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[fredericks]

Ask me a question(s) about any or all of the following:
1. Friends
2. Sex
3. Music
4. Drugs
5. Love
6. LiveJournal
7. Religion, politics, philosophy, or whatever

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1. Friends: Who was your first childhood friend? What do you remember most about him/her?
My first childhood friend was my cousin, the only female cousin I had for a couple of years. I remember that our friendship consisted of me being teased a lot and I remember having my first sexual experiences with her (pervy, right?). In hindsight it wasn't much of a friendship. Those things help contribute to screwing people up.

2. Sex: Do you believe that it's possible to live without sex?
Yes I do. Sex is an urge that can be channeled into any number of things nowadays. Even using "urge" is wrong, IMO, but I'm bad with the explaining. I couldn't do without it, but I don't doubt people who define themselves as asexual.

3. Music: Who has been your most powerful musical influence?
As in musical artist? I'm young enough to say Michael Jackson shaped a good part of what I chose to listened to. Hearing Eddie Van Halen on "Beat It" made me less hesitant to listen to things like rock or (oddly enough) classical, basically anything my parents weren't listening to on a regular basis (my folks were heavy on the soca, calypso, R&B and soul). It wasn't that MJ himself was an influence, but what he did musically sort of gave the young me permission to listen to things to which the black people that made up my family didn't.

4. Drugs: Do you think some circumstances of drug use can be justified?
Yes. Marijuana for glaucoma and constant pain, opiods as analgesics, things of that nature. Using drugs purely as methods of escape (in a non-physiological sense) is what I don't really get. It might be too many years of having Nancy Reagan whisper "Just Say No" in my ear, but I'm not much of pro-drug person.

5. Love: Do you believe that there is truly someone out there for everyone?
Perhaps. It's not the soulmate concept where there's one perfect match out there in a sea of humans, but I think that like anything else of worth you have to work to find and hold onto that person. If everyone believed there was someone out there for them and went into every potential relationship with an open heart and mind people would be a helluva lot happier.

6. LiveJournal: What is your most memorable LJ experience?
*laugh* I don't recall any. Maybe stumbling upon the LJ of a person whom I considered a long-time friend of sorts, although "stumbling" is the wrong word..."tracked down" is a better term. I keep waiting to find a journal entry of someone who refers to be as the love of their life or something equally as poetic, sappy, and wonderful, but it has yet to happen.

7. Religion, politics, philosophy, or whatever: Do you get involved in politics, or do you tend to stay away from that topic?
I tend to stay away from politics because I have a hard time formulating arguments when pressed by others. This isn't to say I don't have beliefs, but that I'm just really bad when it comes to responding to others inquiries and to save face I avoid the topic altogether (for the most part). I'm not politically involved at the moment but I keep track of what's going on on a daily basis. Btw - in a couple of years I can see myself running for local office or something of that nature.