questions (and answers)

My friend Elisha posted this offer on her LiveJournal:

Leave your name and…
1. I’ll respond with something random about you.
2. I’ll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I’ll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4. I’ll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I’ll ask you something that I’ve always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST (motherfucker).

So, I posted my name, and this is what she wrote (my comments are in italics):

1. Do you still have a scruffy beard? I liked it. Sure do. I trim it back on the weekends, so it’s fairly neat on Monday, but definitely scruffy by Friday.

2. An indie film, but I’m not sure which because you have an air of educated to you. Something interesting if you can grasp it. eXistenZ, maybe?

3. Lemon (it doesn’t get nearly as many props as it should. I like lemon.)
I’d be a little nervous to wrestle you, and besides, I’m supposed to stay away from fruit and desserts on my diet. 🙂

4. Mix-tapes & Kittyhawk CD (which I still have and still listen to.) They’d be glad to hear that, but the last time I emailed them they never wrote back.

5. Your introduction post on RDT. Which I don’t remember at all.

6. Dr. Harmon. He isn’t an animal, well he is a person so he is, but he reminds me of you in some ways.

7. If you could do anything you wanted to do without any consequences at all, what would it be? Quit my frickin’ job, which has been driving me crazy these last three weeks. I got a promotion and raise over the summer, which is nice (makes up for the salary cut the year before), but the work has been rough recently.

And here are my answers about Elisha:

1. The night we exchanged over 100 emails (when I used to work the graveyard shift).

2. Fight Club, of course.

3. It would have to be sugarless jello. Lemon would be fine.

4. I had to vacuum after I opened the first letter you ever sent me.

5. My first memory is the story of the guy in the parking lot, of course. My clearest memory was the day I suddenly realized that I knew something about you that you had never told anybody in the world (including me).

6. Well, you didn’t choose an animal, so I won’t either. You have always reminded me of my father.

7. I’ll ask the same question. If you could do anything you wanted to do without any consequences at all, what would it be?