1. I get crushes on people (like Vonnegut) who can pull off words like "tiddlywink" and "adumbrated" in the same sentence.
2. My big "someday" dream is to buy (and live in) an apartment complex smack dab in the heart of the city, and offer government subsidised housing to artists (writers, visual, theatre, etc.). We would have barbecues, and a great big garden and nights when we rent a projector and screen and invite anyone walking by to come and watch a movie on the lawn with us. Ohhhhhh, that would be so glorious.
3. I'm painfully (is there any other kind?) shy when it comes to one on one interactions (passing the peace at church almost kills me every Sunday), but give me a stage or a chalkboard or a class discussion and, well, tappity, tap, tap, tap. I love it.
4. There is no quicker way to my heart than to talk books and/or God.
5. I wrote "The Curious Adventures of India Sophia" because I was taking a writing class through the faculty of extension at the university and wrote the first chapter for an assignment. My professor offered to publish it if I wrote the rest. So I did. Then he did. I'm one lucky ass.
6. I don't believe in luck.
7. I set fire to a telephone pole when I was seven or eight because I misunderstood directions that my dad had given me about lighting a pile of grass we were burning. He was so mad.
8. I spent a summer assembling furniture for various stores around the province. You should see me throw together a computer desk or wardrobe, now. It's a thing of beauty.
9. I spent another summer wearing bloomers, garters (and garter belt, of course), thigh high stockings, an apron and headscarf, baking bread and weeding a garden as a mock pioneer for a cultural heritage centre.
10. I climbed up on stage with the Counting Crows once. I was listening to the show, wondering how it felt up there, and so, thought I'd find out for myself. Security was very gentle with me.
Thanks Sandy.
Isn't someone supposed to swoop under my arms and unfreeze me now?
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9 comments:
The telephone pole was my favorite. Absolutely hilarious.
Where do I sign up for the urban artists' house?
I very much relate to numbers 3., 4., and 6.
I'll send you my computer desk order. How much for shipping?
You also got me to look up "adumbrated." Thanks.
The artists' apartment reminds me of a sort of story I read once, about a little girl and her tiger and an apartment house full of interesting characters.
It was great in a book - fantastic in real life!
#9 sounds way cool
Very interesting top ten, Angela. Thanks for thinking that all through and sharing it with us.
leisel- i kind of figure that giving a kid some matches and asking them to start a fire is a sure fire way to have a fire. anywhere.
deanna - you are more than welcome in my commune! what fun and being a canadian is also fairly rad.
cherie - don't ever believe there's such a thing as fiction. it's all real, baby!
AND, #9 was one of the greatest summer jobs of all time. i'm not even going to pretend that the boiling summer sun made all those clothes unbearable. it was so much fun!
Conversations about books & God are my favorites, too.
ann, i get all shivery.
I've never set fire to a telephone pole, not even once in my life. It's the biggest regret of my life.
fortunately sebastien, it's a regret that can be easily remedied, but don't bring marshmallows. the stuff they use to treat those poles is killer.
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