{"id":5798,"date":"2010-12-04T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2010-12-04T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T20:41:09","slug":"someone-has-too-much-time-on-her-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101204-5798.htm","title":{"rendered":"Someone has too much time on her hands&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not me, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>But one of my friends (Amber) has been going crazy with Facebook memes of late&#8211;keeping me well supplied for my Saturday meme posts&#8211;assuming I&#8217;ll ever get back to regularly posting!<\/p>\n<p><i>This meme was completed in the wee hours of this morning and set to post later.  So some of the information is already outdated.  My apologies, but I really do have to [groan] work today and can&#8217;t be online filling out such things (Probably shouldn&#8217;t be doing it now, for that matter.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does your third text in your inbox say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ruth is *Insert Phone Number Here*<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you online?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you wearing right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Red sweater accidentally put on backwards after trying on clothing at the used store (Oops), Gray pin-striped slacks. Black crew style socks.  Red and Gray and Black striped ankle socks over top black crew style socks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you most looking forward to today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My papa visiting me (giving me a reason to ONLY work the four to five hours I absolutely NEED to work tomorrow&#8211;I mean&#8211;today.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you THINK you like anyone?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was reminded even today (that is, yesterday) of how much I like my coworkers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever been awake for 48 hours?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is the sky blue?  I&#8217;m one thesis away from a master&#8217;s degree.  Of course I&#8217;ve been awake for 48 hours before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you listening to?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hum of my computer, the air from my heat pump, my fingers clacking on the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baseball or football?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baseball<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite kind of blanket?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Odd question.  Warm kinds.  Preferably made by Grandma Cook.  Although I am partial to my own quilts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you feel about chocolate-covered strawberries?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Excited when I see them, delighted when I eat them, and disappointed when they&#8217;re gone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Europe or the Caribbean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Europe, hands down<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is the sexiest person alive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Me in my sexy jeans. (JK!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you like the color gray?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like to WEAR the color <i>grey<\/i> (note British spelling&#8211;I learned to spell grey from <i>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i>, and have the hardest time spelling it with an <i>a<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there anyone you really can&#8217;t stop thinking about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s someone I&#8217;d like to not stop thinking about&#8211;but unfortunately my mind is wandering and all too often becomes focused on anything but Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look outside, how&#8217;s the weather?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cold.  I can see the moon dancing as it reflects off the surface of the wind-rippled lake.  The bare-branched trees are waving for attention.  And I am glad to be inside next to my space heater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you jealous of anyone right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me think&#8211;is there anyone who currently belongs to me and is being misappropriated to another?  <\/p>\n<p>Nope, I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a stickler for using the words <i>jealous<\/i> and <i>envious\/covetous<\/i> properly.  The former and the latter are NOT synonymous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you ever think someone didn&#8217;t like you, but came to find out they really did?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I tend to think that people like me.  Sometimes I&#8217;m right, sometimes I&#8217;m wrong.  With luck, I never find out if I&#8217;m wrong and thus never discover reason to think ill of said person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last time you ate grilled cheese?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good question.  It&#8217;s been much too long.  It was maybe a month and a half ago?  Debbie and Grace and Daniel and Timothy and I made Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup for lunch after church.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name something great that happened today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I breathed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you regret something today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That I spent so much time on the computer and so little time unpacking.  (How am I ever going to get settled into this house at this rate?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you think of the rainbow, what pops in your head?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Homosexual activism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How are you feeling?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through sensory neurons which detect pressure, pain, and a variety of other sensory inputs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you watch the Oscars?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did the year <i>Return of the King<\/i> won all those awards.  We had a residence hall party for the Oscars that year.  Otherwise, I never have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A&#038;E Pride and Prejudice<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you date someone 10 years older than you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Possibly<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you thinking about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What <em>am<\/em> I thinking about?  Mostly about the ridiculousness of these &#8220;would you date&#8230;&#8221; questions.  How would I know whether I&#8217;d date someone 10 years older than me?  That&#8217;s an awfully small (and relatively unimportant) piece of information to make such a decision based upon.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you lost contact with someone you wish you didn&#8217;t?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, many people.  One of my great regrets in life is that I have not actively worked to sustain relationships after situations change so that we are no longer &#8220;forced&#8221; into relationship.  It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m working on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think you&#8217;re old?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The day I turned 13, I told myself I was an old woman.  That way I&#8217;d never fear growing old, &#8217;cause I already was.  <\/p>\n<p>So far, so good.<\/p>\n<p>I might be old, but I&#8217;m not afraid of <i>growing<\/i> old :-)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you afraid of the dark?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No.  I&#8217;m afraid of what might be lurking in the dark.  (Which means that I try to avoid being outside in lesser lit areas late at night&#8211;and if I have to be in said areas at those times, I choose to be aware of my surroundings and have my keys stuck through my knuckles for ready self-defense.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have unlimited texting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you wear glasses?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you looking forward to in the next month?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being done teaching (and therefore done commuting)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not me, by the way. But one of my friends (Amber) has been going crazy with Facebook memes of late&#8211;keeping me well supplied for my Saturday meme posts&#8211;assuming I&#8217;ll ever get back to regularly posting! This meme was completed in the wee hours of this morning and set to post later. 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