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cactuswatcher) wrote2026-02-11 05:57 am
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Week 2, February
8. How often do you read fiction?
I quit reading serious fiction many years ago, when I tried my own hand at writing. Decided I just didn't need to be unconsciously copying someone else. I read the Harry Potter books when they came out, and have been reading Agatha Christie mysteries more recently.
9. This year is the 40th anniversary of the release of the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – have you ever seen it? Bueller…. Bueller…. Bueller…..
I did see the preview for it at a theater 40 years ago and decided it wasn't for me.
10. Have you ever owned a Tamagotchi?
I had to look that up. A silly electronic "pet" fad from the 1980s. No, never owed one.
11. Would you consider yourself superstitious?
The old saying is "I'm not superstitious, cause that's bad luck."
12. Do you have any siblings?
Not any more.
13. What’s the weather like today? Is it about average for the time of year?
Sunny. high 50s to high 70s. Maybe slightly above average.
14. How many flights of stairs would you consider walking up in a building, or do you always take the lift/elevator?
When I started grad school, living one term in an undergrad dorm, I occasionally walked up 11 floors to avoid the elevator, which sometimes got dangerously overcrowded at busy times. The next term I got a room in a grad dorm (where people always behaved more rationally) and I only had to walk up a floor and a half from the back door. If I happened to walk in the front door, I might hop on the elevator and ride up two floors to mine if no one was waiting. At my age, I avoid stairs whenever possible.
Going down? Never used elevator going down in my grad dorm. Sometimes trotted down the 11 floors in the undergrad dorm, sometimes rode down. Once I got on by myself and at some point on the way down one undergrad kid got on. I recognized him. He was a Freshman named Archie Griffin, already a star on the football team. Eventually he won the Heisman Trophy twice, the only person ever to win it twice to this day. I'm sure he didn't live in that dorm much longer than I did!
I quit reading serious fiction many years ago, when I tried my own hand at writing. Decided I just didn't need to be unconsciously copying someone else. I read the Harry Potter books when they came out, and have been reading Agatha Christie mysteries more recently.
9. This year is the 40th anniversary of the release of the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – have you ever seen it? Bueller…. Bueller…. Bueller…..
I did see the preview for it at a theater 40 years ago and decided it wasn't for me.
10. Have you ever owned a Tamagotchi?
I had to look that up. A silly electronic "pet" fad from the 1980s. No, never owed one.
11. Would you consider yourself superstitious?
The old saying is "I'm not superstitious, cause that's bad luck."
12. Do you have any siblings?
Not any more.
13. What’s the weather like today? Is it about average for the time of year?
Sunny. high 50s to high 70s. Maybe slightly above average.
14. How many flights of stairs would you consider walking up in a building, or do you always take the lift/elevator?
When I started grad school, living one term in an undergrad dorm, I occasionally walked up 11 floors to avoid the elevator, which sometimes got dangerously overcrowded at busy times. The next term I got a room in a grad dorm (where people always behaved more rationally) and I only had to walk up a floor and a half from the back door. If I happened to walk in the front door, I might hop on the elevator and ride up two floors to mine if no one was waiting. At my age, I avoid stairs whenever possible.
Going down? Never used elevator going down in my grad dorm. Sometimes trotted down the 11 floors in the undergrad dorm, sometimes rode down. Once I got on by myself and at some point on the way down one undergrad kid got on. I recognized him. He was a Freshman named Archie Griffin, already a star on the football team. Eventually he won the Heisman Trophy twice, the only person ever to win it twice to this day. I'm sure he didn't live in that dorm much longer than I did!