Daily Archives: March 28, 2006

quiz time

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1.Find the book nearest you and flip to page 18 and find line 4
…Vespers, with litanies and psalms. The variable verses or stichera

2. Stretch out your left hand as far as you can, what do you touch?
Nuttin’, just air (oooh look, a flying dustbunny!)

3. What is the last thing you watched on television?
Actually watched? A documentary on Sudan. I caught just bits and pieces of 24

4. Without looking, guess what time it is?
8:56am

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
8:42am

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Frank Sinatra on my XM, the rabbits tick-tick-tick on their water bottle (nearly matching the tap-tap-tap of the keyboard)

7. When did you last step outside?
Last night, around 10pm

8. Before you started this what was the last thing you looked at ?
My Xanga subscriptions

9. What are you wearing?
Red plaid pajama pants and my ‘I (heart) YS’ t-shirt

10. Did you dream last night?
I don’t remember

11. When did you last laugh?
Last night, when Amanda started panting during the middle of Bible Study

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Pretty orange paint, a cross with an icon of Christ on it, our church calendar (also with an icon of Christ), my MercyCorps calendar (country o’ the month is India), a framed collage of yours truly, an icon of Christ poster (see a theme here?), the huge posterboard Martini glass birthday card that Ally gave me for my 21st, and a Napoleon Dynamite poster that Kayla gave me (also for my 21st)

13. Seen anything weird lately?
Living with my family? The weird things I see on a daily – no – hourly basis are too numerous to count.

14. What do you think of this quiz?It’s a bit more imaginative than your typical meme (no favorite color questions, at least)

15. What is the last film you saw?
A History of Violence – it was very…deliberate. And violent, very graphically violent. But I don’t think it was the violence that was so unnerving, but the fact that you couldn’t distance yourself from it. It wasn’t an action flick with the usual body count, it was just killing, and the audience wasn’t spared a single frame (did I mention it was deliberate?).

Good stuff, though it’s not something I’d go around recommending. Very violent, graphic/disturbing sex scenes (thank goodness for the fast forward button), and liberal application of the f-bomb. And the acting was, well, not so great. Which I think was the most confusing thing of all.

Can someone else who has seen it tell me why William Hurt was Oscar nominated for all 10 minutes of screen time? It’s not that he wasn’t good but…well, he wasn’t that great either.

16. If you became a millionaire over night what would you buy?My immediate reaction would be to give it away. Not to toot my own horn or anything, because if I thought about it for more than a few minutes I would think of all the things that I need and want. But still, my first thought is to find a worthy organization that will give it to those that need it most.

17. Tell me something about you I don’t know.
I like hip-hop.

18. If you could change one thing about the world regardless of guilt or politics, what would you change?
That people would stop waiting for our government to do something for the developing world, and realize that to see a change we need to mobilize and do it ourselves.

19. Do you like to dance?
Yep. In my kitchen.

20. George Bush
Is only in office for how much longer? *taps fingers*

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you name her?
Anna

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you name him?
Benjamin

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Absolutely. Africa is a dream of mine, but I don’t really care where I end up.

24. What do you want God to say when you reach heaven?

(what Elzabet said) Well done good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Master.

update from the zoo

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Mice: Chuck and Martin are doing well and keeping themselves quite busy by alternately trashing their cages and begging for treats. Not that the little porkers need anything extra, but they’re just so darned cute I find it hard to resist. Their round of antibiotics was completed last week, and Chuck’s eye infection has cleared up, which means that for the first time in several months I’m not medicating animals on a daily basis. Cause for celebration indeed.

Rabbits: Sweet as ever, and growing more mellow in their golden years. Peanut seems to have a very sensitive tummy, and we are still going back and forth on the issue of excessive soft poops. We switched to a lower protein pellet, and that helped a little, but not entirely. Now we’ve cut out all fresh greens in the hopes of bringing things back into balance. If all goes well, we can try reintroducing greens at a later time. They sure do love their parsley.

The rabbits are also heading into their spring molt, which means dust bunnies galore. Rabbit hair is such a tasteful fashion accessory, don’t you think?

Cats: It’s been nearly a month since the start of their raw food diet, and they now eagerly await each meal (aka, cry for half-an-hour before mealtime). Even Beeper, our old Fancy Feast-addict, loves the raw food. Considering her advanced years and failing health, we have to be very careful about the safety of a raw diet, but it seems to be doing her some good. The three younger cats are more active, and look quite sleek and shiny. But being their ‘mom’, I naturally think they are the most gorgeous cats in the world.

~ Emily, the animal slave