71. I turn into a pumpkin and promptly fall over asleep, wherever I may be, by 10 o’clock every evening.
72. Seriously, I don’t drive after nine because I fall asleep behind the wheel, too.
73. Hubby and I are having an in-home film festival this summer. We just finished Citizen Cane, Godfather 1 and Dog Day Afternoon. On to Annie Hall.
74. The last movie we saw out together was “Freaks” at MSU
75. My current favorite song is “Lover’s Cross” by Jim Croce; I have no idea what it means but last night I listened to it 5 times. I’m enjoying it too much to stop and listen to the lyrics.
76. I can’t remember how to set a table. I’ve been shown numerous times and I’ve looked it up in the Joy of Cooking numerous others. But when I have to actually do it I become strung up with anxiety and guess with my fingers crossed. Don’t tell my Aunt Charlotte. Her kids have been able to set a table since they were 3 1/2.
76. I’m taking a class at the local community college in Photoshop this fall.
77. Recently I walked two blocks in the pouring rain without gear because I thought it would be sexy, back-to-nature, spontaneous. I was wrong. So, so wrong.
78. My GenreJumps have included Westerns, teen lit, Christian fiction, classics, sea novels, adventure stories and old-fashioned science fiction.
79. Someday I’d like to jump into little-old-lady mysteries, fantasy, preschool books and self-help.
80. I’m currently reading Rabbit, Run; Living Without Electricity (about the Amish); and Churchill by Manchester.
81. My favorite gems for jewelry are black pearls, jade and moss agate.
82. Best advice I ever got: Try everything twice. Three times if you don’t like it, just to be sure it isn’t an acquired taste so you don’t miss out.
83. My favorite reference tool is a phone book.
84. My favorite actress is Susan Sarandon.
85. If they make a movie out of Atlas Shrugged, I vote her for Dagney
86. My favorite metropolis is Washington, D.C.
87. Today my Internet connection at work was down for so long I resorted to washing my desk down for the first time since I took the job 16 months ago. The net was down for a really long time.
88. I have three translations of the Quran in the house and three versions of the bible.
89. Yesterday morning at 6:30 a.m. I was cleaning gutters in a downpour with hubby while the basement flooded. You?
90. I make outstanding tomato soup.
91. I’m afraid I’ll kill people if I make jelly by not sealing the jars properly so I have to beg home-made jam off of others. hint.
92. I was the only 5th grader in my elementary school who wouldn’t do a round-off off the balance beam. I would still. not. under any circumstances. do a round-off off the end of a frickin’ balance beam.
93. I once worked as a tele-surveyer (like a telemarketer only we did surveys).
94. I don’t actually, om, care for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
95. I use a green pen for everything so I know my papers wherever they may roam. Plus green has that cheerful thing going.
96. I only owned one pair of jeans ages 13-18. I wore dresses and skirts every day.
97. My father is a latter-life convert to Buddhism
98. Removed to protect the privacy of the SnakeLadyLibrarian.
99. I am a slave to the fashion rule of summer: I don’t wear white before Memorial Day or after Labor Day.
100. I believe in crumple-horned snorkaks
Confession re: 94 – I am a librarian and I have NEVER READ the Lord of the Rings trilogy, nor do I plan to read it.
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