10 posts tagged “qotd”
If you could write like one fiction author, who would it be?
Submitted by Marilyn.
Jane Austen or Ayn Rand. Very different writers, but both masters of subtext and subtlety in their respective subject matter. Their essentialized style of writing is often mistaken for one-dimensionality, but these were authors who could devastate with deeply layered-meaning.
Who taught you how to ride a bike?
I taught myself. My dad bought me a bike when I was about five, and I practiced coasting down a small hill on it--for some reason, that was easy for me. I did this over and over until, instinctively, I just started peddling.
Have you ever met any celebrities? Any interesting stories?
Submitted by Tasha.
No, but I saw Roger Clemens in Las Vegas last week. See, here's the back of his head:
What's on your "do before I die" list?
Submitted by Caroline.
Build my own home.
What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?
Art History. Odd then that I majored in statistics.
How well do you know your next-door neighbors?
Well enough to know that I don't want to know them.
There have been so many brushes with fame, but I have to single out Donny Osmond.
In the early 90s he was touring in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and the tour eventually made its way to Minneapolis where I was a student at the U of M.
Mypart time job was working the customer service counter at Best Buy and, one day, Donny walked up to the counter to exchange a broken boombox--I can't recall what was wrong with it.
He asked if he could exchange it, I said "sure," he went to get a new one. When he returned and the transaction was complete, he said "thanks."
Gives me shivers.
Growing up, it's a toss up between Galaga and Centipede.
I gave up video games a number of years ago. The last one I played was Escape Velocity. Fun!
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head and
Justify My Love, respectively. These make me realize the extent to which I have never had any connection to the pop charts.
Apart from my house (100 years old), probably my great-grandfather's gold retirement wristwatch. I inherited it when my grandfather died.
