posted 2007/08/03 at 14:42
... American author Flannery O'Connor passed away at just the age of 39 from complications of lupus. O'Connor is probably one of those authors you're unlikely to have heard of unless you've taken some kind of creative writing course in college; I myself had never heard of her until my first creative writing professor in college asked me if I liked her work, since my stories were so obviously influenced by her. I found this quite funny considered I'd never heard of her up until that moment, but needless to say I found her work to be highly charged. Want to buy some of it for me? (Sorry, but I had to try.) On that note, let's play the friday5.org Friday Five.
1. Who’s your favorite of the Looney Tunes characters?
I don't know if I ever really have had a favourite. My sister is one of the biggest Marvin the Martian fans on the face of the planet -- I can remember buying her a huge stuffed Marvin one Christmas over at Media Play, which unfortunately was lost in the house fire, but I'd say I like them all fairly equally. If you really pressed me, though, I'd probably say Bugs Bunny just because of the similarities to Groucho Marx.
2. What have you done too much of lately?
Given the stiffness in my legs, I think they're trying to tell me that I've been doing a little too much arrow-stomping lately. All things being equal, though, I'd kind of like to get as much of that in as I can this month, since my schedule's going to become even more packed at the end of the month when I start teaching again.
3. When did you last play cards?
Cripes ... it would have been nearly four years ago, a game of Egyptian Rat-Screw I played with other Spectrum members at our weekly social gatherings at the coffeehouse near UT's campus. I didn't even start the game as a player, but I slapped in and still wound up winning it. *grin*
4. Where were your keys the last time you couldn’t find them?
I can't remember the last time I lost my keys; I always keep them on the same place on my desk (to the left of my printer, along with my thumbdrive and my MP3 player), so it's hard to lose track of them.
5. Why didn’t you do today everything you were supposed to?
Um, the day's still too young for me to know whether or not I did everything I'd set out to do at the start of the game, but if I don't get to everything, it'll probably be because I decided to go brave 90-degree weather to stomp arrows in the garage again.
stomping arrows... is that... could it be... DDR???
:-)
Very enjoyable five.
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