Never again in my life: will I wear those stupid pointy shoes I bought last year. I don’t think my feet have yet recovered.
When I was five: I had an imaginary dog who would chase after our car. His name was Hinkle.
High School was: horrible while I was there – and now seems comedic, in memory
I will never forget: the moment when he touched my right foot, on that cold night, shivering in my car, on the shores of Lake Michigan, in the parking lot at a Christian college (if you feel like it …)
I once met: Elia Kazan
Theres this girl I know who: if she takes a shower – and afterwards has to poop – she will then take another shower.
By noon Im usually: awake
Last night I: downloaded Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” and listened to it over and over and over and over … It’s sheer perfection, seriously, I can’t get enough. It’s playing right now, as a matter of fact. I am so not done yet.
Next time I go to church: will be this Sunday
What worries me most: how much time have you got?
When I turn my head right, I see: my blue bookcase, filled with my entertainment biographies. Goldwyn, Grant, Grodin, Guinness, Hawn, Hepburn, Huston, Kazan, Keaton, Miller, Monroe, Nijinsky, Ovitz, Russell, Sedgwick, Sher, Taylor, Wallach, Wilder. That’s the shelf I see
When I turn my head left, I see: my coffee maker
You know Im lying when: uhm – I blush. But blushing is also when I’m telling the truth, like: “I am in love with you” or whatever. I’ll blush THEN, too. Basically, pay attention when I blush because you just don’t know WHAT will happen next.
If I was a character written by Shakespeare, Id be: Wow. I like to flatter myself that I am Rosalind. But I can also be Jaques, on a darker day. I always really related to Viola.
By this time, next year: no comment.
A better name for me would be: Gigantic Nerd. (Thanks, Mark!!)
I have a hard time understanding: the lollipop-head-stick-figure-body trend in female bodies right now
If I ever go back to school Ill: have an experience similar to that of Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed
You know I like you if: I bust your chops.
Darwin, Mozart, Slim Pickens & Geraldine Ferarro are: completely unrelated to one another in every way that is possible.
Take my advice, NEVER: switch from vodka to tequila
My ideal breakfast is: scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, homefries, bottomless cups of coffee
A song I love, but do not have is: Okay – I have been trying to track it down but it does not appear to be on iTunes and I’m PISSED – the song is “Vienna” by Aztec Camera, I bleieve. NOT the Billy Joel “Vienna” – this is a different one. I ADORE the one I’m talking about – and I have it on an old mix tape but have since been unable to find it.
f you visit my hometown, I suggest: go to Phil’s for breakfast. Go to the Mew’s for dinner. Go to the Ocean Mist for drinks after. And definitely walk along the seawall.
Why wont anyone: tell Michelle Kwan that her time is up, and it is time to disappear already.
If you spend the night at my house, DO: NOT JUDGE me if I fart in my sleep. Because we will be sleeping in the same room, and you just don’t know what will happen.
Id stop my wedding for: like – at the altar?? Uhm – a terrorist attack.
The world could do without: Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton, Osama bin Laden.
Id rather lick the belly of a cockroach than: Horrible. Disgusting. I hate this question. I guess I’d rather do THAT than lick the belly of a “t” – but seriously, I might have to kill myself if I had to make that choice.
My favorite blonde is: natural blonde? My friend Allison. Fake blonde? Marilyn Monroe.
Paperclips are more useful than: a manual typewriter.
San Diego means: there’s a zoo there! And sea lions! And tracey and her beloved!
I got this from Tracey.
I love your answers and I’m totally stealing this.
Me, too.
//Why wont anyone: tell Michelle Kwan that her time is up, and it is time to disappear already.//
LMAO
Theres this girl I know who: if she takes a shower – and afterwards has to poop – she will then take another shower.
Strangely, the first thing I thought of was:
“Boy, that girl must have some really clean underwear!”
Not sure if this means I’m kinky or it’s because of the fact that my daughter hasn’t learned to wipe herself very well.
I’m getting that ol’ deja vu feeling. Have we lapped this meme or did the Matrix just change something in the environment?
I’ve never done this one, I know that.
i LOVE that you listed jessica simpson, paris hilton and osama all at once. like… that is some very very odd company.
Re: “Vienna”
Are you by chance referring to the Ultravox song? Midge Ure belts out “this means nothing to me….oh Vienna!”.
No idea what it’s about, but love the 80’s synth stuff.
Jim – !!!!!! I think you’re right – Ultravox!!! Not Aztec Camera. The only copy I have of it is a mix tape that is, uhm, 25 years old?? And the musicians names are not on the “liner notes”.
I am totally gonna look for it on iTunes now under its PROPER band name.
The song is kind of melancholy and the chorus has kind of an echo on it – and the lead singer sings:
“Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Vi-enna!”
If I can track this song down – I will have you to thank. :)
it is ultravox. aztec camera (i have an album of theirs that has an hilarious cover of van halen’s jump done all english folk/gay/earnest/doom and gloom style) is a whole acoustic vibe while ultravox was part of that whole every sound is made by a converted pong game smazhed into a synthesizer.
Bren – it was off a mix from Steve Clarey!
I love Aztec Camera, too – and I am also trying to track down a song that I KNOW was done by them – part of some Cole Porter tribute album, and they did a wrenching version of “do I love you?”
Uhm – at least I THINK it was Aztec Camera – but I’m having a hard time tracking that album down as well.
I’m almost positive I did this once – I remember saying that paperclips were more useful than a toothpick because you could always straighten out the paperclip and use it for anything a toothpick was good for. And EVERY COMMENT was about that ONE part of the post, and EVERYONE disagreed with me. Heheheheheh. It’s the ONLY thing I remember from it, so repeat or not I may have to tap it again.
This is weird. I thought I left a comment on this. Didn’t I leave a comment on this?? Where did it go? What did I DO?
Oh, whatEVS.
Anyhoo … love your answers. Crispy bacon and scrambled eggs and coffee .. yummmmmm …
Amazon.com song sample always stops just before “Vienna”.
I just want some breakfast.
sheila: if someone were to visit ur hometown, they shuld obviously have breakfast at Jims Dock…none of this so-called “phils” nonsense….fyi: im in NH right now, which ive decided is barely even a functioning or relevant state, and when i get homesick i read your blog…also, ive noticed that i havent been in this blog for at least a year, and im really NOT ok with that..ok peace girl…
love, cousin emma
Oh, Cousin Emma- This is Sheila’s friend, Beth. I am sooooo with you re: Jim’s Dock!!!! My family lives down there all summer!! My son, Conor, holds the record as the youngest patron (or he did, at one point). He first went there to eat when he was 5 days old. Ok, ok, I was breastfeeding him, but I was eating THEIR food, and nursing him at the same time. So it counts, right??? My sister got engaged there (she was waitressing there) and had her rehearsal dinner there. I luuuuuuuuuuuuv that place!!!!!!
emma – “barely a functioning or relevant state” – you are KILLING me and I am TOTALLY telling Uncle Tony on you. hahahahaha
Yes – how on EARTH could I have forgotten phil’s dock? What am I, insane?
Don’t answer that.
I love that you read my blog, hon. I hope college is going well. I hope I at least see you at Thanksgiving.
michelle is going to college in colorado this year and is taking a “year off” of skating competitively, sos he may be reaching the same conclusion as you.
oh my goodness. i just read about your right foot. mesmerizing. i made Frank stop the episode of Smallville we’re watching because i kept missing the dialogue because of your story. beautiful.
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