Wednesday, August 22, 2007

These are a few of my......(another silly me-me)



This has made the rounds. I got it from Charlotte's Web.

What Were You Doing 10 years ago?

I haven't the faintest idea - living in NYC and getting ready for another year of teaching, most likely.....Actually, I was curious and so I looked it up. I didn't keep a diary but I did have my engagement calendar, on August 22, 1997 I was directing the opera Carmen in San Francisco.

Five Snacks You Enjoy:

Olives

Cheese

Pears

Walnuts

Cold leftover pasta and sauce

Five Songs You Know All the Lyrics to:

Soliloquy from Carousel

every song from Jacques Brel is ...

My Body is Walking in Space from Hair

Der Erlkonig - Goethe/Schubert

The Count's aria from Marriage of Figaro


Five Things You Would Do If You Were a Millionaire

pay off the ragazzo's student loan

buy a country house

fund two favorite causes well

visit many places - Turkey, Argentina, Russia, Australia

invest the rest


Five Bad Habits

Blogging when I should be studying

checking my traffic meter when I should be studying

not doing things I think I don't feel like doing even though I end up liking once I do them - like going to a party or doing yoga

getting angry at inanimate objects that aren't cooperative

living in the future when the present will do


Five Things You Like Doing:

making tea

walking

choosing and drinking wine

choosing and reading books

rehearsing or seeing great theater


Five Things You Would Never Wear Again:

plastic sandals

a woolen face mask

bell bottoms

a quiana shirt (it's a synthetic from the 70s, you had to be there)

a 'fro (I don't have enough hair anymore)


Five Favourite Toys:

my piano

my laptop

cool notebooks (the paper kind)

my extremely tiny planner/address book - it's 4" x 5" and YES, it's paper too

purple pens

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm, I thought that the answer to what you were doing ten years ago would be something like: "start middle school".

Ted said...

May - I guess that little lift I had did the trick, ha-ha-ha.