Citizen of the World

Though this is not as strong as it USED to be when I lived around Trenton, I suppose I can claim that it's still very similar to Philadelphia. But, depending on how tired or drunk I am, or around which group I've been hanging, I might have a more southern, NY, Boston, or Canadian accent. My sister calls me a linguistic sponge, which kind of sums it up. Have fun if you wanna take this quiz.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: Philadelphia   Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.
The Midland
The South
The Inland North
The Northeast
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have?

With thanks to holy13nation

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this list; bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (actually 3 books) - don't forget The Hobbit (below) (& saw the movies)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (This is 7 books!!!) (saw the movies)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (& saw the movie)

6 The Bible (& saw the movie)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (This is 3 books!!!)

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (& saw the movie)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (& saw the movie)

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (read many, but how's it count as "1"? Odd...)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (& saw the movie)

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (saw the movie)

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (& saw the movie)

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (& saw the movie)

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (& saw the movies)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Also 7 books!) (& saw the movies)

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Already covered in #33?) (& saw the movie)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (& saw the movie)

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (& saw the movie)

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (& saw the movie)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (& saw the movie)

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert (& saw the movie)

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (& saw the movie)

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (& saw the movie)

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (& saw the movie)

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (saw the movie)

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (saw the movie)

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (& saw the movie)

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (& saw the movies)

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (& saw the movies)

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (saw the movie)

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazu Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (& saw the movie)

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (& saw the movie & shows)

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - LOVE IT!!

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (saw the movie)

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (wasn't this covered in #14??)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (& saw the movie)

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (& saw the movie)

About a week ago, pauliebearsf, spikejrt, goreyboy, erstexman, and jimwnyc (among others) posted their results of their tarot cards. I don't put any stock in Tarot card, palm reading, tea leaf readings, or Ouji boards, but thought this would be cute. Plus, I like the pretty pictures.

You are The Star

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Star is one of the great cards of faith, dreams realised

The Star is a card that looks to the future. It does not predict any immediate or powerful change, but it does predict hope and healing. This card suggests clarity of vision, spiritual insight. And, most importantly, that unexpected help will be coming, with water to quench your thirst, with a guiding light to the future. They might say you're a dreamer, but you're not the only one.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

BUT, I noticed yesterday in my voice post that I said something that sounded DISTINCTLY Philadelphia! When I said, "post", it was a long "o", which is very South Jersey or Philadelphia. Thought I was done with that accent. Meh.

I ganked this from a new friend on Facebook and thought it would be fun. Haven't done one of these things in a LONG time. This is a very short list of things, and I added a couple that people might not have done that I have - just because it would be interestING to see who else has done them, too.

The Bucket List. Place an X by all the things you've done and remove the X from the ones you have not, then send it to your friends (including me). If you're on Facebook, you can post this as a note and share it with folks on your friends list. Enjoy!

Things you have done during your lifetime:
(X) Gone on a blind date
(X) Skipped school
( ) Held the hands of someone as they died.
(X) Been to Canada
(X) Been to Mexico
(X) Been to Florida
(X) Been to Hawaii
(X) Been on a plane
( ) Been on a helicopter
(X) Been lost
(X) Gone to Washington, DC
(X) Swam in the ocean
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Played cops and robbers
(X) Recently colored with crayons
(X) Sang Karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with coins only
( ) Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch.
( ) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't.
(X) Made prank phone calls.
(X) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans
(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Danced in the rain-naked
(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(X) Been kissed under a bunch of mistletoe.
(X) Watched the sunrise with someone
(X) Watched the sunset with someone at the beach
(X) Blown bubbles
(X) Gone ice-skating
(X) Gone to the movies
(X) Been deep sea fishing.
(X) Driven across the United States
(X) Been in a hot air balloon
( ) Been sky diving
( ) Gone snowmobiling
(X) Lived in more than one country
(X) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
(X) Seen a falling star and made a wish
( ) Bought a star's name for someone you love
( ) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser
(X) Seen the Statue of Liberty
( ) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle
(X) Been on a cruise
(X) Traveled by train
(X) Traveled by motorcycle
(X) Been horse back riding
(X) Ridden on a San Francisco CABLE CAR
(X) Been to Disneyland OR Disney World
(X) Been in a rain forest
(X) Seen whales in the ocean
( ) Been to Niagara Falls
( ) Ridden on an elephant
(X) Ridden on a camel
(X) Swam with dolphins
( ) Been to the Olympics
( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China
( ) Saw and heard a glacier calf
( ) Been spinnaker flying
(X) Been water-skiing
(X) Been snow-skiing
(X) Been to Westminster Abbey
(X) Been to the Louvre
(X) Swam in the Mediterranean
(X) Been to a Major League Baseball game
(X) Been to a National Football League game
(X) Been to a college Bowl game
(X) Been to an African country
( ) Been to Australia and/or New Zealand
(X) Been to islands in the South Pacific
(X) Been to islands in the Indian Ocean
( ) Ran naked through a public place
(X) Thrown a full beer off a ship to someone on the ground.
(X) Went midnight swimming naked
(X) Been totally embarrassed in public
(X) Been to New York City
( ) Been on horse carriage ride in Central Park
(X) Been scuba-diving or snorkeling
(X) Been to a Broadway show
(X) Been to the opera
(X) Enjoyed an orchestra
(X) Climbed or hiked a mountain

Ganked from erstexman (who got it from bullchef). I like this assessment; when I first got into it, I assumed (for some unknown reason) right off that my color would be purple. Interesting how this turned out!

What color is your soul painted? Purple Your soul is painted the color purple, which embodies the characteristics of sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, mystery, enlightenment, arrogance, gaudiness, mourning, confusion, pride, delicacy, power, meditation, religion, and ambition. Purple falls under the element of Earth, and was once a European symbol of royalty; today it symbolizes the divine. Click Here to Take This Quiz

Here's a list of things that people accomplished 40 years ago.

John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

Joan Ganz Cooney founded Children's Television Workshop and became the mastermind behind "Sesame Street."

Charles Thurber patented a typewriter.

Chemist Franz Karl Achard developed a process for extracting sugar from beets.

Physicist William Sturgeon created the first electromagnet.

Jean Eugene Atget, now considered one of the greatest photographers, took up photography.

Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, a mother of six who occasionally wrote for magazines, published Uncle Tom's Cabin, an antislavery novel of such force that it is generally recognized as one of the causes of the Civil War.

Earl Vickers unveiled his audio effects plug-in SFX Machine at the 1997 NAMM convention.

Here are the rules - post this list on your profile (in Notes) replacing my answers with yours. This was easier than 25 random things... Tag 25 people to do the same thing (If you're on LJ, you don't have to do this, unless you find it cathartic or interesting). If I tagged YOU (which I won't do in LJ), it's because I want to know more about YOU!

1. Were you named after anyone?
My youngest sister.

2. When was the last time you cried?
This morning I briefly choked up watching a moving piece on the LOGO cable channel on TV.

3. Do you like your handwriting?
Sometimes; people say it's artistic and shows depth of character.

4. What is your favorite lunch meat?
Ham

5. Do you have kids?
Not that I know of; my dad swears I have a kid - he's met my high school girlfriend's daughter and supposedly the little girl looks exactly like me as a child... I'll never know.

6. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
Totally.

7. Do you use sarcasm?
All the time.

8. Do you still have your tonsils?
Yep!

9. Would you bungee jump?
Yes, I would!! I plan to either skydive or bungee jump when I get down to my college weight (210 lbs).

10. What is your favorite cereal?
Grape Nuts or Muesli

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Not always; I also wear loafers often.

12. What is your favorite ice cream?
Mango sorbet. Oh wait, ice cream: butter pecan

13. What is the first thing you notice about people?
Their eyes.

14. Red or pink?
Yes

15. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
My arms - I'm working on more visible biceps.

16. Who do you miss the most?
Nobody, actually.

17. Do you want everyone to complete this list
Their choice.

18. What color pants & shoes are you wearing?
Lounge pants with polka-dots and blue Birkenstock clogs.

19. What are you listening to right now?
Stephen Colbert in the other room and my husband typing on his computer.

20. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Sepia, Mulberry, or Flesh

21. Favorite smells?
Pumpkin or drying leaves in the fall, peppermint in the winter, hyacinths in the spring, and roses in the summer

22. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
My dad. Oh wait, no, my best friend, Joey.

23. Do you like the person who sent you this?
Yes; she was the very first person I met at my last high school.

24. Favorite sports to watch?
World's Strongest Man Competition and the Ultimate Fighter

25. Hair color?
Light brown

26. Eye Color?
Hazel / gray / green / blue - depends on what I'm wearing

27. Do you wear contacts?
Only when I go out

28. Favorite food?
Fried chicken

29. How many places have you lived in your life?
Wow. Um... at least 15 towns (25+ places) - 4 countries

30. What color shirt are you wearing?
steel blue

31. Last movie you watched?
The Last Templar (LAME!!)

32. Summer or Winter
Yes

33. Hugs or kisses?
Yes

<34/35 were deleted from my list, but they were probably irrelevant>

36. What book are you reading now?
Personal Publicity Planner

37. What is on your mouse pad?
The VW logo

38. Favorite Sound(s)?
distant trains, country church bells (real ones!), my sisters playing the piano

39. Rolling Stones or Beatles?
Rolling Stones

40. Warner Brothers or Disney?
Disney

Apparently, I am most like:
You are Apocalypse

Apocalypse 84% Dr. Doom 74% Catwoman 72% Poison Ivy 72% Juggernaut 72% Magneto 69% Kingpin 65% Mystique 64% Green Goblin 64% The Joker 63% Riddler 60% Lex Luthor 59% Mr. Freeze 57% Dark Phoenix 53% Venom 51% Two-Face 28%

You believe in survival of the fittest and you believe that you are the fittest.

Click here to take the Supervillain Personality Quiz