{"id":3555,"date":"2005-08-28T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T18:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2010-07-12T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:56:15","slug":"seven-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got this from United Irelander <\/a>– a new blog I just discovered. Seems like a lot of fun over there. I like it.<\/p>\n


\nSeven things I plan to do before I die.<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Get my one-woman show produced
\n2. Novel(s) published
\n3. Run the Blessing of the Fleet, dammit – hey, maybe I’ll do that next year. Any other Rhode Islanders want to join me?
\n4. Travel through Central Asia. Countries to see: Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan. I’d also like to go to Nepal.
\n5. Get married. Dad walks me down the aisle.
\n6. Own a house
\n7. Live in Ireland for an extended period of time<\/p>\n

Seven things I can do.<\/b><\/p>\n

1. I can write
\n2. I can be loyal as the day is long. If you’re my friend, or my boyfriend … you’ll never get any treachery from me. Loyal, loyal, loyal.
\n3. I can drive a stick shift
\n4. I can jitterbug
\n5. I can remember conversations I had over 20 years ago almost word for word. I’m freaky that way. I’m also freaky about remembering specific body language. How someone leaned back, leaned forward, looked away, leaned in …
\n6. I have now realized that I am fully capable of keeping plants alive. I have 5 plants in my apartment that are flourishing. This is amazing.
\n7. I can sing all the lyrics to “Museum Song” from the musical Barnum<\/i>. At the breakneck speed in which they are sung on the album. So can my sister Jean:<\/p>\n

Quite a lotta
\nRoman terra cotta
\nLivin’ lava from the flanks of Etna
\nStatuary
\nRide a dromedary
\nSee the Temple tumble and the Red Sea part.<\/p>\n

McNamara’s band
\nThe fattest lady in the land
\nA pickled prehistoric hand
\nA strand of Pocahontas’ hair
\nCrow and Sioux
\nWho’re going to
\nBe showing you
\nSome rowing through
\nA model of the rapids on the Delaware.<\/p>\n

Armadillas
\nClever caterpillas
\nReproductions of the Cyclops’ ret’na
\nCrystal blowing
\nAutomatic sewing
\nVenus on a shell and other works of art.<\/p>\n

Educated fleas
\nA tribe of Aborigines
\nTwo ladies joined across the knees
\nA Mona Lisa made of ice
\nHottentots
\nWe’ve gotten in
\nForgotten spots
\nA cotton gin
\nA night with Lot in Sodom
\nBetter see that twice!<\/p>\n

One iguana
\nSnakes and other fauna
\nGot no bearded lady but we’re get’na
\nWhen you duck out
\nTake another buck out
\nRun around the block and see and run around the block and run around the block
\nAnd see a new show start.<\/p>\n

Seven things I can not do.<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Love Renee Zellweger or accept her success in any graceful way
\n2. Ski (I’m sure I could learn, but as of now, I have never skiied.)
\n3. I cannot take apart a car engine and put it back together and have it still work
\n4. I cannot fly an airplane
\n5. I cannot tame a wild animal. I also could not kill an animal. I mean, I’m sure I could – but only in self-defense or if I was hungry. Never ever for sport.
\n6. I cannot stop myself from watching Notorious<\/i> and Bringing Up Baby<\/i> endlessly
\n7. I cannot deal with s’s<\/p>\n

Seven things that I find really attractive about the opposite sex.<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Smile\/Laugh
\n2. Hands
\n3. Height (and by that I mean: tall)
\n4. Good listener, but also good talker.
\n5. Brain
\n6. Passion for what he does
\n7. General curiosity about all things. No “I’m over it” attitude allowed.<\/p>\n

Seven things I say the most.<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Holy crap
\n2. You have got to be kidding me.
\n3. What a jag-off
\n4. That is SO COOL
\n5. No way.
\n6. You’re going to be okay, Sheila
\n7. hahahahahahahahahahahaha<\/p>\n

Seven books I love.<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
\n2. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
\n3. Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
\n4. Mating, Norman Rush
\n5. Hopeful Monsters, Nicholas Mosley
\n6. Possession, AS Byatt
\n7. Catch 22, Joseph Heller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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