Second May Meme
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maeve668. When was the last time you went shopping?
"Go shopping" -- is that a thing? I basically go shopping on Instacart or (sorry, cringe, I suck) Amazon.com. The last things I bought were not exciting -- an Amazon gift card for my graduating niece (in addition to a big check... but she wanted a robe and I did not trust either my knowledge of her size or her exact taste, thus, Amazon).
9. What is your favorite childhood memory?
It's so hard to pick favorites of ANYTHING. Favorite meal, favorite song, favorite color, favorite memory. I'll just pick a memory from childhood that is very clear that I like a lot? Depending on where one draws the line for "childhood". Let's say before age 10. Hm. I really loved our family vacation in 1976 (okay I WAS ten) going east through Michigan and then Canada and then down the East Coast and then looping back through New York City, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, back to Evanston, Illinois. The memory that sticks out the most was when we took the ferry to Prince Edward Island and my dad took us (this was BEFORE I'd even read the books, I think) to L. M. Montgomery's home, on which Green Gables is based. I frankly love old Victorian houses turned into museums. He bought me the book, I read it over the next day (I mean MAYBE I'd read it from the library? But I don't remember doing so) and then we went to a huge beach. PEI is beautiful. We also took a ferry from Newfoundland to Saint Pierre, one of the two remaining tiny bits of (is)land left to the French after they lost Canada to the English. They're fishing islands, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, but tourists aren't allowed on Miquelon. We wandered the tiny cobbled streets and went to a French restaurant, where we tried very garlicky snails. Well, I did. My younger sister absolutely refused.
10. Are you interested in learning about other planets and discovering if there’s life on them?
Yes. It would be cool to find another civilization that was doing better than ours. Among all the billions of stars and planets, you'd think there'd be SOME, somewhere. I mean, I don't know what to do about the physics of it all, the problem of the speed of light...
11. Do you usually sleep with your bedroom/closet doors open or closed?
This is a strange question. Closet door? I mean, the only thing that makes sense about is if we're talking about kids and nightmares or something. I leave my bedroom door open because Devlin doesn't want to be closed in, most of the time. She gets MORE frantic, though, if she is on the OTHER side of my closed bedroom door. Meowing, scratching, shoving. Awww. I never do that, of course, but the other day my father or stepmother (who are visiting for Ruby's graduation) closed her out of my bedroom because I was asleep and they weren't. I didn't stay asleep for more than a few minutes once the scratching and piteous meows started.
12. Are there any relationships you'd like to fix?
It doesn't seem to be possible, really. I don't have more than two friendships I'd be glad to resuscitate, but it isn't looking likely.
13. Where is your next vacation?
Here in this place, starting June 7th when school gets out.
14. What are sensations or experiences that you tend to avoid?
"All of the unpleasant ones." -- thanks Microbie. Another kind of dumb question.
"Go shopping" -- is that a thing? I basically go shopping on Instacart or (sorry, cringe, I suck) Amazon.com. The last things I bought were not exciting -- an Amazon gift card for my graduating niece (in addition to a big check... but she wanted a robe and I did not trust either my knowledge of her size or her exact taste, thus, Amazon).
9. What is your favorite childhood memory?
It's so hard to pick favorites of ANYTHING. Favorite meal, favorite song, favorite color, favorite memory. I'll just pick a memory from childhood that is very clear that I like a lot? Depending on where one draws the line for "childhood". Let's say before age 10. Hm. I really loved our family vacation in 1976 (okay I WAS ten) going east through Michigan and then Canada and then down the East Coast and then looping back through New York City, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, back to Evanston, Illinois. The memory that sticks out the most was when we took the ferry to Prince Edward Island and my dad took us (this was BEFORE I'd even read the books, I think) to L. M. Montgomery's home, on which Green Gables is based. I frankly love old Victorian houses turned into museums. He bought me the book, I read it over the next day (I mean MAYBE I'd read it from the library? But I don't remember doing so) and then we went to a huge beach. PEI is beautiful. We also took a ferry from Newfoundland to Saint Pierre, one of the two remaining tiny bits of (is)land left to the French after they lost Canada to the English. They're fishing islands, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, but tourists aren't allowed on Miquelon. We wandered the tiny cobbled streets and went to a French restaurant, where we tried very garlicky snails. Well, I did. My younger sister absolutely refused.
10. Are you interested in learning about other planets and discovering if there’s life on them?
Yes. It would be cool to find another civilization that was doing better than ours. Among all the billions of stars and planets, you'd think there'd be SOME, somewhere. I mean, I don't know what to do about the physics of it all, the problem of the speed of light...
11. Do you usually sleep with your bedroom/closet doors open or closed?
This is a strange question. Closet door? I mean, the only thing that makes sense about is if we're talking about kids and nightmares or something. I leave my bedroom door open because Devlin doesn't want to be closed in, most of the time. She gets MORE frantic, though, if she is on the OTHER side of my closed bedroom door. Meowing, scratching, shoving. Awww. I never do that, of course, but the other day my father or stepmother (who are visiting for Ruby's graduation) closed her out of my bedroom because I was asleep and they weren't. I didn't stay asleep for more than a few minutes once the scratching and piteous meows started.
12. Are there any relationships you'd like to fix?
It doesn't seem to be possible, really. I don't have more than two friendships I'd be glad to resuscitate, but it isn't looking likely.
13. Where is your next vacation?
Here in this place, starting June 7th when school gets out.
14. What are sensations or experiences that you tend to avoid?
"All of the unpleasant ones." -- thanks Microbie. Another kind of dumb question.