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I got this from Roo<\/a>. Make sure you read hers – they’re quite wonderful.<\/p>\n

Seven Things to Do Before I Die<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Travel through Iran. Well, might as throw in the other countries. Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, western China, and hell – take the Trans Siberian Express while we’re at it. But if I had to choose? Travel all through Iran.<\/p>\n

2. Have a baby<\/p>\n

3. Publish many books<\/p>\n

4. STOP RENTING. START OWNING. I’d like to have a house. Just a wee house. But some kind of house.<\/p>\n

5. Find him<\/b>. Well, #5 will need to come before #2 (for me anyway) but I’m doing this meme in a stream of conscious way. Oh, and along with #5 – have my dad walk me down the aisle.<\/p>\n

6. Have a red carpet experience. Where I’m ON the red carpet, not watching from the sidelines<\/p>\n

7. Live in Ireland for a while. Not visit. But live. In the west.<\/p>\n

Seven Things I Cannot Do<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Enjoy coconut, applesauce, bananas, or cake. Don’t even try, CHiPs. (Explanation for that remark here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

2. I cannot figure skate at an Olympic level, to my intense sadness<\/p>\n

3. I will steal one from Roo: add up a column of numbers only once, without double and triple checking my work, saying things outloud like, “carry the one”.<\/p>\n

4. Go back in time and change my behavior on April 30, 1994 – oh, what the hell: go back in time and take a WHOLE BUNCH OF SHIT BACK throughout my whole life. Can’t erase the past.<\/p>\n

5. I can’t roll my “r”s convincingly. I sound like a jackass when I try to speak Spanish.<\/p>\n

6. I can’t have the body type of Heidi Klum<\/p>\n

7. I can’t think that communism was originally a good idea – if only it hadn’t been corrupted by autocratic tyrants. Nope. Communism was a bad idea to begin with, mkay? Don’t even try, CHiPs. I’m kind of not even interested in debating it. I know it’s obnoxious but I don’t respect the intelligence of someone who thinks differently than I do on this one particular matter.<\/p>\n

Seven Things that Attract Me to My Mate<\/b>
\nWhat a rude question. I do not have a mate. Although one of roo’s answer about her mate was so touching and sweet:<\/p>\n

Jeff decided he really should know more about theatre, so he could discuss my work intelligently. In the next week, he read my entire collection of classical plays, which I haven’t even done, despite my advanced theatre degree (shhh!). Then he found a site where he could download the entire oeuvres of Euripides and the like, and proceeded to do so. Then I woke up one morning to discover that Jeff hadn’t come to bed– he’d stayed up all night making flash cards, to teach himself Attic Greek.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

GORGEOUS! Well, I got no mate. So I will change the question to Seven Things I am Looking For In a Prospective Mate. And please – every time I post something like this where I actually (horrors) say that I have PREFERENCES – some man makes a comment about how picky I am. And it immediately, like clockwork, turns into a bitter generalization: “Women just …” blah blah blah. Please just SHADDUP. Are men attracted to EVERY FEMALE? I bet not. I feel no obligation to be agnostic in my tastes in something that is so important.<\/p>\n

That being said: I know what works with my personality, and what I’m attracted to. And here it is:<\/p>\n

1. Compatible senses of humor. If I have to say “that was a joke” more than 3 times then it won’t work. Shared laughter is the most important thing.<\/p>\n

2. Unselfconsciousness in just being who he is. I hate “cool”. I hate games. I love guys who maintain that kid side. Who can just PLAY – whether it’s in conversation, or laughter, or kissing me, or playing football with his friends. I hate guys who are concerned with making an effect. Who always have that outside eye on them. Ick. I love guys who throw back their heads when they laugh.<\/p>\n

3. Someone who finds women interesting. Lots of men don’t get <\/i>women, they think we’re nuts, they think we’re crazy, but they find us INTERESTING. This is good. But there are the men who want to be with women (as in: they’re straight, they want a mate, they want to have sex) and yet they find women mildly annoying at best and NEVER interesting. Ick!! I’ve met (and dated) plenty of men who LOVE women and who have no idea what is going on in our heads half the time. But they LOVE us and find us interesting. I find men interesting, even though I don’t understand them a lot of the time. I expect the same in return. This is a thing that is innate though – either you have it or you don’t.<\/p>\n

4. Awesome hands. Hands that make gestures, hands that TALK.<\/p>\n

5. Preferably Irish. This coloring KILLS ME: pale skin, black hair, blue eyes. You gotta have all the rest going on (in terms of personality) to KEEP me interested – if you have no sense of humor then I could not give a shit about your damn coloring – but with all the rest? It’s a devastating combo. (See Window Boy<\/a>)<\/p>\n

6. Someone who knows how to have a conversation and who knows how to tell a great story. I’m an awesome audience. But you BEST know how to talk. Tell me stories – but not stories where you always get the better of someone, or “show someone what’s what”. You know people who always tell stories where the moral is: I am great and I am right? Ew!! Irish men (in my experience) are the best at the OPPOSITE of this. Their stories are OPERAS of self-deprecation – they LOVE it when the laugh is on them – which … charming doesn’t even begin to describe it. The art of conversation is dying, my friends. Those who still have it are worth their weight in gold.<\/p>\n

7. Must. Like. Kids.<\/p>\n

Seven Things I Say Most Often<\/b><\/p>\n

1. No shit!<\/p>\n

2. Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n

3. I am completely insane.<\/p>\n

4. Have you read this book??<\/p>\n

5. Please don’t judge, but ….<\/p>\n

6. What’s up?<\/p>\n

Seven Books That I Love<\/b> Oh man. This’ll be tough. Okay – so I am going with the word ‘love’. Which means my heart is involved, which is not always rational. These are the books that have captured my heart, for whatever reason – books that moved me, made me grow, changed me, what have you.<\/p>\n

1. Charlotte’s Web<\/p>\n

2. Diary of Anne Frank<\/p>\n

3. The Shipping News<\/p>\n

4. Moby Dick<\/p>\n

5. Crime and Punishment<\/p>\n

6. Harriet the Spy<\/p>\n

7. Little Women<\/p>\n

Seven Movies I Watch Over and Over Again<\/b><\/p>\n

I will steal a quote from Roo: “Please note that this is not necessarily synonymous with My Seven Favorite Movies.”<\/p>\n

Exactly. Here are the movies I can watch over and over and over and over again.<\/p>\n

1. Bring It On (“Brrr – It’s cold in here! There must be some Toros in the atmosphere. I said Brrrr – it’s cold in here! There must be some Toros in the atmosphere.”)<\/p>\n

2. Something’s Gotta Give (I have to have seen the damn thing 20 times already and it just came out last year or something like that)<\/p>\n

3. Bringing Up Baby (“Peabody? WHAT Peabody?”)<\/p>\n

4. GI Jane (I don’t care what anyone says. This is a genius movie. It works every time I see it. Viggo Mortenson is amazing.)<\/p>\n

5. Center Stage (oh. my. God.)<\/p>\n

6. African Queen (“By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.”)<\/p>\n

7. Blue Crush (best movie. EVER. Never get tired of it. She’s such a horrible surfer – why has she EVER gotten that far?? It makes no sense. I don’t care. Love the film.)<\/p>\n

Seven People I’m Curious About<\/b><\/p>\n

I’m gonna go with alive AND dead people.<\/p>\n

1. Marilyn Monroe<\/p>\n

2. Josef Stalin<\/p>\n

3. Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkle, and Leslie Van Houten (Linda Kasabian too – but not as much as the other three for obvious reasons)<\/p>\n

4. Archie Leach<\/p>\n

5. James Joyce<\/p>\n

6. Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n

7. Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/p>\n

Alex just did this “meme” (hate that word) as well!! Here it is.<\/a> I think my favorite part is when she says “We can rarely surprise each other. In order for a surprise to work, one of us has to leave the country.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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