). go here; click on 'press/media' and check out the 7th photo. i like this photo because I look like a bouncer. 100% pure AWESOME.