Questions, Questions

Fri., April 17, 04:52 AM

“A question…” Are you familiar with the Star Trek episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever”? The Gate comes alive when someone asks a question. So do I; even if I intended to say nothing, I can’t remain silent if asked a direct question.

The following set came to me via le livre des visages, and I was tagged. I am not tagging anyone. Furthermore, I think it’s far too long to enter there. (If it’s going to be long, I want it in a word processor I can edit!)

50 THINGS YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN ASKED

Betcha I have been asked some of these before.

  1. What color is your toothbrush?
    Red. The travel one is green.
  2. Name one person who made you laugh today.
    Bill Holbrook, writer of Kevin and Kell.
  3. What were you doing at 8 am yesterday morning?
    Preparing Husband’s breakfast so that U.D. could give it to him. (long story, not for this page)
  4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago?
    Bleeding (another long story).
  5. What is your favorite candy bar?
    Bar? Munson’s chocolate, in any form.
  6. Have you ever been to a strip club?
    Me? Whatever for?
  7. What is the last thing you said aloud?
    I’m not sure. Maybe it was “good night.”
  8. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
    Generally, coffee. Specifically, Ben & Jerry”s White Russian.
  9. What was the last thing you had to drink?
    Water.
  10. Do you like your wallet?
    I have a leather passport wallet that I bought years ago. It’s beginning to look worn, but it’s still the best one I’ve had.
  11. What was the last thing you ate?
    Coffee ice cream.
  12. Have you bought any new clothing items this week?
    Nope.
  13. The last sporting event you watched?
    The NCAA Women’s Championship. Proud to be a Connecticut alumna.
  14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn?
    Butter and salt.
  15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to?
    I phoned the telephone company and requested that they block texting. Are you waiting for the post on why?
  16. Ever go camping?
    Not that I remember.
  17. Do you take vitamins daily?
    Yes, as well as minerals and other supplements.
  18. Do you go to church every Sunday?
    I am not a Christian. For me the Sabbath is Saturday, and no, I don’t go every Saturday any more.
  19. Do you have a tan?
    No longer allowed, dammit.
  20. Do you prefer Chinese food over pizza?
    I do — but I also love pizza.
  21. Do you drink your soda with a straw?
    Not usually.
  22. What did your last text message say?
    I don’t text, twitter, or use my phone for anything except phone calls — and the time.
  23. What are you doing tomorrow?
    Go out, stop by the attorney’s office, and then do some shopping.
  24. Look to your left, what do you see?
    A window, but it’s dark outside.
  25. What color is your watch?
    Can’t wear anything on my left wrist anymore; I use my phone.
  26. What do you think of when you hear Australia?
    One more place I always wanted to visit and will never get to do so.
  27. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru?
    I never drive through, at a restaurant or a bank or anything else. I can usually do better than fast food, anyway.
  28. What is your favorite number?
    6.
  29. Who’s the last person you talked to on the phone?
    My sister.
  30. Any plans today?
    It’s already tomorrow.
  31. How many states have you lived in?
    Two, but mostly in one.
  32. Biggest annoyance right now?
    Husband.
  33. Last song listened to?
    “I Dreamed a Dream.”
  34. Can you say the alphabet backwards?
    Yes, slowly. Can’t everyone?
  35. Do you have a maid service clean your house?
    I would rather have it messy than allow a stranger in here.
  36. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time?
    I have two pairs of Hush Puppy sandals, so comfortable that I wear them all the time, except if there is weather out there.
  37. Are you jealous of anyone?
    Not really jealous. Many people have opportunities I wish I had.
  38. Is anyone jealous of you?
    What do I have that they could possibly want?
  39. Do you love anyone?
    Lots of people.
  40. Do any of your friends have children?
    Most of them had kids before I did. Grandkids too.
  41. What do you usually do during the day?
    I’m retired. I do what has to be done, and then I pick and choose, according to my energy level.
  42. Do you hate anyone that you know right now?
    Hating individuals usually requires more energy than it’s worth. I hate qualities, like stupidity or greed.
  43. Do you use the word “hello” daily?
    Nu? So how do you answer the phone if you’re not working?
  44. What color is your car?
    Dark green.
  45. Do you like cats?
    Depends on the cat, just like it depends on the person.
  46. Are you thinking about someone right now?
    No one in particular.
  47. Have you ever been to Six Flags?
    No. I can’t imagine any way it could be better than the amusement parks I knew as a kid.
  48. How did you get your worst scar?
    The biggest one, I guess, is from gallbladder surgery. Before they devised neater ways to do it, they just cut… I looked like a baseball.

There are only 48 here, because the one I copied from had missing numbers. I have answered some of these before; I’m just to lazy to look up the links for you.

I’m not completely sure I want to do this one, but let’s give it a go.

  1. What author do you own the most books by?
    Isaac Asimov, I guess. I still have a lot of Agatha Christie too.
  2. What book do you own the most copies of?
    Don’t know that I do. If there are duplicates, it’s probably by accident.
  3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
    It did, but fixing them would be too unwieldy for this sort of entry.
  4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
    Probably Mr. Spock. I think he could make me a better person. But that’s not a secret.
  5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children)?
    As a kid, I read my favorites over and over (the Alcott books, for example), whenever I had nothing else to read. As an adult, I am no longer so obsessive.
  6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
    I believe, at that particular time, it was An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott.
  7. What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
    Define worst. Hard to read? The Mermaid Chair (I didn’t finish it.) Unsettling? Fair Game
  8. What is the best book you've read in the past year?
    The Tomb of the Golden Bird.
  9. If you could force everyone reading this to read one book, what would it be?
    I can’t answer that. Even if I were to force my opinion on someone else, not everyone needs the same lesson.
  10. Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
    I can’t answer that one either. Most of the Nobel winners have been so obscure that I never heard of them, much less read them.
  11. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
    Generally, I don’t like the way movie makers go about adapting a book. If I have read the book, I seldom like the film.
  12. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
    I wouldn’t care if they ignored all the books. But you can’t go by my opinion; I seldom go to a movie anyhow.
  13. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
    Another one I can’t answer, as I never had a dream like that.
  14. What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
    I will go with an answer I saw elsewhere. I thought that Left Behind sounded like a good book, with an interesting science fiction premise. It was so bad I never finished it, even kept forgetting the name of it. There is a lot of religious propaganda in books I have read, including children’s books like Heidi and Little Women. But nothing ever insulted me like that one.
  15. What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
    No title comes to mind, but I suspect it was a college textbook that kept putting me to sleep.
  16. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
    I haven’t seen enough of them actually performed to make a judgment.
  17. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
    I haven’t read enough of either to make a judgment.
  18. Roth or Updike?
    I am not that fond of the style of either of them. I read the last of the “Rabbit” series and felt I had missed nothing by not reading all of the preceding ones. And if you think Portnoy complained, he ain’t nothing compared to Roth himself.
  19. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
    Who?
  20. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
    If I really must choose, I suppose it is Chaucer.
  21. Austen or Eliot?
    I’ve always enjoyed Jane Austen.
  22. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
    As you must realize, there are lots of gaps. But I would not say I am embarrassed by any of them!
  23. What is your favorite novel?
    Only one? Stranger in a Strange Land. Hawaii. The Return of the Native. To Kill a Mockingbird. They are many and varied.
  24. Play?
    That is very hard to choose, particularly because they so much reflect the mood of the times. I prefer musicals — almost anything by Rodgers and Hammerstein. A straight play? “Diary of Anne Frank,” maybe.
  25. Poem?
    I won’t even try.
  26. Essay?
    Again, I won’t even try.
  27. And… what are you reading right now?
    The newest in the Lazarus-Decker series by Faye Kellerman.



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