Seven Things

September 9, 2005

Twinkie posted her seven things and I was one of the folks she asked to do one as well. Took me a while but I finally pulled one together and post it herewith:

Seven things you plan to do before you die:

1. Write a short story that gets published somewhere
2. lose enough weight to see my abs just once
3. visit Egypt to see the pyramids
4. learn how to juggle
5. learn to play the guitar
6. dive the Great Barrier Reef
7. contribute something useful to an open source project

Seven things you can do:

1. recite dialog from “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan“
2. spell Mississippi without looking it up in the dictionary
3. lie successfully on a polygraph test
4. parallel park
5. touch type
6. tell you where the good and bad Chinese buffets are in Louisville
7. wire up an electrical outlet

Seven things you can’t do:

1. ride a roller coaster without closing my eyes
2. do a hand-stand
3. hide my feelings when I dislike somebody
4. drive more than a couple hours without getting sleepy
5. sing
6. keep a houseplant more than a couple months without killing it from over- or under-watering
7. remember which one is the sine and the cosine

Seven things that attract you to the opposite sex:

1. a great laugh
2. somebody good with kids, since I’m so uncomfortable around them
3. knows how to enjoy eating out–no finicky/picky eaters allowed
4. somebody who doesn’t feel the need to check her makeup every 15 minutes
5. loves to travel
6. prefers to walk whenever possible, instead of drive
7. baby got back

Seven things you say most:

1. when I was working in editorial…
2. when I was working in San Francisco…
3. okay
4. yeah, but…
5. Oh my God.
6. f*!@ing idiot…
7. there has to be a way…

Seven celebrity crushes:

1. Aishwarya Rai
2. Bambi Francisco
3. Angelina Jolie
4. Jeri Ryan
5. Ellen Degeneres
6. Beyonce
7. Serena Williams

Seven people you want to take this quiz:

1. Cormac
2. Bryan Peabody
3. John Roberts (not the Supreme Court guy)
4. Wayne Cunningham
5. Pete Spande
6. Mark Kaelin
7. George W.