20 posts tagged “qotd”
If you could leave notes for the future, what message would you have left in the past for today?
Submitted by Nameless.
What? How are notes from the past interesting? My head is full of 'notes from the past', ie experiences. What's more interesting are notes from the future - aliens, etc. Unless we're talking dinosaurs in which case it would be nice if one of them could have left me a note. I'm very confused by this question as probably shows.
By the way, today I've had to read some feminist philosophy. Feminists who do philosophy. Oh my god, what a bad combination. There truly is nothing worse.
Have you ever broken a bone? If not, what's the worst injury you've sustained?
Not much really. One of my earliest memories is of going up to my friend's mum complaining about having hurt my finger. She ran it under a tap thinking that it was just a scratch and was quite shocked when it split open to reveal the axe wound that went down most of its length. That'll teach her to let her son play with an axe (I simply got in the way). It's a bit annoying when I write with it sometimes as it ends right at the point where the pen digs in, but it's at least a little dramatic. Hopefully one day I can be eaten by a shark and get some real drama going.
How are you celebrating the 4th of July?
All the 4th of July means to me is that it's a week until my birthday and, because I'm working from home, I can sing the 'you can have a fishy on your little dishy' song about my lunch that I'm about to cook. Now if you were to ask me about how I'd celebrate the 1st March (St David's Day) I might have to say something quite similar, but it'd be further away from my birthday of course.
Out of anyone in your address book, with whom would you most like to have lunch today?
There's only one person in my address book who understands the importance of keeping oneself to oneself at lunch time and not chatting to silly people endlessly when one would much rather be reading a paper and enjoying a brief few minutes of calm. For the sake of lovely peace and quiet it would have to be him.
What have you been putting off all weekend?
Monday.
What is a childhood memory that still haunts you?
Having thought about this, I've come to the conclusion that none haunts me. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that nothing at all haunts me as I, like the rest of my family, am very good at just moving on and putting things behind me, except on those all-too-regular occasions that I bear a heck of a grudge against bad, bad, bad people! Take this morning for example. This morning someone once again raced me to the ticket machine at the station. She made me miss my train because she wanted to pretend to herself that racing me wasn't actually pushing in. If I ever see her again she's meat. Meat! But nothing serious that I can think of actually bothers me. Which is equally a good and a bad thing.
Past grudges include: my brother-in-law once exiting the room purposefully when I walked in (this took about ten years to properly not think about anymore except in a jokey way), my mother-in-law kicking me under the table as she wanted me to stay awake despite a thirteen hour flight and her insistence that we all go and eat chips in a Jo-burg shopping mall (not forgiven), and my sisters once pinning me on the floor and sticking socks in my mouth (forgiven quite quickly, but annoyed me whenever I thought about it for a few years).
If indeed these two sets of things are compatible, I've got them both. I'm stroppy and judgemental, but not easily 'haunted' or hurt.
What's your favorite time of day and why?
Does anyone actually have a favourite time of day?
What's your best quality?
Patience, tolerance, and unerring optimism.
Nah, just kidding.
What did you learn in kindergarten that you wish you did a better job of applying to the way you live your life today?
The absolute, Earth-shattering importance of writing bendy-topped r's rather than straight-topped r's. I'm so glad I was kept in detention (and I was usually far too good a girl to usually be kept in detention, so I knew it had to be serious) so I could learn this lesson through my tears.
The other thing I learned was what it looked like inside a boy's pants. I must say, this one has come in more useful in my adult life.
If you had to write your autobiography in 6 words, what would you write?
Submitted by mitzie.
"Even Jordon's more interesting than this."
(Am I the only one tempted slightly to at least browse her biography/probably-not-autobiography? I wish someone would leave it in my doctor's waiting room like all of the Take a Breaks, etc.)
