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thothmesOkay, so these are the conditions of the meme for which I was tagged by tielan:
1. People who have been tagged must write the answers on their blog and replace any questions they dislike with a new original question.
2. Tag eight people. Don't refuse that. Don't tag who tagged you.
I don't particularly to be a party pooper. I'll gladly do the meme. I replaced a question I thought was a little silly with some alternate silliness. I'll even tag eight people. But since Ihate to won't demand that people pass it on if they don't want to, and there are no stated restrictions on changing the rules, here are my rules for the meme, changes bolded:
1. People who have been tagged may write the answers on their blog and replace any questions they dislike with a new original question.
2. If you want to, tag eight people.Don't refuse that. The originator would certainly like you to, if you could do it in good conscience. Don't tag who tagged you.
3. If you see this and want to play, but I didn't tag you, join in! The more the merrier!
All right and tight? Okay. Ready, Steady, Go!
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01. Make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up.
My beloved husband (playing Plants vs. Zombies on the other computer). Many children's books. Our small collection of blu-rays. An early American chest (refinished so it has little monetary value) that my great-grandmother's children gave her one Christmas. My empty tea cup.
02. How do you style your hair?
Whenever possible, parted on the left and hanging down. If I want it out of the way I french twist it, and cover it with a ball cap without pinning it up. If I'm being formal, I french twist it and bobby pin it up.
03. What are you wearing now?
Hunter green jeans, green turtleneck, scruffy old forest green polyester knit pullover sweater, rimless glasses. Green with envy yet? Convinced I come from Emerald City? Too Irish for my own good? Actually it's just a coincidence of what was clean and available.
04. What's your ringtone?
I don't have a cell phone. Where I live I'd have to drive 5 miles (8 km) in to town to get any bars. My land line sounds like a traditional phone.
05. What do you hear right now?
The second sudden death overtime period of the Vancouver-Nashville Stanley Cup playoff game.
06. What do you like to do when it's raining outside?
If it's raining hard, sometimes I like to go out and dance in it, or watch the way the droplets look as they land in the stream in our backyard. I love wild rain, but then I live in a part of the country where tornados are rare. If I need to get my exercise done, I put on rain gear, suck it up, and go get it done. If it is summer and there is no thunder, I love to go under water and listen to the hissing sound of the rain hitting the surface of the water. If I am not inclined to go out in it, I might be caught singing Shakespeare's "When I was but a little tiny boy, heigh ho, the wind and the rain, a foolish thing was but a toy, for the rain it raineth ev'ry day." Then (given world enough and time) I curl up with a good book and a cup of coffee or tea.
07. What are you thinking about right now?
Warthogs.
08. Write the first movie name that comes to your mind right now.
Slap Shot (see my answer to # 5)
09. Dog person or cat person?
An animal person. I love both, although I vastly prefer big dogs to small, and I'm not wild about Persian or Sphinx cats. After it became clear that becoming an Egyptologist was not going to dovetail nicely with our desire to live in Vermont or Maine, I briefly considered trying to go back and take the course work necessary for vet school.
10. If you came across £2000 (or other currency) would you keep it or turn it in?
Turn it in. Being a parent means you damn well better demonstrate the kind of behavior that you think is right, because your children are watching and learning from everything you do. Besides, if I kept it, I would know and part of me would be permanently squirming.
11. What was the last thing you bought?
Um... the groceries, and before that some books and stuffed bunnies for the Easter Bunny to hide.
12. If you could afford to go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Egypt, on a very, very inclusive tour of the museums and monuments. I wanted to be an Egyptologist, and have gotten as close as Palestine, but have never been to Egypt. I was going to be a chaperone when my daughter's high school was sending a group to Egypt (one of the few people in our community who had any Arabic, although I have rather little) and we were all paid up and set to go by June for a trip in February. Of 2002. When 9/11 happened, that all became impossible.
13. Where do you see yourself in 5 minutes?
Right here. Computer is here. Husband is here. Zombies are not overrunning things. Why move?
14. Last book you read?
Kate's Choice by Louisa May Alcott, a collection of 3 of her forgotten/neglected short stories for young people.
15. What are you doing this weekend?
Ferrying children to their social engagements and music lessons, the grocery shopping for the week, talking to an actual grown-up (my husband) while he is here and available (he works 4 weekdays and a half day every 3rd or 4th Saturday, but puts in 60 hour weeks, so his work days are loooong), and looking at the beautiful pictures my sister posted on her FB of my new nephew, born Saturday at 4:01 p.m. Exercise as I do every day.
16. If you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play?
The piano. I play flute, recorder, and guitar semi-adequately. My music training consists of a year and a half of recorder lessons, starting in 3rd grade. My kids and my husband all play (my) piano, but I have a vanishingly small repertoire. My father studied piano at Juilliard. I asked him to teach me to play, and after watching me working diligently on the scales he set me, he sighed, and said that he would teach me when I could reach an octave. My older children's piano teacher says I have the best developed stretch he's ever seen. I still can't play an octave without slightly depressing the adjacent keys. Wasn't gonna happen.
17. How are you?
Uhhh...Fine...We're all fine here! [shoots communications board]
In my best Graham Chapman of Monty Python impression: "No! No! No! Things are getting altogether too silly. I insist on a new question."
Share a moment in your life when your sense of humor got you in trouble.
I was a grad student at University of Michigan. A favorite professor of mine from my undergrad college came to give a lecture. She is a big football fan, so the head of the department at U of M, a good, kindly man who had had his sense of humor surgically removed at birth (as far as we could tell), and my college prof, and two of us grad students were selected to attend the Michigan football game that weekend, with fantastic seats about half way up on the 50 yard line that the University keeps for this sort of occasion. Come Half Time and they announce (over the loudspeaker in stentorian, bass tones "And now we are going to dedicate this half time performance by the University of Michigan band to Mr. So-and-So, born Year X, died Year Y (long before the date that day), who was band director and conductor for Umpty-ump years, until the worst fate that can befall a conductor and trumpeter befell him...[looooong dramatic pause, in which I for some reason guess "He lost his arms?!!!", and my fellow grad student apparently thought "His lips fell off?!!!" (I think she was a trumpeter), and then the deep reverberant voice continues positively echoing over the assembled crowd:] DEAFNESS!!! The contrast between what we came up with and what we should have come up with gave us the hopeless giggles, especially when we met each other's eyes and realized we'd both made the same mistake. We were both bent over, trying to be silent, but shaking and emitting high pitched gasps and snorts, and wiping streaming eyes. Our prof was puzzled as to why two of her favorite students had suddenly come all over puerile. The department head was outraged that we would make fun and find humor in the sufferings of a poor unfortunate who had given the best years of his life to the University, and in front of a visiting dignitary no less! Our prof, once we had recovered enough to explain, was quite amused herself, and understood completely. The department head was a lost cause.
18. What are you doing tomorrow?
See # 15 above. This is the weekend. Unless (since it is the wee hours of Sunday morning) you want to know what I plan to do Monday. Exercise. Try to force the Whirlwind to eat enough food to grow, because her ADHD drugs ensure that she will not, unless she is coerced. Help her with practicing and homework. Make dinner (which entails much tedious chopping of veggies). Make sure Whirlwind does not destroy house, while somehow sneaking in a shower. Make myself available for discussion with middle daughter. Field call from eldest daughter. Do not hear from son unless funds are needed, or he lands a post-graduation job. Chat with husband over telephone about Tuesday's schedule (he's off, and there are things to co-ordinate) When everyone is abed, come up here and read, relax, and communicate with the outside world.
19. What are you looking forward to the most?
My our anniversary on May 13th, my husband's birthday on May 18th, my son's college graduation on May 19th and 20th because we will have all four kids together for 2 days and celebrate his May 3rd birthday while we are at it, and a visit at my Mom's on the way back on the 21st, because my sister will come over and I'll get to meet the new nephew. Well, that and the blooming of some very promising looking daffodils around our property. I love daffodils.
Tagging:
sue_c because she seldom posts here. Come play!
beatrice_otter because you often have very thinky thoughts.
draco_somnians because she enjoys a good meme from time to time.
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a_loquita because I'm sure her answers will entertain.
not_a_zatarc because sometimes she forgets to come and play on live journal.
wanderingsmith because your recent post on seal slaughter lead me to a headline about the mention celebrity's forthcoming album, story here dated April 15th not April 1st and that's just wrong on so many levels!
ansostuff because she enjoys a good meme from time to time.
and last, but certainly not least:
bluewillowtree because she too often likes to join in and play, and somebody needs to join in!
tielan:1. People who have been tagged must write the answers on their blog and replace any questions they dislike with a new original question.
2. Tag eight people. Don't refuse that. Don't tag who tagged you.
I don't particularly to be a party pooper. I'll gladly do the meme. I replaced a question I thought was a little silly with some alternate silliness. I'll even tag eight people. But since I
1. People who have been tagged may write the answers on their blog and replace any questions they dislike with a new original question.
2. If you want to, tag eight people.
3. If you see this and want to play, but I didn't tag you, join in! The more the merrier!
All right and tight? Okay. Ready, Steady, Go!
--
01. Make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up.
My beloved husband (playing Plants vs. Zombies on the other computer). Many children's books. Our small collection of blu-rays. An early American chest (refinished so it has little monetary value) that my great-grandmother's children gave her one Christmas. My empty tea cup.
02. How do you style your hair?
Whenever possible, parted on the left and hanging down. If I want it out of the way I french twist it, and cover it with a ball cap without pinning it up. If I'm being formal, I french twist it and bobby pin it up.
03. What are you wearing now?
Hunter green jeans, green turtleneck, scruffy old forest green polyester knit pullover sweater, rimless glasses. Green with envy yet? Convinced I come from Emerald City? Too Irish for my own good? Actually it's just a coincidence of what was clean and available.
04. What's your ringtone?
I don't have a cell phone. Where I live I'd have to drive 5 miles (8 km) in to town to get any bars. My land line sounds like a traditional phone.
05. What do you hear right now?
The second sudden death overtime period of the Vancouver-Nashville Stanley Cup playoff game.
06. What do you like to do when it's raining outside?
If it's raining hard, sometimes I like to go out and dance in it, or watch the way the droplets look as they land in the stream in our backyard. I love wild rain, but then I live in a part of the country where tornados are rare. If I need to get my exercise done, I put on rain gear, suck it up, and go get it done. If it is summer and there is no thunder, I love to go under water and listen to the hissing sound of the rain hitting the surface of the water. If I am not inclined to go out in it, I might be caught singing Shakespeare's "When I was but a little tiny boy, heigh ho, the wind and the rain, a foolish thing was but a toy, for the rain it raineth ev'ry day." Then (given world enough and time) I curl up with a good book and a cup of coffee or tea.
07. What are you thinking about right now?
Warthogs.
08. Write the first movie name that comes to your mind right now.
Slap Shot (see my answer to # 5)
09. Dog person or cat person?
An animal person. I love both, although I vastly prefer big dogs to small, and I'm not wild about Persian or Sphinx cats. After it became clear that becoming an Egyptologist was not going to dovetail nicely with our desire to live in Vermont or Maine, I briefly considered trying to go back and take the course work necessary for vet school.
10. If you came across £2000 (or other currency) would you keep it or turn it in?
Turn it in. Being a parent means you damn well better demonstrate the kind of behavior that you think is right, because your children are watching and learning from everything you do. Besides, if I kept it, I would know and part of me would be permanently squirming.
11. What was the last thing you bought?
Um... the groceries, and before that some books and stuffed bunnies for the Easter Bunny to hide.
12. If you could afford to go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Egypt, on a very, very inclusive tour of the museums and monuments. I wanted to be an Egyptologist, and have gotten as close as Palestine, but have never been to Egypt. I was going to be a chaperone when my daughter's high school was sending a group to Egypt (one of the few people in our community who had any Arabic, although I have rather little) and we were all paid up and set to go by June for a trip in February. Of 2002. When 9/11 happened, that all became impossible.
13. Where do you see yourself in 5 minutes?
Right here. Computer is here. Husband is here. Zombies are not overrunning things. Why move?
14. Last book you read?
Kate's Choice by Louisa May Alcott, a collection of 3 of her forgotten/neglected short stories for young people.
15. What are you doing this weekend?
Ferrying children to their social engagements and music lessons, the grocery shopping for the week, talking to an actual grown-up (my husband) while he is here and available (he works 4 weekdays and a half day every 3rd or 4th Saturday, but puts in 60 hour weeks, so his work days are loooong), and looking at the beautiful pictures my sister posted on her FB of my new nephew, born Saturday at 4:01 p.m. Exercise as I do every day.
16. If you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play?
The piano. I play flute, recorder, and guitar semi-adequately. My music training consists of a year and a half of recorder lessons, starting in 3rd grade. My kids and my husband all play (my) piano, but I have a vanishingly small repertoire. My father studied piano at Juilliard. I asked him to teach me to play, and after watching me working diligently on the scales he set me, he sighed, and said that he would teach me when I could reach an octave. My older children's piano teacher says I have the best developed stretch he's ever seen. I still can't play an octave without slightly depressing the adjacent keys. Wasn't gonna happen.
Uhhh...Fine...We're all fine here! [shoots communications board]
In my best Graham Chapman of Monty Python impression: "No! No! No! Things are getting altogether too silly. I insist on a new question."
Share a moment in your life when your sense of humor got you in trouble.
I was a grad student at University of Michigan. A favorite professor of mine from my undergrad college came to give a lecture. She is a big football fan, so the head of the department at U of M, a good, kindly man who had had his sense of humor surgically removed at birth (as far as we could tell), and my college prof, and two of us grad students were selected to attend the Michigan football game that weekend, with fantastic seats about half way up on the 50 yard line that the University keeps for this sort of occasion. Come Half Time and they announce (over the loudspeaker in stentorian, bass tones "And now we are going to dedicate this half time performance by the University of Michigan band to Mr. So-and-So, born Year X, died Year Y (long before the date that day), who was band director and conductor for Umpty-ump years, until the worst fate that can befall a conductor and trumpeter befell him...[looooong dramatic pause, in which I for some reason guess "He lost his arms?!!!", and my fellow grad student apparently thought "His lips fell off?!!!" (I think she was a trumpeter), and then the deep reverberant voice continues positively echoing over the assembled crowd:] DEAFNESS!!! The contrast between what we came up with and what we should have come up with gave us the hopeless giggles, especially when we met each other's eyes and realized we'd both made the same mistake. We were both bent over, trying to be silent, but shaking and emitting high pitched gasps and snorts, and wiping streaming eyes. Our prof was puzzled as to why two of her favorite students had suddenly come all over puerile. The department head was outraged that we would make fun and find humor in the sufferings of a poor unfortunate who had given the best years of his life to the University, and in front of a visiting dignitary no less! Our prof, once we had recovered enough to explain, was quite amused herself, and understood completely. The department head was a lost cause.
18. What are you doing tomorrow?
See # 15 above. This is the weekend. Unless (since it is the wee hours of Sunday morning) you want to know what I plan to do Monday. Exercise. Try to force the Whirlwind to eat enough food to grow, because her ADHD drugs ensure that she will not, unless she is coerced. Help her with practicing and homework. Make dinner (which entails much tedious chopping of veggies). Make sure Whirlwind does not destroy house, while somehow sneaking in a shower. Make myself available for discussion with middle daughter. Field call from eldest daughter. Do not hear from son unless funds are needed, or he lands a post-graduation job. Chat with husband over telephone about Tuesday's schedule (he's off, and there are things to co-ordinate) When everyone is abed, come up here and read, relax, and communicate with the outside world.
19. What are you looking forward to the most?
My our anniversary on May 13th, my husband's birthday on May 18th, my son's college graduation on May 19th and 20th because we will have all four kids together for 2 days and celebrate his May 3rd birthday while we are at it, and a visit at my Mom's on the way back on the 21st, because my sister will come over and I'll get to meet the new nephew. Well, that and the blooming of some very promising looking daffodils around our property. I love daffodils.
Tagging:
sue_c because she seldom posts here. Come play!beatrice_otter because you often have very thinky thoughts.draco_somnians because she enjoys a good meme from time to time.a_loquita because I'm sure her answers will entertain.not_a_zatarc because sometimes she forgets to come and play on live journal.wanderingsmith because your recent post on seal slaughter lead me to a headline about the mention celebrity's forthcoming album, story here dated April 15th not April 1st and that's just wrong on so many levels!ansostuff because she enjoys a good meme from time to time.and last, but certainly not least:
bluewillowtree because she too often likes to join in and play, and somebody needs to join in!
