The Sheila Variations

Weekend survey ...

From Right Thinking Girl:

1. Free associate these:

a. Celebrity stalkers

David Letterman coming home and finding some strange woman sitting in his house

b. South African diamonds

Nelson Denoon

c. Aeroflot stewardesses

Perky

d. Bazooka gum

Grandpa

e. Suburbia

Parker Posey

2. True or false: the Tinsley/MacStansbury hookup is the most surprising event since the RTG/Z pregnancy.

Tinsley? MacStansbury? Who?

3. Do you think that America is ready for (ie, "will elect") a female president? How about a Black president? Which do you think will happen first?

Sure, America is ready. For both.

4. George Clooney is to Free Health Care as _____ is to RTG.

Motrin

5. The following list contains issues that are facing America today. Please prioritize them from Most Important to Least Important:

j. RTG's pregnancy
a. War on Terror
g. Illegal immigration
c. Poverty
f. National deficit
h. School voucher programs
i. Social Security reform
d. Judicial filibusters
e. Right to Die
b. Drug absuse

6. What are you doing this weekend?

My sister and her boyfriend are coming down tomorrow. We're all having dinner out at my sister Siobhan's apartment - very excited about that. Sunday, I'm attending a seder at the house of a great friend of mine. I also have to make about 20 phone calls and get back in touch with a bunch of people.

7. If you found out you had six months to live, how would you spend your time?

I'd probably spend it in Rhode Island, with my family and friends. I'd go to the beach, go to the Ocean Mist, go to all my old haunts, hang out on my friend Beth's deck, talk with my parents ... and I'd have to have some really good quality time with Cashel, too. Maybe we could color, or play with Legos, or work on our book. I would make sure we finished the book.

8. What memories do you want to take with you when you die?

Here's a good list. I will continue to add to this one, hopefully. Lots of good memories to come.

9. When you were a kid, did you dream about your wedding day?

No. The wedding-day dreams came much later, when I was in my 20s, watching my friends get married. That's when I started thinking about what I wanted, and how I would want that day to go. But when I was a kid? No. I was too busy playing Land of the Lost in the woods with my friends, and ignoring the call from my mom to come in to dinner.

10. Name five items that you can't live without.

-- a tiny piece of beach glass given to me by ....
-- my Cary Grant video collection
-- my Riverside Shakespeare
-- this is so goofy, but my tape of the HBO documentary Do You Believe in Miracles, about the 1980 Olympic hockey team.
-- my Converse hightops

11. What's your theme song?

Nobody's Girl, Bonnie Raitt

or

Oops, I did it again, by Mrs. Federline

(heh. I'm actually quite serious. When I first heard that first song, I felt like: Ms. Raitt - have you been reading my journal??)

12. If you had a thousand extra bucks this month, what would you do with it?

Probably clothes and shoes. I'd also get a massage and a facial. Oh and what the hell - I'd buy about 40 books, too.

13. Mountains or ocean?

Ocean

14. Favorite kind of pie?

I'm not really a pie kind of girl

15. What's your favorite song right now?

Somebody to Love, by Queen

Posted by sheila