8 Things

I was tagged by Greta Jane for another meme. I’m not tagging anyone, but if you’re a regular reader of this blog, I probably read your blog, too.

8 Things About Me: (In no particular order)

8 tv shows I watch:
1. Battlestar Galactica
2. LOST
3. ER
4. Family Guy
5. South Park
6. Charmed
7. Buffy
8. Top Chef

8 Favorite Restaurants:
(as this would likely give my location away even more than I probably already have, I will replace it with 8 foods I love)
1. Pad Thai noodles
2. Round Table Pizza (Everything but anchovies, add shrimp)
3. Burritos:
4. Indian curries
5. Thai curries
6. Sushi
7. Pasta of almost every kind
8. POPCORN. really. with butter and salt.

8 Favorite Singers/Bands
1. Garbage
2. Pearl Jam
3. The Doors
4. The Pixies
5. Kate Rusby
6. Madonna
7. The Poxy Boggards
8. The New Kids on the Block (have you read this blog before?)

8 books I have read recently:
1. Twilight
2. Nightwalker
3. Dead Until Dark
3. Living Dead in Dallas
4. The Satanic Verses (about 3/4 way through)
5. Club Dead (just started)
6. Rome and Jerusalem (about 3/4 way through)
7. Anti-Judaism and Early Christian Identity: A Critique of Scholarly Consensus (just started)
8. God’s Mountain: The Temple Mount in Time, Place and Memory

8 things that happened yesterday:
1. I read Living Dead in Dallas.
2. I unpacked my suitcase.
3. I had a shower.
4. I went to Starbucks and pretended to do German homework when I really just wanted to read Living Dead In Dallas.
5. I didn’t buy New Moon because I am not about to pay full price for a hardback when I know the Borders downtown has a paperback.
6. I talked to my mom on the phone for five hours. I shit you not. Five hours.
7. I gave myself a pedicure.
8. I read websites about some authors I’m interested in.

8 things that I’m looking forward to:
1. Seeing the Twilight movie.
2. Seeing my family over winter break.
3. Seeing my boyfriend after more than a week apart.
4. Getting into bed and reading Club Dead.
5. Defending my exams and prospectus and being DONE with it.
6. STARTING MY DISSERTATION RESEARCH!!!!
7. Hearing from the department RE: do I get to teach a summer session course and which one?
8. Seeing my Cookie and her pregnant belly and meeting the kid when s/he arrives!!!!!!!

8 things I wish for:
1. Healthy & happy friends & family
2. More time to read.
3. More time to write.
4. Hardworking students.
5. A job that’s good for me & my family
6. A PUPPY!!!!
7. Love -> Marriage -> Kids
8. Better airline service, with food on domestic flights and no fees for the first checked bag, and lower prices on tickets. (I’ll write about THAT later. Suffice it to say, flying nowadays is FUCKING MISERABLE unless you’re flying internationally on a foreign airline).

I am not tagging anybody. Do the meme if you feel like it!

Random & Weird Things about ME

I have been tagged by Greta Jane with a pretty fun meme. So here goes!

Here are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself, some random, some weird.
3 Tag 7 people (if possible) at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs.

Seven things about Ms. Livia Augusta:
1. I have been a Girl Scout since 1984. I haven’t been very active since 2002 – when I started the life sucking game of doom called “Graduate School.”

2. Both cars I have ever owned were totalled in accidents that were not my fault – one involved two parked cars and one set of failed brakes.

3. My first car was called Julian Lestat. I called him Lestat.

4. I have regular dreams about one of my dogs and my paternal grandmother – the one with the collection of Democratic donkeys. I’m convinced they’re visitations and not just dreams.

5. I have two friends who share my birthday. I dated both of them. Weird.

6. My brother is a physicist. Like really a physicist. With a PhD from an Ivy League School.

*correction: his PhD isn’t yet filed, he’s still wrapping up the dissertation, but he’s almost done.

7. I spent the night of December 31, 1999 on the Giza Plain outside Cairo, in front of the Pyramids watching The Twelve Dreams of the Sun with a guy I performed with at a Renaissance Faire. You can search youtube for the videos if you want. There are quite a few.

I’m tagging:
Kalesy
Zafulotus

Greta already tagged Kosher Academic, so I won’t.

That’s enough for now.