Tagged...fluid joy and cockles
Molecular Turtle must have known that I needed something random and light to do with this evening before I start work again (tomorrow! at the VA; I have five patients; one of whom is in a persistant vegetative state for the past two years). But enough about me. Well, here's more about me...
1) Would you bungee jump?
Nope. Wouldn't sky dive either. I don't even like those free-fall things at the amusement parks. What I would do, however, is hang glide. I think it may be the closest to flying I will ever get in this life...outside of my dreams.
2) If you could do anything in the world for a living what would it be?
Something different every year or so. Ceramic artist for a while. Then writer. Doctor, of course, but different kinds (pediatrician, family med, internist, rheumatology). The be a professional traveler like Rick Steves. Maybe work at Club Med for a while. Ride horses.
3) Your favorite fictional animal?
Aslan, from Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first one that comes to mind.
4) One person who never fails to make you laugh?
Jason...he has a knack for that. Sometimes it takes more work than others. I can usually make myself laugh, too, eventually. I get a kick out of puns that usually only I think are hilarious. But then my friends laugh at me so it all ends up all right.
5) When you were 12 years old what did you want to be when you grew up?
Thanks for the respect, MT. It warms the cockles of my heart (cockle by the way is thought to be a corruption of the original latin word for ventricle, cochlea cordis, but the expression is one of happiness and contentment). I think at 12 I wanted to be an architect, though, for a while. A doctor by the end of my 12th year. A pediatrician more specifically. Teacher was always a back-up option for when adults would catch me off guard with the classic question.
6) What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
Usually try to shake the emotion left over from my crazy dreams. I had a particullarly odd one the other night. About a strange furry bodied, hard headed animal that was somehow my patient. It would come up to you if you got at eye level with it. They it would gently scratch your nose with its alligator-like teeth to greet you. And this was how I was supposed to do my physical exam on it. But then I couldn't find its glass cage again and the one I found had two snakes in it instead.
7) Have you ever gone to therapy?
Yep, yep, yep. Three times. First therapist was sort of boring. Didn't help much. Told me I was already doing everything I needed to be doing to cope with the current heart wrenching break-up. Next guy was a former Lutheran minister so I had a tough time opening up at all to him. He did do some role-playing with me which was sort of strange, but did work eventually to uncover some stuff. I had some hard stuff happen while I was seeing him, but didn't tell him about it. He "graduated" me when I told him I was confident enough to reassure myself with a wink to myself in the mirror sometimes. Last one was the most necessary and the best. I was actually really sad to leave him in Cincinnati. He helped me a lot in moments of very deep need. (If you want all the gorey details, I think they're on some of these past posts, starting with "A Snake's Nature.") And I'm in the market for another here. So, yep, yep, yep, yep.
8) If you could have one super power what would it be?
The power to give myself all the other super powers, of course. Teleport, x-ray vision, telepathy, change into anything, invisibility, etc.
9) Your favorite cartoon character?
Tweety bird. I don't really know why. Small happy one who always gets away from the cat.
10) Do you go to church?
Haven't since I left Davis (five years). I loved the congregation there but haven't really had time to get into it since.
11) What is your best childhood memory?
Sometimes when I would be riding my horse, I would be overcome with consuming love for her. It was pure and strong and totally untouchable. It was fluid joy.
12) Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
Completely not. Marriage should be the embodiment of my best childhood memory (see above) plus friendship and support and constancy and honesty.
13) Do you own a gun?
Not even the staple gun. The only thing I shoot with is my camera.
14) Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex?
Well if my brothers count, then yeah, tons of times when we were kids. Teasingly occasionally now. In anger and pain only once.
15) Have you ever sung in front of a large number of people?
Karaoke once or twice, though I don't think there were a "large number of people" in the bars. I sing mostly to myself. Sometimes I sang to the babies in the newborn nursery. "When I Dream, I dream of you, maybe someday you will come true." And in the shower.
16) What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Face, especially eyes.
17) What is your biggest mistake?
I find it hard to be black and white about that. I guess it is repeating and not being able to love the men in my life who have loved me most and treated me best. I don't know how to fix that. The other "mistakes" led to unmistakes. Maybe not calling the California med schools the year I applied because then I found out too late that they wanted to interview me (it was the awful first online application year and everything went crazy wrong). But then I hear that they're sort of cut throat and Cincinnati was a great place to learn...and I met M. Course, now maybe that itself is the biggest mistake.
18) Say something totally random about yourself.
Sometimes I like to lay flat and try to balance my arm bones on each other to minimize the muscle correction needed. One arm at a time. I told my brother this once and found that he does it too. Does everyone?!?
19) Has anyone ever said that you looked like a celebrity?
Jane Seymour (see previous post, "Inappropriate Comments") by a crazy grandmother of a patient.
20) What is the most romantic thing someone of the opposite sex has done for you?
Lots actually, made me dinner, written me letters, scrape the thickest ice ever off my windshield at 5 am before I even got out of bed, made me a birthday cake, left flowers in my med school mail box, change my car battery at three am on a freezing cold (like 10 below) night and then say "I hope this prooves that I'd do anything for you," fill up one of those giant cards with everything that I meant to him and how special I was, fill a box with individually wrapped memories of our first year together, brush my hair, dry me off with a towell after I get out of the shower.
21) Do you actually read these when other people fill them out?
I do. And I usually don't have time to reciprocate, but now I did, so hopefully someone else reads them, too.
Tagging...I'm not sure I have regular readers, so anyone who wants to fill this out, please do...and let me know where I can find it to read! I'd like to see what my family and S. and J. and M. say.
1) Would you bungee jump?
Nope. Wouldn't sky dive either. I don't even like those free-fall things at the amusement parks. What I would do, however, is hang glide. I think it may be the closest to flying I will ever get in this life...outside of my dreams.
2) If you could do anything in the world for a living what would it be?
Something different every year or so. Ceramic artist for a while. Then writer. Doctor, of course, but different kinds (pediatrician, family med, internist, rheumatology). The be a professional traveler like Rick Steves. Maybe work at Club Med for a while. Ride horses.
3) Your favorite fictional animal?
Aslan, from Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first one that comes to mind.
4) One person who never fails to make you laugh?
Jason...he has a knack for that. Sometimes it takes more work than others. I can usually make myself laugh, too, eventually. I get a kick out of puns that usually only I think are hilarious. But then my friends laugh at me so it all ends up all right.
5) When you were 12 years old what did you want to be when you grew up?
Thanks for the respect, MT. It warms the cockles of my heart (cockle by the way is thought to be a corruption of the original latin word for ventricle, cochlea cordis, but the expression is one of happiness and contentment). I think at 12 I wanted to be an architect, though, for a while. A doctor by the end of my 12th year. A pediatrician more specifically. Teacher was always a back-up option for when adults would catch me off guard with the classic question.
6) What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
Usually try to shake the emotion left over from my crazy dreams. I had a particullarly odd one the other night. About a strange furry bodied, hard headed animal that was somehow my patient. It would come up to you if you got at eye level with it. They it would gently scratch your nose with its alligator-like teeth to greet you. And this was how I was supposed to do my physical exam on it. But then I couldn't find its glass cage again and the one I found had two snakes in it instead.
7) Have you ever gone to therapy?
Yep, yep, yep. Three times. First therapist was sort of boring. Didn't help much. Told me I was already doing everything I needed to be doing to cope with the current heart wrenching break-up. Next guy was a former Lutheran minister so I had a tough time opening up at all to him. He did do some role-playing with me which was sort of strange, but did work eventually to uncover some stuff. I had some hard stuff happen while I was seeing him, but didn't tell him about it. He "graduated" me when I told him I was confident enough to reassure myself with a wink to myself in the mirror sometimes. Last one was the most necessary and the best. I was actually really sad to leave him in Cincinnati. He helped me a lot in moments of very deep need. (If you want all the gorey details, I think they're on some of these past posts, starting with "A Snake's Nature.") And I'm in the market for another here. So, yep, yep, yep, yep.
8) If you could have one super power what would it be?
The power to give myself all the other super powers, of course. Teleport, x-ray vision, telepathy, change into anything, invisibility, etc.
9) Your favorite cartoon character?
Tweety bird. I don't really know why. Small happy one who always gets away from the cat.
10) Do you go to church?
Haven't since I left Davis (five years). I loved the congregation there but haven't really had time to get into it since.
11) What is your best childhood memory?
Sometimes when I would be riding my horse, I would be overcome with consuming love for her. It was pure and strong and totally untouchable. It was fluid joy.
12) Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
Completely not. Marriage should be the embodiment of my best childhood memory (see above) plus friendship and support and constancy and honesty.
13) Do you own a gun?
Not even the staple gun. The only thing I shoot with is my camera.
14) Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex?
Well if my brothers count, then yeah, tons of times when we were kids. Teasingly occasionally now. In anger and pain only once.
15) Have you ever sung in front of a large number of people?
Karaoke once or twice, though I don't think there were a "large number of people" in the bars. I sing mostly to myself. Sometimes I sang to the babies in the newborn nursery. "When I Dream, I dream of you, maybe someday you will come true." And in the shower.
16) What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Face, especially eyes.
17) What is your biggest mistake?
I find it hard to be black and white about that. I guess it is repeating and not being able to love the men in my life who have loved me most and treated me best. I don't know how to fix that. The other "mistakes" led to unmistakes. Maybe not calling the California med schools the year I applied because then I found out too late that they wanted to interview me (it was the awful first online application year and everything went crazy wrong). But then I hear that they're sort of cut throat and Cincinnati was a great place to learn...and I met M. Course, now maybe that itself is the biggest mistake.
18) Say something totally random about yourself.
Sometimes I like to lay flat and try to balance my arm bones on each other to minimize the muscle correction needed. One arm at a time. I told my brother this once and found that he does it too. Does everyone?!?
19) Has anyone ever said that you looked like a celebrity?
Jane Seymour (see previous post, "Inappropriate Comments") by a crazy grandmother of a patient.
20) What is the most romantic thing someone of the opposite sex has done for you?
Lots actually, made me dinner, written me letters, scrape the thickest ice ever off my windshield at 5 am before I even got out of bed, made me a birthday cake, left flowers in my med school mail box, change my car battery at three am on a freezing cold (like 10 below) night and then say "I hope this prooves that I'd do anything for you," fill up one of those giant cards with everything that I meant to him and how special I was, fill a box with individually wrapped memories of our first year together, brush my hair, dry me off with a towell after I get out of the shower.
21) Do you actually read these when other people fill them out?
I do. And I usually don't have time to reciprocate, but now I did, so hopefully someone else reads them, too.
Tagging...I'm not sure I have regular readers, so anyone who wants to fill this out, please do...and let me know where I can find it to read! I'd like to see what my family and S. and J. and M. say.
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