This looked fun
1) Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says.
"concerting action for the protection of our respective national interests without"
2) Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
A box of tic-tacs.
3) What is the last thing you watched on TV?
BBC News 24
4) WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is.
13:00
5) Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
13:35
6) With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Workmen out back, tourists shrieking in the heavy rain out front.
7) When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Thirty minutes ago I went for a run, to Parliament Square and back.
8) Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
http://fantasysource.sportingnews.com/baseball/home/index.html
9) What are you wearing?
Workout pants, 2000 USA football soccer jersey, black Fubu socks.
10) Did you dream last night?
Three nightmares, and something about statistical analyses of bombing raids. That one was bizarre, especially when my sixth grade history teacher showed up.
11) When did you last laugh?
Last night.
12) What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Postcards on the mantle, a Pierre Soulages print that I will miss terribly, a wall clock, a television, and a lovely calendar from the Bank of China.
13) Seen anything weird lately?
Lightning. We never get that here.
14a) What book(s) are you currently reading?
Britain and East Asia, 1933-1937 by Ann Trotter et al
The Strategy of Sea Power : Its Development and Application by Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Vansittart: Study of a Diplomat by Norman Rose
14b) What is the last book you finished?
I seldom read books cover to cover, but last week I burned through all of Andre Aciman's Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language and Loss
15) What is the last film you saw?
Kill Bill
16) If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
A plane ticket to Boston.
17) Tell me something about you that I don't know.
Last night, strrphkrr and I cooked lattice pies at 1am.
18) If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
No matter the distance between two cities, make all flights between them last under an hour.
19) Do you like to dance?
Yeah, all the time, but not to that rubbish.
20) What is the last thing you ate or drank?
Müllerlight Raspberry & Cranberry Yogurt
21a) Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Aurelie
21b) Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Ryan
22) Would you ever consider living abroad?
Heh.
PS: Go look at nomi's latest post. Amazing photographs.