The survey of sevens

[semperfiona]

Thanks to tafkar

Seven things that scare me:
- Ladders
- My parents
- Stairs
- Meeting people
- Making telephone calls
- Writing
- Getting old(er)


Seven things that make me laugh:
-.Bad puns
- Amber game quotes
- Rosa dressing herself
- Jen
- Chris
- "Making circles": Chasing Rosa in circles around an empty bedroom
- Red Dwarf

Seven things I love:
- Rosa
- Amber gaming
- My friends
- Dining out
- Cryptic crosswords
- Thunderstorms
- Traveling

Seven things I hate:
- Cleaning
- Intolerance
- Cockroaches
- "Increased airline security"
- Licorice
- Proselytizing
- Humidity

Seven things I don't understand:
- Ray
- Conventional feminine behavior
- Homophobia
- Nationalism
- Monogamy
- Differential equations
- The disconnect between my intellect and my spirituality

Seven things in my computer area:
- Artist Tigger
- Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
- Cold mug of coffee
- Pictures of Rosa
- Birthday cards
- Plants
- Christmas decorations


Right now I am:
- Bored
- Fidgety
- Wasting time while I'm supposed to be working
- Aching
- Lonely in an office full of people
- Very slowly completing this survey
- Contemplating more metal

Seven facts about me:
- I'm six feet tall
- I placed 12th in the 1982 National Spelling Bee
- I spent 22 months in England, 9 months in Japan, and 3 months in Spain (in reverse order)
- I have a vertical hood piercing
- I attended the 1987 NCAA Final Four and watched Indiana win its most recent national title
- I specialized in the butterfly on my high school swimming team
- When I was little I wanted to be a gymnast

Seven things I plan to do before I die:
- Travel around the world
- Get a dog
- Make love to Jen
- Make a home with the people I love
- Walk the Appalachian Trail
- Write a book
- Visit a nudist resort

Seven things I can do:
- Speak Spanish
- Cook
- Sew
- Home repair and maintenance
- Play pinochle, euchre and sheepshead
- Computer programming
- Be a friend

Seven things I can't do (but wish I could):
- Sing well
- Run more than 1/4 mile at a time
- Fly
- Be in two places at once
- Read, write and speak Japanese (I've forgotten so much :-( )
- Establish world peace
- Think of a seventh item for this list

Seven favorite movies:
- The Princess Bride
- Lord of the Rings
- Heathers
- Romeo+Juliet (the Baz Luhrmann version)
- Monty Python's Holy Grail
- Return of the Jedi
- Casablanca

Seven favorite books:
- Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber
- Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
- Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry
- JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
- JK Rowling, Harry Potter and...
- Han Suyin, The Mountain is Young
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Seven favorite music artists/groups:
- U2
- REM
- The Doors
- Led Zeppelin
- Aerosmith
- Billy Joel
- Alanis Morissette

Comments

[jait.livejournal.com]

Fionaver Tapestry rocks. I just finished reading it for, like, the seventh time in the past decade...

[semperfiona]

The seven books/series that I listed are all things I reread about once a year. And I still cry at several of the events in Fionavar. In fact, I'm to the point that I cry long before anything bad has happened because *I know it's coming*! You probably know what things I'm thinking of but I'm not going to write them because someone out there reading this may not have read the books yet.

I popped over to your journal and was very impressed with some of your posts. I'm adding you back.

*grin* And I noticed you did the sevens survey with my modification. Meme-spreading, yippee!

[indigobynight.livejournal.com]

I wanna play, if i can find time tomorrow (and remember!) The Fionovar Tapestry--god i'd foprgotten how much I loved that book!

R