1.03.2009

 

What I've done

Copy this list into your own blog, then bold or italicize the things you've done. Here's mine:

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland (uh, does DisneyWorld count?)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted (A guy started sketching me in Montmartre in Paris, but I didn't buy it, because it looked terrible!)
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guard in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

I think it can be just as interesting to see the things that aren't italicized. Intriguing list. I feel the need to travel more now. Link to yours if you end up posting it!

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6.14.2007

 

The waiting game

So I'm still at 1 cm, now 75% effaced. And the doctor said Kent is a little lower than he was last week. So we're making progress, but there's still no telling whether he'll be here before or after the due date. Incidentally, she surprised me by asking whether I'd like to schedule an induction for the 39th week, to which I WANTED to reply, "What part of natural childbirth is unclear to you?" There's such a culture of epidurals and scheduled inductions here, it's really crazy. I feel like a pioneer or something.

That being said, I thought it might be interesting for you all to vote on when you think he's coming (since we're NOT scheduling it and really have no idea when to expect our little squiggly), so I've posted a poll. Choose any of the dates given or write in your own, and see what everyone else thinks. Just so you have all the relevant details with which to make your decision, our due date is July 2, the nearest full moon is June 30, and his grandpa's birthday, which he might decide to wait around for, is July 7. =) And there's always the possibility that the Fourth of July fireworks will set things in motion. Who knows?? Happy voting!

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3.12.2007

 

I do still think about things besides babies...

Interesting quiz Jack found:

http://www.dontvote.org/

It shows you pictures of a bunch of political figures (and some random celebrities) to see if you know who they are and what their jobs are. I scored a 96%, but a few of those were guesses, and a few were process-of-elimination correct answers, when I knew the other three people in the multiple-choice list and knew they weren't the picture I was looking at! Anyway, good luck, and post your results (if you feel like sharing).

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11.11.2006

 

Accent Quiz

What a fascinating quiz! You have to think hard while you're taking it about how you really pronounce certain words, which is difficult to do out of context. Fun exercise, though.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
The Inland North
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have?
Take More Quizzes

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10.26.2006

 

Oh geez

Tagged again! Curses!!


IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD YOUR SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool..

Note to readers: Jack and I both use iTunes, and I'll bet you can tell which songs belong to whom. =)


Opening Credits:
"59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)"—Simon & Garfunkel

Waking Up:
"Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?"—Bryan Adams

First Day At School:
"Woke Up This Morning"—A3 (from The Sopranos soundtrack; Katherine used to listen to this song in college while walking to math class, so I think it's funny that it turned up for school!)

Falling In Love:
"In ruhig fliessender Bewegung," movement III from Sinfonia—Pierre Boulez (New Swingle Singers with Boulez conducting)

Breaking Up:
Movement IV of Piano Quartet no. 2 in G minor—Gabriel Fauré (Ax. Stern, Laredo, and Ma recording)

Prom:
"Kyrie" from Missa Pange Lingua—Josquin (this isn't exactly something to dance to and would make for a very nerdy prom)

Life's OK:
"Bye Bye Bye"—*NSYNC (I believe this was Nicole's "Life's OK" contribution to the Bridesmaid Mix CD)

Mental Breakdown:
"Clint Meets Topov"—No Strings Attached (a bluegrass group from Blacksburg, lots of hammered duclimer and such)

Driving:
"In My Life"—The Beatles

Flashback:
"At the Zoo"—Simon & Garfunkel

Getting Back Together:
"To Make You Feel My Love"—Billy Joel

Wedding:
"The Dangling Conversation"—Simon & Garfunkel

Birth of Child:
"The Sound of Silence"—Simon & Garfunkel (Holy Simon & Garfunkel, Batman!)

Final Battle:
"Sample in a Jar"—Trey Anastasio

Death Scene:
"Baby Grand"—Ray Charles and Billy Joel

Funeral Song:
"Still Crazy After All These Years"—Simon & Garfunkel (I swear, we don't have that much of their stuff; iTunes is just trying to be funny. It is good music, though.)

End Credits:
"Prometheus"—Franz Schubert (HOW ironic... my thesis topic song)


I learned that iTunes skips podcasts when it shuffles. That's good to know for the future. I also learned that we have a weird mix of stuff, but I already knew that. My iPod would be an even weirder mix.

Now tagging Don, Nicole, and Lauren.

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6.01.2006

 

Because Jeannette posted a link

You Are Marge Simpson

You're a devoted family member who loves unconditionally.

Sometimes, though, you dream about living a wild secret life!

You will be remembered for: your good cooking and evading the police

Your life philosophy: "You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head."
The Simpsons Personality Test

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1.25.2006

 

I've Been Tagged

Jeannette has tagged me, so that means I get to answer these questions on my blog. Beware, all of you out there, because I may tag YOU and then YOU'LL have to answer the questions on your own blog!

Four Jobs I Have Had:
Babysitting during adult choir at the church I grew up in
Selling Moravian cookies and bread and stuff at a kiosk in the mall
Working at Victoria's Secret, which sometimes involved measuring women for bras
Teaching undergrad classes on my own in the summer and being a TA during the year

Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over Again:
Amélie
Quiz Show
Finding Nemo
Pirates of Penzance with Kevin Kline, Rex Smith, and Linda Ronstadt... I must have watched it 100 times when I was a kid

Four Books I Could Read Over and Over:
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)... really, it's a play, but I have it in book form, so it counts

Four Places I Have Lived:
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Philly
Baton Rouge

Four TV Shows I Watch:
Gilmore Girls (WB)
24 (Fox)
How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
Project Runway (Bravo)

Four Places I Have Been On Vacation:
France/England
Cedar Point, OH (awesome amusement park)
Destin, FL (with Jack during spring break last year)
Williamsburg, VA (Busch Gardens and Colonial Williamsburg)

Four Websites I visit Daily:
2424milk.com, since they're currently having a sweepstakes for a trip to the Bahamas and I can enter daily
Blogs of friends (though most people don't update that often)
Set Daily Puzzle
Chase's website (to check on my bank accounts)

Four Favorite Foods:
Tomatoes in almost any form
Fresh bread in almost any form
Homemade peach ice cream
Double-decker tacos, especially when I make them... they're regular hard tacos with a soft taco shell "glued" to the outside with refried beans, making the perfect crunchy taco that doesn't fall in your lap when you crunch it

Four Places I'd Like To Be Now:
Nice, France
Philly (to see Jeannette and her kid!)
A central location where all my friends from high school could gather
A central location where all my family could gather, though not necessarily in the same place as my friends from high school... that would be nuts. But we could all play Cranium! =)

Four Bloggers I'm Tagging:
Lauren
Nicole
Katherine
Don, who's having trouble keeping up his NY resolution of blogging more often =)

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10.05.2005

 

Apparently, I'm a socialist

I took a political quiz that Jeannette had posted a link to, and here's what my results are:

You are a

Social Liberal
(80% permissive)

and an...

Economic Liberal
(13% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Socialist

You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.



They had lovely graphs with colors, showing me where I fell on the spectrum, but their HTML for people to copy and paste is all messed up, so I couldn't put the graph here on my page. They need someone like Jack, who can do programming correctly, to fix their code. Anyway, it was an interesting quiz. I never did think socialism was all that bad, at least in theory...

The funniest part of the result page was that there was a graph with famous people's pictures on different points along the spectrum according to their own beliefs, and I'm right in between Hillary Clinton and Gandhi. Dude. It's like a dream come true. =)

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7.16.2005

 

What Age Do You Act?





You Are 35 Years Old



35





Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.

13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!

40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.



What Age Do You Act?



So those were my results. Apparently, I'm 35. =) Take the quiz yourself and post the results, if you want! The other one I liked was the World's Shortest Personality Test, which worked well for me, but I had to think really hard about the picture I chose. I've been taking a bunch of these blogthings quizzes in the last few minutes, including many that are just silly, because Jack commandeered the new Harry Potter book, but I'm about to go snatch it back. I'm on page 200-something already, just from reading this afternoon!

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4.20.2005

 

What's Your Linguistic Profile?



Your Linguistic Profile:



50% General American English

30% Dixie

20% Yankee

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern



What Kind of American English Do You Speak?


Jeannette had a link to this fun web site on her blog, so I took the short quiz and those were my results. There are only 20 questions, and I think it's funny how easily mine split into 50-30-20. I am amused by the complete lack of anything Midwestern. =) Anyway, take it and post a comment with your own results!

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8.05.2004

 

Jeannette has once again gotten me into trouble...

Jeannette had a post on her web site about a quiz she took that gave her a list of ideal cities in which to live, based on her answers. Since it's a summer afternoon and I had nothing better to do, I took the quiz myself. It asked questions about weather, cultural life, ideal community size, public vs. private schools, target home price, outdoor activities, etc. I loved it for its completeness before I even got my results.

My top place to live, according to this site? Charleston, WV. My grandparents live there and my mom grew up there. I've been there dozens of times. Now, Mimi, before you get all excited, I'm not packing my bags just yet. A few things would have to happen for us to come there. (1) WVU would have to be looking to hire a music theorist when I'm finishing my degree, (2) I would have to WANT to teach there, and right now, I know nothing about any music programs they might have, and (3) Jack would have to find a job there. I found it fascinating that Charleston was my top place, even if we never live there (though I could imagine it would make several members of both our families VERY excited). My other top places in order were Little Rock, AK (why??); Frederick, MD; Baltimore, MD (we LOVE Baltimore!); Hartford, CT; and Providence, RI. They give everyone 24 cities total, but some are basically out of the question, like Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which incidentally made both my and Jeannette's lists. I don't want to live here after I'm done. The public schools and politics are both crap.

Anyway, it's an interesting survey that I highly recommend if you're looking to use up ten or fifteen minutes of your day.

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