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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Addictions

Jennynyc's Addictions Quiz:

1) Do you have a tendency towards addictions?
2) What are your addictions?
3) Do you have any things you avoid because you see them as potential addictions?
4) What do you wish you were addicted to?
5) What's your favorite book or movie or song or poem about addiction?


Please copy and paste this test into the comments section and insert your own answers. Here are mine:

1) Do you have a tendency towards addictions?

Yes, by all means.

2) What are your addictions?

Cleaning, playing with my cats, eating, the internet, movies, having sex, writing, making collages, talking on the phone, staying up late, watching t.v., psychiatric drugs, swimming.

3) Do you have any things you avoid because you see them as potential addictions?

Internet porn, ultra-edgy sex, non-psychiatric drugs, alcohol, cigarettes.

4) What do you wish you were addicted to?

Weight-lifting, making lanyards, doing managed care forms.

5) What's your favorite book or movie or song or poem about addiction?

Well, my aunt and I recently enjoyed the t.v. movie with Meredith Baxter Bernie (?) in which her name is Kate and she is bulimic (the woman who was the mother in Family Ties). There is a great scene where she eats chocolate cake off the kitchen floor.


7 Comments:

At Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:32:00 PM, Blogger Jayla said...

Two more addictions I have: spending tons of time in drug stores, spending money on luxuries-particularly cabs.

 
At Friday, January 14, 2005 2:59:00 AM, Blogger sk8rn said...

1) Do you have a tendency towards addictions?
yes

2) What are your addictions?
blogging and the internet in general, chocolate, sugar, shopping (spending money)

3) Do you have any things you avoid because you see them as potential addictions?
I moderate my alcohol intake, don't smoke, avoid street drugs and stick to my prescription pills, thrills, seduction, flirting, sometimes I worry I'm addicted to sex, but I don't think it's that big of a problem.

4) What do you wish you were addicted to?
vegetables, fruit, aerobics, cleaning house

5) What's your favorite book or movie or song or poem about addiction?
I can't think of one right now. I'll let you know if I think of one later.

 
At Friday, January 14, 2005 7:52:00 AM, Blogger Kerry said...

1) Do you have a tendency towards addictions?
Spending money, obsessing over things esp TV shows, books; eating certain foods; prescription drugs
2) What are your addictions?
Gambling; Eating; Cigarettes
3) Do you have any things you avoid because you see them as potential addictions?
Alcohol; illegal drugs;
4) What do you wish you were addicted to?
Exercise; dieting; cleaning
5) What's your favorite book or movie or song or poem about addiction?
GA Booklets (Yellow one and the Grey on)

 
At Friday, January 21, 2005 10:58:00 PM, Blogger sk8rn said...

I thought of a book (which I'll probably review on my blog one of these days) - "How Loathesome" by Ted naifeh and Tristan Crane. A beautifully done graphic novel on the fluidity of gender that brings up addiction (though it doesn't provide any answers).

 
At Saturday, January 22, 2005 9:45:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

1) Do you have a tendency towards addictions?
No
2) What are your addictions?
Food, clothing, shoes, Desperate Housewives.

3) Do you have any things you avoid because you see them as potential addictions?
Researching cute male/female cebrities.

4) What do you wish you were addicted to?
Excersize and eatting right.

5) What's your favorite book or movie or song or poem about addiction?
I don't have one.

mejestick

 
At Friday, January 28, 2005 6:32:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

1) Do you have a tendency towards addictions?yes
2) What are your addictions?cigs (past), food, computer games, Lucy Tennis (remember?)
3) Do you have any things you avoid because you see them as potential addictions?yes: drugs which are illegal 4) What do you wish you were addicted to? high energy work toward a PhD
5) What's your favorite book or movie or song or poem about addiction Cocaine--by Dave Van Ronk

B

 
At Friday, January 28, 2005 6:38:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

yeah--agustin b's bk. B

 

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