Number 1: Happy Birthday, Michael!!! [for you schmucks who don't know who that is, he's my brother]
Number 2: I left work before seven p.m., which was super exciting.
Number 3: I had tea and toast with jam for dinner. This was an experiment to see if that type of meal will satisfy me when I become an eccentric old lady, particularly if I'm an eccentric old romance novelist. Result: fairly satisfying! However, I bought the high-end preserve-style strawberry jam, rather than the low-end Smuckers extra-sugar variety, which presumably I won't be able to afford when I'm an eccentric old lady, because I will have to spend all of my money feeding my eighteen cats. Until, that is, the low-end Smuckers puts me into a diabetic coma and my cats eat me. Sigh.
Number 4: Since I haven't made anything interactive on my blog in awhile (none of the pictures are interesting enough to vote on, nor do they feature any Abraham Lincoln lookalikes), I've decided to write a highly non-standardized quiz, based v. loosely on recent events. I'll give all of my answers here, and then add a blank version that you can cut and paste into a comment. Doesn't that sound like fun?!?!
1) What's your name? Swamp
2) What's your birth sign? Virgo
3) How many toes do you have? 10, but they're very stubby
4) How do you feel about sweet corn as a pizza topping? It's an abomination
5) If you forgot to get Michael anything for his birthday, what would you like to get him? I wanted to get him an ipod, but he said he didn't want me to get him anything :)
6) What's your favorite memory of Michael? This one time, at band camp...just kidding. Um, I really liked when we used to make his bed into a covered wagon and play like we were settling the Wild West.
7) Are you afraid of Virginia Woolf? No, but I feel like I should read that play someday so that I can be more elitist.
8) What's the last book you read? 'Sunshine' by Robin McKinley for like the tenth time; the last new book I started was 'Collapse' by Jared Diamond (the same guy who wrote 'Guns, Germs, and Steel'), but I haven't finished it yet.
9) If you were to design a washer/dryer combo, would you design the 'dryer' so that it used steam to dry the clothes? No, although it makes washing clothes take a pleasantly-long four hours per load.
10) Have you ever been involved in a) witchcraft or b) a relationship with the Bicycle Robber? If no, would you like to be? No, but why the hell not? I need to get the town to gossip about me in more interesting ways than just whether or not I'm going to fulfill that stupid yearbook prophecy that I'll end up barefoot and married to some Mexican goat-herder.
11) If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be? Cheesy answer: either home in Iowa, or with my friends in Cali. Selfish answer: Morocco.
12) What's the last song you listened to? 'She's Only 18' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
13) Do you think that 'Aer Lingus' could be banned from the US for sounding vaguely obscene? Aer Lingus is way more obscene than Janet Jackson's breast, so I don't see why we're allowing this double standard.
14) What's the meaning of life? Life means whatever you make it mean.
15) Have you ever ridden horses through a rainstorm? No, but I heard a song about it a few times...
16) Can I pet your wolverine? This question makes no sense for me, and I have no comment about whether or not petting one's own wolverine is acceptable.
17) How do you feel about the state of the world? As long as it ends by giant pieces of mesosphere falling down and causing Category 7 storms, I feel pretty good about it.
18) If you had to choose between wearing something pink and something sparkly, which would you choose? Sparkly. Sparkly and pink preferably, but sparkles are the best.
Okay, that's enough questions--it's time for me to go to bed, and for you to take the test.
1) What's your name?
2) What's your birth sign?
3) How many toes do you have?
4) How do you feel about sweet corn as a pizza topping?
5) If you forgot to get Michael anything for his birthday, what would you like to get him?
6) What's your favorite memory of Michael?
7) Are you afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
8) What's the last book you read?
9) If you were to design a washer/dryer combo, would you design the 'dryer' so that it used steam to dry the clothes?
10) Have you ever been involved in a) witchcraft or b) a relationship with the Bicycle Robber? If no, would you like to be?
11) If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be?
12) What's the last song you listened to?
13) Do you think that 'Aer Lingus' could be banned from the US for sounding vaguely obscene?
14) What's the meaning of life?
15) Have you ever ridden horses through a rainstorm?
16) Can I pet your wolverine?
17) How do you feel about the state of the world?
18) If you had to choose between wearing something pink and something sparkly, which would you choose?
3 comments:
1) What's your name? Emily
2) What's your birth sign? Sagitarius
3) How many toes do you have? a boring 10. Now I'll never be allowed to join the circus...
4) How do you feel about sweet corn as a pizza topping? It's a slap in the face of propriety.
5) If you forgot to get Michael anything for his birthday, what would you like to get him? probably pie or a sweet moped. Only because the old computer game "Concentration" always gave out mopeds as prizes.
6) What's your favorite memory of Michael? That time he found bats in your attic. But I wasn't there.
7) Are you afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Only when I vacation in my house of straw.
8) What's the last book you read? In the middle of Lord of the Rings for the 4th time, probably inspired by you always watching it on the TV.
9) If you were to design a washer/dryer combo, would you design the 'dryer' so that it used steam to dry the clothes? No, that seems foolish.
10) Have you ever been involved in a) witchcraft or b) a relationship with the Bicycle Robber? If no, would you like to be? a) of course, I'm Jewish. b) No, I don't want to get in trouble.
11) If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be? California is my popular answer, but also Edinburgh or Florence or Japan. Or Texas, but only after I don't eat for a week so I can finish a real steak when I get there.
12) What's the last song you listened to? James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" b/c it was on VH1 while I was getting ready for work.
13) Do you think that 'Aer Lingus' could be banned from the US for sounding vaguely obscene? Yes, or at least we should all be allowed to giggle after it is said.
14) What's the meaning of life? 42, and yes I am a nerd.
15) Have you ever ridden horses through a rainstorm? No, but I can't wait to read about it in your romance novel.
16) Can I pet your wolverine? He bites. and has great hair.
17) How do you feel about the state of the world? eh, not so much.
18) If you had to choose between wearing something pink and something sparkly, which would you choose? curse you, and your most difficult question! I guess I have to choose pink.
I cannot answer your questions, but Richard Brautigan, rip, can:
1. "Impasse"
I talked a good hello
but she talked an even
better good-bye.
2. "Cyclops"
A glass of lemonade
travels across this world
like the eye of the cyclops.
If a child doesn't drink
the lemonade,
Ulysses will.
3. "Montana Inventory"
At 85 miles an hour an insect splattered
like saffron on the windshield
and a white cloud in blue sky above the
speed-curried bug
14. "The Necessity of Appearing in Your Own Face"
There are days when that is the last place
in the world where you want to be but you
have to be there, like a movie, because it
features you.
15. "I'll Affect You Slowly"
I'll affect you slowly
as if you were having
a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won't rain.
18. "The Amelia Earhart Pancake"
I have been unable to find a poem
for this title. I've spent years
looking for one and now I’m giving
up.
November 3, 1970
Brautigan's alternate answer to No. 2:
"The Virgo Grace of Your Ways Versus This Poem"
Hilda,
I keep wanting to write a poem
in praise of your beautiful energy
and because I like the Virgo grace
of your ways.
Funky as it is: I'm sorry,
forgive me, I guess this is
that poem.
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