Monday Questionnaire
1. What was the last rude or unkind thing you really wanted to do, and almost did, but didn't do?
2. Name something that was, to your disappointment, cancelled recently.
3. In whose work--literary, musical, cinematic, or otherwise creative--are you constantly trying to persuade others to see the brilliance you've long recognized yourself?
posted by Eric @ 10:22 AM
6 Comments:
1. I wanted to attend the nearby reading/signing of one of my authors--he's never met me in person, so he wouldn't recognize me. That in itself would not have been unkind, but my plan was to heckle this obnoxious author and his lousy book. ("I'm just a typical reader, an average Joe off the street, but tell me: don't you think your argument is a little thin? And tedious?")
(I was talked out of doing this, partly because I'm not entirely blameless for the lousiness of the book.)
2. A post-Thanksgiving get-together with good friends I haven't seen in a while. The hour just grew too late, and we're all old and tired now.
3. "What do you mean, you don't like Hemingway?"
1. I really wanted to tell my brother not to bring his insufferable girlfriend -- who makes me want to poke myself in the forehead with a fork every time she speaks -- home for Christmas, but I refrained. Mostly because I knew someone else in the family would do it for me. But I've got a bunch of forks ready, just in case she does show up on our doorstep on the 25th.
2. My appointment with my personal trainer last week. Admittedly, I'm the one who cancelled it, but I only cancelled it because I ended up having to work late, and that wasn't my fault. I blame my boss entirely.
3. Over the Rhine (music), Patty Griffin (music), Anne Lamott (author). I firmly believe that people who do not like Over the Rhine or Anne Lamott have no soul.
1. I wanted to tell my classmate to TURN in the DAMN late paper already. (I passed mine in on time and was resenting everone else their tardiness.) Instead, I said something like, "Hey, I'm sure it's a really good paper! Just turn it in as is rather than fretting more."
2. I can't think of anything. As long as the ANTM finale happens this Wednesday as scheduled, I'm good.
3. I used to do this more. (Longfellow, Soul Coughing...) Now I just recommend recipes with cardamom to anyone who will listen. So I guess my answer is: Cardamom.
I guess that's what you have to do when a young-looking mother tries to get into a bar.
Card a mom.
Erin: Welcome! Nice to have you on board.
Eric: That was awful. But I like awful puns. Not as much as my high school chemistry teacher did, however.
Ann: Do you remember Mr H's awful puns?
Ann--I don't remember any specific puns, I just remember groaning a lot. I can't discern whether I didn't appreciate puns yet or his were truly awful.
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