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Day 01 → Your favourite song
Day 02 → Your favourite movie
Day 03 → Your favourite television programme
Day 04 → Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobbie of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

I would like to argue that since I work overnights, and don't go to sleep until around 2pm my time, that this still counts as day number five. I'll do day number six when I wake up this evening, or something.

So...favourite quote. I'm not really sure I've ever given it much thought, so I'm going to go with a line from the movie "Four Rooms," in which Jennifer Beale's character Angela says, "Everybody starts out as strangers, Ted. It's where we end up that counts." I mean, it's simply hilarious in the context, but it's very meaningful too, particularly to me.

I'm such a socially awkward person that the "getting to know you process" can be quite difficult or strange for me, and I've often said that I'm not going to bother with it. I'm not going to play nice and pretend to be someone I'm not, just waiting to see if a person might be compatible with me as a friend, only to find they're not, weeks or months later. I'm going to be straight-forward and honest about who I am. Someone might think "why would you tell me this?" and my thought on the matter is, if it bothers you now, aren't you glad you heard it straight up and didn't waste time on me?

People can take this to a very uncomfortable extreme, and I wouldn't say I'm too bad about it. But if I meet someone who seems cool and interesting, who might share my interests, *shrugs*

Here's a link to "The Wrong Man," the part of the movie where the line is spoken. Lots of fun, but I recommend the whole thing, too. There's bonus David Proval! Kissing Ted! I used to hate "Lie to Me" until I started watching it as a sequel to this. Tim Roth plays the lead character Ted, and Jennifer Beale's is his wife in LtM, so, yeah. The line is at about 6:59:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGrjzr6f0WE