Rainy day

Dark, cool, rainy. I love days like today. They make me want to curl up with some good coffee and a good fantasy novel and just read for hours.

I have good coffee. I have Neil Gaiman's American Gods. But I am [sob] at work.

Oh well. Guess I get to curl up with Photoshop.

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In other news, I've nabbed a survey from brighidestone.

Five Items I Have Brand Loyalty To:

1. Keds
2. Peet's Masala Chai loose spiced tea
3. Barilla pasta
4. Aphogee hair glosser
5. Clinique toner

Five Snacks I Enjoy

1. Pretzels
2. Chocolate, the darker the better
3. Mixture of dried cherries and golden raisins. Better yet, add chocolate chips.
4. Toast with butter
5. Fritos

Five Things I Would Buy With $1000

1. iPod
2. Palm
3. Stereo, except then I'd still have to keep the old one because it makes me feel secure to know that I have a turntable and could play 'Carly and Lucy Simon Sing The Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children' if I really wanted to.
4. Some fancy-schmancy Fruit of the Month Club
5. DVD player


Five Turn-Ons

1. Puns
2. A diagonal way of looking at the world
3. Brown eyes
4. Skill at deep-level conversation
5. Bisexuality

Five Turn-Offs

1. Rudeness to waitresses and other service people
2. Bigotry
3. Refusal to accept the judgment of nature as to hair loss (male) or actual contours of lips (female)
4. Obsessed with weight, own or others'
5. Not much interested in conversation on a topic such as "What's going to happen if they discover crows are sentient?"

Five Locations I'd Like to Run Away To

1. Scotland (don’t even know the country well enough to specify a region)
2. Point Reyes National Seashore, California
3. Asheville, North Carolina
4. Salem, Massechusets
5. San Francisco


Five Bad Habits I Have

1. Leaving shoes on the living room floor
2. Wasting work time playing on the internet
3. Leaving everything until the last minute
4. Staying in my office without human contact
5. Hiding from conflict

Five Good Habits I Have

1. Keeping very organized files
2. Paying bills on time
3. Exercising
4. Saying "I love you" often
5. Making time every week for writing

Five Things I Would Never Wear

1. High heels
2. Fingernail polish (though, oddly, I'm quite fond of polishing my toenails)
3. Miniskirts
4. Sweatshirts with teddy bears or other "cute" clothes
5. Anything yellow. Makes me look dead.

Five (current) TV Shows I Like

I ... uh ... don't really watch television. Making my choice of hobbies even odder.