Meme Time

Joel tagged me again. Time for the Seven Things Meme.

Seven Things I Plan to Do Before I Die

Visit Alaska & Hawaii

Take Mark to see where I grew up in Europe

Raft the Colorado River, particularly the Grand Canyon segment

Visit Greece & Egypt & Australia

RV with Mark around North America, seeing the sights and annoying Andrew and Baby the Second in their adulthood, spoiling their children

Write all the books and stories sitting in my head

Get at least one of said books or stories published

Seven Things I Can Do

Write and revise a novel

Sing without making dogs howl

Dance without killing myself or innocent bystanders

Explain my master's thesis ("Purification and Analysis of DCHQ Dioxygenase") and many other complicated scientific concepts in terms anyone can understand

Sing the jingles for all the service announcements I grew up watching instead of commercials on the Armed Forces Network

Understand, write, and speak German--to various degrees of success

Describe what the former East Germany and East Berlin were like and what it was like to live in Germany when the Wall came down

Seven Things I Can't Do

Read Tolkien (love his stories, can't get through a page of his storytelling style in less than ten minutes)

Understand Reality TV (nor do I think I want to)

Draw anything more complicated than a stick figure

See a spider without squirming

Understand electromagnetics (I hope to try a community college course at some point and see if I can't remedy this one day)

Live in the Midwest

Successfully make a French Silk Chocolate Pie without my mother or one of my grandmother's watching

Seven Things that Attract Me

Real smiles

Real laughter

Great arms

Brains

Sense of humor

Empathy

Integrity

Seven Things that I Say Most Often

Make exaggerations involving the number 5 (I've got about 500 hundred things to do today, etc)

Get up, lazy butt (Mark is not much of a morning person)

Yes'm (I'm not sure why, but people have started calling me Miss Kellie at work, and "Yes'm" became my reply)

October 3rd (Gee, wonder why)

Gotta love it (said in response to some of the more endearing things that happen at the DDJ)

Hmmm...I can't come up with any more than five at the moment.

Seven Celebrity Crushes
Gah, I'm so sick of celebrities right now. The few I find attractive, I end up putting in my stories. Jamie Bamber from Battlestar Gallactica and the guy who plays Helo on the show (need to get his name) are my hotties of the moment. I appreciate a lot of the pretty faces, but it's been a while since I've done the gushing, girly sigh thing for any particular celebrity.

Seven People I Want to Do This Meme
Not into the tagging thing. If you see this and want to take a stab at it, consider yourself tagged.