Dec 26 2005

A meme more appropriate for September

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You know, September. *ducks*

Jill at Feministe (and later Lauren) take part in this pretty extensive 7×7 meme. I’m a day late, but I was schmoozing with family all day (as well as fighting a failing battle against encroaching rhinovirii).

  • Seven Things To Do Before I Die
    1. Visit at least one of the following: Italy, Scandanavia, [insert tropical region].
    2. Publish a book of poetry or fiction.
    3. Know exactly what to say at exactly the right moment, at least once.
    4. Escape from a deadly situation using something I saw on MacGyver
    5. Transcend time and space
    6. Become filthy rich and spend the rest of my many days wallowing in crapulence.
    7. Finish everything I’ve started
  • Seven Things I Cannot Do
    1. Kick a kitten
    2. See worth a damn
    3. Spend any reasonable amount of time away from my computer
    4. Eat more vegetables
    5. See worth a damn without corrective lenses
    6. Stop thinking about stuff all the damn time
    7. The splits
  • Seven Things That Attract Me to…Blogging
    1. Sheer narcissism.
    2. The opportunity to tinker with even more software.
    3. My obsessive desire to chronicle and organize most facets of my life.
    4. It’s a medium of communication that doesn’t require any sort of social skills.
    5. The free blow.
    6. Did I mention narcissism?
    7. Something to do when I’m bored at work.
  • Seven Things I Say Most Often
    1. “That’s hot.”
    2. “Judas…”
    3. “Fucksticks!”
    4. “Heh heh”
    5. “Mmm. Mhm.”
    6. Nothing at all.
    7. “Floccinaucinihilipilification.”
  • Seven Books That I Love
    1. Lord of the Barnyard, by Tristan Egolf
    2. Doom, by Dafydd ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver (4 books)
    3. The Adventures of Conrad Stargard, by Leo Frankowski (7 books)
    4. Made in America, by Bill Bryson
    5. The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
    6. Echo Company, by Zack Emerson/Ellen Emerson White (4 + 1 books)
    7. 1 hundred hiccups, by Mike Kadela
  • Seven Movies That I Watch Over and Over Again
    1. Blazing Saddles
    2. Young Frankenstein
    3. Clue
    4. MacGyver and the Lost Treasure of Atlantis
    5. Tremors
    6. Sideways
    7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  • Seven Songs I Play Over and Over Again
    1. Finale from Mahler’s 6th Symphony (Levi / ASO)
    2. “Allegro” from Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto (Orozco [p] / de Waart / RPO)
    3. “Carrying Cathy” by Ben Folds
    4. “Wine, Women and Song” by Harvey Danger
    5. “Spaces in Between” by Ben Christophers
    6. “Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left” by Andrew Bird
    7. “Shakma (Drunken Starlit Sky)” by Leaves

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