chess | You are *so* going to all get fed up of this survey nonsense soon.

Body---
1. What do you most like about your body?: My hair.
2. And least: The fact that it doesn't work in lots of annoying and inventive ways.
3. How many fillings do you have?: None whatsoever. Aren't I good? ;-)
4. Do you think you're good looking?: Yes. I'm pretty.
5. Do other people often tell you that you're good-looking?: I don't know about 'often'. But I have been told that.
6. Do you look like any celebrities?: I wouldn't know. I don't know many celebrities.
-- Fashion --
1. Do you wear a watch?: Yes. It is a Winnie the Pooh watch with a pink and purple and blue strap. It also has butterflies and a dragonfly on it. It is most impractical but very pretty.
2. How many coats and jackets do you own?: One coat. One jacket. Two fleeces. Two denim jackets. One suit jacket. I'm not sure which of the last three count, if either do.
3. Favorite pants/skirt color?: Presuming that 'pants' is being American here, because otherwise this is a very odd question... uhm... black. or purple. or blue. or pink. it depends. but probably black, because it suits pretty much everyone.
4. Most expensive item of clothing?: Almost certainly the suit.
5. What kind of shoes do you wear: Trainers, of the old and battered variety. (Well, they're not particularly old, just battered.)
-- Your Friends --
1. Do your friends 'know' you?: If they didn't know me, they wouldn't be my friends. I presume the quotation marks are trying to imply something deeper than that, but I'm not entirely sure what.
2. What do they tend to be like?: Normal only in the sense that most of them are at ninety degrees to reality.
3. Are there traits in you that are universally liked?: I don't think so, although the '3/4 of all people hate me on sight' thing seems to have died down a lot now.
4. How many people do you tell everything to?: There is no one person to whom I have told everything. (Aside from the fact that telling someone everything would be technically impossible for a mortal being because it would take forever.)
-- Music/TV/Film/Books --
1. Favorite band ever?: Meh. Probably REM, for sheer consistancy in volume. But it depends on my mood.
3. Do you find any musicians good-looking?: This is a bit of a sweeping question. I'm pretty sure there must be some musicians that I consider at least good-looking.
4. Can you play an instrument?: No. Once upon a time people attempted to teach me the keyboards. I have no sense of rhythm and no patience for learning, which is a shame, because I did like composing songs, and I tend to sing much of my poetry.
7. Favorite book?: Probably Stand on Zanzibar, but it's a close match between that and Cryptonomicon.
-- Religion --
1. Do you detest religion?: Why do you assume that I should? I don't detest religion as long as it doesn't overwhelm faith.
2. How do you think this universe was formed?: God made it. He may have used a big explosion, He may not have. I plan to ask Him at some point when He's more likely to give me straight answers, e.g. when I'm in Heaven.
3. If you currently follow a religion, do you think people who belong to another religion are ignorant? Another sweeping question. Most people are ignorant in some way or another, and I'm sure there are people who belong to other religions who are ignorant. I wouldn't like to claim that all people that belong to other religions are more ignorant than people who belong to mine, because I think the reverse is probably more likely to be true; there are an awful lot of ignorent Christians around, we're famous for it, and indeed we admit it, we can't be perfect and that includes not having perfect knowledge.
4. If you were in a hostage situation, and you were given a choice, to either praise the demon they follow, or die, what would you choose?: Die, of course. Sounds like a good oppertunity to get off this here ball of dirt while still doing the right thing, to me.
-- Homosexuality --
1. What is the first thing you think when you see two gay guys or lesbians holding hands?: Uhm, nothing specifically to do with them holding hands, really. After all, if I know them well enough to know that they're gay or lesbian and not just holding hands because they're friends or something, then I'm not going to be particularly concerned about that fact.
2. Do you detest homosexuality?: 'Detest' is the wrong word entirely. I don't think being Christian and being actively and unrepentantly homosexual is compatible, on the grounds that Christians generally claim to be at least attempting to follow the Bible and the Bible says it's wrong, on several occasions, both Old and New Testaments, yadda yadda. But that's no reason to condemn it amongst people who aren't Christians; I wouldn't expect them to take Holy Communion and pray to and worship our God, so why should I expect them to be hetrosexual?
3. Do you agree or disagree with gay or lesbian couples bringing up children?: I think that if all other things are the same between two couples, then the heterosexual one should have priority for adoption, because of the male/female role models thing, and also the social-stigma thing that is still around. However, I think that there are an awful lot of heterosexual couples with children that really oughtn't have children, and that a caring gay or lesbian couple who are going to give a child a good home are massively better to bring up said child than a dysfunctional, uncaring hetrosexual couple.
-- General Questions --
1. Whom do you believe is the smartest man alive at the moment?: I have no idea. I have no direct knowledge of every man alive, nor do I have a good definition of 'smart'.
2. What do you prefer, a sunny or rainy day?: A sunny day, because then I don't get soaked when walking to and from trains.
3. Do you consider yourself lucky?: I do not understand this question. I'm 'lucky' in that I have a lot of good things that I don't have a particularly high probability of having. I don't feel that I have any special advantage in matters of chance over other people, though.
4. Do you feel pity for people who commit suicide?: Sometimes. Sometimes I feel sympathy. Sometimes I feel envy.
5. Choose one word to describe how you feel most often: Most often? I'm not sure any more. Probably 'blank'. I often don't feel anything much.
-- Clothing/Hair --
1. Do you own any plaid clothing?: I've never quite been able to retain the knowledge of what 'plaid' is for very long. I seem to remember I don't like it, though. So probably not.
2. Do you own Converse shoes?: What are Converse shoes, and why would I own them? No.
3. Do you own Saucony shoes?: Ditto.
4. Do you own old school Nikes?: I do not own Nikes. (I do, however, currently own Reeboks. This is not my preferred state of affairs, but my parents insisted that we were not trawling around everywhere for trainers that weren't branded when there were perfectly good ones here and they were paying for them anyway.)
5. Do you wear tight pants? I have a pretty electric blue pair of trousers that are quite tight. They are nice.
6. Is there more than one zipper in your pants?: I don't think any of my trousers have more than one zipper; one or two pairs might have a pocket one I hadn't noticed, of course.
7. Do you know what a squatter flap is?: No.
8. Do you own a messenger bag?: What's one of them? If it's a satchel-bag like you have newspapers in, yes.
9. Do you wear your messenger bag across your chest?: I don't know what you mean by that even if it is what I'm thinking of.
10. Do you own braces?: I still have one little piece of wire behind my two front teeth; I'm not sure if that counts.
11. Are braces worn anywhere besides the mouth?: Yes, braces are sometimes worn in other places, e.g. the back. I presume you're trying to ask me whether I wear them in such places, and the answer is no.
12. Do you have short, shaggy hair?: No.
14. Would you classify your hair as a deadly weapon?: Yes. It likes to strangle people.
15. Do you think mohawks are "neat"?: No.
16. Is your hair black or red?: Neither; it's right in the middle, with some yellow thrown in for good measure, being lightish brown and all.
17. Do you have a favorite brand of hair dye: No; it would take unreasonable amounts of hairdye to change my hair's colour, and I like it as it is.
18. Do you own a bandana?: Newp. Occasionally tie random pieces of vaguely appropriate material around my head in imitation of such, though.
19. Do you wear plugs in your ears?: No. They make my head want to explode, and they make my ears hurt, and I can hear all these rushing sounds, and it's rather unpleasent.
20. Are you amused by safety pins?: I can amuse myself *with* a safety pin, but I'm not sure that's what you're talking about.
21. Have you ever used duct tape as a sewing substitute?: No, but that's a good idea.
22. Do you own one or more objects with studs or spikes in them?: I own a pair of 'hockey boots', which are really just football boots, from when we used to play hockey at school. I think that's probably the only truly qualifying object(s).
23. Do you own one or more articles of clothing from Dogpile, Lip Service, or Tiger of London?: No.
24. Do you enjoy leopard print?: Yes, I enjoy leopard print very much. I look absolutely awful in it, but I still enjoy it.
-- Habits/Beliefs --
25. Are you disgruntled (having a general hate for everything)?: I don't agree with your definition of disgruntled. I often consider myself disgruntled, and I define it as being nonspecifically or maybe specifically but chronically annoyed with something. Being disgruntled is like having a little bit of sand in your clothes; it doesn't really matter but it just keeps prickling at you.
26. Are you an anarchist?: No. I believe very firmly that I am not one of the fittest and hence promoting a survival of the fittest system is not a good plan for self-perservation, which motivates me almost as much as the next human.
27. Does the American flag anger you?: The flag itself does not anger me in the slightest; it's just a flag, and a fairly aesthetically pleasing one, as flags go. Some of the uses to which it is put, some of the things that are done in its name, and some of the people who wave it around as a protection against the ordinary rules of morality, diplomacy and common sense do anger me. But it's not the flag's fault.
28. Are you "working class"?: No. I am very definately middle class.
29. Do you dislike "preps"?: I have never truly got a handle on what it means to be 'preppy', so I wouldn't know.
30. Do you dislike Hot Topic?: I have no strong opinions about Hot Topic. It sounds like a place I might end up for a while if I was forced to spend any time in a mall that contained one, from the few reports I've heard about it - probably mostly laughing at the merchendise, though.
31. Do you smoke cigarettes?: No. I *do* detest cigarettes.
32. Do you smoke cloves?: No, but I think they smell nice.
33. Are you a thin waif?: No. I am neither thin nor a waif.
34. Are you vegan/vegetarian?: No. Need meat. Rar.
35. Do you think meat is murder?: Murder = unlawful killing. Killing animals = lawful. Hence no.
36. Do your night time activites usually involve drunken underage vomiting?: No. Although I didn't know there was an age limit below which you were not allowed to vomit. All those babies are going to be in trouble.
37. Have you ever slept in an alley or park?: No. I'd like to sleep in a park, though.
38. Do you wash your hair less than once a week?: No, it gets horribly itchy if I leave it a week.
39. Have you ever gone a week without a shower?: Yes. I generally dislike showers. I much prefer baths.
40. Have you ever been avoided due to your odor?: Only by my parents.
41. Do you know who Jack Kerouac is?: No. I have heard the name but no relevant facts accompany it.
42. Do you like Mr. Kerouac?: How should I know?
43. Should Mumia Abu-jamal be freed from prison?: I don't even know who Mumia is. This probably shows my appalling ignorance of world affairs. This is not a good thing, but I'm not sure I want to dedicate the time required to rectify it.
44. Are you a member of the Makeout Club?: I suspect that I don't want to be.
45. Do you say "rad"?: I generally try not to. Usually I succeed.
46. Do you say "rockin'"?: Ditto.
47. Do you say punk "rawk"?: Ditto again.
48. Do you shout the word "oi"?: Occasionally.
49. Do you say "punk's not dead"?: Not as a matter of course. I may have said that phrase at some point in my life, but no particular incidence springs to mind.
50. Do you say "punk is dead"?: Ditto.
-- Music --
51. Do you like bands with "."?: Do I like bands with a full stop? It doesn't particularly matter to me, I don't think.
52. Do you like bands with "theory": What are you smoking?
53. Do you like bands with "the"?: THE MULTICOLOURED ANTS WILL EAT YOUR TOES. FNORD.
54. Do you ever precede your own name with "the" at the beginning?: I say 'the Chessypig', but that's the only name of mine I do that with, I think.
55. Do you like bands with the F word in their name or album title?: No. They normally don't have anything in particular to say or any great ability, so they fall back on shock value, otherwise why bother?
56. Do you think "Christian punk" is an oxymoron?: No. (Nor have I heard anything I'd classify in this way, but I don't have a very good definition of 'punk' to work from.)
57. Are Blink 182 fans "posers"?: Not necessarily. There are most probably some posers amongst Blink 182 fans, and there are almost certainly many posers who are not Blink 182 fans.
58. Do you have frequent debates over what exactly constitutes a sellout?: No.
59. Have you ever brought the headlining band food?: No.
60. Do you have show flyers affixed to your walls?: No.
-- Basics --
Name: Which one? Here's a few: Michelle, Kastaka, Chess, The Chessypig, Princess Cassia.
Do you like it?: I like my real name, because it means 'Who is like God?'. I like the name Kastaka, just because I like the sound and feel of it. It's a lot like a freshly cracked pecan nut. (I have a habit of picking up other people's frames of reference, apologies to

firinel for stealing her synthesasia (or however you spell that) for a moment there.) I do not like the name Chess any more.
Nicknames: all except the first of those were nicknames. never mind. I guess 'Martian', from primary school, is the other noteable, possibly alongside 'Mish' from the annoying people at secondary school.
Age: 17
Birthday: June 7th, 1985
Sign: The Small Insignificant Group Of Boring Stars
School: Chelmsford County High School For Girls
Status: Uhm... alive?
Crush: Small furry kittens under your hobnail boots?
Virgin?: I can't say I'm a great fan of Richard Branston (or whoever it is) and his multinational, but I don't have anything in particular against them either.
Current hair color: Lightish brown. (Natural.)
Eye color: Blue. With a ring around the pupil that can't decide whether to be yellow or brown, and a grey ring outside.
Height: 5'-something. Probably 4.
Shoe size: 4 or 5, depending on what shop. Technically (according to the Clarkes foot measurer) one of my feet is a 4 and the other one is a 5 1/2.
Bra size: 36C. I suspect they're too big, though; I've thinned down since I was last measured.
[ favorites ]
Color: electric blue.
Day: Zoomberryday.
Food: Bland. Or chocolate.
Season: Autumn. or spring.
Sport: Hockey or Lacrosse, because you get to wave large sticks at people menacingly.
Class: Physics, because I can draw Haylar and edit NaNoNovel during.
Radio Station: Radio 4, but I don't even listen to that much.
Me/You: Nobody.
Coke/pepsi: Neither.
Day/night: Night.
Aol/aim: AIM, through Trillian.
Cd/cassette: CD. Cassettes don't play on my computer, and I can't rip them easily.
Dvd/vhs: VHS. I don't have a proper DVD player that hooks up to a TV set nicely.
Jeans/khakis: Nice soft cotteny jeans (preferably black), or blue combat khakis.
Car/truck: Car.
Tall/short: Tall.
Lunch/dinner: Dinner.
NSYNC/BSB: Neither.
Gap/Old Navy: Neither.
Lipstick/Lipgloss: Lipstick. I don't see the point of lipgloss. At least you can scare people with the right colour of lipstick.
Silver/Gold: Silver. (With blue.)
Alcohol/Weed: Neither.
[ love and relationships ]
Do you have a bf/gf?: No.
Do you have a crush?: No.
How long have you liked him/her?: N/A
How long was your longest relationship?: Uhm.
How long was your shortest relationship?: The same length.
Who was your first love?: I haven't actually been in love with a human being yet. God, if anything.
[ the present ]
What are you wearing?: Pretty electric blue jumper. Black jeans with cat scratch on knee.
What are you doing?: Answering silly LJ survey and playing Invasion of Meridell on Neopets.
Who are you talking to: Nobody atm; just idled out of SP
What song are you listening to?: Nothing; well, Neil Finn - Don't Ask Why is currently playing in my head
Where are you?: At home, in my bedroom.
Who are you with?: Nobody.
[ have you ever ]
Drank?: Water, yes. Sipped wine, yes. Drank anything more than a sip of wine at a time, no.
Smoked?: No. I'd probably be sick.
Had sex?: No.
Stolen?: This depends on how you define 'stolen'. I take things which appear to be abandoned, like pencils on the floor or pens the last class left behind on a desk or rulers about to get run over in the car park.
Done anything illegal?: Technically; I have driven a few mph over 30 during driving lessons on occasion.
Wanted to die?: Yes. I just feel it would be selfish of me.
Hit someone?: Yes. In common with probably the majority of females, I have a lousy punch. (There does actually seem to be a gender correlation to this.)
[ other ]
Do you write in cursive or print?: Generally cursive, I find it quicker. I print things that I desperately want people to be able to read and read well, though.
Are you a lefty or a righty?: I'm right-handed; my left arm appears to be stronger than my right, however.
What is your sexual preference?: I'm not entirely sure I have one.
What piercings do you have?: None.
Do you drive?: Only on driving lessons.
Do you have glasses or braces?: Glasses. (Contact lenses are evil and I refuse to have anything to do with them.)
Did you like this survey?: No, it was long and tedious and didn't really reveal an awful lot about me that people probably didn't already know. I'm going to post it anyway, though, because I'm boring like that.