Ok, I figured it out

Quiz me

1. Favorite flower(s)? gardenias

2. Diamonds or pearls? diamonds

3. What was the last film you saw at the theatre? Pan's Labyrinth

4. Favorite fast food restaurant? Wendy's

5. What is/are your favorite color(s)? dark blue

6. What is your middle name? Alfonso

7. What is your favorite cuisine? Nathan (Marc is cool too though)

8. What foods do you dislike? tomatoes, peppers, coffee

9. What are your favorite chips? pringles (orange cheese flavored)

10. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

11. What kind of car do you drive? a visible blue Saturn S-series

12. Favorite sandwich? peanut butter and jelly

13. Do you tan easily or burn easily? tan easily I'd say

14. What are your favorite clothes? a long, swishy skirt with a pretty top

15. If you could go anywhere on vacation where would you go? Australia

16. Coffee or tea? Sweet southern iced tea

17. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? Schoolkids Records

18. Favorite time of day? 1:39 pm

20. What is your favorite sport to watch? baseball or hockey

21. Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi all the way

22. Beavers or ducks? Beavers - definitely

23. Are you a morning person or a night owl? Night owl

24. Do you color your hair? yep, it's really blonde

25. 33. Favorite ice-cream? chocoloate

26. What is your best childhood memory? catching tadpoles <--this is a good one

27. Ever been to Africa? nope

28. Ever been toilet papering? nope

29. Been in a car accident? yes

30. Favorite day of the week? Sunday

Lately

Just got out of cervical dislocation training.  This was no fun, to say the least.  What it means is that I practiced cervicals on ~10 mice.  I already knew how to do it, but we had to get officially checked off. 

Last weekend was quite a good one.  First, Friday night:  I went with Akasio (my roommate) and Alicia (my neighbor) to a silent film, Sparrows.  There was even a piano player there by the stage, playing the score like it was 1926. 

Sunday night I went to an open mic in Chapel Hill with some friends from church.  The place was a little sketchy on the outside - to get in you had to go down a narrow alley and through an unmarked big metal door - but a cool atmosphere once you got inside: low ceiling, used books lining every wall, a little coffee shop area off to the left, and a tiny stage toward the back.  I played a couple songs, and the strange artsy intellectual-type people really seemed to like them, which was encouraging.  Then we went to another coffee shop (Chapel Hill has abundantly more cool places than Raleigh) and played songs w/ my friends and some other songwriters that they already knew.  This was fun for me, since I don't know a whole lot of songwriters.  I will prob. go next Sunday also. 

Yesterday I went running w/ Jeremiah (my neighbor) for what felt like 2 miles or so, set up my computer (Josh could you help me set up my wireless sometime?), got a $1 Drumstick from an old suspicious-looking ice cream truck that came through the 'hood (prob. not a good idea), and met my friend Paul from South Africa for supper at Jersey Mike's. 

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lunch break

I'm at work on my lunch break and I figured I'd write a short post.  (My very first!)

What's been goin' on lately, you ask?  Well, not too much, I say...Friday we had a coffee shop/music night at our church.  That was pretty fun.  My setlist of the songs I played:

Home at 7:30

Baseball and Acorns

Shifting Sand (Caedmon's Call)

The Unnamed Song (no, really - it's unnamed)

Median

Emmanuel is Here (why is this thing just doing double-spaced??)

High School Band (Andrew Osenga)

Seraph and Eleanor came and listened, which was very nice of them. 

In other news, on Friday I asked James, our administrative assistant, if he could order some more scissors for the lab, since our pair was getting dull.  And what did I find just now at my desk?  Four pairs!  With titanium blades and a contoured soft grip!  James is an upstanding man.  If he decides to run for president of the USA he will have my vote.  If he were black, I would even offer to be Vice President for him.  But he isn't.