Indictment of Me 2
Well, my legitimate reasons to despise Speilberg post will have to wait. It has been pre-empted so that I can bring to you, ahem, more pressing matters at the behest of another. Ah, the 'excruciating minutia' of who I am, as Elaine put it. Oh, boy. Here we go...
What I was doing:
10 years ago:
I was graduating from high school. I continued to work a part time job as a stocker at a local grocery store throughout the summer before I headed off to college in the fall. Not much more to say.
5 years ago:
I was finally in the College of Architecture after I meandered through several different career paths, including psychology, journalism, and criminal justice. I would have been just about to start my upper level studios.
A good friend of mine had just bailed out of our lease and went back to Houston, thereby eroding my confidence in whether we were seeing eye to eye in terms of our friendship. You see, it was very selfish, and I would have never done it to him.
I was finishing up a stint working as a technician at a computer systems company. They offered high-tech training that they only half-heartedly delivered, and they had me laboriously cleaning and repairing faulty keyboards. Nine months of breathing in flux was enough for me. See ya.
I was shortly to take a job working for a concessions and entertainment food services company that my college contracted out to. It was a decrease in pay and was far more physically demanding, but it gave me the opportunity to move around and kept me occupied with a variety of tasks that didn't bore me to tears. One highlight was getting to work the school's football games. They were thirteen hour days that were so chock full of activity that they went by in a flash. A word of warning: never eat the popcorn.
Yesterday: (2 days ago now since this post took so long)
Yesterday was all about inactivity. I watched the British Open golf tournament for awhile and played guitar in the morning. (I'm not the biggest golf fan, but there was some drama there with Tiger on the hunt and pitted against a local favorite.) In the afternoon, I went and ate dinner with my Mom. Afterwards, I tooled around on the internet for awhile. In the evening, I thought I might have gone out with some friends, but it fell through. It's just as well though because I had to get up this morning and drive to Beaumont to see my father's side of the family.
5 snacks I enjoy:
I can eat fresh tomatoes like apples
Pringles (once I pop, I... well, I can stop. Really.)
Cereals (it works for any meal)
Nutty Buddies (waffle ice cream cones w/ that chocolate at the bottom, very rarely do I indulge but they are good enough to remember)
Plums or nectarines (slightly under-ripe is best)
5 Things I would do with $100 million:
Two women at the same time (Office Space, anyone!?) :D
Forgive me. I couldn't resist. Now, on to the other four... er, I mean the real five ;)
Go back to school and get a master's degree in film production. Upon graduation, I'd start financing my own productions with the 99.9 mil and change that I'd have left over.
Assist family and friends financially.
Start a foundation or charity of my own that would have some particular focus.
Become a modest benefactor of the arts
Enjoy a life of Riley
5 locations I would like to run away to:
Europe (all over it if ever I can, it's so culturally rich)
Japan (I could get 'lost in translation' with Scarlett Johansson anyday)
American Southwest (troll around the desert and end up in Vegas)
Any number of islands that claim to be the exotic island paradise
Australia
5 bad habits I have:
Procrastinator
I do not have a "woman's touch" around the house
Need better exercise (recently begun to turn this around)
Not very punctual
I let Houston driving get me frustrated at time (vast improvement recently though)
5 things I like doing:
Guitar
Chess
Love art (creating it, sharing it, experiencing it, etc.)
Big movie nut
Blogging
5 things I would never wear:
For the record, Annex, pretty much everything you named applies to me, too. :p
In sum, all women's clothes
For the most part, any hats, ballcaps, etc.
Cowboy paraphenalia -- I'm no urban cowboy
Speedo, leave that to the French
Bowties
5 TV shows I like:
(Disclaimer: I don't have cable at my apartment)
Seinfeld (in syndication)
The Daily Show w/ John Stewart (funny stuff, cable though)
Austin City Limits (a live music revue on PBS)
Letterman (haha :)
Inside the Actors Studio (interesting stuff, cable though)
5 Biggest joys of the moment:
Living on my own
Vacation to Florida coming at the week's end
Trip to a casino to precede the Florida trip at the week's end (I'm a Texas Hold 'em fan)
Getting back to writing poetry -- I'm not diligent enough about it
Feeling good about exercising more
5 Favorite toys:
Guitar
Computer and, one day soon, scanner
DVD player for the movies
Radio for the music
I'll dig out the film camera and make it five
5 Songs I know all the words to:
I'm a music fan, and I probably know the words to more than five songs, so here are five that I know the words to and would recommend everyone else learn the words to :p
"Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots
"Alive" - Pearl Jam
"Teardrop" - Massive Attack
"Wandering Star" - Portishead
Finito. As George from Seinfeld would say, "So, that's it. All of my darkest fears and... everything I'm capable of. That's me."
Jerry: Yikes. Well, good luck with all that. :)
Until then...
What I was doing:
10 years ago:
I was graduating from high school. I continued to work a part time job as a stocker at a local grocery store throughout the summer before I headed off to college in the fall. Not much more to say.
5 years ago:
I was finally in the College of Architecture after I meandered through several different career paths, including psychology, journalism, and criminal justice. I would have been just about to start my upper level studios.
A good friend of mine had just bailed out of our lease and went back to Houston, thereby eroding my confidence in whether we were seeing eye to eye in terms of our friendship. You see, it was very selfish, and I would have never done it to him.
I was finishing up a stint working as a technician at a computer systems company. They offered high-tech training that they only half-heartedly delivered, and they had me laboriously cleaning and repairing faulty keyboards. Nine months of breathing in flux was enough for me. See ya.
I was shortly to take a job working for a concessions and entertainment food services company that my college contracted out to. It was a decrease in pay and was far more physically demanding, but it gave me the opportunity to move around and kept me occupied with a variety of tasks that didn't bore me to tears. One highlight was getting to work the school's football games. They were thirteen hour days that were so chock full of activity that they went by in a flash. A word of warning: never eat the popcorn.
Yesterday: (2 days ago now since this post took so long)
Yesterday was all about inactivity. I watched the British Open golf tournament for awhile and played guitar in the morning. (I'm not the biggest golf fan, but there was some drama there with Tiger on the hunt and pitted against a local favorite.) In the afternoon, I went and ate dinner with my Mom. Afterwards, I tooled around on the internet for awhile. In the evening, I thought I might have gone out with some friends, but it fell through. It's just as well though because I had to get up this morning and drive to Beaumont to see my father's side of the family.
5 snacks I enjoy:
I can eat fresh tomatoes like apples
Pringles (once I pop, I... well, I can stop. Really.)
Cereals (it works for any meal)
Nutty Buddies (waffle ice cream cones w/ that chocolate at the bottom, very rarely do I indulge but they are good enough to remember)
Plums or nectarines (slightly under-ripe is best)
5 Things I would do with $100 million:
Two women at the same time (Office Space, anyone!?) :D
Forgive me. I couldn't resist. Now, on to the other four... er, I mean the real five ;)
Go back to school and get a master's degree in film production. Upon graduation, I'd start financing my own productions with the 99.9 mil and change that I'd have left over.
Assist family and friends financially.
Start a foundation or charity of my own that would have some particular focus.
Become a modest benefactor of the arts
Enjoy a life of Riley
5 locations I would like to run away to:
Europe (all over it if ever I can, it's so culturally rich)
Japan (I could get 'lost in translation' with Scarlett Johansson anyday)
American Southwest (troll around the desert and end up in Vegas)
Any number of islands that claim to be the exotic island paradise
Australia
5 bad habits I have:
Procrastinator
I do not have a "woman's touch" around the house
Need better exercise (recently begun to turn this around)
Not very punctual
I let Houston driving get me frustrated at time (vast improvement recently though)
5 things I like doing:
Guitar
Chess
Love art (creating it, sharing it, experiencing it, etc.)
Big movie nut
Blogging
5 things I would never wear:
For the record, Annex, pretty much everything you named applies to me, too. :p
In sum, all women's clothes
For the most part, any hats, ballcaps, etc.
Cowboy paraphenalia -- I'm no urban cowboy
Speedo, leave that to the French
Bowties
5 TV shows I like:
(Disclaimer: I don't have cable at my apartment)
Seinfeld (in syndication)
The Daily Show w/ John Stewart (funny stuff, cable though)
Austin City Limits (a live music revue on PBS)
Letterman (haha :)
Inside the Actors Studio (interesting stuff, cable though)
5 Biggest joys of the moment:
Living on my own
Vacation to Florida coming at the week's end
Trip to a casino to precede the Florida trip at the week's end (I'm a Texas Hold 'em fan)
Getting back to writing poetry -- I'm not diligent enough about it
Feeling good about exercising more
5 Favorite toys:
Guitar
Computer and, one day soon, scanner
DVD player for the movies
Radio for the music
I'll dig out the film camera and make it five
5 Songs I know all the words to:
I'm a music fan, and I probably know the words to more than five songs, so here are five that I know the words to and would recommend everyone else learn the words to :p
"Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots
"Alive" - Pearl Jam
"Teardrop" - Massive Attack
"Wandering Star" - Portishead
Finito. As George from Seinfeld would say, "So, that's it. All of my darkest fears and... everything I'm capable of. That's me."
Jerry: Yikes. Well, good luck with all that. :)
Until then...
posted by ruby maser at 7/17/2005 06:56:00 PM
5 Comments:
[laughing] I enjoyed this very much. Now, about the overalls...
*This is #6 on my list of what I'll never wear (unless I'm preggers and that's highly unlikely still). My ass is just too cute to hide in those things.
About the million dollars, I should have added (and yours sparked this thought): I'd like to have my own studio/lab/storefront. It's a very elaborate set up that I've been dreaming of for-ever.
Thanks for playing!
Alright, fair enough. No overalls.
Never actually took notice of it until a guy I worked with pointed out his top three things he liked to see women wear.
Overalls was one, and I can't remember the third. But he was really specific with the second. It had to be green jogging pants (or shorts?) with a white t-shirt or undershirt. I always thought it was funny that he had a top three like that.
Yeah, having your own studio would be very cool. Camera shop, darkroom, all the amenities.
If you get that $100 mil, I know an architect that will design it for you :D
You could just put me on retainer now ;)
[expectant look]
Right, I have two cents for that retainer...
That expectant look had me imagining your cartoon face with two big eyes looking through cog-like black circles.
That would have been much easier said as "That expectant look had me imagining Ruby Maser w/two eyes"
So. I just ran out of sarcastic things to say. Weird. When're you leaving for where? And who's going to not update your blog regularly while you're away?
Man, you say you ran out of sarcastic things to say, and then, you hit me with "who's going to not update your blog regularly while you're away" :(
I resemble that remark :D
I'll be down in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area of Florida for about a week. It's a family function type thing with my grandmother in tow, so we'll be taking the drive down there slowly. The trip is more than half the trip, if you know what I mean.
On a side note, I may go from having only one eye to four eyes sometime in the forseeable future. I think constant computer usage between work and home has sapped my eyesight a little bit.
If so, I might add a monacle to my profile. :p
Ahhhhh, I was a >>little<< non-sarkastisch.
I'll stop there. I'm too mean! [sitting proper with hands folded neatly in her lap] I hope that you have a wonderful family vacation.
Glasses aren't so bad, I have some. Boys look hot in them.
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