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I'm pretty smart. I'm articulate, and I try to think for myself. I hope I'm also considerate and kind. I'd say my range of experience has been fairly broad and also fairly unusual, but more on that if we meet.
My Ideal Person:
Oh, you know-smart, witty, attractive, and with opinions, and also with a strong internal compass. On the other hand, if you think you might be some particularly intuitive off-beat screwball who's made a few wrong turns, by all means write. We'll know when the time comes.
The last great book I read
Just finished Pale Fire. And Orwell's, 'Down
and out in Paris and London' was a recent great. I'm
saving Annie Dillard's The Maytrees for some summer
weekend. It seems like a seaside, if not a beach, book. My
profile title is taken from a much loved Donald Barthelme
story. Much loved like twenty years ago though.
My most humbling moment
"It must be Holy water, " I told my boss, as she,
I, and now the rest of the department... just kidding. See
'lie.' Humbling? Not just embarrassing or ego-deflating,
but humbling? Ugh. OK. Some time ago I read what claimed
to be statistical fact, that if I and everyone I've
known were to disappear tomorrow the demographics which
describe our society would not move even a single tick.
I, or you, and our extended entourages comprise a group
that is smaller than all sampling errors and smaller than
all rounding errors. We open our arms wide to meet the world,
yet encounter such a small sliver of it as to not even be representative.
I assume this is true even if I've been to Phuket. Makes
me want to get out more, or read more, or something. As if
that weren't enough, every seventh person is a Chinese
peasant. Wanna meet for coffee?
The celebrity I resemble the most
'Most' is going to be the hard word in this question.
I feel that. 'Least' would be easy. 'Least'
is cake. Most. Actually, the variety of resemblances I
have been accused of is startling. The likenesses have
come so thick and fast, and for so long, that years ago I started
to look for other reasons why a stranger might want to inform
you that you look like - another stranger. I'll spare
you the theory and give you the list someday.
The best or worst lie I've ever told
"It must be Holy Water, " I told my fourth grade
teacher, as she , I, and now the rest of the class regarded
the puddle under my desk. The cistern at the door, six feet
away, full, but my uniform was sodden. I stuck to my guns.
"It came from there. It's Holy Water!."
What could she say? We moved the desks and got a bucket. We
cleaned the blessed stuff up with a mop.
If I could be anywhere right now
I'm happy to start here.
Five items I can't live without
hm. I guess I'm a minimalist. Ask me five items I can
do without. No problems there.
Fill in the blank: _____ is sexy; _____ is sexier.
momentum___acceleration
In my bedroom one will find...
Steps to a bed, steps to a yard, and just the right amount
of casual disarray.
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