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I generally talk to my friends fairly often. My closest friends I speak to roughly every day or so. Sometimes I'll take days where I just want to hole up in my room with my Kindle and ignore everything, but those don't happen to frequently. For my other friends it varies a bit. For a couple of them our interests became too different, and it's not that we don't like each other a lot still or anything, just that we have nothing in common to do or talk about anymore. Which is sad. And then there's the friend who I grew up with since I was four, and for eight years we both went to the same single room school house and the same church. So we saw each other near daily. Now in college, we still live with each other and share a house. It's fantastic! But we don't talk much at all over the summer unless he comes over to watch the latest episode of ponies. Or have some tea. Or both. It's not bad, we just need a break from each other since we usually see each other every day during school time. But generally I keep in touch with my friends. I am pretty bad at starting conversations, but thankfully my friends are usually doing that part so it's easier on me. I was worried my high school friends would drift apart afterwords, but three years later, we're all still here. I'm very thankful to have such great friends! Dunno what I'd do with out them. Lose my mind probably.

I wasn't sure which one I should vote for in this poll. In general I enjoy my solitude, and I need breaks from even my closest and dearest friends. I need my Curl-up-with-my-Kindle-and-a-cup-of-tea-and-some-Bach time y'know? When I'm in the home I grew up in, I find I tend to get irritated by the antics of my parents every now and then. Small stuff really, but it bothers me. Like how I'll be reading a book and dad will non-stop keep talking to me despite the fact I pretty clearly am trying to read. Or blathering on about something he didn't like while I'm watching a TV Show. Yet when I go into the kitchen and quietly ask where mom went while he's listening to his podcast loudly enough to wake the dead, he yells at me. Or how, because my father works at home, he often comes upstairs and knocks on my door to say hi. Which is nice, really. Except it happens far too often. An hour and a half is generally the longest period of time I'll go without interruption. On the other hand, I live downstate with a friend who is basically family in every way but blood and we share a house all to ourselves for college. That works out great. Some days we won't even see each other because we're both locked away in our rooms, sometimes we'll have tea together or watch a movie, and nothing either of us does annoys the other. Well, except that that he doesn't keep the kitchen clean or do the dishes, but I don't give him hate for that because neither do I! So it's nice to live with a friend that's family, but I'd rather be alone than with live with my real family. Maybe sharing a house for 2 and a half years isn't enough time to really find out if you dislike living with someone, I don't know, but so far, those are my preferences. Although I would like to point out, like many others here, no matter who I'm living with, I need my alone time.

You know how some people throw away their candy and keep the wrapper? I tend to do that with everything. For example, when I finally got my new Kindle Voyage I eagerly tore the packaging open, threw the Kindle away to the side and stared at the package with a smile on my face for a full second before I realized what I did.

"Indeed" -Teal'c Stargate SG-1 "Apathy is death." -Kreia StarWars Knights of the Old Republic Bonus points to those who can guess what all of the following of my favorite quotes have in common! "Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation." --Calvin Coolidge "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." --Albert Einstein "Computer are like Old Testament gods: lots of rules and no mercy." --Joseph Campbell "The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops." --Alfred Nobel "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." --Socrates "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." --Robert E. Lee "Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall for the same traps or nets twice." --Saint Jerome "Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart." --Japanese Proverb "He who destroys a good book kills reason itself." --John Milton "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." --Leonard Bernstein "What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out." --Alfred Hitchcock "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." --Socrates "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power, we have guided missiles and misguided men." --Martin Luther King Jr. I know that's a lot, but there's a lot of good quotes out there! And nothing quite makes you sound more intelligent than knowing a wise sounding quote for any random situation.

I put myself at a six. Five because I've had several women who say I don't look ugly, I'm just so average that I'm not average in how average looking I am. Looks wise, I'm completely unremarkable. So five comes from that, and I bumped it up to six because I have an inflated opinion of myself.

Oh man! Tea! I have found my people! My friend and I recently got heavily into tea over a year ago. We have an entire bookshelf filled with various teas and tea pots. We've spent way too much on the stuff. We don't cheap out. We get the really good whole leaf stuff, not the dust you see in teabags. There really is a huge difference in the quality. My favorite tea would have to be Earl Grey Lavender from Adagio Teas. It's basically a high quality version of Lady Grey tea, but with lavender petals added. Delicious! Although I've recently taken a liking to Pu Erh teas, such as one Pu Erh we have with dried orange peels and bits of chocolate mixed in. Or Jasmine Pheonix Pearls! Little ball of jasmine and green tea leaves. Or Passionfruit black tea mixed with some dried cherries! Or some a white tea called Vintage Silver tips. Nothing like a good cup of tea any time of the day! In fact, here's a little poem I stumbled across a while back about tea: "The first cup kisses away my thirst, and my loneliness is quelled by the second. The third gives insight worthy of ancient scrolls, and the fourth exiles my troubles. My body becomes lighter with the fifth, and the sixth sends word from immortals. But the seventh—oh the seventh cup— if I drink you, a wind will hurry my wings toward the sacred island." -7 Cups of Tea, by Lu Tong (795 - 835 CE) All this talk about tea has me thirsty... Now, which blend should I have? I haven't had that Twilight Sparkle blend in a while... But I do like that Octavia blend too...

I both listen to Audiobooks and read books. So... Here we go. On the Audiobook side of things, I'm reading the Fear Saga. Specifically, I'm almost done with the first in the series: Fear the Sky by Stephen Moss. I'm also listening to Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Which is the sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Which is an amazing read by Douglas Adams by the way. On the actual reading side of things, I'm currently reading a fantasy short story anthology called Diversity is Coming. I haven't gotten far through it yet, but the author gave it to me for free so I'm checking it out. I've also decided to progress a little bit more through my complete Sherlock Holmes collection. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's style of reading is very tiring for me so I need to take breaks from his stories. I'm almost half way through The Hound of the Baskervilles. Add all the pony fanfiction that I read because it's shorter, quicker, and free, and it's amazing I have time in my life for anything else!

Wow, your post matches how I've been feeling for the past year so perfectly it's kinda scary. Except for the coffee part. I don't like coffee... Tea on the other hand... Otherwise I'm just feeling rather lonely. A lot of my friends from days gone by have moved away or become so busy with school/work/significant others that they hardly talk with me anymore. I've tried to make new friends but I live in such a sparsely populated area that it's hard to meet anyone. I'm not exaggerating either, that meeting people site, meetup.com I think it was, returned zero results in a search that had a 100 mile radius. It's hard to find anyone to be friends with that has a similar interest to mine. Let alone someone my age... Man, high school spoiled me. I was one of the few who rather like high school... Anyway, that's why I've hopped back on this site after being inactive forever. Trying to socialize a little bit. Talk with someone, even if it's a stranger on the internet. At least on forums I can pretend someone's listening.