tinplatedhero

I wasn't tagged. . . I just saw that someone else did it and I felt like doing it.

7 things to do before I die:

1. Get my damned Ph.D.
2. Eliminate depression.
3. Actually go on a honeymoon with Renee.
4. Have a social life again.
5. Learn another language to fluency.
6. Figure out what the hell I'd like to have tattooed on my body.
7. Answer several unanswered questions in the essay of life.

7 things I cannot do:

1. Accept a willingness to be ignorant.
2. Let someone own me.
3. Be "normal."
4. Understand how anyone would want to read D.H. Lawrence willingly.
5. Go backwards.
6. Give up.
7. Not say I'm sorry. Although, sometimes I am utterly blind to the need to do so.

7 things I like about where I live:

1. Food. The best restaurants are here.
2. I've the best homelife I've ever had.
3. UMSL. For all my bitching, I am getting a good college experience.
4. The City Museum. If you have to ask, then you need to come see it.
5. Schlafly's Brewery.
6. The Wine Merchant.
7. The Delmar Loop.

7 things I say often:

1. So. . .
2. Anywho. . .
3. I need a bat. . .
4. Huh?
5. In other words. . .
6. Are you high?
7. <silence> <--because my damned nose is in a book most of the time.

7 books I really like:

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
2. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
4. To Reign in Hell - Stephen Brust
5. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
6. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
7. The Transitive Vampire - Karen Elizabeth Gordon

7 movies I watch over and over:

1. A Beautiful Mind
2. Leon: The Professional
3. Tombstone
4. Collateral
5. Spy Game
6. Grosse Pointe Blank
7. Blade