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25 September 2007

I am, X5 List five things you are doing as you read this post. →[More:] For example:

1) I am listening to The Hold Steady.
2) I am drinking bourbon.
3) I am being driven to my knees by kitty farts.
4) I am hoping that the bite kitty gave me earlier today when I was trying to give him a pill is not as infected as I think it might be.
5) I am admiring the (full?) moon through a veil of clouds.

Your turn.

post by: bmarkey at: 02:54 | 33 comments

1. Smoking
2. Drinking Strongbow (cider), about to switch to vodka
3. Listening to The Replacements' 'Tim', thinking of following it up with my friends' new punk album (The Furies). Who knew 50 year olds could punk out so hard?
4. Sitting in my friend's apartment in Vancouver missing my island shack in the woods
5. Looking forward to seeing They Might Be Giants tomorrow night, with a couple of my island friends

re: kitty bite: hydrogen peroxide is your friend. use it liberally. pour it on, rub it in, whatever you have to do. not rubbing alcohol, peroxide.

posted by elizard 25 September | 03:19

1. I am drinking lucozade.
2. I am trying to remember last nights dream.
3. I am getting ready to add an "individual contract profitability breakdown" to the contract maintenance screen.
4. I am reading about making barbecue machines.
5. I am getting annoyed that I'm the only person in the office.

posted by seanyboy 25 September | 03:25

Did the peroxide. Am concerned that we didn't do it enough.

posted by bmarkey 25 September | 03:29

1. sitting at my kitchen table in the sunshine
2. admiring my flowers
3. ruing the six glasses, two mugs, two small plates, one dinner plate, one bowl, one frying pan, three knives, four spoons, three forks, two spatulas that need to be washed.
4. drinking coffee
5. plotting how to acquire several large Benjamins for the house

posted by taz 25 September | 03:52

It's all about the Benjamins with you isn't it taz. :)

posted by seanyboy 25 September | 03:59

I am, as we speak,
1. sitting in the library;
2. working on a paper (due on Monday);
3. drinking Pepsi Max;
4. downloading an assload of D&D books over BitTorrent;
5. reading MeCha.

posted by Daniel Charms 25 September | 04:06

1. Fighting a sinus infection;
2. Going through a bunch of Lithuanian receipts so work will reimburse me for a visa run;
3. Putting on my socks;
4. Deciding whether to eat the pasta now by heating it up in a frying pan, or take it into work and microwave it;
5. Avoiding going into work as I don't have class until 4:40 and it's only noon now.

posted by mdonley 25 September | 04:11

1. Reading MeCha from home, just for a change. It has pictures on the front page here!
2. Trying to get the kids to tidy their room, not very successfully (perhaps because of #1)
3. Just finished washing the dishes
4. Drinking coffee
5. Wondering what a Benjamin is.

posted by dg 25 September | 04:31

yes, seanyboy! I'm a material girl living in a plant material world. Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me... I think they're okay. If they don't give me properly fertilized soil I just walk away.

also... update!

1. considering getting dressed
2. admiring my ~~flowers~~ sparkly clean kitchen
3. plotting to buy mushrooms
4. drinking ~~coffee~~ even more coffee
5. hoping the plant guy calls back soon

yes, it's a rollercoaster here; plz send valium

posted by taz 25 September | 04:40

dg, I was just too lazy to try to figure out the plural of "ficus".

posted by taz 25 September | 04:47

ficuseseseses?

posted by dg 25 September | 04:49

well, Taz, in Spanish a Benjamin, accent on that i, is the little bitty tiny bottles of champange, named after Benjamin in the bible who was the littlest brother , get it?

so you made perfect sense to me (I'm the one who has Bailey's for breakfast remember?)

posted by Wilder 25 September | 04:57

that was not me seeing double, honest, don't know what happened!
1. have just harvested the first 7 of my tomatoes (what an awful year!)
2. am working from home in my Jammies, YaaY!
3. am still contemplating the unpacking from last Sunday, I'll get there....soon...honest...
4. now thinking I've run out of Bailey's...
5. and Benjamines
;)

posted by Wilder 25 September | 05:01

ficii? ficia? ficae? ficum?

and yay, bitty bottles of champagne! Something worth plotting for! and yay, Bailey's for breakfast! Let's have brunch, 'K?

Everyone in the thread is invited!!!

posted by taz 25 September | 05:02

Ficusses, Ficussen, Ficii or Ficus. Even Wiktionary is confusled.

*heads over to taz's place with 50 Benjamines under one arm and a bottle of Baileys under the other*

don't worry, Wilder, nobody but the two of us need know what you did. Well, except that you blabbed ;-)

posted by dg 25 September | 05:24

1. Smoking a cigarette
2. Drinking coffee
3. Typing
4. Wondering if it's time to cut my nails
5. Having cramps

posted by brina 25 September | 06:48

So you're my knight in shining armour! Aw Shucks, a man who doesn't kiss and tell (DG is a man, right?)

posted by Wilder 25 September | 07:27

Phew! on profile preview...

posted by Wilder 25 September | 07:28

1. Drinking black coffee.
2. Recovering from the flu.
3. Trying to stay awake.
4. Trying to breath.
5. <I think that 4 is the limit of my capabilities right now>

posted by octothorpe 25 September | 08:04

Drinking coffee
Texting my son to tell him I got Halo 3 (suck it haters)
Admiring my ankles
Contemplating jello-wrestling Wilder for dg
Uh....typing this while I text my son is damn near impossible so I'm going to stop typ

posted by iconomy 25 September | 08:21

1) Drinking water
2) Digesting an English muffin
3) Contemplating starting another load of laundry
4) Translating a horrid brief concerning obscure fine points of Mexican constitutional law
5) Researching terms related to aforementioned shitty brief

posted by msali 25 September | 09:13

1) Charting the difference between expected losses as calculated by the old system and the new.
2) Reading over a couple days' worth of wagon-circling judgment, astonished at the ringleader's short memory.
3) Pondering failures in parenting.
4) Looking at a picture of me with my friends cat Mina, may she rest in peace.
5) Wishing I was somewhere else, inside and out.

posted by Hugh Janus 25 September | 09:26

1) Reading articles about leptin
2) entering serum luteinizing hormone concentration data into a spreadsheet
3) working out whether we will actually be able to move to New Zealand in 9 months
4) counting sleeps (3!) until we head to the UK
5) scratching my mosquito bites

posted by gaspode 25 September | 09:33

(I will not drink coffee ever again. I tried it (decaf even!) this morning after a long hiatus and now I feel like crap - really fidgety and blah. )

posted by iconomy 25 September | 10:17

1. Drinking green tea (that bottled Lipton stuff that's filled with HFCS, thus negating any possible health benefits)
2. Watching mom sleep on the coach beneath a quilt piled high with sleeping cats
3. Contemplating having a cigarette on the deck and watching two crows in the backyard squabble over the crusts of this morning's toast
4. Putting off vacuuming until everyone's awake
5. Listening through headphones to Beethoven's Sonata for Piano and Violoncello in G Minor, Opus 5, #2, Adagio Sostenuto Espressivo, performed by Simca Heled and Simone Dinnerstein, and pretending to know what any of that means. Sure is purty, though.

posted by BitterOldPunk 25 September | 10:20

I am
1) Making Excel charts of data I gathered "in the field" last year
2) Drinking a can of diet coke
3) Recovering from the Flaming Lips show last night
4) Favoring my bum ankle, which I punished at the Flaming Lips show last night
5) Thinking about lunch, only 1 hour away.

posted by muddgirl 25 September | 10:29

*Getting sad about the idea of gaspode moving to NZ in 9 months
*Eating cereal
*Thinking about what to wear tomorrow
*Wondering when I should go to the grocery store
*Trying to get my mind back into working mode

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 25 September | 10:37

1) Eating a wheat lavosh, egg & cheese breakfast burrito thingie.
2) Drinking a nice big latte. Coffee is my friend.
3) Lying across my bed with my puppy curled up at my feet and occasionally licking my toe.
4) Getting ready to skype my friend in London and hear all about her daughter winning a handwriting contest.
5) Dreading today's work day & wishing I could stay in bed with my puppy curled at my feet.

posted by miss lynnster 25 September | 10:47

Contemplating jello-wrestling Wilder for dg
6. looking for a place to have some time alone while I contemplate that.

posted by dg 25 September | 17:39

1. Sending images to our website via FTP.
2. Listening to LCD Soundsystem.
3. Anticipating my motorcycle ride home.
4. Wondering how my girlfriend's day is going.
5. Preparing to make cutdowns in Photoshop.

posted by black8 25 September | 18:39

1. smoking
2. sweating
3. drinking beer.
4. overhearing Seinfeld from the next room
5. trying to think of a fifth thing

posted by jonmc 25 September | 18:51

1. sitting on the couch with Entertainment Tonight on in the background
2. waiting for the season premiere of Bones to start
3. feeling a bit guilty about not going for a run since the Run for the Cure is on this Sunday
4. drinking tea on a full stomach
5. wondering why my back is sore

posted by phoenixc 25 September | 18:57

1) sitting at work :-(
2) listening to Gary Clail :-)
3) hanging out to watch the Victory vs Roar match tonight in the opulence of the Medallion Club.
4) assuming the Medallion club is opulent, because I've never actually been before.
5) hungry.

posted by pompomtom 27 September | 20:28

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