Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Not feeling great -- still out-of-sorts from yesterday, and I just burned the [expletive] out of the ring finger on my strumming hand ... great timing with a recording session in two more days -- but I felt like posting something, so here's some meme-sheepage while I drink some pumpkin ale.

Copied from a bunch of different people: "Look around you right now and name 3 things you can see in the room you're in that make you smile/happy, even if it is just the tiniest little bit!"

1. The cute suede heels Sheepie helped me pick out.
2. A nifty skirt dmk gave me.
3. My Pentax SMC-M 85mm f/2 lens (it's such a pretty piece of glass).

Swiped from blackthornglade:

Ten things I want to do in my life:

1. Play alongside my brother on stage.
2. Change the world -- or at least my country -- in a way that improves at least one of the things about it that I feel needs fixing.
3. Get "All Come Free" played on FM radio across the country.
4. Get married (and stay married for several decades).
5. Raise a family (I used to want this; I think I still do, though I'm trying to convince myself not to want it so badly, since it doesn't look likely to happen).
6. Create software which will be remembered as significant when I die.
7. Create music which will be performed years after my death.
8. Create photographs which will be exhibited decades after my death.
9. Write essays, poems, or stories which will be read centuries after my death.
10. Go hang gliding.

Ten people, living or dead, that I'd like to meet:

1. Richard Feynman.
2. Nancy Wilson (of Heart).
3. Eric Clapton.
4. hobbitblue
5. Kay Jamison.
6. Jan Hammer.
7. Ray Manzarek.
8. theferrett.
9. "Hasidic Rebel".
10. "Real Live Preacher".

Ten sci-fi things I wish really existed:

1. Niven's transporter booths (or stepping discs).
2. SRS so complete that I'd be able to get pregnant and bear a child.
3. "Fix any health problem" nanites.
4. Null-gravity sleeping fields (Niven again).
5. Adamantium.
6. Beautiful felinoid aliens who think humans are sexy (blame juuro for my thinking of that just now).
7. Stasis boxes (better than a fridge!).
8. Cheap, tourist space travel (at least as far as Earth's moon).
9. Casual-bodymod technology (uh, is it Varley I'm thinking of?) that allows one to essentially decide to wear a completely different body every couple of years.
10. Some variation of the news/entertainment technology that allows the reporter/actor/living-camera to dump his or her memories to a recording device for editing and publication in a form that consumers of the medium experience the reporter's entire sensorium during playback. With or without the emotional component. I'd find a good editor to team up with and satisfy some of the urges that I currently try to satisfy with a camera and words.

Ten places I'd like to visit:

1. Deimos.
2. Phobos.
3. Luna.
4. Hawaii.
5. The barony of Seashire (I don't recall what mundane city that'd be).
6. London.
7. London. (These aren't in any order, so it doesn't matter which is which.)
8. Some small town in France.
9. Cyprus (I was too young to remember my first visit).
10. Iceland.

Ten things I am likely to say:

1. "I never said I was nice." (Good yes, but...)
2. "Can I kiss it and make it better?"
3. "Can I chew on it and make it worse?"
4. "Yes, that vibrates too."
5. "Are you sure that's not supposed to be a B-minor chord?"
6. "My arms hurt."
7. "Sure, I'm up for Indian food."
8. "Meow?"
9. "Uh, can I get someone else's opinion on this?"
10. "Amen."

Ten things I like to eat:

1. Potatoes.
2. Chili peppers.
3. Onions.
4. Portabello mushrooms.
5. Pizza.
6. Chocolate.
7. Garlic.
8. French toast.
9. Kummquats.
10. Bananas.

Now to sort out how I'm getting my car home.