posted 2007/08/10 at 20:26
... of Jimmy Dean. Rock on. On that note, let's play the Friday5.org Friday Five!
1. You’ve always wished for it, and your wish has come true: There’s now a twenty-fifth hour in the day, but you have to spend it the same way every day on something you don’t have enough time for now, and it can’t be for sleep. How will you spend this extra hour every day?
Writing. Probably for more personal stuff than stuff for money, but still, I never have enough time to write these days.
2. As if that weren’t enough, an extra day has been added to the calendar, and you can insert it anywhere you want, except the day immediately before or after a holiday, and you have to spend it the same way every year. How will you spend this extra day each year, and when on the calendar will it appear?
I'd probably put it at the start of November so I'd have an extra day should I ever attempt to do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I may actually do that this year, now that I don't have classes (as a student) to worry about.
3. Someone is giving you an extra twenty dollars per week (or its equivalent, if your country uses a different monetary unit) to spend any way you want, but you have to spend it the same way every week, and it has to be on yourself (no charity or gift-giving, and no investing or saving!). How will you spend this extra twenty dollars per week?
Given how little I've played dance games at the arcade lately, and how much I've enjoyed doing so lately, I'd spend the money on both quarters/tokens and gas money. These days, the latter would probably end up costing me more.
4. Wow! When you woke up this morning, you noticed that someone snuck in and added a new room to your living space! The room is for your exclusive use, and it can serve only one FUN function (and it can’t be used as a bedroom or storage). What fun activity will be reserved for this new room?
I don't know if writing would count as a "fun" activity, and even if it did I find that I write better when I switch locations frequently (inside of the house, outside of the house, a coffeeshop). I'd definitely like a more climate-controlled room than the garage for doing stompity at home, though, so let's say a dance game room.
5. A magic backpack appears at your doorstep. It will hold any one thing you can normally carry by yourself, it will render that item weightless, and it will collapse to the size of a small pack of gum. What will you carry in it?
I can't say that I travel light, but my purse is hardly that heavy, and the only things I usually travel with that I don't put in my purse are tissues and my cell phone. I guess my Xbox is sometimes a pain to carry down to the garage, so let's say that.
(Geez, what's with all the writing and dance game answers today?)
1. I can't even plan how I spend the hours I have now, so I have no idea what I'd do. Probably waste it on a computer, like I'm doing now.
2. The end of June, so I have another day of being a year younger than I should be.
3. Eat at one of those awesome Yokohama hotel breakfast buffets once a week.
4. Hire a wizard from Harry Potter who could make it into my own Room of Requirement.
5. I would put my regular backpack inside of this backpack.
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