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Procrastinatory Meme

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The Infamous Proust Questionnaire 

via Fi

What is your most marked characteristic? Curiosity.

What do you consider your greatest achievement? One University degree completed and another halfway done, all while working full time.

When and where were you happiest? As a child, blissfully unaware of the weight of the world.

What is your greatest regret? I refuse to have any.

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Not sure there’s any such thing for what is happiness without some sadness to make it sweeter?

What is your most treasured possession? The darn cat. Followed closely by the camera.

Where would you like to live? France. Paris, definitely, but only for a season, not forever.

What is your greatest fear? To not know where my next meal is coming from.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? The feeling of being undeserving.

What is the trait you most deplore in others? The looking down on of others. 

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? This is an impossible question to ask someone whose faith respects and aspires to all of them!

What is your greatest extravagance? Technological gadgetry.

What is your favourite journey? Anywhere from home to distant places. And back again.

What is it that you most dislike? Seeing things go to waste, and not just physical things, I mean character and talent as well.

What is the quality you most like in a man? Faithfulness

What is the quality you most like in a woman? Integrity.

What do you most value in your friends? That they value me. Blows me away.

If you were to come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? A Kookaburra – Loud, Laughing and guaranteed to bring a smile.

How would you like to die? In my sleep.

Memetics for Friday

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I snagged this from Average Jane

50 Random Questions

1. What color is your toothbrush?
Blue and white

2. Name one person who made you smile today:
Princess Lulubelle

3. What were you doing at 8am this morning?
Showering.

4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago?
Driving to pick up some printing.

5. What is your favorite candy bar?
Twix

6. Have you ever been to a strip club?
What’s a Strip Club?

7. What is the last thing you said aloud?
Thanks!

8. What is your favorite ice cream?
Hokey Pokey

9. What was the last thing you had to drink?
Coffee

10. Do you like your wallet?
It’s  nice but it’s falling apart.

11 What was the last thing you ate?
Cocktail Bun. Warmed up in the Microwave

12. Have you bought any new clothing items this week?
No, nor the last month…

13. The last sporting event you watched?
Live?  Rugby League. TV, er, Tennis, I think.

14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn?
Buttered.

15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to?
Prue.

16. Ever go camping?
Yes. A Millennium ago…

17. Do you take vitamins daily?
Have been lately.

18. Do you go to church every Sunday?
Pretty Much.

19. Do you have a tan?
No, I actively work against getting one too.

20. Do you prefer Chinese food over pizza?
Oh, for sure.

21. Do you drink your soda with a straw?
Nope, straight out of the can/bottle/glass.

22. What did your last text message say?
I can!

23. What are you doing tomorrow?
Having Laksa with Sal.

25. Look to your left, what do you see?
TV

26. What color is your watch?
What’s a watch?

27. What do you think of when you hear Australia?
Home!

29. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru?
Drive.

30. What is your favorite number?
11

31. Who’s the last person you talked to on the phone?
Mark, the Mac Service Dude.

33. How many states have you lived in?
One in Australia, One in the US.

34. Biggest annoyance right now?
Sore Neck.

35. Last song listened to?
In My Life (Lennon/McCartney) as performed by Katie Noonan.

36.Can you say the alphabet backwards?
Probably, but why would I want to?

37. Do you have a maid service clean your house?
Oh, that would be bliss…

38. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time?
Sneakers.

39. Are you jealous of anyone?
Totally not worth the emotional energy being that…

40. Is anyone jealous of you?
Gosh, why would that be so? Except of course because I’m Lulu’s mother…

41. Do you love anyone?
Many people.

42. Do any of your friends have children?
About half of them.

43. What do you usually do during the day?
Work online, create websites, surf the net, research issues in digital culture.

44. Do you hate anyone that you know right now?
Again, a waste of emotional energy.

45. Do you use the word ‘hello’ daily?
No, usually use Hey, or Hi

46. What color is your car?
White

47. Do you like cats?
No, I LOVE them!

48. Are you thinking about someone right now?
About Average Jane because I used her answer for number 47.  It’s true for me too.

49. Have you ever been to Six Flags?
Eh?

50. How did you get your worst scar?
Fell off a woodpile.

The Next Place.

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I’ve been thinking about where I’m going to live next.  Don’t get me wrong, I do rather like my little flat, I love its garden and I LOVE the price, but I do not love that it is old and damp and that it is rather small.  So, I’m plotting my next move.  It won’t be until next year, so I’m SERIOUSLY planning ahead… but I have been thinking about what I’d like it to look like.

  1. I’d like two bedrooms, one for me to sleep in, and the other, a guest room which would primarily be an office.
  2. I’d like a bath.  I know, it’s politically incorrect to want one here in Sydney, so maybe I need to move back to NZ or to the North of NSW so that I can bathe guilt free, but after ‘a day like today’ sometimes a soak in Epsom Salts really is going to be the only remedy. 
  3. Additionally the water pressure in the shower has to be good.
  4. I’d like a garden for my patio table and barbeque.
  5. I’d like a decent stove, gas hob.
  6. I need good, fast internet coverage, preferably on cable rather than ADSL.
  7. I’d love more natural light, Lulu loves to laze about in the sun and she gets very little of it here.
  8. The flat needs to be pet friendly, as in screened security door and screened windows. (Oh and the landlord needs to allow for cats too).
  9. I need a built in wardrobe.
  10. I’d like it to be reasonably new.
  11. A garage for my car.
  12. Good Storage space, though I’m not a huge pack-rat. No storage means no junk so it has its compensations.  Definitely needs good space in the kitchen though.
  13. I love that I’m close to shops here, so that would be good in the future as well, also close to public transport, I use it so much more than I used to simply because it’s really close and handy.

Have I missed anything?  What would you look for in your next place?

Things to Do This Week.

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1.  Edit the Photos for http://www.gattopardoday.net – this was a wonderful event I shot on Friday evening.  Here are a couple of early previews…

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A viola of the SBS Youth Orchestra through the harp (which was idle at the time)
 

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Benedetto Latteri, Italian Consul General and his lovely wife.

2.  Write up a blog post on this… for my uni blog (here, if you’re interested).

3.  Begin researching my next and last essay for the semester. Something to do with net neutrality in the case of Google Books’ potential monopoly in the archive of public domain books… yeah. Messy… this is Weds and Thursday’s project down at the State Library.

4.  Start deconstructing photoshop files for a new client’s web job.

5.  Plan class for Monday night… clearly that’s a Monday job… did I mention I’m teaching elementary singing??  Not sure how I ended up doing that… must have been mental to say yes in the middle of everything else, but I’m enjoying it.

6.  Plan class for my Thursday tutorial group.

7.  Get cracking on the Actionscript and animation of my Flash Project for my other class, this will be the last assignment handed in this semester… woooooot!

8.  Go and see Angels and Demons.  Have been dying to see it and have been thwarted at every turn so far…

9.  Meet up with a couple of clients.  First one’s at 9am Monday. 

10.  Hand in my latest finished assignment.  Thanks to the editing assistance of Miss Lisa I’m really happy with it.

11.  Go and see Katie Noonan perform at the Basement on Wednesday, seriously can’t wait for this one.

12.  There’s bound to be more… but this is a promising start.  Simply having the essay in #10 done makes the whole week feel lighter… I do not love the feeling of a looming deadline…