| Zhaba Zhournal | |||||
|
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Mid-week memery "Getting to know you" meme, via Bonnie at what kind of sick weirdo are you? Like her, I'm going to do it as a blog post instead of an e-mail. Welcome to the Autumn 2004 edition of getting to know your friends. What you are supposed to do is copy (not forward) this entire e-mail and paste it onto a new e-mail that you’ll send. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to a whole bunch of people including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends, if you did not know them already.1. What time did you get up this morning? 6-frickin'-30. Yuck. (Usually, J. shakes me at 7:45 and I stagger downstairs around 8, but I was in Delaware last night, so I had to catch the 7:19 train to Philly in order to get to work on time. Those of you who regularly wake up at 6:30 or earlier, feel free to snort with derision, but for me it's ungodly-early.) 2. Diamonds or pearls? Sapphires. (My engagement ring stone is a padparadscha sapphire—pinkish-orange, like a sunrise. [Sapphires and rubies are both corundum; red corundum is a ruby, any other color—blue, yellow, pink, green, purple, white—is a sapphire.]) 3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? "Fahrenheit 911" on June 29th (J.'s birthday present); we don't go out to movies much. (The last movie I saw in a theater before that was back in December '03, or maybe '02. I'm pathetic.) 4. What is your favourite TV show? Daily Show Daily Show Daily Show! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Jon Stewart. (Down, girl.) 5. What did you have for breakfast? My mom's homemade coffee cake at 6:45, before leaving Delaware, and a bacon-egg-and-cheese bagel sandwich after I got to work. (I always get hungry the same number of hours after breakfast, no matter when I eat it; on days when I get up early and eat breakfast before 7, I'm hungry for lunch at 10 a.m.) 6. What is your middle name? Used to be Cathleen; I did the marriage name-change and made my maiden name my new middle name. (It starts with M, but I'm not saying what it is.) 7. What is your favourite cuisine? To eat, Japanese; to cook, Italian. 8. What foods do you dislike? Plants with enzymes that try to digest me while I'm eating them: kiwi, eggplant, fresh pineapple. (Cooking pineapple breaks down the enzyme; cooking kiwi might, too, but I don't know why you'd bother, since they just taste like rancid strawberries anyway.) 9. What is your favourite crisp flavour? Tart apple. 10. What is your favourite CD at the moment? I hardly ever listen to them; I've got some "soothing ocean sound" ones at work for white noise when there's too much going on in the office. 11. What kind of car do you drive? No car; I rely on public transit, family members with cars, or walking. 12. Favourite sandwich? Falafel, hummus, and tzatziki on a whole-wheat pita. (Now I'm hungry again.) 13. What characteristic do you despise? CYA-itis—cover-your-ass syndrome. If you screw up, say so; or at least don't say it's someone else's fault instead. (I was thinking about our not-very-partner-like partner company when I wrote that, but I just realized it's the same thing that cheesed me off about Ashlee Simpson's SNL lip sync debacle.) 14. Favourite item of clothing? The cashmere robe J. gave me last Christmas. It is unutterably soft and wonderful; if I never had to leave the house, I'd never wear anything else. 15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Rome, by way of Tuscany. The food, the wine, the art, the architecture, the 2500 years of accumulated culture...and the wine, did I mention the wine? The wine. 16. What colour is your bathroom? White tile (except for the mildew), light blue paint, blue and green leaf-print shower curtain. 17. Favourite brand of clothing? I don't much care about labels, but I'll go to the ends of the earth for Dansko shoes (and, when I'm wearing them, it feels like I can walk to the ends of the earth; they're insanely comfortable and actually attractive. I wish they didn't cost so much, but I'm willing to pay for quality.) 18. Where would you retire to? Ack, you want me to think that far ahead? Somewhere semi-rural but not more than 45 minutes away from a major city. And not Florida. It's hot and there are giant bugs down there. 19. Favourite time of the day? Early evening—5 to 7 p.m.—I'm a sucker for sunsets, and on weekdays, it's when I get to leave the office. 20. What was your most memorable birthday? 20th, in a hotel in Kharkiv, when the Yale Russian Chorus was touring in Ukraine; I was the only woman in the chorus (yes, I'm a tenor), so it was me, twenty guys, lots of vodka, and loud renditions of every dirty Russian, Ukrainian, or Georgian song we knew. Na zdorovja! 21. Where were you born? Wilmington, Delaware. 22. Favourite sport to watch? Figure skating or bull-riding—no, there's not much of a viewership overlap there, but I like 'em both. 23. Who do you least expect to send this back to you? Not e-mailing it, so N/A. 24. Person you expect to send it back first? N/A. 25. What fabric detergent do you use? Anything that doesn't frippin' stink—no perfumes, no dyes, no nothing. I just want my clothes to be clean; I don't want to reek of Outdoor Fresh Scent all day. 26. Coke or Pepsi? Root beer. 27. Day time or night time? Night, the later the better. 28. What is your shoe size? 10 with socks, 9 1/2 without (yeah, I have huge feet). 29. Do you have any pets? Peri the parakeet (she runs the house, we just live there), nine spiny mice. 30. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with your family and friends? Now that J.'s doctor has prescribed him testosterone, we're having sex again! (I probably shouldn't share that with my family, though. "Hey, Mom, guess what...?") 31. What did you want to be when you were little? A horseback-riding novel-writing falcon-training Egyptologist. (It could happen!) (Well, actually, it probably couldn't.) 32. What are you meant to be doing today? Working, buying food for the critters, picking up prescriptions from CVS, going home, maybe grocery shopping, watching the Daily Show, going to bed before 2 a.m. [ at 5:46 PM • by Abby • permalink • ] |
|
||||
© 2003–05 Zhaba Productions, so don't steal anything.