Genevieve - Plinky Answers

In my version, Snow White hangs out with Pedro

2009-12-17T13:37:44-06:00

Pedro

Hartej

Mohammad

Chang

Bob

Vladamir

Baakari

When 'no' is too harsh, try saying 'I'm Allergic'

2009-12-17T13:23:50-06:00

Sure, I'll Call You Sometime
Only say this to someone you can be certain does not have your phone number. And only in a situation like a crowded event, where you can stage a quick disappearing act and "forget" to leave your business card.

I'm allergic
My favorite time to pull this excuse is when it doesn't quite make sense, but it's not outlandish enough to question it. Example:
"Want to grab a glass of wine or a drink sometime?"
"Actually, I'm Allergic"

What am I allergic to? Tannins? Alcohol? They'll never know. I've already staged a clever escape!

I promised my grandmother I'd help her with some chores
Nobody can ever get upset about someone assisting the elderly. Sometimes this is an actual valid excuse. Although I could very well blow off my sweet grandmother and she'd understand, most of the time I'd much rather hang out with her and talk about the ins and out of frying chicken.

Send me a proposal//resume/email/their information...
Immediately put the ball back in that person's court to do some legwork if they want you to do something for them. More often than not, they are too lazy to take the initiative. If they have to do some work, they more often think twice. It's a double filter. If their resume comes and it's crap, you can always send it back and tell them you'd be happy to look at it again once the changes are made. If they are persistent enough, then they might be worth some time!

Can't go wrong with a classic black suit

2009-05-08T22:29:27-06:00

Can't go wrong with a well-cut black suit. I prefer the one-button jacket. High heels that you can walk in, and some great lipstick

Good reasons to bail from a party...

2009-05-08T22:25:00-06:00

People are crying
This means the people at this party are sappy and overly introspective and -emotional drunks, or they are catty fight-picking drunks. Neither are fun.

The booze is gone
Nuf said.

Your friend hit on someone's girlfriend and the someone wants revenge...
Grab your friend, no matter how amusing it is to watch the drunken smack talk and bail.

There are high schoolers there
This is never a good thing

They ask you to put your keys in a basket and draw out another pair...
Seriously?

I find Slugs offensive

2009-05-08T22:18:29-06:00

Slugs

Wild Waves/Enchanted Village wasn't as fun as you'd think

2009-05-08T22:15:34-06:00

The water running through the waterslides is really cold. The wave pool is WAY too crowded, the pavement burned my feet. I got sick from a hamburger and puked on the ferris wheel.

I hail from a long line of frenemys

2009-05-08T22:09:49-06:00

I can't quite remember who my particular arch nemesis was when I was 10, a few come to mind who I felt were victimizing me at that stage in my life.

There was a girl named Mallory and we both liked the same boy and he picked her (of course), she also had an impressive shoe collection and pretty curly hair.

Before her was a girl named Jennifer. She wore stirrup pants in all different colors, she also had a jacket made of real rabbit fur and long blonde hair with bangs. Of course that sounds completely disgusting today, and I would never wear rabbit fur. But back then, it was the shiznit.

There was also another girl named Jennifer, but she went by Jenny. This was a bad deal for me because I used to go by Genny since Genevieve was a super uncool name to have. She was my first frenemy. She was super bouncy and hyper, had really shiny hair, and knew how to flirt with boys. Which of course made her a total beotch in my mind.

I love frozen pot pies

2009-05-08T22:02:40-06:00

I reccomend the Marie Calendar variety.

Chicken Pot Pie

Frozen pot pies! They are terrible for you and almost pure trans and saturated fat.

Today they are my favorite comfort food. Love curling up on the couch with some bad TV and a ghetto frozen pot pie!

My shoes say I'm versatile

2009-05-08T21:59:15-06:00

A random sampling of my shoe closet:

1)Many pairs of stiletto pumps and sandals in almost every available animal print.

2) Multiple pairs of Mary Janes

3) Running shoes

4) Flip flops

5) Red plaid galoshes

I think my shoe closet says I am versatile. Although a majority of my shoes are high heels...

When I grow up...

2009-04-08T23:39:01-06:00

My business card of the future will be the kind that is a pre-loaded template on MS Word. At that point, I don't need to "say anything" about myself with nice cardstock or a fancy title. It will simply say something along the lines of: "Writer, Adventurer, World Lollygagger...Carpe Diem With Me!"

It works, as long as it's not romantic!

2009-04-08T23:34:01-06:00

Facebook! And No, it's not a romantic relationship. I have done plenty of long distance romantic relationships for long periods of time. I think I can say from experience that it doesn't work!

I'm in the Hall of Fame

2009-04-05T23:17:21-06:00

Almost famous...

Well I'd like to say that I am a famous writer...but I'm not. But there are a few things...I can peel a banana with my feet...I can name what all the different chocolates are in a box of See's without a guide, and I have a photographic memory (or at least a very near photographic memory, I do forget stuff occasionally...) and the whole photographic memory thing can be really cool sometimes, but it's really not all it's cracked up to be. Would you want to remember EVERYTHING? Think about it....

Trying to do little things here and there really add up to help the environment

2009-04-05T23:12:51-06:00

I think I have a "normal" level of concern, I do everything that I can without making other people feel guilty.

Stuck in an elevator with Edward Cullen

2009-04-03T19:21:44-06:00

Edward Cullen
The Edward of my imagination though, not Robert Pattinson

Anderson Cooper from AC 360
I'm a big nerd, I know

Deven

I love chicken, I love liver, meow mix meow mix please deliver...Ahhhh!

2009-04-03T19:17:20-06:00

The Whole World by Outkast

Turning Japanese by The Vapors

The Meow Mix theme song by Unknown

My bucket list starts with: Go to Antarctica

2009-03-29T14:17:03-06:00

Go to Antarctica
It's one of the least understood, desolate, mysterious and beautiful places on Earth, and hardly anybody even thinks to travel there.

Submerge myself in a shark cage with great whites
I have always been fascinated with sharks, I never miss Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. The shark cage actually seems relatively safe, and seeing those things up close like that would be fantastic...and if they get me, I'm going to die anyway...might as well go with my bootstraps on! Fighting off a shark with my flipper.

I would take my whole family and close friends to a villa in Tuscany
We would all go somewhere amazing that we could just be together and nobody would have to go anywhere or do anything. We'd all stay in a big villa in Tuscany with a swimming pool and tons of rooms and books and a massive kitchen and a village nearby.

Write my will
It might not sound like a big deal, especially for someone with barely any assets. But I've got a relatively hefty life insurance policy...so I'd leave instructions for the funeral (no somber occasion, lots of flowers, friends, tell funny stories about me, etc.), as well as leave instructions for all my unpublished MS's.

climb an active volcano while it's erupting
I'd prob have to pull some strings with some vulcanologists, but I'd like to wear one of those flame retardant suits and go up toward the lava flow on Kilauea. SomIt would be cool to stand there and actually look at the forces in the center of the earth that shape the planet.

It'd be nice...

2009-03-29T14:05:41-06:00

First I would pay off all my family's debt, mortgages, car payments, ccards, etc. Then I would set up a Revocable education trust in a 529 plan with my entire family as beneficiaries to pay for my sister and brother's college expenses and any other education related expenses for the family that might arise one day. Then I'd give some to my friend Kate to put away for the purpose of starting a small press and I'd give some to Deven to start my little bookstore. Then I'd put the rest (depending on how much was left) somewhere to be a down payment on a house, or even purchase it all together!

Rock on Aslan

2009-03-28T20:42:34-06:00

Hiding underneath my covers at 3am with a flashlight and finishing the book on a school night...Nothing's really changed. Except I don't have to hide anymore.

What I'll be doing when the Zombies come...

2009-03-27T15:52:59-06:00

Well we've got a while until the supposed apocolypse (2012), which is when the zombies will be arriving of course. So In the meantime I will be building a zombie-proof shelter. It will be made of stainless steel and 3 feet of inpenetratable concrete walls. I will stock my zombie proof shelter with flame throwers since they are one of the only things that can stop keep zombies at bay, as well as hand gernades, because the only way you can kill a zombie is to blow them to smithereens. I'll get all my friends and family into the shelter and wait until the zombies have taken over and are feeling quite comfortable and off their guard. Then we will attack Rambo style!

Chocolate is my vice

2009-03-27T15:41:38-06:00

For more elaboration on my vice of chocolate, see GirlAboutTown:
www.genevieveabouttown.blogspot.com

I started chocolate when I realized that I lived a sad pathetic exsistence. I needed to spice up my life to be more creative, fulfilling, less dutiful, more Holly golightly-like. So I decided to make sure that I ate chocolate every day. I would probably quit if I was diagnosed with diabetes or something.

I demand A Porsche Cayman with a full tank and a glovebox filled with unstrapped $100's!

2009-03-27T15:21:26-06:00

A Black Porsche Cayman Turbo
Because it's super hot, awesome and fast. And if it's black, I can turn off my lights and outrun the police and the border patrol easier at night. I'd also like "Money" from Pink Flloyd's Dark Side of the Moon Album to be playing on the stereo when I make my escape.

Fill the glovebox with unstrapped, unmarked $100 bills
no straps=no tracker pack or dye pack. Unmarked= just sounds cool.

A Chicken Carbonara sub with no mushrooms, a cup of soup, a Rockstar and chips
Holding hostages will probably make you hungry, and I'll need energy for my race for the border.

A box of hair dye and a 500 Nordy's gift card
So when I ditch my perpetrator clothes, I can have something new to wear, and I can dye my hair so I don't match my description, the Canadian Mountees at the Border will never know! Mwa ha ha!

It's all in the smile!

2009-03-25T23:05:07-06:00

On the topic of just looks alone, and not all the subtle nuances of sexy vs/ slutty, anyone who is genuine is sexy, if you have a warm friendly smile on your face, you will not look like a slut. If you are scowling or and appear to be a totally unfun beotch, you look like a skank, it doesn't matter what you're wearing at that point.

My purse contents make me look shallow

2009-03-24T23:13:53-06:00

Christian Dior Makeup Palette I never use
I don't usually wear makeup...but what if it suddenly becomes a "makeup day" in the middle of the day? Heaven forbid I am unprepared!

Shu Umeura (sp) Eyelash curler
I'm usually tired, it makes me look awake

Bag of kumquats
I wanted some new food to try that I don't eat on an everyday basis. So I bought kumquats, they travel surprisingly well. Sour though...

Dior Sunglasses
There are a few things I get excited about purchasing and am willing to splurge for, one is designer sunglasses. A stupid frivilous purchase, expecially in Portland, Ore. But I don't care. This is my 2nd pair of Dior sunglasses, I also have Armani and Dolce and Gabbana. I know I'm stupid.

Checking Account and Savings Register
Unlike my previous listed items might suggest, I am a prodigious saver! I actually save or invest over half of what I make. This springs from having a past where I was hugely in debt and always freaking out about bills. Now I am liberatingly anal retentive.

crackberry

About a million different lipglosses
(see item #1)

Lifesavers
I get dry mouth when I go running

Spin the bottle baby yeah

2009-03-24T17:50:05-06:00

At the time I thought it was pretty cool, and I was shy enough to need an excuse like spin the bottle to kiss my "boyfriend." Looking back, it was just as lame as everybody else's first kiss.

I inherited the "crazy cat lady" gene

2009-03-24T00:57:01-06:00

I am slowly becoming a crazy cat lady, just like my dear mother, and my dear grandmother...oh dear....

I think I would have to be a native american for this one...

2009-03-24T00:53:07-06:00

She Who Sleds Down Icy Hill In Rubbermaid Bucket

'The More Boys I Meet...(the more I love my dog)' AMEN!

2009-03-24T00:50:37-06:00

The More Boys I Meet...(the more I love my dog) by Carrie Underwood

Since You've Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson

Enough Cryin & Just Fine by Mary J Blige

I'll take the quiet starer (as long as they don't breathe with their mouth open)

2009-03-24T00:42:35-06:00

I could get drunk, stop feeling paranoid about the staring and fall asleap

Funny guy with huge snoz dumps me for crazy crack whore, "friends" commence mockery

2009-03-24T00:37:47-06:00

He was probably the weirdest and funniest guy I had ever dated. I think the entire duration of our "relationship" I was laughing so hysterically my gut hurt. He was also older than me, so I thought that I was pretty bad ass...except he had the hugest nose I have ever seen. I didn't care much, but it was really big! We were in college at the time, and my circle of friends, who happened to all be dating his circle of friends, was getting ready to leave for spring break together. While loading everything into the car, he took me to a nasty deserted sleeping porch that smelled like mold and mildew. I sat on an old broken spring mattress and he dumped me, then left me crying in there by myself. Then I had a 6 hour car ride and a whole week of spring break ahead of me, with him. And the people I was with were about 0% understanding of my depressed, rejected and humuliated self. I tried to get away from the group, so I made an excuse about having to go do something else, of course it was a blatant lie. They all called me out on it, labeled me a pathological liar, and I never lived it down. Later I found out he broke up with me for a cracked out crazy girl (no joke).

My bucket list starts with: Go to Antarctica

2009-03-24T00:27:27-06:00

Go to Antarctica
Because it's a beautiful exotic location that nobody ever travels to!

Ride in a gondola in Venice
Because I want to hear the guy in the striped shirt and hat sing to me

Learn to fly a helicopter
So I can go anywhere anytime I want to and get there fast!