The Seven Times Seven Meme

Coturnix and Philaelaethes both nailed me with a meme. I think this is part of their grand distraction project.



Seven Things To Do Before I Die

1. visit my birds' relatives in the wild in the islands of the south Pacific Ocean
2. see a live wild Ivory-billed Woodpecker (this was a good guess, Coturnix)
3. go to the moon
4. finish writing that book (well .. those books that I am writing. On second thought, this ought to instead go into the next category; things I cannot do)
5. fall in love with a person who will love me back
6. clone a velociraptor
7. find a real job in my field, you know, one that pays a living wage along with benefits

Seven Things I Cannot Do

1. find a real job, you know, one that pays a living wage and benefits and doesn't involve shoveling shit
2. forgive george bush for being such a bullying dumbshit
3. write my name in the snow in pee
4. get paid a living wage to write my blog
5. reverse my looong run of bad luck
6. author a paper that is published in either Nature or Science
7. stop buying books

Seven Things That Attract Me to Blogging

1. writing about really cool topics for an appreciative audience
2. pretending that I am as articulate, thoughtful and knowledgeable in real life as I appear here
3. I am treated with more respect and kindness in the blogosphere than in real life
4. the occa$ional donation make$ it worth it
5. the writing
6. the formatting
7. my readers

Seven Things I Say Most Often

1. what the fuck? [because I rarely scream at people when I am angry, I use this as my verbal cue, instead]
2. I prefer cash
3. I got a PhD so I can do what?
4. what are you doing, Zazu?
5. I don't know
6. no, thanks; I'm not interested
7. thank you for your feedback [I hope you become mired in the same hell that I am in right now, you mean-spirited jackass]

Seven Books That I Love (How about authors I love, instead?)

1. Everything by Eugenie Scott
2. Everything by Mary Oliver
3. Everything by John Steinbeck
4. Everything (mostly) by Kurt Vonnegut (incidentally, I do not own a single book by Vonnegut; they were lost during my many relocations).
5. Everything (mostly) by David Sedaris
6. Everything (mostly) by Jack London
7. Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (okay, I listed this one book to make everyone happy)

Seven Movies That I (would if I could) Watch Over and Over Again

1. Snow Falling On Cedars
2. Schindler's List
3. The Thomas Crown Affair (the version with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo)
4. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the version with Gene Wilder)
5. Children of a Lesser God
6. The complete Lord of The Rings Series
7. Presumed Innocent

Seven People I Want To Join In Too

1. Philaelaethes, who I learned has a nice wife as well as a nice ass and he already tagged me with this same meme earlier!
1. PZ, whom I admire greatly but who will probably ignore this silliness anyway wow, I can't believe it, but he answered it (thanks to his desire to procrastinate from his grading angst)
2. Sailing Muffin, a friend who is new to blogging but who is preparing to set out on a grand adventure of a lifetime
3. Dr. Fluffy Jones, another friend who is new to blogging but who is one of the most extraordinary young poets alive today
4. James, because I miss hearing from him
5. Chris, whom I admire greatly and who might indulge me this
6. Black Rat, cuz you will have answered one of the things I wonder about you by answering this meme
7. Rexroth's Daughter, because I can't believe that you haven't been nailed two dozen times already with this meme already tagged, too.
7. Dr. Charles, who will give me an elegant answer

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