I got a new bookshelf! I got a new bookshelf!

Now I must resist the urge to fill it up too quickly….

a quiz

1.  You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and
    free.

2.  In the process of courtship, the approach that would make you
    feel irresistable is straight-forward, just tell you he/she
    loves you.

3.  The impression you would like to give to your lover is stylish.

4.  You don’t like it when your partner is emotional and/or too
    moody; and you don’t know how to please him/her.

5.  The kind of relationship you would like to build with your
    partner is that both of you can talk about everything and
    anything, no secret is kept.

6.  You care about the society and morality, you won’t do anything
    wrong after marriage.

7.  You always want to get married, but in fact, you don’t even know
    what it really is.

8.  At this moment, you think of love as a committment for both parties.

avocado milkshakes are odd.

Party, or the closest thing to it for me and most of mine. Hung out with my work friends, one of whom is returning to Brazil after a year here. He has learned greatly of the english, up to and including, picking up many of the lab pet phrases. Oddly, many of them come from the Puerto Rican lab technician, who after 30 odd years in the US, still swears only in Spanish…..

After gratitous amounts of food (sardine pizza….strawberry shortcake – vegan….chocolate cheesecake – low carb…brauts – burned just enough to be crispy on the outside…lots and lots of coke)….we went shopping. To Galyan’s of all places. Which, considering how much we’d eaten, was amusing, as least to me.

And lo and behold, what should I discover but that Galyan’s has a wall. A CLIMBING wall. And it’s FREE! What the hell have I been doing for the last two years? I have so missed wall-climbing!

SO, though I am woefully out of condition, having no back or shoulder muscles to speak of, and am 20lbs heavier than I was the last time I attempted a climb…I did it anyway.

Lordy, lordy, how I missed the climb!
I wish I could learn to do it outside, but as I have no one to teach me and I lack the funds to start myself, I’ll settle for indoors.

I like that the world narrows to only you and the wall. Finding the handholds, the footholds. Clinging, tenacious, feeling the pull in your arms, on the harness, just holding on for one minute more while your foot seeks the next ledge, the next foothold…
For as long as I’m on the wall, I think of nothing but the wall. And I like it that way.

From now on, if I have a moment to spare…I will be climbing as much as I can….I’ll start on the beginning courses and work my way up to the harder and harder and finally I will beat every course on that wall….

Of course, right now, I need to go nurse my poor, overstrained arms and legs. They’re not too sure about this new fun task…they’ve forgotten how good it is to climb…

somedays, you just feel like a cold-hearted bitch.

from Co

If you could have sex with any famous (or infamous) person, who would it be, and why?

Buffy. Not Sarah Michelle Gellar. Buffy. I want Buffy. The whole butt-kicking girl persona just makes me very very…er…. happy

What is your biggest fear?

That when I die, my life will have made no difference.

If could change one thing that has happened in your life (worldly event, personal happening, something that has happened to someone else, something you did to someone else), what would you change?

Just one? Honestly, nothing. Think Butterfly Effect (never did see that flick, did you?)…if you change one thing, what else could you change accidentally? I suppose I could will Bushie out of office…but who knows what THAT would change…I’d like to leave the past as it is – past.

from Leorah:

1. If the world were to end tomorrow, what would you do today?

I would get up early and call my family and all my friends and just tell them that I love them and that I hope they have a good day. I wouldn’t tell anyone the world was going to end if they didn’t already know. I would then take the day off of work, frolic with my kitties in the sunlight until they fell asleep (about 20 minutes before their fatness tires them out). Then I’d go pick up a 2 liter of coke, some Taco Bell and some chocolate and go to this little park that I always drive past and never stop at. I always mean to, but I never seem to find the time. I’d take my food and my drink there and I’d sit and watch people and the world. Watch the river, and the trees and wait for sunset and just breathe. After sunset, I’d go home, pick up my kitties and snuggle with them in bed, just waiting for the world to end all warm and snuggly.

2. What type of music have you listened to most in your life?

Ahhhh… golden oldies. My parents music…50′s and 60′s mainly. Roy and Bob and the Ventures and the Four Seasons…doo-wap, I’ve heard some of it called. Mostly male singers, stuff that has easy to understand lyrics that you can sing along with in the car on roadtrips.

3. If you could only choose one color to wear for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Black. It’s easy and doesn’t show too much cat hair (since they’re all three dark kitties).

Biked in for the first time this year.

Ow.

Very big with the ow. And very big with the sweat. Sheesh. I didn’t realize I was this out of condition….

Also, big ow to stupid girly cramps. *mutter, mutter*

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While many other people are at it…
Ask me any three questions and I’ll answer them…

and I don’t have any questions that I won’t answer.

Today, I gave a presentation in the lab meeting.

After I gave it I realized that not only did I have dried crusted applesauce/sweet potatoes stuck to my pants courtesy of niece #2, I had a big black hunk of junk stuck in my front teeth, courtesy of this mornings leftover pizza.

Yuck. I wonder if anyone actually managed to concentrate on what I was saying or if the thing in my teeth was more the object of concentration…