A Meme!

Oooh, goody! A meme! I had just been thinking yesterday that memes were so popular around 2005-06, but not so much anymore. Maybe they are on Facebook, but I don't do that.

Anyway, this one is courtesy of the wonderful and kind Ink and is a good excuse to put up a blog post without resorting to the extreme burnout bile that I've been spewing on Twitter.

1. What is your favorite word?
Awesome! Although I'm having a growing infatuation with "pastry" these days. It just sounds yummy! That, and I really miss sugar.

2. What is your least favorite word?
Cunt -- but I do like to use it for effect in certain situations, like in the Vagina Monologues. Also, the N-word and any similar word that is used as a racial or ethnic pejorative.

3. What turns you on?
Laughing like Snoopy, kindness.

4. What turns you off?
Liars, willful ignorance, willful incompetence.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
Depending on the situation, "fuck!" or "shit!" A good "god-dammit" also works.

6. What sound or noise do you love?
Does silence count? Also, Don Henley's voice singing "Desperado" or "Come Rain or Come Shine." Bells, especially the jingly kind. Trains in the distance.

7. What sound or noise do you hate?
Hateful voices. Yelling, especially if directed at me or at children. (Yeah, psychoanalyze that!) Children's painful wails -- not because of the children but because they are in pain.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Actor or linguist. Shakespeare scholar, which might combine the first two. I, however, know the dangers of pursuing the road not traveled. I love being a historian very much and can't imagine doing anything much different from it, despite my complaints (and my complaints have more to do with the load -- 5/5 teaching and b.s. -- than the profession itself).

9. What profession would you not like to try?
Grade school teacher and anything having to do with poo. The two can go hand in hand, too, can't they?

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
"I'm sorry." God does owe us a few, doesn't he? For some of his more fanatical followers if nothing else.