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I am sleepy and sad, but this seems funny so here goes.


here's the 5 Things Survey!!!!

5 Weird Habits:
1. I cannot stand to wake up or go to sleep at a time that is a number divisible by five.
2. I like to Blockbuster or onto Netflix and find and watch the absolute worst movie I can find. And I do this sober.
3. Random and erratic acts of preposterous silliness, including jumping into a frozen city fountain in winter, having sex in restaurants, howling at the moon, saying meaningless absurd things to people in a state of apparent urgency ... they never know how to react and I love it.
4. I like to smell really old books. One time, when I was in grad school, I got to see an actual Gutengburg Bible ... the first book ever printed. The first time I entered the University of Chicago library (well ... one of them ... there's so many), I nearly passed out they had so many books and so old and so rare.
5. at random times, for no reason, anyway, I am writing and performing plays in my head, imagining the scene, what it looks like, the actors, and giving them dialogue. I am not involved in the theater at all; it's just something I do. Sometimes, if I am getting really into it, I'll start saying lines outloud, and no one knows what I am talking about or who I am saying it too. Kind of freaks 'em out, but I mean no harm.

**** Most of my weirdness does not involve any habits. Things just come out naturally when I think/feel them, and usually if I am thinking and feeling it ... it's pretty fucking odd.

5 Jobs You've Had:
1. magazine editor
2. printing company office manager
3. freelance writer
4. pirate ship captain
5. tech writer in a steel mill melt shop

5 Vacation Sites I've Been To:
1. Germany
2. Paris
3. Black Hills, South Dakota (love it there)
4. I was in Luxembourg for an hour once. I bought my daughter a scarf and had a Luxembourgian muffin.
5. Arizona, where my parents live. and many other places.

5 Movies I could Watch over and over:
1. The Big Chill
2. Blade Runner
3. Wings of Desire
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Lost in Translation

Places I've Lived:
1. Chicago
2. Aurora, IL
3. Northwestern Memorial Hospital Psych unit (very briefly .. i won't hurt you.)
4. In my vast, often silly, often dark, imagination.
5. Um ... I spent the night on a submarine once.

TV Shows I've Loved:
1. Buffy
2. Daily Show
3. Twin Peaks
4. Samurai Champloo
5. Cowboy Bebop

Websites I Visit Daily:
1. Suicide Girls
2. myspace
3. hotmail
4. cnn and dozens of other news sites (for work)
5. Google

5 Favorite Foods:
1. dark chocolate. I eat it every day.
2. cheese ravioli (don't tell anyone)
3. pizza
4. pie
5. Someday, I would very much like to eat a pelican.

Places I'd Rather Be:
1. Just someplace I've never been, someplace ancient and beautiful with a rich history and a wealth of stories for me to soak up.
2. At my friend Megan's house. She makes me feel calm, and that takes some doing.
3. With my brother, taking care of him, he needs help
4. Chicago, back home, I really dislike the suburbs. Why does everyone have the same yellow dog? Why is everyone so phony polite? Fuck malls, and I can't walk anywhere. I practically have to get on the highway to buy milk.
5. Ireland. I desperately want to go to Ireland. Please?


5 Albums I couldn't live without:
1. The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
2. Damaged by Black Flag
3. More Adventurous by Rilo Kiley
4. Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins
5. Purgatory by The Tossers