the annie blog

Posted on April 13, 2004 by annieblog

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
shining in the sunlight. (It’s the end of a paragraph from Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes – I’m teaching it next semester)

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first? My gigantic pencil. I have a fat striped pencil that’s about a foot and a half tall. It almost topples over my pencil holder.

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
RAW – Wrestling – Mark had it on last night and I sat down beside him for a minute, but then I couldn’t stomach it anymore and had to leave.

4. WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is.
7:35am

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
7:33am

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
My fan blowing – it’s always freaking hot in my office.

7. When did you last step outside? what were you doing?
I walked from my car to my office this morning.

8. Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
Yahoo

9. What are you wearing? khakis and an off-white sweater

10. Did you dream last night?
Not that I recall

11. When did you last laugh? In the middle of the night. Mark got out of bed at midnight to sit at the computer and type something that just couldn’t wait till morning. I laughed at him.

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
It’s my office – they’re concrete and painted a nasty white that’s aged through the years. I have bulletin boards and stuff. Someday I need to post a picture because my office truly looks like Toys R Us

13. Seen anything weird lately?
This morning. I had McDonald’s for breakfast and pulled up to the speaker and there was an employee standing there. At first I thought the speaking wasn’t working, but no – he was just standing there peeking in everyone’s cars????

14. Last movie you saw?
In the theater? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind At home? Lost in Translation

15. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
a car of some sort?

16. Tell me something about you that I don’t know.
I can put my fist in my mouth

17. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Magically make all people love each other.

18. Do you like to dance?
Yes

19. George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or someone who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
You know me… He’s a nutcase!!!

20. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Tally

21. [Same question for a boy]
Logan

22. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Oh yes!

I got this compliments of Tori.