future me hates now me hates past me
speaking of how well you know me, i have an idea for a fun little game. (i promise i'll do better than w/the last one.)
anyone who attempts to answer these 10 questions qualifies as a friend. those who get @ least 5 right may consider themselves close. also, for anyone who tries, i'll try to answer the same questions for you.
1] what's my favourite sports team?
2] what season do i prefer?
3] what's my favourite food category? (i.e. chinese, jamaican, cajun...)
4] is my cup 1/2 full, or 1/2 empty?
5] are my political views more republican, or democrat?
6] what would be my perfect job?
7] where would i most like to live?
8] what's your earliest memory of me? (note: non-flattering memories will be counted
wrong)
9] where would i like to be in 10 yrs.?
10] where was i 10 yrs. ago?
anyone who attempts to answer these 10 questions qualifies as a friend. those who get @ least 5 right may consider themselves close. also, for anyone who tries, i'll try to answer the same questions for you.
1] what's my favourite sports team?
2] what season do i prefer?
3] what's my favourite food category? (i.e. chinese, jamaican, cajun...)
4] is my cup 1/2 full, or 1/2 empty?
5] are my political views more republican, or democrat?
6] what would be my perfect job?
7] where would i most like to live?
8] what's your earliest memory of me? (note: non-flattering memories will be counted
wrong)
9] where would i like to be in 10 yrs.?
10] where was i 10 yrs. ago?
posted by starbuck at 00:31
16 Comments:
1) North Carolina TarHeels
2) Summer (everything else is too cold)
3) is Hamburger and Hotdog it's own category? Or maybe Italian
4) sorry, usually 1/2 empty
5) REPUBLICAN--if you can't get that they've never met you
6) Songwriter or novelist
7) North Carolina realistically I think Rio or Argentina if you could live anywhere in the world
8) You gave me a cig. at Chick-fil-a you had a freakishly long pinky nail. Wierdo.
9) Retired and traveling the world. You can't you have three kids.
10) In Hawaii with your dad and Cherie I didn't know you so other than that I don't know.
For the record, i'm doing this without reading dad's response first!
1. tarheels
2. summer
3. uh, macaroni and cheese (powdery Kraft kind only)
4. well, assuming you're as smart as i am...it depends on whether it's being filled or emptied. in the process of being filled: half-full. in the process of being empty: half-empty.
5. hmmm, that's a toughy. REPUBLICAN.
6. singer/songwriter
7. north carolina, raleigh, specifically
8. when you dropped me at the grocery store and i hit my eye on a step-ladder in the produce section (i hold no grudge, but i do now have an intense fear of running into things at eye level)...either that or when that plane almost ran us over in Alaska
oh crap, i didn't see the thing about the non-flattery...uh, it must've been the Alaska plane
that was before the roach-bombing fiasco in the green florida house right?
9. where physically? or metaphorically? you'd like to be a singer/songwriter in NC
10. you were head name-giver in wahiawa, HI
as proof that i didn't read the first comment, i didn't even see that it was by jenn and not dad!
and i do think it's funny that we both capitalized REPUBLICAN.
1. tarheels
2. summer - basketball under the lights :-)
3. hmm, category, i'm not sure, but i would guess cajun
4. towards other 1/2 full, towards yourself 1/2 empty
5. Republican
6. musician
7. NC @ the beach
8. your head as you entered into this world - it was amazing !!!!
9. NC, sitting on a porch and picking a guitar
10. you left hawaii in august 1995 and moved to atlanta - in january 1996 i think you were still living with your mom in lawrenceville.
Honeysuckle: Your score= 7
1] bulldogs (loser)
2] autumn
3] nasty, down-home crap, like anything leafy or someting-fried-something
4] it's 1/2 full most of the time; you just wish it were a little cleaner
5] you have political views? seriously, tough: republican
6] counselor for battered wives & children
7] anywhere in gwinnett, in a huge house, w/ a maid to help clean it
8] your eyes, when i gave you that cigarette
9] where you are now, only w/ $.
10] living (technically) in your parents' house, but you were rarely there. there was just way too much fun to be had.
fro: your score= 7
1] braves (loser)
2] summer
3] hmm... mexican?
4] 1/2 full
5] republican
6] spanish lit. prof.
7] athens, or new york
8] in alaska: when mom asked you why you'd done whatever you'd done, & you answered, "'cause i didn't want to."
9] 1.3 children; 3 nice cars; coffee shop @ the corner from your spacious, street-level tenement on the campus of the university where you're head of the literature or language dept.
10] locked in your room, watching your favourite sports team choke yet again. (losers.)
i like this future vision of me! although, i think i'll try to keep my kids in the whole numbers.
i'm still trying to figure out #3 myself...sushi is way up there, and so is cajun. mexican goes without saying...
but my real curiosity is about this incident in Alaska...I said i did something b/c i didn't want to? was this the brussel-sprout eating episode?
dad: your score= 8
1] cowboys, or whoever's playing the redskins
2] summer?
3] chinese?
4] 1/2 full
5] republican
6] little league coach / sagely grandfather
7] northern virginia, @ the base of the shenandoah mountains
8] i remember that you ran over my spiderman wallet w/ the lawnmower, then gently explained that there is a reason we must take care of our things.
9] geneva, accepting the nobel prize?
10] senior chief mason, cti, wahiawa, hi
so fro, do i get partial credit for #3?
as for the brussell sprout incident, i have no idea what you're talking @. for that matter, i don't remember the grocery-store-step-ladder-incident, OR the almost being run over by a plane thing. are you sure you didn't dream these things? i think i'd remember a near death experience. & that was way before i started smoking pot, so don't even try that excuse.
partial credit granted :)
the bruseel sprout/lemon incident (i can't remember which it was):
dad was eating brussel sprouts, i asked to try it, then made a disgusted face. Dad: "Did you like it?" Me: "Uh-huh" Dad: "Want another one" Me: "UH-UH".
the grocery store thing i think really happened (dad was there, so maybe he can verify). it's possible it was a bad dream. you didn't mean to drop me though & you were very apologetic :)
the plane: mom & scoupe & i (i thought you were there, too) were walking down the road in Alaska and that other boy was there, anthony i think. this plane flew right over us like it was about to land. we all ducked & were somewhat terrified. this i know happened & i'm sure scoupe remembers.
but i did remember another early memory: i had this dream about a volcanic eruption and lava coming in our house in Alaska. you tried to tell mom & dad about it, based on what i told you while i was upset, but you thought i was talking about flowers or something. i think this was before i mastered language, because i was really frustrated and couldn't get anyone to understand what my dream was.
okay. for the sake of fairness, i collapsed the comments of those who've answered first.
1)college - tarheels
professional - yankees
2)summer
3)italian
4)1/2 full (but i think that's only because you choose to see it as such; naturally, it would be 1/2 empty)
5)republican
6)author
7)florida
8)honestly, my earliest memories have you and frø in them. i think in the earliest, we were in florida playing a pile of branches which dad had cut off of a tree and pretending it was a spaceship.
9)retired and living off your investments
10)in georgia, working at chick-fil-a dwarf house.
i remember the plane thing but i thought my memory was from hearing mom and frø tell the rest of us about it; i can't rmember if i was actually there.
i knew i should have said north carolina for number seven.
jenna - it was a lemon and it was one of the funniest things i ever saw :-)
as for the grocery store thing - i suspect it was a dream 'cause i have no recollection of any such incident.
i guess i'll have to find another way to explain my inordinate fear of running into things at eye level...what scares me most are those racks in department stores that are just about 5 feet tall--sometimes you don't really see them until they're right in front of your face!
scoupe: your score= 8.5
i remember the branches. that was truly a triumph of childish imagination, i think.
1] you couldn't care less
2] summer
3] italian?
4] apparently, 1/2 empty
5] republican
6] michael cain's job, in "cocktail". or poet/philosopher.
7] florida
8] i remember mom telling me to wipe your nose, b/c she was on the phone w/dad, while he was in texas.
9] on a beach, in a hammock, w/ all the time in the world
10] in mom's garage, practicing w/ "jus' 4 the ghoti". busily admiring heavenly bodies. working p.t. @ CFA.
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