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arisbe ([personal profile] arisbe) wrote2003-06-30 01:03 pm

A meme from my email

1. COLOR OF YOUR SOCKS TODAY? ..... None. I'm taking a sick day.

2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? ..... Richard Swinburne, The Resurrection of God Incarnate.

3. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?..... I use a track ball.

4. FAVORITE BOARD GAME? ..... Chess, I guess. At least I remember the rules. Most of them. Some of the time.

5. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? Why Faith and Family, of course. Seriously? KMT, maybe. Do they still publish Green Egg?

6. FAVORITE SMELL? ... Vetiver.

7. LEAST FAVORITE SMELL? ... Mendacity.

8. FAVORITE SOUND? .... The horn.

9. FAVORITE SONG? ..... Russia (Lvov).

10. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? .... Kidney stone passing.

11. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? .... Is it Saturday?

12. FAVORITE COLOR? .... Chartreuse.

13. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? .... Depends on who is calling.

14. CURRENT CHILD'S NAME? .... Srsti Bridget. A boy would have been Thomas Bharadwaj. (Maya vetoed Peregrine Polycarp Purcell.)

15. WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IN LIFE?.... The act of creation.

16. FAVORITE FOODS? ..... How much space have I got here? A place on Houston Street makes a damn fine bok choi duck. Mustard ribs at the Roadhouse.

17. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? .... For ice cream, French vanilla with the whole bean.

18. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FAST? ..... If I drove, I would drive fast.

19. DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL? .... Not frequently.

20. STORMS - COOL OR SCARY? .... Cool.

21. WHAT WAS OR WILL BE YOUR FIRST CAR? .... Private car on the New York Central.

22. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON DEAD OR ALIVE WHO WOULD IT BE? Thomas Love Peacock.

23. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? ... No.

24. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED WHAT WOULD IT BE? ... Pharaoh.

25. IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR WHAT WOULD IT BE? .... Hair?

26. IS THE GLASS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY? .... Of Booker's? Half full. Anything else, half empty.

27. FAVORITE MOVIE? .... The usual suspects: 8 1/2, The Seventh Seal, Days and Nights in the Forest ...

28. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED?.... Drawers.

29. FAVORITE NUMBERS ... 4 and 7

30. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? .... Hurling

31. FAVORITE QUOTE? .... "una salus uictis nullam sperare salutem"

32. PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? ..... Doctor John. Zmirak.

33. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? .... +Seraphim.

34. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? .... Dr. Shields.

[identity profile] canonfire.livejournal.com 2003-06-30 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
Swinburne taught here at Yale Div this past year.

What was he like?

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2003-06-30 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
And is Dick Wood still up there?

Re: What was he like?

[identity profile] canonfire.livejournal.com 2003-06-30 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
I never had the chance to meet him, unfortunately. He came in a pinch after UManchester wouldn't let Graham Ward come (grrrrr....).

Dean Wood? Here?! Hahaha. You've missed all the scandal at YDS over the last four years.

We went through four deans in three years, almost.

No, Wood's not here anymore. I think he's in Japan now.

Japan

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2003-06-30 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
It figures.

I don't keep up with the scandals. Or with the former Earlham philosophy department, it seems. I took Plato with Dick back in... oops, never mind!

[identity profile] arianadii.livejournal.com 2003-06-30 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Were you being funny about Green Egg? You seem so conservative. That magazine is gonzo for years now. I made a killing selling the back issues on eBay. :)

Either about <i>Green Egg</i>

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2003-06-30 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
or about Faith and Family (which John, who sent me the meme, edits), or both. But GE is the one I used to read -- and enjoy. Maybe I'm just a neopagan wannabee. More that than a Roman Catholic wannabee (been there, done that). As for being funny, well, maybe at least one guy I sent a blind copy to will have a small laugh at the expense of the more pious.

As for conservative, golly, didn't I catch echoes of Heinlein and Rand in GE? And isn't it the neopagans and Thelemites on my friends list who grok my politics?

Re: Either about <i>Green Egg</i>

[identity profile] arianadii.livejournal.com 2003-06-30 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You have a point. I used to read it too even though I identified with almost none of it. I guess I am quite conservative as compared to the PC crowd or maybe I'm just old fashioned. Who knows.

Green Egg

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2003-06-30 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't identify either, but I thought, what a strange and wonderful world to have such people in it, people I couldn't even imagine in New Jersey in... never mind what decade.