15 November 2003
73 things about me
73 things about me, in no particular order...
i live in germany this year
i am trying to get my ph.d
it is going slowly because i love to procrastinate
the web is my biggest time-sap, as is writing in this diary
as is reading. right now i�m obsessing a bit about walther moers� books and books on tape
i�ve also obsessed in the past about haruki murakami. he amazes me as an author
and rafik schami here in germany
so those authors i like. i also sometimes obsess about movies
as a teenager i watched far and away 6 times with a friend because i had a tom cruise thing
earlier, i had a disney thing: little mermaid was watched and watched until i knew the text forwards and backwards
this year pirates of the caribbean has pulled a number on me
i am getting the dvd for xmas from my husband
i am married to the most wonderful man in the world
we have been together for 6 years
4 years of which we have commuted
he commutes more than me
i moved to california for him
i can�t wait for this year to be over because it means an end to all of this separation mess
i am a messy person at heart, but try and contain it with occasional binge-cleanings
i don�t binge on food, but i love to eat
i have a favorite cheese-stand here in germany at the market. the owner provides me with cheese. that makes my life good
i also have developed a tea thing recently. i drink a lot of it
which means i also go to the bathroom a lot. i get up at least once a night to go to the bathroom
as a kid i always cleaned the bathroom. that was my chore
now, the entire house is my chore when my love isn�t here. when he is here, he cleans more
he also cooks more, is a better cook than me. at least where patience is concerned
i usually am patient. once i lose my patience, though, watch out
i have evil neighbors from hell that make loud noise. they need to watch out. they crossed that line. the next time i call the cops
i rode in a cop-car once in berkeley, getting a ride back from the hospital
that same night i rode in an ambulance with my friend who had fainted for no other reason because she hadn�t eaten much
i like telling that story, because really i am a goody-two-shoes
i would like to have a pair of thigh-high leather boots. not stilleto. but thigh-high black leater
i would also like to try a short haircut once, but that scares me
i�m scared of heights, that�s a recent development. especially escalators freak me out
i�m also scared of any sort of crazy action sport which no normal person would do willingly
that said, i could imagine really learning to kayak and enjoying rapids
but i�d need to get prescription goggles
because i have relatively bad vision. i wear glasses
i wore contacts on my wedding day
in retrospect i only wish i hadn�t invited one person to my wedding
no segueway here, gotta mix it up: i love traveling
i want to win the lottery or become independently wealthy somehow so i can travel more
or another job, if i decide to quit the phd gauntlet, would be to open a kitty kennel for rich people�s cats. a room per cat. something like that
but i actually really enjoy studying
i puy myself under a lot of pressure in terms of studying
i have done that since highschool, where i felt academics where the thing i had going for me
i did not go to prom, though i was asked
i didn�t feel like going with a �non-boyfriend�, whether they had any intentions or not
i should sing more often: it makes me happy
i�d be happy if i could learn to play an instrument really well. my new resolution would involve learning to play the cello
i don�t usually keep resolutions, or make them, new years or otherwise
i don�t know how to drive stick-shift. i never learned
sometimes i have aspirations to be what i�m not: glamour-girl with lots of makeup, etc.
i�ve started wearing more makeup here in germany
i�ve also started really enjoying - no, i take that back, i�ve always had a sweet-tooth. the options here are just so much bigger in terms of sweets
i hate the expression �i do _____�, especially in terms of academics: �i do theories of place and displacement�. no, you don�t. you do your homework. you don�t do place and displacement
i sometimes enjoy snooty discourse, especially snooty academic discourse. one can hide behind words
my vocabulary could be bigger
i know a lot of random, superficial facts about bizarre diverse things. i don�t know where i learned them all.
i went to 5 schools before graduating from high school. i learned something at each of them
i love trains in a bizarre non-freudian way. they amaze me
i want to be amazed by more things
i find people who know what they want to do for the rest of their lives amazing
i don�t know what i want to do for the rest of my life
i do want to settle down in a place, buy a house
preferably near a big city, if not in it
i also want a garden, because i like digging in the mud
i did do archaeology for a few years in my life
sometimes i miss that. but i don�t regret leaving it. i try not to have regrets
i also try to get up at a decent time in the morning.
usually, though, i snooze.
i can stay up late
i like regularity in a schedule,but i also like to say: naptime, saturday afternoon
which, incidentally, i am going to do now.
dandlioneyes at 3:17 pm