Monday, December 19, 2005
Tagged I'm It
So, there's this blog equivalent of a chain letter and since I want to be wealthy beyond my wildest imagination I dare not ignore the tag. (That's what will happen, right? I'll get rich, or meet the centaur or something? Right? Can whoever's in charge of this let me know?)
Seven Things to Do Before I Die:
1. Make enough money writing to quit the day job
2. Write an indisputably really fantastic book
3. See my son set for a happy life
4. Travel and visit friends
5. Check out 1-6 of the "Seven People I Want to Join In" and take a wild guess
6. See the aurora borealis
7. Relax
Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1. Sing
2. Stay organized
3. Write comedy
4. Finish stuff that doesn't have a deadline
5.
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Seven Things That Attracted Me to My Spouse/SO:
1. Intelligence
2. Humor
3. Musical ability
4. Physical Fitness
5. Parisian Accent
6. He seemed to like me (of all people!)
7. The letters he wrote to me while he was in Paris and I was in Berkeley.
Seven Things I Say (Or Write) Most Often:
1. Oh, for crying out loud
2. What idiot came up with that [database] schema?
3. No wonder it doesn't work
4. Well,
5. Oh, shit, I forgot __________.
6. I mean, shoot.
7. Arghh!
Seven Books or Series That I Love:
1. Mary Renault's Alexander the Great series
2 George R. R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series
3. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
4. William Faulkner, Absolom! Absolom!
5. Toni Morrison, Beloved
6. Mary Balogh, The Famous Heroine
7. Charlotte Bronte, Villette
Seven Movies I Would Watch Over and Over Again:
1. Lord Of the Rings (all 3)
2 Contract Killer (Jet Li, Hong Kong version)
3. The Defender (Jet Li, Hong Kong version is Bodyguard from Beijing)
4. Easter Parade
5. American in Paris
6. Singing in the Rain
7. Turning Point
Seven People I Want to Join In (Be Tagged):
1. The Centaur Warrior in Narnia
2. The Uruk-Hai in Lord of the Rings
3. Ioan Gruffudd
4. Colin Firth (dressed as Mr. Darcy)
5. Adrian Paul
6. Johnny Depp
7. Jade Lee (guess that means you better get a blog, huh?)
