or death? that's my choice?!
Oct. 8th, 2003 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosawIt's a dark day in California, and not because the sun isn't shining.
I planned to write here last night and talk about my frustration with my writing process (glacial) or with my conflict with my so-called sister and my student's hysterical current crisis. But instead I just went to bed.
However, I can post this meme. Gacked from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
merryish's journal.
ACT YOUR AGE: probably not
BOYFRIEND: He is very nice. I share with others, too.
CHORE YOU HATE: Cleaning the toilet.
DAD'S NAME: Robert Blaine.
ESSENTIAL MAKE UP ITEM: A chapstick, affectionately known as "lip gunk."
FAVE ACTRESS: Ingrid Bergman.
GOLD OR SILVER: Silver.
HOMETOWN: Defined as "place you want to go home to when you want to go home", Los Angeles, CA. Defined as "place your parents lived", Camas Valley, OR. Defined as "place you were born", St. Louis, Mo.
INSTRUMENTS YOU PLAY: I used to play clarinet. From age 5 to age 23. Then I just quit.
JOB TITLE: Visiting Instructor of Religious Studies.
KIDS: Childless by choice.
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Over-priced 2 bedroom apartment in LA basin (barely).
MOM'S NAME: Barbara.
NUMBER OF PEOPLE (whose business it is how many people) I'VE SLEPT WITH: 0. Actual number of sexual partners: more than 2 less than 10
OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS: Not counting birth, 0. But 3 days after I was born, I had emergency surgery and was in the hospital for 2+ months.
PHOBIA: Snakes.
QUOTE YOU LIKE:
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man [sic] that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: No, thank you.
SIBLINGS: One adopted sister who hates me (and the feeling is mutual).
TIME YOU WAKE UP: 6 when I'm working, anywhere from 9 to noon when I'm not.
UNIQUE HABIT: I listen to Mexican radio when I'm in traffic because they play a greater variety of songs and I pretend it's helping me build my Spanish vocabulary.
VEGETABLE YOU REFUSE TO EAT: Brussels sprouts. However, this list could go on and on. Broccoli, for example. Or celery. Or capers (are capers a vegetable?).
WORST HABIT (these days): Saying "fuck me" without taking into account where I am when I am cursing myself (in front of students, in the women's room, in a department meeting). I mortify myself sometimes. Then I over compensate and say even more ridiculous things, such as "oh my heavens" and "gosh darn" or even worse "darn it to heck."
X-RAYS YOU'VE HAD: Dental x-rays. One x-ray of my arm when I fell and cracked the bones in my elbow.
YUMMY FOOD YOU MAKE: Macaroni and cheese, with gracious assistance from Kraft.
ZODIAC SIGN: Libra.
I planned to write here last night and talk about my frustration with my writing process (glacial) or with my conflict with my so-called sister and my student's hysterical current crisis. But instead I just went to bed.
However, I can post this meme. Gacked from
merryish's journal. ACT YOUR AGE: probably not
BOYFRIEND: He is very nice. I share with others, too.
CHORE YOU HATE: Cleaning the toilet.
DAD'S NAME: Robert Blaine.
ESSENTIAL MAKE UP ITEM: A chapstick, affectionately known as "lip gunk."
FAVE ACTRESS: Ingrid Bergman.
GOLD OR SILVER: Silver.
HOMETOWN: Defined as "place you want to go home to when you want to go home", Los Angeles, CA. Defined as "place your parents lived", Camas Valley, OR. Defined as "place you were born", St. Louis, Mo.
INSTRUMENTS YOU PLAY: I used to play clarinet. From age 5 to age 23. Then I just quit.
JOB TITLE: Visiting Instructor of Religious Studies.
KIDS: Childless by choice.
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Over-priced 2 bedroom apartment in LA basin (barely).
MOM'S NAME: Barbara.
NUMBER OF PEOPLE (whose business it is how many people) I'VE SLEPT WITH: 0. Actual number of sexual partners: more than 2 less than 10
OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS: Not counting birth, 0. But 3 days after I was born, I had emergency surgery and was in the hospital for 2+ months.
PHOBIA: Snakes.
QUOTE YOU LIKE:
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man [sic] that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: No, thank you.
SIBLINGS: One adopted sister who hates me (and the feeling is mutual).
TIME YOU WAKE UP: 6 when I'm working, anywhere from 9 to noon when I'm not.
UNIQUE HABIT: I listen to Mexican radio when I'm in traffic because they play a greater variety of songs and I pretend it's helping me build my Spanish vocabulary.
VEGETABLE YOU REFUSE TO EAT: Brussels sprouts. However, this list could go on and on. Broccoli, for example. Or celery. Or capers (are capers a vegetable?).
WORST HABIT (these days): Saying "fuck me" without taking into account where I am when I am cursing myself (in front of students, in the women's room, in a department meeting). I mortify myself sometimes. Then I over compensate and say even more ridiculous things, such as "oh my heavens" and "gosh darn" or even worse "darn it to heck."
X-RAYS YOU'VE HAD: Dental x-rays. One x-ray of my arm when I fell and cracked the bones in my elbow.
YUMMY FOOD YOU MAKE: Macaroni and cheese, with gracious assistance from Kraft.
ZODIAC SIGN: Libra.
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Date: 2003-10-08 02:15 pm (UTC)