The Late-to-the-Party-As-Usual Meme

I was tagged a couple weeks ago by Omega Mom to do these two memes.

First, The Middle Name Meme:

Rules: You must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have like to have. When you are tagged, you need to write your own blog post containing your own middle name game facts. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and to read your blog.

L…is for LuLu (which was The Bee’s orphanage name) and LouLou (which was the nickname my family called me as a child–from my middle name)…cool, huh?

O…is for ornithology. Birds were a big part of my life growing up. My mom is an professional ornithologist, and so I would sometimes get up at 5 AM when I was young and go with mom to count birds in the bird-thirty hour of dawn. And family vacations ALWAYS involved bird walks. It was like learning another language.

U…is for…for…well, this is the one I had trouble with. I don’t play the ukelele. I just resigned from the UCC. So, I’m going to be wacky and go with Ullapool. U…is for Ullapool, which is a cold, rainy, seaport town in northern Scotland, where I had the best single malt scotch pull of my life. And it’s high on the list of places I’d like to go back to, which is saying something, since I’ve been there before. Multiple times. But, clearly, something is calling me back. Maybe a former life. Or something.

I…is for the Internets. Where I spend the grand majority of my time lately. And since I’m having the satellite wi-fied into the main house this coming week, I expect I’ll be spending even more of my time with you soon. Aren’t y’all lucky? Heh.

S…is for sonnets. I wrote my dissertation on the sonnet sequence as political discourse. Don’t ask. But the ‘S’ of the word does allow me to reference writing poetry, which is what I do now. So. S…is for poetry, which is the job du jour.

E…is for education. Because that’s the other thing I devoted way too many years of this little life to. Burn out, anyone?

Meme #2. This meme consists of ten questions to be answered.

1. If you could have super powers what would they be and what would you do with them? (Please feel free to be selfish, you do not have to save the world!)

I can only narrow this down to two, which fascinate me equally: time travel and invisibility. What would I do with them? Visit. Listen. Learn.

2. Were you to find your self stranded on an island with a CD player…it could happen…what would your top 10 blogger island discs be?

I have to say it’s hard these days to choose discs, rather than tracks…can I choose tracks? I think maybe it’s recognition of an ipod culture to say that, but it’s sort of true. There are very few entire discs I can listen to…but it would be some combination of the following current favorites:

Regina Spektor; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; the Connells; Beethoven’s 6th Symphony (The Pastoral); Iron & Wine; Roseanne Cash; Crowded House; Fountains of Wayne; Hole; Lucinda Williams.

3. If you were a smell what would it be?

Lemon basil. (Isn’t it cool that these two actually come together?)

4. What bird would you most like to be?

A hummingbird. (Unless it’s strictly for the song, and then I’d be a woodthrush.)

5. If you were a bird who’s head would you poo on?

Isn’t that good luck? Hmmmmm. If it’s meant to indicate deep-seeded animosity, then Karl Rove.

6. Are there any foods that your body craves?

Salty ones. I’m rarely a sweets girl. I crave McDonald’s french fries and sour cream and onion potato chips like crazy, though.

7. What’s your favorite time of year?

Autumn. Although here in the desert, I have come to appreciate the winter very much too.

8. What’s your favorite time of day?

Early morning. Not too much has gone wrong yet.

9. If a rest is as good as a change which would you choose?

You know, I don’t really understand what this question is asking. I like to think I like change, if I’m reading that correctly. But, truth be told, I am terrible with it. And, as for rest, I never take naps. They scare me. Go figure.

10. If you could have a dinner party and invite any 5 people from the past or present who would they be? (Living or deceased.)

The Bee’s birth mom. Shakespeare. J.K. Rowling. Ghandi. Toss-up between Princess Diana and Mary Magdalene. Heh.

So, I’m supposed to tag six bloggers. Um, yeah. I have lost track of who did this meme, back in the day. So, if you haven’t done it, and I read you, you’re tagged. You know who you are.