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May 24: logomachy

One of the things I miss about my former spouse is our tendency toward logomachy in everyday conversation. He set the bar high, and no one can match him in many ways.

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1. Which TV character do you think you are most like?
   Frylock from Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1/Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2. What time do you go to bed?
   
   somewhere between 9:30 and 3:00. I'm not terribly regimented about it.
3. What was the last meal you made from scratch?
   
   I generally make all of my meals from scratch, if that means not buying them from restaurants or plunking them out of a box to defrost. Tonight, for instance, I had campanelle with homemade fire-roasted garlic and tomato sauce with green peppers and onions.
4. What is your favorite type of music?
   
   I'll listen to almost anything, and my favorites vary by the day
5. In what position do you sleep?
   
   not sure - I'm asleep!
6. What is your first memory?
   
   when I was very little, my dad used to crouch in the shadows in my bedroom when my siblings and I would walk down the (very short) hallway in our ranch house, and when we walked past, he would grab at our ankles and growl. I don't know how old I was, but I would squeal and freak the hell out as if I was being tackled by Frankenstein, the Loch Ness Monster and the Boogey Man, all wrapped into one. It was probably hilarious. I'm sure I played it up a little because all the hysterics usually meant a treat later.
7. What is your least favorite smell?
   
   fish frying
8. It's your round at the pub and your friends asked you to surprise them. What drink would you buy and why?
   
   a bleeding brain. They look inordinately cool, they're terribly uncommon, and they feel disastrous going down (but taste fine).
9. What was the last thing you read/watched that made you cry?
   
   part of The Brothers K. It's a lot rougher on me this time around than it's been before. Not sure what's so different but it's not necessarily a bad thing.
10. They say that you learn something new every day. What was the last thing you have learned?
    
    today I learned that my fear about annual reviews was misplaced, that the top of my back is much less strong than I'd thought, and that one of my friends thinks I'm a "minx"
11. Which Literary love interests would you snog, marry and avoid.
    
    • snog: Tommy Pagano, in Anthony Bourdain's Bone on the Throat
    • marry: Jonathan Bovaro, in David Cristofano's The Girl She Used to Be
    • avoid: Michael, in Jane Leavy's Squeeze Play
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13. Paperback, Hardback or Kindle/e-reader? Which of these is your favorite reading format and why?
    
    each has its place. For everyday reading, I'm a trade paperback fan. For "permanence", hardcovers are nice. But I do love my Kindle - it's awesome to be able to carry 35 books around, in the space of a small trade paperback. I can honestly say that I cannot imagine my reading life without it anymore.
14. If you could bring back any canceled TV series for another run what would you pick and why?
    
    with the caveat that all good things must end and that I understand why it did, I adored ReGenesis and would have loved a year or two (or five) more of the exploits and adventures of David Sandstrom, Carlos Serrano, and the rest of the NORBAC lab.
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[borrowed from The Cat, who got it here; the title quotation is an Irish proverb]