The Bigger They Get

Dona at Clutch Cargo Lips tagged me for this meme.  She said in her post that she tagged six people whose blogs she reads but who don’t read her own.  She couldn’t be more wrong.  I read her faithfully but Dona, I swear I’ll stop if you keep scaring me.  Your post today brought back long repressed memories of all those afternoons I spent as a kid glued to the TV screen covering my eyes and peeing myself in fear.

But wasn’t Quentin adorable?

So, six unspectacular things about me.  Hmmm.  Too  many to choose from…

1.  Re: The Above - I don’t watch scary movies or read scary books anymore.  I used to love scary stuff, especially Stephen King novels.  That ended when I read Pet Sematary and found myself terrified of my own two year old when the main character reanimates his dead child with horrifying results.  Besides, real life is a whole lot scarier than fiction and I now spend all my time covering my eyes during the freaking evening news.  And also the cable news shows.  And when driving, I’m sticking my fingers in my ears and singing NAHNAHNAHNAH during political commercials which isn’t safe since my hands are supposed to be on the steering wheel.

2. I’m so agitated by current events and all the @#f*csh!t going on right now in politics and the financial sector that I have a raging case of uncontrollable mental and verbal f*&^*Sh!tLIPsticK tourettes and can no longer &%#BitcHbailOUT* discuss any of it rationally or present any sort of respectful, dignified ^#%@gddamCr00ks&*% arguments.  Yet I can’t tear my eyes away from the train wreck that is our economy and our uncertain political future to the extent that I have to remind myself to shower and eat.  I had a nightmare last night in which all American women were told they must style their hair just like Sarah Palin’s but mine was too short.  I awoke in a panic.  I’m also thoroughly pissed that I’m too chickenshit to put an Obama sign on our lawn for fear of offending any potential home buyers who might be McCain supporters because we can’t sell this damn house because of the ECONOMIC POLICIES (OR LACK THEREOF) OF THE CURRENT REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION &*%bAsTARds$#@.

3.  The thing I love most about Shake ‘n Bake chicken is the swill left in the bottom of the pan.

4.  I read.  A lot.  As in ALL THE TIME.  Whatever I can get my hands on.

5.  I am using this meme as an excuse not to work this morning.

6.  Like Mrs. G., I have a few secret boyfriends but CHOCOLATE is my lover.  I dream of hot, steamy chocolate dipped in gooey chocolate covered in chocolate smothered in chocolate layered between satiny soft chocolate rolled in chocolate drizzled in chocolate.  Mmmmmm.  Better yet, all of that delivered by George Clooney.  Wearing chocolate pants.

Okay, I’m going to tag some of my favorite academic chickies who need to do something unrelated to things like composition and rhetoric and literature and literary criticism and textual theory and thinking up assignments and grading papers and attending classes and, and, and…well, they NEED a distraction.  So, Lady Audley, Rhetorical Twist, Teacher Poet and DocHoc, spill…Also gonna tag Nutmeg and Jen at Thursday Drive.  Have at it ladies.  Here are the rules:

Meme Terms and Conditions

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. List six unspectacular things about you.
4. Tag six other bloggers by linking to them.

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