It’s been too crazy to post (which is one of the pleasures of having a blogmate as perpetually outraged as Stageleft). But I can never resist a good meme, and since we’ve been triple tagged, the onus is upon us.
The challenge: reveal six unimportant things about yourself.
a) I obsess about words in instructions. The word “unimportant” in this meme has cost me about a day’s thought. (In the grand scheme of things, everything about me is unimportant, but of course that would be true of everyone, so they must mean “relatively”, but what fact about myself can truly be said NOT to have any significance…etc., ad nauseam). I unwittingly killed a conversation game at our last company dinner: the topic was “what one book have you read that EVERYONE should read”, and I found the question impossible to answer - “Do you mean “our favourite book”, or “the book that has benefited us most”, or “a book, however good or bad, that everyone should know exists”, or… You see the problem? Do I mean “problem”, per se? Or am I really trying to say…
b) Given my druthers, I sit on the floor.
c) I don’t understand the idea of sports on television. I’ve never watched a Grey Cup, Stanley Cup, Super Bowl, Wimbledon Tennis or Olympic competition in my life, except when I was directing local hockey coverage thirty years ago. I just don’t get it.
d) The only province or territory in Canada where I have never worked is PEI (although I’ve camped there.) Nothing against PEI, just that nobody ever asked me to.
e) I like to cook alone. Everyone MUST leave kitchen. Just me, the food, and music.
f) I fingerspell fluently, and my ASL’s not bad.
Keeping with tradition, I tag Stageleft, Treehugger, Lily, Max, and the Pehlivan People’s Oil Wrestlers, and Arwen.
Hmm…. I was hoping to avoid this meme.
Anyway here goes:
1) I love the winter - cold, snow, ice etc. - bring it on.
2) Despite being quite a social type, I often fantasize about living alone in a cabin in the middle of nowhere off of the land and free of all societal obligations.
3) I find all and every video, board and card game tedious and a complete waste of my time. Puzzles make me want to puke.
4) I enjoy reading but will not finish a book if I find it poorly written or if my “bullshit meter” goes off when digesting the topic.
5) I think my dog is smarter than a lot of people I know
6) I like to cook, a lot
7) Socks should be folded neatly in the drawer, never combined by inserting the elastic end into the other and forming a ball. Underwear should be tossed into the drawer without folding.