Breaking the internet meme by meme

10 June 2009 | No Comments

So Thursday did this meme and tagged me for it. And I read the rules and was like, well, they’re dumb, ’cause everyone has to change a question AND add a question and if this meme makes it another week around the net, it’s going to be 300 questions long. So I checked the blog of Sas, who had tagged Thursday. And I counted the questions. And discovered that Thursday hadn’t even followed the crazy rules herself. She’d been all wilful and shit. So I totally called her on it and she was like, *sigh*, and told me I had to change a question and add a question. So I counted up her questions again and was like, yeah, but you didn’t even do that. And then she was like, oh, well do whatever you want, I’m busy. And I was like, yeah, well I’m busy too and went back to wiping pollen off the window sill.

1. What is your current obsession?
This morning it was counting how many questions Thursday had changed/answered in this meme.

2. What is your weirdest obsession?
Probably my Statcounter habit. Hello, repetitive behaviour.

3. What are you wearing today?
Brown cords, green vest top, black v-neck jumper. Bright pink socks.

4. What’s for dinner?
Salmon, apparently. I asked.

5. What would you eat for your last meal?
Curry maybe, just to give the pathologist a fun time.

6. What’s the last thing you bought?
On the card: Train tickets to London when Suzy and I went to see Much Ado About Nothing at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park. Where I took this Twitpic that never arrived in my Twitter feed.

7. What are you listening to right now?
Nothing. I’d hoped to have got round to putting on my headphones by the time I got here … Ok, iPod found and songs shuffled until something caught my fancy: “Oben und Unten” by Hubert von Goisern.

8. What do you think of the person who tagged you?
When I’m working in my garden I imagine her with me, reclined in a deck chair, looking all suave and elegant, sipping a drink that has a far higher alcoholic content than anyone realises, and bragging about her sweetcorn.

9. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?

Salzburg, with a view of the Untersberg. I know what the Gaisberg looks like (the big antenna on top is a bit of a giveaway, unless of course the mist has come down upon it) and I need to learn the shape of the Untersberg next. And if I’m charge of furnishing this house, it’ll have carpet – which tends not to happen over on the continent.

10. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Salzburg, to oversee the fitting of my carpets.

11. Which language do you want to learn?
I’m really good at German, but to be better would be great. To be able to write something for publication without having to wait for someone to check it. Or to manage to ask someone “what’s up?” without inadvertently asking them “What’s missing from your life?” Or to call someone my man on the spot without telling him he’s my man on the toilet instead.

12. What is your favourite colour?
#006666

13. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?
The short-sleeved top I have in #006666 is currently high on my list. As is this black jumper.

14. What is your dream job?
Some sort of web-editing, photography-based job that pays a stinkload of money and leaves me plenty of time for staring out of the window.

15. Describe your personal style?
Pfft. I always feel that I don’t have one. So much comes down to what I can get to fit my shape – a rack that sits under my chin, a backside on which you could rest your dinner and legs that would be of no use at all were a pig to be loose in a passage. But slap on some mascara and a fancy pair of earrings and it all comes together somehow.

16. What’s your favourite tree?
Silver birch.

17. What are you going to do after this?
Look at Statcounter. Duh.

18. What’s your favourite fruit?
I do like a raspberry.

19. What inspires you?
Bright colours, portrait photography, quiet moments.

20. What are you currently reading?
The Week and “It Sucked And Then I Cried” by the internet’s very own Heather B. Armstrong.

21. What delighted you the most today?
Turning on my iPod.

22. By what criteria do you judge a person?
Whether or not they obey the rules of memes.
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