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maeve661. Where would you like to retire to?
It's hard to imagine retiring without National Health Care, so that either means my answer is one of the many excellent countries that have it, or right here in the Bay Area, grimly cobbling things together, working part time until I keel over.
2. Do you play online multiplayer games?
"no" quoth Microbie, and me.
3. What is the longest you have ever slept?
Easily 15 hours, maybe more? But with bathroom wakenings, sigh.
4. Who was the last person you called?
I called my sister yesterday, and my friend Dani the day before, and my stepmother (and father) a few days ago.
5. What was the last amusement park ride you went on?
It's been a billion years, but my two favorites are the Tilt-a-Whirl and a big Ferris wheel.
6. What is your favorite brand of pens?
Ha, I DO have a favorite, and in fact, a) don't write with anything else (my father is the same, though his choice is different than mine), and b) DO NOT UNDERSTAND why my favorite was not the pen chosen by the NYT "Wirecutter" product reviewing team. The only pen I will use is a black Pilot G-2 gel pen 07. It flows perfectly; it is neither too wide nor too narrow; it requires no pressure.
7. What is the biggest waste of energy in your life right now?
By next Wednesday, it will once again be work, this time I suspect worse than ever as I try to navigate the shoals and reefs of "independent study" teaching. Ugh.
8. Do you set an alarm to wake up?
Yes, but I am virtually always awake right before it goes off. My cat WOULD wake me up, but she is too lazy and only wakes me when she wants food.
9. What was the longest train ride you've been on?
I'm not sure which was longer: NYC to Chicago, or Stockholm to Parma (Paris might have been a stopover; I cannot remember). I like long train rides.
10. What's the silliest thing you've believed, that turned out to be untrue?
I am not sure I can come up with anything for this. My father was relentless in making me question any comfortable assumptions. One of his favorite things to chide me with was "Don't believe everything you read." He gave me a very thick kids' encyclopedia when I was four or five, as well as a giant dictionary. On the other hand, when I was four or so, and he was stuck with the bedtime story routine because my mom worked late once a week at the Madison Public Library, he listened to my pleas for a WORTHWHILE princess and amended his usual bedtime tales of Che Guevara, Bernadette Devlin, or Tony Benn (no, I am not kidding, and was I surprised later to find out that Tony Benn was not a young revolutionary in the 1960s/70s) after researching to find a Russian princess who went over to the Bolsheviks. Sadly, I no longer remember the name. God, I suppose he could have made it up, though that would be unlike him.
11. Last movie watched?
Not in a theater, mind you... but the most recent movie I watched was Shrek with a friend who had NEVER seen it, which was strange. Movie before that... (am I trying to come up with something that is not quite as bizarre as that? Probably) I watched Bullet Train not long ago, and enjoyed that quite a lot.
It's hard to imagine retiring without National Health Care, so that either means my answer is one of the many excellent countries that have it, or right here in the Bay Area, grimly cobbling things together, working part time until I keel over.
2. Do you play online multiplayer games?
"no" quoth Microbie, and me.
3. What is the longest you have ever slept?
Easily 15 hours, maybe more? But with bathroom wakenings, sigh.
4. Who was the last person you called?
I called my sister yesterday, and my friend Dani the day before, and my stepmother (and father) a few days ago.
5. What was the last amusement park ride you went on?
It's been a billion years, but my two favorites are the Tilt-a-Whirl and a big Ferris wheel.
6. What is your favorite brand of pens?
Ha, I DO have a favorite, and in fact, a) don't write with anything else (my father is the same, though his choice is different than mine), and b) DO NOT UNDERSTAND why my favorite was not the pen chosen by the NYT "Wirecutter" product reviewing team. The only pen I will use is a black Pilot G-2 gel pen 07. It flows perfectly; it is neither too wide nor too narrow; it requires no pressure.
7. What is the biggest waste of energy in your life right now?
By next Wednesday, it will once again be work, this time I suspect worse than ever as I try to navigate the shoals and reefs of "independent study" teaching. Ugh.
8. Do you set an alarm to wake up?
Yes, but I am virtually always awake right before it goes off. My cat WOULD wake me up, but she is too lazy and only wakes me when she wants food.
9. What was the longest train ride you've been on?
I'm not sure which was longer: NYC to Chicago, or Stockholm to Parma (Paris might have been a stopover; I cannot remember). I like long train rides.
10. What's the silliest thing you've believed, that turned out to be untrue?
I am not sure I can come up with anything for this. My father was relentless in making me question any comfortable assumptions. One of his favorite things to chide me with was "Don't believe everything you read." He gave me a very thick kids' encyclopedia when I was four or five, as well as a giant dictionary. On the other hand, when I was four or so, and he was stuck with the bedtime story routine because my mom worked late once a week at the Madison Public Library, he listened to my pleas for a WORTHWHILE princess and amended his usual bedtime tales of Che Guevara, Bernadette Devlin, or Tony Benn (no, I am not kidding, and was I surprised later to find out that Tony Benn was not a young revolutionary in the 1960s/70s) after researching to find a Russian princess who went over to the Bolsheviks. Sadly, I no longer remember the name. God, I suppose he could have made it up, though that would be unlike him.
11. Last movie watched?
Not in a theater, mind you... but the most recent movie I watched was Shrek with a friend who had NEVER seen it, which was strange. Movie before that... (am I trying to come up with something that is not quite as bizarre as that? Probably) I watched Bullet Train not long ago, and enjoyed that quite a lot.