22 posts from February 2007

What's your favorite blend or brand of coffee or tea?

PEETS! But if that's not available, then I go with either Tully's (harder to get than Peets here in FL) or Green Mountain.

For tea, I like jasmine or earl grey.  And Tevana has some wonderful blends too.

If you could write like one fiction author, who would it be?
Submitted by Marilyn.

Myself.  I do have what I consider a good fiction writing style.  Been published once a long time ago.  Working on reshaping a story I wrote years ago to update and clean up the language.  It walks that popular line between YA and mid-20s lit.  So we'll see how it goes.  It's a good story and I'm back in that groove. 

At least not having slept in 6 months is good for something.

What's the best way to get on your good side?
Submitted by Manon-It-All.

Hmmm.  Depends what you're trying to get from me. 
If you're trying to be my friend, be honest, have courage of your convictions, be open minded and non-judgemental. 
Professionally, if you're after me to do something, ask nicely and don't demand.  And expect me to prioritize you according to my priorities, not yours.
If you're trying to have sex with me, ask nicely.  Drinks occasionally work, as do dancing and hanging out.  ;)

Book: Show us the latest book you bought, borrowed or received.

Hmmm.  I'm actually in the middle of 3 at the moment:

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks)

<-  Interesting ways to improve the way we use our brains and our minds.  Not to be read cover to cover, it's a hit and run collection of techniques and tricks.  Worth checking out.

Good Faith

I love Jane Smiley.  Moo is one of my all time favorite comedic satire books.  Good Faith takes place right before the real estate boom of the 1980s in a small town in Central Pennsylvania.  Told from the point of view of a real estate agent who gets in over his head - both professionally and personally - it's a wonderful slice of life story.

Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide

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Just started the Maureen Dowd on a recommendation from a friend.  So far, it's interesting, but I'm not far enough into it to say anymore. 

What are five things you're good at?
Submitted by HapaLove.

Oh, really.  You want to know what I'm good at on a public blog.  Fine.  I'll stick to the SFW things, though the other things are infinitely more fun and more interesting...

1. reading & managing people
2. being on time
3. listening
4. cooking
5. never finishing lists
   

Cut's still pretty much the same, but I went dark without going red (which is unusual for me).  When I got home, I noticed that there are some auburn highlights though...

New Hair Feb 19 2007

What is one of your favorite poems?
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.

Xanadu - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred River, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests as ancient as the hills
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But Oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon lover!

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething
As if this Earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the threshers flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
it flung momently up the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
  The shadow of the dome of pleasure
  Floated midway on the waves;
  Where was heard the mingled measure
  From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice!

  A damsel with a dulcimer
  In a vision once I saw:
  It was an Abyssinian maid,
  And on her dulcimer she played,
  Singing of Mount Abora.
  Could I revive within me
  Her symphony and song,
  To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome!  Those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes,  his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Show us your eyeball.
Submitted by Cassie.

not mine, well, mine's in there somewhere.  I'll let y'all figure out which set is mine.

Eyes collage

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1. What was your favorite toy as a kid?
   Define "kid"  my big wheel?  my skis? my bicycle?  my barbies?   Technically, I was a kid when I played with all of those, some of them were my favorites.  But mostly, I liked being outside and playing in nature.
   
2. What type of music or band do you love?
   Oh, you're asking the wrong person.  I love music of most kinds - from classical to acid metal.  It all depends on the quality of the band.
   
3. What color can't you live without?
   fleshtone, considering that if I don't have it, I'm probably dead.
   
4. What is your favorite scent?
   hmmmm....currently, vanilla?  maybe chocolate chip cookies?  the smell of my grandmother's old house?
   
5. Show us something you love.
   Dogs are unconditional love:
   
   

   Bella's ready to go home
   
   

If you could have one superpower, what would you choose?
Submitted by J.T.

The ability to stop time.