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Meme Thievery

I started writing a post on the way to work this morning, but have been way too swamped* to get back to it, so instead I’m just going to lift a meme from MsP. After all, rare is the day that someone presents a meme that I don’t immediately steal.

*How swamped, you say? So much so that I didn’t even have a chance to go buy a sandwich for lunch until 20 minutes ago — at 3 p.m.

TECHNOLOGY

Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer? Work: buildings in Chicago reflected in The Bean; home: my old man cat, sticking his head out of a paper bag he’d climbed into (it’s really cute).

Q. How many televisions you have in your house? One.

BIOLOGY

Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Both/either — it depends on the task.

Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body? Just my wisdom teeth.

Q. What is the last heavy item you lifted? A big bag of potting soil.

Q. Have you ever been knocked out? Nope, but like MsP, I too have passed out right on the sidewalk.

BULLSHITOLOGY

Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Gah! Never!

Q. If you could change your name, what would you change it to? I have no idea — I’ve never wanted to change it.

Q. What color do you think looks best on you? Light aqua blue.

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item? Not that I can recall off the top of my head.

DAREOLOGY

Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100? Why not?

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000? No.

Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000? Yeah, sure. I mean, I like blogging, but I think I’d like $50K more.

Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000? I’ve seen me naked, and there is no chance that anyone would ever pay a quarter million dollars for me to pose.

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? Depends how hot. Tabasco, probably. One of those crazy habanero sauces? No way.

Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000? No.

DUMBOLOGY

Q: What is in your left pocket? I’m pocket-less at the moment.

Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie? It was OK. I liked it less than some people I know and more than others.

Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house? Hardwood.

Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower? People sit in the shower? Really?

Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own? Four or five, I think.

LASTOLOGY

Q: Last person who texted you? Mom.

Q: Last person who called you? Work: Tabitha; Home: Mom

Q: Person you hugged? Julia, I think.

FAVORITOLOGY

Q: Number? 8

Q: Season? Fall.

Q: Color? Green.

CURRENTOLOGY

Q: Missing someone? Of course.

Q: Mood? Stressed.

Q: Listening to? Someone else’s overly-loud speaker phone conference call.

Q: Watching? The clock.

Q: Worrying about? Too many projects, too little time.

Q: Wearing? Gray pants, black sweater, loafers.

RANDOMOLOGY

Q: First place you went this morning? To the metro to get to work.

Q: What can you not wait to do? Have a four-day weekend, but that’s not ’til next week.

Q: Do you smile often? No, or at least not as much as people seem to think I should.

Wednesday Random Ten

My officemate has been out sick all week, which means I am up to my eyeballs in work. The upside, though, is I’ve been able to listen to music all day while I’m working. I thought I’d celebrate this by sharing a random ten for today. Feel free to add yours in the comments.

1. Airliner, R.E.M.
2. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, The Police
3. Fiesta, The Pogues
4. Glory Days, Bruce Springsteen
5. I Like Chinese, Monty Python
6. Orange Crush, R.E.M.
7. Goodnight Elisabeth, Counting Crows
8. Under the Pines, Jonathan Coulton
9. Section 31 (Overblow Your Nest), The Polyphonic Spree
10. Re: Your Brains, Jonathan Coulton

Joining In, Hockey Town, and Timing

We seem to be heavily in the April showers phase of the month, so on a gray, damp Monday morning, here are three beautiful things from the past week:

1. I went to my first-ever knitting group meeting, the Dupont Circle Stitch-n-Bitch. Ordinarily, I am not much of a joiner, but sprite was going, so I decided to join her. The other knitters there were very welcoming and were working on some lovely projects. I got to witness a three-needle-bind off and play with a newly-finished hand-knit toy. (Knitting toys had never even occurred to me!)

2. On Thursday, I went to the Caps penultimate regular-season game with my brother. For the first time in years, DC actually looked like a hockey town, with a red-clad, sold-out crowd cheering the team to victory as they looked to clinch a playoff spot. On Saturday, that wish came true, along with the almost-too-surprising-too-believe Southeast Division championship, which capped the NHL’s most amazing mid-season turnaround. Let’s Go Caps!

3. I got up and — believe it or not — out of the house at a reasonable hour on Saturday and as a result, was able to run my errands and wander around the neighborhood on a truly lovely spring day. This was made all the more beautiful by the fact that Sunday was dreary in the extreme, so I ended up doubly-grateful that I spent so much time outside the day before.

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