An X-Meme

From Christine:

9 lasts:
last cigarette: clove cigarette, freshman year at Berkeley, 1979. Um, we’re talking tobacco, right?
last beverage: Aquafina water. Last alcoholic beverage: see yesterday’s post.
last kiss: the wife, natch.
last movie seen: Sin City again and again on cable.
last phone call: Karen, to let her know what yummy leftovers I had in store for her downstairs. Committee meeting tonight, so I cannot fulfill my husbandly kitchen duties.
last cd played: Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom
last bubble bath: 1999
last time you cried: Karen was watching Truly, Madly, Deeply last night, and I walked in on the part where Rickman says to his wife, “Do you want me to go?” and she grabs him around the neck sobbing, “No, never,” and I got choked up instantly and left the room.

8 have you evers:
have you ever dated one of your best friends: No.
have you ever skinny dipped: Yes. Kind of. No one knew.
have you ever kissed somebody and regretted it: Yes. Elementary school, on a dare.
have you ever fallen in love: Oh, yeah.
have you ever lost someone you loved: Yup.
have you ever been depressed: That’s the default state.
have you ever been drunk and thrown up: Yes, and I won’t touch Riesling because of it.

7 states you’ve been to:
1. California
2. New York
3. Nevada
4. Utah
5. Arizona
6. Washington
7. Louisiana

Yes, that’s Christine’s list, too, but it’s still true for me.

6 things you’ve done today:
1. Took out some tonsils.
2. Took out some adenoids.
3. I WILL be working out soon.
4. Received two books from Barnes and Noble, and one — gaaak! — is from Publish America. How did that happen?
5. Ate some trail mix to carbo load for my workout.
6. Cleaned the glass on our frog tank.

5 favorite things in no order:
1. Sex, particularly sex without restrictions
2. Cooking for friends
3. Writing something GOOD and sharing it with my family
4. Spending an afternoon in a bookstore
5. Trying out a new restaurant with my family

4 people you can tell [almost] anything to:
1. Karen
2. …
3. …
4. …

Sorry. Despite my lack of shame, there really are some things — lots of things — I keep between me and my wife.

3 wishes:
1. Sell my trilogy to a publisher and have it become such a big hit that people name a new genre after my work. Alta kaka punk, perhaps.
2. I wish Karen’s health would improve to the point where we can travel together again.
3. I want my son to have a great life.

2 things you want to do before you die:
1. Travel all over the damned place.
2. Get tormented by a dominatrix with my wife’s consent. In fact, ideally, Karen would be there watching, cackling with delight.

1 thing you regret:
1. Choosing science over the humanities. It was the smart play (earnings potential, job security, etc.), but I wonder what I would have done if I had taken the other road.

Why don’t we work this like the Thursday Thirteen? If you feel like participating in this meme, let me know in the comments, and I’ll post a link to your blog below this line.

Here we go:

SxKitten’s Memetica

Kybruno’s Countdown

Kris Starr feels like an 8th Grader

Blue Gal always has the best panties

Dean takes a break from driving the back roads

WordMunger didn’t go to law school, and neither did I 

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