Books!

1. What book is in your bathroom?

None right now, as I actually cleared out the bathroom yesterday. Before I had "Orlando" and "The Fur Person" in there.

2. What book is in your purse/backpack?

My purse is too small for books, sadly. I did bring "Manon Lescaut" with me to work, though. I think I still have a D&D book in my backpack from my last game. :)

3. What book is on your bedside table?

Ergh. I have about fifteen. Cunningham's "Living Wicca" springs to mind, and I think I have an Albert Campion mystery, as well as my Bible and a few other mysteries.

4. What was the last book you lent someone?

I'm ashamed to say I don't remember. I seem to be more the borrower than the loaner, and when I lend out books I forget who has them and basically let them keep it.

To answer your question: I don't remember.

5. What was the last book you lent out that someone brought back to you?

*sheepish look* See above?

6. What book do you have loaner copies of, solely for the purpose of foisting it on unsuspecting friends and relatives?

Don't do that kind of thing. If I like a book I'll recommend it, or lend my own copy. If I never see that copy again I usually end up buying it again.

That Journal Survey thing

Ganked from kimberly_a

( Cut because I just know this is going to be long and is primarily for my own benefit )

Monday Mission!

Just when you thought you were safe with just the Friday Five, Promo Guy brings you the Monday Mission!

PromoGuy's Monday Mission 3.14

1. Would you rather impress or influence others? Why? Which do you tend to do more than the other?

In the short run? Impress people, certainly. In the long run, influence. That one lasts longer.

Sadly I think I actually do neither. *sigh* Ah well. C'est la vie.

2. Are you able to admit your weaknesses to others? How do you handle your weaknesses (Can you accept them and see them as a strength? (Do you strive to overcome them? etc.)

For the most part, yes, although it depends who I'm talking to. Then again, I've got so many I've stopped trying to list them. ;)

I do try very hard to overcome my failings and to learn from my mistakes. It doesn't always work, but I don't think I can be faulted for not trying.

3. How do you react when you are bossed around, treated as inferior or taken advantage of?

Sometimes I just don't even notice. I've been bossed around a lot and treated like and inferior and taken advantage of a lot in my lifetime.

When I do notice, I generally grit my teeth and bear it.

Occasionally I blow up at people, when it's really got out of hand. Even then, it's nothing spectacular.

4. Do you live your life to meet your own needs, or do you live to meet the needs of others? Why?

I'm trying to do the former, but mostly I end up doing the latter. Mostly it's a deep–seated need to be accepted, to belong, that somehow has never been sated throughout my life. Pathological, almost. Somewhere along the way my brain made the (very false) association between people liking me and my doing things for them. It's a profound fear that if I stop trying to please people in every way possible that they'll shun me.

5. This is your Mission on Mondays, but what is your mission in life?

I don't have one. If I had a mission in life, I'd like it to be to make others happy, but right now I can't even make myself happy.

6. Can you focus on your goals and achieve them, or are you sidetracked by minor distractions along the way?

Oh, I completely get distracted by random things all the time. It's part of the problem I have getting anywhere in life: I'm too busy paying attention to the road instead of looking at the goal. Pretty shiny things! :)

7. When was the last time you cried? What were you feeling at that moment (anger, sadness, etc.)?

I think it must have been last week, or possibly this weekend.

What I was feeling? Presumably despair. It's the only feeling that'll make me cry (outside of books and movies).