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Big up to the folks that filled out this here survey. Typing into text boxes is always fun, I say. Here's a mini Q & A in response to what was asked.

"Do you think your LJ reflects you as you are offline? - I think my journal reflects who I am on 11. It's who I am when I'm not worried about saying the wrong thing or making a fool of myself. If you knew me and then stumbled across my journal I think you'd have a hard time believing it was me, but if one of y'all came 'round to meet me after interacting with me here you would not be surprised.

Why? Just 'why' in general. - "Why?" Because I command it to be so. Foolish One, to ask such a question of me.

why are you so awesome? no. um...yeah i don't have any other than that one. - Because you're on the crack rock? Or perhaps (more likely) you're awesome and you're projecting that onto me. Because of the previously mentioned substance addiction.

What brought on this poll? - I saw a variation of it on a friend's journal and the question intrigued me. How close are we really to our online selves? And I was curious as to how many people who have me on their friends list actually would consider me friend material. Egotistical, I know, but then again the whole LJ format is a big ego polish.

What's the logic in YOUR username? - It's based on a character from Tad Williams' "Otherland" series, fantasy genre. The character's name is Sam Fredericks. The more I read about Sam the more I felt a connection to who I was at that time (this was when I was 18 or 19, I believe). I was putting around with the LJ names and I was surprised Fredericks was available so I took it and ran.

Where's the booze? Where's teh pr0n? - *grin* That's YOUR department. This party's BYOB/P, my wenchy friend.

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After monopolizing my brother's laptop over the weekend (yesterday he threated to charge me usage fees, poor thing) I've seen Fullmetal Alchemist in its entirety. Hmm. Now, I liked it quite a bit but this article raises a number of the questions I found myself left with once the feed of episode 51 shut off.I wouldn't go as far as the authors of the linked article do and say the show is "just no good" - I think that's simply a reaction to being told by thousands of fans that the show is awesome and must be watched - but I do agree that it lost its way when it came closer to the end. I think it might have had to do with the set-up for the movie, in part. The reveal of Envy being Hohenheim's son was not much of a shock. I really did wonder why they waited so long to reveal something like that. My main gripe - Ed and Al end the series trying to do the same exact action they did to fuck things up back in episode 1. The lesson I ultimately took away was one I knew before I started watching the show: love makes you do really REALLY stupid things. As I said before though, I liked it. A lot. I suppose if it was perfect I wouldn't have found it so fascinating. Now to find something else to obsess over. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Randomness for the morning - I was talking to my 14 year old cousin yesterday and she told me about the time in her class when they watched the childbirth doc "Miracle of Life". She went on to say that at the part where the mother was in active labor and pushing she (my cousin) found herself pushing as well. I was amused beyond measure because when I watched a labor for my OB rotation I found myself doing the same thing (I'm a very good pusher, btw...TMI?). I feel like it's a natural female thing, either out of empathy or ....? I don't know how to explain it. Sort of like the way the passenger of a car will try to "brake" if the car gets into a near-accident. Did that make sense at all? Ye Gods, it's early and I have FMA on the brain.