This meme is really just a placeholder, a way of letting you all know I’m still out there even when I let an entire shameful week go by without posting. I have a juicy post coming up later in the week, I promise. (I mean, I have an idea and everything!) I was going to write that post yesterday, but I was somewhat under the weather, due to my inability to remind myself that unlike my in-laws, I cannot drink a margarita for lunch at a Mexican restaurant, follow it with two glasses of wine in the afternoon and a beer and a half at dinner, and layer it all with Tostitos cheese dip and not nearly enough water. I am coming up on eight years of marriage, and I can still be found at 2:00 a.m. on holiday weekends, vomiting in my husband’s grandmother’s bathroom.
This meme has been going around my circle like a low-grade fever. I originally got it via e-mail from my aunt, Suze’s mom. Then Suze, Jenn, and Animal all did it. I am too lazy to link to their versions, though. You can find them if you’re determined.
1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? No. My parents chose my name because it works well in both French and English. I was grateful for this later, when I was an exchange student in a French program along with two Heathers.
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? I got sort of teary this morning when I saw a picture of two little girls in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Serious crying, though, I can’t remember.
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? No, it’s demented and everyone thinks so. I usually print anything that anyone else, including me, needs to read. When I use cursive, I tend to lose control of my hand and make extra loops and whatnot. I blame the French.
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Uh…chickpeas?
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? We have an almost-finished foster license and the likelihood of adopting one before too terribly long, but first I have to give myself a semester or two of grad school. I don’t want to be a new student and a new parent at the same time.
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? If I were another person and I met me, I would too busy interrogating my previous understanding of reality to be thinking about making a new friendship.
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Yes, although I’ve learned that it’s best applied with a light touch.
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes. No one ever suggested I remove them. I guess I’m just young enough to have escaped that mandatory whip-‘em-out-itis.
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Only if it were a choice between that and voting Republican.
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? I generally save money by avoiding boxed cereal and eating bread or oatmeal for breakfast. But if I’m honest? Corn flakes.
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Yes, it really bothers me not to.
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Physically? For a petite girl, I’m pretty capable. I’m wiry and I occasionally lift a weight or two. The other, deeper kind of strong? I know I am when I need to be, but I often don’t feel that I am.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? I have learned, after many painful attempts, to stay away from ice cream, much as I miss Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? It depends on how close they’re standing to me, and whether they’ve said anything yet.
15. RED OR PINK? For what? The sky? My soul? My favorite t-shirt?
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? How easily I get angry.
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? Well, in terms of people I’ve lost, I miss all my grandparents at times. But on a day-to-day basis, my friends who live in other states and countries. And my cousin-nephew Daniel.
18. WHAT COLOR SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Black (flip-flops)
19. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? A fried egg with Sriracha on flatbread leftover from last night.
20. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Birds, and the highway.
21. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? If I were a crayon, I wouldn’t care one way or the other.
22. FAVORITE SMELLS? Onions and garlic sautéing in butter; that toasty, early fall campfire smell; early morning in Kansas after a rainstorm; mountain thyme
23. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? My dad
24. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Assuming that means my aunt who e-mailed it to me originally? Like and love.
25. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Kitty fu.
26. HAIR COLOR? Blackish brown.
27. EYE COLOR? Brown.
28. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Yes. Last week I spent half a day thinking I had one stuck to the back of my eyelid but it turned out I had just washed it down the sink. Either that or my brain ate it. I have worn contacts for a decade, and this kind of thing still happens to me.
29. FAVORITE FOOD? I can’t choose. At the moment I’m quite partial to an asparagus noodle dish from a Deborah Madison cookbook, but that’s because asparagus is in season right now and so very tasty.
30. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? A false choice.
31. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? What the Bleep: Down the Rabbit Hole. It was for an event sponsored by my interfaith women’s group, and it was a last-minute substitution for a much better movie that we weren’t able to get in time. Two-and-a-half hours of insulting, poorly edited, credulous pseudoscience trying to assert that all of reality is created by human consciousness, and therefore we can manipulate it however we like, if only we believe that we can. I actually got up and left before it was over because it was so excruciatingly bad that I just couldn’t bear to sit there a moment longer. Also, it made me angry (see above re: anger issues).
32. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? White
33. SUMMER OR WINTER? As in, which do I like better? Summer, no question.
34. HUGS OR KISSES? Again, false choice.
35. FAVORITE DESSERT? I’m not a big dessert person, but I do miss my grandma’s rhubarb pie around this time of year.
36. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint.
39. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Some weird Dell design that looks like something from either The Matrix or X-Men. Have no idea where it came from—the computer is a Mac.
40. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? I don’t have any TV channels, but I did watch an episode of Futurama from Netflix while knitting.
41. FAVORITE SOUND? At this time of year, I’d say a Poncho Sanchez recording at 6:00 on a Friday evening.
42. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Oh, I don’t know. I was born in 1976. I can’t really bring myself to get too partisan on the issue. I like the Beatles’ music better, and they did seem like somewhat nicer guys. On the other hand, I did TP Mick Jagger’s hedge. (And just broke my resolution never to mention that again.)
43. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? A hardware store in Versailles, Missouri where you can buy a leather belt monogrammed with Confederate flags and the words, “CSA / Our boys will rise again.” That was this weekend.
44. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Fidgeting
45. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Madison, Wisconsin
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4 comments:
For no earthly reason, I like that your "special talent" is fidgeting. *snickers*
And I was trying SO HARD to think of something you wouldn't interpret as dirty.
Um…no, not dirty! Even *I* am not sure how to make that dirty! That one was at face value only: simply humorous that "fidgeting" would be a special talent.
Sorry. I know, you come to expect it from me, don't you?
Hmm. I think the joke might be on me for this one.
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