tz's meme today.

I needed a meme. As Lali said in my comments a few days ago, this season, this in between summer and autumn season, has been really hard on me. I developed a tremor in my hand due to too much caffeine and not enough sleep. I'm exhausted, everyone is sick from allergies, I'm stressed out and too busy. Too busy to think. So I like Question Memes. And here is one for you.

1. Name someone with the same birthday as you. My friend Ron. I like Ron. I like him because he is a constant, like e or pi, a quantity that does not change. I might learn a few more decimal points but he does not change. As someone who changes a lot, well, this is refreshing.

2. What has been your favorite age so far? The bronze age.

3. Where did you meet your husband? Marguerite Hall, Saint Louis University. He was a freshman advisor. I was a freshman. We didn't start dating for another year, but we were friends almost immediately. College is like that.

4. How many children do you have? I have 3. Sometimes known as Fiona, Daisy, and Billy.

5. Have you ever sung in front of a large number of people? Only high school choir. I'm an alto. Carol of the Bells means I sing ding dong ding dong. I think that's what altos sing on every song.

6. What’s the first thing you notice about your preferred sex? That could be the most awkwardly written question I've ever seen on one of these random sets of questions. And the funny thing is, I notice it about men and women. And it's the same as most everyone, I think. It is eyes. There's a mom at school whose eyes I cannot stop looking into. Gazing. I am such a dork.

7. What really turns you off? Misogyny and homophobia.

8. What do you order at Starbucks? Haven't in a while. But my sister paid the other day when she had me go through the drive thru. And it was, as always, iced grande nonfat caramel latte.

9. What is your biggest mistake? Wow. That's hard to narrow down. Most of my stupid mistakes make good stories later. And I know the big things I regret the most are wrapped up in a nostalgic haze of rewritten history. Biggest bad mistake would have to enter into the realm of sin. I'll just put down a category: It's always words with me.

10. As a child, what did you want to grow up to be? A nurse. Like my dad. In kindergarten I made a little cut and paste poster about it. My parents gave it to me, somewhat randomly, about 10 years ago. I would have been a bad nurse....

11. Say something totally random about yourself. I sometimes sit down and watch Hoarders on Netflix in order to kick start housework. It terrifies me into keeping a cleanish house.

12. Do you still watch kiddie movies or TV shows? Mighty Machines. Big and mighty machines. Working for you every night and day, they're mighty machines. You can watch them all day and never know why, they're mighty machines. God yes.

13. Did you have braces? Yes. I keep hoping my kids get my eyes (20/10 vision) and Mike's teeth.

14. Favorite Social Network? Wednesday morning coffee with Ann and Janet and Colleen and others who join us because it is my favorite social network. Or were you asking about computer stuff.

15. What is the most romantic thing someone of the preferred sex has done for you? Again with preferred sex. I just don't dig that phrasing. The most romantic thing anyone anywhere has ever done for me...the thing that pops first to mind is last year on my birthday, Jake (yes, I'm moving to pseudonyms here because I kind of like the idea of Bridgett, Jake, Fiona, Daisy, and Billy Kennedy living in my house), anyway, last year he gave me a beautiful recurve bow for my birthday. Weaponry. So romantic.

16. When do you know it’s love? Like what Tracey said on the blog I stole this from, when you start to draw a loop on a piece of paper in a pictionary game and I say “Tallahassee” and it's the right answer.

17. Do you speak any other languages? Ya govoroo pa-russky. Ni khoroshow. You know how hard that was to write? I kept trying to use the English letters that look like Cyrillic ones.

18. Have you ever been to a tanning salon? No but one time my brother and I found a pair of little goggles from one, down in my grandparents' basement that must have been my uncle's. We wore them around like the total dorks that we were/are.

19. What magazines do you read? I read Spirit and Life, the quarterly from my monastery. And that's really it. Sad but true. Or not...

20. What is playing on your iPod right now? I don't know. I actually don't own any iProducts. Hmm.

21. Have you ever ridden in a limo? Yup, day of my wedding. Took a big old shot of something as I got in. Don't even remember what it was but I remember my sister laughing at me.

22. Has anyone you were really close to passed away? Not really. That's hard to say but really, no.

23. Do you watch MTV? Not anymore.

24. What’s something that really annoys you? People who are not what they seem.

25. Which television show were you sad to say goodbye to? FIREFLY. Those idiots at Fox. I still think about that show and then get mad. Don't even go see that danged movie. Just watch Firefly over and over and make up your own ending.

26. Can you dance? I can do a two step pretty well. And Mike and I know the fundamentals of St. Louis Swing, which is just about all we do at people's weddings.

27. What’s your favorite place in the world? Many places are interesting and exotic. The coasts of Northern California and Oregon. Rocky Mountains. Smoky Mountains. Lovely places. But I think Rock Eddy Bluff, the little cabin at the bed and breakfast on the Gasconade wins. Because as opposed to those great outpourings it is more like a spring rain. It makes my garden grow.

28. Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room? No. My daughter has but not me.

29. If you could meet anyone (dead or alive) who would it be? I always answer this question with “Nebuchadnezzar” but really? I want to meet Bridget Blake from my family tree and ask her what the truth is.

30. If you could change one thing in the world for your child, what would it be? Wow. A part of me wants to say, “erase neurological dysfunctions” because two of them have them and the other one we're tiptoeing around hoping it doesn't establish itself. But except for that one (potential epilepsy), the other two problems (apraxia, dyslexia) are really kind of interesting. So I don't know what I would change, frankly.