Category Archives: quizzes and lists

1. Pre-sliced bagels. Why are the halves always uneven? These things get toasted, people! I don’t want one extra crispy half and one raw one!

2. Continuing morning sickness. Hello, I’m in month NINE. Now would be the time for this to stop.

3. The weather. It’s freaking gorgeous outside today. Where am I? Oh, that’s right – stuck in my stupid gray cubicle until sundown. Yippee.

4. Springing forward. Man, do I hate Daylight Savings Time. I need that extra hour, dammit!

5. General lassitude. My get up and go got up and went, and I don’t think it’s coming back.

Grrrrrr.

Still having puking episodes in week 32.

At least I made it to the bathroom on time. Throwing up at work has got to be one of the worst things, ever. Plus, now I’m hungry AND nauseated. Feh.

I love book memes. This one’s from ABDmom; here’s how it works.

Bold the books you’ve read.
*Star the titles you own or you’ve read more than once.*
Italicize the books you plan to read or books you have read in part.
Strike out any books you have no interest in reading.
??Use question marks to indicate titles/authors you’ve never heard of??

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (but I wish I hadn’t)
*The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger*
*The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams*
*The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald*
*To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*
??The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger??
*His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman*
*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling*
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story – George Orwell
*Catch-22 – Joseph Heller*
*The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien*
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon*
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
*Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen*
1984 – George Orwell
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling*
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garci­a Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
*The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold*
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
??The Secret History – Donna Tartt??
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
*Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte*
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
*The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis*
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
??Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell??
*The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien*
*Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte*
??Good Omens – Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman??
*Atonement – Ian McEwan*
??The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon??
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
*The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood*
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Dune – Frank Herbert

Feel free to consider yourself tagged if you like this sort of thing.

Ali made me do it!

Four jobs I’ve had:
1. Waitress at the local greasy spoon cafe. Average tip: $0.50.
2. Housekeeper for the Super 8 Motel. You don’t even want to KNOW what gets left in those rooms. Naaaaaasty.
3. Telemarketer – raising money for the DNC. I used to up my bonuses by putting on the local accent of whatever region of the country I was calling. People will give you more money if you sound like them!
4. Professor at a small liberal arts college. Which I sure hope I can do again, someday soon …

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Sixteen Candles
2. Caddyshack
3. Bowfinger
4. Raising Arizona

Four places I’ve lived:
1. Athens, GA
2. Salzburg, Austria
3. London, UK
4. Santa Barbara, CA

Four TV shows I love:
1. Grey’s Anatomy
2. Lost
3. Arrested Development (sigh)
4. The Office (both versions)

Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. Bellagio, Italy
2. Inverness, Scotland
3. Long Beach, Ontario
4. Prague, Czech Republic

Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Chocolate malts
2. Mr. Squab’s grilled cheese sandwiches
3. Palak Paneer
4. Fried catfish and cheese grits. Mmmmmm …

Four sites I visit daily:
1. Bitch, PhD
2. DaddyTypes
3. Dooce
4. Bookslut

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Bellagio, Italy
2. Accepting the check from my winning Powerball ticket
3. At home, packing and getting ready to move
4. On a cruise ship sailing the Medditerranean

Four bloggers I am tagging:
1. Activist Monkey
2. St. Pauly Girl
3. Gomer
4. Christopher or Matt

1. Poking my finger 4 times a day. It hurts.

2. Never being comfortable when I sleep.

3. Heartburn, heartburn, heartburn.

4. Not enjoying food, really, ever. I eat only because if I don’t I’ll feel sick.

5. Backaches.

Grrrrrrrrr.

Go read this.

Then go buy one of these.

Because, really: anyone who can pick on the American Girls is just sad.

1. All-Bran oatmeal raisin bars

2. Citrucel fiber tablets

3. Grapenuts (2 bowls)

4. Fiber One & Wheat Chex (one bowl)

5. Bran muffins (3)

6. Raw fruit (about a bushel, give or take)

Result, to date: Diddly. I think this moves me beyond irregularity into some fourth dimension of constipation. I may have super powers. Really, really gross super powers.

1. Juicy Juice in either cherry or grape. No other flavors will do.

2. Ginger flavored Altoids. They’re so hot they just about blister the inside of my mouth, but they temporarily make the nausea recede.

3. Warm kitties snuggling up next to me in bed.

4. Raw fruit, especially watermelon and red grapes.

5. Chicken broth. Just broth. Noodles, vegetables, anything healthy or filling makes me feel sick.

6. Swanson’s chicken pot pie. Occasionally.

7. Glaceau Vitamin Water in Essential Orange. Thank god the convenience store in my office building keeps this in stock, because some mornings it’s all that comes between me and the porcelain god.

8. A nice husband who gets and prepares all of the above on request.

UPDATE: In reviewing this list, I realized that it looks like I’m some kind of paid endorser for several national brands. Gross. It’s just that the *particular* flavor and composition of said items is so key – other kinds of juice, breath mints, and pot pies simply won’t do. Add one more sucky thing to the first trimester suck list – it’s turning me into a capitalist whore!