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2:12 p.m. Sunday, November 25, 2001

Friday Five

y'know, this holiday weekend thing has my day references all screwed up. i tried to do the FF on Wednesday, because it was the end of the workweek. surprisingly (not), there was no list that day. and then i lost track of when Friday really happened. so, shamefully late, here are my Friday Five.

1. What was the last book you read? Did you enjoy it?

i'm usually reading four or five books at any given time. currently on the rotation: Best Spiritual Writing 2001, Lord of the Rings, and Lost by Gregory MacGuire (a local boy!). last book i finished? The Hobbit. it was such a pleasure to reread that after ... well, we won't talk about how many years.

2. What's your favorite book of all time?

only one? geez... can't do it. i can't pick out just one. there are plenty of books and authors that mean a lot to me.

3. What's the worst book you've ever read?

hrm. good question. probably some dime store novel with bad plot and worse character development. there are so many good books to remember that i couldn't name one really bad one.

4. What book that you've read would you most like to see adapted into a movie?

lessee... how about anything by Arturo Perez-Reverte? wonderful Spanish writer who creates fabulously textured novels.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

2:04 p.m. Sunday, November 25, 2001

mmmm... cinnamon.

hee! didn't even think about it until a friend observed that the outpost had gone caramel - this is a good set of colors for a blog/journal with a pastry name, eh?

11:26 a.m. Wednesday, November 21, 2001

because i live in the dark and they feed me sh...

ah, yet another mindless diversion online. and (big surprise) i had to take the test, just to see.

g'wan. click it. you know you want to. you want to take the test and see if you can do better than a mushroom.

8:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 20, 2001

RSI by any other name

overheard: 'you're religiously ergonomic.' *giggle* which makes sense. we all try to find what fits. still makes me laugh to hear it described that way.

7:57 p.m. Tuesday, November 20, 2001

pulled *that* one out of nowhere!

i was watching a woman the other day who reminded me of an actress who was on a medical show. her face and hands looked familiar, in particular her sideways smile. i must have glanced over a hundred times, sometimes staring blatantly, madly scrambling to remember the name of the film she had directed (the actress, not the woman to my left). finally! Christine Lahti. that's who she looked like. *phew* isn't it always a relief when you can solve one of those little puzzles?

7:56 p.m. Tuesday, November 20, 2001

i send my shirts out to a service.

i finally succumbed and bought an American flag pin for my backpack. as i was unwrapping it, i saw the words 'Made in China' on the label. anyone else see the irony in this?

7:53 p.m. Tuesday, November 20, 2001

*hums softly to self*

i was finishing up The Hobbit last week, and started humming Adeste Fideles as i read the song at the end of the book (The road goes ever on and on...). it bugged me enough that i finally broke out the hymnal and played it once or twice. sure enough, the song in the book fits the music to Fideles pretty exactly. confirms that there was some level, conscious or otherwise, of Christian imagery used in the book, at least to my mind.

7:52 p.m. Tuesday, November 20, 2001

Integrity Hits a Roadblock

no comment on this, really. just an editorial page title that caught my eye.