Friday five, shopping, feedback, etc.
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kaylarudbekShopping was quite productive in terms of finding something for my mother. The Bombay Company was having a sale, and I found her a very nice set of salt-and-pepper shakers. Now for my brother, who is most persnickety about his clothes and reading material...sigh. Although I'm not sure where my brother will be for Christmas, because he has such a crazy work schedule....
Since Mr. Rudbek and I will be seeing my parents next week, and then not again before Christmas, I wanted to have their presents ready to go by next Wednesday.
Edited to add: Called the parents. Forgot about Grandpa. The Old Man suggested a bottle of Windsor Canadian for Grandpa. The Old Man wants the 4-disk set of The Two Towers. Mom wants a Turtle Fur hat.
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neonnurse, ciroccoj, etc...
Friday Five:
1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.
1. Get all my clerkship letters sent out.
2. Get a job!!
3. Get the office totally cleaned out -- papers thrown out, everything gone through.
4. Go through the kitchen and clear things out of the cabinets, from top to bottom.
5. Go through my closet and clean it out as well, from top to bottom.
Hmm. With the plans for the holidays, this will probably all get done by the Chinese New Year...
2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.
1. M.S., a particular classmate of mine from both grade school & high school.
2. W.L, a friend of mine from college.
3. M.D.-S., a friend of mine from college.
4. My high school theater teacher.
5. B.E., another college friend of mine.
3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.
1. Speak and write Latin.
2. Sail a sailboat.
3. Fly-fishing.
4. Knit.
5. Sew.
(I only get five? I also want to learn how to dance [in various styles], how to paint, how to draw, how to blow glass, how to write with a fountain pen...)
4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).
1. Pay off all of Mr. Rudbek's and my student loans.
2. Pay off the rest of the bills.
3. Buy a lot of books, and a house that would fit them all!
4. Set up scholarships at most of the institutions of education Mr. Rudbek and I have attended. Some places would get the money with a lot of strings attached, and some would not get one lousy red cent.
5. Write books, poetry, etc. and practice or teach law on the side.
(additional: set up a program to fix the inner-city schools, both parochial and public. Structurally, then extra tutoring in reading, writing, arithmetic, science, etc..., then pay off my parents' and my parents'-in-law mortgages)
5. List five things you do that help you relax.
1. Read for pleasure.
2. Stretch.
3. Write.
4. Swim or bike.
5. Play computer games.
(additional: light candles, listen to music, pray...)
On feedback: I try to give it to writers who really, really strike me, or if I have time for it. I love getting it, of course, but I realize that time is limited, and so I don't expect it at all. I track how much I'm read by hit counts on the first and then the most recent chapter of, e.g. Vector's Challenge...*g* And on responding to feedback, well, again, my time is limited. I do try to thank my reviewers in my Author's Notes, though. And yes, I do realize it's a type of social currency, or the oil that makes this creaky social machine work as well as it does. And I should give out more of it than I do....sigh.
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You are Jacques Lacan! Arguably the most important
psychoanalyst since Freud, you never wrote
anything down, and the only works of yours are
transcriptions of your lectures. You are
notoriously difficult to understand, but at
least you didn't talk about the penis as much
as other psychoanalysts. You died in 1981.
What 20th Century Theorist are you?
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Since Mr. Rudbek and I will be seeing my parents next week, and then not again before Christmas, I wanted to have their presents ready to go by next Wednesday.
Edited to add: Called the parents. Forgot about Grandpa. The Old Man suggested a bottle of Windsor Canadian for Grandpa. The Old Man wants the 4-disk set of The Two Towers. Mom wants a Turtle Fur hat.
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neonnurse, ciroccoj, etc...Friday Five:
1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.
1. Get all my clerkship letters sent out.
2. Get a job!!
3. Get the office totally cleaned out -- papers thrown out, everything gone through.
4. Go through the kitchen and clear things out of the cabinets, from top to bottom.
5. Go through my closet and clean it out as well, from top to bottom.
Hmm. With the plans for the holidays, this will probably all get done by the Chinese New Year...
2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.
1. M.S., a particular classmate of mine from both grade school & high school.
2. W.L, a friend of mine from college.
3. M.D.-S., a friend of mine from college.
4. My high school theater teacher.
5. B.E., another college friend of mine.
3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.
1. Speak and write Latin.
2. Sail a sailboat.
3. Fly-fishing.
4. Knit.
5. Sew.
(I only get five? I also want to learn how to dance [in various styles], how to paint, how to draw, how to blow glass, how to write with a fountain pen...)
4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).
1. Pay off all of Mr. Rudbek's and my student loans.
2. Pay off the rest of the bills.
3. Buy a lot of books, and a house that would fit them all!
4. Set up scholarships at most of the institutions of education Mr. Rudbek and I have attended. Some places would get the money with a lot of strings attached, and some would not get one lousy red cent.
5. Write books, poetry, etc. and practice or teach law on the side.
(additional: set up a program to fix the inner-city schools, both parochial and public. Structurally, then extra tutoring in reading, writing, arithmetic, science, etc..., then pay off my parents' and my parents'-in-law mortgages)
5. List five things you do that help you relax.
1. Read for pleasure.
2. Stretch.
3. Write.
4. Swim or bike.
5. Play computer games.
(additional: light candles, listen to music, pray...)
On feedback: I try to give it to writers who really, really strike me, or if I have time for it. I love getting it, of course, but I realize that time is limited, and so I don't expect it at all. I track how much I'm read by hit counts on the first and then the most recent chapter of, e.g. Vector's Challenge...*g* And on responding to feedback, well, again, my time is limited. I do try to thank my reviewers in my Author's Notes, though. And yes, I do realize it's a type of social currency, or the oil that makes this creaky social machine work as well as it does. And I should give out more of it than I do....sigh.
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naomichanaYou are Jacques Lacan! Arguably the most important
psychoanalyst since Freud, you never wrote
anything down, and the only works of yours are
transcriptions of your lectures. You are
notoriously difficult to understand, but at
least you didn't talk about the penis as much
as other psychoanalysts. You died in 1981.
What 20th Century Theorist are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
