the life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another

June 5: analogue

The book that I just started reading is fronted by a character who reminds my best friend of me (in some ways). This sense that she'd detected my analogue in literature led her to ask if I'd read any of the series, and me to give it a try. So far (three chapters into book one of seventeen!), so good!

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1. In the middle of the night, you get an urgent call from your best friend in 3rd grade. You haven’t talked to him or her in years. Something terrible has happened. What is it and why is he/she calling you?
   the sort of funny thing about this is that my best friend in 3rd grade is still a good friend of mine. We don't see each other terribly often--she lives on the other side of the state to the north, and has a job and family and a real life, just like I do--but when we do get together, we have a good time in a way that I do with no one else that I know outside of my family. We've known each other for so long that our histories overlap, and our current awareness is naturally colored by our mutual pasts. Although we are grown women who have, between us, three children and nearly forty years of marriage, we also remember things about each other that literally no one else on the planet would know, and we also know why some of it is still important.
   So if she was calling me in the middle of the night (which she could do, see, 'cause my number's been in her phone since a time long before cell phones, just like hers has been in mine), it truly would be an urgent call, and I would answer it, and I would react as if it were urgent for me, too. And it would be. That's what friends like her are all about.
2. If you were designing the human body, would you stick with red blood or would you go with a flashier or at least different color?
   
   I think I would go with something more soothing, like a deep indigo blue
3. What's your best method for getting someone's attention?
   
   that definitely depends upon the reason for which I require attention. I'm not typically an attention-needing person, really. (Just ask the two people who jumped out of their skin today when I "snuck up behind them" at work; just because I don't wear a flea color with bells on it does not mean that I "sneak"!) So I suppose I could just say that my best method for getting someone's attention is by being myself. It seems to work whether I want it to or not—and when it doesn't work, it doesn't work no matter what I do, so why exert any special effort?
4. Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.
   
   
   Public Domain Photo
   that looks like the sort of blank notebook that I use for writing my personal journals. It makes me think that maybe I should start scanning in a few pages every day, just to see what y'all think...
   ...just kidding!

[from the source; the title quotation is by James Matthew Barrie]