1. Why do children laugh?
because the find joy in everyday things that adults have forgotten about…that or else they just really like to torment other children
2. What did red used to mean?
Whore.
3. What would you say, if you could only work up the courage to say it?
mom, a little bit of money would probably really help…
4. What is your earliest memory?
fall in the garden with my family, I remember walking being difficult and I remember eating things I picked up, I remember being cold. I think I was three.
5. What question would you like me to ask? What would your answer be?
What is the one thing you would change about yourself if you could? My unwillingness to admit my dependency on human contact.
6. How can you help?
I listen, I advise, I’m willing to help in almost anyway I can…oh that and I’m trying to find that pesky MC1R gene in Swamp Sparrows…
7. Who has the greatest laugh you have ever heard? Can you describe it?
greatest as in funniest or greatest as in the most contagious? Funniest had to be a friend of mine who had to be about 5′ tall and all of 100lbs (on a good day) and who had the loudest, deepest last I’d ever heard in a girl…most contagious…that varies
8. Where are you going?
Pacific Northwest, I hope.
9. If you could send telegram to your 10-year-old self, what would it say?
Things are as bad as you think they are, but you can deal with it.
10. What the hell is wrong with people?
People need something to do. Not work, not office/desk work. People miss the competition and the hunt, the blood and the survivor-type life…genetically, people are really missing the caveman, uncivilized, grunting, sweating, clubbing, fucking ways…
today was one of those picture perfect fall days that you want to save. i know it’s cliche, but i do love fall, the cool, clean (even in the city) air, the bright sun, the leaves, crunchy and swirling around my ankles, twining there for all the world like a herd of purrrrting kittens…it reminds me of fall back home when i was a kid…raking leaves, and jumping in them (though this is not recommended when it’s just rained)…then the burning of the leaves we used to do every fall…we’d eat charry hotdogs and melty marshmallows and watch the fire burn, taking all those leaves and left-overs from our garden away…
i walked the fall for a bit today…i know people who are made sad by fall, because all the plants are dying back and all the greens are fading…while green is my favorite color, i love to see what color all those greens are going to become. i even enjoy the drizzily fall days, where you can just curl up and look out the window at the gray day, anticipating snow or sunshine (whichever you prefer)…i love watching the frenetic little squirrels and sparrows…digging and pecking, scampering about … *honestly, the squirrels especially remind me of college students, freaking out about an upcoming midterm/winter…”oh my god, i didn’t get anything done all year…and now i have a test/hibernation”…and of course, you know, they’re both heavy drinkers, those naughty squirrels*
so i look forward to my walk to work tomorrow…crunching through the leaves, chasing squirrels, enjoying the warmth of the sun and chill of the wind to chase me in the door…i’ll enjoy my hot chocolate in the morning, my oatmeal to stick with me all day…there are many good things about fall…hottubs, snuggling with someone warm…cold kitty feet and noses…the way your nose tingles with cold when you walk into a warm building…warm mugs within cold fingers…
so….
to place orders here at my school…I take an order form down to the office, then the secretary submits the order to the mysterious “other” office that handles ALL orders. yes, ALL orders at a university with over 50,000 students.
they ordered my glycogen on Wednesday afternoon. I submitted my copy of the order on Tuesday morning. I can’t do anything until it gets here … and it will be here “not later than Thursday after noon” 9 days after I ordered it…it is shipping via UPS ground 5 day delivery….
said Sandra on the phone at the company…”why on earth didn’t you order it Airbourne express? it would have been there on friday and it would have only cost $0.18 more!”
says me, mentally growling… “because I didn’t get to place the order…someone else did after I submitted the order.”
on the other end of the line, a chuckle and a sigh…and then she gave me my ups tracking number with a goodluck…
grrrrr
so here’s me
wasting time
dammit…I wanna graduate within two years! not 10!
<sigh> it’s not fair when your horoscope feels eeriely accurate…especially when it’s from www.theonion.com
Pisces: (Feb. 19—March 20)
There’s no life for you without love, except in the strictest biological and durational sense.
